Nollij

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a website that can tell you the new names to I guess "classify" people? Like the R word, or the N word or skin color or nationaility? For ex. Is African American still acceptable and so forth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t you need to specify their actual need, rather than the broad term?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a website that can tell you the new names to I guess "classify" people? Like the R word, or the N word or skin color or nationaility? For ex. Is African American still acceptable and so forth⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would question what the circumstances were that you needed to point out that someone is mentally challenged. Especially in a workplace, that seems like a rare need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a website that can tell you the new names to I guess "classify" people? Like the R word, or the N word or skin color or nationaility? For ex. Is African American still acceptable and so forth⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s remarkably similar to British colonialism. IIRC, they believed you “removed” that part of their lineage after 3 generations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t claim to be sugar-free, at least not the ones made of sugar. Instead, they claim to have 0g of sugar per serving. That is a critical difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you eat 'honey' if humans spat phlegm on pollen and then dehydrated it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The closest analogue we normally have is a wet nurse, and most people don’t like that idea. How would you feel if your mother/sister/daughter was one? Then make it worse, because there’s profit to be had by bottling it instead of just feeding someone else’s child. You don’t need to scale at all before it becomes a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you eat 'honey' if humans spat phlegm on pollen and then dehydrated it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The human rights violations are pretty staggering, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Shrinkflation implies a customer base that would either go elsewhere or without. I’m sure you’ve seen the efforts to eliminate all competition (establishing trusts, i.e. mega mergers) and weaseling into contracts like government that can’t be avoided.

  When your audience has no choice, you have no limits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t shorthand (stenography) be a better solution then?

  Cursive was very specifically a solution to quill/fountain pens of old, where you needed to reduce the times the pen touched the paper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True story, I hate humanity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every major social media site has a problem with it. Most report tens of millions of incidents every year, much of it hidden in non-porn areas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is Subtitles for the Deaf and Hearing-impaired (SDH). It is not the standard for subtitles in the US and Canada.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civic duty⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously it depends on your location, but you can probably just sign up. Around here, you contact the county court system (which is how our juries are administered), give them your contact info, and wait for a case. You’re limited to volunteering once per year, because some retirees would keep doing it just to stay busy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Stephen Colbert had The Colbert Report did the right ever realize he was doing a parody of them?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He timed his contract expiration to match Letterman’s. He really wanted to take over the Late Show, a move that paid off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has been misled⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For those too lazy to look it up:

  12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[e] but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’” (NIV)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube money for charities⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate what you’re trying to do, but you should look into the numbers. I follow a channel that went through their YouTube earnings a while back. 225k subscribers, long-form (20-30 minutes) videos getting 30k views each.

  He got about $40/video.

  The only way you could make the math work -at all- is if you’re already on resistive heat and you only do it during winter. In any other scenario, you’ll spend more on electricity than they will get in revenue. Even in this one, it’s ignoring things like increased wear for what might not even be pennies of revenue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kansans Will Vote on an Elected Supreme Court. The Target: Abortion.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An elected court isn’t necessarily a bad idea. But the people should vote directly on the issue at hand, i.e. abortion. I’m betting the people will overwhelmingly vote in support of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even worse, it suggests that whatever the AI used as training data also shows retaliation. Since it’s internal, there’s a good chance they just showed that they illegally retaliate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to make a recovery USB just in case shit happens? Will it still work without a recovery moment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The answer really depends on your needs and use cases, as well as your risk profile.

  The simplest option is to schedule regular backups to a USB (preferably rotating drives, following the 3-2-1 rule). If “shit happens”, you would restore that backup using the same software. You may have difficulties restoring to different hardware. Acronis and Macrium are simple solutions here, or Clonezilla if you prefer free or offline backups.

  If you want a way to boot to a diagnostic tool, and recover from there, there are countless options. From a live Linux distro, UBCD, WinRE, Media Creation Tool, the options abound. You may or may not be able to recover any data, or your existing system. It really depends on your definition of “shit happens”, and what you need it to do.

  I suspect that your real goal is to move your existing Windows install (and all associated data) to a USB drive, and boot from that. Windows to Go was exactly that, but was discontinued. There are some hobby projects to do the same. This is (usually) a really bad idea. USB drives are much slower and less reliable, and create extra points of failure. It also keeps almost all of the other risks of the internal drive. You’re better off using option #1 above.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there music I haven't heard because I only speak English?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Way back in the day, Last.fm recommended me a number of (mostly metal) tracks in other languages that absolutely slap. I have no idea how to pronounce any of it, or even type the characters to see what else they might have done. All I can do is copy/paste, which is of limited value since I only speak English.

  So yes, and I’m sure I’m missing a ton more just like these that I just have no way to find.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to install a distro directly from online ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Theoretically it could be done. Microsoft SCCM has allowed in-place full reimaging for a long time. It downloads a WinPE boot image (which loads everything into a RAM disk), reboots into that, and launches all of the rest from there. Even wiping and repartitioning the drive.

  I don’t see why that WinPE image couldn’t be replaced by a small Linux image, or that you could install Linux from WinPE. I’ve just never seen it.

  That said, no browser should ever have that level of permissions, ever, under any circumstances. The security problems would be staggering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reckless Ben and the Blatant Corruption - Protest the courts. The Police. The Corporate HQ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Something that stood out to me from Legal Eagle pt1 was that everyone involved - everyone - should’ve talked to a lawyer sooner than they did (if they even did). This is especially true for Reckless Ben, and what he did in Utah (covered by Legal Eagle pt2). He really, really needs to find a lawyer, and listen to their advice. I get that he’s trying to create content, but this isn’t the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it true that you can't drink alcohol in a commercial? Like Shane Gillis pointed out to Post Malone in their commercial?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Countless movies/TV shows show people drinking/getting drunk. Typically, it’s water with food coloring (or similar). When someone is shown eating, the scene cuts and they spit it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This depends a lot more on what you plan on doing once the OS boots. I accidentally loaded Win11 on an HDD (disk 0 was HDD, not SSD) for a few hours. It was noticeably slow, but it ran my diagnostics utilities well enough.

  If you’re using it for light web browsing, basic office software, etc, then it might be fine.

  But something else caught my attention - you inquired about “restoring” it at shops, meaning you intend to pay money. SSD and RAM are obviously what anyone would upgrade, and you’re balking at it. More to the point, you expect to run Linux, but didn’t even install it as-is to test it out?

  There’s some missing context here. Also, 2gb laptops haven’t been a thing in a very long time. You might very well get a better deal by just buying a used newer model that already has what you’re looking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unappreciated in my own lifetime⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interviews are also (if not primarily) a measure of cultural fit. Making tasteful jokes is absolutely appropriate, but depends on the culture. I wouldn’t want to work at a place that is too uptight for some humor.

  The UDP joke isn’t one that I’d probably use, but doesn’t feel out of place in the context of detailing the protocol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This REALLY depends on context. What kind of uniform? What kind of public event? Who is nearby? How are they acting?

  The possibilities range from completely benign and uninteresting to some that warrant arrest, and everything in between.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do department stores decide the designs they want to put on T-shirts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The shirts do seem pretty random, but H&M is fast fashion. There’s a ton of things that can only be described as “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks”

  As for dead vs alive, we celebrate tons of dead celebrities. Recently I’ve been seeing a lot of business l Nirvana shirts, featuring Kurt Cobain’s face, and he’s been dead for 30 years. Similar stories for many bands from the 60s/70s.

  Even if we limit it to painters, most people can name (or at least recognize) a bunch of dead painters. How many living painters do you know of? Would people recognize their most famous works?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inventive. I always give this guy a dollar⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious and afraid to know what happens if you give him a dollar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dyk⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a lesson here. Have these conversations today with your loved ones about final arrangements. I promise you that many of them would rather be buried in a casket from Costco and have the money spent on literally anything else.

  This is especially true if they’re going to be cremated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too tired for a witty title⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Roberto?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My brother has or had now a drinking problem. Now he is asking for the worst tasting crap that he can take a cap full like an airplance bottle so his body whenever he thinks about it will remember⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I seem to recall this not being very effective, but I can’t find any studies right now either way. Lots of marketing, and a little bit of anecdotes, but no studies.

  The idea being that they get used to it and just ignore it, because they want to bite their nails. At best it serves as a reminder when they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is ironing clothes significantly less common now?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not OP, but I saw this at an old-school Fortune 500. To get Casual Fridays, you had to donate a certain amount to a specific charity (ours was a local food bank). It wasn’t a lot, something like $25/quarter, but it was definitely an expense