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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it depends on climate, but bread left out where I am gets moldy way before it gets stale. The best solution is to keep it in the freezer (in a bag, and any of those methods but CE would probably be fine). Weeks later, the bread is still soft and send fresh. Bread thaws unbelievably fast. If I’m making a sandwich, I take two slices out and put them on a plate separated. Usually by the time I’ve got the other ingredients ready to go, the bread is thawed. If you’re toasting the bread, it can go straight from freezer to toaster. If you’re making sandwiches to take to work or school, you can just make them on the frozen bread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The fridge is the worst place. Try the freezer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't try this at home⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, man, the risk of infection in a bone is SO high, and can easily be fatal. Very bad idea. He’d be better off yanking the tooth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't try this at home⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, exactly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve discussed work/careers with a lot of people around your age over the years. Here’s what I end up saying - it’s broader than your specific situation, but includes it:

  • If there’s something that you’re so passionate about that you’ll do it as an unpaid hobby, you might as well take a shot at making money from it. If it’s something like art or music, where there’s a huge amount of competition and only a tiny percentage are able to sustain themselves from it, you should have a Plan B, and set yourself some guidelines for long you’ll try it, but you might as well give your a go if it’s a passion.

  • If there’s nothing you’re super passionate about, but a number of things you enjoy, you should take some time to look into what a career in each of those things is like. What are the hours, what is the typical pay, etc. Pick the one that fits with a lifestyle that clicks with you.

  • If you don’t have anything from either of the two above, do you have any skills or aptitudes that are sellable? For instance, if you’re good at math, you might be a good fit for accounting. If you’re good with your hands, you might consider a trade skill like plumbing or mechanic. You funny have to be passionate about those things to have a good job doing them.

  • If you have zero from any of the above, look for a job that wouldn’t suck after some years. A business that’s willing to take untrained people, doesn’t chew them up and spit them out, and that has room for advancement so that you have some possibility of increasing pay over your career.

  There are lots of big chain retail stores that will take people right out of high school, but for many of them their model is to train you up quickly, load you up with responsibility, promote you if you work out well, and then within a couple years start cutting your hours to drive you away because they can get a new high school kid for cheaper.

  There are lots and lots of jobs and businesses that just suck, and you want to position yourself to not be in them. Most people don’t have something they’ve always wanted to do and are super passionate about. It’s fine to have a job vs a career, but you don’t want to find yourself at 40 slaving away at a shitty job for little pay, wishing you’d gotten a degree in one thing or another so you could be working fewer hours for more pay. And I’m not saying it’s all about money, but lack of a living wage is a real problem for a lot of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sorry i never replied⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I retired in January, and I’m having this issue to a point it feels insane. The other night I got undressed for bed and was dumbfounded when I saw that the hamper I was tossing my clothes into was otherwise empty. My brain just could not accept that I was at the end of the same day that featured doing laundry earlier. That had to be at least the day before. But I’ve had other things that were the opposite: didn’t I just run the dishwasher? No, that was a week ago.

  I have no time cues. Trash day is about the only think that happens on a regular schedule. Some days I’m busy and they go quicker. Some days are mostly reading or whatever, and they go on forever. After 40 years of getting up and going to work, with certain things happening certain days, it feels pretty surreal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨are there bots that downvote every comment users have?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember a long time ago noticing, while sorting by new, that posts in some communities had downvotes within seconds of being posted, so yes I think there are bots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Few things in life are pure binary, and that’s especially true of humans themselves. My take on Gates is that he was a smart but cutthroat businessman who did a number of things that were at least somewhat unethical, and became one of the richest people in the world. Then he got older and started thinking about his life and his legacy. He has been giving away huge sums of money to really worthwhile causes, like trying to eradicate malaria. He seems pretty sincere in his lobbying for increased taxes for the rich.

  Does his philanthropy now erase his unscrupulous behavior when he was young? Not to me, but I do believe he’s genuine in wanting to make the world s better place and putting his riches to good use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something Bill Gates actually agrees with. He’s one of the super rich who has been outspoken about the rich needing to pay more taxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Normally: awfully darned funny. When sleep deprived: hardly funny at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old-school Creative Sound Blaster cards repaired and demoed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a Sound Blaster 16 in my computer from about that year. Had totally forgotten that sound cards were almost as prevalent as video cards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨POV: You're too shy to tell the medical staff that you just woke up during surgery.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife had a procedure under general - one where they had her legs pulled away back after she was out. She woke up during it to the point where she could hear them talking, but she couldn’t say anything. She told the doctor at the follow-up that she heard them talking and he said lots of people think that, but it’s just hallucinations from the drugs. She said, “One of the things you talked about was your kid’s soccer game,” and he got an “Oh shit” expression and moved the conversation to something else.

  Why did he do that, you might ask? Because another thing they did was make fun of my wife in the position she was in. Extremely unprofessional, and she could have made a stink about it, but she just indirectly let him know she heard it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you answer the question "What's new with you?" when nothing happens in your life?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not an absolute rule, but it’s true in the vast majority of cases. The coloring is on the X chromosome, and males usually have only one, but some males with have an extra X chromosome (XXY) and those can be calico. It’s rare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's no longer easy to play April Fool's jokes on Americans because their reality is so chaotic that it's no longer easy to tell what is real, funny, fake or sad.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It feels like there’s few pranks these days that don’t end up being cruel. We have enough horrifyingly outrageous things in the news, that is the prank is trying to make us think something horrible happened that didn’t, we sure don’t need that. On the other hand, if it’s trying to make us think that something good happened, but it didn’t, then that’s a really perverse cruelty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I clean this mess?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not for PLA

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a good way to buy chrome lettering in the same font as the brand's original lettering on the back of the car?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No expert, but it seems unlikely. My understanding is that big brands generally use custom fonts, so you’re unlikely to find generic lettering that matches. But maybe you can find something close enough?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure why some people are disagreeing - it for sure fits the definition. I’m not exactly sad about it - Musk is helping to rip apart the country and I have a hard time blaming people who feel that helping to rip apart one of his companies is about all they can do - but committing arson to further an ideology is terrorism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did you get your job?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, a NASA and DOD contractor. Worked on some neat stuff over the years, including the electrical power system for the space station. I ended up managing the software engineering group, and really liked that - very smart people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did you get your job?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Old guy checking in. I was a computer science major, graduating in 1985. My goal at the time was to go into computer animation (note that Toy story, the first full length computer animated movie, wasn’t released until ten years later). But there was a big computer animated project that was canceled or tabled just before my last semester, so the market was flooded with out of work animators and I decided I’d better do something different. I was getting married, and I needed a job.

  I had good grades, but I didn’t think there was much that made my resume stand out from my classmates, each of whom was making 100+ copies of theirs and applying to every software job they could find. So instead, I asked everyone I knew if they knew anyone who worked at a place that hired software people, and asked if they could get me a name of a hiring manager. I got seven or eight of those, and I sent each of them a letter with my resume, mentioning who pointed me their direction. Out of that I got three interviews and two job offers. My first job ended up being writing control software for the space shuttle main engines, and I stayed at the company almost 40 years. I just retired in January.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having a baby? Use this one weird trick!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t they just elect a fairly liberal president?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patients with long Covid regain sense of smell and taste with pioneering surgery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife lost her sense of taste and smell because of COVID, but just for a week or so. I hadn’t considered how soul crushing that is. Food just becomes whatever the texture is. I remember her popping a Reese’s peanut butter cup into her mouth, then spitting it out. She said it was like having a lump of shortening in her mouth - all she tasted was the oil. She’s a daily coffee drinker, but coffee was just gross to her. She was getting pretty depressed before it came back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens if I eat a box of paper clips before an MRI?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They wouldn’t do the MRI because they’d be ripped through your body

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, broccoli is wonderful microwaved. Put it in a covered dish with just a little water. For a couple servings, I do on high like 2.5 minutes. Easy to adjust the time to get it just the way you want it. You can’t get it crispy that way, but it’s basically like perfectly steamed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I still consider myself a “young woman” after I turn 24? I turn 24 in March (next month).⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! Even though we’re ten years apart, I think we’re together on the tail end of the Lemmy age bell curve. It’s nice to have company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I still consider myself a “young woman” after I turn 24? I turn 24 in March (next month).⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all relative. I’m 62 - from my perspective you’ve only recently gone from being a girl to being a woman, so for sure a young woman. Of course in ten years I’ll be 72 and you’ll be 34, and I’d still call you a young woman.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What 5 Megabytes of Computer Data Looked Like in 1966 ~ Vintage Everyday⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember our first personal computer had 40 columns on the screen, but we ended up getting an 80 column graphics card for it.

  I taught myself basic, but the first language I took in college was fortran, and it was on cards. A bit of an aberration: they had moved on to somewhat more modern equipment, but the lab was being upgraded, so they reverted you the card system for a semester temporarily. It was out of date, but not wildly so at the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What 5 Megabytes of Computer Data Looked Like in 1966 ~ Vintage Everyday⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it might or not be a line of code - depends a lot on the language. It’s 80 bytes, and a byte is one character. You could have continuation cards if your line was more than 80. That wasn’t ever needed for assembly language, rarely for Fortran, but very common for COBOL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What 5 Megabytes of Computer Data Looked Like in 1966 ~ Vintage Everyday⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems about right. One card had 80 columns, a byte for each one, so 5,000,000 bytes divided by 80 would be 62,500 cards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Giving the neighbors a laugh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  According to translate, the side of the van says “Home delivery service, we always come.”

  Does that pun actually work in both English and German?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨eggs in japan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The protective barrier is true, but you’re either making assumptions about the rest or you’ve been misinformed. There really aren’t major issues in any of the developed countries today, but the washing and refrigeration is still the safest with the longest shelf life. It isn’t the condition the chickens are kept in - there are countries where it’s much, much worse than in the US - it’s just that chickens very easily carry salmonella.

  Many years ago, more countries washed, but there were some escapes, especially one from Australia with the eggs exported to the UK, and it got a bad name, so some countries dropped it, but the US figured out how to make it work consistently. Most countries require chickens to be vaccinated, but the US hasn’t needed to because of the washing and refrigeration.

  Lots of good info online. Here’s a USDA article on it, and here’s a higher level NPR piece.