Rivalarrival
@Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 1 week ago:
OP is asking how to prevent abusers from seeing OPs content.
“Blocking” the abuser prevents OP from seeing the abuser’s content. “Blocking” does not prevent the abuser from seeing and interacting with OP’s content.
“Blocking” does not achieve OP’s objective.
- Comment on Zootopia 1 week ago:
Well, it’s a story that glorifies cops, and it completely fails to mention ACAB.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 1 week ago:
You can discover who is doing it with Lemvotes
But no, you can’t block them. Here in the real world (as opposed to the dystopian centralized platforms that have largely supplanted public discourse), it is not possible to isolate a specific individual and deny them access to information provided freely to the rest of the general public.
Should their public engagement rise to the level of harassment, there are legal options you can take to compel their restraint. But downvoting everything you do does not rise to such a level.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 2 weeks ago:
All you need to do to make wheat edible is soak it in water to make it soft enough to chew. Wheat in water is “gruel”.
You can improve upon it by boiling, which will dehydrate the gruel into a primitive bread. The drained, starchy liquid, if left to sit for awhile, will become a primitive ale. Grinding makes it easier to eat.
Every dietary use is an evolutionary progression from soaking wheat in water.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 2 weeks ago:
Wheat doesn’t actually require all that much. Soak it in water, and it becomes gruel. Let gruel sit around for awhile, the liquid becomes a rudimentary ale. Boil off the liquid, you have a rudimentary bread. Want to make it easier to eat? Grind it before you add the water.
Every other use is an evolution of those basic concepts.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
You can do that, or you can falsify your calculations, claiming more dependents than you actually have, reducing your withholding.
You can also go the contractor route, operating as a separate business rather than an employee. 1099 income has no withholding.
People use “exempt from withholding” on a W4 when the majority of their income is from contracting or self-employment and they file their own quarterly estimates.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
You can actually do that. Read the W4 a little more closely.
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 4 weeks ago:
Blackberry insisted on a 3-row thumboard on the face of the device. I want a 5-row slider, like Samsung’s Relay. Image
- Comment on 60 Minutes Inside CECOT segment taken down by CBS - it aired briefly in Canada and was uploaded to YouTube 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 5 weeks ago:
The capitalist fucks are swinging the whip. The 25-hour limit is the whip they are swinging. Both are a problem.
- Comment on GIVE UNTO CAESEAR 1 month ago:
Corn cares not
fromwhence the shit postsFTFY. “Whence” means “from what origin”.
- Comment on My Religion 1 month ago:
I would call that “fraud”. In declaring themselves “gynecologists”, they are effectively advertising that they are qualified and willing to perform routine gynecological procedures. Their refusal to do so constitutes a fraud on patients seeking such services.
“Neonatology”, “Histology”, “Reproductive physiology” and “Reproductive biology” are comparable specialty fields wherein the practitioner would not be expected to perform elective abortions.
Additionally, if they would prefer to call themselves “general practitioners”, I would be far more lenient in allowing them to define their own scope of practice.
- Comment on My Religion 1 month ago:
FairOkFTFY.
- Comment on My Religion 1 month ago:
I’m a gynecologist. My religion says I can’t do an abortion.
I would say that if “you” won’t perform an abortion, “you” are not actually a gynecologist. Go study and practice urology, or proctology, or gastroenterology, or oncology, or neurology, or cardiology, or dermatology, or any other field where “you” will not be called upon to perform a simple, routine procedure.
- Comment on British plugs 1 month ago:
It’s not just the voltage It’s also the allowable current per circuit. UK circuits allow much higher power (wattage) than single household circuits in the rest of the world. That’s why they need those big-ass plugs on each of their appliances.
- Comment on British plugs 1 month ago:
The standards the UK adopted pass higher voltages and higher currents per household circuit than pretty much anywhere else. They adopted standards that allow them to use use less wiring, less copper to provide the same energy. They can plug in many space heaters on one circuit, where two or three would blow a breaker on a US circuit.
That higher voltage and higher current makes their household circuits inherently more dangerous than household circuits outside the UK. A fault in a UK circuit passes a lot more energy than a similar fault elsewhere, before tripping a current-limiting device. The exact same fault in a UK circuit is far more dangerous than in a circuit pretty much anywhere else in the world. The standards for household wiring in the rest of the world are a lot more restrictive than the standards adopted in the UK.
UK plugs on Japanese appliance in Japanese houses (for example) are overkill. The safety provided by the UK plugs is built into the Japanese breaker panel and wiring. Putting the UK plug/socket into a Japanese circuit provides no significant additional safety benefit. The Japanese plug/socket on a UK circuit would be extraordinarily dangerous.
- Comment on British plugs 1 month ago:
Post-war reconstruction, they had a massive copper shortage. The wiring standards they adopted allowed for using as little copper as possible. That meant fewer, high-amperage circuits, rather than many low-amperage circuits. They used “ring circuit” topology instead of “branch circuits” to allow them to use undersized wiring.
Basically, all the shortcuts they took in their household wiring introduce considerably greater risks than exist elsewhere, including North America. Their household wiring is overloaded relative to most of the rest of the world. They mitigated the risks of their household wiring with stricter standards on their appliance wiring. Which is why they need a plug for their phone charger comparable to the plugs we use on a welder.
It’s a good plug A damn good plug. It’s just complete overkill for electric systems outside of the UK.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 1 month ago:
You are entitled to your opinion. They are entitled to theirs. I am entitled to my opinion: what they do with their space and who they allow into it is no concern of yours. Mind your own business, and leave them to mind theirs.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 1 month ago:
The public park is owned by everyone, not just the women. You would be correct to be upset by men being excluded from this public space.
Comms are not public assets. Your use of any comm is entirely at the pleasure of the administrators of that comm, and their designated moderators.
Your opinion on the way they implement and enforce their rules is entirely irrelevant within their comm.
My suggestion would be to do what you would for any other comm whose behavior you do not support and/or whose rules you find reprehensible: block them and move on.
- Comment on G GG 2 months ago:
lol, I typo’d the date I read… It’s got the BIOS date listed as 2012-09-11.
ThoughtPads can’t melt steel beams.
- Comment on G GG 2 months ago:
2011? That thing became a ThoughtPad years ago.
- Comment on Even if you develop the worst type of dementia imaginable, please find a way to always remember the events of 11/13/25. 2 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/International_Fixed_Calendar
The International Fixed Calendar (also known as the Cotsworth plan, the Cotsworth calendar, the Eastman plan or the Yearal)[1] was a proposed reform of the Gregorian calendar designed by Moses B. Cotsworth, first presented in 1902.[2] The International Fixed Calendar divides the year into 13 months of 28 days each.
Kodak actually used it from 1928 to 1989.
- Comment on The Confederacy (or whatever) 2 months ago:
Based on that neck, I’d say his masturbatory habits are predominantly oral.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 2 months ago:
We’ll have matrix-style human farms producing people for the tracks.
- Comment on Health Secretary Kennedy says there's 'not sufficient' proof to show Tylenol causes autism 2 months ago:
So in short, is there no conclusive evidence linking it to autism?
Kennedy hears that there is no conclusive evidence linking tylenol to autism yet assumes the causal relationship exists. (It just hasn’t been proven yet.)
Any rational person hearing that there is no conclusive evidence linking tylenol to autism assumes the causal relationship does not exist. (But acknowledges that the causal relationship has not been disproven.)
A better summary would be “Kennedy acknowledges his claims about Tylenol are not supported by evidence.”
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 2 months ago:
Working in an office for 8 hours a day costs me an additional hour getting ready and commuting to to work, an hour away from home for lunch, an hour commuting back home and unwinding after work, turning 8 hours of paid labor into 11 hours of doing shit for other people.
Working at home claws back 15 hours a week.
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 2 months ago:
Guillotine museum.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.
“I’m not stalking you. You’re to ugly for anyone to stalk. Quit stalking me!”
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 3 months ago:
Yeah? Well, so’s your face!
- Comment on Chicago fighting ICE 3 months ago:
Nothing good comes from antagonizing ICE directly. You will not stop a single person from being kidnapped by confronting ICE directly. They’ll just go back and get more funding, more manpower, more resources, more militarization, and more and more people will be kidnapped. So it’s not really like treating the cough with Robitussin. It’s more like treating it with cocaine. Or asbestos.
If “Slashing Tires” is your level of commitment, you’re better off slashing the tires of a random millionaire. Instead of ICE demanding more resources for their operations, that millionaire will demand resources be diverted to protecting their cars instead of abducting people. Meanwhile, we all cheer every time we read about a 1% being targeted.
