lennybird
@lennybird@lemmy.world
- Comment on Can anyone explain what the midterms means? Eg how it changes the power, how much it restricts Trump etc 15 hours ago:
Just to add to this:
Congressional investigations, hearings, subpoenas become incredibly important these next two years. This is where Democrats gain real power aside from their ability to add more friction to Republican agenda (which unfortunately the damage has been done and will continue to be done from the Executive so long as the SCOTUS remains as it is).
Second to this, Democrats must use their new platform to explain what you explain here, that they need more votes in order to effect real change in 2028. They must adopt the Republican way and stay in campaign-mode from now through 2028.
- Comment on Is passing a kidney stone as a man the real equivalent of a woman giving birth? Where do they register on the pain index/scale? 3 days ago:
Staghorn stones are monstrosities. I had just a normal 3mm and that still felt like a dagger being twisted in my side, slowly.
- Comment on Why does the microwave button have a "popcorn" button when every microwave popcorn brand says "DO NOT USE THE POPCORN BUTTON"? 1 week ago:
Can I bitch about something since you’re an appliance repair tech (not at you, just with you)?
GE french-door fridge, freezer. Less than 3-years-old. Freezer drawer.
Evap fan goes out. It’s pretty corroded. I do wonder if someone spilled something in the back of fridge but I can’t see a sign of residue beside the corrosion (Still, no protective shroud above the fan from fluids dripping down the back). Bench-tested it; dead. Condensate drain seems fine. Order $100 replacement. Still doesn’t turn on. I know control boards can fail from a result of this, too. I check output power from board, and it all seems good. Tested new fan; it’s good too.
Before this, I realize the evaporator connector harness is flush with the floor of the fridge and downstream of the condensate drain pan. Water literally pooled in the 6-prong connector harness that is sealed into the floor of the freezer. Dried it out, cleaned it off as best as I could with CRC QD cleaner, etc. but I’m not getting the same voltage I’m getting on the 12V red from the board, which I can only deduce means a short or corroded connector underneath the freezer… So now gotta cut it out.
I’m not the only one who’s had issues with this, and it reallllllly feels not just like a poor design but planned obsolescence.
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 2 months ago:
Don’t do welding, or pipe fitting. Speaking from the counsel of family whose profession was this (and they were one of the best, truly). In their own words they’d never advise anyone to go into that these days.
To do things over, as much as they loved it, they said they’d probably join the sparkies. Electrician or lineman.
Meanwhile hvac trade is a wash with really terrible people, the most conservative trade, low union, and highly variable in competency.
- Comment on Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here? 2 months ago:
It’s not, “No (such thing as) stupid questions”; it’s “no stupid questions!”
/s
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 year ago:
Upvoted.
Personally, it doesn’t really matter much whether he was left or right since it’s very clear that right-wing extremist violence makes up the large majority of these incidents.
- Comment on Hypersensitive tankie mod 2 years ago:
Yeah that’s some petty bullshit.
Side note but I really appreciate the mod log feature.
- Comment on Hypersensitive tankie mod 2 years ago:
Hexbear falls under this umbrella, right?
- Comment on Germans: what genocide? 2 years ago:
I acknowledge your point and agree there is contradiction in AP and Reuters’ headline. On the other hand release of hostages is kind of a given to accept a sustained ceasefire. Hamas must come to the table in some capacity. After all, it isn’t really even the hostages that are preventing Israel from bombing Gaza into oblivion. And it isn’t the hostages that is spurring public outcry, but rather the death of Palestinian civilians already occurring. So anything that advances the protections of those civilians should be paramount, and that includes hostages.
Regardless it’s a moot point, for a ceasefire resolution did pass days later:
The text demanded “an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan leading to a lasting sustainable ceasefire”. It also demanded the release of hostages but did not make a truce dependent on them being freed, as Washington had previously demanded.
Not sure I agree with that personally, nor that China and Russia are some sort of concerned humanitarian forces in the region, but alas.
- Comment on Germans: what genocide? 2 years ago:
“Russia and China veto US resolution calling for immediate cease-fire in Gaza”
???
- Comment on Germans: what genocide? 2 years ago:
That’s equivocation. [Reuters - “Russia, China veto US-led UN resolution on Gaza ceasefire”(]reuters.com/…/un-security-council-fails-pass-us-r…)
- Comment on Germans: what genocide? 2 years ago:
They have tried to stop the war… With Ceasefire votes… That even the US no longer vetoes…
… Russia and China vetoed. Blame them.
The next best thing is that UN committees can investigate and identify genocide without it necessarily being vetoed. Once the UN and especially ICC identify such genocide, that adds global pressure; such global pressure leads to supporters of Israel to reconsider holding Israel’s hands; hence why the US in an unprecedented move has stepped further away from Israel than it has for decades. People don’t understand just how closely-linked Israel and US have been. I never would’ve thought a sitting US President would say a bad word about Israel/Bibi without fear of major backlash. We’re certainly at an inflection point — and it’s about fucking time.
- Comment on I feel so old. 2 years ago:
damn is lit and low-key really out of date now?
- Comment on I feel so old. 2 years ago:
Oh christ we’re already referencing pop-culture of the 2010s, help me I don’t like this aging thing.
- Comment on I feel so old. 2 years ago:
cool
- Comment on I feel so old. 2 years ago:
needs more bets and caps, right?
- Comment on We have found it. 2 years ago:
urine is a fantastic nitrogen fertilizer
bonemeal for phosphorus
wood-ash for potassium.
Probably not concentrated enough to work on an industrial scale, but probably on smaller communal farms.
- Comment on We have found it. 2 years ago:
Was wondering, do Orchids do this, too? They have “air roots” and basically subsist off zero substrate.
- Comment on Disturbingly accurate 2 years ago:
I just tend to associate this style with right-wingers, so I distance myself a bit.
- Comment on a classic issue... 2 years ago:
Okay hear me out. Sauerkraut. Don’t get the canned stuff; get the refrigerated sauerkraut as that’s hugely beneficial to your gut. I find snacking on a bit of that satiates my snacking drive in the evening.
- Comment on Microplastic overdose 2 years ago:
Fake Plastic Cheese, good radiohead song.
I admit growing up pretty poor, these were considered a treat lol.
- Comment on Microplastic overdose 2 years ago:
Ah the, “I’ll have a diet coke with this Big Mag, Cheesecake bites, large French Fries” mindset.
- Comment on Uno reverse 🔁 3 years ago:
Ugh, it hurts that there are losers out there who say this shit unironically.