GrabtharsHammer
@GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 3 weeks ago:
This is a joke about Einstein’s form of the Equivalence Principle:
- Comment on There's no rule saying dogs can't bowl 1 month ago:
That’s not a bad faith joke. That is an educated person encouraging their partner to do better, gently, with humor.
- Comment on giving her 🧀 2 months ago:
Looks like “The Complete Book of Magic and Witchcraft” by Kathryn Paulsen.
- Comment on And stupid me always taught that injecting yourself with radioactive donuts causes cancer 2 months ago:
Regulatory capture.
- Comment on And stupid me always taught that injecting yourself with radioactive donuts causes cancer 2 months ago:
Vertical Integration.
- Comment on And stupid me always taught that injecting yourself with radioactive donuts causes cancer 2 months ago:
WARNING: Dunkin Donuts can expose you to chemicals including Dihydrogen Monoxide, which is known to the State of California to cause cancer. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.
- Comment on The Family Fleet of Dodge Caravans 3 months ago:
I love my cigar, too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.
- Comment on How to people that have to wear black nitrile gloves all day keep from having sweaty hands? 3 months ago:
And then squeegee down your forearms and aprons and get back to work.
- Comment on How to people that have to wear black nitrile gloves all day keep from having sweaty hands? 3 months ago:
You just pull the wrist hole open and dump out the excess hand water every hour or so.
- Comment on I wish I was as bold as these authors. 4 months ago:
The paper explicitly states that they are calling AI “bullshit” in the Frankfurtian sense and not merely the colloquial sense.
You’d know this if you had read the paper or even checked whether your statement were true. But you didn’t actually care about the truth value of your own statement, which means your comment is, itself, bullshit.
- Comment on math checks out 5 months ago:
You sound like a guy who knows which part of a warplane to reinforce.
- Comment on What would be the consequences of a smallsword wound to the belly? 5 months ago:
I think the cleanliness of the blade would be less relevant than the massive infection pouring from your pierced guts into the wound.
- Comment on is there a legal way to consume alcohol bought at a store, outside of a home, hotel room, etc.? 6 months ago:
It depends on where you are. Public consumption laws are local.
- Comment on Because only women are worried about becoming step-parents? (This prolly could've been an Ask Lemmy.) 6 months ago:
There isn’t near the kind of cultural narrative about stepfathers that there is about stepmothers, especially in media for kids. Kids absorb ideas from the fairy tales they see and hear. Stepmoms have to deal with tropes from “Cinderella” to “My Stepmom is An Alien”. Kids will then carry those notions, amorphous and unexamined, into their new relationship. Kids usually don’t have the capacity to recognize those kind of prejudices in themselves. So now the new stepmom has to deal with the kid’s indignance at a fictional character. But aside from the Dursleys in Harry Potter, I’m hard pressed to recall a wicked stepfather.
Then there’s the puritanical thread, and I’m a dude so I don’t even know what else is lurking in our culture that wants to take a piece out of a stepmom. But I was a kid with a stepmom, and in retrospect I know I had preconceived ideas that led to unnecessary friction.
Not to reduce what a genuinely good dad has to do, step or otherwise. But if a dad manages to use words to explain something calmly, that’s enough to get kudos from strangers on the street. I don’t think the ladies have the benefit of the same uncomplicated expectations, so they need specialized guidance.
What exactly are you looking for in advice? How to deal with the ex and their branch? How to deal with specific behaviors from the kids? You’ll probably do better to search at the level of those topics than the role of stepdad in general.
- Comment on Because only women are worried about becoming step-parents? (This prolly could've been an Ask Lemmy.) 6 months ago:
I’d suggest going for “How to talk so that kids will listen and listen so kids will talk” series. To be a good step-parent, you need to be a good parent.
- Comment on Eclipse advice for those in their 40s and 50s. 7 months ago:
Over surprised guy?
- Comment on Why did we give up on insulation? 10 months ago:
I think some motivation is that half-assing your shelter in Yakutsk is dangerous, not merely uncomfortable.
- Comment on Buy 519, get 1 free! 10 months ago:
What a savings.
- Comment on That’s breakfast, what’s lunch? 11 months ago:
It’s Digirono.
- Comment on Why cant the Middle East just chill out? 1 year ago:
It’s not so much two infants irrationally arguing. Israel has owned some of this land for three generations. So the folks living there have passed it down as long as they’ve been alive. But another group owned it first, and the oldest among them remember the days before the occupiers came.
It’s like if the Cherokee decided to go full on guerrila warfare in the 1940s. Would they maybe have a point? How would it square with folks that had already been there for 80 years? It’s the settlers generational home now, too. Everyone has legitimate greivances. It’s not about settling tantrums, it’s about mediating between people that have legitimate but mutually exclusive claims.
- Comment on Time to grow up. 1 year ago:
She deserves nothing less for spelling it as “weening”.
- Comment on Almost all remote-work news is negative now but was positive in the beginning of the pandemic. Have you noticed this or am I going crazy? 1 year ago:
I think it’s not so much about middle management. They implement the policies of the actual decision makers.
I think it’s because the people who actually make these decisions perform their work mostly via face-to-face meetings, handshakes, projecting personal charisma, reading body language, and personal networking. This leads to an overestimation of how much of other jobs depend on time spent in the same room with others.
The executive imagines the meetings they missed, leading to lost opportunities. So they see a loss of productivity.
They don’t appreciate how much easier it was to edit that manual or analyze that data without Joe the human tuba trying to breathe around his phlegm in the cube next door, or without the folks three rows over arguing about which director’s vision of Superman was best.
- Comment on Incorrect password! 1 year ago:
This generally occurs when a user enters the correct password, but has a typo in the username. The user is psychologically fixated on the password and overlooks the actual mistake.
Then, when changing the password, they re-enter the current password and finally discover the password was never the problem.