zephorah
@zephorah@lemm.ee
- Comment on Impossible to know what this gesture means, unfortunately 4 days ago:
The only way to tell the difference between good and evil Spock: the goatee.
TOS is underrated.
As for Elon. The context of a person is everything. The guy keeps allying with the far right, nazi political group in Germany. Maybe not QED level but Elon’s actions speak loudly on the topic regardless.
- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 2 weeks ago:
Keep on pushing back or you’ll end up like us across the pond.
- Comment on Don’t Use Session (Signal Fork) 2 weeks ago:
Cliff notes: end to end encryption is borked.
- Comment on Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition gets a big community patch keeping it alive 2 weeks ago:
That was the original intent in the way it was made, with module creation.
It was a very active forum until Bioware accidentally deleted it once and then dumped forums altogether. I’m not surprised the fan base keeps the game going. Dnd is cool like that. Remember, Beamdog came out of nowhere and re-upped all the originals.
- Comment on Meta eliminates third-party fact checking program, moves to 'Community Notes' model 3 weeks ago:
I’m starting to think that 1A speech Trump posted out via RFK on YT, the one with the giant green crayon subtitles, was a directive list for his oligarchs, not really intended for mass consumption, just them and the legislators who worship at his altar.
No one’s talking about it, not even here, but these guys are doing it.
- Comment on 84% of H-1B Visas Go to India and China: Is It a Scam in Disguise? 4 weeks ago:
This is enlightening. Locked to a company by virtue of your visa. Working without pay while waiting for your visa.
I can see why these working class hating CEOs like these visas. You get talent while bypassing some of those pesky American labor laws.
And we on turn have to outsource for this talent because the university positions are outsourced to other countries, in part, no doubt, because we can’t afford them.
Another motive to not subsidize education. The cycle of taking advantage of masters degrees would end.
- Comment on Magnus Carlsen: Chess champion quits FIDE tournament after being told to change jeans 4 weeks ago:
Jeans are normal trousers.
In inpatient psych, street clothes are a common dress code. There’s some variation between facilities, but clean, untorn, no novelty tshirts, somewhat modest, no camou, are items you will often see in the line up. I started going to a new facility and failed to read this in detail due to habit and personal inertia. That’s on me. I showed up at this facility for over two years running wearing basic: black/dark non tshirt shirt, long cardigan (open front “jumper”, maybe, to you), and new grade looking deep indigo jeans. Black boots. Some variation, but that’s a normal street clothes look for me at work. You know how it is, some of us dress like we live in a type of street clothes uniform because we dislike shopping, multiples of the same items.
No one noticed I was wearing jeans for over two years, or if they did, they said nothing. Then one day, a new house supervisor saw me stooped over a computer out on unit at the nurses station, documenting before I was about to head out, and awkwardly approached to first clarify that I was wearing jeans and then to again, awkwardly, tell me jeans are not allowed at the facility.
Pause, two workers look at my legs, one says “Those are jeans?” Leans in, peers closely, then says “I guess they are.”
My point is, enforcement of non-egregious dress code violations are a choice. Those choices often rest with single individuals.
In neither case do these jeans disrupt the environment. In neither case were people harmed by the wearing of jeans. Nor are the trousers of choice tools required for standardizing the way a task/sport is completed. Offensive? Maybe to a prior generation in a “that is just not how things are done!” kind of way that is primarily fed by generational inertia.
For my part, unless I wanted to start wearing skirts, leggings (not appropriate for work imo), or wedding attendance level clothing, this change required me to go shopping.
Given how professional poker players dress, I’m not sure what the “sport” application of a uniform in chess is for, beyond “this is just how we do things”inertia.
- Comment on OpenAI whistleblower who died was being considered as witness against company 5 weeks ago:
Word choice is telling. Where’s the “was killed”?
- Comment on OpenAI whistleblower who died was being considered as witness against company 5 weeks ago:
All this talk about Luigi when the real story is the string of whistleblower deaths this year. Where’s the focused search for their killers?
- Comment on Patient gamer badge of honor on the Steam Replay 2024 1 month ago:
This is how budgeting works. Wait for the “old” sale so it’s cheaper money wise. Wait for the first few patches to roll out so you don’t spend that other precious commodity, time, on anything other than actual gameplay.
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 1 month ago:
I hate people.
- Comment on Leaked video shows UnitedHealth CEO saying insurer will continue practices that combat 'unnecessary' care 1 month ago:
Government intervention outside of use of the military will not be forthcoming.
- Comment on Judge Rejects Sale of Infowars to The Onion 1 month ago:
That’s disappointing.
- Comment on Give us your best infodump. 1 month ago:
This is so true, and I can’t even type that without a severe eyeroll of agreement.
I think that’s why some people wax poetic on Reddit or Lemmy with very little provocation. Finally…a captive audience that might read this info, even if they’re just passing time on the shitter…
- Comment on ugh i wish 1 month ago:
It has been contracted by humans, but because we pasteurize and ultra pasteurize, the problem has been mostly moot. I’m still using ultra pasteurized dairy. It’s typically those who work very closely with the animals and such. Many a farmer will dip into that raw milk for their own table too.
CDC data has 29 human cases 15 of which were serious to critical, with 7 deaths. That is NOT a large enough pool to establish a meaningful percentage, but it’s worth keeping an eye on with some level of concern. Especially with the number of medically minded dipshits we have in this country.
- Comment on ugh i wish 2 months ago:
I mean, viruses are kind of Trumps thing. Maybe H5N1 kills another million or so to mark his second term.
- Comment on ugh i wish 2 months ago:
Surely this is satire. One of you guys made this as a joke, right? Right?!?
- Comment on USA | Trump threatens to impose sweeping new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China on first day in office 2 months ago:
The headline should read:
President-elect Trump is threatening sweeping new, higher product costs on American people as soon as he takes office.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 2 months ago:
Actually, the brain worm never died, it is sentient, and this is part of the RFK worm’s long term goal to infect the nation via destruction of the FDA. The rest is there simply as distraction.
(This comment is for the readers of Parasite by Mira Grant.)
- Comment on BACK IT UP 2 months ago:
If they break that infrastructure the long term impact won’t be immediately evident, which means the impetus to fix it will match that of climate change.
- Comment on Turkey Temptation 2 months ago:
That is what I meant, I’m largely ignoring the legos.
In a forced choice scenario I’d guess no, it just sounds too gross and too likely to disintegrate the bird off the line.
- Comment on Turkey Temptation 2 months ago:
Does it matter? It’s fun. And park rangers are good people, keeping humanity from ruining nice things on the daily.
- Comment on Turkey Temptation 2 months ago:
I’ve always thought it tasted like chicken gone a bit off. I love chicken though so maybe the deviation from that is what I’m objecting to, hard to say.
Maybe it is gamey. I’ve not eaten wild fowl so I have nothing to compare it too.
- Comment on 'Democrat propaganda': Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to team up with Musk to defund NPR 2 months ago:
More fund drives.
- Comment on Lindsey Graham warns US allies over Netanyahu warrant: "Crush your economy" 2 months ago:
Spoiler: not before President Musk and Trump crush our own.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 2 months ago:
I think it’s a large variation of a syringe needle that chips our pets, but aside from that monstrously large setup that isn’t even used on humans, no.
Closest thing I can think of is the capsule sized camera that can be swallowed to collect data as it travels through that long tube that connect mouth to anus. Even then, I’ve never seen that setup used on anyone.
- Comment on Turkey Temptation 2 months ago:
TIL
People, man. Park rangers are the nation’s cat herders. The amount of stupidity they intercept, well, I’m glad I don’t have to do it, and I’m more than happy to see my tax dollars fund their health care.
Insofar as that still happens going forward. We may not have national parks in 4 yrs.
- Comment on chirp 2 months ago:
It’s not song so much as it’s screaming about sex and food.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 2 months ago:
Vaccines are the laziest, lowest effort medicine we have. There is no medical treatment that is more effective for so little actual work on the part of the patient. Which is exactly the kind of medicine we need to have the greatest impact on the population base.
- Comment on flouride 2 months ago:
Satire, I think.
Classic ice cream sales and violent crimes in summer correlation.