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- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 5 days ago:
Thankfully the values my mom taught me are the same ones Jesus taught: love your neighbour as yourself and do unto others as you would have done to you.
This is what baffles me when my dad argues with me for being left of center.
You sent me where they taught this, did you not want me to learn it?
(Also not religious, but kept some of the philosophy)
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I was single for 16 years until I started dating my first girlfriend. We dated for seven years, and we’ve been married for 32.
We started as friends and stayed friends.
- Comment on Eaten by Jesus 6 days ago:
- Comment on Sneaking snacks into the theater is objectively wrong if you are a movie fan 1 week ago:
Have you seen their books?
- Comment on Should we treat environmental crime more like murder? 1 week ago:
Yeah, even if you’re not a minority, if you’re one of the peasants, you’re gonna catch hell for murder.
If you’re rich, you can probably get away with it.
However, I was referring to corporations. If you’re a corporation, you can murder as much as you want, and when it comes time to pay for your crimes, well, you’re not really a person.
- Comment on Should we treat environmental crime more like murder? 1 week ago:
We mostly don’t treat murder like murder.
- Comment on World would be a better place 2 weeks ago:
I had a class on college taught by a Catholic priest.
He loved to have people come to his door to talk religion. He’d invite them in, give them tea, and then talk to them about Catholicism until they asked to leave.
- Comment on World would be a better place 2 weeks ago:
I don’t really want anyone to knock on my door (the doormat says “GO AWAY!” for a reason). However, I’m likely to be much more polite to someone talking about science than religion.
I’d probably say “no, thank you” before slamming the door in their face.
- Comment on Israeli guards stripped and filmed Thunberg naked, wrote 'whore' on her luggage 2 weeks ago:
While that’s true, they had me suckered for a long time.
- Comment on Israeli guards stripped and filmed Thunberg naked, wrote 'whore' on her luggage 2 weeks ago:
It’s quite something. I have supported Israel for all my life (and I am an old fart).
But now, if Israel was to disappear from the face of Earth I wouldn’t give a fuck.
I too am an old fart who always supported Israel. However, at this point I’d go further than you. If Israel was to disappear from the face of the Earth, I’d consider it a good thing.
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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"? 3 weeks 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"? 3 weeks 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"? 3 weeks ago:
You guys can remember your thoughts long enough to post them after you get dried off?
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 31 comments
- Comment on Does anyone know how I'm suppose to open this? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
At this point Federal Booby Inspector has more prestige.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 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 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Brainrot Tiktoker at the Kirk shooting 1 month 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 1 month ago:
His sense of shame was hiding behind a misplaced apostrophe.
- Comment on thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned? 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
Literacy isn’t Trump’s.