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- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 16 hours ago:
Not often enough. It looks pretty ratty but the time I force myself to go. Maybe 4-6 months?
I’ve always been annoyed by haircuts so it’s difficult to motivate myself to go. However by the time I settle on a new location to regularly use, they close down. Then it’s that much more annoying o find a new place I don’t hate
- Comment on peach: frozen 3 days ago:
Maybe the problem is the internet. It used to be easy to say that speech should be free, no matter what. But the internet has given a bigger stage while distancing people from real life consequences, allowing them to do real harm to society.
Kirk is a great example. He could have preached his hatred alone on a corner in a small village, but he got a pulpit, he faced no real life consequences, and he caused harm increasing our divisiveness, pitting neighbor against neighbor, encouraging hatred, and that is before the effect on government services.
- Comment on Important update: It's 10 poptarts 4 days ago:
You have to buy frosted. You have to toast them. Otherwise they’re just cardboard: you can’t really tell them apart from the box
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 4 days ago:
There is no reset. All the easy to reach fossil fuels being gone may be an insurmountable obstacle to any reset being able to reach an industrial age
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 4 days ago:
Why masturbate yourself like a peon, when you can spend $500000 to? And get a free Florence Pugh voice to “avenge” your crusaders?
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 4 days ago:
I kind of thought that was the only real difference with 11: requiring the tpm
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 4 days ago:
There are some companies that sell hardware with Linux pre-installed. The bigger companies that do are Dell and Lenovo.
Last time I checked, admittedly years ago, I was irritated at paying the same price as for the windows version of the same hardware. Why do I still need to pay the Microsoft tax and who’s getting it?
- Comment on What’s the actual reason neurodivergent people are sometimes discriminated against or bullied? 5 days ago:
Usually neurodivergent isn’t relevant. People are bullied because they’re different and because they’re an easy target, regardless of why they’re different
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 6 days ago:
Think of it like grandma. She can fold your underwear for you but needs to go sit down every half hour
- Comment on How popular/important do you have to be for your death by homicide to be labeled as an "assassination"? What if the homicide is for a private matter that's separate from their importance? 6 days ago:
government leaders and other prominent persons for political purposes
I guess it depends on who you call prominent but yes, the billionaire? CEO of one of the biggest healthcare companies in the US was in a prominent (important) position regardless whether anyone knew who he was. And yes there is evidence of a political purpose.
I have to say that going into this my reaction was no, this is not an assassination. However looking at the linked definition and thinking it through changed my opinion
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 6 days ago:
false flag operation
Claims like this give both too much credit for action and too little to strategy.
- there’s no reason to believe this specific action was a false flag operation when in the current environment it’s simple to believe a radicalized individual
- isn’t that one of the benefits of the continuous hatred, outrage, divisiveness, chaos? There’s always going to be stuff like this happening, so you always have an event to capitalize on without the risk of doing it yourself
- Comment on Clock logic 6 days ago:
It only solves a small part of the issue at the cost of less convenience and consistency. Propose a “metric” time that solves more of this issue problem and I’m all for it
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 6 days ago:
…second phone number…
Of course but it doesn’t scale. I’m currently up to 182 unique generated email addresses to help keep my online accounts a little more secure. But they all go through one or two phone numbers, leaving me more open to sim attacks, social engineering and data aggregation
- Comment on For people who relocated: when did you realize you want to live in the new place long-term & why? 6 days ago:
Hahaha. When I was in college I visited the Boston area and fell in love with it. It took me a couple of jobs but I eventually made it and would never turn back
- love the history
- love the academics, more youthful society
- love the politics, quality of life issues
- I’m in tech so I love the job opportunities
…. And yes I love the mild weather. While this is essentially the same latitude I grew up at, being on the coast moderates it a lot. It never really gets cold (relatively), never has much snow, and the snow melts quickly. Although I don’t like the humidity
- Comment on Is there an increasing trend in the fear of germs/contamination (Mysophobia/Germophobia) ever since Covid-19, or is it just me? 1 week ago:
I definitely am, and other people seem to be, more aware of germs, epidemics, etc. it’s not just the effects of COViD but the ongoing efforts to deny science and modern medicine.
Every time taco don disbands another public health agency or brain worm spouts nonsense, it reminds me how easily we lost so many people. We not only didn’t learn anything but are somehow worse off, but I’m reminded to wash my hands better and more, seek out annual vaccines, get a supply of masks for the winter
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 1 week ago:
You’re not supposed to use regular paper
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 1 week ago:
I’m not entirely sure what you mean but my password manager alerts when the hash of one of my passwords matches one from a dark web data dump, and prompts me to replace it with a newly generated one.
I’m sure it’s not a unique feature
Admittedly I do have a few bad password, a combination of I don’t see how I could care (like a Reddit alt account) and sites that break the password change automation (yeah I’m lazy)
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 1 week ago:
In some ways 2fa is a weak spot even disregarding recovery processes being open to social engineering, now you’re giving a verified identifier uniquely tied to you
I generate unique email addresses and passwords for every account but can’t realistically do that with phone numbers
2fa by sms or voice isn’t especially secure anyway since you’re open to sim attacks and social engineering. I have a lot more hope for Passkeys but don’t really trust the practical advice arts of managing them yet
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 1 week ago:
A great place to start is data privacy laws. If they don’t collect unnecessary PII, it can’t be exposed.
But yes, companies need to face more liability. While it’s true that no one is inhackable - you’d need to be perfect everywhere all the time and the bad guys only need one break to succeed - there are best practices that make it a lot more unlikely. If you as a company have been hacked and you’re not taking good care of your customers data, you should be liable for carelessness. Admittedly following good data security practices can be expensive but that’s why there should be consequences for those who cut corners
- Comment on Make America Great! 1 week ago:
Historically separation of powers worked. We’ve never had such a naked power grab by the executive branch, so many illegal orders, ignoring the courts, a sycophant congress. Agency leaders were generally competent and tried to fulfill agency missions. There’s never been such blatant bribery, spite based action, conflict of interest, profiteering off government roles, insider trading. Previous administrations mostly followed the constitution.
Sure we have our share of unethical actions by the government but they generally stayed within the legal structure of the government and were somewhat accountable.
- Comment on Make America Great! 1 week ago:
As recently as 3 years ago I was inspired by huge investments in renewable energy and climate change, starting to work on a huge backlog of infrastructure work, there was hope for high speed rail, incentives to bring manufacturing back to the us, support for unions, we had an ethical fact-based government, the rule of law and primacy of the constitution, respected all people and were working on quality of life improvements ……
Remind me again why we voted to tear all that down?
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 2 weeks ago:
Even if your costs only break even, you’re building equity
Often the difference in profitability is whether you pay for a property manager or do the work yourself
I know a couple people who did it and made money, fwiw. They gave up so they didn’t have to deal with people
- Comment on Odd wiring in a 2-gang 2 weeks ago:
That option 2 wiring would be wrong for a dumb switch, so they’re relying on some sort of smartswitch behavior. I didn’t read too far into it but
- they specify only certain models for the virtual switch. Are you using one of those?
- those switches can pair directly with smart bulbs: was the old switch using those?
- the writing diagram assumes three colored wires on the traveler (black, white, red) however older wiring commonly used only two. Can you verify you have three?
- could you have lost some configuration on the switches when the power was disconnected?
- Comment on Engineers wanted: Mexico looks to join the global semiconductor race 2 weeks ago:
Good for them. They capitalized on car and other manufacturing, so why not chips? Once we get past this senseless personal trade war, it could be profitable to both sides of the border. Given the long lead time for chips, the timing might work out
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 2 weeks ago:
One of the many problems is at least in the US, it tends to be used for fracking …… storing it under ground to pump more oil
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 2 weeks ago:
www.usatoday.com/story/news/…/9542766002/
wrong. Wind turbines recoup the energy required to build them within a year of normal operation
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, maybe I’m fooling myself but it really seems like hanging back more makes me have to do more sudden braking. Traffic seems smoothest when I’m close enough to discourage cut-ins …. Even if that means Im more at the mercy of traffic in front flowing down a bit
- Comment on cycle 3 weeks ago:
I should know the ‘/s’ is mandatory online but it was obvious enough in my head at least
- Comment on cycle 3 weeks ago:
Of course. What if she doesn’t have a man nearby to explain how she feels? Women need this
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 3 weeks ago:
It’s only a dumb question if you’re looking at all the people now. Birth rates across the board are declining and most developed countries are well below replacement. We’re just not noticing yet because people live like 80 years.
Most population projections have us peaking in 25-50 years, then population declines. That’s not all bad but how steeply does population decline and when does it stop? How does it impact economies, politics, who had influence and power. It looks like it could be steep and disruptive, with no prediction on when it will level off.
However if we start mitigating that, start encouraging people to have children, provide more support for raising children, give more hope to potential parents, working together for a brighter future consistently for the next 50 years perhaps we can manage the decline for least disruption. Perhaps we can find a sustainable population to level off at which is still big enough for today’s rapid advancements