Windex007
@Windex007@lemmy.world
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 1 day ago:
Another consideration might be how far your “town” is from a more major center.
A town with a population of 1000 might not feel that rural if it’s 10 miles down the road from a city of a million.
If the next closest center > 5,000pop is 250 miles away… Perhaps a different story.
I’ve hear it said that in Europe 100km is considered a long distance and in North America 100 years is considered a long time.
- Comment on How do "lie detectors" work (I mean Polygraphs). If I'm loyal specifically to the constitution of my country, and the interviewers ask if I'm "loyal to [My Country name]", how would that work? 1 day ago:
Fantastic 2 minute video clearly debunking lie detector here
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 4 days ago:
You would be shocked by the homogeneousness of even employers who are hiring STEM. Tribalism is real. They just chalk up the je ne sais qois to “fit”… But you take a step back and suddenly…
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 5 days ago:
You have 1 week.
- Comment on Cheers lads an lassies 1 week ago:
The one who got his ass beat by the battlestar Galactica robot at bi-mon-sci-fi-con?
I wanna say… “Steve?”
- Comment on Shine a laser on the moon 1 week ago:
The average cubic meter of space has about 6 protons worth of mass in it.
- Comment on Call your doctor today 2 weeks ago:
You forgot about DRE
- Comment on Pope Joan 3 weeks ago:
People play real fast and loose with these terms.
My advice is to do what you’re doing here, which is learn… But to remember to meet people where they’re at.
By these definitions, with sex relating to biological things, you might be tempted to tell someone they can’t just “decide” their sex, by this definition. Don’t do it.
Not saying you would, but resist the urge to get into a semantic argument. Just ask the specific people what they mean by these words when they say them, and roll with it. Prioritize understanding over being understood.
This advice goes for anything, but this is a particularly spicy meatball.
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 5 weeks ago:
You can be upset about 2 things: where things are, and where things are going.
It’s become very fashionable to ignore a trajectory. “Build 3 more prisons in El Salvador”.
The issue isn’t that at this moment I can opt-out. The issue is that the infrastructure inevitably demands usage.
If you’re not upset you’re a collaborator.
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 5 weeks ago:
Forget the “bloat”. Windows has an advertisements engine. I’m not talking about some stupid OEM bullshit bundled thing… I’m saying the operating system itself.
My OS (that I fucking paid for, no less) shouldn’t be piping me advertisements and it sure as shit shouldn’t be harvesting screenshots to train an AI model.
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 5 weeks ago:
now that is a well-boiled frog
- Comment on Are there any Trek episodes where they enforce the Prime Directive to protect a developing world within Federation space from an external influence? 1 month ago:
In false prophets, were they in federation space? In civilization did the federation exist?
- Comment on Aimee Lou Wood Says Her 'SNL' Portrayal Was 'Mean and Unfunny' 1 month ago:
In a non paywalled article sounds like she was disappointed that the punchline for her character was just her teeth.
She didn’t say that specifically (I think she said it was just lazy) but having watched the sketch, that’s what I’m reading behind the lines.
I’d be pissed too. The sketch was otherwise really great at drawing parallels. Her character got a family guy level of joke.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
When you punish a person for dreaming their dreams don’t expect them to thank or forgive you.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
Shits on fire, yo
- Comment on ^_^ I just think skibidibi sounds neat :3 2 months ago:
Skibidi alert
- Comment on Was a TV show you like ever ruined by the addition of a particular character to the point that you had to quit, or nearly quit? 2 months ago:
Also wasn’t he originally written as being independently wealthy? I think that aspect was also lost in the character transition.
- Comment on Depart, men of education. 2 months ago:
Yeah what a piece of shit.
/S
- Comment on What movie was this for you? 2 months ago:
THREE
- Comment on What movie was this for you? 2 months ago:
One… two… FIVE!
- Comment on What movie was this for you? 2 months ago:
People beefing with Holy Grail now? Fuck I’m a relic.
- Comment on What movie was this for you? 2 months ago:
They didn’t even understand the source material.
Like, when he pulls the holy hand grenade… There are VERY SPECIFIC instructions on how to use that thing. Doesn’t follow them.
Just superficial references with no comprehension of the source
- Comment on Are "Lifetime" Cloud Storage Plans scams? 3 months ago:
You can set up a “personal cloud” on a machine in your house that you can use as a “cloud” from anywhere. There are a lot of free software options to achieve such a thing.
“Nextcloud” it a pretty broad way to do that. You can run it from an always-on desktop.
There are a ton of nerds (myself included) who do this kinda thing, and we have our nerd communities on Lemmy and elsewhere. The general term is “self hosted”.
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 3 months ago:
JD is drawing false equivalence, to lead to the conclusion that law doesn’t matter.
Does a judge plan a military operation? No. But they can establish if it is legal.
That’s their whole job, to establish if actions violate the law. If they violate the law, they can order them to stop.
Judges don’t write the law. You don’t like the judge’s ruling? Change the law. Judges don’t write the laws, they just interpret the ones that exist.
JD is arguing that judges (and by extension, the law, and by extension the fundamental concept of the rule of law) don’t apply to him and Trump. It’s literally an argument for monarchy.
- Comment on Let me just tune up real quick 3 months ago:
I don’t think the AI meant anything.
- Comment on Vibes based cooking 4 months ago:
Critical is that HOW you learn this is trial and error.
Most people can imagine the result of combining two images, say a frog riding a turtle. We can imagine what a handful of wet spaghetti might sound like being dropped onto the hood of a car. We can imagine what a fluffy bunny that’s been rolling in sand might feel like.
But that isn’t just because those senses are somehow intrinsically better for synthesis and prediction. We just got a ton more practice with them. As kids we got to draw, we got to play with toys, we touched everything, we bashed all kinds of stuff together.
But most of us, we just got the food prepared for us with no awareness of the properties of the constituent ingredients.
You gotta act like a toddler in the kitchen to grow that part of your brain.
- Comment on Teen says she was forced to fly around the world with a stranger's toddler on her lap 4 months ago:
If you read the article, the flight was overbooked and the teen was bumped from the flight.
The teen was extremely uncomfortable staying the night in the middle east, she was concerned her clothes (acceptable by Western standards) would put her as a target. She was already getting creeped on at the airport.
The airline said that since there were no unoccupied seats, but there was a seat for the toddler, she could double-up on that seat.
The airline massively fucked up, but IMO the parents did that girl a solid by even agreeing to it at all.
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 5 months ago:
Might be betraying my age here, but do you remember when GST was 7%? EXACTLY the same thing happened.
GST breaks strictly pad the revenues of business AT THE COST of funds to the public purse. Does a fat fucking zero to the wallets of consumers.
- Comment on "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" Reboot In Works 5 months ago:
Considering the author, I think the one update I want to see Desmond Llewelyn (deepfake unfortunately) reveal Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with it’s features, and have Judi Dench explain why it needs to be brought back in one piece (with clear resignation of the knowledge that it won’t happen)
- Comment on Anon goes to the doctor 5 months ago:
“If I push on this, I will alienate myself from this clearly mentally unstable patient and at that point there is no chance to help them”
It’s literally how mental health professionals are trained.
