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- Comment on Say that again, but slowly... 9 hours ago:
Yup. You've also got words like environment not meaning the world we live in, safety not meaning being safe (this isn't exclusive to fascists, but they ran with it in the small government bullshit) and "nazis were actually left wing".
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 2 days ago:
These people look like uniformed ICE targets.
- Comment on How Do The Normal People Survive? 6 days ago:
I'm very reluctant helping people out, especially with computers. It stems from my mother, I used to fix her computer, and whenever it wasn't working afterwards "it ins't working right since you did somethin on it". At some point I told my (and my wife's) parents that they'd be better of with an Ipad. They just work, and when they don't, I don't have a clue since I don't know shit about them.
- Comment on 1925 - It used to be did you kiss the guy on the first date 1 week ago:
It's because men can't be sluts according to (certain parts of) society.
- Comment on What, greedy, powerful people would do to keep and increase their power in a world that is approaching a period of increasing weather disasters? Would a post-scarcity society benefit those people? 1 week ago:
Billionaires can only exist in a large group of people. I think if a chimpansee (or any other ape) would decide to hoard all the resources of his group for himself, the rest would gang up on him and beat him to either submission or death.
- Comment on Confirmed - Electronic Arts (EA) sold off to investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund 1 week ago:
I don't get why the Saudis are working with Jared on this, since he's the guy who said the Gaza strip should be developed as premium beach front property after the Palestinians are relocated. Sure, the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Palestine is complicated, but really?
- Comment on Which career to pursue? 1 week ago:
I went to trade school in the late eighties/ early nineties to become a plumber. When I finished school in 91 there were no jobs for plumbers, so I did extra schooling to be an electrician. Still could't find a non temp job, so in 96 it was working in a chemical plant as an operator, and studying to eventually get a degree in chemical engineering.
All this just to say that the job market can't be predicted. Working in the trades is great, if the jobs are available. Unfortunately, they usually are among the first jobs to disappear when the job market goes a bit slower.
- Comment on Which career to pursue? 1 week ago:
I'd advise chemical engineering, guess what degree I got. But besides my bias, CE is a very broad education subject, so no deep dive into math beyond calculus. Also, like another poster pointed out, lots of people end up working in a different field, so the broad education helps there too.
- Comment on He looks so shocked 2 weeks ago:
Happened to me once, it turns out 1988 Mazda 323's don't have that unique keys.
- Comment on Ibuprofen 2 weeks ago:
I have in my work bag BP and cholesterol pills for when I forget to take them at home. I'm about the same age as the owners of these shoes.
- Comment on Ay, chihuahua! 2 weeks ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techichi Food, sacrifices and lap dogs
- Comment on Nothing to see here. Just a pine cone. 3 weeks ago:
Guess what a cuckoo chick does to the other birds in the nest.
- Comment on “TO THE PERPETRATORS WHO STOLE MY ASS: I HAVE BOTH HANDS ENGAGED IN FINDING IT AND YOU WILL SOON FACE THE FULL FORCE IF THE LAW!!!” 3 weeks ago:
So an amateur?
- Comment on Study finds that fast walking can reduce lung cancer risk by 50%: A simple health indicator for cancer prevention 3 weeks ago:
Is it because people who walk faster tend to have less risk for developing lung cancer, or the other way around? Correlation does not mean causation, and from the article I find that walking speed is a marker for the risk of lung cancer, not "you should walk faster to prevent lung cancer".
- Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Know your place 3 weeks ago:
Yup, but it's not felt like, it's how much time really passed for you.
Another one I've always liked; suppose two people (or space ships, whatever) are together in the empty space between galaxies. One of you gets a boost from an external actor, and travels 10 lightyears away at the speed of light. After that, the other one gets the same boost and joins the first. So for both, ten years have passed. But, without an external reference, there is no way to know which one moved first.
- Comment on Know your place 3 weeks ago:
If you could travel at the speed of light, the only tim it would take you is the time spent speedign up and slowing down. Traveling at the speed of light stops the time for you.
- Comment on Isn't it kinda weird how poop isn't consider a bodily fluid, until it is... 4 weeks ago:
It can be super critical, that's for sure!
- Comment on Isn't it kinda weird how poop isn't consider a bodily fluid, until it is... 4 weeks ago:
Poop is one of those rare things that can be a solid, a liquid and a gas at room temperature.
- Comment on Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website 5 weeks ago:
reduce our plastic consumption
I'd love to actually, but most plastics get pushed on me in the form of packaging. I don't need a six pack of beer all wrapped up in plastic. I don't need bolts and nuts "conveniently" packaged per five.
- Comment on Please keep an eye out. 5 weeks ago:
The show stopper.
- Comment on No justice, no peace. 5 weeks ago:
Why not use the shims designed for this instead of the tip of a screwdriver?
- Comment on Where have you been? 5 weeks ago:
TIL I'd like the mountains.