TheSanSabaSongbird
@TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 9 months ago:
Can you please explain to me exactly why and how it was objectively obvious that OP’s comment was meant to be taken as some kind of joke or satire?
Because if you can’t, I have to think that you are little more than an arbitrarily condescending piece of shit.
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 9 months ago:
The cool thing about Andersen is that even if the glass on your window gets accidentally broken for whatever reason, it’s still covered by their forever warranty and they will come and repair it for free. The downside is that they are, again, very expensive.
I personally think it’s worth it and have Andersen windows on my house.
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 9 months ago:
Well played, sir, or madam, as the case may be. Very well played.
- Comment on Hmmm... 9 months ago:
But you could swap the sexes or have them both be men and it would still work, so I’m not sure that it really is sexist.
- Comment on Hmmm... 9 months ago:
But who is the author of said thoughts? From whence do they arise? If you look carefully you’ll find that there is no author and that the self is an illusion that arises from the nature of consciousness. This is the essential insight of Buddhism and other contemplative traditions.
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 9 months ago:
That’s not true at all. The ignorance in this thread is absolutely astonishing. It’s like you went to the US once, spent a week in Florida and now somehow think you’re an expert in American homebuilding techniques and practices. WTF?
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 9 months ago:
As someone with nearly 30 years experience in various types of construction, I can say for a fact that this is objectively incorrect. There’s a trope about any kind of social media content that touches on a subject about which one has real expertise, don’t remember exactly how it goes, but anyhow, let’s just say that the ignorance in this thread is absolutely astonishing.
Go down to your local big box hardware store and try to find a single-pane window, for example. You can’t because nobody makes them. If you want a single-pane window you have to buy a sheet of glass and know how to install and glaze it yourself.
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 9 months ago:
You need to go through a window company and have them custom-made. They’ll come over to your house and take measurements then build them at their factory and then install them. It will take a few weeks and will be expensive, but for my money it’s worth it.
Where I live Andersen is probably the best as they come with a forever warranty on everything including the glass itself, but they may or may not be in your area. There are plenty of other reputable companies as well. Again, this is not a cheap option.
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 9 months ago:
Anyone who has worked in high-end construction can tell you that they’re very common in rich people’s houses. The reason you don’t see them more often is that most people don’t want to pay for them. Americans tend to value the size of their houses more than anything else, and since McMansion developers know this, windows are one very easy way to cut costs.
They’re also a lot more common in older homes (like mine) because if you’re going to replace all your windows (which you should do for energy reasons), you might as well get the good ones.
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 9 months ago:
Yeah I’m a little confused too. The thing with windows is that you get what you pay for. It’s ridiculous to think that there’s some kind of window design that’s magically available in Europe but not in the US. There are probably designs that are more common in different parts of the world, but it’s absolutely not the case that if a homeowner wants to pay for it they can’t get whatever they want in the US.
I have to think this post was made by someone who knows nothing about construction.
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 9 months ago:
Lol! Imagine thinking this is true.
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 9 months ago:
They aren’t that difficult to repair if you have basic carpentry skills. All you have to do is take the sash out and open the side of the frame and you’ll have access to the weight and pulley. They’re designed to be pretty easy to do. YouTube probably has hundreds of videos on it. You just want to be careful about lead paint if it’s an old house and you’re producing dust or disturbing old paint.
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 9 months ago:
They open from the top as well.
- Comment on Ex-CIA computer engineer gets 40 years in prison for giving spy agency hacking secrets to WikiLeaks 9 months ago:
Several things can be true at once. We don’t have to be all-in on one side or the other of the Snowden affair. I’ve never understood why people seem so eager to pick a team on this issue.
- Comment on The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending 10 months ago:
The mistake here is in assuming that it’s either all or nothing; that self checkouts are either great, or some kind of disaster.
The reality is that they’re great for some applications, but suck ass for others.
Here’s the deal; if it’s just me with a few items, yeah, the self-checkout is awesome, but if it’s me and my wife and we have a shitload of groceries for the entire family, guess what? Self-checkout sucks ass and it’s way easier to go through a regular checkout stand where there won’t be a hundred little different ways for the system to get jammed up and require an employee intervention.
What part about this do people not understand?
I have to think that a lot of the hostility to regular checkout stands comes from relatively young Lemmy users who don’t actually have to shop for families of their own.
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 10 months ago:
Craigslist struck the first blow against newspapers by taking away classified ad revenue. The death blow came when Silicon Valley taught people that “information wants to be free,” which meant that no one wanted to pay for local news anymore. That led most local newspapers to collapse, while the few that managed to survive --apart from a handful of “legacy” papers-- mostly did so at the cost of turning into click-bait sites or outrage machines.
We have to bring back the idea that people should be happy to pay for local news.
- Comment on Stop pussyfooting that gaspedal! 10 months ago:
That’s my understanding. I always understood “Great Britain” to refer to the entire island composed of England, Scotland and Wales. Maybe I’m wrong or there are certain use exceptions?
- Comment on Good news, everyone! We temporarily stopped the orphan crushing machine! 10 months ago:
That’s what you would think, right? But it turns out…
- Comment on Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thought 10 months ago:
Out of curiosity, how do you think she’ll rationalize it?
- Comment on The lamest countries 10 months ago:
Well, that and the fact that the DPRK is being held hostage by one of the world’s most successful organized crime families. Had North Korea won, the only difference would be that the Kim family would control all of Korea. I don’t think it’s accurate to say that the US made the Kims what they are.
One thing that I think is not widely appreciated enough, especially by younger people, is how much the fear of a third world war dominated the 2nd half of the 20th century. I don’t point this out as any kind of moral justification on anyone’s part, but rather as an explanation that is far more convincing than the simple US bad, communism good and vice versa that is so common on social media.
We have to remember that the men behind all of these events had survived the largest war in human history and absolutely believed in the possibility of even worse to come. It informed everything about how they thought about the world. How could it not? The things they had seen and experienced first hand were, as they say, the stuff of nightmares.
- Comment on Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people 11 months ago:
Of course sometimes the predictive algorithms are wildly and hilariously inaccurate too, as we should expect.
- Comment on My children will refer to me as father. 11 months ago:
“Yer squashin’ my smokes, Pa.”
- Comment on 1.1 History 11 months ago:
I too can spout religious gibberish.
- Comment on 1.1 History 11 months ago:
That’s a paraphrase of a famous Bertrand Russell quote. The original is as follows; “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
There’s also the William Butler Yeats corollary; “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
- Comment on Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts 11 months ago:
Podcast Republic. I don’t know if it’s the best, but I’m used to it and it does everything I want and nothing I don’t want. It’s also open source.
- Comment on Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts 11 months ago:
Same, but I still use Google docs to store copies of all my published work.
- Comment on Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts 11 months ago:
I like Podcast Republic because it’s easy to keep it simple for troglodytes like myself who don’t want or need all the bells and whistles.
- Comment on Reactionaries and inconsistency are a match made in heaven 11 months ago:
Sure, we’re a “nation of immigrants,” but at what point does one stop being an immigrant? How many generations does it take? And if I’m still an immigrant even though my family has been here for generations, then by rights I should have a “home” country that I can easily return to, but I don’t. Sure, I could in theory immigrate back to Ireland and the UK where my ancestors came from, but you and I both know that no one would ever consider me “Irish” or “British.” I would always still be an “American,” which brings us back to the original question of how long it takes people to stop being immigrants.
- Comment on USA Will Invest in High-Speed Train to Fight Climate Change 11 months ago:
Came to this thread for my daily dose of trite cynicism. Was not disappointed.
- Comment on USA Will Invest in High-Speed Train to Fight Climate Change 11 months ago:
Oh good! I was hoping for some defeatism in the face of a relatively positive bit of news.