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- Comment on Dreams come true 2 hours ago:
The trouble is that a fad doesn’t have to be functional to be used by short-sighted trend chasers as a justification to make cuts. How many jobs did we see outsourced to India in a way that didn’t even come close to matching the quality of the people laid off? The people who make the decision to replace jobs with ai systems will loudly declare success and move on to their next role before the long-term consequences are fully realized.
- Comment on Something sticky has invaded my life 2 days ago:
Likely unrelated, but after I’ve cut raw garlic cloves everything feels weird, almost sticky, no matter how much I wash my hands.
- Comment on Ol switcharoo 6 days ago:
As long as the earth-sun orbit stays close to 1 au, then ejecting the moon wouldn’t necessarily be world ending. There would probably be some aquatic life extinctions from the loss of tides, and some nocturnal species might be affected by the change in light levels.
The sun diameter is 1.4 million kilometers, and the earth-moon irital radius is 0.38 million kilometers. So trying stick the sun between the earth and moon at the current orbital radius just makes the sun 1% more massive.
- Comment on What a bioluminescent petunia had to teach me 1 week ago:
Bioluminescent ferns bordering a wooded path would be rather magical.
- Comment on UPDATE: Here is the final design of the Humorless Toaster, that this wonderful community helped me pick yesterday! (Needless to say one of the previous versions was unintentionally problematic) 2 weeks ago:
He was planning to retire 6 months ago, but the market hasn’t been doing great and his brother in law had to borrow some money to deal with gambling debts.
- Comment on Launches 2 weeks ago:
Yes, one is a final solution, the other is just pushing your problems elsewhere without regard for who else it could affect.
- Comment on What to do with glassware that is impossible to clean 2 weeks ago:
As the current owner of a 1930’s era property with tons of glass and rubble in the ground, please don’t. We have landfills so that individual properties don’t get filled with trash.
- Comment on Slapping Chicken 2 weeks ago:
0 C wouldn’t quite be frozen solid for chicken since it’s not pure water. So technically it is defrosted, but it should start out closer to 10 C for good results.
- Comment on PlayStation 5 Pro Blog Post 2 weeks ago:
That’s $700 for a digital only edition without a disk drive or vertical stand. It’s $810 to match the features of the PS5.0
- Comment on Why is waking up when my alarm goes off so difficult and unpleasant yet "sleeping in" does feel good and isn't satisfying? 2 weeks ago:
Smart blinds can also serve a similar function. My bedroom catches some light from passing headlights and there’s enough light pollution to affect my sleep. However, my SO really struggles to wake up if it’s dark. Smart blinds have been a great solution for us.
- Comment on Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives 3 weeks ago:
The title says worlds first all-electric train rather than worlds first all-battery-powered train. There have been many all-electric trains before. So the title as written is incorrect.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 3 weeks ago:
That depends on your client. Connect for lemmy shows a placeholder for comments from blocked instances. You can click to show the comment anyway or just blissfully ignore the high probability rage bait.
- Comment on Why are collard greens called greens is it the color? And if so how come there is not a rainbow of different colored collards? 4 weeks ago:
In a similar vein, I prefer celery leaves over the stalks. They have a better flavor imo and they don’t feel like your chewing on stringy water.
- Comment on 😳😳😳 4 weeks ago:
There’s no danger for an mri unless you’ve had major surgery involving metal inplants. There’s no ionizing radiation so there should be no risks for the fetus.
Cost and scarcity are big limiting factors for mri though. Mri machines are massive permanent installations that cost in the millions. They are already busy with people who need diagnostics of specific conditions. Putting every expectant mother in one would lead to absurd wait times. Whereas doctors offices can have multiple little ultrasound machines on carts that are easy to quickly acquire imagining as part of roitine visits.
- Comment on Becoming et al. 4 weeks ago:
I know it may not be worth pursuing, but that specifically can invalidate a patent.
- Comment on Publishing Revenue 4 weeks ago:
Real estate seems to be a popular place for seemingly unnecessary middlemen.
- Comment on Starbucks’ new CEO faces backlash over 1,000-mile commute to Seattle office 5 weeks ago:
That’s not how it works. What matters is the state of your residency and the state that your paychecks come from. If you get paid in a state you don’t reside in, you have to file in both, unless there’s a reciprosity agreement. Many states will allow deductions for income tax paid in another state. So for example if the state your employer is in has a 4% rate, and the state you reside in has a 6% rate, then you’d en up paying 4% to state A and 2% to state B. It is possible to get double taxed depending on which states are involved.
So the CEO will at the very least have to file in California.
- Comment on The REAL Problem with "Luxury Housing" 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, ten years ago any apartment complex near campus that had undergone any renovations within the prior 15 years was being marketed as “luxury.”
Most of them were still cramped places with terrible materials and paper thin walls. The students living in them were frequently heavily dependent of financial aid or their parents had saved diligently for 20 yrs. There were some “elites,” but most of them were international students.
- Comment on Could an animal be taught how to throw accurately? 1 month ago:
I swear some squirrels that didn’t appreciate our hammock location could hit my head with pine cones 7 times out of 10.
- Comment on Anon is true romantic 1 month ago:
You need to sweeten the pot with calzones if you expect anyone to play cones of dunshire as a first date.
- Comment on if the total fertility rate drops and stays below global replacement rate, will humans disappear? 2 months ago:
The human population isn’t homogenous. Some regions and cultures have a lot more children per woman than others. So some demographics will experience population decline and others will continue growing. Overall, the world population may go into decline, but we are a very long way away from anything resembling extinction.
- Comment on Chemists of Lemmy, how accurate is this likability table? 2 months ago:
I wonder if you’d get a sort of leidenfrost effect limiting the extent of damage.
I’m not going to test that though.
- Comment on Tenure 2 months ago:
I remember my 7am calc lectures with a prof who would almost get lost between the podium and whiteboard.
- Comment on Evidence 2 months ago:
Fortunately the big bang isn’t actually a bedrock of anything outside of cosmology and can entirely ignored by the rest of physics.
- Comment on I feel betrayed... 2 months ago:
Because when looking to replace work horses with a steam engine you didn’t care what the absolute peak output of a horse was. You needed to know how big of an engine you needed based on how large the team of horses already powering the application was. Anyone trying to run a horse anywhere near their peak output for any length of time would injure them.
- Comment on the law of adulting: veg spoils 5x faster when ur paying for it 3 months ago:
I’ve had lettuce “melt” overnight. Lettuce can easily freeze if the fridge has to run hard to cool something large down and the lettuce is close to where the air comes out of the condensor. Then when the fridge is at an idle state, the lettuce thaws and is just mush.
- Comment on Why does it feel like too much effort just to go from sitting around looking at garbage online to simply watching a film or playing a video game? 3 months ago:
If you have a long shadow, the sunlight that gets to you has gone through much more atmosphere which attenuates the ultraviolet light. So at high/low lattitudes and during morning/evening hours the amount of uv that gets to the surface is much lower.
- Comment on Who's gonna tell the boss? 3 months ago:
Or haves someone at home base drive over with the key. That might be cheaper than a heavy vehicle tow.
- Comment on Anyone else have this happen after grabbing a coffee? 3 months ago:
I’ve had that happen with what i assume was a hand lotion because there was a particular part of the lid that smelled.
I don’t know why everyone else is treating you so negatively. This absolutely can happen with people not thinking about how their habits impact what customers are consuming. With how many millions of coffee beverages that are served every day, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that some small portion are handled improperly with poor hygiene.
- Comment on The Pack 3 months ago:
When the outside is a freezer, yeah. Given the usual range of moose that’s true for like half the year.