LilB0kChoy
@LilB0kChoy@midwest.social
- Comment on Anti-racism be like 9 months ago:
The native cultural influence is pretty strongly interwoven in the fabric of Minnesota. It’s very possible the thought process was just that the locals associated that image with their state, just like the brand name.
The Anishinaabe and Dakota have had major influence on the state and that’s been rectified in recent history with the renaming of certain places back to their native name, like Bde Maks Ska.
Most of the naming in the metro(and the state name) comes from the Dakota peoples. The Anishinaabe were located more in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin so you’ll see the influence there. For example the town of Biwabik in the iron range which is the Anishinaabe word for iron.
- Comment on Amazon is more profitable than ever after a year of mass layoffs 9 months ago:
Good to know, glad you take advantage! Amazon is one of several companies I avoid on ethical grounds but I fault nobody else for shopping there.
- Comment on Amazon is more profitable than ever after a year of mass layoffs 9 months ago:
I was mostly being facetious, I try not to use Amazon. My wife does off and on and has used a free trial 3-4 times a year.
The trials are 30 days (in the US) and years ago, 4-5, I would just use a throwaway email and do a new trial every 30 days to keep Prime. Not sure if they guard against that at all now or not.
- Comment on Amazon is more profitable than ever after a year of mass layoffs 9 months ago:
I always sign up for the free Prime trials just so I can get the satisfaction of cancelling.
- Comment on Why are most aftershave perfumed ? 9 months ago:
There are a large number of unscented aftershaves out there as well as other products options like an alum block.
When I’m finished shaving my routine is:
- alum block
- aftershave balm
- cologne
I have aftershaves and colognes that compliment each other or are the same scent for both. I also have an unscented balm for colognes I couldn’t find a good compliment to.
Scents I use are ones I like because I’m wearing it for me, not others.
- Comment on Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla 10 months ago:
We all know it’ll never fully go under
No, it likely won’t, and part of that is also because of who’s invested in the companies success. Just another example of “too big to fail”.
- Comment on Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla 10 months ago:
Just like Amazon who is a cloud computing company with a side hustle in e-tail or Google which is an ad company with a side hustle in tech.
In general most people don’t really understand this about big companies.
- Comment on What's the best way to protect outdoor faucets in the winter? 10 months ago:
I live in MN and every fall when we’re done in our yard I’ll turn off the water in the house for the lines that go to the outdoor faucets attached to the house.
Then I’ll open those faucets outside to let the water drain.
Inside the house on the water line itself is a bleeder valve I’ll open to help the line drain.
Once drained I close the drain valve and the bleeder valve and put an insulating cover on the spigot.
- Comment on Chick-Fil-A staff in the rain. 10 months ago:
Yeah, and we don’t go there. I’m still able to recognize the nuance. You seem like you have good intentions but are kind of a dick.
- Comment on Chick-Fil-A staff in the rain. 10 months ago:
my impression is they are one of the better employers in the area for people who just need a job and lack skills/ability to do something else.
We, like you, avoid what companies we can, CFA included, but this is often overlooked. The individual locations (franchises) are not equal to the anti-lgbtq+ corporate leaders and many of the ones here (Midwest) seem at the local level to better align with the community they serve.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
I love my Ryobi finish nailer! The only Bosch I currently have is an inherited corded jigsaw but it has held up well.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
DeWalt is a subsidiary of Black and Decker. Seems like brand name means less than many think.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
So Ryobi is just fine. With the context you provide if you’re a heavier user who needs the features then you can spend more? If you need a quality tool that will get the job done without frills then Ryobi is great?
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
What does bottom of the barrel mean in context though?
I have Ryobi and they’ve all been great, but I’m not a builder, I’m a homeowner who has occasional projects and small fixit/replace jobs around the house.
My brother was gifted a Ryobi set decades ago by my parents, it’s what my dad used, but has since replaced it with DeWalt. However, he has a wood shop in his garage, has added a deck, built multiple retaining walls, a shed and all sorts of stuff in the ~15 years they’ve owned their house.
I feel like how and how often you use the tools plays a big role. I usually get a new tool from Harbor Freight, unless I know it’s something I’ll use a lot. Then if I end up using it enough for it to break/fail I go buy the nicer version.
- Comment on Tesla Lied To Customers, Blaming Them For Shoddy Parts The Company Knew Were Defective 10 months ago:
As an American you have the right to be exploited, to serve and enrich the billionaire class, to fund pointless wars, to not be able to afford housing, education or really to live, but by God do you have “freedom”.
- Comment on Study shows Tesla owners have most car accidents, but Ram has the worst drivers 11 months ago:
I’m amazed at how many Saturns and Pontiacs I still see on the road.
- Comment on Study shows Tesla owners have most car accidents, but Ram has the worst drivers 11 months ago:
RAMs crash because they have someone driving drunk.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 11 months ago:
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
-George Carlin
- Comment on US agency will not reinstate $900 mln subsidy for SpaceX Starlink unit 11 months ago:
Northern Canada wouldn’t benefit from a US rural internet subsidy.
I’m not familiar with the areas in Alaska you’re referring too but are they completely isolated outside of satellite internet? If they have electric from the grid or cellular telephone service then there are other options using existing infrastructure.
A study from 2019 found national estimates ranged from 180,000 households to 750,000 that are not connected to the electrical grid. That’s out of 131.2 million households in the US. That means adding internet to power line runs as the entire grid infrastructure is updated and buried, which it should be, would mean .006 % of households wouldn’t benefit.
I don’t know what the best solution is but I question the practicality of 100s of millions in subsidies to any private company, not just Starlink.
In my opinion it’s time for internet to become a utility and tie it into the existing infrastructure.
- Comment on US agency will not reinstate $900 mln subsidy for SpaceX Starlink unit 11 months ago:
I’m a little torn on this because every time I’ve seen this posted on Lemmy there’re people who praise it and point out how it’s often the only viable option if you’re rural.
However, as someone pointed out, the infrastructure is not really sustainable long term, and may not be very sustainable short term it sounds like either.
We need to bury our electrical anyway, I say start in these rural areas and bury internet right along with it.
- Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies 11 months ago:
Bundle it all together! We have tons of electrical that should be moved underground. Throw internet lines into that pool too and put it all under the ground and run the network cables everywhere the power goes.
- Comment on Massive Study Finds a Link Between Commuting And Poor Mental Health 11 months ago:
Ok.
- Comment on Massive Study Finds a Link Between Commuting And Poor Mental Health 11 months ago:
Yeah, because the experience trying to bike to work through snow and cold is the same between Finland and the United States.
I’m sure the Fins are able to manage it but I’m guess there infrastructure is far superior to support it.
- Comment on Massive Study Finds a Link Between Commuting And Poor Mental Health 11 months ago:
Where do you live? Is it somewhere with below zero temperatures and snow during long parts of the year?
I’m pretty sure commuting by bike wouldn’t be any more enjoyable here.
- Comment on Massive Study Finds a Link Between Commuting And Poor Mental Health 11 months ago:
Driving yourself probably compounds it but commuting in general sucks.
I used to take the train to work, it would drop me right outside my building. It saved me money, miles on my car, helped me avoid traffic but it still sucked.
It was lost time, there were people who would smoke, do drugs, play loud music from their phones on speaker. There were usually seats available but your better off standing because you never know what’s in/on the seats. Anytime there was an event that let out at the stadium around the time I got off work meant either missing several trains in a row because they were too full.
Better organized and maintained mass transit can reduce it but I think any commute needs the destination to be worth the time/hassle and, for me, work doesn’t make the cut.
- Comment on 23andMe frantically changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing 11 months ago:
I lean the other way.
I think it would be a pretty solid case to argue that the change to the TOS, considering the timing and combined with the breach, would be outrageously unreasonable enough to invalidate the “meeting of the minds” requirement.
- Comment on 23andMe frantically changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing 11 months ago:
Are T&Cs retroactive? I would think any new T&Cs could only apply from that point forward, not that they could retroactively absolve themselves of liability or how you could pursue it.