JoshuaFalken
@JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 5 days ago:
First they came for the transgendered, and I didn’t speak up because they didn’t allot a public comment period.
- Comment on Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia 5 days ago:
Hey, be nice to the big company. This policy of shooting an email doesn’t undermine the profitability their addictive money machine. Won’t you think of the shareholders Mister Curtis?
- Comment on MIT-developed 3D printer can output a fully functional electric motor in a single process 1 week ago:
Only a matter of time before these advanced printers begin printing themselves, then we’ll have to develop a 4D printer to fight them off!
- Comment on Modern parenting means apps for sports, school and more. Where is the data going? 1 week ago:
I imagine an image of the Teletubbies vacuum with a label on its nozzle reading ‘apps’, a label on its hose reading ‘advertisers’, and a third label on the tank that reads ‘data brokers’.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 1 week ago:
Good idea. I just looked at a drive I bought six months ago and it’s up 40% or so. Wish I’d have got two now.
- Comment on Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC 1 week ago:
In the statement “keep your religion outta my government”, the line between ‘keep your religious beliefs from influencing governmental decision making’ and ‘people belonging to a religion should be restricted from participating in the running of government’ is quite fine, which is why I asked.
I appreciate your answering.
- Comment on Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC 1 week ago:
Are you suggesting only agnostics should govern?
Talarico said in the interview he wants the separation of church and state to return as the current blend diminishes both.
- Comment on A heart-warming story 2 weeks ago:
You’re preaching to the choir here.
The chart is for people that have never tried to sing.
- Comment on A heart-warming story 2 weeks ago:
From the United States perspective, less blood in reserve drives up prices for the population, so it seems to jive with healthcare as a whole there. I know Canada was buying plasma from them as well in the before times, but I’m not sure about that any more.
Several new plasma donation clinics have opened up to collect from people with more common blood types. It’s interesting to hear the UK ships blood in from the west at all. I would have figured there would be closer options available. Unless Brexit also made that more difficult too.
I understand the necessity of shipping blood around, but it sure would be nice if everywhere had enough donors to keep the blood in country. Though I suppose even in such a utopia, gold blood would still be sent around the world when necessary.
- Comment on A heart-warming story 2 weeks ago:
You’ve reminded me some years ago I donated at a pop up clinic, and it was across the street from a carnival that came to town. They went and got a bunch of ride and games tickets and gave them to blood donors. Big sign over at the carnival, and the clinic was packed.
That’s a random way to get people in, but it worked, and it was fun. Now if only they could take the donation while people wait in line for a ride haha.
- Comment on A heart-warming story 2 weeks ago:
Most appointments are to have something done to a person’s own benefit. Chiropractic, dental, accountant, that sort of thing. Making an appointment to donate blood to a person you’ll never meet is a type of selflessness that surprises me when I hear of people missing those appointments.
Someone at the clinic I go to once mentioned they had two or three missed appointments every day. I don’t know, I suppose I take it more seriously than most, but it strikes me as an odd thing to miss. Especially when the service here calls two days before an appointment to confirm.
- Comment on Horses must think we’re mocking them when we use them to carry us around, then put them in trailers that carry them faster than they can run. 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if it was a mechanical horse being controlled by a rabbit under the hat. Hmm.
- Comment on Horses must think we’re mocking them when we use them to carry us around, then put them in trailers that carry them faster than they can run. 2 weeks ago:
Thinking back now, it was collecting carrots and apples from a bunch of donkeys, so you may well be correct.
- Comment on Horses must think we’re mocking them when we use them to carry us around, then put them in trailers that carry them faster than they can run. 2 weeks ago:
I beg to differ. Last year I happened across a horse wearing a top hat. Looked pretty smart to me.
- Comment on A heart-warming story 2 weeks ago:
To further this, the negative and positive value also matters. Someone with a negative type can only take negative blood, whereas a positive type can accept both.
I wish it were easier to get people to donate. Just this morning I heard a radio advertisement for the blood service that included the line ‘please schedule and attend an appointment’, which seems wild that so many people book a time then don’t show up.
- Comment on The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USA 2 weeks ago:
Not that I’m against reminding people this happened, but I wish these articles didn’t word headlines implying this vote just occurred yesterday.
- Comment on 10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t really consider the reason the company gave for the dismissal. Though it occurs to me now that any incident where someone loses their job due to donating food nearing expiry could be plausibly written up as thievery by the company doing the firing.
Which is a nuance that might be worth chatting to a lawyer about.
- Comment on 10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town 3 weeks ago:
Joe should see a lawyer about a wrongful termination lawsuit.
The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act (pdf) brought to law in 1996 shields most liability for people donating food exactly like he did.
This may have been a knee-jerk reaction from the employer incorrectly assuming they could be liable if someone got sick. Though its also possible they’ve been looking for a reason to dismiss a long time employee to replace him with a cheaper one. Corporate ownership makes me leans towards the latter.
- Comment on I've Hit The Perfect Weight 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget morfans!
- Comment on Amazon to Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores 4 weeks ago:
Why do you think baskets should be required? To prevent theft? This has been implemented for a decade now, evidently thievery isn’t much of a concern.
There are no doubt multiple factors at play, but when things are easy and quality of life is decent, the honour system works.
- Comment on Amazon to Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores 5 weeks ago:
That could work also, but not all shops have carts, and people don’t always need a basket. It’s common enough to scan things and pop them directly into a bag you brought, skipping the need for a basket altogether.
- Comment on Amazon to Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores 5 weeks ago:
It was more accurately described as computer vision at the time, but your memory is right. They wanted to get to 5% of sales being human reviewed, but it was more like 70%.
What’s funny about Amazon’s efforts for Just Walk Out is that checkout free shopping already existed. Simply by letting customers carry a handheld scanner and payment terminal around the store with them.
- Comment on Engineer at Elon Musk's xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview 5 weeks ago:
Oh to live in the parallel universe where those local and state governments tell them to pack up their data centre and shove off once their carnival leases expire. The sonic schadenfreude would be felt around the globe.
- Comment on In just 15 years, the average U.S. homebuyer went from 39 to 59 years old: Top analyst reveals how the housing market has warped in one generation 1 month ago:
“It’s not enough anymore to say, ‘I can work hard,'” Dimon said in a recent interview with CNN. “In the old days, you could be in 10th grade, go get a factory [job] in Detroit, and eventually you could afford a family, a home, a car, and that may not be true anymore.” - CEO, JPMorgan
If only there were something that could be done about that, Mr Eight Figure Salary.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 1 month ago:
To chime in from the Great White North, I agree with much of what you’ve written, though I haven’t spoken to anyone that thinks Canada has moved too slow.
What’s been done so far has happened as efficiently as government workings can be done, but when I go to a restaurant I don’t skip the entree if the waitstaff brings out the appetizer with haste.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 1 month ago:
For a question as broad as ‘what is this country doing about that other country’, it might be a good idea to drop the editorial names and instead include position descriptors. Canadian politicians don’t have the same name recognition as American counterparts.
Mark Carney is Canada’s Prime Minister, who won the position over Pierre Poilievre.
- Comment on These glasses solve many central-vision problems. For $5000. 1 month ago:
Must be some Big Cane executives.
- Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake 1 month ago:
I’ve done some time in waste handling, and about a decade ago I had the opportunity to work with a mattress recycling outfit. They had set up a disassembly line that would separate the various materials within a mattress, it was very interesting to see.
My memory is failing me now, but they were sending about half the material to some other outfit that used in it production of some kind. So at least some recycling was happening through them.
The mattress industry is wild even without managing the product’s end of life. So many of the same mattress get wrapped with slightly different fabric and stitch work and sold under a different name and whatnot. Personally when mine meets its end I’m going to try a tatami instead.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 1 month ago:
No please, I have already had enough irritating news this year. I wish to live in the funnier version I created where Mr Ping stays within earshot of this trader guy and serves up some delicious rolls on request.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 1 month ago:
Without being able to read that article, I choose to interpret that quote as if a renown personal chef was on offer for a number of years to provide world class sushi rolls whenever the mood strikes.
