SoleInvictus
@SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower 1 day ago:
The gasoline powered blowers are also one of the worst polluting motors in common use.
- Comment on [Kind of weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 1 week ago:
Surprisingly well! I’ve been dealing with a toxic coworker who was terminated for their toxicity, so that was encouraging. I have a chronic illness that has been flaring up that is now starting to chill out again. Best of all, my workaholic wife just had a revelation that working herself to death is bad and her employer is taking advantage of her. She might just quit her job for awhile and I’d love that. She has literally several months of PTO banked so it’s doable.
So nothing amazing happened, but the big three negative things in my life just became less negative and the reduction in stress is huge.
- Comment on Mona: Australia women's-only museum files appeal to keep men out 1 week ago:
Or what will happen is all private businesses in communities high in inherent prejudice will exclude certain out groups and pressure any businesses that don’t to either conform or they’ll be boycotted, harassed, and/or vandalized until they go under.
- Comment on Amazon Customer Service has become awful 1 week ago:
You’re just the guy complaining in great length about someone complaining about such an inconsequential thing. That’s way better!
- Comment on Amazon Customer Service has become awful 1 week ago:
It has been awhile since I’ve seen a troll account so aptly named.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
Thanks so much for taking the time to write this up. I just told my wife we’re moving to Chile and she thinks I’m crazy. Of course, lacking any context from here, that makes sense.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
Thanks for the tip! I’m from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. As things here start to look increasingly concerning, we’re considering our options.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
¡Es la verdad!
I’ve actually considered moving to Chile. How are things there?
- Comment on Draw your own conculsions 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget other factors, like stress, poor diet, reduced physical activity, and obesity. At least in the United States, all of these things are worse than ever.
- Comment on Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites 2 weeks ago:
That’s why kid me had a handy stack of DDoS tools. My bot and I defended DALnet’s #sailormoon and its denizens from Nazis, racists, and trolls. Yeah, I was a dork.
- Comment on WWSAD 2 weeks ago:
Standard lefty fare: get rid of the surprisingly small group of people who ensure we don’t benefit equally so they can skim increasingly large amounts off the top of our very existence while providing little benefit themselves. What that looks like is pretty contextual. I’d prefer a non-violent, gradual transition of power, but telling a bunch of entitled sociopaths they don’t get to leech off the world because they popped out of the right crotch historically hasn’t been an easy or friendly process. They get real pissy.
Incrementally, people can band together and just oust their economic and cultural oppressors. A fun, somewhat related example is ROC USA, a non-profit that helps residents of manufactured home parks collectively purchase the land they previously rented. More generically, workers cooperatives are democratically ran, worker owned businesses, so anything that benefits the cooperative benefits the workers. If someone’s job is made irrelevant, they’re moved to another position and the increased efficiency/income benefits all workers, not a parasite class that is paid simply for buying an imaginary portion of the company.
So basically, we change how we do everything and either wrest power from the hands of the few or start doing our own thing that economically stonewalls them. I’ve always wanted to start a non-profit grocery store!
- Comment on WWSAD 2 weeks ago:
I agree with you, 100%. I absolutely would, just not without compensation. I’m a big ol’ dirty lefty. I believe if we lose jobs to increased efficiency or automation, all society should benefit, not just the rich, and those who have lost those jobs shouldn’t just be kicked to the curb as they so commonly are.
- Comment on WWSAD 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a huge AI fan but I think using it to visualize the bizarre shit that people would draw if they could is a good application. Just don’t use it to put people out of work without compensation.
- Comment on Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such? 2 weeks ago:
I have to admit, I saw your comment and was like “no fucking way”.
So I looked it up and… Yes fucking way. That’s crazy!
- Comment on kids are gowing up faster and faster 2 weeks ago:
You are 100% correct. Unfortunately, due to the nature of my business, my access to sensitive information, and the mind blowing incompetence of whoever wrote our IT security policies, they won’t do so. My PC is locked down tight to keep sensitive data from wandering off… Except for how I can connect my phone, transfer data to it, analyze it on my PC, and transfer the results back using my phone. That is actually the IT sanctioned workaround. It makes my brain hurt.
- Comment on kids are gowing up faster and faster 2 weeks ago:
Can confirm, it’s not just you. I had no problem with it in college and my first job because I had full access to my system. My latest two jobs, though, fucking hell is it a pain in my ass, especially since I’m not required to use it but am doing so voluntarily to up the quality of our data analysis (it used to be terrible descriptive statistics and incorrectly performed Excel t tests). So IT doesn’t want to even touch it yet I need their constant password pasting to make it go.
I just bring my own laptop when I need to do stats to things.
- Comment on evangelism 2 weeks ago:
If that’s true, then that makes all employees subcontractors.
Not all consultants are self employed.
- Comment on The more air conditions in an area the hotter becomes around it. In turn increasing the demand for AC. Talk about infinite money glitch. 2 weeks ago:
Gazebo!
- Comment on evangelism 2 weeks ago:
I do NOT miss being yelled at by some middle management Kevin about how I’m charging them $275 per hour to justify their getting whatever crazy shit isn’t in the purchase agreement. I wish I made $275/hour. That’d be amazing.
- Comment on All the data so far is showing inflation isn't going away, and is making things tough on the Fed 2 weeks ago:
I’m afraid to ask this, but is that adjusted for inflation and normalized by business entity or similar? I know corporate greed is out of control, I’m just trying to figure out if that graph is good representative data or not.
- Comment on A photography depicting the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza - 2565 BCE. 3 weeks ago:
Declining mana concentrations affect us all!
- Comment on figs 1 & 2 3 weeks ago:
I love figs so much, I’d still eat them even if they were full of wasps.
- Comment on salmon 3 weeks ago:
They’re so weird! Imagine going through your life sleek and swift, just to turn into Quasimodo once you hit puberty. Then you die.
- Comment on salmon 3 weeks ago:
Oh no, they change that much and sometimes even more. The hump is a sexual selection trait - the bigger the hump, the more likely it is that a male will get to mate. While not all pink salmon get a hump that large, the Barry Whites of the humpy salmon world have a great big shoulder boulder that makes the lady fish swoon.
Here’s one of those fishy freaks: www.landbigfish.com/articles/default.cfm?ID=352
- Comment on Study that asked people to count squashed bugs reveals worrying results 3 weeks ago:
My wife has to handle those guys for me now. They blatantly lie about their product and I got nasty with one when I started calling them on their bullshit. Fuckers are destroying the planet to make a very small amount of money.
- Comment on NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden 4 weeks ago:
I think you’re right. Everything is just a little bit wrong.
- Comment on best anime to start on 4 weeks ago:
Golden Boy, hands down.
- Comment on isopods are friends 4 weeks ago:
clap clap clap clap
- Comment on Tell Borts I said "Hi" 4 weeks ago:
How could I forget the Crabbe Brothers, good ol’ Shimp and Shamp?
- Comment on Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets 5 weeks ago:
Not at all! It drives me nuts. I’ve tried watching movies with Bluetooth headphones on, so as not to bug my wife at night, and it just feels off. Almost like watching old subtitled movies. I checked it out and my headphones have a ~250ms response time. My car’s system literally has a nearly two second delay and I can’t take it.