BallShapedMan
@BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
- Comment on It always surprises you 2 weeks ago:
A friend sends them all the time or uses voice to text. Both are a disaster. The best part is he’s an English major and brilliant at writing copy but his friendly communication is frequently unintelligible.
- Comment on U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen 2 weeks ago:
For sure! When driving downtown this is what freaks me out most while driving around. Last thing I want to do is hit someone.
When in NYC and Makati it shocked me to see how flagrant people are with just crossing the street wherever. Two places I’ll never drive, I’m not a good enough driver to not hit people in places like that.
- Comment on It always surprises you 2 weeks ago:
I was running a contact tracing contact center during COVID and we were having a bitch of a time getting people to talk to us. We ran ads on TV and in the paper, got the mayor to talk about us several times on the news and just could not get right party contact (rpc) above 20%! Then one day I did this to my daughter and she gave me so much shit for just calling her like that.
A week or so and by and if sunk in, we kicked off a text first pilot in our worst penetration zipcode and like magic we were over 80%. We rolled it out to the whole state and we moved RPC up to 75+% for the remainder of COVID.
While I can’t say how many lives contact tracing saved, I firmly believe my daughter giving me shit about calling her like that saved at least a few.
- Comment on Korn? 2 weeks ago:
I’ll take your word for it 😂
- Comment on U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen 2 weeks ago:
My wife is a medical coder for the ED, for more than a dozen hospitals and says the overwhelming area for vehicle fatalities she codes is intersections crossing in front of traffic. Particularly trying to make the yellow. The plural of anecdote isn’t data mind you, but she’s been at this for 15+ years and has a pretty good sense of it.
- Comment on Korn? 2 weeks ago:
What about hand drawn slop?
Timelapse: mastodon.social/…/115697312088894279
- Comment on Corn Angels in the Corn Box 2 weeks ago:
He might still have, like a ball pit I’m sure there are plenty of germs looking for a home in there.
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- Comment on Korn? 2 weeks ago:
I started by looking at the photos of corn I have, and I have sadly very few.
- Comment on Korn? 2 weeks ago:
I see what you did there! 🤣🤣🤣
- Comment on Korn? 2 weeks ago:
🤣🤣🤣
- Comment on Korn? 2 weeks ago:
Lol damnit…
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- Comment on It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition 2 weeks ago:
I bought these lights, they’re sitting on the kitchen table waiting to be opened and put on a tree! I’m so excited!
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Good advice 2 weeks ago:
Bro, I’m trying…
- Comment on Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair! 4 weeks ago:
I’ve read if we wake up knowing what we dreamt about we likely aren’t getting enough sleep. Since then I’ve worked hard in my sleep cycle and haven’t remembered more than a dream or two a year in more than a decade. That was my solution, maybe give it a go?
- Comment on Erosion is a voxel open world shooter in which deaths cost decades, and you can win the Wild West with armies of cats 5 weeks ago:
Immediate wishlist! Hell yeah this looks amazing.
- Comment on Profit slide at Target hints at meager holiday season for the retailer 5 weeks ago:
Hope so!
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 1 month ago:
Without a doubt!
- Comment on Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut 1 month ago:
The dude trying to cover it up with the piece of cloth at the end was chef’s kiss.
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 1 month ago:
You’re welcome!
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 1 month ago:
I’ve been trying to find an answer on that question myself for years. A lot of the other comments so a good job of scratching the surface but there just isn’t enough text to really explain the full concept completely. If you really want to really dig deeper, here are some books that might help. They helped me. Bottom line is it’s smart for conservatives to do this based on their end goals because it’s effective.
The All New Don’t Think of an Elephant! by George Lakoff, covers the strong father theory which is much of what’s described in other comments.
The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, talks about the principles of authoritarianism and helps understand how the authoritarian structure in nearly every major company has lead to this.
The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama, explains why stability at the cost of equality is what political machines often evolve into.
The Revenge of Power by Moisés Naím, explains how authoritarianism works and why it needs us vs them to thrive.
Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam, a good view of blame based politics, why and how it works.
Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Tavris & Aronson, helps explain why people are attracted to the conservative message.
Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti, explains how capitalists exploit the view that poverty is a personal falling so they can continue wage theft and rent seeking.
The Coddling of the American Mind by Haidt & Lukianoff, a deep dive of the modern conservative mindset and helps answer how and why we got here.
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen, shows how this has been going on for longer than we’ve been alive along with the attack on education and sort of shows why that’s effective.
The Progress Paradox by Gregg Easterbrook, helps explain why “the sky is falling” narrative conservatives like to use is attractive to us.
- Comment on There Comes A Time Where You Gotta Make A Choice 1 month ago:
Wow… I’ve lived such a sheltered life with continent partners…
- Comment on I Thought I Knew You 1 month ago:
Absolutely!!!
- Comment on There Comes A Time Where You Gotta Make A Choice 1 month ago:
What the fuck did I just read…
- Comment on There Comes A Time Where You Gotta Make A Choice 1 month ago:
No shit?
- Comment on I Thought I Knew You 1 month ago:
This is the respiratorially-challenged small dog that regularly blesses me by snoring like a freight train. Can be awkward on conference calls if I forget to mute.
- Comment on I Thought I Knew You 1 month ago:
❤️🐶
- Comment on I Thought I Knew You 1 month ago:
You may just have the perfect Lemmy name! That is all.
