I mean, my dad dying when I was a preteen, is the thing that stands out. Pretty much everything that’s happened since then has been shaped by his death in some way, everything from my philosophy and politics, to my material hardships, to my heroes and role models, to the way I clean my teeth, to the places I’ve been and people I’ve met and media I’ve enjoyed, and even to the ways I relate to gender, family, work, nationality and language, and society in general, and that’s certainly not an exhaustive list, and all of these things go into each other as well.
I’m not sure if something so profoundly impactful on every facet of one’s life can be described as “for better or worse”, though, rather than that it simply is what it is…
To spare the more morbid details, I somehow got it into my head that my dad died because he’d been “poisoned by accidentally swallowing mouthwash”. And so I stopped using mouthwash because I was scared that it would kill me “too”. Eventually this came up in conversation with my mom, and she told me that I was mistaken — but I just never really got back into using mouthwash despite that reassurance. I think a part of this was just that I associated mouthwash with my dad so strongly that using it without him was too uncomfortable.
It’s funny what small details kids latch onto and carry with them for the rest of their lives. If it helps, you should check out the song “What about Mouthwash?” by the late Trevor Moore
Hell no. That would turn anything other than unflinching obsequiousness towards obnoxious clients and potential fraudsters into a firing offense. Specially in the already dystopian US job market.
Preach. It wasn’t body cams but our company gave us all mandatory phones with custom location tracking software on them. It was done as part of their pandemic response. The phones were supposedly only tracking your location within a mile of the site and were only used for enforcing social distancing and infection tracking. Well when the return to office mandates came around, upper management was suddenly too informed about how much time we spent onsite. They swore up and down it wasn’t the phones and went to pretty absurd lengths to find some other metric to prove it.
There’s a reason why they’re my former employer. Upper management was discussing replacing our badges with the phone. We needed the phones to get into the building because that was where the covid protocol pass was kept and security checked. It was impressive how quickly they took advantage of the pandemic to make creepy breeches in privacy.
OP, you’re acting like… your head is permanently bald. All you did was shave it for a skin condition, it’s temporary. If this is disheartening now, you should prepare for when it’s really time to face the fact that you’re going bald.
Yes, odd question. I’m a lady, and honestly could deadlift and squat and curl all day and never would my body end up looking like a guy’s - like my husband and I could literally do the same exercises and end up looking so different.
I see guys in yoga class all the time and they look lean and fit, not bulky, that’s still a strong and manly look. As my biologist daughter says “testosterone is a hell of a drug.”
I don’t think you can err here, just don’t skip legs and butt.
My mom used to say “it’s just hair, you can shave your head and it grows back” whenever we did something extreme with our hair.
First - you probably look better than you think, and remember it will grow back, it’s probably good you give your scalp some air. As it grows back, set up a routine to keep everything healthy up there!
Rock it. Feel free, enjoy the summer with no hair in your way. You will quickly handle whatever is going on. Hair grows about 6" a year so it doesn’t really take as long as it seems to grow it back.
I can make you something really cool with 10¢ worth of yarn. You’re paying me for my time, the logistics, and the fact that everyone involved needs to eat. This shit doesn’t make itself.
If you wanna point out the ridiculous prices of stuff on that website, there are plenty of dramatically wise offenses there. I just bought their PI7 though.
All this requires is a metal stamping machine and some quick assembly. We’re not talking about a car here, it’s a pair of eyeglass frames. The fact that you can get titanium frames for under $50 shows that this is ludicrously overpriced.
So design, storage, QA, logistics, and everything that’s necessary to actually get them in your hands don’t matter to you?
Edit: also the glasses you linked only need a stamping machine and a bit of deburring, but the ones I linked are much more elegant and also IMO look far better. Kinda ironic given how absurd the rest of their products look.
Because I don’t have a metal stamping machine? What a silly question. If I say someone is overcharging for smoothies it doesn’t mean I need to open my own cafe.
Not a silly question, an instructive one that you just proved my point. There is investment necessary in infrastructure/tools and education, not to mention actually making a profit for the wage of the person doing the work. That all adds cost beyond materials. Which, by the way, is significant. 1/8" titanium rod grade 5, 6" long, which would roughly be a similar volume for making glasses, is >$7 USD before tax and shipping on McMaster Carr.
And yet you can still get them for under $50 when those are usually being sold for over $200. It’s because they have a designer label on them. I’m sure you understand that.
Are you actually blind to the extra complexity of the shape? Go get the cheap glasses with the simple build quality. Don’t complain that other people are paying for extra features like magnet clip filters and much nicer build quality. Get what you need.
All I was saying was that they seemed really overpriced. I’m sorry you took it personally, but I never made it personal.
Also, I would suggest it is not especially helpful to offer a link to expensive frames when someone is infuriated about how much they had to pay for glasses.
If you can’t afford the really nice ones, get the really cheap ones. Everyone’s plastering this post with links to chapter options and you’re acting like it screws you over that better stuff exists. I’ve been using glasses with the coating chipping away because I’m saving up to get nice ones. The dude with a Lambo isn’t depriving you of your scooter.
The main selling point of business windows is Active Directory. I’m not aware of a Linux or FOSS alternative for it (I never looked). At a certain size, companies will want to have all computers log in via a central server and be able to remotely access and control any such machine
If it’s my employer, absolutely not unless the job is high liability already because then it becomes a liability for me when somebody else controls my data.
If it’s just for me, sure I would wear it if it’s not too much trouble and I have concerns.
Deciphering media bias is tough, and finding 1 site that will ‘perfectly’ identify biases is an impossible task, but at the minimum having this bot show up on posts ‘gets people thinking’ about the credibility of their news sources.
MBFC doesn’t have to be the ultimate arbitrator either. If it is missing something about a specific article people can call it out in the comments. At the end of the day, the worst thing it does is add more data about a news source and I’m not gonna complain about that.
The feedback is “MBFC BAD, DELETE IT, ITS A THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY”
No improvement idea? No… thats NOT feedback, thats just crying around.
Something like MBFC NEEDS to be here, not all mods can fact check each and every news page and inform the users with it. ( This would probably get the same shitstorm like this because “THE MOD XYZ FACT CHECK IS BAD, BAN HIM, HE IS A THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY” will come up too )
So what would you recommend? That is doable for free and no one dislikes it? ( Deleting the bot is NOT an option )
If you have a better Fact Check page you trust let me know, i would LOVE to implement that into the bot.
We were already thinking about making a “public” open source github repo where people could contribute their fact checks and trusted people review it. ( BUT this will get the same shitstorm like the previous 2, because some people have something against their news page being (in their eyes) “wrongly” fact checked and marked.
Do you see the trouble the “MBFC BAD ewww” and no resolution is causing here?
Please in the love of god ( or not god ) use the block button. I will lock these posts if shitpost comments like these are still coming.
Sry, i am a little pissed, that no one sees the block on their website/app.
You are demanding people use a block button for something that has discourse about implementing at all.
Are you being paid by them to add it? Seriously? I get that you are pissed at you are the moderator. You signed up for this job and that means being in a position that requires talking to and listening and leading the community.
This is just immature and incredibly unnecessary. It’s not a propaganda blocking tool you implemented but a bot that links to a website that lets people make immediate bias judgements before they even interact with other people.
Do you see the trouble demanding this is what’s best is doing?
You’ve clearly chosen a side and demand that everyone bend to it. Lock the post and lock the sub. You clearly don’t want to be here.
You put a whole screen immediate responding banner of a comment that states an unmediated declaration of trustworthiness of an entire publication attached to each new post linking an article. You have no idea the impact as much as I do or the people trying to alert you that it’s a bad idea.
And now you get to appease yourself and stroke your ego by arguing that the people in here aren’t real because it’s just names on a screen with no real connection to them existing. Great.
Way to stand behind the community and it’s users. Really shows you give a shit. Can’t believe you are the arbiter of a news community.
the transmission of evaluative or corrective information about an action, event, or process to the original or controlling source — www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feedback
As always feedback is welcome, as this is a active project which we really hope will benefit the community.
This response is not the kind to be expected from an administrator that respects their community. Even if you disagree with it, the community is seeing you act incredibly defensively and emotionally to reasonable criticism and feedback, instead of taking an objective look at the situation.
Look. The community dislikes your change. If you don’t have the ability to act in the interests of your community, then quite simply you are not a good moderator.
I’m deleting my account. I refuse to be on an instance that it ran by immaturity.
Maybe the feed back is we don’t want or need this bot?
Like, your option is not between chopping off your left hand or your right and all the people screaming not to do it are just trying to get you to swap the axe to the other hand. Maybe they just think you should put it down and rethink why chopping off your hand is the only choice.
You are stuck on a singular option of it must exist without reason for why other than because you kinda think it’s cool despite users telling you it’s not. To the point that you are going to punish people who don’t like it or report it.
Deciphering media bias is tough, and finding 1 site that will ‘perfectly’ identify biases is an impossible task, but at the minimum having this bot show up on posts ‘gets people thinking’ about the credibility of their news sources.
MBFC doesn’t have to be the ultimate arbitrator either. If it is missing something about a specific article people can call it out in the comments. At the end of the day, the worst thing it does is add more data about a news source and I’m not gonna complain about that.
You can do neither. Knowing that there’s no inherent meaning to existence isn’t for everyone. And I would argue that it’s better to not be a nihilist at all than to be a pessimistic one.
Indeed, I do think the same. What I have trouble understanding, and even with close friends, is how “no inherent meaning to existence” seems to quickly become, in some cases, “no meaning to existence”. I always tend to think this slide tends to exclude another possibility. A non-inherent meaning.
I get it’s annoying to see a comment on almost every news article shared that contributes nothing to a conversation, but you can also just block the bot and be done with it.
I’m not sure why it’s enough of a bug bear to take even the short amount of time it took to make this image and post it.
I’m not sure why it’s enough of a bug bear to take even the short amount of time it took to make this image and post it.
OP and others like them are seething at the fact that disinformation is more difficult now, you used to be able to post whatever insane bullshit you wanted and people might engage with it, now you’ve got a great big old banner at the bottom of your post telling everyone exactly how much bullshit you’re spewing.
They’ve been outed, so now they’ve taken to attacking the credibility of their watchdog, because if they want people to continue to engage with their propaganda then people need a credible reason to distrust MBFC.
I dunno I think that’s a tad conspiratorial… lemmy is a pretty small audience upon which to launch state sponsored disinformation campaigns. It’s a far simpler explanation that it’s just some dork annoyed at bot comments, which makes sense tbh, it’s just easy to solve by blocking the bot.
OP’s account is less than 24 hours old and already contains two articles from nonreputable sources and a complaint urging people not to trust the reputability watchdog. Even if I am overreacting, that’s a bad look.
Also, nobody said it has to be state sponsored. Nongovernmental actors propagandize shit all the time. People do it all the time for free in my home country, and I guarantee you’ve experienced the negative effects of it, because this is why you hear things about American conservatives every day.
A citizen who cannot trust their news cannot act. And a citizen who cannot trust an independent fact checker cannot trust their news.
Disinformation is easier than ever on US corporate social media, because they’ve been folded into the US military-intelligence-propaganda-industrial complex.
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