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  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.catoFemcel Memes@lemmy.blahaj.zonewanna..?
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    7 hours ago

    Pretty much all women should take this advice.

    Being subtle will regularly, if not almost always be missed. Us dudes are too wrapped up in whatever dumb shit we’re thinking about to notice the subtlety. Grabbing my dick, definitely gets my attention. If you don’t know what to say, just grab a dick.

    We’ll let you know if there’s any reason not to, but bluntly, few things are so important that they need to be finished before getting freaky.



  • Well, I’m sure a human domicile would be a bit more robust than “alligator Alcatraz” so instead of 8 days, it might take more like… 8 weeks? To build something comparable for the homeless?

    Depending on how complex each housing unit is (bathrooms/kitchens/whatever) possibly more or less. Idk.

    But knowing that the world runs on capitalist dollars, there’s no profit in it. They can’t pay rent, they don’t have any money, and they would actively cost you money, either in property tax, water, power, and/or food… Not to mention any replacement costs for any fixtures or furniture that’s damaged/stolen.

    Not saying the unhoused are thieves, but a nontrivial number of them are desperate, and desperate people do things that they otherwise wouldn’t consider doing.

    In any case, the solution to the homeless “problem” (being that people are homeless at all) is not just housing, but also community services to get any drug users into their respective rehabilitation programs, and anyone willing and able to work, into job placements… Mental health services…

    All of these things cost money and don’t yield any profits, so I understand why they’re not done. That doesn’t mean I’m ok with it not being done, it’s a shame that we’ve left a portion of the population to fend for themselves on the streets and we almost universally dehumanize them as less than a person because they’re homeless. They’re people. We should take care of them because they’re people.

    No child left behind, but anyone post highschool that’s living on the streets, fuck them… I guess.



  • It’s not AI.

    There’s one big tell that I don’t think AI is advanced enough to replicate.

    Op took this picture though a window that had multiple panes of glass. So there’s an echo of the image from the secondary reflections between the panes of glass.

    I also can’t spot and of the debris in the shot blending into itself. Everything seems to be complete objects.

    But that reflection? I’ve never seen AI do anything like that.

    In case anyone doesn’t quite see what’s going on here, the image is taken from inside (lights seem to be off from where the camera is), through thermal glass into a concrete window space, which is common for places that have basements so the window can serve as an emergency exit (even if you need to break it to get out)…

    Looks like there’s some kind of evergreen tree not far from where the window is, given the debris in the photo.

    Great shot OP.





  • Canada. It’s generally easy and free (no direct cost to me). I try to avoid having to go to my doctor whenever possible and I live with a nurse (and my doc knows that). Usually when I send him a message, either by email or by calling, he’ll have a follow up question or two (sometimes none) then decide a course of action and move right to implementation. Sometimes that’s sending a script to my local pharmacy, sometimes that’s a referral to a specialist. Who knows? I haven’t seen the guy in years. But if he made the request for me to go in, I would without hesitation.

    I know my experience isn’t the same as others, since my doctor and my spouse have actually worked together; but still. It’s all free and there’s usually minimal waiting.

    The only significant delays I’ve heard of in Canadian healthcare relate to major procedures when the issue is non-critical. Like getting an MRI as a precaution, to make sure things aren’t messed up or something (IDK what MRIs are used to diagnose, I am not a doctor).

    Everything is triaged, so if you’re not actively dying from a thing, and you need a big piece of equipment to scan you to figure something out, you’re going to be waiting a while.


  • All good points, and I especially agree about the cable seeking part (working in IT we refer to it as a fiber seeking backhoe, but the same principle applies).

    As for a grid connection, I’m not sure 200kW is strictly required for just a backhoe, but if we’re taking the example to a practical place of EVs running the show rather than diesel, all of the construction equipment charging at once is probably going to need 200kW combined to charge, if not more; so the point stands IMO.

    Just as a mental exercise, thinking about the backhoe specifically, getting it connected to a grid, IMO, would basically require that a temporary structure be erected over where it will be operating to provide a line to the unit from above, since it may need to turn any/all direction(s). Which assumes that it’s working in a location where there is free space over the work area, and any time the unit is moved the grid attachment scaffolding would need to go with it.

    I imagine the power line would run up one of the legs of the scaffold, to a mid point, then there would be a tensioner on an “extension cable” (of sorts), to the backhoe to avoid any slack that could be caught up in the normal operation of the vehicle.

    Needless to say, this is a lot more work and bluntly, wildly impractical for construction use.

    I’m just saying it could work, but there’s no way in hell any construction company is jumping through the hoops to make it work, even if a backhoe company built one, which they won’t because it’s wildly impractical and nobody would ever buy one.

    Thinking economically about it, there’s probably 10,000 cars being driven for every construction vehicle in use, so it’s not exactly a large target to focus on. IMO, one of the bigger areas where we should be trying to save emissions is in marine travel. Specifically large cargo ships. With commerce being as international as it is, and only increasing in demand, those ships are running almost 24/7, usually on diesel or another fossil fuel.

    Solving that problem would probably have a much larger impact than trying to get construction crews off of using diesel in their equipment.

    Just a thought.


  • I’ve been there, done that. Welcome to the club my friend.

    The only reason I got through my last layoff without stooping into a deep depression is that I’ve done this dance so many fucking times that I’m tired of it all.

    Luckily I had a new job about a month later, which I 100% acknowledge is luck.

    I still miss my previous job, it was much better than the one I have now. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not angry at being employed, I’m just sad that I didn’t get to remain employed with the last workplace.

    I get it, 100%. Nothing you said is really all that abnormal. You clearly liked the job, and there’s no good way to express that loss. It’s just something you have to go through all the stages of. Eventually the whole ordeal will seem further and further away and you’ll settle into a routine and get your life back to where it should be. You lost something and it’s okay to be sad about that.

    What isn’t good is if you start getting any worse than where you are at now. If you start sliding deeper into it, or you feel like you’re drowning, please seek help. The people who care about you don’t want to lose you.

    My advice for the future is: never invest more than you’re willing to lose, whether you’re taking about money or emotional investment, the reality is that you can lose it all in a snap. Make sure you know what you’re risking and ensure you can sacrifice what you’ve invested if there’s a sudden change from management. Take care of yourself first, then worry about everything else.




  • With clothing specifically, it generally has a purpose. Socks can make you more comfortable, warm up your feet, pull sweat away from your skin and generally reduce odors… Not all of those in all cases, mind you, but depending on the circumstances and the type of sock, any/all of these could be the case.

    Undergarments in general have similar stories.

    All undergarments also play a role in keeping your over garments cleaner. Changing out your underpants and throwing on yesterday’s jeans can get you through a day with nearly no compromises… Depending on how dirty your jeans get on an average day.

    Over clothes protect you from getting dirty to a limited extent, they’ll block/absorb spills that reduces the amount you have to wash/bathe/shower… It’s easier to just throw on a new shirt than get into the shower and clean yourself up. Same with pants and other over garments.

    Outerwear usually provides a protective element, eg jackets can help prevent things like thorns from scratching you, or keep you warm in cold weather, or dry in wet weather…

    Clothes, to me, are a useful thing to be wearing, each piece serving it’s own small function, all of it coming together to create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

    There’s plenty of social constructs, this is true, but clothing definitely has a practical purpose, along with so many other things.






  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.catoBluesky@lemmy.worldNIH Censorship
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    5 days ago

    Tell me this: if you were watching a movie and men in black masks were taking people off the street and sending them off, never to be seen again, and those same men were separating children from parents forcibly and locking them all in cages/compounds for months on end…

    Would those people in this hypothetical movie, strike you as “good” guys, or “bad” guys?

    Because that’s what’s happening, in real life, in the USA, right now.

    Cue the “are we the baddies?” meme.