HessiaNerd
@HessiaNerd@lemmy.world
- Comment on Pee posting? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve definitely let my wife write her name.
- Comment on Girl without smartphone unable to join in lesson — 'I feel guilty for not buying my daughter one for school' 4 weeks ago:
11? That is definitely too early.
- Comment on Do NOT forget your protractor. 1 month ago:
In my head it was going to be a lecture about having the right tools for the job, and making the kids crack walnuts barehanded.
Then I see those kids are tied up… and home dude is looking way too comfortable finding just the right walnut. Some illegal shit is about to go down.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
How Regan didn’t get impeached over Iran Contra is baffling.
- Comment on The taste of 🦅🇺🇲 Freedom 🇺🇸🦅 3 months ago:
A good burger should be juicy. I have no problem washing my hands after eating one.
- Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour 4 months ago:
They used to have a reputation for employing smart people… Dumbass middle managers took over a while back and started making the stupidest decisions.
- Comment on Trustafarians: When the Rich Pretend to be Poor 6 months ago:
We used to use the term in the mid 90s to describe the kids hanging out in Berkeley begging for cigarette money, then getting picked up in Mercs to get driven home in the hills. They were usually white kids with dreads.
They were dumbass kids. I’m sure the current batch are dumasses too I was never a fan, but in the scheme of things, there is a lot worse out there.
- Comment on what's a good way to stick a laser leveler to the wall? 6 months ago:
Unless of course you want to pull the paint off your wall.
Just use painters tape/masking tape. If you want to get fancy gaffer tape.
- Comment on When you do it yourself and it looks like you did it yourself lol 6 months ago:
That’s what happens when you do it yourself. You notice the flaws more.
I spent months redoing my bathroom. I moved a wall, re-routed plumbing installed a new tub, and tiled. So much tiling. I ripped some out I was so pissed at how it went in. I still see every spot that I didn’t like.
After that experience I went into the bathroom at my work and looked at the tiling in there. The tiles directly in front of the unrinal I’ve been peeing in for 6+years. They were way worse than some of the stuff I was fussing over, and I never noticed.
Give yourself credit for finishing the fucking job. Learn to not make the same mistakes, and go out and make new mistakes to learn from.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 6 months ago:
Maybe the CCP is paying the difference?
- Comment on Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail 6 months ago:
This is very helpful, thank you.
- Comment on How In-N-Out Burger’s president runs her fast-food empire: Keep it simple, affordable and close 6 months ago:
Do you honestly think a jack in the box or McDonald’s burger is better?
I admit I am biased. When I was a kid they were only in Southern California and we would always get them when visiting family down there. I 100% have some nostalgia bias. But objectively they have high quality ingredients and are prepared well to your liking. A lot of people complain about the fries (you can order them light well or well), but fries made from potatoes rather than some abomination invented in a lab are a selling point in my book.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 9 months ago:
Those are jobs that people were happy to work, but which they aren’t allowed to any longer. Those people are now out of a job.
Happy to work starvation wages? Are you high? Desperate, the word you are looking for is desperate enough to work for starvation wages.
I swear this supply side fanfic is so out of touch with reality it would be laughable if I didn’t realize people actually try to set policy based on it.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 9 months ago:
Gen Xer here…
It didn’t use to be this bad. The FCC (and ftc) dropped the bag (regulatory capture), letting clear channel gobble up stations.
When I was a kid had a couple great local stations back in the day. One was a highschool station that local bands could send in cassette tapes and they would play them on Tuesdays. They had a Mosh Monday curated by local metalhead kids/young adults (there was vocational training at the radio station in evening classes).
Even the commercial channels were better. Not great or anything, but they had a lot more variety.
- Comment on Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse 10 months ago:
SEO spam gives them ad clicks
It does? I thought the point of SEO was to show up in search results without having to pay for keyword placement.
- Comment on How to make two groups of fanboys twitch simultaneously. 10 months ago:
Nah, they need a ram scoop
- Comment on Humor is our captcha system to tell a bot from a human in text conversations\*, \*^works ^95% ^of ^times. 11 months ago:
- Comment on Recommend a game for me to play with my partner 11 months ago:
- Comment on Why would I want to use the multi-desktop functionality in Windows 11? 11 months ago:
Dexpot was a virtual desktop fir Windows that appears to be abandoned
- Comment on Why would I want to use the multi-desktop functionality in Windows 11? 11 months ago:
I did something similar, but was annoyed by all the jumping around when opening excel or word or PDFs… Plus even just having a group of emails and an explorer window open on a couple desktops really starts to eat ram it seems. Forget about solid works in that situation.
If they allowed you to save desktops and fixed the jumping issues it might be useful.
Depot was so much better.
- Comment on Amazon exec says it’s time for workers to ‘disagree and commit’ to office return — “I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better.” 11 months ago:
If you dig into the links in the article, there is one study finding data entry workers in India worked only 87% as hard as their in office counterparts, however, the studies authors are quick to point out living conditions and management styles are significantly different there than in the US. There is also a study in the US which found that approximately 40% of time saved by not commuting went to additional work. Guess which study is brought up in more articles by FORTUNE?
- Comment on The stainless steel body of Tesla's Cybertruck is reportedly leading to issues with gaps in between the panels 11 months ago:
Yes but that can be adjusted. The factory can provide what you need. The design is the limiting factor here. Flat panels are simply bad design.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
Insurance company are subject to regulations. They are lots of different regulations for different types of insurance and different states. The goals are to ensure that they are able to pay out when things go wrong, and to ensure a fair consumer practice. Generally all of the premiums they collect are supposed to be payed out and a large percent of the money is supposed to be held in reserve. They are supposed to be making money on investing the premiums.
It’s not about them winning the bet that they won’t have to pay. If they won that bet too much, it would be reflected in too high premiums, and competitors would just under cut them.
- Comment on Peanut butter and hummus are the same thing. 11 months ago:
The original concit was peanuts and chickpeas, not hummus, are similar. Hummus has garlic and sesame seed puree added. Individually I know those things have sweet analogues, halawa and garlic icecream respectively.
Chickpeas have many used in sweet cooking
insanelygoodrecipes.com/chickpea-desserts/
Peanut has many uses in savory dishes, some even direct replacements for chicpeas.
- Comment on Peanut butter and hummus are the same thing. 11 months ago:
- Comment on Peanut butter and hummus are the same thing. 11 months ago:
- Comment on What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? 1 year ago:
If ridicule keeps the percentage at 0.5% instead of growing to 1% its incredibly virtuous
That if is doing a lot of lifting. One of the points of the movie is that people and media was laughing off the flat earthers and they grew in strength to have a national movement.
- Comment on How a false claim about wind turbines killing whales is spinning out of control in coastal Australia 1 year ago:
My understanding is any time you have a construction project in a marine environment you can potentially put the local fauna at risk.
The specifics matter, however, and there are ways to mitigate risks.
- Comment on apple users in a nutshell 1 year ago:
I feel the same, but find things getting shittier and shittier. I’m paying more and more for less and less. Then I stumble on an open source project that does all that I want and it’s free.
Bitwarden vs LastPass Joplin vs Evernote A million different foss projects for all the shit Google has shut down…
Sometimes spending a little time setting stuff up, ends up saving a huge hastle migrating away from the commercial project that is going to fail unless they fuck over their users.
- Comment on What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? 1 year ago:
My takeaway is there is something driving that contrarian attitude. We need to figure out how to address those underlying causes rather than exacerbating them through ostracization.
Really good documentary. I watched it while trying to engage over at reddit’s AskTrumSupporters. It was interesting to see that community become more and more radicalized as the years went on, as the insane bullshit piled up. Helped me come to terms with the fact that engaging on that level is counter productive if anything.
