FredericChopin_
@FredericChopin_@feddit.uk
- Comment on Have you ever felt a imaginary switch click that changed the trajectory of your life? 1 year ago:
I’ll preface by saying I have done some bad things I’m not proud of in life.
I was an failure relative to my peers and just never felt like I would progress, so I did things to people I am not proud of doing in times of need.
One of these came back to bite me when I started a new job at the same place as two people I’d wronged. Suffice to say I was recognised and one of them made a complaint.
So during my training, the last week, I was taken aside and confronted by HR and subsequently canned. I was canned for discrepancies in my application as they could hardly can me on hearsay.
Well, that spurred me to apply for a job, not my ideal job, at a better company. Which to cut this short basically enabled me to grow as a person, get a neurodivergent diagnosis with medication. Re-train and now I work in my dream field.
The moral is good things happen to bad people i guess.
- Comment on How can I be less competitive about social media engagement? 1 year ago:
I did that when I left Reddit. In a thread with lots of people doing the same.
It’s an empty feeling as you have no idea how many people saw that comment, not that it matters but damn social media hacked my brain.
- Comment on Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week 1 year ago:
Which is more likely.
The majority of consumers giving a shit about anything that doesn’t affect them.
Stopping the production of things we actually don’t want people to buy anymore.
It’s much easier to regulate a handful of companies than it is to educate several billion people and try and get them to change buying habits.
That’s like excusing a serial killer because victims are plentiful. You wouldn’t blame the victims and tell them to stay away from serial killers. You would punish the serial killer no?
- Comment on Why don’t we use radiators as heat sinks in the summer and pump cold water through them? 1 year ago:
What does deltas mean in this context?
I know I could search it but eh I’m creating content right!
- Comment on Air Canada changed my flight for the 3rd time, I'm now landing in Toronto 1 hour AFTER my next flight departure. 1 year ago:
I’m curious about your itinerary.
St Lucia -> Toronto -> London -> Lyon.
- Comment on Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week 1 year ago:
Then wouldn’t we regulate the imports.
No Asda you can’t import from X because they do Y?
Not trying to argue here, just want to be more informed.
- Comment on Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week 1 year ago:
I think it is helpful.
Consumers can only buy what’s on the shelves. If we limit production then the former isn’t an issue.
- Comment on Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week 1 year ago:
I would shift the onus on the people buying the shit (consumers) to the people making it (producers).
Maybe we could look at fishing nets, plastic bottles etc.
To be clear I am all for doing more for the planet but I take issue with the blame being misplaced on consumers when the producers are polluting orders of magnitude more than we are.
- Comment on Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week 1 year ago:
Straws a literal drop on the ocean compared to what corporations are doing to the oceans.
I am happy to have paper straws if it helps the planet, but they chose the smallest thing they could do and as always put the onus on the consumers and not the producers.
- Comment on Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week 1 year ago:
The fact that these things came out after banning plastic straws shows nobody knows what the fuck they’re doing.
- Comment on Why does the inner ear imbalance make you throw up? 1 year ago:
Is it accurate to call alcohol a poison?
I don’t drink and I can be even more insufferable to my drinking friends with that information.
- Comment on How do you call a word that is so rudimentary that it can't be defined without being redundant? 1 year ago:
From the Oxford English Dictionary.
Electrocute (verb)
to injure or kill someone by passing electricity through their body
- Comment on How do you call a word that is so rudimentary that it can't be defined without being redundant? 1 year ago:
Does electrocute mean that though?
I’ve been electrocuted and I’m here and alive.
- Comment on Why don’t Lemmings capitalize the beginning of each letter in their title for their posts? 1 year ago:
The lowercase i looks better imo.
- Comment on where can I learn how to make fake AI voice clips of famous people? 1 year ago:
if you are speaking with someone else’s voice
Yeah we in the future.
- Comment on Why don’t Lemmings capitalize the beginning of each letter in their title for their posts? 1 year ago:
I heard that was a young person trend?
- Comment on Why don’t Lemmings capitalize the beginning of each letter in their title for their posts? 1 year ago:
You’re not wrong, I was somewhat put off reading that. I can’t quite put it in to words but it felt different.
- Comment on If you go to monkey attack beach you may suffer a monkey attack because monkeys frequent monkey attack beach 1 year ago:
Nice.
I hope your leg is better.
- Comment on If the body's natural temperature is about 98 degrees (F), why does it still feel really hot when the ambient temperature is 98F? 1 year ago:
This podcast will kill you has an episode on sweat and how it’s a superpower.
My meds make me sweat a lot so I must be super powered.
- Comment on Sure it's artificial, but is it intelligent? 1 year ago:
It’s all good. I got curious after I asked and searched it up.
Have a great day!
- Comment on Would you work for a corporation that you oppose ideologically, if the pay is good? 1 year ago:
No.
Im a software developer and I never applied for any companies that were involved in gambling, predatory practices or fintech companies.
I work for a small < 10 employees company and it’s great.
- Comment on Sure it's artificial, but is it intelligent? 1 year ago:
Wait so when people bought red diesel they were buying kerosene, which is in fact diesel but red?
- Comment on All 50 states with the same naming convention as West Virginia 1 year ago:
Me when I’m coding:
Bro, is that a word?
- Comment on funny because true 1 year ago:
That looks like one of the UK Government sites.
- Comment on Is it odd that I can't hold a grudge? 1 year ago:
Id say this is the way to be.
Who has time for all that negativity. If I hate someone it impact them, but it does make me have negative thoughts which isn’t good.