Chip_Rat
@Chip_Rat@lemmy.world
- Comment on ‘An uphill battle’: why are midlife men struggling to make – and keep – friends? 6 days ago:
Where do you live? The reserve armed forces in Canada would fit that bill, depending on your feelings about that. A day a week and a weekend a month, I forget exactly but it’s consistent, paid, but it’s supposed to be easy enough to fit into a normal life schedule. They usually do disaster relief and stuff like that when they do get called, but theoretically you could be signing up for more given the state of the world.
Boy scouts/girl Guides/youth groups are always looking for group leaders.
Volunteer fire also gets close to that mark, it’s voluntary but if you don’t show up you get replaced.
And volunteer becomes “mandatory” the deeper you get. If you can find a small soup kitchen or conservation group, and really hold yourself to it for a few months, you might find you become vital to that organization. Then I guess it’s up to your personal brain chemistry what “mandatory” means. If you have the keys, I’d assume you’d be there 30 minutes before the weekly soup prep afternoon is supposed to start to open up and meet that new person to show them around.
Many of these groups are small and in desperate need of good help and sometimes even leadership. On that same note some are little fifedoms and if you aren’t getting good vibes just cut bait and move on.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
Well if that was the first mistake in my comment, seeing how it’s the last thing I said, then I think I rest my case.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
And notice it’s the woman who is the centre of this made up problem. Not the dads. Not the poverty, not the system or lack of access to birth control options… Wonder why he didn’t bring up the Nazi billionaire with his hareem he keeps in his million dollar compound…
No it’s the loose woman in a trailer park.
You can have honest and valid concerns about overpopulation. But you aren’t going to get any respect from me if it comes out of your mouth like that.
- Comment on Is it mean to use a bird identification app to call birds in closer? 2 weeks ago:
But hunters are specifically trying to call them in to shoot them. This is more like catch and release fishing, you are just making the bird late for something…
- Comment on Canada Drops Digital Tax That Infuriated Trump to Restart Trade Talks 2 weeks ago:
“Elbows up” is a saying/slang/expression in hockey to mean “get ready to fight” (hockey basically allows guys to throw fists between plays for some reason). It is currently being used in political ads and other pro Canada ads in reference to the current trade war.
I was riffing off this, since (as a headline) this is just Canada rolling over for cry baby Trump. It’s not elbows up. It’s daddy Trump telling Carney off like a toddler and Carney cowering. “Elbows off the table!”
- Comment on Canada Drops Digital Tax That Infuriated Trump to Restart Trade Talks 2 weeks ago:
Elbows off the table.
- Comment on 23andMe fined £2.31 million for failing to protect UK users’ genetic data 4 weeks ago:
Perfect so I’m sure this settlement will affect absolutely nobody it should.
- Comment on 23andMe fined £2.31 million for failing to protect UK users’ genetic data 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, maybe I’m mixing them up with some other nightmare of a company, aren’t they out of business? Execs probably already secured all their extra $$$$ and this 2.3 will have to come out of what they get selling the office chairs, and probably before any employees get anything they are entitled to.
- Comment on Most American headline 1 month ago:
Thanks.
- Comment on I've got something special for you 1 month ago:
I (mid 30s woman) am boss and I txtd one of my guys who isn’t around very often (he works a different shift basically, sometimes we overlap, usually we don’t)
“Hey 60 year old married man when you have a minute. Swing by my office, I’ve got something for you.”
I had a company gift to give him.
Auto complete decided the lips emoji was the best ending to my TXT. You know, the sexy red kissy lips.
I NEVER use that emoji. I never use emojis, when I told this story to other workers who I TXT regularly they were like “you yeah write out jazz hands or *sparkle emoji”
But my phone knew what that innocent TXT needed. Awkward, potentially work relationship ruining lips.
- Comment on Most American headline 1 month ago:
I’m glad you live somewhere where this problem isn’t even phathomable to you.
You can certainly argue that it isn’t the schools job specifically, but it would be the most practical and efficient choice. Kids are all already gathered there at the right time, facilities usually exist or can be added to buildings…
But to say “just pack a sandwich.” … I just wish I lived somewhere where that was it. That THAT was the barrier.
- Comment on Most American headline 1 month ago:
Why “as it should be?”
I don’t have or want kids, but I want ever child to grow up healtht and food secure. These are humans that can’t work for themselves and have no means to protect themselves from food insecurity, and they will be my younger coworkers, and bankers and brokers and building my roads and and and… I want them to be mentally and physically well.
I don’t understand why our society builds sidewalks and playgrounds and funds schools to teach kids how to be humans, but feeding them is a bridge too far… We already hold them captive in the middle of the day when one of the 3 meals is served anyways…
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 1 month ago:
I gave a month’s notice at a job I was leaving. I was moving on, it wasn’t a shit job but I was ready to move up and they weren’t promoting me to the types of jobs I wanted. No hard feelings.
Until I have my month’s notice. I had been there 3 years and assumed we would take a week or so to hire someone, then I could train them on the job the last 2 weeks. It sure would have helped me when I started.
I wish I’d giving 3 days. They had no interest in including me in the new hire process (this is a small business, only 2 other people above me, owner and accountant) and basically it felt like they were waiting on me to leave so they could bring in their new pick.
Now I did end up working for that company in the position I wanted part time for a couple years after that, so I guess just not showing up would have been way worse, but I found that time period incredibly stressful and still don’t understand the motives.
- Comment on The Long Dark gets a big free visual enhancement update out now 1 month ago:
It’s such a beautiful game already. I’ve died while distractedly marvelling at the Aurora while the soundtrack permeated my soul.
- Comment on Another Harvard Scandal Proves That Science Is Broken 1 month ago:
“Science is dead, and the left is killing it.”
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- Comment on negative rizz 1 month ago:
Why lie? If you want a Lambo, just own it. “Yeah it’s pink, why? What colour is your Lambo?” Pepto magnet would still be hilarious.
- Comment on Toronto business owners are using AI-generated “concerned residents” to fight a proposed bus lane 1 month ago:
Another example of AI putting real humans out of work. Up until recently I used to to get paid good money to ride my bike in loops past survey cameras while wearing different hats. Now, my phone never rings and I’ve had to slowly sell off my collection to make rent. Even if I do get another job offer, I’m down to like 7 hats, most clients I deal with expect twice that many hats for the money they spend.
- Comment on GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
Thank you
- Comment on Sumo community tournament relaunch! 2 months ago:
NHK coverage is top notch, it’s how I got into sumo and how I watch it now. It’s on YouTube and their website for free.
- Comment on Wolf Reboot 2 months ago:
Don’t dead open inside.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 2 months ago:
Interesting! I must say I never considered it. My kia soul EV was heavy but handled very well. Loved that thing.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 2 months ago:
? I don’t know what that means.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 2 months ago:
What makes that spec a priority for you?
- Comment on Trump posted a photo of Abrego Garcia’s hand with an MS-13 knuckle tattoo. Internet sleuths say it’s photoshopped 2 months ago:
I mean, yes, but don’t call a lawyer and pull out the constitution when your 5 year old presents a “document” from the King of the World that says she can have unlimited icecream…
- Comment on BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of 2 months ago:
Thank you for trying to explain this. I found the original blog empty and unhelpful. Lots of nerd words but no substance. I understand more from your post than that blog now.
- Comment on Id like to turn off notifications from the Galaxy Store, but I can't. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. Filthy basterds. 2 months ago:
I wrote a 11 part essay in second or third year university about how shit my phone was. Not for marks, didn’t publish it anywhere. I just hated it so much and wanted to gather my thoughts. If only YouTube has been a big enough thing for little old me, could have been one of the first video essay, listicle, tech critiquing channels.
But yeah Samsung never won me back after that. If you can’t build a flip phone right, I don’t want your fridges…
- Comment on Japan to sell more rice reserves as prices soar 3 months ago:
Just read up on it because your question made me curious. They have zero tariffs on rice up to a certain number, recently around 770,000 tons annually. After that amount they charge a tarriff that is quite high, 400-700+%, and import another few hundred tons at that rate.
Got my numbers from this article if you are curious:
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 3 months ago:
Yeah I can’t recall using a typewriter seriously, but for sure I’ve used on for fun. Also trying to get a commodore 64 to print my homework in 1992 should aub in nicely.
- Comment on YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube 3 months ago:
Ok I think I read all the comments sufficiently and I still don’t see the feature I most want: sort by duration.
Dinner is in 20 minutes. Click time range, set for 15-20 minutes. Look through suggestions from subscriptions that are 15-20min long. Pick one. Enjoy video knowing when it ends you’ll be able to go eat dinner/go to bed/leave for work.
- Comment on C64 Retro Battlestation 3 months ago:
instinctively starts headbanging to the rad soundtrack