stinerman
@stinerman@midwest.social
I am Stine. Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable. High School Wrestler™. Can usually correctly use the past tense in French. Suffers from clinical depression.
- Comment on Do people confuse your nationality? 5 days ago:
I would not come here either.
- Comment on Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't? 1 week ago:
Could be a British/American English thing. We (Americans) say “learned”, they will often say “learnt.”
- Comment on Delicious 1 week ago:
He’s actually a decent dramatic actor. One Hour Photo was great. The guy is just not funny, probably because he was coked up half the time.
- Comment on Delicious 1 week ago:
Robin Williams was one of the most overrated comedians of the 80s and 90s.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 1 week ago:
Colloquially, it just means a small municipality. A “rural town” is a small municipality that is not near a larger metro area.
Town has a specific meaning in some states. I’m from Ohio. There is no such legal meaning here. Any municipality over 5k residents is a city. Anything other than that is a village. I am from a city with a population of about 6k. Outside of the city limits is farmland. I would say I’m from a small town/rural area.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 2 weeks ago:
None, because they don’t exist.
- Comment on Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation 2 weeks ago:
Linux distros have to ship all these drivers because otherwise someone would try that distro and say “nothing works, this sucks” if they had to go hunt for drivers to install. Windows computers really are the same way, but they’re almost always preconfigured.
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 2 weeks ago:
- I find it useful for work (I am a software developer/tester).
- I think it’s about as good as it’s ever going to get.
- I believe it is not ever going to be profitable and the benefits are not worth reopening nuclear and coal power plants.
- If US courts rule that training AI with copyrighted materials is fair use, then I will probably stop paying for content and start pirating it again.
- Comment on 7 for me 2 weeks ago:
1, 2, 6, or 7 depending on the season.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It is not normal. It’s fine that you do it.
- Comment on How would you run a society? 5 weeks ago:
There’s a song about it.
And I wanna conquer the world Give all the idiots a brand new religion Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness, and toil Promote equality in all of my decisions I want to conquer the world Expose the culprits and feed 'em to the children Do away with air pollution, and then I’ll save the whales We’ll have peace on Earth and global communion
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 1 month ago:
- Long tines and a big “handle”.
- Comment on The pipeline 1 month ago:
I skipped right to boneless wings.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’ve been to the USVI and you do go through customs. It’s a separate customs zone.
- Comment on Bros being bros 1 month ago:
Do you think he’s using the single loop or double loop method?
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 2 months ago:
Good call. The greenest purchase you can make is fixing the thing you already own.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 3 months ago:
Reminds me of the Rule of Goats:
If you fuck a goat ironically, you’re still fucking a goat. Same goes with ironic Hitler salutes.
- Comment on Could a US state prevent its citizens from paying federal taxes? 3 months ago:
Yes, by law. Of course the business will abide by federal law before state law because federal law is supreme.
- Comment on What happens when I run two VPNs on my computer? 3 months ago:
It’s a VPN within a VPN. So all your traffic over the Mullvad VPN connection has a VPN within it going to Proton (but only for Firefox).
To answer the questions directly:
- Yes, but not exactly. Everything goes through Mullvad, but Firefox goes through Proton going through Mullvad.
- No, they’ll just see the Proton information.
- It slows down your connection! That’s a lot more extra hops. Practically…I suppose if the “inner VPN” was necessary to connect to a specific host (like a work VPN) then it could be useful. For example you use Mullvad on your router, but your work laptop uses a VPN to connect to resources needed to do your work. Other than that I can’t see why you’d need to use 2 at the same time.
- Comment on How dare the alarm I set betray me like this? 3 months ago:
I literally yell “fuck you” at my alarm from time to time.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 3 months ago:
“I have to see a man about a horse.” It means you’re going to the bathroom.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
It doesn’t. Might have been New Brunswick. Or I just made it up somehow. I can’t remember where I saw it.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
My understanding is that some province is charging double on US commercial trucks that cross the border. Nova Scotia?
- Comment on If me and a bunch of my lemmy friends got on a yacht. Went into international waters what could we get away with legally and what would still be illegal? 5 months ago:
Rebroadcast Major League Baseball with implied oral consent.
- Comment on How does interoperability work between different fediverse services? 5 months ago:
So I replied to this comment as well as the original post via Mastodon. Apparently this doesn’t work anymore (or I was wrong and never did or it’s very slow).
- Comment on How does interoperability work between different fediverse services? 5 months ago:
Possibly! I have replied to this post from my Mastodon account. People on Mastodon can see these posts and interact with them, but it’s kinda clunky. The posts and comments are implemented as boosts. So you post here and I see this on Mastodon: Image
Every reply will also show as a boost from nostupidquestions@lemmy.world.
I don’t think it works the other way around. I don’t believe you can follow specific AP accounts from here (like you can’t follow my Mastodon account from your Lemmy account). I think they have to be groups/communities. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 6 months ago:
I have a coworker whose maiden name is Dykes. She was very happy to change.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 6 months ago:
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 6 months ago:
In terms of what he got done, he’s easily the most left wing President since LBJ. Perhaps FDR. Whether or not that is defined as left-wing/leftist/liberal is a matter of opinion.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 6 months ago:
Linux copyrights are owned by many different people, so it would be prohibitively difficult to ask every person to agree to a GPLv3 change. Even if you could, Linus Torvalds is not a fan of the v3 license.
