MNByChoice
@MNByChoice@midwest.social
- Comment on Wage theft now outnumbers all other types of theft in the U.S., reaching $482 million 1 day ago:
Probably should fight this crime. Seems pretty rampant. Been hearing for years it is huge.
- Comment on Oxygen 1 week ago:
Just iron try to protect life from Cyanobacteria. The war is over, but it fights on.
- Comment on Geography is neat 3 weeks ago:
Humans are weird. (And delightful!)
- Comment on what the heck is a pensioner in the UK and why are they the butt of so many jokes ? 4 weeks ago:
Retired people. -source old American waiting to be corrected
- Comment on Josh Johnson Learns Just How Rich People Avoid Paying Taxes | The Daily Show 4 weeks ago:
Enjoyable and funny, but I wish it had useful and specific advice.
- Comment on amphibians 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, the small “pH” ones likely existed 280 million years ago. The the same species, but the general sort.
- Comment on People think onlyfans is weird 5 weeks ago:
Artists page puts it as added at 5 years ago. Well outside of current AI funny business. useum.org/artist/Henryk-Fantazos/activity
- Comment on to those of you who get bored at work if there's lots of downtime, why? 5 weeks ago:
It is hard to get a higher salary if there is a lot of downtime. Better to get a job that could pay more.
Plus what others said.
- Comment on Why bag the hydrant? 1 month ago:
Apparently, the same gets in and corrosion starts. The second article mentions a city that stopped doing it.
- Comment on Why bag the hydrant? 1 month ago:
They go around way before the snow and do that in some places. The tall pole next to it is too highlight the location as well.
Think about a big snow with plows pushing snow into giant piles.
- Comment on car insurance 1 month ago:
Don’t even have to change the oil at that rate.
- Comment on Derps of Tiktok 1 month ago:
Well shit. Totally not the “Courtney killed Kurt” I expected.
- Comment on It's not enough to touch grass 1 month ago:
It is great to have goals and want to improve. Being accepting of incomplete change and process is better. Personally, I like the photos that provide inspiration and some written direction for easily improving a situation that could be similar to mine.
Only accepting perfection tends to drain motivation. It also presumes a lot about ability, uses, values, and resources. It also drives wedges between people.
“I hate ugly monoculture yards” is not an helpful for changing minds as “i love native grass yards. Even a few accent areas are great.” I fail at this all of the time. It is important that I get it right some of the time.
As for perfectionism creating poor mental models, the results tend to be fragile. If one must be perfect and able all of the time, it will fail. The models tend to not allow for different abilities, resources, or desires.
I hope this was clear. Cheers
- Comment on It's not enough to touch grass 1 month ago:
In my area, ticks and rodents would move in. Not great for the things I do in my yard.
Native Grass are great, in general and in some areas of my yard, but not everywhere.
- Comment on It's not enough to touch grass 1 month ago:
“wasteland” is a bit strong. Non-native grass is not ideal, but we could do far worse. Good on you for improving your land. Let’s not force everyone to be perfect, as many will just give up.
I think the focus on perfection leads to poor mental models and outcomes.
- Comment on But Claude said tumor! 1 month ago:
I am failing to find source, but there is also a story about an older predictive model that worked great at one hospital, but failed miserably at the next. There was just enough variation in everything that the model broke.
(I think the New England Journal of Medicine podcast, but I am not finding the episode.)
- Comment on The joy of finding an interesting gap in the literature 1 month ago:
Cite it with updates. Or ignore it and hope the reviewers ignore it as well.
- Comment on High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 3 months ago:
Seems a decent write-up. It is 3 nodes, and appears to use only two USB cables, which is not a mesh network but a very small fat tree.
- Comment on Just for 1 day 3 months ago:
That’s right! Getting one’s life together starts as one good day every so often, and continues to having whole days in a row.
No one only has the good days.
- Comment on Can I filter X-Day old accounts as they're likely bots or trolls? 3 months ago:
A shared or importable block list would be nice.
- Comment on Why did Pootin threaten the whole world with nuclear weapons, but then stopped doing so? 3 months ago:
This is a statement a bit would make.
(Reading your post history, was very not bot like. Stay safe out there.)
- Comment on Why did Pootin threaten the whole world with nuclear weapons, but then stopped doing so? 3 months ago:
I didn’t know. Seems to be a teenager interested in computers and feels they are fighting a war against bots.
- Comment on OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material 4 months ago:
I don’t understand why people on here want so much to strengthen them ever further.
It is about a lawless company doing lawless things. Some of us want companies to follow the spirit, or at least the letter, of the law. We can change the law, but we need to discuss that.
- Comment on Just a single one, please! 4 months ago:
I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the information, but it passes my totally uniformed bullshit detector. distractify.com/…/what-happens-if-a-guy-takes-pla… has an article on just that. In summary, nothing fun or pleasant. Keep away from Ambien, as they may look physically similar.
- Comment on The White Buffalo 4 months ago:
If one were alive during the things that Forrest Gump experiences during the movie. Then seeing those things in a movie with Tom Hanks could cause feelings of nostalgia.
- Comment on The White Buffalo 4 months ago:
I think nostalgia carried the movie.
- Comment on Also, the doors actually open. 4 months ago:
Fuck, I like it. Is it for sale, or is someone making more?
- Comment on Steve Ballmer is set to make $1 billion a year for doing nothing | CNN Business 4 months ago:
Lazy guy. I bet he spends some of that on drugs or alcohol.
- Comment on Way to stop drinking 4 months ago:
Yup. The store has more.
- Comment on What's up with all this data breaches and leaks? 4 months ago:
We’ve gotten better at reporting them
Close. There are more laws requiring reporting within certain timeframes. Few companies report when they are not forced to.