Croquette
@Croquette@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 day ago:
Modern agriculture uses ammonia pellets that more than half will evaporate by the time it enters the soil and it seeps into aquifers and rivers.
There is nothing sustainable with modern agriculture.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 2 days ago:
The issue is that the current farming techniques are not sustainable.
The fertilizers and pesticides used are burning the land, polluting the underground water pools and killing a bunch of animals and insects.
The agriculture needs to change to something sustainable.
- Comment on This Doctor Won’t Take Health Insurance - and Charges Just $35 a Visit | AJ+ (5:46) 5 days ago:
If he doesn’t have to deal with all the administrative work, the overhead will probably reduce drastically.
The insurance system in the US is so fucked up that it wouldn’t surprise me if a big part of the doctor’s fee are eaten by dealing with insurers.
Anyway, I am pretty sure the guy didn’t choose 35$ blindly.
And let’s not forget that it is only for a consultation. If he does other acts, he charges more.
- Comment on This Doctor Won’t Take Health Insurance - and Charges Just $35 a Visit | AJ+ (5:46) 5 days ago:
A doctor can usually see 4 patients an hour. So that’s 140$/h, not 35$/h.
- Comment on This Doctor Won’t Take Health Insurance - and Charges Just $35 a Visit | AJ+ (5:46) 5 days ago:
4 patients an hour is still 140$/h.
- Comment on what's a good way to stick a laser leveler to the wall? 1 week ago:
Cheap lasers don’t do 360 degrees. Depending on where the line needs to be, you sometime have to elevate it.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I understand your point and I agree. But a lot of privileged people (i’m included in that) should definitely consume less meat or none at all.
This is a strange argument that the problem with vegans is that they don’t do enough for the poor?
I haven’t seen any vegans protesting in a 7/11. It’s usually high end butcher or restaurants.
So again, I agree with what you say, but it doesn’t make sense in the current frame of discussion.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
You are right, but we use this privilege to eat more meat instead of more vegetables. So my point still stands.
And even then, meat is way pricier than vegetables, so the privilege argument is shaky.
But as I said, assume the fact that you eat meat and that it is more damageable for the environment and after that, if you are in a position where you can afford to eat less or no meat, do it if you feel like it.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
Always is. They went too far. They scale back and try again when the dust has settled.
Oldest trick in the books
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
If we remove the ethic argument from the conversation, veganism is definitely a better choice for the planet, factually.
People have a hard time detaching their ego from the issue at hand. Since veganism is better for the planet, they are “better” in that specific area of their life.
But it doesn’t mean that vegans are better people than non-vegans, because we don’t know what else they do.
Eat meat if you want. I do. But I don’t feel personally attacked because vegans are right about the carbon footprint of meat, and they preach for it.
- Comment on When a cave has better wifi than I do 1 month ago:
Thanks pal. That’s the word.
- Comment on When a cave has better wifi than I do 1 month ago:
moosetwin in another comment said the word, generacization.
But ubiquitous is always right in this case, but not the word I was looking for.
- Comment on When a cave has better wifi than I do 1 month ago:
There is a term, that I am too lazy to search, that when a brand or technology is so widespread or used, that the name of the brand or technology becomes the word used to describe anything that ressemble that brand or technology.
Wi-Fi and iPads are definitely some of those.
- Comment on 23-year-old Nintendo interview shows how little things have changed in gaming 2 months ago:
Always assume that corporate decisions benefits the corporation. If decisions somehow align with customers needs and wants, it’s a positive side effect.
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- Comment on What is a good, healthy, unhurtful, socially positive way to express anger? 2 months ago:
Same for me. It works, and I can just vent to myself and move on with my life.
But sometimes, the big outbursts are inevitable considering the context. But that’s life.
- Comment on What is a good, healthy, unhurtful, socially positive way to express anger? 2 months ago:
This is why it is important to learn to identify the smaller frustrations to stop them from building up. Smaller frustrations are easier to deal with, so it is a good idea to take a minute or two to just deal with them right when they happen. It will stop most of the bigger outbursts.
- Comment on What is a good, healthy, unhurtful, socially positive way to express anger? 2 months ago:
What works for me :
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I remove myself from the situation that caused the anger.
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I let myself live the anger for a minute or two, or a bit more if needed.
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When the anger is gone, I identify what emotion is the cause of anger. Anger is 99% a reaction to a negative emotion.
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I say outloud to myself the reason of my anger. Otherwise, I feel like the anger is pent-up.
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If my anger was directed at someone, I apologize and explain why I was angry.
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Finally, I reflect on the situation and the emotions I experienced. Sometimes it’s 30 seconds, sometimes it’s a few days, depending on the gravity of the situation. By understanding what caused the negative emotions, I can handle it better in the future.
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- Comment on IT support work be like 4 months ago:
That’s a great tip. I don’t use chrome, so I didn’t know that.
- Comment on IT support work be like 4 months ago:
My girlfriend (millenial) is like that as well and it is infuriating. I tell her time and time again, just use a password manager that isn’t the browser’s password manager and you are golden. You just need to remember one “complicated” password, i.e. something with more than 8 characters and that’s it.
The many times she doesn’t know her password to important account is mind boggling.
- Comment on Electrician job 4 months ago:
Until he makes a mistake and get shocked.
- Comment on Her pussy 4 months ago:
Because some guys try to use the “oops I didn’t bring any condom” to try and rawdog it.
If it’s a genuine mistake, then the gal can still have safe fun. Otherwise, if the guy is combative about the condom, it’s a big red flag. Win/Win for her.
- Comment on Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here? 5 months ago:
A 100%. If you become the most intelligent person in the world, it will be hard to create connection with people because very few people would truly understand how you are.
We tend to make friends with like minded people and similar intelligence and pressing that button would disrupt that.
- Comment on Seek relief 6 months ago:
It would be nice if it was that simple for everyone, but it isn’t. Migraines especially are debilitating for me and I will 100% take my pills over trying to ride the pain.
Sometimes, I know why I have a headache, but most of the time, it pops up for no apparent reason. Always had been since I was 10 years old. So fuck that noise, after a certain threshold, I take ibuprofen and acetaminophen instead of suffering for hours.
- Comment on What do overnight shift workers do when the clocks change? 6 months ago:
If you are salaried, it isn’t. But we know that salaried always mean you must work your full week and sometimes extra hours without more pay. But it never means you can work less hours with the same pay.
- Comment on Unity issue an apology on Twitter for "confusion and angst" over the runtime fee policy. 7 months ago:
The conventional wisdow is that in time of economic turmoil, companies should lower their profit margins and weather out the storm.
However, in today’s capitalism, this is not not acceptable. Shareholders demand ever increasing profits and anything short of that is considered a failure. If you don’t keep your margin, you are to be scolded and discarded.
Now, the loans that many of the companies have cost a lot more money than 2 years ago. So the enshittification is used to enable the continued growth to keep the profits growings.
- Comment on Is this it? Is there anything more to life, am I missing something? 8 months ago:
Great, thanks for the info. I will check it out.
- Comment on Is this it? Is there anything more to life, am I missing something? 8 months ago:
Can it propose meal plans as well? If I don’t have to think about what to eat, I feel less anxious and usually eat better.
- Comment on ‘Barbie’ Becomes Biggest Warner Bros. Movie Ever at Domestic Box Office, Beating ‘The Dark Knight’ 8 months ago:
If you can clear your head of the hype going into the movie, you’ll have a better experience.
It’s a good movie, but the hype is killing the expectations.
- Comment on looking forward to the comments 9 months ago:
There already a word in the English language which is almost the same : gift. So i prononce it like gift without the t.