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intensely_human , to science_memes in Chemists of Lemmy, how accurate is this likability table?

Oh yeah just lick the carbon. It’s probably fine.

elbucho ,
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Tastes like a campfire.

Maalus ,

It is. Activated carbon is used to treat diarrhoea, you basically swallow a chunk of carbon that absorbs any moisture it comes across

FireRetardant ,

Activated carbon is also used in water treatment to remove taste/odours and many organic pollutants.

intensely_human ,

“organic pollutants” are made of carbon too

5oap10116 ,

Don’t lick carbon nano tubes or buckyball. Also in general carbon powder can be a particulate inhalation issue.

model_tar_gz ,

The table is about licking specifically. It’s not a breathability table. Just so that is clear.

5oap10116 ,

I assume if it’s getting anywhere near your mouth you’d also be breathing it but aside from that, ingestion is also a nogo.

model_tar_gz , (edited )

The ingestion/breathability table might be more restrictive. Like, elemental Sulfur is perfectly fineno actually it’s not fine— but probably unpleasant to lick. Contact dermatitis likely but not life threatening—just one lick, ok; promise no more? ;)

Breathing elemental Sulfur is also going to result in contact dermatitis -inside the lungs. Which is going make a really bad day.

MotoAsh ,

Not moisture but reactive molecules. (I mean, many forms probably do still absorb a good bit but) I forgot the exact chemistry but “activated” means chemically reactive. It binds with all sorts of reactive molecules, like toxins and many other things.

intensely_human ,

Diarrhea is also mostly carbon.

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  • intensely_human ,

    The carbon being pure is not the basis for my joke

    subtext ,

    Have you never licked a diamond before? You’re missing out.

    unexposedhazard , to lemmyshitpost in unsee this

    No, i dont think i will.

    BeefPiano , to insanepeoplefacebook in Sovcit got thrown out of court.

    Bless your heart

    SteveFromMySpace , (edited ) to programmer_humor in Just a dad helping out

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  • hitmyspot ,

    In most industries, that’s considered a bait and switch. Decpetice conduct that can lead to fines.

    If you contact them immediately, to rectify an error, then not so much.

    AFKBRBChocolate ,

    What are you taking about, he didn’t bait anyone. You aren’t obligated to honor a quote from someone who isn’t in your company. If I said my son is a mechanic and he can put a new engine in your car for $50, you absolutely should not expect a $50 engine.

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  • commandar ,

    You tell them you don’t work for $500.

    Or you tell them that you do.

    Per hour.

    But since they’re clearly such great mates with dad, you can cut them a deal.

    hitmyspot ,

    I’m saying they should not get to the point that they walk in the door. If they call, correct immediately.

    It should be corrected, by Dad, prior to a call, rather than used as a sales funnel, which is the suggestion.

    Honest mistakes happen, but using an honest mistake to purposefully continue to mislead to get them in the door and then correct them is a bait and switch.

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  • hitmyspot ,

    How do you get them in the door to tell them without the call? Youre advising using an error to your advantage to massage someone to be a client using a bait and switch tactic.

    It may not have been thenolan, being a genuine error, but that’s your plan to take advantage of it. If they purposely gave the wrong amount, would it be bait and switch in your view?

    Way to go on the straw man, though.

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  • hitmyspot ,

    I am listening to what you are saying. ok, so you did imply this is not the first contact. Just using a phrase to do so. Obviously you meant something different.

    Walking out the door, also a phrase. Again, one that’s situational. It means they are on site. For talking on the phone, I’d say hang up. So again, implying its not the first contact.

    Look, I also think it can be correctly handled, but your whole post makes it sound like a pushy sales narrative that is deceptive. Youre not outright calling for deception but the implication is there. I’m not the only one noticing it.

    Maybe your choice of words is wrong, but when someone tells you who they are, listen.

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  • hitmyspot ,

    Just like in this discussion, youre changing the narrative deceptively.

    Now they are on the phone. They weren’t before, that stage had passed.

    Sure, you are now retroactively changing your intent but it doesn’t change the meaning of your words.

    You say listen to what youre saying. I did.

    If you said, when they call advise of the current rate, is agree. Your version seems to be past that stage. In no world does anyone think that you would be obliged to honor the quote. So either your advice is not really advice, to do what is normal and advise them of your actual rate. Or, as appears more likely, you want to leverage the mistake using their sunken cost of time after arranging a meet, knowing in advance their expectations dont match the rate.

    If everyone else gets it why is there another comment calling you a LinkedIn lunatic? Its not a term I would use, but I see their point. Your comment is one of two things: A pointless comment offering no advice as of course they would clarify. A comment to say leverage it to your advantage, using deceptive tactics.

    Walk it back all you want but in context its clear to me which was the intent. Perhaps you meant no I’ll will, but it reads as exploitative. In quoting for any kind of work, but especially programming based work, there is a knowledge differential. This justifies fees, but the same knowledge differential is often used to take advantage of those with no concept of the work involved.

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  • rekorse ,

    Dudes just saying you can be deceptive without intending it. Its not the craziest idea is it?

    To avoid abusing the sunk cost fallacy, it would be best to tell the dad that is not the correct rate, and to please reach out to their friend with the correction.

    No chance of someone feeling like they might as well choose youre higher rate because they are already talking to you.

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  • rekorse ,

    In my opinion its a direct response to the advice that this can be turned into a positive, and is just pointing out that its technically based on a deceptive principle so you should not make a habit out of it.

    I think its fair to consider the situation from all involved perspectives, including the Dads friend.

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  • roguetrick ,

    Now you’re going to charge them for lemonade too?!? Does your greed know no bounds?

    roguetrick ,

    The guy literally explained he was using sales idioms and you are taking it like someone is actually trying to lock prospective clients in. If he told you they decided to get off the pot instead of walk out the door would you assume he’s a voyeur watching them poop?

    hitmyspot ,

    Their idioms have implications beyond what he’s saying. He’s either changing his story or doesn’t fully understand them.nor my point.

    Given the lady doth protest so much, my money would be on retrospective shanging of the story, not clarification.

    Slovene ,

    They didn’t say it was deceptive,they said it was decpetice.

    MadBigote ,

    You sound like a LinkedIn influencer:

    I shat my pants; this is why this is a great opportunity to network!

    Intrama , to lemmyshitpost in unsee this
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    Omg 😭

    sxan , to insanepeoplefacebook in Sovcit got thrown out of court.
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    The amount of wishful thinking is honestly surprising to me, even though my expectations about these folks is already pretty low. It’s just… are all of the brain cells focused on keeping them breathing?

    I totally get it. Nobody wants to pay taxes, or fees, and it’s getting harder for people to afford food much less car insurance, registration, emissions inspections, yadda yadda. The SovCit thing must be appealing. But, still, interpreting that situation like that? It seems like a new level of dumb.

    ArmokGoB , to meanwhileongrad in Two different tankies giving some wild takes in the same thread

    Name and shame these assholes.

    PugJesus OP ,

    They’re interchangeable tankie fuckwads. It doesn’t matter what their names are, they all regurgitate the same lines. Besides, I’d rather not fuel their persecution complex.

    fuckingkangaroos ,

    Most of them don’t have names because they’re LLMs.

    AVincentInSpace , (edited )

    Hey, let’s leave the baseless LLM accusations to them, yeah?

    LLMs are used in discourse to change people’s minds. No one who thinks the Tiananmen Square massacre happened is going to buy this, especially if the only place they post their opinions to the contrary is an instance that every other Lemmy instance with an ounce of self-respect has defederated from. It’s tempting to believe these people as AIs because the alternative is believing that actual humans hold those views, which is much scarier. Unlike tankies I have faith in our ability to live without comforting delusions.

    fuckingkangaroos ,

    It’s not baseless, its well-known that the Kremlin uses anonymous social media to influence elections, and we should call it out when we see it.

    AVincentInSpace ,

    Anonymous social media accounts sure. But using LLMs to spread propaganda in a forum where the only people liable to see it are people who already agree just seems like a waste of effort.

    fuckingkangaroos ,

    The Kremlin reinforces a range of extremist political beliefs in order to create tension. Digital divide and conquer.

    YeetPics ,
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    As if they aren’t all using sock puppet accounts on .world.

    These types are so fucking predictable.

    Trainguyrom , to memes in 󠁗󠁗󠁗󠁗󠁗󠁗

    There is the Scaled view, but if you have NSFW enabled it really inundates you with porn which might not be what you’re going for at the moment

    ByteJunk ,
    @ByteJunk@lemmy.world avatar

    inundates you with porn which might not be what you’re going for at the moment

    Oh. How… Uh… I’ll be right back.

    kenoh ,
    @kenoh@lemm.ee avatar

    TIL, very helpful!

    EDIT: Would be really helpful if I could filter out the 1 vote posts.

    mesamunefire , to lemmyshitpost in The overworked IT person who just happened to quit his job on 18 July 2024

    This latest debacle is making my department move from windows to Linux. We were already planning it very slowly but then everything crashed at the same time…and all our other services worked except the ones on windows boxes. We can’t afford downtime so it was decided.

    kautau ,

    I don’t know how CrowdStrike works on Linux, but it’s worth remembering that if it’s a kernel level driver like it is on windows, and they release a driver that crashes the Linux kernel, there’s a chance for the same thing to happen.

    frog_brawler ,

    CrowdStrike absolutely fucked Linux in the past.

    ramble81 ,

    Thank you for mentioning that. I really hate how people on here think Linux is some panacea that will magically solve everything. It too it just another tool that depends on how it’s used. CrowdStrike exists for Linux, and it was crashing systems a few months ago.

    The bigger issue is most people who use Linux know what they’re doing. There are a lot of competent Windows Administrators too who didn’t have issues or were able to recover them in a timely manner. What happens though is you have a very large set of people who just need a computer, need is secured and don’t know how to administer or manage it. Doesn’t matter if they’re running Linux, or Windows, they’ll always have the greatest problems. They just happen to use Windows because it offers better Enterprise support options and usability. One day, Linux may be that, but I guarantee it won’t fix all of those pebkac issues.

    frog_brawler ,

    I mostly agree. As someone that’s worked with both Windows and Linux for over 15 years, I think we need to ask the question of “why do we see so many incompetent admins?”

    If you aren’t paying people enough to give a shit about what they are doing, they won’t.

    themeatbridge ,

    The answer is that companies are unwilling to allocate sufficient budget to infrastructure. So anyone competent leaves either because either there is better pay elsewhere, or they don’t want to be held responsible for the shoestring shitshow that companies are willing to pay for.

    kautau ,

    Which is sort of the reason crowdstrike is so popular in the first place. Technically inept leaders want to check a “secure” box in their infrastructure presentation to the board, and certainly don’t want to hire an actual cybersecurity team alongside what they already consider to be an expensive IT team. (Granted they can’t do the mental work of realizing that basically every one of their employee uses a computer every day for hours at a time, and connects to vast networks of computers sitting in datacenters). So to save money, and seeing the legally binding contract, they use crowdstrike.

    mesamunefire ,

    I personally get nervous when any software wants to mess with drivers unless it’s graphic drivers.

    For work we don’t plan on using cloud strike. We needed to get everything up asap and the os allowed us to do so quickly. Seemingly unrelated systems and Azure was all down for quite some time.

    Im_old ,
    Karyoplasma , to lemmyshitpost in Windows 11

    I get that legacy support sucks and nobody wants to do it, but the new product is just an ad serving platform under the guise of being an OS. Maybe try to release a good Windows platform before asking people zo switch to that, just a thought I had.

    Norgur ,
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    But they don't want you to switch to "the new cool stuff". They want you to switch to "the ad serving platform"

    Demdaru ,

    Every second windows tho. Xp good, Vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good, 11 bad…

    Angry_Autist ,

    And they want 11 to be the last one…

    asexualchangeling , (edited )

    Can you really say 10 is better than 7, though? 7 maybe better than vista, And 10 better than 8, But I maintain that it’s a downward slope and that the versions keep getting worse overall

    Demdaru ,

    I…what? Never said 7 was better than 10, nor that quality goes up. Just that every second windows is good.

    Angry_Autist ,

    To Microsoft, being an automatic ad platform is WHY they consider it better than 10. They have zero incentive to release an OS that doesn’t ad spam or datamine you.

    creditCrazy , to cat in Sinister
    @creditCrazy@lemmy.world avatar

    With one paw I do absolutely nothing and the other I raise this kibble and eat

    5redie8 , to memes in Bacon tho

    Fastest way to get anyone offended is to even remotely imply they could change the way they eat… Jesus y’all are vitriolic WTF?

    debil ,

    The downvotes just prove your point.

    tobogganablaze , (edited )

    I don’t think anyone really get’s offended over it. It’s more like being pestered in by one of those clipboard carrying solicitors.

    5redie8 ,

    But… The post is already encouraging people to eat meat. Like this post is literally designed to pester people who don’t eat meat, but then the meat eating people got mad anyway

    tobogganablaze ,

    But… The post is already encouraging people to eat meat.

    I think you misunderstand the post then.

    The post is pointing out the hypocracy that killing an animal for pleasure is generally regarded as wrong, except when it comes to the sense of taste.

    It’s very much a pro-vegan post.

    5redie8 ,

    Oh, I honestly just assumed the “but bacon tho” title was completely unironic. I still see shit like that all the time

    edboythinks , to lemmyshitpost in Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way

    you joke, but I’ve got my most recent salvo of audio books sitting in a double sided flash drive on my desk, right now

    derpgon ,

    The one thing Apple did right. AirDrop is nice, and I wish PairDrop worked for Bluetooth aswell.

    I mean, we already have Nearby Share/Quickshare on Samsung, but it is still kind of finnicky.

    redditReallySucks ,
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    Quick share works on all phones now. Google’s nearby share was renamed to quick share. And there’s also a windows client now

    FlyingSquid , to insanepeoplefacebook in Sovcit got thrown out of court.
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    Yeah, the case is dismissed. Go ahead and leave the country. Nothing could possibly happen at the airport.

    DrCake , to memes in 󠁗󠁗󠁗󠁗󠁗󠁗

    There is/was !trendingcommunities but it looks like the bot has stopped posting recently

    CommunityLinkFixer Bot ,

    Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !trendingcommunities

    riodoro1 ,

    Happy cake day DrCake

    jqubed ,
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    You’re right, I haven’t seen that in a while. The about page for the community has a link to the bot’s source code on GitHub, but it’s giving me a 404 error.

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