ProbablyBaysean

@ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite having heard the phrase 'passive aggressive' several times, I still don't know what it means.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder)?wprov=sfla1

  Maybe a vitamin b or magnesium deficiency?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say hello to Bary⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet he liked coming home to his neph-son.