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- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 6 months ago:
Completely useless for firefighting. Putting a drip torch on its ass and letting it walk a line, maybe. But it's not going to cut down the trees to make a firebreak, who what's the point.
- Comment on ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say 7 months ago:
Sender pays is what Korea has. It does not work well at all.
- Comment on Former Blizzard president wants to be able to leave a "tip" after completing $70 games: "I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20" 7 months ago:
Fuck your shareholders.
- Comment on Mona: Court rules women’s-only exhibit must allow male visitors 7 months ago:
Slavic slaves in the Roman empire predate the social construct of whiteness. Implying they were oppressed because they were white is one of the stupider things I've read on the Internet today.
- Comment on What's the vaporization temperature of mouse urine? 7 months ago:
You pretty much either put so much heat into urea that it turns to ammonia and melts your plastic while doing so or you wait for some psuedomonas to eat it and turn it into ammonia. It technically starts vaporizing at above 130 C.
- Comment on The diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offline 7 months ago:
Ain't dead yet.
- Comment on Google Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites 7 months ago:
Any of the bug. I left i vague because I think there's still a chance for a disruptive force to enter the market.
- Comment on Google Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites 7 months ago:
That's the point. This entire thing is complaining about SEO. If your business model is serving ads with SEO and not retaining people with quality content, I'm not going to get too upset about it.
Google is killing itself with this shit, but it doesn't really matter. People will move back to Link aggregators and actually working to get the search results they need.
- Comment on Video shows California police fatally shooting teenager who was reported kidnapped 7 months ago:
So maybe there will be justice?
I wouldn't count on that. They're going to justify it as confusion during a shootout.
- Comment on Video shows California police fatally shooting teenager who was reported kidnapped 7 months ago:
2 years to finally own up to obvious incompetence.
- Comment on DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses 8 months ago:
And the NSA quietly installed their own.
- Comment on Why the recent Mozilla news isn't actually a big deal 8 months ago:
You are a sensitive dude.
- Comment on Bridgy Fed, a bridge between the Fediverse and other protocols such as BlueSky, is using an opt-out model and that raises a lot of discussion 9 months ago:
That's user level changes. You can still defed from the bridge. It actually makes this whole situation even more ridiculous. If you don't agree with who your instance federates with you fucking leave.
- Comment on BBC: Extending our Mastodon social media trial 9 months ago:
Outsourcing administration instead of doing it in house would be much cheaper for news orgs in the long run I'd think. Volunteer admins is one thing. Staff admins is another.
- Comment on What is a "tax write off"? 9 months ago:
Going to add to this, the confusion comes from people saying something is a tax wire off as being a good thing. That confusion comes from the fact that a tax write off is essentially a "discount" compared to paying for something out of your own pocket post tax. You're essentially buying it for whatever percent cheaper you tax rate is. This is good if it's something that you gain value from, but bad if it's something like a wasted investment (though that gets complicated when you start actually assigning percentages to an investment's potential return as you hedge it, that's so far outside of my wheelhouse that it might as well be on the moon).
- Comment on How important is vitamin D drops to be under the tongue? 9 months ago:
If that's the case you can always try buccal administration.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 9 months ago:
Junk claims by vultures trying to excite investors or junk claims by cultists out of touch with reality? At least the vulture capitalists won't end up starting a religion about banishing thetans after they truly go off the deep end.
- Comment on "Cheaters never prosper" is a lie that a cheater probably came up with 9 months ago:
- Comment on Is it immoral, unethical, or illegal to use movie prop money for collection plates, tip jars, beggars, and strip clubs? 9 months ago:
I edited my comment about strip clubs right when you posted this. There's a legal gray area in my opinion by using it for tipping. If you've already received the service, you really can't be committing fraud.
- Comment on Is it immoral, unethical, or illegal to use movie prop money for collection plates, tip jars, beggars, and strip clubs? 9 months ago:
There is absolutely an intent aspect, and it's clear the intent here is to pass of the money as real even if it's monopoly money.
- Comment on Is it immoral, unethical, or illegal to use movie prop money for collection plates, tip jars, beggars, and strip clubs? 9 months ago:
It is immoral because its a lie (if we're going off of some definitions of morality), its unethical, because its a lie that is quite cruel and provides zero benefit, and it's illegal because it's fraud. So yes.
- Comment on Mastodon security update: every version prior to today's is vulnerable to remote user impersonation and takeover 9 months ago:
Eh, stuff like truth social doesn't federate with anything anyway, so unfortunately this isn't a vulnerability for them.
- Comment on working at a hospital: should I remain in the room watching a patient until he takes a certain medication? 10 months ago:
We're on the same page.
- Comment on working at a hospital: should I remain in the room watching a patient until he takes a certain medication? 10 months ago:
Oh, it happens plenty. Let's just say the nursing home nurses have it down to a science to speed folks up with all the patients they're administering medication to. Usually part of our report to other nurses on shift change, and what strategies we're using. Some folks want to talk, some folks are trying to exercise the very little control they have in a situation where their life has completely spiraled out.
- Comment on working at a hospital: should I remain in the room watching a patient until he takes a certain medication? 10 months ago:
You can put it in nurses notes, or depending on the EHR put a "note" in the MAR. But you have to actually put it there and then your manager will yell at you. Point is, you need to be sure they actually took a medication you documented you administered at the time you said you administered it.
This stuff isn't "my bosses" though but "standard nursing care."
- Comment on Betavolt's miniature battery could spell the end of smartphone chargers 10 months ago:
The article is really funny, because they talk about how this company's innovation could be used in pacemakers. When they had betavoltaic pacemakers in the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device
- Comment on That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says 10 months ago:
Totally. Not indicative of a total lack of both awareness and self awareness at all. I completely understand.
- Comment on That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says 10 months ago:
Much like satire, usernames seem to be a challenging thing for ya. It's not my comment.
- Comment on That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says 10 months ago:
Usernames are a challenging thing for you, huh?
- Comment on That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says 10 months ago:
ate the onion