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- Comment on This is the life I dream of from my cubicle 3 weeks ago:
Writing with this thing sounds difficult because most of us write with our fingers. Proper writing technique is all arms since that allows you to write much more without fatigue. So as long as your elbows and shoulders are intact, you can just duct tape a pen to your stump and write just as well as you can with a hand. Think of writing on a chalkboard, but scale it down to a piece of paper.
- Comment on Give us your best infodump. 1 month ago:
I would argue that we still want them to know about pseudoscience, but also know enough about everything else to understand how the pseudoscience is wrong.
- Comment on How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down? 2 months ago:
This isn’t without its own problems. If you fail to renew your domain and someone else picks it up, they now have access to all your accounts. At least with a popular provider like Gmail, they don’t allow emails to be reused, and if they ever discontinue email services and drop the gmail.com domain, everyone will know about it and know that password reset requests should not be sent to these emails.
- Comment on Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce? 2 months ago:
What do you typically use your mayo for? I’m curious because all the stuff you add to your mayo is stuff that I would normally have in whatever dish is using the mayo, so I’m wondering if it actually makes a difference to have it blended in the sauce versus separate.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 2 months ago:
You want the url to look less suspicious, not more.
- Comment on Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat? 2 months ago:
GT Sophy on Gran Turismo
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 2 months ago:
It’s not pointless. Depending on where you live, there’s a good chance you do have an abundance of cheap housing available. They’re just not in desirable locations, so many would opt to either pay extra for the privilege of living in more desirable homes or even living on the streets.
Regarding taxes, I’m talking about those who haven’t previously paid taxes, are not currently paying taxes while living in the area, and have no plans to pay taxes after they leave the area.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 2 months ago:
How did that work when it came to deciding who gets the more desirable housing versus the less desirable ones? Or those who are not from the area and don’t pay taxes to cover the housing?
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure you mean that you’d like a world with no landlords and not a world where short term housing solutions don’t exist. No rent would imply the latter. Unless you know of a way to do it without paying rent?
- Comment on Pee posting? 2 months ago:
And she’s only getting half of the controls with no coordination between the two. She doesn’t know how strong of a stream you’re giving her and you can’t adjust it based on where she plans to point your dick.
- Comment on Eat lead 2 months ago:
This sentence is not known to be true by any omniscient being.
I don’t understand how this disproves the existence of an omniscient being. What if I said “This sentence is not known to be true by any logical being.” Is my existence disproven now?
- Comment on For states on the coast with excess solar energy why don't they invest in water desalination and pump that water back upstream? 3 months ago:
Could you process it further and package it up to sell as salt? Or is this not the same thing as table salt?
- Comment on Have you ever had a shit that smelled like a hair salon? 3 months ago:
I’ve noticed that it sometimes smells like epoxy glue. I wonder if we’re thinking of the same scent.
- Comment on Honey 3 months ago:
Or animal manure, or pesticides
- Comment on Fallout 4 is a great game with big flaws 3 months ago:
The game trying to force that plot twist felt very jarring and pulled me out of the immersion right from the start. My guy, you have no idea how long you’ve been in there. Why are you asking around for a child?
- Comment on The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that? 3 months ago:
Or maybe had to simultaneously work multiple full time jobs and a weekend job to make ends meet?
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 3 months ago:
Do you know if there’s anything for people who have no interest in merch or concerts? I’m thinking it would be pretty cool if someone set up a system where you pay a recurring amount and it gets split between artists based on what you listen to in your local library.
- Comment on Vinegar 3 months ago:
Hmmmm… A quick pickled depression you say
- Comment on Academic writing 4 months ago:
And that’s not all. It’s easy to tell someone the high level area that you’re working on, but to explain the exact problem you’re trying to solve and why it’s interesting? That’s a whole journey into many topics that are very unintuitive for human brains to grasp and sometimes require heavy mathematical abstractions to even see that there’s a problem to begin with.
- Comment on Academic writing 4 months ago:
If you’re reading an academic paper, you just follow the citations until someone defines it.
- Comment on Academic writing 4 months ago:
Yeah, it’s dumb. We write like normal people in academic papers too. I don’t know why they ever taught it this way.
- Comment on Why do social workers get upset when you don't want their help? 4 months ago:
That’s how they keep you from climbing the ranks. You need to take a loss for a while before things can actually get better, and you never know if it’ll be possible for you to get over that hump.
- Comment on Do all there former Republican leaders endorsing Harris do her any good? 4 months ago:
I suspect a big part of it is that he actually acknowledged that people are having problems, while Hilary decided to go “America is already great” as if their problems aren’t real.
- Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed 4 months ago:
You’re currently having a conversation on an article about cold storage. The comment you replied to was about this article, and hence also about cold storage. It makes absolutely no sense to come into this conversation saying that they’re wrong about how cold storage works because your experience with hot storage doesn’t line up.
- Comment on SponsorBlock (and DeArrow) - SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos; DeArrow is a crowdsourced extension to replace titles and thumbnails on YouTube video 4 months ago:
The majority of Mozilla’s income comes from advertising for Google
- Comment on Go already 5 months ago:
Traffic dynamics are really interesting. Even after you clear the obstruction, the traffic jam remains and becomes a “ghost jam” that propagates backwards down the road until it eventually fizzles out.
- Comment on how does a tote bag work? 5 months ago:
Everyone’s arms hang at different heights. There’s no way to design a static bag that fits everyone.
- Comment on how does a tote bag work? 5 months ago:
Loop the handle around the back of your wrist to shorten them.
- Comment on . . . 5 months ago:
Toss the crust
- Pro: No additional negative effect on your enjoyment of the food or your body
- Pro: compost and let the plants eat it
- Con: You cease to be a grown ass man
Eat the crust
- Con: Negative enjoyment
- Con: Extra Calorie consumed. More strain on the medical system.
If anything, eating the crust would be the “wasteful” decision. I’m sure if it were possible to get the same pizza without crust, all of these people would jump on that chance.
- Comment on . . . 5 months ago:
The smaller the pizza, the more crust there is relative to non-crust.