m0darn

@m0darn@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want to point out that declaring a state of emergency to “deal with” illegal immigrants will allow the construction of large camps all over the country where undesirables can be ‘concentrated’ for ‘processing’.

  After rounding up illegal immigrants, maybe they’ll invalidate the status of legal immigrants that knowingly employed, illegal immigrants. Or housed illegal immigrants. Or defended illegal immigrants. Of course these people will need to be detained in the same camps while it all gets processed.

  The condition of the camps won’t be great, maybe the detainees can work in specially approved facilities while immigration status gets processed, this will help alleviate the cost of camp maintenance and improve living conditions.

  Maybe the detainees can be rented out to local plantations to subsidize the cost of feeding them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a matter of perspective⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least there are no centrists in here claiming it’s 3.5

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academic writing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not who you’re responding to but I must vehemently disagree. In English, which doesn’t have a centralized governing body, the correct way of pronouncing/spelling something depends on your intention and expected audience. If your intended audience is English speakers then the correct spelling is probably octopi or octopuses, whichever you believe will cause the least confusion/distraction (surely it varies regionally).

  However, usually my intention is to portray my unfathomably superior knowledge and intellect, so the correct spelling/pronunciation in this case is: octopodes (which I think he had listed but ironically got ‘corrected’ to ‘octopuses’).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academic writing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that that’s probably what it’s trying to say, but I don’t think it actually says that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academic writing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that there’s a higher concentration of morons in academia than in larger society. However, their professional experience is pretty different from the so called ‘real world’ so they definitely can have some unfathomable blind spots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academic writing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t read much (/any) academic writing, but does it really misuse words the way the link portrays?

  Eg

  • academic writing isn’t prose, like that’s almost the definition of prose.
  • intra-specialized doesn’t mean anything (the intra prefix didn’t work on adjectives)
  • “obfuscating … accessibility” means making it difficult to see that it is accessible, where the author probably actually wants to say “reducing the ability of outsiders to access the meaning”

  I get that it is satire, but imo it would be better satire if he put in the work to actually make it mean something. Unless the point is that academic writers misuse thesauruses this badly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DC motor speed control⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. Yeah you’re recommending what I was initially thinking.

  You should probably use a simulation tool to check the circuit before you start destroying chips.

  Fair!

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shart, not fart⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dead Harambe timeline

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨installing awnings?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We put blackout cell shades in our east facing mud room and they made a big difference. You want something with a reflective component, not just like curtains.

  I think the best would be something external, like shutters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK there is a massive Google Doc of U.S. gynecologists that will tie your tubes without asking about your kids, marital status or age.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a man, I think it’s the sort of experience that men struggle to understand because of patriarchal dynamics.

  What I mean is: if a doctor were to:

  • ask me if I have considered other forms of birth control
  • and then explain all the different birth control methods to make sure I actually understand,
  • ask if I’ve talked about the decision with my wife,
  • and then explain that a general impression of her opinion isn’t the same thing as sitting down together and reviewing all the data,
  • ask if understand how the surgery will affect my body
  • and then explain the hormonal changes my body would go through
  • etc

  before agreeing to schedule a vasectomy.

  Interpretting these questions through the lens of my lived experience:

  These are thorough but pragmatic questions. The doctor is trying to make sure I understand all the options. The doctor is a peer with special expertise and wants to make sure that I understand all the risks.

  But women too often grow up in an environment which tells them:

  • Women should trust the men in their lives too make the best decisions for them.
  • That having children is the most important thing they can do in the world.
  • A woman’s value is proportional to her utility as a wife and mother.
  • Women that have sex for fun are disgusting sluts.

  So when they get asked a barrage of questions identical to the ones I’dve been asked, they experience them very differently. Women are not irrational to hear the exact same questions very differently if they are interpreting them through the lens of their experiences. Maybe they experience those questions as:

  • “Why don’t you just stop having so much sec you slut?”
  • “Don’t you know how to have sex with out getting pregnant you dumb bitch?”
  • “Do you have your husband’s permission?”
  • “Does your husband know you’re a slut?”
  • “Do you understand that you will be destroying your value to society if you don’t have kids?”
  • “Do you understand that you will become any even crazier bitch after this?”

  And too often, the doctor really does mean that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just had someone say they are going to have a Fatwa put on me . What the hell does that mean? Do I need to report it or something?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want to point out that saying things to people with the intent of making them fear for their life, is probably a crime.

  If OP is worried for real, maybe a retraining order is possible.

  Not because a religious judgement really means anything violent (or even specific) but because there is someone trying to intimidate OP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand your anger and agree that anti-vaxxers are stupid. I believe public health education should be part of the school system.

  I also agree that it’s responsible for a society to impose reasonable restrictions on members that endanger it.

  I think people do have an ethical obligation to take reasonable precautions avoid potentially exposing others to pathogens. Vaccination is an example of reasonable precaution. People have the right to bodily autonomy, do not vaccinate them against their wishes.

  I do not support the firing of workers for refusing vaccinations if they can do their job remotely. People shouldn’t have to decide between their religious beliefs and employment if their employment doesn’t bring them into contact with others. (Imo anti-vaxx is essentially a religion, this may say more about my beliefs regarding religion than about anti-vaxx sentiment).

  By all means exclude the unvaccinated from places where they can be reasonably understood to endanger the public, or others that have a similar right to be there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose your Fighter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stegosaurus has spikes on its back

  to keep away predators trying to attack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Verge shows how Google search is useless⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think Google can be blamed too much for presenting an article from a relevant, generally trustworthy site, that has the search query as the article title.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wgen you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The last time I donated blood (quite recently) I was asked if I had had a new sex partner or more than one sex partner the last 3 months.

  I was asked if I had had sex with anyone within the last year that had previously had/ tested positive for hiv/aids.

  I was asked if I had taken any hiv/aids preventers.

  Is it the follow-up questions to these initial screening questions that are homophobic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wgen you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they?

  Canadian Blood Services (CBS) says it plans to introduce the new behaviour-based questionnaire approach “no later” than Sept. 30. It will apply to both blood and plasma donations, outside of Quebec.

  It will mean that when all donors are screened before rolling up their sleeves, they’ll be asked whether they have recently engaged in anal sex in the context of new or multiple sexual partners within the last few months. If they have, they would not be able to donate until they had gone three months without engaging in that activity.

  I thought that change (2022) was the end of the discussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wgen you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Canada we donate blood for free, then they sell it to America.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an interesting point about radio emissions leaving the heated space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musical Genius⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  think about all the kids that did not make it to the top, and just had a abusive childhood without anything to show for it.

  (…Except trauma to teach to their kids)

  Exactly!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musical Genius⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey I love this meme everytime I see it, but I want to point out that that point about growing up in "similar circumstances that nurture their skill’ is contingent upon working musicians being able to afford to raise children. Children that will also need to work.

  Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t think there is a comparable proportion of the population that are working musicians, that earn enough money to support children, but not so much that the children don’t have to learn a trade, as there were in “Enlightenment” Europe where if a person wanted to hear music they had to make it themselves, or pay someone to make it, and every rich asshole had a chamber orchestra following him around.

  Also parents don’t teach children their trades the way they used to, and they aren’t expected to support their parent’s businesses the way they used to. (I’m not lamenting this). There used to be a lot of pressure on children to contribute economically. Mozart, and his siblings probably faced what we’d consider child abuse if he didn’t practice. He was certainly exploited.

  Michael Jackson is a Mozart of the 20th century. He was put to work at a young age to support his parents and siblings, that were also working musicians.

  As much as I love Weird Al (and I do) I don’t think he was groomed and exploited the same way MJ/WM were. Kudos to his parents for that I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI Deepfakes Problem Is Going to Get Unstoppably Worse⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a little surprised we haven’t seen licensed deep fake pornography.

  Like from an actor that doesn’t get numbers acting anymore but has (or had) sex appeal (in their prime).

  Pam Anderson?

  Maybe it’s because of copyright/consent for the other dataset.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call me for all your home design needs.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The small one is to use as a sink when the big one is full of week old dirty dishes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2882: Net Rotations⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because your return journey is closer to the axis of the earth so your action has less torque.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t buy a battery only car if you don’t have a place to charge it. But that’s totally irrelevant to school busses.

  They wouldn’t use public chargers you buffoon.

  School busses are used like 4 hours per day, so that leaves 20 hours per day for charging.

  99% of School busses need to drive less than 156 miles per day.

  School busses drive slowly, another thing well suited to electrification.

  Honestly lithium batteries are probably totally unneeded here. Something swappable? A cheaper lower performance battery could be used and charged or swapped during the 6 hours the kids are at school. Charging speed could be actively managed to help level grid load e.g charge overnight, but not during peak usage times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2882: Net Rotations⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to say a similar thing, how are you going to get gone without canceling it out.

  But also if you walked away from the equator then walked until you were directly north/ south of your home before walking home, some effect would remain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB-PD is a de-facto low-power DC voltage standard, with USB-C being the universal plug. Hurray!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand the electronics. I don’t understand why you think this would be worth replacing all my appliances

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB-PD is a de-facto low-power DC voltage standard, with USB-C being the universal plug. Hurray!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This doesn’t seem better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB-PD is a de-facto low-power DC voltage standard, with USB-C being the universal plug. Hurray!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But different devices need different voltages. Does every outlet in my house have to have its own connection to the central rectifier? It’s a lot of re wiring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm at a roulette table. I only bet on red. When I lose I triple my bet, when I win I restart. Is this a roulette strategy?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Another way of thinking about it is betting your entire bankroll for 99.9…% certainty that you will win $1.

  Say you go into the casino with $1000.

  Bet:

  $1 lose.
  $3 lose.
  $9 lose.
  $27 lose.
  $81 lose.
  $243 lose.
  $729 oh wait you can't bet that much, you only have $457 left. Dang, do you bet $457 or find another $272? 
  
  Bet $457 and you win $914! Congrats you're now only down $86!
  Or maybe you lost and are down $1000.
  
  Or maybe you scrounged up $272 so you could keep playing
  Bet 729 and lose. Now you're down $1272.
  Or
  Bet 729 and you win 1458. Pay back the $272 you borrowed from your buddy, you're still up $186. 
  You just bet $729 dollars for a %50 chance of winning $186.
  

  But what are the chances of getting 6 or 7 losses in a row? 1 in 64, or 128 respectively, actually worse because roulette wheels aren’t 50/50, they’re 18/19 (18 wins and 19 losses in 37 plays on average) or worse. So losing 6 times in a row will happen 1 in 54 plays, 7 losses is 1 in 106.

  Google says roulette wheels spin 55 times per hour so with your strategy you will lose your bank roll in about one hour assuming your starting bet is 0.1% of your bank roll.