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HiddenLayer5

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(He/him) Marxist-Leninist and amateur writer. I like cats, foxes, sci-fi, science fantasy, and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. Message me for my roleplay ideas!

Lemmygrad: lemmygrad.ml/u/HiddenLayer5

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Wait till you hear about the plastic and play-dough “food” they use in advertisements and the glamour shots on a restaurant menu or order board.

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People who have inverter microwaves, do they actually heat food more evenly or is it just marketing buzz?

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It’s basically an IRL Happy Wheels level.

Look, it even has the speed booster thing that launches you into the gauntlet!

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“Hey, you’ll still die, but at least we’ll be able to identity your mangled corpse for your family!”

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“The helmet held off the drunk redneck in the luxury truck just long enough for us to acquire a tissue sample from which the DNA was sequenced. We were able to positively identify the remains of your child. I’m sorry.”

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His pronouns are nazi/fascist

Oh wait sorry. Nazi’s pronouns are nazi/fascist. Sorry for misgendering!

HiddenLayer5,
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Oh yeah? Well that’s just a decoy human. I’m actually in the bunker.

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I just map both the user cache and the /tmp directory to a RAM drive. I allocated 4 GB but in practice it never gets even close to that much, and Linux seems to not be reserving the entire 4 GB at boot so I would assume how much RAM is used depends on how much is actually in your cache.

It also defers cache and tempfile related problems to turning it off and on again.

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And it’s literally also called volcanic glass due to its properties resembling glass. Which I would imagine means it’s brittle and prone to shatter.

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It also insinuates that autism is a disease even though we now know it isn’t.

How realistic or reasonable is it for a government to straight up ask another, more technologically advanced government for one of their State-employed scientists as a diplomatic favour?

For context, this takes place in my world with intelligent, non-anthro animals trying to live in harmony. This is part of the backstory of my main character and why she’s where she is currently....

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Always remember to tip your landlords, the most exploited class in society.

In fact, what are you doing living in their house? What, just because you’re paying for it? Are you trying to forcibly evict them from their private property?! You housing-addicted loser. /s

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While Canada has no explicit exception to the minumum wage law, the minimum wage in Canada is still laughable and is absolutely not survivable for how expensive living here is.

Though the solution here is not tipping, which ignores every other customer service and “”“unskilled”“” labour worker that isn’t in food service. It should be raising the minimum wage to a post inflation value that reflects current costs of living, and committing to continuously updating it so it stays even with inflation and rising costs in general (not unheard of, some European countries for example use a formula to calculate every year’s minimum wage based on current inflation and cost of living). Actually, we shouldn’t have a single national minimum wage but one depending on where you live so it reflects your actual survival expenses. Both Vancouver and Vanderhoof enjoy fast food and coffee shops but the employees in the former have a much harder time living in the city they work in than the latter despite doing the same work and making the same contribution to their fellow residents (or if nothing else, they do more work in a larger city with more people while not being able to afford the larger city).

And yeah, Subway’s been doing that for a while, at least in the part of Canada I am.

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It should also be noted that huge parts of the Church also rejected William Thomson’s age calculations for the Earth. Even though he massively underestimated its age, the Church asserted that the Earth was even younger.

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Missing link fallacy. We have much, much more evidence for evolution than we do for creation, but because we don’t have all the evidence, you choose to reject all of it in favour of theories that have even less evidence behind them.

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My city now mandates by law that we have to put recyclable materials in the recycling bin and compost in the green bin. You can and will get fined if you don’t and they do check, for households at least, because the vast majority of restaurants, offices, hell city-owned public places like parks, transit stations, libraries, etc do not have a green bin and many don’t even have a recycling bin. I’ve directly been told to just throw it in the trash. Biodegradable packaging is useless 99% of the time because there is no compost bin to put it in and they end up in the landfill anyway.

It’s what I like to call environmental theatre and pinning the burden of waste sorting entirely on the individual instead of seeing it as an infrastructure and access problem requiring government action. Not even a lot of action either, just buy some dollar store trash cans and put them in places since you already have a comprehensive city-wide recycling and compost collection program.

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I love how they go out of their way to make dog shit non biodegradable before leaving it in nature. Classy.

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Also pets. Gifting someone a pet does neither the recipient nor the animals any favours unless you know for certain that they both want a pet (and that it’s an actual informed want with all the required forethought and self assessment for both the advantages and disadvantages of having a pet, and not just “a puppy running around my house would be so cute!”) and have the means to support a pet.

Especially if the recipient is a kid and/or you’re giving them a fish or rodent or some other small cheap animal that is considered low maintainance or disposable. News flash, no pet is low maintainance or disposable and you might as well just step on the animal instead to spare them the suffering because a dumb little kid will kill them slowly and horribly. I see this happen all the time and it pisses me off so much. Pets aren’t toys, they shouldn’t be given to children who can’t even take care of themselves.

Actually, please just stop giving people animals without their prior input in general. If you truly want to gift someone a pet, you should be involving them in the acquisition process, taking them to the shelter to choose a pet for example, because the personality of the individual animal and whether it’s suited to the personality of the people that will be caring for them is absolutely critical. If you can’t do that but still want to support their having a pet, then see if a shelter will sell a prepaid adoption certificate, that way they can still choose to not go through with it, or just buy them pet supplies if you know for sure that they plan on getting a pet. There are even species agnostic gifts if you don’t know what kind of pet they plan on getting.

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Look at this plebian making contact with the toilet when shitting. What’s wrong, not enough thigh strength?

/s

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squat_toilet

Especially common for public bathrooms in Asia and parts of Europe, specifically because there is no direct skin contact which reduces risk of infection. There are also claims that you poop easier squatting than sitting.

HiddenLayer5,
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Git is now pronounced Jit.

JIT, as in the compiler architecture, is now pronounced Git.

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If we’re to insist on it being a specific country’s food, it really should be Indian no? It was invented by Indian diaspora in the UK as (IIRC) a take on traditional Indian food using ingredients that are easier to obtain in the UK.

IMO saying tikka masala is British food is like saying General Tso’s Chicken, which was invented by Chinese diaspora in the US for similar reasons, is somehow American food. I don’t think the country it was invented in can really claim credit in either case.

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Buses

DMUs

Streetcars

Metros

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It’s also a stupid excuse for wages going down to begin with. Especially since we know that we are currently in a labour shortage which according to capitalist supply and demand theory should have immediately caused wages to increase, and I don’t think the shortage is gender specific.

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Also also us: oh a lottery ticket that I know for a mathematical fact has such a tiny chance of winning that I’m literally more likely to be struck by a shark and eaten by lightning, well I’ll try my odds, who knows?

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I once had a program fail to compile, but when I compiled it a second time it worked. No idea why, best guess is some kind of caching or dependency issue that got resolved by restating the compiler.

Now every time a program fails to compile and it’s not immediately obvious what the problem is, I instinctively compile it again just in case. Well more like three or four times.

I might just be a dog though.

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The other day I saw a video from Emkay, one of the largest “Reddit commentary/reaction” content farm channels where they just steal the top voted posts from Reddit and read them out, going as far as to censor even the lightest swear words with stupid pop culture sound effects until the post is utterly soulless to avoid demonetization, zero credit to the original creator and no linkback in the description or anything. And surprise surprise one of the narrators flat out said “YouTube blocking adblockers is great because we get more revenue!”

If that isn’t a self aware wolf moment I don’t know what is.

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AI scams are already rampant where they pretend to be a loved one asking for help (read: “I’m in a bad situation right now can you send me as much money as you can?”) And unsurprisingly it’s unreasonably effective especially on older people.

Just a reminder that the tech companies absolutely do not see the above as an issue BTW, in fact all they seem to do is tacitly endorse it by advertising that you can use their service to clone people and “bring them to life” virtually and stuff. Because they’re still making money when you use the AI (not to mention they collect and retain the training data you give them, with or without the subject’s consent) and it’s not like it’s that easy for investigators to tell which AI was responsible for a particular scam campaign so there’s really no risk to their reputation at all.

I’m serious when I say this: If you have elderly or otherwise less tech inclined family members and especially if you have them and your voice and/or photos are publicly available online, set up some kind of password that you have to get right before they send you money, absolutely no exceptions no matter how distressed “you” look or sound. It can be as simple as a word or phrase, or pick a specific shared memory that people outside your family don’t know about that you’ll always mention before asking for money. Do this in advance and tell them that AI can now convincingly replicate human speech and even photos and videos, and that if “you” don’t know the password then they should hang up/block the account immediately and not respond further. You might even want to practice with them if they might forget. The vast majority of these types of scammers are just scraping the internet for information and have no idea who either of you are, so even a simple check like this should be able to significantly reduce the risk of scams.

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Counterpoint: Virtualized environment/remote desktop. The real computer is in a data center hundreds of kilometers away with world class fire suppression systems.

Counter counterpoint: If you’re virtualized you might be working from home, in which case, that’s rough, hope they manage to restore your house.

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I like it because I don’t have any of the company’s shit on my own machine. I absolutely don’t trust them not to spy on my personal computer use if they had access to it. With remote desktop I close it at the end of the work say and it has no more access to my computer than I have access to their critical systems.

In my case, their shit that we’re required to use don’t even support Linux so if it wasn’t for virtualized environment I’d had to install Windows on my own machine.

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CIA headquarters.

/s(?) Considering the fact that the CIA was never above this kind of sowing conflict and puppetry of other countries…

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It’s always ironic and super self aware wolf when a customer says they “feel bad” for you because you’re working on Sunday, Christmas, etc, or working in the dead of night for 24/7 establishments.

Also, Catholics and many other Christian denominations literally believe that people who work on a Sunday go to hell for violating the Sabbath, yet after Sunday mass tons of them flood into restaurants, causing the cooks and wait staff to go to hell.

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It’s almost like North America’s rampant and unmitigaed car dependency with almost no viable alternative modes of transport is responsible for more death and suffering than terrorism!

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Also, remember that Lemmy is a small open source project with only two or three full time devs and the rest being from community contributions. Lemmy is also entirely supported by user donations and an NLnet grant. I feel like too many people are coming here and basically expecting corporate level customer service and user experience just without the corporate enshitification, which is not a fair expectation for such a small and grassroots platform.

Lemmy is also very young and very much still in beta, it only started federating like two years ago. Keep that in mind as well.

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FACT: “elderly” is a relative term. A 5-year old considers a 10-year old to be elderly. Therefore everyone is Elderly to someone.

Gonna be the obligatory cringy guy that splits hairs and completely misses the point of your joke: “Elderly” is in relation to the typical lifespans of your species, not relative to an individual. A 5-year old considers a 10-year old to be an elder, not elderly, unless they’re sparrows in which case the ten year old is indeed elderly.

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I’m gonna start calling boomers that throw tantrums at service workers “elderly children” from now on.

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Next up: A self destruct feature with a thermonuclear payload if you call it Twitter and not X.

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If we wrote it here they wouldn’t be unwritten!

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They’ve already been shamelessly doing the exact same thing with outlet malls for ages: www.cbc.ca/…/outlet-stores-quality-1.3392279 / www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8cyvpJYZlk

So we really shouldn’t be surprised, unfortunately.

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Can all of you leave the rays alone and stop trying to trace them? It’s hard enough to be a living pancake swimming along the ocean floor.

And don’t go bothering Ray either. He’s a nice guy and doesn’t deserve your BS.

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Resealable containers are the best proof of the theory of entropy we have.

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Honestly this is just the process of language evolving. Some slang words are born and fade into obsecurity once the novelty wears off, others get used so much that they become part of the language for ages to come. Some even become formal terms given enough time.

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In the spirit of Alec’s pedentry, I must mention that lube does not work by making things moist, instead it works by reducing friction and preventing direct contact between solids. Oil based lubes are a prime example of this as they contain very little water and therefore is ineffective at making things moist but is still effective at reducing friction. Water by itself is actually a pretty bad lube.

Also we’re talking about machine lube right? …right?

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Not that this is a competition, but both score about equally high on the BITE model for identifying cults.

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And then Windows overwrites your bootloader so it can only boot into Windows.

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Do it! Commence the sacrifice so that the great penguin in the sky may grant you its blessing!

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