dylanmorgan
@dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 3 weeks ago:
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Glaciers formed over millennia. If they melt, they’re gone, even if we drop CO2 to pre-industrial levels. The Antarctic ice sheet is millions of years of snow that fell at the rate of a few inches a year and just didn’t melt. If significant portions of that fall off and melt, it’ll be millions of years more for the water it adds to the oceans to cycle back to the ice sheet again. The changes we have made will not be reversed automatically or in many cases at all.
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 3 weeks ago:
Because it won’t work? That’s what I got from the article. I’m not sure what else you’re implying.
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 3 weeks ago:
Gender chain-melted state? Gender superglass? Gender string-net liquid?
- Comment on bitey 3 weeks ago:
How is this calculated? Presumably you could directly measure all but the T-Rex and pliosaur, but how are those bits forces calculated?
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 4 weeks ago:
The meme references training, not physical ability. Strange should arguably be overlaid on Bones.
- Comment on let's settle this 4 weeks ago:
<pushes glasses up> it was actually Flavor-Aid.
- Comment on Badgers 5 weeks ago:
I remember learning that after my dad told me stories about badgers near the Minnesota farm where he grew up killing dogs significantly larger than dachshunds and thinking “how the fuck does that work??”
- Comment on Do you have what it takes to become a geologist? 5 weeks ago:
“That’s how I got the nickname ‘the Doc Ellis of geology’”
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 1 month ago:
Sadly, it might end just fine for the boss. The employee would be better off going to the press first.
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure the options would be to arrest him or be fired for insubordination.
- Comment on Phonebooks 1 month ago:
Charles Bukowski wrote maybe the most beautiful paean to the fact of the telephone book:
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 1 month ago:
More to the point, if there is a warrant issued for his arrest, his secret service detail would need to arrest him.
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 1 month ago:
They don’t want to carry inventory because Amazon doesn’t. The prices are higher because vendors are contractually obligated to sell on Amazon at their lowest price. So retailers, with a need to have a physical presence and having to buy at more or less the same price a product is available for on Amazon, get fucked. Their only hope is vendors who make a “different” product to sell at other outlets. An example of what I mean is, Poppi soda sells for $20/12 pack on Amazon. They sell a 15 pack at Costco for the same price. Because it’s a “different” product they are not in breach of contract.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
IIRC, 36” was the biggest standard CRT that was sold do consumers, after that you were looking at rear projection screens which got as big as 80” (maybe more, not sure.).
- Comment on $-3 doesn't go as far as it used to... 2 months ago:
Here’s the real question: is that the actual MC 900 ft Jesus or just someone who likes the name?
- Comment on Flying Ants 2 months ago:
Is the facepalm because now the people want to know more about the ants?
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 2 months ago:
In fact, being stupid is probably a benefit.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing 2 months ago:
B is for people who live where there’s no alternative, like small towns where Walmart undercut every other business and is now the only game in town. If you live in a place like that, steal from Walmart. If you live in a place where you have one store doing dynamic pricing and another that isn’t, go to the place that isn’t doing it.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing 2 months ago:
Just refuse to go anywhere that does dynamic pricing (if possible.) Steal from places that do it (if possible.)
- Comment on Is the US finally getting ‘all aboard’ with electric trains? 3 months ago:
Batteries are heavy and expensive. A wired power source is so much more efficient for rail it’s barely worth discussing.
- Comment on Sam Altman accused of being shady about OpenAI’s safety efforts 3 months ago:
Also of being shady about everything else he and his company do.
- Comment on Good point 3 months ago:
Primarily children. Consider a situation where one member of a married couple is unwilling or unable to engage in sexual contact but is otherwise a good partner and coparent. Divorce is traumatic for children and has a significant negative economic impact, life with single parents is also difficult. So the parent who still wants sex seeks it elsewhere. They are fulfilling an important aspect of their life, and preserving a healthy home life for their children and partner.
- Comment on Good point 3 months ago:
Sometimes ending the relationship will harm third parties, but the core relationship is harmful to one or both of the people in it. In a case like that cheating may be the least bad option.
- Comment on Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets 4 months ago:
Jesus, is there any way both sides can lose? Because fuck ticket scalpers, but fuck Ticketmaster too.
- Comment on Is my girlfriend gaslighting me? 4 months ago:
Just to clarify your second statement, gaslighting is when person A tries to convince person B that person B did not see/hear/experience something that person B did in fact see, hear, or experience.
In OP’s situation, their girlfriend might be gaslighting OP if she texted “I’m getting an Uber home, see you in a bit” and then got mad and insisted she had told OP to meet her at the door.
All that said, I will echo many others in this thread and say that just because it isn’t gaslighting doesn’t mean OP is in a healthy relationship. OP, please insist on relationship counseling at a minimum.
- Comment on „If companies were to do the right thing, they would lose the most valuable customers on earth, preteen kids” 6 months ago:
This is what keeps being ignored in these studies, and it seems like the only reason is that copping to the real reasons young people are showing higher rates of mental illness would require admitting that the status quo is unsustainable and frankly evil.
A report that said “gen z is profoundly distressed by the reality of global warming” means admitting we need to fix the climate or see our kids suffers deaths of despair in unprecedented numbers. The same is true if we admit that the economy won’t provide most of them a job that allows basic survival, much less a comfortable fulfilling life; or that these factors have combined to cause a turn to fascism.
- Comment on animals you need to know 6 months ago:
If only for a little extra oomph in your scrabble game.
- Comment on Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits 6 months ago:
It’s like they saw “oppression Olympics” mentioned somewhere, completely misunderstood what it meant, and decided “let’s go for the gold.”
- Comment on Safety first 7 months ago:
You have to click the tongs every time you pick them up!
- Comment on Am I going fucking crazy? (Regarding explicit songs being censored on various music streaming services.) 7 months ago:
Same. The other day I mistakenly told a trans woman early in her transition “thank you sir” as a reflex and all that happened was she gently said “I’m not a sir” and we moved on.