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- Comment on So close! 3 weeks ago:
If you’re throwing out the pasta water, you’re wasting some very good stock to make the sauce you’ll put on said pasta.
- Comment on My wife says it's thanks to wearing sunscreen and avoiding cigarettes 4 weeks ago:
I wonder if we are going to be able to truly study the effects of plastic. We’ll surely be able to point at certain effects, but like porn, you just won’t be able to find people who can be the control group.
- Comment on Becoming a veterinarian is hard 4 weeks ago:
seagull is so much better though, because you can charge the client for the proctology AND the gynecology!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
That just sounds like one step up from what most consider vanilla sex. “Oh baby, I love it, harder, harder!” is about as much of a lie as “I have never consumed one unit of marijuana, sir.”
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Remember that these things are basically ad-hoc devices that snake oil salesmen have convinced government agencies to buy into. The fact that your muscles near the buttocks move is enough for them to get the next level of the MLM, the interviewers, to be convinced that it can detect it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The interviewers know this, and will fail you after reminding you multiple times that the only answers you can give is yes or no. The mental breakdown has to stay inside your head to be effective. ;)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Go take some classes on stress management and biofeedback and learn to control all those things they are testing for
The only real measure that they can read is your breathing rate. Everything else is so variable naturally that it’s just noise.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
There’s a pad that you sit on that will register the flexing of muscles in the area.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Because they get people to admit to things they wouldn’t otherwise. A polygraph test starts with the interviewer “just talking” (and those are massive, giant quotation marks there) to you for about a half hour. They slip in little statements about other, experienced officers who are currently employed despite past wrongdoings, “because they admitted” to the bad shit. Meanwhile, when you admit to bad shit, guess who’s not getting hired?
The interviewer will give you a giant list to go through, asking if you’ve done any of the hundreds of bad things, and ask you to explain any “yes” answers you give to the question of committing a crime.
So now you’re primed to confess to things, and the interviewer and agency gets to comb through those confessions to see if they don’t want to hire you. They also get to reject you if they don’t like you and blame it on you failing the ‘lie detector’ test, or the interviewer can simply say you’re lying.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Go read the book called, and I may be remembering this incorrectly, ‘Beat the polygraph.’ It goes into the history, the failures, and the ‘science’ of polygraphs. It’s enough to get you pretty deep in the subject without reading actual research papers.
- Comment on Plant shaming should be a thing 4 weeks ago:
I know that it’s probably a sign of impending ecological doom, but where I live used to have scorpions coming in all the time. I don’t think I’ve even seen evidence of them outside for close to a decade. I guess I can appreciate the silver lining of the giant mushroom cloud.
- Comment on On trees... 4 weeks ago:
Something, something, biology.
- Comment on YSK how to unclog a toilet 5 weeks ago:
If it’s the average western diet, it’s probably from the massive amount of toilet paper that was used to clean the asshole after their failure to use a bidet.
- Comment on Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do 5 weeks ago:
Who is still using a 7+1 gun these days? Are we in the fucking pacific islands shooting colt .45s at the japanese? Get yourself an extended 300+1 drum mag that slots into your automatic glock you’ve taken from the secret service or something.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The european death knot usually works pretty well. Or you could use a weaver’s knot, but it’s not as bulky. The ‘overhand’ family of knots is a pretty good bet for whenever you want a knot that absolutely will not come untied under tension.
- Comment on In the U.S., are all voting booth areas required to have carbon monoxide detectors? 5 weeks ago:
Tell me about it. Every time I get near the planes we use for skydiving, I can smell the damn difference.
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 5 weeks ago:
Alright, I give you the nerd credit. I’m just depressed because I found out there was a group starting a game in my theater troupe, but they’d capped it at 5 and I was too late. I’d even take D&D right now.
The end of the world sounds fun. I’d bet it would be a blast to throw that wrench in ‘session zero’ of a fate game (which is my personal favorite, even the prometheus and werewolf games don’t match up).
- Comment on Don't ask for more pixels 5 weeks ago:
maximal
Dinobot
I hate you in so many ways right now.
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 5 weeks ago:
also having more nerdy hobbies like D&D (actually, even nerdier: I play Pathfinder these days
pffffffffffffffft, those aren’t even nerdy. Those are like bringing kraft cheddar to a fancy cheese party and saying you’re a connoisseur. Let me know when you want to break out the real nerd braggadocio and start in on the fan-made white wolf spinoffs, or the burning wheel good times.
;)
- Comment on this lemmy? 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure boi’s never waking up next to an ugly chick again.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve seen one in real life. Maybe they just carried a fake id card as a joke, but this was in a billing department so I’m assuming it was real.
- Comment on Got any grapes? 5 weeks ago:
55-55, 5…5
- Comment on There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic. 1 month ago:
I’d have to go look up the exact wording, and it’s on my drive that I don’t have hooked up right now. GFCI was required for any outlet in a bathroom, but there was still a ban up until the most recent edition on any outlet within the… shoot, the word/phrase escapes me, something like ‘shower space,’ which includes the area with four horizontal feet of the edge of the bathtub. I have a toilet right next to the shower/tub combo, and a door next to the toilet, which meant no outlet allowed near the toilet and thus no electrically powered bidet.
- Comment on There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic. 1 month ago:
I’m just happy that the newest electrical code is allowing electrical outlets closer to bathtubs. Otherwise I’d never be able to have a powered bidet on my toilet.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 1 month ago:
Chaotic evil includes eating the heels of the bread first, because you don’t want that sweet extra protection layer from fungi.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 1 month ago:
This is the way. I rarely eat bread that isn’t at least warmed, so the only issue with the frozen bread is the effort it sometimes takes to separate slices.
- Comment on My playlist, everyone 1 month ago:
Right? I love it when the internationale comes up after some chvrches, then is followed by some screamo. Drives anyone in the car with me insane, but I get pumped.
- Comment on Onion be onioning again 1 month ago:
Instructions unclear, silicone now in bladder.
Also, it’s kinda ass to put that in someone else’s filter system, and you don’t want to be dealing with it in yours.
- Comment on Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses? 1 month ago:
The dedication of these individuals is noteworthy… What drives this persistence? Is it a deep-seated belief system that overrides rational analysis
It’s a lovely little combo of desperation and digging themselves into a hole. Most of the elements of sovereign citizens come from people who are not in good situations, as outlined by the canadian court’s very thorough opinion (which has already been linked twice in this thread, so I won’t bother it again). Once you’re in it, the same situation occurs that you can see with people in cults, mlm companies, or ponzi schemes. Maybe if you keep going, and pushing through the pain right now, you’ll get that mythical payoff. The alternative is to face the fact that you’ve likely ruined your life, rendering impossible whatever you hoped to achieve in the legal system in the first place.
- Comment on Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online? 1 month ago:
or if it’s “natural” to be attracted to 14yr old girls as an adult man (all topics I’ve seen on Lemmy)
Wait, what?