it_is_so_weird_to_be
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it_is_so_weird_to_be
5d ago
Once again, the whole of society must reorient so that parents aren't mildly annoyed with their toddler.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
1mo ago
Anecdotally, getting a water flosser device has greatly improved how my mouth and gums feel. I’ve never been a big flosser, have never had a cavity either. But that water pick thing is really nice.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
1mo ago
Trying to figure out how I can hack together a media device that meets the following requirements:
- Plugs into a TV via usb or hdmi without any additional power cable
- Automatically starts playing a video file that's stored on the device
Best I can figure is a fire stick or equivalent loaded with an app I found that will auto play video files, but those seem to require a power cable plugged into it. I thought about just using a USB stick with the file(s), but that would make the user navigate the file system and play it through the TV's media player - a bit more friction for the user than I'd like. An hdmi port doesn't supply enough power to run a raspberry pi so that idea went out.
Is this even possible?
it_is_so_weird_to_be
1mo ago
It seems far less likely to me for an animal in captivity to be infected with rabies, whether squirrel or raccoon, than one living in the wild.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
1mo ago
squirrels almost never have rabies and literally have never transferred it to humans
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5763497/
Exposure to rodents and lagomorphs has never been implicated as the cause of infection for a case of rabies in humans in the United States, nor are these animals considered natural reservoirs of the disease.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
1mo ago
They'll still take local housing and compete with local businesses. My point is only stopping employers from hiring them isn't enough.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
1mo ago
You'd have to criminalize renting to illegals, both residential and commercial. And selling property to them too. Setting up a business entity/LLC. They can and do just set up entire mini economies in some areas of cities. You'd have to criminalize so many different things to make moving here unappealing. And I'm sure even then there'd be a way for them to enjoy their lives here more than in whatever country they came from.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
2mo ago
Do you think you're on reddit or something?
it_is_so_weird_to_be
2mo ago
Probably some nationalistic pride in the face of a growing pushback against their presence in the host country.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
2mo ago
Democrats believe Trump explicitly wants to put his political opponents in jail and that he has no respect for the law
I just find it all so tiresome. Trump had the opportunity to jail his political opponents and didn't even try. Meanwhile, the democratic machine is going to extreme efforts to strain legal precedent in order to put their opponents in jail, and have had varying degrees of success. I have to believe that this is purely projection.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
2mo ago
Asking someone out potentially will benefit both parties and neither risks very much, so it isn't strange to me for either sex to do this. Marriage, however, is generally one-sided in terms of which party stands to gain and which stands to lose, so it is off-putting for women to be doing the proposing. I only really think this because of who is typically the breadwinner. If a young broke guy were with a wealthy woman, I'd also find it off-putting if the broke guy were pushing for marriage.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
2mo ago
SSRIs
it_is_so_weird_to_be
4mo ago
I had a similar thought and looked at a new dodge due to its appealing price compared to other vehicles in its segment. I was shocked at the plainly apparent inferior quality, down to the door handles being super bendy and shitty feeling. So in a sense it confirmed that Dodge/Chrysler products are still shit.
On the other hand I have recently rented two different Kias and my partner owns one as well. I have consistently been pleasantly surprised at how good the quality is on those cars, from the physical product to the software and electronics. So in my mind, Kias have definitely redeemed themselves.
I think a big factor is that people just don’t encounter all that many cars regularly enough to get a sense for their quality and longevity.
I’ve owned a number of different brands of cars and the best for me was an old mid-90s Chevy half ton. Reliable as hell and cheap to fix when something wears out. The worst was my Audi, which was actually my favorite by far up until it grenaded in the middle of the desert and left me in a pretty sticky situation. That experience has put me off from the brand basically forever.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
5mo ago
Interviewing for a new job, in the final steps. The recruiter has stated that the team lead wants to chat before they extend an offer as a get-to-know-you type of thing.
They have provided the team lead's linked in profile, and they're very clearly a "gender-goblin": purple hair with side shave, dressed as if they're at a renn-faire, pronouns galore, lots of posts about promoting DEI and complaints about white men.
Being a straight-white-male, what's the best way to approach this interview and potentially disarm this person's anti-straight-white-male prejudices? Do I ask about the company's DEI efforts and policies (even though I don't give a shit)? Do I attempt to come off as gay as possible (not too hard, I have gay-ish hobbies and I can fake a lisp)?
I really want this job, it would result in a 40% salary bump and my current job is sliding into a shit show. It would really suck to have it tanked by some progressive golem at the last mile.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
1yr ago
My big thing with voting machines is why the hell is their firmware/software NOT open source? That shit is what fuels the conspiracy theorist in my head. At this point, I want to be dying peoples thumbs blue or whatever the fuck they do in Africa, because there are just too many inconsistencies for me to be comfortable.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
1yr ago
Nutritional points aside, I don't get why vegans never seem to actually grapple with the morality of the fact that industrial agriculture kills millions of rodents, birds, and other animals all the time in the course of harvesting their crops. Unless you're getting all your vegetables from backyard farms, you're going to be killing animals in the course of harvesting your kale. This isn't a meme argument, if you have qualms about killing animals, why do you vegan?
it_is_so_weird_to_be
1yr ago
Underrated post. I've kind of had this notion in my mind for a while but seeing it written out really put words to something that was just a feeling before. This sentiment comes up for me most often when I hear about indigenous land acknowledgements before speeches or whatever. It makes me cringe. Why? Because the conflict is over. They were conquered. There will not be a successful independence movement in any of our lifetimes. Let's move forward.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
2yr ago
Men in the 17-45 range are responsible for like literally all violent crime. I'd wager 18-25 is the heaviest represented too.
Clearly OP is bringing up "military-aged" because they have the highest propensity for crime and likely least beneficial for society to import. I don't know how this is some kind of gotcha. It's literally the whole point.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
2yr ago
Raised catholic here.
The molestation scandal was such an unprecedented breach of trust that went high up into the leadership of the church. To recover from that evil requires unprecedented repentance. And that has not happened.
I will never support the Catholic Church in its current form because of that. It is institutionally corrupt. Perhaps it always has been.
And perhaps the teaching have nothing to do with the leadership. In that case, I will not listen to sermons from the priests who prop up the evil institution. I'm perfectly able to read the Bible on my own.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
2yr ago
I put "victims" in quotes because I do not believe them to be victims in the context of Alex Jones's actions. They are victims of a great deal of other grievances, namely the brutal murders of their children. But Alex Jones's actions do not seem to rise to the level to which I'd classify these parents as victims. And I do not believe they deserve the outrageous numbers ($) that are thrown around left and right in this context.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
2yr ago
Can we have a thread about Alex Jones? Apparently the "victims" of his actions are pushing for something like a trillion dollar award.
I get it, he spoke some really shitty things about some people that just lost their children in a horrendous event. I can't imagine what they're going through. But I can't get past this mental block of "Yeah he said some shitty things, but he never directed his followers to do harassment, and the parents essentially just got cyber bullied, like just walk away from the screen, seriously. There were like two incidents of real life harassment, which have been prosecuted, and also were inflicted upon the parents who chose to engage with the public media."
Am I missing something here? Why is he being destroyed so thoroughly?
it_is_so_weird_to_be
2yr ago
As the hosts of Red Scare have pointed out, "Women are fascists for dick, and men are libtards for pussy".
I don't think you're right that women hate conservative men. They'll gladly pair up with conservative men, as long as that man's conservative views aren't verbalized in a socially unacceptable way. Women as a population group also hate football. They hate guns. They hate cars. They hate physical competition. They hate bitcoin. They hate woodworking. But they don't care if their men are into those things. They also don't care if you think the minimum wage is bullshit.
They'll gladly hate the amorphous groups of "football fans", "gun nuts", or "crypto bros", but that doesn't mean they hate individual men in those groups.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
2yr ago
I don't care. The people making these forms of media openly hate people that look like me and I've accepted it. I do not support them or pay any attention to them. If a coworker or friend brings up some new thing, I say I've never heard of it and it sounds boring. Stop supporting bad art - our culture is lacking in decent art and you'd do well to seek it out and support it vehemently. Don't waste brain cells debating about some reimagining of a classic by people who hate it.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
2yr ago
That's a thought I've had as well. Maybe the heroine's journey is the way it is because of the fact that women are different from men. Struggle for women is different from struggle for men.
When I go through a breakup or a death or a struggle, as a man, I deal with it. I sit in the pain, I learn about myself and the world. But I also am likely to engage in self-destructive behaviors. My experience is such that I am forced to grapple with the thing on it's own, on my own. Often with a great deal of examination of why I'm shitty, how I contributed to said bad thing.
When women I know go through a bad thing, they call upon their network, they have endless supporters (even if said supporters are superficial and transactional), but they have their support that insists they are great and the thing is actually horrible and not their fault. Women struggling involves them calling upon their vast social network of mostly female supporters. There isn't a concept of loneliness in one's shittiness for any women I know.
The heroine's journey simply resonates with women, and men think it's asinine. Women probably don't resonate with the hero's journey in the same way that men do either.
Whether one or the other is more or less "good" depends on the audience.
To add onto this, my understanding is that there is some percentage of the population for whom oral vitamin D supplementation does nothing unless you also supplement vitamin K. I took D3 for a year every day consistently and it had no effect on serum levels. Once I started taking a D3/K2 supplement, it rose to normal levels and I feel great.
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