shalafi

@shalafi@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨248 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival - Cryonics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Are there any even half plausible ways cryogenics might work with the technology we have? I mean, if they’re frozen their cells are ruptured.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ideal car⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever in life seen lower case on a license plate? From any country?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Orders That ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Take a step back, BIG breath. All the judge had to work with was the environmental issue, that’s what the case challenged. She cannot bring additional challenges.

  And YES, enforcement is the next question, and we all know how that will play out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'No doubt the media are going to make fun of that': Bruce Lehrmann finds new ways to suffer in court⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL my GOD! Not only do you guys have your own George Santos, he looks like him! This world has to be a simulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#FGLAE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Where you get red springtails!? The one’s in my tanks are plain white. I do have blue roly polys though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I dropped the dream of being a French professor. By the end of my first year I realized there were only 2 or 3 on my campus and I’d have to work with them for many years and still not score a job.

  Funny story about my first professor: When I would speak French in class the girls would all giggle. WTF?! One night I got invited to an all-girl study group at the dorm next door.

  “OK, why do you all giggle when I speak French?”

  They got real quiet, looked around at each other. Finally one girl pipes up.

  “We’re sorry, it’s just that your accent is so much better than the professor’s, it’s embarrassing for him.”

  And that’s the man I would have had to work with for years. :( (BTW, he spoke 5 other languages and his grammar and vocabulary were unmatched. He just couldn’t speak worth a shit.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newsom Signs California Redistricting Plan to Counter Texas Republicans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  California: “Voters have to approve this.”

  Texas: “I will make it legal.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newsom Signs California Redistricting Plan to Counter Texas Republicans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No one will pass the liberal purity test and that’s why they so fucking always lose. Mamdani is a favorite at the moment, and gods do I love him, but after a year in office even the faithful will be tearing into him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Orders That ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Does no one read the fucking material?! The only item she brought before her was the ecological question. So yeah, that’s why she ruled as she did. Judges can’t go outside the scope of the case just because they feel like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm putting together a team⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If it didn’t start with Hannibal, I wouldn’t have got it. Perfect!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida removes rainbow crosswalk honouring Pulse nightclub mass shooting victims⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Worst part of this story is the governor overriding local will. Hell, worst part of Florida is the governor. Much of the evil shit you hear about us can be laid on DeSantis’ doorstep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shook⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  For those that think LGBT folks are currently in hell, back in the day even the most famous entertainers couldn’t come out. Despite Elton John and Liberace being up-in-your-grill gay, it was not spoken of. They were merely a little “light in the loafers”.

  When I was a kid and Rock Hudson got AIDS the world was stunned to find out he was gay. Talk about in the deep closet!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This crash will make 1998 and 2008 seen like child’s play.

  Let’s just get it fucking over with, but be careful what we wish for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I promise we're not crabby.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in Florida. The crab eating frog caught me off guard. Never have I ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the largest low-wage corporations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  We did this 100-years ago and got the Great Depression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond Beef? Impossible Beef? I Can't Believe It's Not Beef?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I add this?

  Beyond burgers are fucking disgusting. I was starving after a kayaking trip and my vegan gf got me to try one at Burger King. Jesus fuck me it was… I do not have words. Revolting is all I got.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Orders That ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The fuck else you want?! Judges don’t get to make laws, take cases at will. They rule on what’s in front of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every day I am Reminded how much he saw our future.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Kurt Vonnegut said the same words, from the 1940s onward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A real question about trans athletes and records⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for admitting that was a crazy analogy, made to prove a point! So many people on here take that kinda thing at face value and argue.

  And my point was meant to convey; We cannot win every fight out there, not for so few people. I am sympathetic, but we gotta choose our battles. At this point the right has Americans running around in circles on trans sports, brainwashing their own and enraging the rest. We have to aim high, the most good for the most people, work our way down.

  Kinda like gay marriage. I never thought we’d see it in my life! Starting to look like our energy needs spent on defending even that. And fuck me, I had thought that a settled issue. Against that particular backdrop, trans sports is a small-scale affair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A real question about trans athletes and records⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The question is fair, but so very few people are affected, who cares? Yes, I can care about more than one thing at a time, but using trans athletes as a political football (heh) is ludicrous. And yes, I know it counts for the people involved, I’m not a total ass.

  I’ll never find it again, but recently someone tallied how many times this came up on Fox News over the course of a single week. I think it was 100+ if not 150?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A real question about trans athletes and records⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That has nothing to do with the reality of men being biologically stronger than women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A real question about trans athletes and records⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you so very much. Yes, it’s a tough question. No, the question in and of itself does not imply hate. Yes, it’s been used as a political football.

  And the dumbest part? There are so very few trans athletes, and let’s be real, we’re only talking about MTF trans athletes. Nobody gives a flying fuck if FTM trans folks get whipped at a competition.

  “Our state has proudly passed a law banning the 3 MTF kids in the entire fucking state!” 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's good to know before transferring from Emergency to Operation Room as a nurse?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My ex was a scrub tech for years, loved it until she hit the top of the pay scale and so went to nursing school. Training put her in a 6-month 3rd shift stint at the downtown OR, the local “gun and knife club”, loved it. When she got her RN, she went straight back in the OR.

  She used to always laugh, “I don’t have to talk to those fuckers! They’re knocked out when I get to them!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pandering to conservative Americans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  John 3:16 is an all-time well known verse. Only one I could say without looking it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i just think they're neat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just going to sit here and stare at this comment for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i just think they're neat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m growing bird houses and luffa! Get another pack of luffa seeds. Mine are 2 or 3 years old and almost every one has sprouted. This year I just stuck ‘em in the ground.

  Be aware! Once they get rolling they can grow nearly 1’ a day!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I tip the first drink, but not every single time I get a beer. Not paying a dollar for them to crack a Miller Lite. Maybe every other or third drink I’ll throw a dollar on there, maybe more at the end of the night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work for a payroll company who had a bunch of restaurant clients. Some of those servers made bank. I’d fight it as well.

  LOL, you’re Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved Crichton, but goddamned does he over explain tech.

  The log was a record of the system over the last few hours.

  If readers may not be familiar, he could help them infer that from character actions or dialog.

  “Well Wu? What’s the log say the system’s been doing over the last few hours?”, said Arnold

  Congo was maybe the worst for techsplaining. Still a great novel!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wife has COVID and I've had a lung infection for almost 2-weeks. Should I worry? (background in post, mods read the first bit!)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Read about that today! No throat problems with either of us, except some very minor difficulty swallowing.