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- Comment on DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. 2 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 week 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? 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
What is this?
- Comment on The words "diversity", "equity" and "inclusion" seem to be blocked from NIH website's search function 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Same here. The pizza ran out in the first 10 minutes, and many employees got nothing.
- Comment on Solidarity amongst the instances! 5 weeks ago:
Feudposting? What does that word mean?
- Comment on GPD WIN 4 handheld plans to support Valve's SteamOS in 2025 1 month 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) 1 month 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 1 month ago:
.local
- Comment on New social experiment 1 month ago:
fstab
- Comment on Hurry 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 2 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? 2 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.
- Comment on Poll: Majority of Americans Say Sex Change Surgeries for Minors Should Be Illegal 2 months ago:
Sex change surgeries on minors aren’t happening. This is a monster under the bed.
Why do conservatives never talk about the large number of gender affirming surgeries that people do on cis minors? Cisgendered kids are getting breast implants, and it’s kind of a big problem.
- Comment on Guerrilla Women 2 months ago:
Electronic women, giant mech women, women reenactments…
Space women?
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 3 months ago:
Pretty fucked, but not as fucked as Ukraine, Palestine, Lebanon, or Taiwan.
NATO will be fucked for a while if the US withdraws, but other NATO countries may ramp up military spending over time.
This situation is a worldwide danger. The US is/was a world power, it has/had the largest national economy in the world, it has the largest military in the world.
Previously, we could be concerned that democratic countries (including the US) weren’t putting enough pressure on authoritarian countries (like Russia, China, and North Korea) to improve. Now we have to worry that the US will actually become a fully authoritarian country, like Russia or China.
- Comment on November 3 months ago:
Any regular hex nut works just fine as a jam nut. Basically, a jam nut is when you jam two nuts together. (It is gay, because the nuts do touch.)
And note that those nylon inserts kinda only work once. The bolt carves a thread into the insert when you insert it, so it will be weaker the second time you insert it.
Honorable mention: cage nuts. A square nut, permanently attached to a fastener that can snap into a special square hole in a 19 inch server rack. When you tighten the bolt against the nut, it tightens against the fastener, so that the nut, bolt, and fastener are secure against the square hole.
- Comment on I hate that that happens 3 months ago:
English has its flaws, but I don’t agree that that is one of them.
- Comment on What is a passkey, in practice? Is it a file? A token? Can I keep it in an USB drive? How can I save it in case of device loss? 4 months ago:
I don’t know much about client certificates, because nobody ever used them. All I know is that they are decades older than passkeys, and “certificate” implies there is a public-private keypair, just like in a passkey.
- Comment on What is a passkey, in practice? Is it a file? A token? Can I keep it in an USB drive? How can I save it in case of device loss? 4 months ago:
What are the benefits of a passkey over a client certificate?
- Comment on The devil will walk on earth 4 months ago:
I eagerly await your writeup on whichever calendar you think I need to know more about.
