FireRetardant

@FireRetardant@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#environmentalist⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The lead ones are more expensive but improve the flavor of most beverages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got 2 bad things

  1. The included wrapper isn’t very rigid and can split and mash around. I’ve had several bananas turn to paste if they are forgotten about in a backpack or work their way to the bottom and end up crushed by other items.

  2. Fruit flies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a buddy who likes them so green they are nearly crunchy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do it cowards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Its just a Smart Pipe rip off

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No fears of AI and job loss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  With the rise of dead internet theory, comment bots, and bots in games, one could argue AI still mimicked them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is airtags really useful?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My work uses one to kinda track my work van. It seems to be less about surveillance and more about they know what end of towm I’m in or how far along my scheduled jobs i am. It probably isn’t that accurate as they rely on apple devices to ping but i don’t own any apple products so it just relies on any iphones i pass while driving

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Share your poops!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This one was a bit ahead of its time, if it debuted 3-4 years ago or later i think it would have gotten even more attention and views.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Share your poops!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Now with SmartPipe integration

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say lying is not a great idea if its someone you’d like a sexual relationship with as they’re going to find out anyway. That said the right answer is all about context. You could spin it playfully and use the find out type of lines or stay mysterious with something like “a man can’t share all their secrets”. If you’ve got the confidence you can give them an accurate number or idea of size visually. I’d bet the confidence/delivery of the response matters more than the actual number for most people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100% agree. If whoopi goldberg had chose their name for gender purposes, i could see them getting hate and being told it’s a stupid reason etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use spotify and i was very reluctant to start. Eventually i caved because i wanted an algorithm to help me find new music and for the most part spotify does a decent job at that. As things get more expensive it will be one of the first things I’ll cut out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z job crisis: Maybe there are just too many college graduates now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people aren’t great at white collar positions. I work trades and my boss’s grandson is a teen who is very smart and works hard on some jobs, but he struggles in school. White collar positons for people with high energy or long term focus issues can struggle in them. We aren’t able to let the robots do everything yet so we still need people to work trades. Schools should be providing quality pathways to both.

  I think the bigger issue with the trades is the overtime culture and excessive hours most of them face. With better hours with the same pay i think the whole industry and workers standards would benefit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z job crisis: Maybe there are just too many college graduates now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There were entire generations told diplomas were the only path to success and only “stupid people or drop outs” would do trades or jobs without a degree. Anecdotally speaking, most of the people I know who have jobs paying enough to purchase a house are in the trades, and most of them have phenomenal job security due to being hard to replace with another worker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shh⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The lab is a much more controlled environment. I trust a lab tech to dispose of the tips as per protocol, which could reduce the number of tips that end up as litter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure its just hate and the vast majority of them don’t even know what medical science can do for a trans person. The vast majority of people who transition do not regret it which leads me to believe the treatment is more than some depressing impossible goal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guest post: How heat pumps became a Nordic success story - Carbon Brief⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Its all because the heat pump moves heat instead of making it. It can be hard to grasp until you understand the refrigeration cycle. It almost feels like a cheat code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guest post: How heat pumps became a Nordic success story - Carbon Brief⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What I’ll probably try to do is install the AtA heat pump first. Then I’ll do the plumbing for the in floor heat and hot water on demand before doing the AtW heat pump. After that i might upgrade my floors to something with better thermal mass. I’m gonna do as much work as i can myself. I’ve only got a 600 sqft floor to heat and I’m just gonna install pipes under floors from the unfinished basement/crawlspace. The I’ll seaI the basement with professionally done spray foam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If spiderman shoots webs from his wrists would not the tension of shooting and swingiing up a skyscraper pretty much break his wrist? Also why SpiderMAN shouuldn''t it be SpiderTEEN?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have mentioned he does have super strength but i would argue thats not the whole of the story. He is usually moving with the web not being tugged in random directions so the force would be similar to swinging on a rope swing, which many normal people do without breaking their wrists. The tugging would be more likely to dislocate or rip off rather than break. Most broken wrists occur from bad angles of the force or from landing on the wrist, not from a tugging or swinging motion.

  My anecdote to contribute is i once had a rope wrapped around a solid object in a lake. The other end was loosely looped around my wrist while i was on a pontoon boat. The driver was backing up so we could do some measuring and i ran out of rope, it damm near pulled me off the boat but my wrist not only stopped the pontoon but kept it in place against the motor breifly without breaking. Its all about the angle of the force.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guest post: How heat pumps became a Nordic success story - Carbon Brief⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Heat pumps have really come a long way. I’m planning on installing an air-to-water heat pump for hot water on demand as well as powering in floor heating. I’m going to pair it with an air-to-air heat pump to provide instant temperature increases if desired and cooling during the summer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aged like milk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People have been asking for gun control far longer than trump has been in office. The current acting president won’t sway their opinions on that, but it might sway their opinions how extreme they want the control to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For people who relocated: when did you realize you want to live in the new place long-term & why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it was the money. I couldn’t make enough to get ahead in my hometown so i moved to a smaller city. My living costs went down and my wage went up. It really sucked leaving my friends and family behind but in less than 3 years i went from almost nothing to purchasing a small house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel this. I refuse to use dating apps and everyone calls me weird. You go back 10 years ago the sentiment was the oposite, it changed so fast. I’m not a selfie guy, i don’t take photos of myself much, and imo my best qualities don’t translate great over texting. The couple months i did try to use them was exhausting. Spend an hour chatting with someone just to get ghosted. I’ve even caught girls I’ve been on dates with swiping while we met up. Already looking for something else before even giving me a fair shot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I met or exceeded every single requirement for all sorts of jobs that were “urgently hiring” and after 8 months of applying to a few jobs a day, i still had 0 interviews. I eventually got a job at a small local business i discovered was hiring through some small talk. The days of a smile and handshake aren’t dead yet for some places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people just copy and paste the job description in because that often contains some of the key words or certifications they are looking for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some places literally build cookie cutter subdivisions on a chunk of land in the middle of farms they bought so the classification may not be that far fetched depending on the circumstances. My parents house is technically zoned as agricultural yet the recent sprawl of nearby cities means there is now a mcdonalds less than 1km away and suburbs creep closer each year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In my area it means you can rent something out thats had nothing but the bare minimums of renovations for the past 40-60 years and still get a decent market price for the unit. The stuff that is farther out is newer, more spacious, and often considered in a safer area, so they can ask for more. You are getting a better unit farther out but you gotta pay for it vs living in something run down but saving on rent and transportation.

  There exceptions of course, it really depends on the age and desirability of the neighborhood

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on the city. Smaller non touristy cities. Your cheapest rents are near downtown core with all the old buildings and the only place density has been allowed to be built for the past 60 years. Bigger cities the central downtown is defintely expensive, i guess in those cities im more so refering to anywhere with apartment buildings density, which can give a downtown feel if older buildings are still preserved nearby. Although a lot of the time they’ve been paved over and thats how we get apartments that stand 20 stories high surrounded by a sea of single story strip malls and box stores.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The cost of owning vs renting can be very different depending on where you live and work and the amenities you want access to. Renting somewhere centrally located with good access to high quality transit and other amenities would likely be cheaper than owning. Unless we can start normalizing owning apartments again. You could own for cheaper on the outskirts of downtown, but you’ll likely be sacraficing access to some amenities by doing so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Whats going on is decades of mismanagement of property taxes and city zoning. People fight tooth and nail to keep their property taxes low, and eventually the city has to do a big increase because they failed to increase incrementally. The bigger issue is how poorly we zone and design most north american cities.

  The average car dependant suburb costs more to maintain than it generates in tax revenue. A denser area like mixed use neighbourhoods and “missing middle” housing fares far better and generates enough that it often ends up subsidizing the rest of the city, the same is usually true for denser downtowns. That trend is dying off as those denser areas demolish tax revenue generating businesses and homes to pave parking lots that don’t generate taxes to park cars from the suburbs that don’t generate enough taxes.

  You can’t afford a home because for decades suburbs were given a massive tax break while denser downtowns (guess where the poors have to rent and ultimately fund the property taxes) have to subsidize car dependant expensive to maintain subdivisions (which is usually for middle class or wealthier people, especially when built new). Add in some racial demographics and we’ve basically engineered every city to have secret tax cuts for anyone rich enough to get into the suburbs.

  The best part is, many cities are keeping the cycle going because the only way they are paying for maintaince of an old subdivision is by using the devleopment taxes and fees from a new subdivision. This is not sustainable and ultimately equates to kicking the can down the road to let a future generation figure it out (which is literally as simple as building cities densely again, as they had been built for 100s of years).

  This hasn’t even touched yet on the urban sprawl, energy ineffeciency, and secondary effects of car dependancy that have all spawned from “the american dream” of suburbia. We seriously need to reconsider how we zone, build, and get around our urban spaces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The biggest thing we can do for the housing crisis is making density legal again and allocating more space in cities to housing instead of parking cars.