Phil_in_here
@Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Is spreading. 1 week ago:
But what part is inaccurate? Its easy if you know how to do it and daunting if you don’t.
- Comment on Is spreading. 1 week ago:
More like installing a subcutaneous implant
“It’s easy, man. You just need to inject this needle under your skin. What do you mean you’re uncomfortable doing that? Anybody can do it. And if you don’t like it, you can just use the same needle to pull the pill back out and you’ll be back where you started, no harm done. Now, there’s about 48 different pills you can choose from that vary in performance and legitimacy. I use Grafff (yes, with 3 Fs, two Fs is the legacy version), but you could start with NBOSC or RBOSC or LBOSC. But you could also try Flan or Yellow Welly. You could try Trim, but it takes some getting used to not having eyes. Honestly, its not that bad though. Anyway, once you have QBOSC (I mentioned QBOSC, right? It meant replace RBOSC but they split and are just two different things now) you’ll need to find this thing called DaemonFlare to make your legs work so you can play games and stuff. The whole thing should take like 20 minutes… or 9 days to work out the issues”
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The people in this thread are either misunderstanding you (thinking you have a big 8" slab of snow on your roof) or are unfamiliar with regularly snowy places, or are completely unhinged. That, or I misunderstand and you are talking about driving with inches of snow on your roof, in which case, yeah brush off what you can before driving.
But I get it, especially when it gets a bit warmer and the snow kinda melts a bit and gets icy and sticks.
The hot water will melt the snow and ice, don’t worry. The car wash deals with ice chunks from wheel wells all the time. Its just more water and road grime.
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 3 weeks ago:
Its
20042026. They could quite literally have dynamic volume control that would adjust the volume based on a set limit. You could easily have lead-in curves based on the abruptness for smooth transitions. - Comment on 10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town 3 weeks ago:
They’ll get there. The US is still working through the Italian playbook. They’re up to the 1930s.
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 5 weeks ago:
You can buy my effort or you can buy my time.
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 5 weeks ago:
Moreover, if I was productive up to 4:57 and left, I’d be productive up to 4:57.
If I have to stay until 5:00, not one minute early, I’m watching the clock for at least 20 minutes doing fuck all because I’ve been instructed that I have to run out the clock every day forever.
When you prioritize employees for their time, they give you their time. When you prioritize them for their work, they’ll give you work.
- Comment on Just say the word 5 weeks ago:
Great job if you can get it!
- Comment on How did "ancient humans" got the idea to pierce their ears/body ? 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t need to be hot for the bacteria to be dead, just recently to have been hot.
- Comment on On Monoculture 1 month ago:
Grubbing up hedges sounds like a British euphemism.
- Comment on They only come out at night 1 month ago:
You should hear the screams it makes as it keeps trying to break out of the windows…
- Comment on Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company 1 month ago:
“We know people don’t like how poorly we treat our employees, so we’ve laid off as many as we thought we could get away with to reduce the overall number of people’s lives we make more miserable. We’re the good guys here.”
- Comment on At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble 1 month ago:
Its not a bubble. A bubble is when you sink billions into something with no payoff. We’ve sunk trillions. Any people aren’t just uninterested, a substantial amount are actively opposed to it. Its not the same thing at all.
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 1 month ago:
I’m sorry your AI music “career” isn’t taking off like you thought it would.
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 1 month ago:
But there are clues. And those clues are part of the reason some people are opposed to it. Like 30 EPs released in a year.
I think there’s a place for AI music. There are plenty of instances where you need some vaguely musical audio filler. Hold music, shopping background, etc. Well bandcamp ain’t that place.
- Comment on If it fits... 1 month ago:
Where I’m from the legal infraction is that the right side wheels are more than half a meter from the curb (I learned this from the ticket I got for parking on the wrong side of the street)
- Comment on Do rich people in landlocked countries have yachts? 2 months ago:
For rich people, it’s not about using it or making a practical purchase. Its a way to show others how much you care about them (none).
It’s the yacht that counts.
- Comment on Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026 2 months ago:
It that a threat?
- Comment on The Good Old days. Wish I had lived through them. Seems like lots of fun 2 months ago:
Wait until you hear about Coca-Cola
- Comment on Having a rough morning. I'm still pondering the question about beavers, and my kid asks me THIS 2 months ago:
And do buried children still have their teeth?
Do you want to go check?
- Comment on French far right wants to reopen brothels and put sex workers in charge 2 months ago:
“… but not for gays, poors, or women! Its just so we can legally cheat on our wives.”
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 2 months ago:
Yes, except “hire enough people”. You can’t staff enough to cover 4 out of 8 employees off from a combination of sick, bereavement, and vacation.
It happens. All you can do is prioritize tasks, make it work the best you can with the resources you have, and manage expectations.
If the work can’t be rescheduled, and isn’t worth paying someone OT to cover, well, then, it’s not worth doing.
- Comment on YSK that Elon Musk now hates California. He lives in West Lake Hills, Texas. He loves to visit Austin. 2 months ago:
I think the worst behaved people are those that conspire to use their immense wealth and influence to actively harm people for the sole purpose of consolidating neverending wealth.
But, yeah, guys who at least put some of their money back into the economy by buying luxury status over basic do get my hackles up.
But that’s damning a snake because the devil looks like you.
- Comment on Hytale won't be on Steam right away, as its devs want to avoid "overindexing on negative reviews" from players who "aren't as well-informed yet" 2 months ago:
Demos, people! Demos!
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 2 months ago:
Have you seen North American public transportation?
Yeah, I have a “choice”, but it’s 60-85 minutes on 3 busses or a 12 minute drive to get to and from work.
- Comment on Insulin 3 months ago:
To be fair, the killing isn’t the point; they’re the product. Its just that profit is God, so killing in its name is justified.
Killing poors for the joy of it? That’s just an evil bonus.
- Comment on This is the type of Q&A that makes the internet so important 3 months ago:
It’s probably fine to reuse it for a few days
My dude, hardly anyone uses a new towel every day. Its much more than “probably” fine. Its perfectly fine.
Is affluence the cause of germophobia because their parents convinced them frivolous luxury was actually important for staying healthy?
Don’t get me wrong, enjoy your fresh towels! That’s nice. That’s a luxury. Luxuries are nice. But don’t fool yourself into believing that you’re any healthier for not using the same towels twice.
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 3 months ago:
Nice rock. Sorry your taxes are so high under there.
- Comment on YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg 3 months ago:
That’s a hard steamed egg, though…
- Comment on YSK: A simple trick to keep your bananas ripe for a lot longer. 3 months ago:
Yeah, wouldn’t the increased surface area increase the release of gas making everything ripen faster?