Plastic seals food, sterile medical implements, medicine, beverages, etc… it’s seems like plastic is used as a way to seal things safely. Post pandemic rising, I see even more. My work used to be have plastic utensils in the cafeteria, for example, an already wasteful thing. Now, post-2020, every fork, knife, and spoon is...
I'm getting rid of an old Hi8 camcorder and figured I'd throw in the tapes with it, but I want to wipe the contents of the tapes before I do. I don't have a huge magnet or anything I can use to quickly erase the tapes, so the only option is to record over them using the camcorder. Instead of being boring and just muting it and...
I didn’t used to understand foreign involvement in wars, like the whole America-Vietnam shenanigans. But I can see why after watching this Israeli Palestine Conflict since birth....
They can choose to take hormone blockers at 12, but they can’t choose to have sex until they’re 18 (depending on local statutes). The laws are filled with hypocrisy.
This is part of how a much smaller army can defeat a larger invading force. The locals have all their supplies. The invading force has to bring everything with them.
I have found pictures from decades ago that I didn’t remember until seeing the pic. When you get old, your memory gets really hazy. Looking at old photos really helps to bring back those memories.
I grew up with a thick Australian accent with a drawl I dislike, and have been consciously trying to change it for a while. The problem is I tried to make it sound more American at first but keep getting drawn to speaking “Britishly”. Now it’s a Frankenstein of all 3 accents and I don’t know what to go with....
There are a lot of different British and American accents, depending on which part of the country they’re from. Some sound much better than others. I don’t know much about Australian accents. Is there just one, or many different ones depending on their location?
I remember trying to watch Mad Max a long time ago. I didn’t make it very far in the movie because I couldn’t understand what they were saying most of the time. I find most American and British accents easier to understand, although there are a few that are harder.
I would love to get an employee that would work more than 25 hours a week. I struggle to get any employees at all. Anyone willing to work can have all the hours they want. I’m currently working 80 hours a week because I can’t find any reliable help. I know lots of business owners who are in the same predicament. There are so many job openings and so few people to fill them.
I’m saying that op said they can’t get more than 25 hours at $15/hour. My point was that there are tons of jobs out there. They are the one standing in their own way, but blaming someone else. It’s a common thread that I’ve seen in the wake of the pandemic. I don’t know what the root cause of it is, but it’s frustrating to see people limit themselves, but have the complete inability to accept their own role in their circumastances.
I’m a recovering alcoholic. It’s a very common issue among addicts to blame everyone for their own shortcomings. It’s just sad to see this character flaw spreading to society in general.
As a recovering alcoholic, I’ve seen people that had lost everything and become homeless due to addiction. They are starting over with a huge deficit, yet manage to get sober, get a job, then a better job, then become profoundly successful. That’s why it frustrates me to see people without the huge burdon of addiction fall into the same gutter of thinking that their position in life is someone else’s fault. It’s a very bad place to be mentally. I’ve said for years that I think everyone should go through rehab. It does what the schools don’t seem to do anymore. It teaches you how to take control of your own life, stop blaming others, and get out of the way of yourself.
You’re missing the point completely. Op is blaming other people for his/her lack of income. It’s not other people’s responsibility to provide you with an income. You have to do what it takes to provide it. There are people who sit around and blame others for their circumstances in life, and there are others who just do what it takes. At some point, when you’re an adult, you have to start taking responsibility for yourself. As I stated in another comment, I’ve seen addicts go from homeless to very successful because they learned to stop blaming others for their circumstances and start accepting responsibility for themselves.
Life is easier now than it’s ever been, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Life is still hard. You have to be willing to work, and do what it takes to get what you want.
It doesn’t matter what any job pays. If you work hard, the you should be able to make more. That may mean getting more hours because you’re worth it. It may mean moving up and getting a raise. It may mean working 2 or 3 jobs.
I’ve started several jobs at minimum wage, but I’ve never made minimum wage for more than a month. I work hard at everything I do, whether I like it or not. I’ve also worked 3 jobs, and been homeless. I’m not homeless anymore, and it’s not because I whined about not making enough money. It’s because I busted my ass and made myself indispensable.
The opportunities are out there. They’re not going to come knocking at your door. You have to get out there, work hard, and find them. There was a time when that was just common sense. I just don’t understand why people think they should just be handed opportunities.
That would never fly in the US. They complain about water usage so much that they regulate shower heads so that they barely drip water, and toilets so that they don’t have enough water to flush solid waste. The bidet would just blow the regulators’ heads with all the water usage.
My daughter used to say “that’s not fair” all the time. I would tell her “Life isn’t fair. If you expect it to be, you will only set yourself up for failure and disappointment.”
It seems anytime I try to check out Mastodon it is always some negative political view or affiliation of why X, Y & Z is bad. Is this just what most people like boosting or is it a sign of botting to push negativity over the more positive headlines?...
I have been curious of this one since it’s a feature that mastodon has, and while I understand with FOSS software anyone can disable that, but usually people don’t and if I knew they were doing that I would defederate them.
It is illegal and immoral. It steals the rightful intellectual property of directors and developers who are only trying to make a living. If you want to be a thief so badly, then rob a federal bank.
I discovered this woman, who I call Loab, in April. The AI reproduced her more easily than most celebrities. Her presence is persistent, and she haunts every image she touches.
The American Red Cross is now allowing gay and bisexual men to donate blood without restrictions that specifically single out a person’s sexual orientation or gender, the nonprofit group said Monday.
It’s my goddamn motherfucking mobile data and MY PHONE. I should be able to use it however I want. My wifi went down because the greedy, cunt-faced shitbags at Comcast stole taxpayer subsidies to enrich themselves instead of actually providing the service we’re paying for. I tried to switch to a mobile hotspot and my phone...
Saw this a lot on Reddit. Its not specific to here, just trying to gauge how people think. I’d see people posting about how “X said this! Have you seen what else they said in their site history?” And a stream of votebombing would happen....
Why YSK: because what seems like equal situation from surface isn’t always equal opportunity for all. And even when equal measure of help is provided, it might not be equally useful.
Equality should be in protection of rights. People are not equal, and never will be. They should have equal rights, though.
Steve Vai is a better guitarist than I am. He shouldn’t have his fingers broken so that we both have equal ability to play the guitar.
Trying to make people equal in every way is evil. It only brings the best in every field down to the level of the worst, since there’s no way to bring everyone up to the level of the best in every field.
Any citizen of the social internet knows the feeling: that irritable contentiousness, that desire to get into it that seems almost impossible to resist, even though you know you’ve already squandered too many hours and too much emotional energy on pointless internet disputes. If you use Twitter, you may have noticed that at...
I’ve tried T̶w̶i̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ X, and it just seems like a bunch of angry people text yelling at each other. It’s like walking in to a huge room with 25 different arguments going on, and it’s hard to tell what is even happening. I really don’t get the appeal. I tried Mastodon, because I thought it might be better. It didn’t appear to be.
How will we ever get away from plastics when they are ubiquitous for safety
Plastic seals food, sterile medical implements, medicine, beverages, etc… it’s seems like plastic is used as a way to seal things safely. Post pandemic rising, I see even more. My work used to be have plastic utensils in the cafeteria, for example, an already wasteful thing. Now, post-2020, every fork, knife, and spoon is...
I need to record over some Hi8 tapes; 5 tapes, ~2½ hours each. I can record audio and video directly. What should I put on there? (kbin.social)
I'm getting rid of an old Hi8 camcorder and figured I'd throw in the tapes with it, but I want to wipe the contents of the tapes before I do. I don't have a huge magnet or anything I can use to quickly erase the tapes, so the only option is to record over them using the camcorder. Instead of being boring and just muting it and...
Failed diorama (lemmy.world)
They can’t all be winners, so I thought I’d show off the failed island diorama I was working on....
Can anyone else see this post?
infosec.pub/post/5039488
Pronouns (sh.itjust.works)
Why cant the Middle East just chill out?
I didn’t used to understand foreign involvement in wars, like the whole America-Vietnam shenanigans. But I can see why after watching this Israeli Palestine Conflict since birth....
What shows you want to see get canceled?
The Simpsons. Let it die, Fox/Disney....
What would digtal storage look like in freedom units?
Would a federated dating site work well? What would it look like?
Basically title, every bit of online dating nowadays is either Match or Meta, and we’re all about breaking corporate chains right?...
Do you think people are so careless in public now / etc because it just feels like the end of the world is coming?
the pandemic making people realize - oh shit they can just grind all this to a halt with the push of a button...
Smoking age should rise from 18, by one year every year - Rishi Sunak (www.bbc.com)
How hard is it to get food and water to soldiers during a war?
I was browsing the internet and I found this www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WO0zSStdj8...
I see no point of taking pictures of monuments or tourist spots.
Let alone including yourself in the picture. I know how you look like....
Does the American accent or British accent sound better?
I grew up with a thick Australian accent with a drawl I dislike, and have been consciously trying to change it for a while. The problem is I tried to make it sound more American at first but keep getting drawn to speaking “Britishly”. Now it’s a Frankenstein of all 3 accents and I don’t know what to go with....
The Trump administration touted him as a victim of #MeToo. Now he’s accused of dismembering a girlfriend (www.sfchronicle.com)
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18+ You can make one change to the world/reality that makes people's lives more inconvenient or awkward. What do you change?
I’d make it so that liquid soap dispensers sounded like they were struggling to nut quietly each time you pressed down.
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What is the highest government funded paid non-profit organization that you're aware of?
Please also provide a source....
Welcome to 404 Media (New Magazine from former VICE Motherboard staff) (www.404media.co)
why isn't the use of the bidet more widespread?
Whats the least fun fact you know?
What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?
Why are trending posts on Mastodon mostly negatively politically oriented? (lemm.ee)
It seems anytime I try to check out Mastodon it is always some negative political view or affiliation of why X, Y & Z is bad. Is this just what most people like boosting or is it a sign of botting to push negativity over the more positive headlines?...
Survey Claims Majority of Brits Won't Share WiFi with Neighbours (www.ispreview.co.uk)
Will Lemmy ever add federated delete?
I have been curious of this one since it’s a feature that mastodon has, and while I understand with FOSS software anyone can disable that, but usually people don’t and if I knew they were doing that I would defederate them.
Piracy is bad.
It is illegal and immoral. It steals the rightful intellectual property of directors and developers who are only trying to make a living. If you want to be a thief so badly, then rob a federal bank.
Not everything needs an app
I have an app for programming my chicken coop. My 401k company just created an app for onboarding new participants....
Creepy Woman Loab Showing Up Consistently In AI Image Generation tools. Take a seat. This is a true horror story, and veers sharply macabre. (lemmy.world)
I discovered this woman, who I call Loab, in April. The AI reproduced her more easily than most celebrities. Her presence is persistent, and she haunts every image she touches.
Found a nail on the street (i.imgur.com)
Red Cross ends blood-donation restrictions that singled out gay and bisexual men (www.cnbc.com)
The American Red Cross is now allowing gay and bisexual men to donate blood without restrictions that specifically single out a person’s sexual orientation or gender, the nonprofit group said Monday.
When the fuck did a mobile hotspot become something you have to pay extra for?
It’s my goddamn motherfucking mobile data and MY PHONE. I should be able to use it however I want. My wifi went down because the greedy, cunt-faced shitbags at Comcast stole taxpayer subsidies to enrich themselves instead of actually providing the service we’re paying for. I tried to switch to a mobile hotspot and my phone...
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Be honest, do you trawl a user profile to downvote/upvote when you see a comment you dislike/goes against your beliefs?
Saw this a lot on Reddit. Its not specific to here, just trying to gauge how people think. I’d see people posting about how “X said this! Have you seen what else they said in their site history?” And a stream of votebombing would happen....
YSK The difference between equality, justice and equity. (lemmy.world)
Why YSK: because what seems like equal situation from surface isn’t always equal opportunity for all. And even when equal measure of help is provided, it might not be equally useful.
How to Short-Circuit the Outrage Machine (slate.com)
Any citizen of the social internet knows the feeling: that irritable contentiousness, that desire to get into it that seems almost impossible to resist, even though you know you’ve already squandered too many hours and too much emotional energy on pointless internet disputes. If you use Twitter, you may have noticed that at...
Google is charging its employees $99 a night to stay at its on-campus hotel to help "transition to the hybrid workplace." (gizmodo.com)
An invasive fish with teeth, that can breathe air, live up to three days outside of water, move short distances on land, and grow three feet long has been found in Louisiana (www.axios.com)
via: https://tildes.net/~science/18ay/an_invasive_fish_with_teeth_that_can_breathe_air_live_up_to_three_days_outside_of_water_move_short