my_hat_stinks

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[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 3 points 19 hours ago

Most people think they're middle class and it's easy to punch down, that's really all there is to it.

When I was young I remember asking my parents "are we rich or poor?" and I was told we were middle class, it stands out because at the time I didn't know what that meant. Looking back we were absolutely working class. We were in one of the worst parts of the city and literally just the corner was a street well known for gang violence and crime. The one time I called the cops after being attacked there when they arrived they made sure they were parked in view of security cameras and even called to have sure the cameras were on then and working. Also the only "help" they have was telling me to do it because it wasn't worth the effort.
We were only slightly better off than everyone else living there, we actually owned our home when many of them were in council housing.

With Xanathar's downtime rules you can make one cantrip/1st level scroll per day, double that if you're a 10th level scribe wizard, so in three days you can make up to six Cure Wounds scrolls. Only 12.5g each for a scribe wizard too.

Unlikely, there's much less money in bikes than in cars and fuel so not as much to bribe with. Even contractors building the infrastructure get more constantly repairing roads with heavy vehicles than a one-time bike lane install.

Brown nosing only gets you so far, the only way to get anything done under a corrupt government is to enrich those in charge.

[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You have to pay for health insurance? When I heard US residents had to get insurance through their work I assumed employers would actually provide the insurance, not just give you the chance to pay for it yourself... We have free healthcare here and my employer still for some reason provides us with free health and dental insurance.

You guys need a revolution. You're getting charged more because that's what you as a country allow them to do.

[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

"Jaywalking" is mostly a US thing made up by car companies to victim-blame pedestrians when they were killed by cars so they could avoid regulation themselves. Where I am we were taught very early in school how to safely cross a road safely, and pedestrians waiting to cross or already crossing a road generally have right of way even when no signals exist. It's only an issue in backwards countries where cars have more rights than people and cities are designed for them instead.

I cross without a signal daily because otherwise I'd have to walk all the way around the block to get to a crossing going the opposite direction from where I'd want to go then find a way to circle all the way back at other crossings. That would make leaving the house more than a little inconvenient, especially since everything I'd need is in walking distance so I rarely drive. To my knowledge I have not been killed by a car a single time.

Edit: Thanks for the downvote, doesn't change the facts.

The very word jaywalk is an interesting—and not historically neutral—one. Originally an insult against bumptious “jays” from the country who ineptly gamboled on city sidewalks, it was taken up by a coalition of pro-automobile interests in the 1920s, notes historian Peter D. Norton in his book Fighting Traffic. “Before the American city could be physically reconstructed to accommodate automobiles, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where cars belong,” he writes. “Until then, streets were regarded as public spaces, where practices that endangered or obstructed others (including pedestrians) were disreputable. Motorists’ claim to street space was therefore fragile, subject to restrictions that threatened to negate the advantages of car ownership.” And so, where newspapers like the New York Times once condemned the “slaughter of pedestrians” by cars and defended the right to midblock crossings—and where cities like Cincinnati weighed imposing speed “governors” for cars—after a few decades, the focus of attention had shifted from marauding motorists onto the reckless “jaywalker.”

Tom Vanderbilt, Slate.com

[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 47 points 2 weeks ago

Brine pools, it's much saltier water which doesn't mix with the water around it.

[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

It's just adnauseum.

That never made any sense to me. Sure, if you convert a significant amount of people to spamming ad clicks you reduce the value of each click but that just means advertisers will pay less per click. It also has zero effect if they use other metrics, if you pay on conversion rate (number of signups/paying customers) click spam doesn't matter.

There is some value in messing with data by clicking everything but if you never see ads anyway that data isn't worth a whole lot.

[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Queer is a reclaimed umbrella term for any non-cis or non-hetero relationship. If two men were in a relationship they might consider themselves queer. It's not really a word you'd ascribe to other people, it's self-descriptive.

A man and woman in a relationship is a hetero relationship, if one or both are trans or gender non-confirming they may consider themselves queer. It's with noting that a hetero relationship does not necessarily mean they're straight either, bi or pan people often date the opposite gender.

I wouldn't normally consider a non-monogamous relationship queer by default, otherwise anyone who cheats would be queer.

Since it's a reclaimed slur the best move is to not use it at all unless the person you're talking about has made it clear they're comfortable being described that way by you.

No you didn't. You only said that a company that can't afford "25/hr" would be unable to hire people at that rate. Plus an offhand comment about how some people working full time "cannot be justified" earning a living wage, that's the point you seemingly want to make but just stating something isn't an explanation.

[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

You have to account for these cases in your rules.

Why? They can't afford an employee. They shouldn't hire one.

[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Does that distinction even matter? The bullshit generator confidently generates bullshit, it doesn't matter whether it's making that up itself, sourcing from some dis/misinformation campaign, or just some guy behind the scenes lying to you, the end result is the same.

 

Seems like federation has been broken for a little over a day. Comments don't seem to be propagating to or from other instances, checking All/new it suddenly switched from a constant stream of posts from other instances to exclusively posts by local users.

 

I signed in this morning and checked my profile to find I'm not actually here. Did anyone else accidentally stop existing overnight?

 

Not sure exactly how long this has been happening, but it's been bugging me for the last week at least.

Running Firefox 129.0 (64-bit) on Linux Mint, it seems like the login session is just constantly expiring. Every time I boot up my machine the first time I open programming.dev I have to sign in again. Closing all programming.dev tabs and navigating back to programming.dev without closing Firefox seems to always preserve the session and not require a new sign-in.

~~Closing all Firefox windows then opening Firefox and navigationg to programming.dev is a semi-reliable way to reproduce, about 75% of the time it requires a new sign-in even when I'd signed in less then a minute ago before closing the window.~~ Further testing shortly before submitting this post and those steps no longer reproduce the issue, I'm signed in even after closing the window. Maybe it's a recurring transient issue with login service?

Potentially relevant add-ons are UBlock Origin (0 blocks, shouldn't be an issue) and Privacy Badger (also 0 trackers blocked). I'm connected through VPN, but the issue seems to appear regardless of whether I stay on the same VPN server or switch servers. Firefox reports Content-Security-Policy issues but these seem unrelated and also appear when the session is successfully preserved.

Possibly helpful, occasionally when I open programming.dev I'll see it's signed out then automatically signs in after a second or so; this might have been a known Lemmy issue at some point with delayed authentication as a (now insufficient) solution. A good chance that's a dead-end, might be worth checking anyway.

Edit: It's worth noting that I'm also signed in via the android Jerboa app on another device and don't get signed out there. This could definitely be relevant if it turns out the Jerboa session somehow interferes with the Firefox session.

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