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- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 12 hours ago:
- Comment on Political leaning 3 days ago:
Eeeeaaahhhhhh…
My eyes are burning reading that…
- Comment on Heavy snow when you're a kid is a dream come true, heavy snow when you're an adult is a nightmare. 3 days ago:
Well I nipped that bitch in the bud.
Just came in from shoveling the driveway - AND did the street margin up to the walkway of my house, leaving the curbstone exposed, so that the plow drivers will know where the edge is. Had a city worker come along and go tightly along the curb and got the stuff I’d chipped loose, so that was WAY hella nice of him. Get that road-crusty wet shit outta the way.
I will likely go out in another 5 hours and clean the space up where my husband parks, so he can just come in tonight after work with no problem.
- Comment on Heavy snow when you're a kid is a dream come true, heavy snow when you're an adult is a nightmare. 3 days ago:
NGL, any time by a fire is nice. Snow or not.
- Comment on Heavy snow when you're a kid is a dream come true, heavy snow when you're an adult is a nightmare. 3 days ago:
It’s not “heavy” snow - that is lots and lots of it… it’s heavy wet snow that is the absolute fucker.
So far this winter, here in coastal New England, it’s been powdery and cold. Easy-peasy to shovel.
Love it!
- Comment on Because, f**k you! That's why. 3 days ago:
Yup. Bazzite for the win!
- Comment on Facebook is absolutely cooked 6 days ago:
Hm.
I just logged into my fb account and got zero shit like that. Just posts from a distant cousin, a few local people I follow and my local news.
I make it a point to hide/block all the extraneous shit that the feed offers - and have sone so for years - so maybe that’s the difference?
Weird.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 1 week ago:
Good lord what a clown.
- Comment on Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs 1 week ago:
Oooh, IIRC it dawned on me about the time that facebook insisted all users have their actual names on their pages. (I can’t remember when that was, maybe 2012 or 2013? Not sure, it was a while ago however.)
That was the red flag for me.
It was also the point when I deleted my posts and comments on fb (it took months to get it all) then unfriended everyone and logged out for a month. When I logged back in I had a handful of comments on the (ex-)friends pages that popped up, since the feed will scour the servers to show you content on your home page, so I re-friended them, deleted the comments, logged out and waited another month. After the last time I logged in (I did four deletion waves of comments) fb was showing me totally random strangers “I Might Know…”
Perfect.
I then changed up my primary email on FB to my yahoo throwaway, logged out for another month, logged in with the new email and made a totally fake name for myself… Who I am does not exist on facebook, nor are any friends or family listed as friends and no one can see anything on my page.
- Comment on Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs 1 week ago:
You know… here’s the thing…
Years ago, I’d be on Reddit and reading the usual rants and raves about the government, and how the public should be wary of it and we are heading into a security state… and I always positied that the real threat actors WRT privacy and security were going to be companies like facebook and google and the businesses that made internet-connected devices.
Compared to them, as far as data colleciton and surveillance of people - the government was filled with rank amateurs.
I’d consistently get downvoted or pooh-poohed for being “naive.”
God fucking dammit… on this… I am absolutely pissed off that I was calling this one - and have been - for over a decade.
FML, I hate this SOOOOOO much.
- Comment on Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"? 1 week ago:
I am certain Spez and his minions/investors (fuck /u/spez) doesn’t want people to start using alternatives.
Dude, that is the absolute truth. After I got banned in October, I spent days using logins on several different devices I had and deleted ALL my posts (back to 2010) and got the last years worth of comments (the prior 14 years were of course made unavailable when Reddit locked down the database to prevent AI from scraping the site…) and then tried to delete the account.
Tried to.
Reddit won’t even let users delete their accounts.
If that’s not ginning the numbers of users to look good for the investors, I don’t know what is. Point of fact, I’m probably not the only person to notice this behavior and methinks it’s part of why Reddit stock is lower than the market says it should be and they’re reassessing “user metrics.”
I’ve certainly not been silent online about the fact that I was permabannned yet cannot delete my account.
Reddit fuckiness, for sure.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 1 week ago:
Holy shit. Lemme guess… it’s a southern state and in a majority black district?
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 1 week ago:
Oh, I recognize that ‘script!’ Just like my younger brothers when we were kids.
I like that you’re getting sneaky with it. The thing with the comic book lettering or the architectural stuff is that it is all capitals. Is a good start for just getting the shapes down and the basics are of course squares.
My younger brother was an emergency C-section and he came out fully purple as the umbilical cord had wrapped around his neck and was choking him…
Ended up with impared development due to lack of oxygen and he was diagnosed on the Autism spectrum - used to be called Aspergers… He would literally sit on a pillow on the floor and rock back and forth for hours and God save you if you touched him. He’d freak out. Too much stimulus. When he was still an infant, folks had to feed him by leaning him back and putting a small throw pillow on his belly and propping his bottle on that.
Touch was too much.
Dad taught him to write with the architectural lettering and he’s now in his late 50’s and has a beautiful script.
It takes time and it’s just a matter of finding something the kid can latch on to and be excited by. Brother loved Star Trek and sci-fi in general so we ran with that.
Part of his adult education classes he was taking a few years ago involved writing a page of whatever he wanted… So he wrote a short science fiction story - as he put it - more of a part of a chapter of a story he’d had in his head… It was quite well written!
I told him he should keep at it once the class was over. Instead he decided to focus on cooking afterwards. Who’da thought?
He’s a fantastic cook, eats better than I do - is all organic and whole foods. So funny how we all turned out.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 1 week ago:
This was a public school and they tolerated this shit?
Sweet Jesus the standards have fallen.
Is it the parents, school board and administration or a combination of all 3?
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 1 week ago:
The fine motor control that comes of handwriting is critical if he likes to tinker or discovers any sort of work/hobby that requires manual dexterity.
Keep pushing on that, also, get a book on how to print like you’re writing the dialogue in a comic book or how to print like an architect making a blueprint. If he can work out the spaes and spacing, he can develop his own legible style in time and move on to a fusion-style cursive with those print shapes… It realy does make a difference in note-taking.
My dad was a design draftsman and taught me how to do that block print that I’d see on blueprints, and I have a super easy to read cursive based on that now.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 1 week ago:
… it’s a problem that’s arisen because class sizes are out of control …
If I may ask, just how large are the classes today?
For reference, in 1980, my 10th grade English class (Mrs. Chase, she was awesome) had 36 students.
That was average for my school at the time.
The BIG classes like general US History (taught by Mr. Conway, who was wildly popular) had 40+ kids.
Mr Conway also kept a real honest to goodness stocks in his class room, so anyone that misbehaved had two options… into the stocks for the class or off to the assistant Vice Prinicpal’s office and spend a day in ISS. (in school suspension)
There would ALWAYS be one jackass Junior in each class that would opt for the stocks, at the start of every year and then NO one EVER caused a beef in Mr. Conway’s classes - or really ANY of the government studies (US History, Civics, Social Studies) deparement classes… Hearing about who chose the stocks and the rumors usually scared the underclassmen shitless, so they rarely ever piped up… except for the really stupid smartasses that always tried to test how far they could go…
- Comment on This past week, Lemmy has gotten really good 1 week ago:
Absolutely. It’s a testament to what people that care can do.
I love it here.
- Comment on This past week, Lemmy has gotten really good 1 week ago:
NGL, I got permabaned there in October… just 2 weeks shy of 15 years… Found old.lemmy.zip, fell in and fell in love.
Haven’t missed Reddit at all.
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 1 week ago:
God, I hope so…
- Comment on Sleep well 1 week ago:
Fuck yeah… I so would buy this.
- Comment on Lemmynsfw is down, possibly forever. The server is still serving images and videos though - if anyone wants to archive do it now! 1 week ago:
…get along with banks that would normally turn their nose up to a literal porn site…
Ohhhh, banks and big corporations have quietly had their fingers in Adult Entertainment for decades.
One of my favorite gay porn actors - who was also a phenomenally proportioned model, which was how I first discovered him - gave many interviews while he was in the business and he often stated that the public would be surprised by who the backers and investors in a lot of the studios and sites really were. Big business and finance.
- Comment on A lot of people know what to think. Much fewer people know how to think. 1 week ago:
How to think… yeah… hmmm…
- Comment on Adulting is hard 1 week ago:
Adulting is hard… BUT, if you can sort the basics - cooking your own healthy food (the biggest thing), staying in shape, (get a solid night’s sleep!) having good friends in your social swirl, a job you can tolerate and finding a decent place to live that you can manage and afford… the rest falls into place.
- Comment on The Realest Shitpost Out Here In A While.. 2 weeks ago:
Good God… why? J
ust buy me a dinner, no need to go all scat-fetish happy first. LOL!
I honestly think - as the room is at the back of a shop and the exit to the parking lot is right there - that they left that evening and saw it and were just too embarassed to deal with it.
- Comment on The Realest Shitpost Out Here In A While.. 2 weeks ago:
The person whom I think dropped those quite healthy deuces, felt awful about the poopsplosion and happened to be in town a few nights later, and bought me a dinner… Out of the blue?
Hmmm.
Thank you.
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- Comment on To demonstrate that people will argue about anything, here's a picture of a ladybug. 2 weeks ago:
That’s a delightful ladybug. I have one that’s got a picture of a bandage on it…
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 2 weeks ago:
LOL!
No. I’d much rather watch, than tell, stories.
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 2 weeks ago:
Don’t I wish!
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 2 weeks ago:
It aligns itself with the magnetic field of metal of the stove and starts a transduction of capicitive resonation that interferes with the polaritive vibrations of the planetary magnetic field.
This in turn creates a localized pulse of geomagnetic interference that the fan blades are sensitive to, and their shape works to create a single direction rotation that both pushes air and traps the interference and creates a perpetual motion at the same time.
Brilliant engineering, honestly.
