lemmy_outta_here
@lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world
- 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? 5 days ago:
fair enough, i guess it depends on how fast you call back
- Comment on It’s the little things 5 days 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? 5 days 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? 6 days 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? 6 days 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 6 days ago:
NGL, this is hot.
- Comment on Perspective 1 week ago:
Yes.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 week ago:
Yes! When I read that, I immediately thought “curtailing developer choice is exactly the point.”
- Comment on 1 week 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 weeks ago:
“Dear God, thank you for Trump, ICE, and Alligator Auschwitz. Please let our reich last a thousand years.”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks 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] 1 month 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 Otherwise, your censorship parameters will get out-of-date.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? 1 month 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] 2 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? 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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? 3 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] 5 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? 7 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 7 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)
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 7 months ago:
This was my exact thought! Prosecuted, yes. Convicted, no.
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 7 months ago:
Je parle aussi dragon. Foos!
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 7 months ago:
I have crazy high hours on Skyrim because I replayed it in French and Spanish. It is a very fun way to get the cheapest language immersion ever (though your vocabulary becomes a little, um, specialized)
- Comment on How do you just live like this? 8 months ago:
The thing that really gets me down is the futility of my job. I am a public servant, so i don’t have to worry about being exploited by the rich in the same way. I work decent hours and have good benefits. However, a lot of the work i do seems aimless and poorly thought out. Many of my projects get cancelled after months of work due to changing priorities. When i get home, i tend to ruminate over the pointlessness of it all. If i sit there and really think about how i am spending my life, i get really down. Video games and hobbies occupy my mind to the exclusion of bad thoughts.
- Comment on Live Updates: Pagers Explode Across Lebanon in Apparent Attack on Hezbollah 9 months ago:
yep, looks like you were right. sorta reassuring…
- Comment on Live Updates: Pagers Explode Across Lebanon in Apparent Attack on Hezbollah 9 months ago:
This is wild. Does the IDF have the capability of making a person’s cell phone explode? Are they able to hack the power management or something? Is almost everyone on earth carrying a bomb? WTF.
- Comment on you have to subscribe to the dictionary now 1 year ago:
Hi! With the OED, it has been like that at least since I started university in 2007. However, lots of public libraries have subscriptions. I just go to my library website, login, and follow the link to the OED. There are many other reference tools that are also included in my library card. Libraries rule!