Limonene
@Limonene@lemmy.world
- Comment on Can't solve the captcha because I don't know what `undefined` is 6 days ago:
“Your computer is sending automated requests.”
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 6 days ago:
If you’re trans: Start making plans to flee. You don’t have to carry them out right now. But do get a passport, even if it has to have your deadname. Canada or Mexico probably wouldn’t accept a US refugee just for being trans right now, but that will change in the future.
If you’re an immigrant, or even a permanent resident: It’s unsafe in the US right now. I wouldn’t fault you if you left today. However, everyone’s circumstances are different. Maybe you want to stay and support your spouse and kids who are citizens, and you’re willing to risk your life to do it. It depends on the circumstances.
Anyone else: Stay and fight.
- Comment on You better say "Thank You"! 2 weeks ago:
This looks like AI. I wish you would label it if it is.
- Comment on I don't envy the humans pre-dentistry 2 weeks ago:
Pre-dentistry, a bunch of your teeth would have fallen out before your wisdom teeth came in. There would have been space for the wisdom teeth so they wouldn’t need to come in sideways.
- Comment on This whole "Sign in to prove you're not a bot" thing is pissing me off 2 weeks ago:
In incognito or private browsing mode, you are way more likely to be blocked or forced to fill out a captcha, because the site won’t see any tracking cookies you would otherwise have.
To Google, preserving your privacy looks the same as being a bot. Using a VPN, clearing cookies, using private browsing, being signed out of a Google account, are all things that improve your privacy but look like bot activity. Google can use the excuse of blocking bots when their actual goal is tracking.
- Comment on This whole "Sign in to prove you're not a bot" thing is pissing me off 2 weeks ago:
OP isn’t trying to post, just trying to view. There is no justification for a captcha there.
- Comment on What’s the difference between pansexuality and bisexuality? 4 weeks ago:
One woman told me that she identifies as bisexual, even though she is attracted to all genders including non-binary, because she has two “modes” of dating. When dating women, she prefers to be the pursuer. When dating men, she prefers to be the pursued. I’m not sure which way she usually went with enbies.
- Comment on Between Linux or Windows which do you think will be first to have a viable OS for quantum computers? 4 weeks ago:
I think quantum computers may be impossible. But if they are possible, they will be a USB/PCIe accessory that works alongside an ordinary processor running an ordinary operating system.
I expect Linux will have a driver for quantum computers before Windows.
- Comment on DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. 5 weeks ago:
The amount saved was actually negative, because the contract would have brought in more than $8M in value.
- Comment on Anon wants $3 million 1 month ago:
Pretty much any tool with a cutting surface made of tungsten, high speed steel, or industrial diamond.
But one source I found says they only let people use their feet.
- Comment on "Washington Recession Begins": DC Active Home Listings Soar, Jobless Claims Spike As DOGE Drains Swamp 1 month ago:
This doesn’t seem like a reliable news source. The article claims to be “news”, and is not marked anywhere as “opinion”, yet is clearly full of opinion:
What may unfold is an economic downturn that could rip through the unaccountable federal bureaucracy in the DC Swamp that won’t get a bailout this time from taxpayers.
I would recommend not linking to zerohedge.com .
- Comment on If I’m mostly attracted to men, is it «wrong» to consider myself pan? 1 month ago:
Calling yourself bisexual/pansexual would not be inaccurate. I think “Kinsey 2” or “Kinsey 1” might be good concise descriptions to use, but only you can decide what is best.
(The Kinsey scale is a model, and therefore imperfect, but useful.)
- Comment on Why do some people assume all immigrants are illegal and should "go back to where they came from"? Shouldn't that logic apply to all non-Native Americans? 1 month ago:
A lot of people are influenced by alt-right news (Fox News, Newsmax, OAN) who keep repeating the false claim that undocumented immigrants are mostly gangsters and violent criminals.
Trump said, regarding the first deportation flight:
Three hundred people sitting on a plane. Every single one of them is either a murderer, a drug lord, a kingpin, the head of the mob, or a gang member
Yet none of those deportees had any criminal conviction in either country (according to Newsweek, a slightly-right news source).
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 1 month ago:
Don’t forget The Measure of a Man. We literally watched that in 9th grade American History, as a commentary about slavery.
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 1 month ago:
You get more protection from your credit card company than Paypal. If your item doesn’t arrive or doesn’t work, you can file a chargeback and get a full refund. It’s worked for me every time I tried it (Visa card from Royal Credit Union).
- Comment on gottem 2 months ago:
What is this?
- Comment on The words "diversity", "equity" and "inclusion" seem to be blocked from NIH website's search function 2 months ago:
Yeah, the search terms seem to have an HTTP 302 redirect to the domain’s home page.
Searching for “diversityy” shows unredacted results for the word “diversity” as if it had automatically corrected the spelling, bolding the corrected search term.
- Comment on Sure. Whatev's 2 months ago:
A vitamin is any essential dietary component, which is organic (otherwise it would be a dietary mineral), and is not a fat, protein/amino acid, or carbohydrate (although carbohydrates are considered non-essential).
Vitamin D is conditionally essential. If you have enough sunlight, your body can synthesize it.
- Comment on Sure hope my landlord *loves* pizza 2 months ago:
Same here. The pizza ran out in the first 10 minutes, and many employees got nothing.
- Comment on Solidarity amongst the instances! 2 months ago:
Feudposting? What does that word mean?
- Comment on GPD WIN 4 handheld plans to support Valve's SteamOS in 2025 2 months ago:
Those are pretty nice specs. I would buy one right now if I didn’t have a Deck already, and if it didn’t come with a Windows tax.
- Comment on new laptop :3 (plus windows xp pc) 2 months ago:
You may not like it, but the rules say “any operating system is fine”. I don’t like Windows either, but this post is technically correct.
- Comment on New social experiment 2 months ago:
.local
- Comment on New social experiment 2 months ago:
fstab
- Comment on Hurry 2 months ago:
debian-live-12.8.0-amd64-mate.iso
- Comment on Amazon: The same 31 products you don't want, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again 2 months ago:
I didn’t collapse or uncollapse anything on the page before taking the screenshot. On loading, all the spam sections are uncollapsed, and the “specifications” section is collapsed.
- Comment on Amazon: The same 31 products you don't want, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again 2 months ago:
The “specifications” section is a collapsed section about a quarter of the way down. It starts out collapsed on every page, even if you open it up every time.
- Comment on Amazon: The same 31 products you don't want, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again 2 months ago:
Check out this screenshot from Home Depot’s website.
About 1/8 of the page is the product. Almost NONE of the page is the “specifications” section, which is the most important section.
The majority of the page is “frequently bought together”, “More from this brand”, and “Customers also viewed”.
I have NEVER bought anything from any of these useless lists. But they have slowed down the page sufficiently that I stopped using their website and went elsewhere. Try browsing with just 10 product pages open on this site – you will start having tabs unload or crash due to memory consumption. Some of these product lists have a dozen items in them if you scroll right, so it consumes gigabytes of RAM.
- Comment on what's a good present for some friendly nurses who taught me little tricks to work better before I leave the hospital I'm working at? 3 months ago:
Yeah, this. It would be tasteful to get a gift card to any local coffee shop, or Target, or one of those $20 Visa gift cards, though they have like a $5 overhead just to activate them.
Homemade pastries are a bit weird if you don’t know someone that well, and store-bought pastries are hard if you don’t know what they like.
- Comment on Is there any point for current US-based "skilled immigrants" to stay in the US? 4 months ago:
As far as I’m aware, Trump plans to remove all immigrants, whether documented or not, and even green card holders. I don’t think he will have much luck with it, but maybe I’m wrong.
Start applying for jobs outside the US. Finding a job is usually the longest part of moving.
You may want to try applying for citizenship at the same time, assuming you even want to stay for 2025-2028.
I’m speaking as a US citizen whose life would be improved by your presence in the US.
