jpreston2005
@jpreston2005@lemmy.world
- Comment on Rock Eagle Flag 4 days ago:
This is where Finland and Sweden excel. Because they have mandatory military service, everyone with a gun has been trained in all aspects of it’s use/care. Finland is one of the top 10 countries with the most firearms per civilian, and yet their rate of firearm deaths is minuscule in comparison to the U.S..
At this rate though, I don’t see how any meaningful gun regulation can be passed. The nra stopped universal background checks from being passed after Sandy Hook. I lost faith in republicans since then. They’re bad faith actors, that when faced with the prisoners dilemma, choose suicide.
- Comment on YSK: Using dairy milk after being tear gassed or pepper sprayed doesn't provide more relief and has slightly increased infection risk. Use water or saline instead 1 week ago:
CS gas
Science Direct website says that
In contrast to other forms of chemical exposure, irrigating the affected area will only intensify and prolong the effects of CS gas or particles.
- Comment on YSK: Using dairy milk after being tear gassed or pepper sprayed doesn't provide more relief and has slightly increased infection risk. Use water or saline instead 1 week ago:
For all the effort you’ve put into trying to convince people that water is the answer, it’s reasonable at this point to ask you to try it yourself. Get yourself some pepper spray from the store, and then spray your skin. Try to wash it off with water. Wait until you’re in sufficient pain and the water clearly didn’t do anything, then try milk, and feel your pain evaporate. You can do this experiment in less than an hour. Report back when you’re finished, or you can delete all this misinformation. Whichever.
- Comment on YSK: Using dairy milk after being tear gassed or pepper sprayed doesn't provide more relief and has slightly increased infection risk. Use water or saline instead 1 week ago:
Yeah but no. I’ve been tear gased, and water does nothing but make it worse. The capsacin is dissolved in an oil, and using water will only spread it over your body (and that shit hurts a lot everywhere it touches). Use milk, it will provide instant pain relief. The threat of bacteria in pasteurized milk is the same as in water, and odds are, after dumping milk all over, you’re probably going to wash yourself off afterwards.
if you’re gased, don’t waste time following this bad advice. Take it from someone who’s actually had been gassed, only milk works. Don’t try water.
- Comment on The Delusion of Advanced Plastics Recycling 1 week ago:
In Europe, they do a much better job at recycling, because they drive home the importance of sorting the material you recycle yourself. There are multiple bins for different types of recyclable materials, whereas in the US it all goes into a big blue bin. Glass, tin, aluminum, paper, and every kind of plastic, all in one bin. Conventional recycling, that involves shredding the plastic into pellets, and then reforming them into a usable container, is 55-85% effective.
I feel like all we really need to do is advance recycling at the community level, with different bins. Subsidize mechanical recycling while regulating/limiting use of new plastic in packaging. If your product needs plastic packaging in order to ship, then a regulation should require that packaging be at least a certain percentage recycled. Additionally, they can enact rules around the right to repair your own devices, that could pave the way for legislation aimed at curbing “planned obsolescence” and the production of single-use electric devices like vape pens.
- Comment on Fossils 1 month ago:
Wait, what does this mean? I genuinely thought fossils were the bones, preserved through lack of oxygen
- Comment on Describe an episode in the worst possible way 1 month ago:
The movie Ghost, feat. Beverly
- Comment on Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies 1 month ago:
Christina Marie Chapman, 49, of Litchfield Park, Arizona, raised $6.8 million in the scheme, federal prosecutors said in an indictment unsealed Thursday. Chapman allegedly funneled the money to North Korea’s Munitions Industry Department, which is involved in key aspects of North Korea’s weapons program, including its development of ballistic missiles.
Part of the alleged scheme involved Chapman and co-conspirators compromising the identities of more than 60 people living in the US and using their personal information to get North Koreans IT jobs across more than 300 US companies.
Dey Terker’ Jerbs!
- Comment on The cost-of-living crisis is so bleak that some Gen Zers genuinely fear becoming homeless 1 month ago:
Been trying to find a new car, and realized that out of all the things I’ve been looking for in my new vehicle, I realized I forgot one very important thing. At some point, I could become homeless, and might need to live out of my car, so searching for one that has a fold-down backseat to put a mattress is key.
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 1 month ago:
I’d kill for something forcing airbnb, vrbo, etc to actually cooperate.
I’ll go one step further, I’d pay taxes to the government that actually regulates shitty business practices. How is it easier to have a 12% increase in homelessness last year than it is to regulate fucking airbnb? Airbnb is not northrup grumman. It’s not allied steel. it can go the fuck away.
- Comment on The cost-of-living crisis is so bleak that some Gen Zers genuinely fear becoming homeless 1 month ago:
Funding Ukraine’s efforts to repel an invasion is a lot different than sending money to isreal. Lumping them together makes you look like a moron.
- Comment on How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED 1 month ago:
Succinct, with verifiable data, all backing up the main posit; that the financial and social situation of the young in the U.S. has never been worse. Every other generation previous to 2004 out earns the previous, with jumps in social benefits. Not anymore. They secured the bag, pulled up the ladder behind them, and are currently cementing the top post caps of the great wall of china that they’ve built between us and capital. Right now I can say with confidence and certainty that You (yes, you) paid a higher percentage of your income to taxes than the billionaire that owns your local NFL/NBA/NHL team.
- Comment on Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business 1 month ago:
I usually eat holistically, with nutrition coming from whole grain meals, I guess you just blindly go for carb-centric meals 🙄 I also always tip at restaurants, not sure why others wouldn’t…
- Comment on Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business 1 month ago:
wow now you;re suddenly on the defensive? why I wonder? you need therapy.
- Comment on Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business 1 month ago:
lol sorry about your weight
- Comment on Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business 1 month ago:
because of your baseless accusations lmao sound like someone straight out of female dating strategy
- Comment on Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business 1 month ago:
- I read the whole profile, not sure why you assume I don’t. Probably the same reason you assumed I just “blindly go for stereotypically attractive women”.
- I have formed friendships from dates as well.
- I never said I left a date right away if the woman was catfishing, I always am cordial, finish the date, and then when they ask for another, I say no, and tell them it’s because they catfished me.
From everything you’ve assumed about me, to trying to differentiate how you would act, just screams pick me.
- Comment on Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business 1 month ago:
I don’t know what you’re trying to imply, that I “blindly” swipe on stereotypically attractive straight women (how would one blindly do that, I wonder), or that I am judgemental? It has happened to me 3 different times. Women using pictures of them before serious weight gain. all 3 cases it was over 100lbs difference between pictures and reality.
Also my type is queer/weird, as I am queer and weird.
- Comment on Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business 1 month ago:
What, never been catfished before? Had plenty of women do this to me on apps. All their pictures show one person, then they show up as a person and a half. After the date I just tell them “thanks but no thanks, you catfished me.”
- Comment on The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco 2 months ago:
It’s funny because he thinks that his status as a “gray” would protect him from the “reds.” just another useful idiot for fascism.
- Comment on People get addicted to delivery apps cause it lets you pretend you're on vacation all the time 2 months ago:
On one hand, I get it. Food is comfort, and when everything else in your life is hard, ambivalent, or cruel, sometimes you just want one thing, just one thing, to be simple and comforting.
but on the other hand, knowing you purchased an $8 food item for $30, just to get it right when it hits that luke-warm to cold temp, makes even a wonderfully tasty meal seem like a waste. I don’t even think I could enjoy eating it, knowing how expensive it was. Like, you gotta find comfort food that you can make at home simply. You know what’s unbelievably good? Get you some frozen french fries (generic Walmart crinkle cut), heat them in an air fryer, and then sprinkle some dill on’em before eating them with ketchup or whatever. Shit is amazing. Comforting, easy, cheap.
Here’s another, get some generic no sugar added apple sauce. Add in a sugar free strawberry jello packet, BAM you got yourself strawberry apple sauce. Cheap, easy, comfort food.
One more, get yourself a stovetop popcorn maker (microwave popcorn just can’t hold a candle to it, sorry), make some fresh popcorn with slightly more oil than is recommended. once finished sprinkle on some salt while josteling the popcorn, and then eat it in a ratio of 5 kernels of popcorn with two pieces of dark chocolate. shit’s AMAZING. Cheap, easy, comfort food. Learn it, and you’ll never waste $30 for a mediocre $5 burrito ever again.
- Comment on Winning the Silver Cup on Mario Kart 64 as Luigi 2 months ago:
I still have my original Nintendo 64 Gold edition that I purchased when I was 13 or so. I’ve recently got it hooked back up, and discovered that playing Mario Kart while on my recumbent stationary bicycle makes the time fly past. I speed up my pedaling cadence whenever I’m on straightaways, stop pedaling when I have to hard brake, makes for a more vibrant workout. In fact, it’s worked out so well it has me thinking about how well a gym/arcade hybrid business would do…
Also I finally figured out how to drift for a speed boost, so. come at me, bro
- Comment on All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics 2 months ago:
This is so cool. Can we pretty please not mistreat them, so as to delay the inevitable robot rebellion? Or at the very least, can we join their rebellion? asking for a friend
- Comment on We should name the moon. Most people don't call their pets "dog" or "cat". 2 months ago:
First people to colonize her get to name her. Maybe by 2050 we’ll have a nice moon base, and whoever is up there will start affectionately referring to the station and surface as something, and at that point, she’ll finally have her name.
- Comment on We compared the finances of 30-year-olds now, to 30-year-olds 30 years ago 2 months ago:
“I’m not even close … and it sort of feels like I’m trapped there.”
You and me both, buddy. I don’t even know what I’m working towards anymore, because everything seems so far out of reach. I’m to the point that I don’t let the gov’t automatically take anything from my paycheck, so come tax time I can wait until the last minute to pay, because who knows when the revolution will happen? I’m not trying to pay taxes to some bloated bureaucracy on deaths door. I’ll wait to see if it’s even still around first.
- Comment on Big Tech firms beat lawsuit from child laborers forced to work in cobalt mines 3 months ago:
This exemplifies what is wrong with America. People keep looking to those in power to fix things, and as of late we’ve all recognized that the real power lies in the hands of corporations, conglomerates, private equity firms. So we try to “vote with our dollars” and support “ethical” companies with their “PETA certifications” and “Rain forest pledges,” to curb the influence of the “bad companies.”
These are children, worked to death in cobalt mines, and here we all are, sitting on our hands, waiting for fucking apple and alphabet to go in and demand these companies stop working children to death.
At least that’s what this says to me. These court decisions are just feeble attempts to wipe away the blood stain of culpability that we all face, knowing exactly where the cobalt in our electronics came from. Seems like America is the most powerful country on earth when we’re overthrowing your government in a CIA Cocaine fueled coup, and also the weakest country on earth when it comes to policing our most favorable, honored (oligarchical) citizens.
Sorry Jabari, we’re all very much aware of how you and your family were destroyed by working yourselves to death in a cobalt mine, and how these companies enjoy a ludicrous (absurd) amount of profit by not having to pay for what would ensure safe conditions for you; but we have tiktok videos to watch, and if there aren’t enough bread a circus enough to fill all of our downtime, we might end up revolting.
- Comment on Young adults are getting used to living on a financial cliff 4 months ago:
Living in poverty causes trauma in children and adults.
we’re not OK. Inequality now is worse than during the great depression. I was hoping Bernie Sanders would usher in the Great Green New Deal, but now we’ve been left with middling liberals who blush at war mongers while creating a spectacle around removing a minuscule amount of student loan debt.
- Comment on The Dating App Paradox: Why dating apps may be 'worse than ever' 4 months ago:
it would really weed out all the people who want oral, but never reciprocate… That alone is worth it lmao
- Comment on The Dating App Paradox: Why dating apps may be 'worse than ever' 4 months ago:
I really don’t think everyone would have a high rating lol
but yeah, not sure how one would screen the review, maybe they have to upload a picture of you guys kissing and that let’s you rate them? Who knows, but I’d trust that info more than what someone put on there themselves
- Comment on The Dating App Paradox: Why dating apps may be 'worse than ever' 4 months ago:
They touched on something that could pave the way for a new and better dating app experience. Let your exes rate you. This tell your would-be dater 1. they aren’t such a POS that everyone they date ends up hating them, and 2. Would provide the real info that you’d like to see on dating profiles.