MonkRome
@MonkRome@lemmy.world
- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 2 weeks ago:
It’s these bad faith arguments that caused the thread to turn against you. Gender isn’t a cat, and it certainly isn’t anything at all. You claim you wanted earnest conversation, but you undermined that with snide comments you knew would result in negative reaction.
- Comment on It's the spherical chicken of legend! Somebody get the frictionless vacuum! 4 weeks ago:
If that is real, it is in pain. Overfed chickens typically spend the last ~month of their life in pain. I left ve chicken, but what we have done to get bigger yields is pretty gross.
- Comment on Healthcare 2 months ago:
It looks like this chick shoots porn and is an “influencer”. I assume she was just advertising herself. Also she publicly seems to like Andrew Tate, weird. I think she just says what she thinks people want to hear for attention because that’s how she makes money.
- Comment on Who Wants To Be A Lemming... on ABC? 2 months ago:
Sure but Steph Curry in his first year got absolutely bullied because he was tiny and weak and still threw up points. I’m skinny and not very strong, I got bullied in basketball, but had I had better handles I could have found a role. I could shoot, rebound, block and guard despite the disadvantage, I couldn’t dribble with a skill level that would get me anywhere though. I played thousands of hours of basketball in my life. I don’t think people understand where value really lies in the game. Plenty of players in the NBA look uncoordinated and weak and somehow carve out significant roles. Because they’re tall, or good 3 point shooters, or talented at rebounding, etc. I fail to see how talented women couldn’t carve out roles in the NBA.
I also think it’s worth nothing that most women, even in sports are strongly culturally discouraged from bulking up. As soon as a woman is strong enough to bully her peers she is accused of being a man. As things change, even though women don’t have the muscle mass of men, some women will bulk up enough to complete as much as they need to. A lot of this stuff is far more cultural than people want to admit.
- Comment on Who Wants To Be A Lemming... on ABC? 2 months ago:
Height and muscle mass obviously make a difference. But it’s important to note that uncoordinated, weaker, or shorter men all find roles in the NBA. So the argument people make that women can’t match up seems suspect. No one is saying Caitlyn Clark will be able to play like LeBron in a decade, but when she hits her prime she could absolutely fit a role on an NBA team. I think especially with the newer batch of wnba players coming in it will be hard to argue that at least the top 20 wnba players couldn’t fit roles in the NBA.
- Comment on Who Wants To Be A Lemming... on ABC? 2 months ago:
I know 2 people that have played/do play in the wnba. I did play with one of them, when I was a kid.
- Comment on Who Wants To Be A Lemming... on ABC? 2 months ago:
Not only am I athletic, played team basketball for years.
- Comment on Who Wants To Be A Lemming... on ABC? 2 months ago:
That last sentence is a bit misleading, women aren’t trying out for the NBA left and right. There also is a massive cultural barrier there, some of the best wnba players could likely play in the NBA and yet it hasn’t happened. I think someone would have to be willing to sacrifice their wnba career to try it out. If the person that does this isn’t built physically for it, it could paint a negative perception for years to come. Thus far it’s just been easier to keep separate. I do think we will see women start to enter sports dominated by men in the coming years though.
- Comment on Keep honking! 4 months ago:
I mean if happen to be one of the dipshits looking at their cellphone when the light turns green you deserve the honks.
- Comment on Work from home 4 months ago:
Thank you, I think she believes she is not protected. I’ll look into this.
- Comment on Work from home 4 months ago:
My sister in law is blind in one eye, but because she has one working eye she has no disability protection as far as I know. She still can’t drive because she has no depth perception and it’s very dangerous. It’s made navigating going to work difficult over the years, often working the same place my brother did so he could drive her. Luckily her current employer works with her and lets her work from home. But a decade ago no one would have dreamed of letting her work from home.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
That we should all argue about which of the crappy budget brands is the best just because they have a unified battery system? No thanks.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
Yeah the only tools I’ve had die on me way too early is DeWalt and Ryobi.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
I’ve only overlapped charging systems of the same type once. It’s really not a big deal.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
Not all my tools are battery operated, corded jigsaw, sander, miter saw, table saw, etc. Not all the batteries hold the same purpose and would need a different charger either way. An electric drill and leaf blower need entirely different levels of power. In the grand scheme of things I think I only overlapped charging systems once.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
Meh, I have Bosch, Ryobi, DeWalt, Ego, Ridgid. Why not just by the best according to cost/benefit for each thing. Corporate loyalty is dumb. I get the battery thing, but I’m pretty sure I got most of the tools at a good enough price to make the different batteries irrelevant.
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 10 months ago:
Adobe Scan works as good as a scanner if you use their cropping system to square up the page afterwards.
- Comment on It's almost impossible to deny being an alcoholic without sounding like an alcoholic 11 months ago:
Yeah meeting new people isn’t easy once you’re out of school. If you are outgoing there are definitely avenues though. There are meetup groups for everything. You might not have hobbies, but you still do things. You bike? Go to the local riding meetup. You like boardgames? Sign up for your local open play at a boardgame store. You cook? Take a cooking class at a kitchen store or co-op. Anything you do, there is probably already a local group meeting up to do it.
- Comment on It's almost impossible to deny being an alcoholic without sounding like an alcoholic 11 months ago:
I should try and find new friends, but I feel like most people act like this, honestly.
I don’t know anyone like this. All, my friends, and my friends friends, do normal things like go out to eat, do something outdoors, play games, just talk, sit around a fire pit, etc. On a rare occasion a few will get drunk or high, but it is not a regular thing for any of us, sounds like you just surround yourself with 1 dimensional people with little to offer.
- Comment on Why are there circles of melted snow on this icy pond? 11 months ago:
Having been around melting ice a lot I think this is closer to the right answer. Also decomposing things give off heat. Any vegetation that is decomposing will accelerate ice melting.
- Comment on New evidence confirms COVID-19 vaccines are overwhelmingly safe 1 year ago:
My parents were both vaccine skeptics. Covid, and all of public consciousness and education about vaccines, convinced them both that vaccines are important. Contrary to common thinking about vaccine skeptics, they are both highly educated successful people and when presented with solid evidence that their beliefs were moronic, they changed their thinking. It’s not helpful to be so cynical, because people do change. I see people change their minds about things all of the time. Sometimes for the better and sometimes worse, it’s information warfare. As long as we remain cynical and unmotivated, the morons win.
- Comment on A controversial tier list 1 year ago:
Yeah I usually mix mine with carbonated water, they are too sweet anyway. Once mixed, they are likely less than 1/4th of the sugar of a coca cola and I only have 1 a day if I even have one. I think at that point the health impact is negligible.
- Comment on A controversial tier list 1 year ago:
Some people want a flavored drink. If it’s between fruit juice and soda though, juice is healthier and imo tastes better as well. Blackberry Izze is the best.
- Comment on Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech 1 year ago:
Your questions don’t make any sense. I can only assume they are intentionally in bad faith or you don’t understand anything anyone is talking about. I suggest instead of trying your hardest to derail the conversation you do a little reading on what bias is and recognize that all humans have, no matter where they are standing…
- Comment on Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech 1 year ago:
Did we sign some contract that obligates me to answer nonsensical questions?
- Comment on Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech 1 year ago:
I don’t know how many hiring committees you’ve been on, but I’ve been on several over the years and one thing I know with absolute certainty is that most, if not all, people are completely incapable of being unbiased in the hiring process. There has to be checks and guideposts to lessen those biases or you end up with incredibly culturally homogenous situations that are in no way based on qualifications and have everything to do with culture fit. Which is usually just code for hiring people that don’t make them uncomfortable because they’re not used to being around people with brown skin or without a dick. I absolutely believe that people that are otherwise very capable in their jobs are often horrible at hiring. In fact I would go as far to say that hiring people based purely on what you need in a job role is massively more difficult than many people realize. Most job qualifications listed in the hiring process are usually not in line with the job requirements, but in line with who people want to weed out.
- Comment on Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect 1 year ago:
I’ve enjoyed a fairly privileged life in recent years so I suppose that changes my perspective. I fully recognize that not everyone is dealt a fair hand, whether it be financial or the chemicals in ones brain. Though even when I was poor, I always valued a long life. There are so many interesting things in the world, I want to live long just to see what happens to humans. Will we get over our fundamental flaws as a species, will we make it to being a space faring civilization? Will we protect the environment and create artificial consciousness? Also I value new experiences and life always offers more.
- Comment on Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect 1 year ago:
I would happily live 500 years if I could keep the quality of life prior to old age. The issue isn’t a number, it’s what your life is like in those last 20 years. I can’t imagine we will regularly get to 120 without slowing the aging process, which would improve quality of life.
- Comment on Rivian CEO issues strong statement about people who purchase gas-powered cars: ‘Sort of like building a horse barn in 1910’ 1 year ago:
So the chevy Bolt?
- Comment on Rivian CEO issues strong statement about people who purchase gas-powered cars: ‘Sort of like building a horse barn in 1910’ 1 year ago:
Manufacturing needlessly large vehicles that you can’t even see 30 feets in front of you while you run over children and still use plenty of fossil coming from the coal power plant 50 miles away, is also like building a horse barn in 1910. Obnoxiously large vehicles for anyone other than those that actually use them for their intended purpose is just as antiquated. In 20-30 years when half the world is suffering or dying due to the most extreme impacts of climate change we are going to look at large vehicles like we were insane.