Machinist
@Machinist@lemmy.world
- Comment on Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care 1 day ago:
Don’t you just love this fucking bullshit dripping from the mouth of a parasite who’s never seen hard times?
I do actually agree with the core of this idea. Most people are not happy in a state of long term indolence. Most of us need ‘work’ to be happy. However, that ‘work’ might be carving sculpture, teaching children, breeding plants, or theoretical physics.
How many Albert Einsteins and George Washington Carvers died of blacklung from the mines this parasite inherited?
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 1 day ago:
It’s been a long time since I read the book, but I remeber it being medicore late golden era. Herbert had no understanding of radiation and his characters tended to be good or evil without a lot of nuance.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 2 days ago:
Yes, but I would recommend being fucked up and in the company of others.
Don’t go there alone or you will only find sadness and anger.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 2 days ago:
Yeah, drunk or stoned with a group of SF nerds shit talking it would be a fun party, actually.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 2 days ago:
It’s a terrible movie. Verges on so bad it’s good. Uses more dutch angles than a crooked windmill.
Book was mediocre with a Mary Sue main that had Goodboy for a last name.
- Comment on :-) 6 days ago:
Fucking Quiverfull. Eugenics bad, but I really hate those fucks.
Hell, line em up, tell them to grab ankles, and I’ll take care of it with a pair of pruning shears.
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 1 week ago:
Just wait until they start kindergarten.
Hopefully your toilet is close enough to the tub or sink so you can puke out of both ends.
Parenting is just wonderful.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 1 week ago:
Very true, and more efficient.
For now, I can mute all that I’ve found, it also looks like the pump has crashed, which is fun.
It quits working, I may adopt your method.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 2 weeks ago:
Eh. Humans are cheating serial monogamists for the most part. I don’t think lifelong monogamy is something we evolved for. Trying to keep it as the standard leads to all the problems we have. The whole patriarchal model that dominates the world is a result of monogamy and inheritance.
It’s pie in the sky utopian stuff, at this point.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 2 weeks ago:
Healthy open relationships at scale will require some pretty big changes in society.
Communication, critical thinking, self-actualization, Maslow’s Hierarchy; all those things will have to be improved both in society-at-large and within the educational system. Most of the world will not function well in polyamory without basically redoing society.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 2 weeks ago:
You sound like one of them Lake Wobegone types. We don’t cotton to that around here, too uplifting.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 2 weeks ago:
So, most pump POS used to have a labeled or unlabeled mute button. That has become rare.
So far, I’ve been able to kick all of them into a diagnostic/trouble menu by pressing pairs of keys on each side of the monitor in sequence from the top.
Some of them have a timeout on this screen, but the counter resets when you hit a key.
Passwords can be entered from the keypad, with ok/enter also working. I bet the passwords are the manufacturer default, probably a 5-7 digit number. I was able to find partial training manuals and setup docs from one of the POS vendors but I didn’t find a default password or deeper technical docs for the one brand I looked into.
Fucking ads in my face fucking piss me off.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 2 weeks ago:
Fucking Bruges.
- Comment on Anon learns happiness is simpler than he thought 2 weeks ago:
IDK, I pissed off the hivemind on another post and all my comments have been downvoted. Which is kind of fun, actually. Feels like Lemmy is becoming a real internet community.
Anyhow, yeah. We’re capable of living without purpose but I do think most of us need that purpose to feel content. It’s a trope, Man’s Search for Meaning and Purpose. This is just my answer to it. My answer is a lazy shortcut, I’m kind of over spirituality and most philosophy. If none of it matters, then I pick what matters to me and makes me happy.
I like some people and the natural world the best, I define my purpose as taking care of them. It’s a conscious decision but it does actually bring me existential peace.
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 2 weeks ago:
Well, dawg, I’ve spent most of my life living in a completely different world than most posters on Lemmy.
And yes, I hunt, fish, eat meat, drive a truck, have a beard. I also talk funny. I have castrated calves. Been backup in large deals. Dealt with thieving meth heads. Done amateur surgery.
I don’t live in my mother’s urban basement eating chicken tendies.
But yeah, that’s my white squirrel.
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. It’s cruel, but if you pushed him far enough, he would be committed. Op hasn’t been able to get effective help from the government/social system.
Sounds like he’s older and there are physically stronger people in OPs house so if it escalated, they can defend without much trouble.
Cancer mom beats schizophrenic neighbor. If causing the neighbor to decompensate gets her peace, so be it. This is not a difficult ethical problem, the expedient solution is just illegal.
I’ve done and will do a whole lot to take care of my loved ones. Society sure isn’t.
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 2 weeks ago:
I’m being downvoted to hell for it, but I’ve done similar things in the past. I’m used to corrupt ineffective cops, sometimes you just have fix shit and be done with it.
IDK, it’s redneck but a quick frame up would at least end the noise.
- Comment on Anon learns happiness is simpler than he thought 2 weeks ago:
Nihilism isn’t really a philosophy to live by, however. Humans seem to need purpose.
After losing my religion, I struggled with this for a while. I decided that taking care of my people was my purpose and gave my life meaning. None of the rest of it is my responsibility, not the big questions, society, any of it. As long as I’m taking care of my family and helping them be happy, I’m mostly content.
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 2 weeks ago:
It’s your mama with cancer really being hurt here. Ethically, that gives you options. Sucks for your neighbor, he can’t help it.
Fastest solution is to wait for him to leave the house and post a lookout. Make entry and destroy every speaker you can find. Decorate broken items with something that is a feature of his behavior such as a common phrase or food item.
When he gets home and throws a fit, call the cops on him and deny everything and act frustrated and put out. Talk about your sick mother. This may fix it, it not, at least make it much better.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a mostly untestable premise unless somebody manages to crack into the system or find a smoking gun.
So, it’s slightly less improbable than some sort of god.
It sure is a neat idea that feels right. So, yeah religion.
I tell my girl all the time that she can have as many ponies and unicorns as she wants when we all go live in the computer someday.
- Comment on Anon measures up 3 weeks ago:
I saw what you did. Carry on.
- Comment on Anon discovers cigarettes 3 weeks ago:
Absolute statement like that coming from an obvious place of smug ignorance is always entertaining.
I look forward to your debate with others in this thread.
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 3 weeks ago:
I’m on my second marriage, 10 years in this one and 13 in the first.
My relationship is easy. We don’t argue, we have the same goals, she’s my best friend, sex is a science where we know the other’s responses and are creative. We face hard things together. I could go on. It’s easy to love her.
Nothing like my first marriage, it was hell.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 3 weeks ago:
They’re great for breakfast!
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 3 weeks ago:
Chocolate starfish, leather cheerio, balloon knot.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 3 weeks ago:
I understand.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 3 weeks ago:
I do have faith that some random dude in Pakistan will figure out how to unlock a sensor using a paperclip and a 555 timer and will post it to YouTube.
If the person in the video is wearing flip flops and smoking, tends to be good info.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 3 weeks ago:
I think OP is talking about Short Circuit. OP also may be having a stroke, be suffering from dementia, or have snorted Benadryl.
- Comment on Bookmark 4 weeks ago:
Probably pulp where the author churns out tons of stuff. Their name is more important than the title. You see it with historical fiction, romances, Westerns.
Don’t get me wrong, love me some pulp. It’s the comfort food of literature.
- Comment on They encased the filter 4 weeks ago:
Daaaang! That totally makes sense. It’s always quality lab that does UV or small shops outsourcing dye pen and I’ve never done it.
