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Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions)
  • I was going to respond to your original response, then I saw this thread and saw what a waste of time that would be. Man, what an embarrassment of a human being you are.

    Edit: ooof, that comment history would get you an easy win on basement dwelling incel bingo. You even whine about DEI! How original LOL

  • A third of Americans agree with Trump that immigrants ‘poison the blood’ of US
  • Fascism is the problem. Trump is a very notable symptom, but many others are also to blame for the fascism issue, including some democrats. I believe this fixation with Trump is due to people wanting simple answers to complex problems.

  • Goodwill is out of control
  • Hi, I'm disabled although I'm still working (at the moment, may break further). I agree with you.

    The biggest issue to consider for any company hiring a significantly disabled person, whether mentally, physically, or both, is they'll be less productive and may require much more oversight, meaning they contribute less to the company. This is the justification behind the lower pay. It makes sense if you're a shit sack capitalist that values production above anything else.

    With that being said, Goodwill is absolutely taking advantage of the disabled. They're ostensibly a non-profit charity that exists to provide employment, leading to training and work experience, to the disabled community. They pay their disabled employees the lowest amount possible, actively working to justify low pay. Imagine if your employer was constantly looking to drop your salary so you had to constantly fight them over it. Now pretend you have a significant TBI or are developmentally disabled (just imagine your mental capacity while drunk, but without the feeling good) and still having to fight that. Welcome working for Goodwill.

    Fuck Goodwill right in their "charity" hole.

  • Is this true about Generation gap in Piracy?
  • I think their metaphor is referring to ease of use and the knowledge required for use. I have a few personal anecdotes as examples.

    I'm an eighties kid. My first PC was a Commodore 64 and my first car was a 1966 VW Bug. Neither was reliable nor easy to use. I had to learn to utilize interfaces that were more finicky and complex than modern equivalents, and I spent a great deal of time learning how to make them work when they glitched out or were broken. The alternative was not having them at all. It was hard to get BBS advice when your PC took a dump and no one else you knew had one you could use, and then where would you get car advice? Certainly not from my dad!

    A kid growing up with an Apple anything and driving a 20 year old car doesn't face the same kinds of difficulties. Many things just work more reliably and aren't as difficult to use. One can easily buy gaming systems now where we often had to build our own to get what we wanted. My buddy's 23 year old daughter had never even heard of CLI. That's all I had!

    It doesn't make one generation better than the other - younger people today are skilled in ways I could have only dreamed of. We just have different opportunities for excellence.

  • I found the Lemmy bar in Reykjavik, Iceland!
  • It helps that we're from a high cost of living area. Honestly, we're paying less to eat out here than where we live. The tourism industry is absolutely gouging, though, and I hate what that's doing to the economy for locals.

  • I found the Lemmy bar in Reykjavik, Iceland!

    I couldn't find a more appropriate place to post this. It's a bar in Reykjavik. Cool place, would recommend.

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    Buyers Are Avoiding Teslas Because Elon Musk Has Become So Toxic
  • To the best of my knowledge, which includes a few minutes online trying to prove myself wrong, the brakes on all Tesla models are straight friction - no blending. Regenerative braking only happens when the accelerator is released. The friction brakes alone are sufficient to kick in ABS, so regen isn't needed to help stop the car.

    After giving it some thought, I suspect the car wasn't stopping fast enough, so the driver took over and just didn't brake hard enough to prevent the accident (possibly because they were anticipating some amount of assist from regenerative braking). Underestimating how hard to brake is very common and is one of the primary reasons behind adding automatic braking systems.

  • Buyers Are Avoiding Teslas Because Elon Musk Has Become So Toxic
  • As someone who owns a Tesla, I can attest this isn't how the brakes work. We'd heard similar rumors to this effect and it was the first thing we tried on the test drive. The brakes are 100% functional 100% of the time, regardless of driving assist.

    Even if "full self driving" (quotes intentional, that shit is not fully self driving) did cause an accident, the driver is perfectly capable of avoiding it by braking or taking over steering.

    P.s. Fuck Elon Musk

  • Small talk is an essential skill
  • I think this was written by someone who isn't comfortable with extended periods of silence with their partner.

    My wife and I barely speak or communicate nonverbally for hours sometimes, then talk at great length other times. We always give each other an opportunity to talk about our day or whatever else is important, but we don't talk about trivial things simply for the sake of talking. We're comfortable with silence.

  • News on Naomi Wu ('s) – New Product Nukit – 222nm UV sterilizer – cutting edge, safe for active use with humans present tech – Big Clive YT 🌈
  • Sorry, late night me brain forgot to provide the context for my comment! My concern would be occupational usage if it does produce any ozone, especially in the small business sector, which often doesn't use as much caution around chemical exposure as one might want.

    It might also be a non-issue. I have half a mind to build one of these and do some testing.

  • This is their whole identity.
  • Yeah, nice self own there.

    You're chronically online (nearly 12k comments and posts in a year. 30+/day. Go outside FFS) so you're seemingly everywhere and you have a penchant for below room temperature IQ bad arguments, as demonstrated in this thread. Plus the childish tankie grandstanding. You stand out because you're one of .world's most annoying users. You're like the Donald Trump of Lemmy.

  • Those are so ugly. Who would even buy these... oh, right.
  • Dog slobber. We have two dogs. One loves to take a big mouthful of water and run up to my wife and me with it, splashing drool water everywhere on the way. The other has recently learned this trick from him and now we have double dog drool. We don't go barefoot much anymore.

  • People who poop with the bathroom fan off

    Seriously people, use the fucking fan. It clears away odors and covers up the sounds of your dropping a deuce. If you want to stew in your shit smell and revel in the music of your magical poop plops, do so in the comfort of your own home. If you're a guest and the bathroom has a fan, turn it on. We don't want to share.

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    Right-to-Work Laws don't mean your employer can fire you at any time for any reason (US Law)

    >"I live in a right-to-work state, so my employer can shitcan me for any reason". > > -Linus K. Lemming

    Sorry friends, that's at-will employment, *and you still can't be terminated for any reasons that are protected by law, but we're not here to discuss that. Right-to-work laws mean one thing: that non-union employees cannot be required to contribute to the cost of union representation.

    The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 prohibits "closed shops", where union membership is a condition of employment; however, union represented positions can still be required to contribute to the cost of that representation. Right-to-work laws prohibit that requirement, allowing employees in union represented positions who choose not to join the union to also choose whether or not they contribute to the union's costs, i.e., if they pay dues or not.

    I see this mistake frequently and thought folks might want to know the correct information so they don't unintentionally perpetuate it.

    Edit: updated to include link to info about at-will employment.

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    Halp! Calibrating touchscreen on Panasonic CF-30

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/12310804

    > Halp! Calibrating touchscreen on Panasonic CF-30 > > Hey all! I've been having an issue I can't figure out. Suddenly, I realized I'm in the heart of Linux users! I can ask here! I'm a total noob, so please be gentle. > > I installed Xubuntu and got everything but the touchscreen working properly. The touchscreen works but the cursor is consistently off a bit, with the least error in the center of the screen and increasing as it moves to the sides. I've tried running xinput_calibrator but it doesn't help. I attempted to run libinput.calibrate-touchscreen but keep getting a "is a Wayland compositor running?" error message. > > Any suggestions?

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    Halp! Calibrating touchscreen on Panasonic CF-30

    Hey all! I've been having an issue I can't figure out. Suddenly, I realized I'm in the heart of Linux users! I can ask here! I'm a total noob, so please be gentle.

    I installed Xubuntu and got everything but the touchscreen working properly. The touchscreen works but the cursor is consistently off a bit, with the least error in the center of the screen and increasing as it moves to the sides. I've tried running xinput_calibrator but it doesn't help. I attempted to run libinput.calibrate-touchscreen but keep getting a "is a Wayland compositor running?" error message.

    Any suggestions?

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