DemBoSain
@DemBoSain@midwest.social
- Comment on Mmm num ba de dum bum ba be doo buh dum ba beh beh 4 days ago:
This is just poor engineering. They could save money by using jam nuts.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 5 days ago:
They shortened the name of PTFE to Teflon because they wanted to sell it. Once there’s a market for frontotemporal dementia it will get a short name too.
- Comment on Do farts at least nominally increase the overall temperature of the room in which they are extruded? 5 days ago:
BTW, If one was already profoundly hypothermic, would it be unwise to fart?
Assuming the ambient air temperature is cold enough to induce hypothermia, farting is fine. Bringing cold air into the body is the problem. You’d be better off if you stopped breathing.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 1 week ago:
You’re tipping too much.
In Michigan we passed a law requiring minimum wage for all tipped workers by 2030(?), and they FLIPPED THEIR SHIT. Said they would lose too much money in tips if they made minimum wage. The republicans rolled it back below minimum (still a small increase), and I’m not sure where it stands right now.
If tipped workers are going to fight against wage increases so much, then I’m okay reducing their tips.
- Comment on LAPD Eyes ‘GeoSpy’, an AI Tool That Can Geolocate Photos in Seconds 2 weeks ago:
Heinen said “My job as a leader in my space is to build the best technology that customers are asking for. It’s not my job to play the ethics game because our elected officials will eventually figure that out. I have full faith in the American people to decide who to elect and what to vote on.”
- Comment on It's the dream 2 weeks ago:
Where are people getting all these notes? I don’t have any notes, and [checks notes] THERE’S NOTHING HERE!
- Comment on Can I put a cold oxygen plasma generator in my fridge? 3 weeks ago:
Oxygen plasma sounds like something that could very easily set something else on fire.
- Comment on How do I deal with a very negative inner voice/second conscience that's constantly loud? It's like I have two different people in my head but they're both me, telling me opposite things endlessly. 1 month ago:
I’m going to tell you what I did. Don’t take mental health advice from some asshole in the internet.
I had two extra voices in my head. One would wait for me to be alone, and then bring up all the minutia in my life I was embarrassed about. The other would bring up my most depressing moments and just groan in my ear and distract me.
The first one I built a cabin for, and put him in it. Whenever I would think about one of those embarrassing moments, I’d put it in a plastic garbage bag, open the door to the cabin, and throw the bag as hard as I could into his face. Gradually I needed him less and less. Eventually he disappeared, so I just put the garbage bags in a can outside the door. Nobody lives there now, and the cabin has decayed into just a rough mound of dirt. The flowers from the window-box are growing in the mound.
I was more viscous with the other one. Every time he showed up, I imagined grabbing him by the neck and just pummeling his face bruised and bloody. Eventually he disappeared too.
I can remember those embarrassing moments or the causes of my depression without hurt now. They don’t have power over me anymore.
- Comment on What do you call the first person with a new genetic mutation 1 month ago:
Cancer patient.
- Comment on Google Plans To Combine ChromeOS and Android Into Single Platform 1 month ago:
Didn’t Microsoft try this bullshit with Windows 8? I don’t want a phone interface on my laptop, and I don’t want a laptop interface on my phone.
- Comment on Which ia better etiquette? 1 month ago:
Just suck up each grain individually with a straw.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Already Knows Your Life. Now He Wants His AI to Run It 1 month ago:
ONLY if I’m in total control of it. I barely trust Alexa to turn off my lights. Any AI I invite into my house will live on my own hardware.
- Comment on Am I Being Silly Holding $77,000 in Cash Instead of Investing It? 1 month ago:
The average credit card interest rate was recently 25.37%, per Forbes Advisor. If you owe, say, $40,000 and you’re being charged 25%, you’re looking at paying $10,000 per year just in interest.
I refuse to take this article seriously. Nobody responsible enough to have $77,000 cash-on-hand carries credit card debt month-to-month.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 2 months ago:
I fucking hate Microsoft search. Microsoft controls the OS, they control the file system, why the fuck do they suck so bad at file search?
- Comment on The state of YouTube history search 2 months ago:
…I’m listening…
- Comment on I'd never do this obviously 2 months ago:
As I get older, I realized I’m just not in that much of a hurry anymore. And I really, really don’t want to hit a kid, so I’ll drive slow thru towns.
Freeway though, that’s 80 mph.
- Comment on The state of YouTube history search 2 months ago:
Who is Jerma, and why does his crap clog my YouTube feed? Except it’s not Jerma’s stuff, but people making videos about Jerma.
- Comment on PSA: Get Your Parents Off the Meta AI App Right Now-This is bad, folks. Very bad. 2 months ago:
Shit…my bad…
- Comment on 9News US Correspondent Lauren Tomasi hit by rubber bullet during Los Angeles protests 2 months ago:
- Comment on The new fake "Indie" radio station in town 2 months ago:
There is a local “rock” station I started listening to when I moved into the area. Their playlist was limited, and I quickly realized they would play the exact same songs at almost the exact same time every day. I think the weekend was the only time I ever heard any recent music.
I drove a lot, so I subscribed to XM. That was super nice, but pretty soon I noticed the same thing. I switched channels a lot, then started listening to a talk channel because I tired of the same songs. (O&A, Ron & Fez, fuck you Anthony you racist piece of shit…)
I dumped XM, started listening to podcasts. And I expanded my music library 10-fold through the wonders of privateering.
Recently I was outside at lunchtime, and someone was sitting in their car listening to that same old local “rock” station. And they are still playing the same garbage songs at pretty much the same exact time every day.
- Comment on Cold Callers phoning during work hours and then not accepting your at work and can't spend 30 mins listening to their script. 3 months ago:
They don’t necessarily want sales, they want call numbers. These poor dipshits sit next to a phone with an auto-dialer and just talk to whoever is on the line. They probably get paid by the number of calls they can make in an hour.
- Comment on Star Wars' Showcase of AI Special Effects Was a Complete Disaster 3 months ago:
I don’t need any more shit trying to explain “somehow Palpatine returned.”. I just don’t care.
- Comment on Nintendo of America might turn your Switch into an expensive paperweight if you mod your console or install any "unauthorized" games, new policy warns 3 months ago:
If you don’t dabble in Switch modding or anything like that, then you have absolutely nothing to worry about…
I shouldn’t be worried that Nintendo can remotely brick my $500 console. For any reason. Or accidentally.
- Comment on ‘Pacific Rim’ TV Series From Legendary, Eric Heisserer Lands at Amazon for Development (EXCLUSIVE) 4 months ago:
Wasn’t there already a Pacific Rim TV show that I didn’t finish? A cartoon?
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 5 months ago:
We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11. This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account.
- Comment on Social Security Administration bars employees from reading the news at work 5 months ago:
SSA employees don’t have phones.
- Comment on Trump considering major NATO policy shift 5 months ago:
I feel like “considering” is a misleading word here. It invokes the thought that things are still in the planning stage.
- Comment on Is it a pattern that most of Zendaya's haters are right-wing or is it just a coincidence? 5 months ago:
Who?
- Comment on low iq in love with high iq person, is that bad?? 5 months ago:
IQ is not a good measurement for intelligence.
You might be interested in a podcast by Jamie Loftus titled My Year in MENSA.
- Comment on Sick pay: Low paid workers to get 80% of salary when ill 5 months ago:
When I was in college I had a full time job at Walmart. At the time, Walmart did not pay you for the first day off sick (even though we had 40 hours of sick time each year). They would pay you for the second day off sick, but only if you had a doctor’s note.
Of course, I couldn’t afford a doctor and couldn’t afford a day off from work unpaid. So I didn’t take sick time unless I was dying.
I don’t think I was ever healthy at that job. People would just work while they were sick, for the same reasons I did.
