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- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 3 days ago:
You are saying I should have said:
“It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than me.”
The personal pronoun, “me” is used when it is the object. However, that’s not the case here. I’m not being held. Thoughts are the object. I’m comparing how well they hold onto thoughts with how well I hold onto thoughts.
The sentence, “It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I”, has an implied verb. This is common in informal conversation.
The meaning I would expect an English speaker to understand would be, “It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I can.”
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 4 days ago:
We had one in an auditorium where I work. Only problem is it was underneath an MRI scanner. Every time they’d open the door to the MRI, the magnetic field would knock the projector tubes out of alignment.
The technician who came out to work on it said it was hopeless. He told us he had a customer whose projector would get out of alignment if he moved a speaker in the room.
I was so happy when we finally replaced it with an LCD projector.
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 4 days ago:
No. It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I.
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 4 days ago:
If you have a bit of memory retention
Ah. That’s my problem.
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 4 days ago:
You guys can remember your thoughts long enough to post them after you get dried off?
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- Comment on Does anyone know how I'm suppose to open this? 4 days ago:
Put some ice and water in a plastic bag and sit it on top of the cap. Let it sit there long enough to cool down the cap.
While the bag is sitting on it, pour hot water on the ground against the pipe to heat up the pipe.
The cool cap will contract while the warm pipe expands. This might loosen it enough to use a straight bar to unscrew the cap.
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 1 week ago:
While I appreciate the composting efficiency, I was thinking something like this for maximum gruesomeness:
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 1 week ago:
If we’re going for gruesome, how about we build a huge version of one of those slicers that they feed vegetables in, and just feed the oligarchs into it.
Gives you the option to feed them head first if you want to show mercy, while still being able to feed them in feet first for someone like Musk.
Then they are cut up into small, easy to compost pieces.
- Comment on If you live in a city, you'll probably end up memorizing the meanings of arbitrary numbers. 1 week ago:
But those numbers aren’t arbitrary. There are reasons they are set, and there are reasons you would remember them.
- Comment on they all start out the same but in a month they figure it out 1 week ago:
In my experience, it is also an indication that they want to blame someone else for their actions.
- Comment on they all start out the same but in a month they figure it out 1 week ago:
I worked a job where when one of the team moved on, we’d all pitch in to keep things running while management would work to fill the vacancy. Management would work fast, and we’d fairly quickly get a new person.
When I moved to my next job, I automatically started busting my ass trying to get things done. My new coworkers had to take me aside and point out that there was no help coming. They weren’t going to hire anyone to help, and if I killed myself trying to keep things working, they might not even hire someone to replace me.
After years of us complaining that we needed more people, management decided to bring in a consultant to review our work, evaluate the department, and report on what actions, if any, were necessary. It was fairly clear that management expected the experts to report that we had enough staff.
After interviewing everyone and shadowing us while we worked, they reported that for the size of the organization and the amount of work we were doing, and comparing our staff to staff at similar organizations, we should have had at least twice as many people on our team.
To their credit, this served as a wakeup call to administration. They realized that they needed to take steps to correct the staffing, and also realized how lucky they were to have the staff they had to keep things running. That was over 20 years ago, and things have continued to improve.
- Comment on Street racers are not criminals 1 week ago:
Do you have a reference to the particular definition you’re using?
All my searching indicates “offense” is either synonymous with “crime” or at the very least a subcategory of “crime”. I couldn’t find anything suggesting that an “offense” was not also a “crime”.
- Comment on Breaking news 1 week ago:
At this point Federal Booby Inspector has more prestige.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’m there to work and earn money, not to make friends, not to fake a friendship with any manager.
That seems sad to me.
I managed a team for a few years. Another team in our organization made a pitch to take two of the people from my team into theirs. I ended up going along with the plan because it was a way to quickly get them a salary increase that I’d been trying to get for them for years. The rest of my team got absorbed into another team in our group and I transitioned to a non-management role.
We still chat constantly and we get together regularly for dinner. I consider them all close friends.
- Comment on The Rapture could have happened, but nobody would know because everyone got left behind 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Brainrot Tiktoker at the Kirk shooting 4 weeks ago:
You’re right. Capitalism is when you use your power and resources to get the government to allow you to steal people’s private property without force.
- Comment on Brainrot Tiktoker at the Kirk shooting 4 weeks ago:
His sense of shame was hiding behind a misplaced apostrophe.
- Comment on thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned? 4 weeks ago:
there are 2 men that seem to be completely stoic (I don’t know what word would describe them better): they ignore drama and jabs, even if directed at them
It may be that they are just oblivious.
Years ago my wife and I noticed a difference between the men who worked for her and the women who worked for her.
She had to take a woman aside and tell her that her shoes weren’t appropriate for the office. The woman heard, “she thinks I’m a slut.”
The men would hear, “she thinks my shoes aren’t appropriate for the office.”
Science indicates that women generally have more brain space devoted to communication than men. That is typically accepted to indicate that women communicate better than men, but it really just means more of their brain is involved.
Like a person with macular degeneration seeing hallucinations because their brain is trying to fill in the missing information, some women will hallucinate information that isn’t in the communication.
They will also think they are communicating in ways that aren’t conveyed with words. Many men will miss subtle, “read-between-the-lines” subtext because they just don’t have the neural real-estate to deal with it.
Women are also more likely to care about what other people think, simply because they are more likely to be at risk if they piss off the wrong person. Men can usually be a bit more chill because less of the population can threaten them. So it’s entirely possible that those two men don’t care because they know no one is going to kick their ass, so there’s nothing to get upset about.
Men will care a lot about actual aggressiveness. When you’ve had to be stitched back together after being jumped, passive-aggressiveness doesn’t seem like that much of a big deal.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 5 weeks ago:
Literacy isn’t Trump’s.
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 5 weeks ago:
I think how generally “burning bridges” is used refers to not leaving yourself a way out. However in this case we’re talking about not leaving others a way in.
- Comment on Is the whole DC "cleanup" pointless? 1 month ago:
I’ve read fucking history books, thank you very much, and I’m not the idiot you think I am.
The US has always been a fascist country at it’s core. You can’t get Americans upset about fascism. Not enough care to make a difference.
Child rape may be a crack in their armor. The true fascists I know are pissed about that.
Hammer at what works.
- Comment on Is the whole DC "cleanup" pointless? 1 month ago:
It’s not pointless. The point is to get people to forget that the president is a pedophile.
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 1 month ago:
- Comment on How come glasses for hyperopia/farsightedness (reading glasses) are there on the shelves, but glasses for myopia require a prescription? 1 month ago:
I asked my retired, optometrist wife.
She didn’t have time to respond fully because she’s dealing with a plumbing hardware supplier to get a defective toilet tank replaced*, but she sent this:
Those are for adults with presbyopia and near vision. The PD is standard for average adults. If we assume people will get the right distance prescription via over-the-counter means, then who is responsible if they buy the wrong thing and get into a car accident because they couldn’t see at a distance?
I had to look it up, but “presbyopia and near vision” means you used to be able to see up close, but now you’re old and you can’t focus up close anymore. As opposed to: you’re young, but your eyes are the wrong shape.
PD would be pupillary distance, ie the gap between your two pupils. One of the things they measure when they’re ordering lenses for your glasses. As has been explained to me previously, if the PD is wrong, it’s adding prism to the lenses, and headaches to your experience.
* She didn’t retire to become a plumber. We’re getting a powder room renovated, and the tank for the new toilet arrived damaged.
- Comment on In the star wars holiday special, there's a segment where Princess Leia sings. This act retroactively makes her a legitimate Disney princess. 1 month ago:
When Disney bought Fox, they acquired MASH, which means Klinger is a Disney Princess.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’d argue it’s too young, purely from a neurological development point of view.
Your prefrontal cortex doesn’t fully develop until your mid to late 20’s. That’s what gives you the ability to evaluate future consequences of your actions.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m going to play devil’s advocate and say it’s not like there’s a big switch that is going to switch us from the barely decent Internet we’ve had to a complete shit show.
The time to talk about looming disaster is before it’s too late to do anything.
However, from my point of view, the Internet has been steadily turning to garbage for a long time. We’ve reached the point where it’s starting to take human society down with it. LLMs are just the latest turd in the pile of shit.
Of course, my point of view is from someone who’s been online since the early 90’s. It’s more a “get off my lawn” attitude. Some of the younger whippersnappers might not realize how far it had fallen by the time they got online.
It isn’t LLMs destroying it, it’s capitalism. LLMs and the hype surrounding them are just the latest symptom.
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 2 months ago:
I get that it was a typo, and you meant to say “disciples”, but I like it better this way.
Like Jesus was studying for a career in sex work.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 2 months ago:
At the beginning of COVID, when our CEO decided all non-essential staff should immediately begin working from home wherever possible, our CIO declared all of IT to be essential on-site. Shortly after the meeting when the CIO made that announcement, people at my level (bottom-level manager) essentially all announced to our supervisors that we were going to refuse to abide by that directive.
My direct supervisor told us to relax and essentially said that the entire management team was going to sit the CIO down and have a come to Jesus meeting. Shortly after that the directive was reversed, and it was left up to managers to decide if their team could be WFH, hybrid, or fully on-site. It’s hard to stay CIO if the entire IT group is in revolt.
For many months after that, in the regular management meetings, the CIO would talk about how difficult it was and how everyone was suffering due to the requirement to work from home. He would talk about how many people told him they were longing for the day when we could all be on-site again. I have no idea who those people were, because everyone I spoke to thought WFH was fantastic.
I have heard that when productivity didn’t drop, the CEO asked, “Why are we paying all these high rents for office space if everyone is just as productive and happier working from home?” It was around that time that the CIO started to talk about WFH like it was a good thing.
At this point, there’s no sign it will ever end. We are allowed to hire people from out-of-state and most people are WFH full time. They’ve reduced office space to the point where we all couldn’t work on-site even if we wanted to.
