acockworkorange
@acockworkorange@mander.xyz
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 5 minutes ago:
He was just dumb. He spent unwisely. The best things in life are free. Like the support of moguls like Murdoch from Fox News.
- Comment on It's got electrolytes 2 days ago:
Pickle juice before intense mountain biking 🦾
- Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads 3 days ago:
Damn!
- Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads 3 days ago:
Worked with an industrial robot one that had 700V 0.5F electrolytic capacitors on its power supply. Those things were massive.
- Comment on Could I seek asylum as a US trans person in Costa Rica (or other countries)? 4 days ago:
You’re very unlikely to get asylum, but with your skills you can get a work visa in many places. You can start by narrowing down to places in which language isn’t a barrier for you. Then look at their embassy website and search for residence or work visa to check the process and retirements.
In parallel, have a passport handy. You aren’t going anywhere without one.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 4 days ago:
Listen to my mixtape, duh.
- Comment on Recycled Plastic is a Toxic Cocktail: Over 80 Chemicals Found in a Single Pellet 5 days ago:
A new study with researchers from University of Gothenburg and Leipzig shows that recycled polyethylene plastic can leach chemicals into water causing impacts in the hormone systems and lipid metabolism of zebrafish larvae.
“Recycled plastic can leach chemicals into water” would have been a better headline. “Recycled plastic can leach X% more chemicals into water than ‘virgin’ plastic” would be even better.
Still, I better not house my zebrafish in a recycled polyethylene aquarium, I guess.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 6 days ago:
Down to the red shirt.
- Comment on YSK: What a Proxy War is. 6 days ago:
Rule 2
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 6 days ago:
Or they care about you and want you to “see the light”. Most people drinking the conspiracy kool-aid aren’t evil, just gullible and ignorant.
- Comment on Come on in 1 week ago:
At least you have one.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 1 week ago:
People are different and respond to the same message differently depending on the source. OP might have an in with their loved one and therefore a chance of changing their minds.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 1 week ago:
It depends on how invested you are in their health. I wouldn’t do that to my mother, for instance.
- Comment on Black Morph Russian Sand Boa (Eryx Miliaris) 1 week ago:
Its face looks like a hand inside a sock.
- Comment on Size matters: Sharks follow two-thirds scaling law, proving theory 1 week ago:
Phys.Org is a mixed bag in the best of days.
- Comment on ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r 1 week ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r 1 week ago:
That’s neat, thanks!
- Comment on ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r 1 week ago:
Any plans of releasing the terms as open source, so smaller instances can adopt them?
- Comment on Evolution made us cheats, now free-riders run the world and we need to change 1 week ago:
Goodman says: “We see this happening today, as evidenced by the rise of the Julius Caesar of our time—Donald Trump— but it is a situation that evolution has predicted since the origins of life and later, language, and which will only change form again even if the current crises are overcome.”
Dude…
- Comment on Ok smartass 1 week ago:
Ah, good ole decimal time.
- Comment on Researchers create method for converting urine into high-value bio-implant material 1 week ago:
Urine for a surprise!
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 1 week ago:
He didn’t even do a good job in SAP.
- Comment on Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts 1 week ago:
Right. For perspective, I once paid $200 for a single Xray (needed 3, total $600, not counting the doctors bill). And that’s with health insurance.
If you have to go to urgent care, expect to pay close to $1000 for simple needs, much higher than that for more complex needs. An ambulance ride can cost upwards of $5000, and an airlift is several times that.
Then you add the complete absence of consumers rights and little to no oversight on industrial activity. Lead and PFA poisoned water, food additives that are banned in most of the developed world, sugar in everything,… It’s near impossible not to get sick here.
- Comment on Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts 1 week ago:
Good shape? I think something got lost in translation.
- Comment on Couples with opposing political views face higher risk of separation 1 week ago:
Sometimes it goes as deep as value systems.
- Comment on The Way You Breathe Is Unique to You, Like a Fingerprint 1 week ago:
You just cast Manual Breathing on us.
- Comment on Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts 1 week ago:
How could I ever cope without your words of wisdom.
- Comment on Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts 1 week ago:
I have no clue where in the world he resides. I’m just trying and failing to clue you in on how the world works.
- Comment on Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts 1 week ago:
A two bedroom, one bathroom house built in the 80s in San Francisco cost $1.1 million a couple years back. I don’t suppose cost of living in most big cities went down.
For comparison, Mitchell Baker, the former CEO of Mozilla, saw her yearly pay rise from $2.4 million in 2018 to 6.9 million in 2022. I think it’s perfectly adequate for the CEO of matrix to earn the salary of a moderately successful software engineer.
- Comment on Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts 1 week ago:
80k plus all of society’s trappings of France. Dude, it’s not even a comparison. Worker’s rights, healthcare, public transit, safety, security…