Schadrach

@Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried naming the states from memory as a European⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Once read a forum thread on “how your state/region is depicted in media” and had to point out that aside from one movie about a college the biggest things I could point to were the Wrong Turn movies (slasher movies about inbred cannibal hillfolk) and the movie version of Silent Hill (which is set in WV but based on Centralia, PA while the game version of Silent Hill is in New England).

  Centralia, PA is one of those places with less than a dozen residents and a neat history. It’s been on fire since 1962, the government tried to eminent domain all real estate in Centralia and a handful of extremely stubborn folks fought back leading to an agreement where they get to stay there for the rest of their lives after which the property reverts to the government via eminent domain. All seven of them. Five of which are still around as of 2020, having lived under that agreement for forty years. The church still holds services, and their graveyard are still maintained, even the one that’s in a perpetual haze as the ground releases smoke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried naming the states from memory as a European⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It appears like most of Appalachia is under “swamp racists” and the rest as “NYC”, which I strongly reject. Very little of Appalachia is swamp, it’s mostly forested mountains. And it’s far to rural to be compared to NYC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon saves up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where dafuq it stacks?

  Jobs for my state’s state government, for example, You get an hour of time off for every so many hours worked and they accumulate and are retained indefinitely up to a cap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon saves up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  my SO worked in clinic that wasn’t open on holidays, but offered no holiday pay, so employees had to use the 10 or 14 vaca days they got to cover their 7 holidays, which they couldn’t have worked if they wanted to.

  That sucks. I get 9ish holiday days/year (ish because sometimes we work New Years and get the holiday day for it the previous year) and we start at 2 weeks vacation in addition, with it going up with seniority, eventually capping out at 5 weeks. It is use it, sell it or lose it though - new vacation is granted at start of year and expires at end of year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even got their own island⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference being you weren’t desperate enough to take “any hole is a goal” as a motto worth following.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even got their own island⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently I married a unicorn. She explicitly didn’t want a diamond but a sapphire and explicitly didn’t want me to spend a fortune on it. Got her ring from an online jeweler on sale. Paid less than $300 for it. During the first Trump admin. We had talked about what she wanted and I found something close after shopping around. Then I held onto it for six months planning when to ask.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even got their own island⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US, age of consent varies by state. In most US states the age of consent to sex with someone who is not in a position of authority is 16. Often with a close in age exception. 18 gets used in US media so much because that’s what it is in CA and NY, and that’s where most media is made.

  18 is also federal age of consent, but that only applies when an incident involves crossing state lines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dik Piks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is. But the reality of those sites is that for a guy the vast majority of your messages will never be read. You are shouting at the void and hoping for the best. This does not incentivize taking the time and psychological investment to write thoughtful messages, because you will send comparatively few and the lack of response is harder to deal with when you’re more invested. It incentivizes sending the quickest messages that you care about the least to as many as possible. The guy didn’t send her a dick pic, he sent every woman in a 50 mile radius the same dick pic hoping that with enough sheer volume he’ll get a response.

  It’s basically spam that wants to fuck you, because non-spam options don’t get you anywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon does some online shopping⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And, the sites end up eating battery.

  Yeah, but they would have done that in 2005 too, if you were using them on a device with a battery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨shrooms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why I said usually. Most gay men and most straight women are the exceptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨shrooms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would assume they meant “of boobs”, but you present an interesting question of terminology. Unfortunately it begs the question, what exactly would we mean by “on boobs” in this context, so that we can question if “off boobs” is it’s opposite?

  Also, boobs. The answer to boobs is usually yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Oysters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct.

  Since math is a language and is itself described by language, that folds all the natural sciences (as they are described by math) into social constructs as well, and since engineering is just applied science, engineering is a social construct. Which means that civil engineers assign whether or not a bridge will hold under a given load and conditions, as opposed to it being some properties of the bridge itself independent of the language being used to describe it that determine what loads and conditions it can successfully operate under? No?

  Sex is the same way. Sex predates language. Sex predates humans. Sex predates the entirety of organisms we would classify under Kingdom Animalia. It predates any living thing complex enough to have a language. It exists independent of the language used to describe it. You can easily make the argument that’s not true for gender, because unlike sex it doesn’t exist outside the language and societal structures built around it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Oysters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  is still a social construct in that it’s a label made up in order to explain

  By that logic, literally everything that can be described with language is a social construct.

  often non-consensually ‘correcting’ them.

  I am against the medically unnecessary cutting of children’s genitals in all cases. Whether it’s FGM, “correcting” intersex kids (in cases where it’s not going to cause problems with things like urination), routine circumcision, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Oysters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  they assign sex

  I hate the use of the word assign, but it doesn’t fit with what doctors are doing. Sex is a biological rather than social construct. They’re looking at how you are, and trying to identify what your reproductive organs are. It’s like saying a doctor assigns you a medical condition rather than diagnosing a condition that is already present.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No rational person would do this...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The only rational response is to grab a can of spray paint and graffiti the door with “~355/113”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheeto devouring his nation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We already know from real-world AV elections that voters largely prefer to vote honestly, there’s no reason to think they would get more strategic when it gets harder to figure out the optimal strategy.

  In plain AV, voting honestly is the optimal strategy - there’s no incentive to vote any other way. It’s not for SPAV. And yes, strategic voting in SPAV is harder to figure out than strategic voting in FPTP, but it’s far from impossible - basically you don’t vote for a popular candidate you support so your vote for other candidates counts for more, relying on the assumption that enough other people will vote for the popular candidate you support to allow them to win anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheeto devouring his nation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s probably talking about the electoral college, and likely supports abolishing it in favor of a direct election which would mostly just shift the epmhasis away from the largest states that are close to flipping over to emphasizing a handful of the largest cities.

  There’s actually a bill that’s made the rounds to several states that makes it so that once enough states (read a number equaling half plus 1 electoral votes) pass a similar law they will all switch over to assigning their electors based on the national popular vote rather than what they’re state does. Unsurprisingly, California and New York jumped on this, as did some smaller solid blue states that are willing to hitch their wagon to “whatever California wants” going forward, but it’s probably never going to actually take effect because if it could get to that point because if it could then we wouldn’t be worrying about the GOP winning another election for the foreseeable future.

  Or they aren’t a fan of House apportionment. Or both. Though electoral college apportionment and house apportionment are related, so…

  If they’re from the EU, I’d have a question for them: Do you feel like Germany isn’t given remotely enough power by the EU parliament, or that Malta has ridiculously too much to throw around? Because it’s literally the same problem - if you try to represent people with a fixed number of seats apportioned between territories, and you try to minimize the mean difference in voters/representative, and there are a couple of territories that just blow the curve on each end that’s what happens.

  Still think merging the Dakotas and creating Montoming (merging Montana and Wyoming) is a good idea… Maybe go whole hog and if your state gets one House seat and is adjacent to a state with one House seat, you get merged to be one state from here on out. Where multiple options present, join the ones with the largest shared land border. Repeat until no examples remain, recalculate House seats and do it again if necessary. It probably won’t help California much just because of how much CA blows the population curve, but it would likely push the states with the worst population/representative ratio up by one. Should probably pull out the math and see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheeto devouring his nation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a fan of SPAV, in part for the same reasons I’m not a fan of STAR:

  1. It doesn’t eliminate strategic voting. For example, imagine you support two candidates for a multi-seat election. Under straight AV you vote for both of them because there’s literally no incentive to do otherwise. Under SPAV, you might decide that since one of those candidates is much more popular and thus a foregone conclusion to win that you should avoid voting for them so the value of your vote for the other isn’t reduced. Too many doing this can cause negative effects, like strategic voting in other methods.
  2. You can’t tell me how my vote will actually be counted until every other vote is counted, because how the ballot will be measured in the end depends on every other ballot as depending on how everyone else voted your votes for some candidates may be worth less than your votes for other candidates. Straight AV doesn’t have this problem, your vote is exactly what is says on the ballot and is counted exactly as it is on the ballot. The extra math also makes it more complicated to explain to voters en masse, which is a problem with other systems that have transferable votes.

  I get that the goal is apparently to make every state elect a split legislature/congressmen by making so that if any seats are even vaguely competitive the parties will essentially be forced to take turns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I first watched it during University years, and I was very much of the camp that was doing the vicariously living through the power fantasy of Walt’s rise to power and the bitch wife and crying jessie ruining it for him.

  I recently, like a year ago as a 31+ year old rewatched it again, and jesus christ what a top to bottom egoistic selfish asshole Walt is, all I did is feel sorry for Skyler and Jessie.

  I think knowing where it’s going makes a big difference. Like, first time in going in blind Walt is a sympathetic for the first bit, and for most of the story is dealing with the unintended consequences of raising funds for his treatment. Knowing where it’s going it’s a lot easier to see him in a lot worse light earlier in the story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s being a mail carrier in a world that is maximum Kojima.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes trains⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, I recently rode on Amtrak for a long trip from Columbia, SC to Baltimore, MD. This was my first time on any kind of train other than a subway or metro line. It had its drawbacks (incredibly long travel time and delays)

  I thought about taking an Amtrak to Boston for a trip since it was a vacation and I wasn’t in a huge rush travel wise. By “incredibly long travel time” in my case it would have gone from ~3 hours (two roughly one hour flights with a very short layover you’ve got to haul ass through because for some reason the relevant gates are both at the far ends of different concourses at Dulles) to about a day. Wasn’t in a rush, but that’s a bit too far to the other extreme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He might have won the very first Nobel Prize, had he not passed away just a few years prior,

  Basically the same thing happened twenty years later with Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who made a discovery that’s essential to figuring distances in space. She noticed something while working as a computer at Harvard College Observatory that eventually became known as Leavitt’s Law. Her Nobel nomination was halted because she passed away and the award is not given posthumously. Hubble’s work heavily relied on hers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  and they have also moved me to be more open minded about some things I thought I would never agree with.

  Such as? I’m curious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches a romance movie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …How good is the “pop culture detective” YouTube channel?

  It’s basically “Anita Sarkeesian’s ex keeps doing essentially the same kind of thing she used to do”, to the point that the writing is similar enough (at least at the beginning of the channel, haven’t watched any of it in a long time) that I wonder if he wasn’t the one doing most of the writing for her stuff during the Tropes v Women era.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's split personality⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  if you hate me why tf do you want to fuck me?

  Testosterone is a hell of a drug. I’ve known a few guys who have had at least one gf they only stayed with for the sex and were just putting up with her the rest of the time. Those…generally aren’t very good or healthy relationships. Most of them eventually get out of that mindset and (at least try to) find someone they like being with first and also want to fuck besides.

  But then my wife acts shocked that a bunch of women she works with talk like they don’t even like their husbands. All I can think is why marry them then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Congratulations, homosexual!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  only those companies that actually gave a shit continue to support Pride.

  By which you mean only those companies that believe appearing to give a shit will be more profitable than sucking Trump’s dick continue to support Pride.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am not a builder… but that does not seem right⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My friend no longer lives in that condo lol

  By choice? Or by being forcibly evicted by the rapid expansion of heated gas?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To quote LazyTown: Yar har, fiddle de dee…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the thing a lot of people seem to miss is just how major of a geographic barrier the Sahara is. As a consequence, northern Africans weren’t generally very black for most of history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon indulges⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but despite being diabetic I can’t live without apple butter. To be fair that’s why I get the “no granulated sugar added” stuff from Amish country. Depending on the brand, no more than four ingredients (apples, apple cider, lemon juice, spices), though my preferred brand only has three (no lemon juice). Way better quality than most other kinds too - you get more of the tartness of the apples because the only sweetener is more apple and they use less of the apple cider to sweeten than they otherwise might because you can only take it so far before it messes with the texture or flavor too much (which isn’t as much a problem for most other sweeteners) and it costs more.

  Amish Wedding, Jake & Amos and Yoder’s all have good ones. The jar I finished off with my breakfast this morning was 5g carb/tablespoon, which is pretty low for apple butter.

  Same idea for jams and jellies - particularly fond of Mrs. Miller’s no granulated sugar added jams, which get sweetened with fruit juice (which in turn has price/flavor/texture limits on how much you can use and still have a good product). Whereas actual sugar free jams by the major brands tend to be godawful with entirely the wrong texture and flavor - Smucker’s sugar free jams are an insult to the fruit they were at some point walked past during their production.

  Related is that things that use unusual or expensive sugar sources (think agave nectar or honey as the primary or only sweetener as opposed to cane sugar, HFCS or something like that) tend to use less for price reasons and so tend to be slightly less horrific on the added sugar front.