FuglyDuck

@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should naming your children stupid names be illegal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  can’t be worse than the current pres. prolly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should naming your children stupid names be illegal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Aeigheynneah

  how is that even close to pronounced the same as Anna? most half the word would have to be silent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US stock markets fall again as Trump calls Fed chair ‘a major loser’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Even better, trump was the guy who originally appointed Powell as chair…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will i stop drifting off if i get water?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It won’t hurt, and dehydration can cause drowsiness or fatigue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should naming your children stupid names be illegal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also significant precedent saying children don’t have the mental awareness to make those kinds of decisions and therefore removing it to… the parents.

  sorry, but getting that done, whether or not it’s right or wrong, is basically impossible. you would be overturning a couple centuries of precedent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should naming your children stupid names be illegal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Using a password generator to name your kid should be treated as child neglect. Just saying.

  regardless of if it is legal or not, anything restricting names is going to run pretty hard up against first amendment rights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s an idea⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  the trust-busters seem to only care about the ones that affect their rich patrons.

  so we agree. because that’s my point. They’re not breaking up google or meta because it’s good to break up monopolies. They’re breaking them up because the oligarchs told them to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s an idea⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  remember, the google and meta things are about advertisng tech.

  It’s hurting walmart, kroger, and several others who are- basically- monopolies on their own. (and have many, many in congress paid off.)

  I’m not saying any corpo is somehow magically benevolent. No, I’m saying if you stick your hand in a tank full of hungry sharks… yer gonna get bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s an idea⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  even inside co-ops, employee compensation is not set by popular vote. Generally, the Co-Op members will vote on a board that controls the business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s an idea⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Google and Meta started hurting other giant corporations though. That’s a big no no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s an idea⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  functionally, it wouldn’t work for anything more than a very small start up. just on the practical side.

  it’s not just a question of unfair advantage. It’s a bald faced stupid way to run a company. you cannot make everyone happy, and most people won’t be invested in making a sound business decision. they’re going to invest as much thought into it as voting in a poll about what soup is their favorite. maybe considerably less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s an idea⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You might want to edit the title to include the actual question.

  but as for the question itself… Ahm. just on a pragmatic side… “the rest of the company…” might be something that could be reasonably done on a small company (less than a 250 people. Probably less than 50 people, actually,) but in any large company, you may as well send out a poll asking what kind of soup they prefer- Chicken or Pea Soup- and which ever manager backing the losing soup gets the axe.

  The only people who might be aware of how hard any given person works are going to be the team members alongside them and the direct reports above and below them.

  And to be perfectly blunt, working hard doesn’t necessarily translate to work getting done. if the manager is just spinning their wheels and not getting the core stuff done, it’s a problem. If the manager is spending too much time on things that simply don’t matter… it’s a problem.

  Ultimately, even if you can have a reasonable belief that every one knows what every one else does and doesn’t do (that sounds like hell, actually.) it turns into a popularity contest and the manager whose actually keeping things running might not get recognized by it, where the manager throwing parties and blowing cash does. One might say I’m being a stick in the mud, but the reality is, if the managers stop facilitating the work their people do… then the company fails. No parties. no jobs. no company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The magnetic printing plate shifted early in the print - or something else happened?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This could also be caused by belts being too tight, as they may cause motors to skip steps.

  Probably loose belts, but it’s important to not have them too tight. They should be snug, but you should also be able to squeeze and flex the belts without a lot of effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think are some strategies trumps Russian handlers use to get that bafoon to do what they want?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Russia wasn’t tarrif’d

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the problem with averages.

  That’s not how the markets necessarily work. A bad year this year doesn’t necessarily mean an extra special year next year.

  I guess the problem I’m pointing out is that it’s unlikely to fully regain the lost value fast enough to make up for the compound value that would have existed.

  For people just starting out, it puts a significant cramp on their ability to gain capital. There may not be any better options, but it hurts people and in ways that won’t necessarily be made whole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it kind of depends on what you did with that money. There is an opportunity cost there.

  I used my 401k to start a company. so far that’s performing well above the market (and continuing to. It’s a second job so I’m reinvesting that with annual contribution caps, etc.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  correct me if I’m wrong here, but that 11%, to roll with your example, would need to be recovered immediately for that math. Like every month it doesn’t go back up… that’s compounding the lost opportunity. And if 2008 is anything to go by… it’s not just going to go back up, it’s going to take time.

  like, if you expect a certain amount of growth, it’s unlikely you’ll get the 11% plus that “normal” growth back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gross either way, but do friends actually talk like this or would this be from people who are dating or something?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually friends-with-benefits types don’t necessarily involve involuntary 3rd parties in their role play, even if they’re open with their friend groups about their shenanigans.

  there’s a lot of ‘might be’ here, but none of it is particularly ‘normal’ behavior. I’m just gonna assume they’re weird trolls (or just one weird troll.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gross either way, but do friends actually talk like this or would this be from people who are dating or something?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  off the internet, too.

  but, uhm, this isn’t normal behavior for friends, no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends. If it’s me we’re talking about…. Nope.

  But if it’s some asshole douchenozzle that’s forcing them to be a fake online girlfriend…… I’m okay with that guy not existing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla lost more than one-third of its value in first quarter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Musk’s net worth dropped $121 billion.

  So… does this make him not the richest guy yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are color palettes subject to copyright protection?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you can copyright a color, per se. You can trademark certain uses of color in certain schemes. For example, the walmart smiley is trademarked, but they can’t go after people just using a yellow smiley. or like, Checker Cabs, with their yellow and black livery. (as mentioned elsewhere, the pantone colorset is trademarked.

  Further, you can get patents for pigments- specifically, their production methods, and how they get bound into a solvent or whatever. For an example here- Vanta Black. If someone were to get their hands on some second hand, the people that make it can’t stop them from using it, but they could go after another company producing it the same way they do.

  Copyright protections are for works of art (or other works, eh.), and while there are plenty of monochrome works, part of what makes “art” … “art” is composition. For example, in the sampling of monochrome, that first one is a blue panel set inside a white frame. Others, you see the single color is composed of texture. (the Yves Klien painting, for example.) Or, like Gerhard Ricther’s solid gray which was expressly intended to convey… nothing (A lack of emotion or feeling, etc.)

  But all of these are more than just the color they’re painted in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if it’s not aligned properly, it should shut off to prevent that from happening. (or, for example, if you place something else that’s metal over it.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it shouldn’t.

  There shouldn’t be any heat at all from the signal passing through the plastic (It’s basically transparent to RF’s,). The heat mostly comes from the RF interacting with the metal in the receiving antenna and inducing an electric current.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Titles Are Written Like This?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The short answer is to distinguish titles from the main body of text (or synopsis, lede, etc.)

  It doesn’t need to be very readable because it’s used sparingly, and it’s more important that it stands out so you know what you’re reading, etc.

  How to Get Attention and Keep It. The untrue story of an internet troll who thinks the damsels are lost and knights assholes trying to take advantage. by some guy whose definitely not the troll.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did/do sites such as the pyramids in Egypt or the Roman colosseum end up in an abandoned state, only to be "rediscovered" later?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they weren’t, exactly.

  neither the pyramids nor the coliseum in rome was ever truly lost to be rediscovered.

  The Coliseum wasn’t even necesarily ‘abondoned’, but had rather been repurposed for workshops and housing after it was damaged in earthquakes, and in any case there just wasn’t the interest in the games there used to be. It costs money and resources to keep things up. especially old things, and the people who owned it found that, keeping the games going simply weren’t worth it.

  For they pyramids… they were only ‘rediscovered’ by western people. Keep in mind, they were tombs, massive, expensive-to-maintain tombs. for long-dead rulers. Nobody went inside them becuase they’re tombs, and in any case, nobody kept them up because, again, it costs money and resources to do that. And as for exploring their chambers… it takes a certain kind of arrogance to do that, too.

  In other places, like the pyramids in south america, they’re lost because the civilization that built them died out, and the jungle reclaimed that land, hiding them. (mayan temples, for example.) Others were, similar to the egyptian pyramids, never actually lost to the culture that built it.

  You may notice a trend here. These places are old, and take money, resources and effort to maintain. When times are hard, no one is spending it on upkeeping something that just sits there. not unless there’s a very important reason to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Possibly not even that. A mere irritation.

  It’s still gonna fuck you up- they’re just ornery like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you do if you encounter a skunk?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Leave them alone.

  Really, that’s a it takes. If you get too close, just back away calmly.

  Skunks almost never spray if your just… there. It’s almost always something more aggressive (you charge it, you startle it by running at it, etc. you have a dog that hasn’t learned or is too stupid to learn.)(or they think the smell hides them.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby face next to name⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a flag for new accounts. It depends on the platform/settings you set up.

  On your platform, you’ll see everyone with an account under that threshold with that tag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Maries Sues hated while Gary Stus are loved?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Batman is an example. Batman is a human being with a brilliant intellect, which is not a problem, but being a human being without powers, he manages to be more intelligent than aliens superior to humans, he manages to be a MASTER in all martial arts and no matter who the opponent is, he is always prepared and can win. Any writer who dares to create a female character with these characteristics would be attacked and called woke

  Is he? or is he a rich fucking Neppo Baby running around in tights, cape and a mask, and you just assume he’s brilliant because he bought all his lab equipment or had it built?

  Batman/Bruce Wayne is far from perfect. For example, the “good” he brings with his vigilantism is no where near the good he brings if he were simply taxed into obsolescence. and he’s pretty shit at crimefighting, too, frequently causing more harm than the people he’s stopping. (“oopsie, I blew up another factory causing a massive chemical spill.” with Joker going “And you get a super power, and you get a super power, and YOU get a super power. EVERYBODY GETS A SUPERPOWER!”)

  as for always being prepared, that’s not how the pro forma story arc goes. First he gets into a fight, gets his ass kicked and then runs and hides in his batcave while the labtechs whip up the perfect solution for him.

  Put another way, He’s what Musk wishes to be.

  There are many other examples, just watch any Japanese isekai anime

  The vast majority of which is geared towards teenage boys who are just discovering boobies, and most the protagonists are male simply to cater to their audience.

  In any case, while yes, criticising mary sues is definitely more extensive than gary stus- and we both know why- there are plenty of gary stu’s to hate. (pretty much anything played by tom cruise, for example.)