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- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 1 week ago:
This imbecile knows the US lost the war in Vietnam, right?
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 3 weeks ago:
GenX here. I wanted to reassure you that it didn’t come naturally to me and i grew up when this was still taught in school. The real answer is practice. Read a clock several times a day for a few weeks. Take a moment to think about the mintue hand. Is it about 2/5 of the way to the next digit? 3/5? After a while, you won’t have to think. You will just recognize.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 1 month ago:
This is crazy, but i read the news on paper. I have a couple of subscriptions to magazines with good reporting, but you could also hit up your library to read for free. For one thing, print journalism is a lot more in-depth and balanced than the outrage-mill crap i find online.
On Lemmy i read headlines only in case something happens that i stay current, but i rarely read a whole article. This contains my news consumption to a small portion of my day.
Plus, Trump says 64 stupid lthings a week. I read all 64 in 1 hour each week and get it over with, instead of poisoning myself with it several times a day.
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 1 month ago:
There is a hole in the heart of every rich person. They try to fill that hole with money, but the hole is never full.
When Elon Musk and every person like him says, “I have enough money”: that is when the people who actually produce value will have reached enough productivity. Not before.
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 1 month ago:
It’s going to hurt these companies. There is a special vibe when your workplace is entirely staffed by people who hate their lives. It is not an environment conducive to creativity or dedication. Long hours don’t make you more productive.
When I think my employer is mistreating me, I drag my feet, I engage in malicious compliance, I always decline to make the extra effort. If I see a problem somewhere that needs to be reported, actually no I didn’t. I’m the opposite when I feel rested, respected, and autonomous.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 1 month ago:
My experience is pretty limited and I might just be lucky in that everything worked for me, but installing linux was exactly as hard as installing windows. If anything, I found it less annoying because with Windows I tend to decline a lot of their services (no cloud, no office, etc) and I profoundly resent being nagged by MS to use services that don’t interest me.
If I bought my laptop with linux preinstalled, I wouldn’t say that it has been less usable than a windows machine. there is some missing support, but I had similar issues with switching from mac to windows and back.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 1 month ago:
My poor tv is like, “connect to the internet? I need to call home! Help, i’ve been abducted by a luddite!”
Tv, you are never getting my wifi password.
- Comment on What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer? 1 month ago:
fair enough, i guess it depends on how fast you call back
- Comment on It’s the little things 1 month ago:
at least it wouldn’t wet your socks. i think capillary action relies on surface tension
- Comment on What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer? 1 month ago:
probably moving on to the next task in my to do list. my phone is not attached to my hand
- Comment on Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them? 2 months ago:
The guy who killed himself, did nothing wrong, and never existed?
- Comment on Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them? 2 months ago:
Bondi said in a hidden camera recording that there were videos depicting CSA among the files - the supposed blackmail material. Now that material is in the possession of Trump et al. If they publish the videos, they become useless as blackmail material.
Source: APNews
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 2 months ago:
NGL, this is hot.
- Comment on Perspective 2 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 2 months ago:
Yes! When I read that, I immediately thought “curtailing developer choice is exactly the point.”
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yeah, I don’t know if OP is in the USA, but having someone like Donald Trump elected to high office is 100% part of a crash already in progress. Inequality got so bad that democracy is not functioning. In a healthy society, Trump would be an unelectable laughing stock.
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 2 months ago:
“Dear God, thank you for Trump, ICE, and Alligator Auschwitz. Please let our reich last a thousand years.”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Man, I sure hope not. I will never understand why people are willing to read or view content on that tiny screen. Give me my desktop any day. I can’t even tolerate laptops unless I’m on the road.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I guess you could force people to do firmware updates. Otherwise, your censorship parameters will get out-of-date. For example, criticism of Musk may go from forbidden to mandatory as he falls out of favor with the MAGA regime.
“Please restart your device for a mandatory political update”
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 3 months ago:
I need to feel some level of attraction for it to work, but i try not to care about what others think. I also find that people i like/love grow more attractive over time.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
i get what you’re trying to say, but maybe the poster was trying to be inclusive. being attracted to feminine people regardless of genitalia is not what most bigots would consider normal. my answer to the question “is it normal to be attracted to x” is “yes”, provided that x is a human person old enough to consent. in my opinion, it is also normal to not be attracted to anything. i am using normal in the value-judgement sense, not in the statistical sense.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 4 months ago:
Juggling in the park is exactly the kind of things parks are for. Anyone who thinks it’s weird has crippling hang-ups; their opinions can be safely disregarded.
- Comment on Trump says Hollywood 'dying' orders 100% tariff on non-US movies to save it 4 months ago:
Whelp, movies just got added to my boycott of US crap.
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 4 months ago:
there are different definitions of intersex. the figure you cited is correct for only the narrowest definition: visibly ambiguous genitalia at birth. by other criteria (ambiguous internal anatomy, androgen insensitivity, etc.), it can be as high as 1.7% (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex)
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 4 months ago:
That is my understanding as well. I think that our insistence that every person needs to fit in one category or the other is almost the whole problem. I wonder how many people think to themselves “I don’t want to be trans, I just want to be me.”
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 4 months ago:
setting aside trans people for a second - is the government going to build separate washrooms for the >1 million uk residents who were born intersex? why can’t we make policy that is grounded in reality? lawmakers shout be required to pass a basic science course
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 5 months ago:
Public health care is not a leftist idea - it is just good business. Canada has better life expectancy than the US and our healthcare system costs less than the american one. No canadian has ever gone broke or lost their house because they get sick. when a working-age american dies of a preventable disease, their education, skills, and experience die with them. keep your people healthy and they will be more productive and will pay more taxes because they will earn more over their lifespan. american media tell americans that healthcare is communist for one reason only: to protect the wealth of healthcare investors. you have been ridiculously bamboozled.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I think you mean melanin. racist AND stupid
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 8 months ago:
Renting is a good choice for people who can’t immediately absorb big expenses. If your furnace quits, it can be really nice to phone the landlord and ask them to fix it. Homeowners have to have ready access to cash, and not everyone is in that situation - especially when they are starting out.
- Comment on The things you can buy on amazon 9 months ago:
The amazon reviewer is confusing chloroform (an inhalation anaesthetic that, in movies, is used to knock out people for kidnapping) and chlorophyll (a harmless substance used by plants for photosynthesis)