ProbablyBaysean
@ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Things aren't bad enough and then you misunderstand your diagnosis 17 hours ago:
There is some success from listening to the weeooweeeoo sounds on youtube
- Comment on With bathing, water recirculation is more easily accepted. 2 weeks ago:
Building off of this, some Japanese households will bathe then towel off and let the next person bathe in the same water and shower off after. Therefore there is a 2 stage cleaning cycle.
I don’t have direct experience so call me out if I heard wrong.
- Comment on Insulin 2 weeks ago:
If a transaction occurs for no consideration e.g. a gift, then there is always a chance for a progenitor to sue and claim rights as the transaction “never happened”. This happens when a company acquires another and tries to strip benefits, so the company fires and rehires all employees so that is the consideration. I have personally reviewed hundreds of land sales for 10$ in Texas so there is legally binding consideration exchanged. Functionally it is a legally bulletproof gift.
- Comment on Despite having heard the phrase 'passive aggressive' several times, I still don't know what it means. 4 weeks ago:
As a native speaker, I will try to answer without being pedantic with a dictionary: to be passive aggressive is to answer with an unusual assumption and to act like the other party should have known all along.
E.g. if you want someone to leave and it is snowing, say “I just cleaned off the snow from your car so you can make it home safe. When do you plan on leaving?” This places an expectation and social pressure to accept the gift of cleaning the snow by leaving soon.
E.g. if you want to leave work at 5pm daily and your boss knows this and adds a frivolous mandatory meeting to the office calendar. You can take notes in the meeting then at the end send the email to the recipients and say “this meeting could have been an email with no knowledge lost”. This implies that your boss did a disservice by wasting everyone’s time when they could have just used a secretary and an email and let you keep to your informal time to leave boundaries.
Good luck figuring out and understanding the actual definition!!!
- Comment on Wendy’s to close hundreds of restaurants as struggling customers cut back on dining out 4 weeks ago:
When i speak, I say thirteen dollars. When I write, I sometimes don’t reverse it 13$ means I was typing as i speak and not like an accountant making a report or something.
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 1 month ago:
No, I think his crime was that he wanted to take away the whole purpose of life aka living with choice between good and evil. Then the icing was that he wanted God’s glory to be given to him.
My understanding of the purpose of life is that we have no memory of before, we are faced with plausible good and evil choices, and finally we get some hardware that lasts (physical body). There is some irony that the option for evil comes first from lucifer.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says tech giants can't profit from their astronomical investments unless human labor is replaced 1 month ago:
Not a bubble popping, but a balloon deflating. We have enough hardware to simulate the 10 billion neurons in a human brain, right now they are focusing on the software. I don’t think it will “pop and crash”.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 1 month ago:
I lived in a housing market like that. It was a college town dominated by a church subsidized school. The students had to live in on-campus, off-campus and registered, or unregulated housing. The only people allowed to do unregulated housing were those who had their stuff together e.g. married or living with family. Housing was cheap and any landlord disagreements could be complained against the uni housing office. The uni provided so much housing that prices were based on the uni’s low cost instead of anything higher. A friend from high school had her dad choose to “invest” by buying a small apartment building out there, but even with his daughter as manager, he didn’t make a good return because he didn’t have the scale to provide the minimum level of service. I think he sold it.
Students there tended to get married and have children while still in school.
Long story short, housing market regulation can be done via a dominating entity over demand, but non market forces are not common everywhere.
- Comment on Interesting and certainly worth a try 2 months ago:
There is a homophone in english: where’s and wears. The joke is that you say it aloud and the emphasis on the sentence becomes a statement.
Where is the soap
Vs
It is wearing the soap down.
And all it sounds like is “weh-ers tha soap”.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 2 months ago:
Ehh, it could have been covered by Romeo and Juliette laws, or he married her later, so I didn’t focus on it.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 2 months ago:
Wow, 6 years to appreciate puptart balancing. You are committed. ;P
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 2 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder)?wprov=sfla1
Maybe a vitamin b or magnesium deficiency?
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 3 months ago:
I really want a space station in the barycenter of Pluto or something. It would be as close to true neutral of gravity instead of the gravity negated by acceleration of mass that may or may not screw up gravity experiments
- Comment on Southern USA core. 4 months ago:
I bet he liked coming home to his neph-son.