Railing5132
@Railing5132@lemmy.world
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 4 weeks ago:
At least Lecter is honest about who he is!
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 2 months ago:
Oh, shit, I’m still here… Can I have my wallet and dog back please?!?
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 2 months ago:
Great Scott! I was so busy packing, I forgot about the dog! Quick! What are your rates! Nevermind - here’s my bank info - I won’t need money anymore!!
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 2 months ago:
Oh, shit! Who will water my plants?!
- Comment on Breast Cancer 3 months ago:
This is exactly what is being done. My eldest child is in a Ph. D. program for human - robot interaction and medical intervention, and has worked on image analysis systems in this field. They’re intended use is exactly that - a “first look” and “second look”. A first look to help catch the small, easily overlooked pre-tumors, and tentatively mark clear ones. A second look to be a safety net for tired, overworked, or outdated eyes.
- Comment on Ironing 4 months ago:
Iron a wool suit?
- Comment on Ok. Now they've done it. 5 months ago:
My wife and I recently had a child. We came home the other day to a book in the mail; “The Little Engine That Could”. It was sent by a foundation that Dolly either started or contributes heavily to. She chose that book as the introductory book because it reminds her of the struggles her father endured and overcame learning to read. Fuck whoever dispareges Dolly Parton in the neck with a rusty screwdriver.
- Comment on When did a movie misrepresent the country or city you live in? 5 months ago:
“Moorhead” just doesn’t ring the same, and would fit a different genre better.
- Comment on This TV movie from the 1980s helped change the course of the Cold War. Here’s how ‘The Day After’ got made | CNN 5 months ago:
This movie is seared into my formative years’ memory. Growing up under the threat of nuclear Armageddon has a way of affecting people.
- Comment on Warnings meant to last 10,000 years 5 months ago:
A mash-up of the (overdone) “loss” meme and the Long Term Nuclear Waste Warning Messaging
- Comment on The year is 50424 5 months ago:
Long days and pleasant nights
- Comment on Felonies, gotta catch 'em all 5 months ago:
Votemaster and Zenger at electoralvote.com have a decent site. They take a ‘model of models’ approach and while their editorials are decidedly liberal, they put math and statistical analysis at the forefront and show their work.
- Comment on Edison 5 months ago:
Only if you speak it at a 45-degree angle in red. If you buy my audio book I’ll explain how to do this.
- Comment on MAGA Idiots Wearing Diapers For Cheeto Jesus 5 months ago:
From what I recall, he’s been doing it since at least “The Apprentice”, where he’d shit himself on set and wouldn’t do anything about it. It was alongside news about office cabinets and desk drawers crammed with boxes upon boxes of… Sudafed(?) but I don’t know the pharmacology of that (shrug)
- Comment on MAGA Idiots Wearing Diapers For Cheeto Jesus 5 months ago:
Yeah, I figured I was misremembering. The last couple of days have been a hell of a month. And I was too lazy to double check.
- Comment on MAGA Idiots Wearing Diapers For Cheeto Jesus 5 months ago:
He shits himself regularly. The press in the D.C. (?) courtroom were complaining about the putrid stench. The news of that getting out sparked this particular branch of insanity.
- Comment on What is the longest discontinuous marriage? 6 months ago:
Oof.
- Comment on Lightning bugs 6 months ago:
They are as dumb as a bag of buckles and can be hunted with a hammer. I don’t get the appeal of “big game” hunters making a deal out of deer - they’re fucking speed bumps! And I’ve hunted!
- Comment on Lightning bugs 6 months ago:
And aggressively stupid.
- Comment on It's time to let go 6 months ago:
The zest from those sucks! XD
- Comment on What do companies get out of rewards programs 6 months ago:
They’re associating it with your debit/credit card, unless you’re buying with cash only. Also, the “identity” isn’t so much the target as the “profile”. Don’t get me wrong, if they are able to personally identify you, the communication will be much more… personalized… (good english) - mailings, texts, emails and coupons for stuff either you’ve bought or adjacent to your stuff (with better margins for the store) addressing you by name, grouped with other purchase-history items. But back to the profile: building a profile of your likes, dislikes, brands and such is valuable data that gets more $ for corporate as the fidelity gets higher. And as it does, the messaging to you gets more targeted.
- Comment on Brow raising article 7 months ago:
Oof, that stung.
- Comment on Progress! 7 months ago:
Would Demolition Man count, due to the subliminal programming while frozen, or would the “put in cryostasis for 500 years” part kinda be the antethis of OP?
- Comment on Anon launches a space program 7 months ago:
And keeping it cool enough for human comfort would be super cheap too!
- Comment on Uranium 🤤 8 months ago:
Confirmed. The one ‘reference’ book I have on my desk. Page 3. The font and line layout is completely changed. The last sentence reads: “and the wolf was like, “dude.””
- Comment on Uranium 🤤 8 months ago:
I can’t remember the # of the original, but I’m certain that’s not what it said. Randall wouldn’t use that, and that’s not his font.
- Comment on temperature 8 months ago:
OK, yeah, that’s fair…
- Comment on temperature 8 months ago:
See that’s my issue with degrees C. It’s not as fine a measurement as degrees F. A difference of 5F is not terribly much, but it is noticeable. A difference of 5C is substantial (to me) and would make me very uncomfortable. So with F, I can know with more precision how uncomfortable I should expect to be :)
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
As long as first-past-the-post elections are the norm, any political scheme will distill to two opposing factions, because that’s the only way to effectively compete. We must push for ranked choice voting.
- Comment on When people say that apps are stealing your data, what exactly does that mean? 10 months ago:
To your last point, yes. The average user doesn’t even glance at the permissions before blindly accepting them. It is also true that an alarmingly high number of users/consumers /don’t care/ about basic privacy concerns that affect things like targeted ads, PII, and information that could be used to affect things like credit score.