MonkRome
@MonkRome@lemmy.world
- Comment on Work from home 2 days ago:
Thank you, I think she believes she is not protected. I’ll look into this.
- Comment on Work from home 3 days 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. 5 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. 5 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. 5 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. 5 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. 5 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 6 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 6 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 6 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? 6 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 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months ago:
Did we sign some contract that obligates me to answer nonsensical questions?
- Comment on Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months 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’ 10 months 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’ 10 months 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.
- Comment on Noooooo you can't make a microtransactions free game and finished too 😭😭😭 10 months ago:
Haven’t played it, but been reading/watching a lot of reviews. Seems like they got a lot right and a few things wrong, still some early bugs but not nearly the amount that most releases have, some people complain about length (very long playthroughs might drag out for some, especially the slow combat). But I suspect many people will love or hate this game based on whether they like turn based combat.
- Comment on Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser 10 months ago:
How is refusing to use a product that no one is obligated to use anti-Freedum? Sometimes I wonder what people think freedom even is. In a free country you are free to vote with your dollars, it is absolutely free and democratic to boycott products that do things you don’t like. Did you even read the article or just rage after you realized one of the reasons people want you to stop using this browser is because the CEO is a bigot? Why people twist logic into knots trying to defend hateful people is beyond me.