shalafi

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 28 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Well, yeah, because the United States Geographical Service is the source of truth for geographical names. No surprise Google and Apple follow it. There's a little more breakdown than that, but that's the gist of it.

https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names/domestic-names

The change is fucking stupid, you know it, I know it, we all know it. Save your fucking ire for all the real shit going down. In comparison, this doesn't rate a single breath.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

OK, fine, Central America. OP's point still stands.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 16 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Can't see why. The government isn't telling them what they can't say, only barring them from listening to the administration first hand.

But no worries! The blatant 1st violations will be along soon enough. The notion of free speech is too sacred to us Americans to trash right up from, takes some time.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

The thing everyone seems to be missing is that, Trump isn't in charge any more.

Look at his tweets, or whatever the fuck they're called, mostly focused and on point. Listen to his words, he doesn't ramble on and on and on. We only hear truncated quips. Also, he clearly has coaching that he's listening to.

Anyone remember how he got more and more demented as the election came closer? Anyone remember how his cognition dropped off a cliff in 2021 or so, and continued downwards, fast? How does he sound reasonably sane now?

The Project 2025 people have got him locked in as a mouthpiece, nothing more. Competent people are now in charge, this won't be like 2017.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Sometimes it's just a loyalty thing. "Use our app, we'll give you a discount." Which keeps you coming back instead of going to the competitor. Plus, having the icon on your screen is an advertisement in itself.

As to personal info, it's like everyone forgot how we did 25-years ago. LIE TO THE COMPUTER.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Too late. That data was grabbed and backed up six ways from Sunday. This administration is already ignoring court orders, and no one will stop them.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Smell is a powerful sense most of us don't really understand logically. For example; We pick up clues as to a mate's compatibility through kissing, tells us how compatible we are in order to have children with strong immune systems.

https://www.npr.org/2011/02/11/133686008/The-Science-Of-Kissing

And yes, have you ever noticed how hyper-sensitive we are to age? We can dial in someone's age at a glance, gender too! Watch people in traffic, just a peek, see how well you do. But we can fail, and we do, all the time.

Here's a freaky fact I've seen born out over and over. Young women are terrible at guessing an older man's age, usually aiming lower. Older men fail in the opposite direction, thinking a young woman is older. And that's how we tend to like it! Older men want younger women and vice versa.

tl;dr: You all primates, get over yourselves.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

GOOD! Let assholes put a literal target on their chest. I'm fine with this. Fuck me, I should start selling Nazi merchandise so I can track them.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The Jew hate originally stemmed from the fact that they could loan money and charge interest, which Christians found to be a sin (usury). Well, somebody has to handle banking or the economy crashes. Made them perfect scapegoats.

"I must be suffering because the Jews stole my money!"

Then it gets worse. Jews had strict rules about cleanliness, you can find many of them in the Bible. Guess who did and didn't get hit with plague rats. Guess who got the blame.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Stop 👏 Buying 👏 New 👏 Shit 👏

I could run a whole community on how to recycle, reuse, repurpose. Why the hell are people buying new cars?!

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought this place was all OC? Anyway, that's all I'll post, OC only.

 

I've got 8 of these things, had them for a few years, never seen this weirdness.

Last time I charged it, it seemed fine until I turned it on. Now it's cycling through every mode; low -> high -> red -> red blinky. It's been doing this for 3 days! Had to shove it in my desk drawer because it's driving me nuts. No, it won't turn off.

Can't find any reference to this behavior. Ideas?

 

Anyone know the details? I'll start a new one if I can.

 

I know the AR buffer is a totally different system than what I'm proposing. But still, I have an old spring and weight I could try with just a little widening on the shotgun hole.

Also, I realize the hole isn't angled to kick straight back. But might I see any reduction in felt recoil?

(For those not in the know, as I wasn't last year, you can easily change the weight in the AR system. LOL, didn't know you can pop the spring with a car key! I went up to an H3 (heaviest) and it still cycles like a dream, even with crappy .223. Wasn't sure how much difference I was feeling until a friend and I compared with his stock Aero. Holy shit did his kick harder!)

 

Insurance at my last company was so low, I'm not certain what it cost. $50mo. I think? When I started it was $35.

Let's do math. $20 every 3-months for a copay to get the doctor to re-up my prescription, $10 for the pills, $30 total. Add in whatever my employer paid for my part over 3-months, add in the doctor's cash-price difference. You get the idea.

And I probably could have found a way to cut the prescription price in half, or less. Ideas? That company Mark Cuban started? (Looks like it's $8.23/90-days there, haven't dug in on total price.)

Just learned about direct primary care, may jump on that if my new job doesn't cover insurance, or it isn't worth it. Thoughts on that?

Obviously I'm an American. You don't know how sad that made me to type. It's humiliating.

 

For those that missed the original post, I quit my IT career for a part-time job at Lowe's, for 1/4 the pay. Can't afford the low pay ATM, but I think my wife and I can muddle though until I go full-time, get promoted, whatever. I want to thank ALL of you who encouraged me! Cannot say how much more sane you all made me feel.

First thing our trainer did was give me a 10% discount card and program it. "Are you married?" Made another account for my wife. No lie, first thing we did.

I worked closely with HR on my last two jobs to build and improve our onboarding process. Lowe's made me feel amateur. Let's just say it was about as slick as such a complex legal and logistical process can be. (Yes, there's far more than most people see or think about.)

The person that got us going did the job I've done in my last two roles, got new people on the right foot. Yes, even working IT, I was the first person they met and got settled with. She did pretty damned well. Got stuck watching a recorded onboarding meeting, loathed the presenter. Ever known one of those women who are all smiling teeth, while frowning at the same time, and totally fake? "Oh my gosh! What GREAT input!" Fuck me. I started first and the other 3 guys finished first because they skipped some video. Cheating bastards. :)

LOL, they had the exact rig I built for one company. Some flavor of Debian, locked in kiosk mode, Firefox, on a crappy PC. Perfect for onboarding, training and as a time clock.

They seem pretty cool. The CEO was nice to listen to, seems a solid leader. Black guy, and they talked about DEI initiatives a good deal, doubt they're backing out, I'm sold. The store manager chatted with us for 30-minutes. Hell, my last CEO was an excellent leader, with half the staff, and he didn't take 30 to talk to 4 low-paid beginners.

The main thread I picked up, from my interview, to the CEO talk, to the manager, was that you can move up fast if you come in, do a good job and take care of customers. Well hell, that's what I'm best at. Everyone I've met in leadership started on the floor for shit pay, CEO as well.

Turns out my direct super is the British dude that's helped me before, love that guy! Be sweating my ass off in the outdoor area soon enough, the position I asked for, but I think having that man on my side will get me through.

So, be honest, am I fooling myself here? This ain't my first rodeo and I got very positive vibes, but it's a monster retailer so there's that.

EDIT: Forgot some of the meat of the story. Time and attendance policy seems lenient enough, though I'm not used to even thinking about it. PTO is crap compared to what I'm used to, which taking about every Friday off. Can't say about health, 401K, all that, but they offer it to part timers. Not great, more than I expected, who knows. All in all, no threatening crap like I expected for $15/hr. "You toe the line or you're fired!", kinda bullshit. Turnover is a metric they take seriously, and call out management on it. I'll drill into it more tomorrow when training is more 1-on-1.

 

First off, homemade napalm is in no way illegal, nor does it explode. You've watched too many Vietnam movies. What it does do is burn. Forever. More on campfires to come.

Put a couple of fingers of unleaded in a pickle (wide mouthed) jar, stuff waste Styrofoam in it. You can jam the contents of a 40" TV packaging in a quart jar.

That's it, that easy. Keep cramming the foam in until you get a taffy consistency. Too much and it's too hard to dig out with a stick. Too little and it slips off your stick.

I keep a jar at my campsite and one in the house for starting our little fire pit. A golf ball chunk will start soaking wet kindling.

PRO TIP: Spread the goo on a cookie pan, 1.4" thick, let it dry in the summer sun, cut into little pieces with scissors, put it in a little plastic box (that you had saved already, right?). Now you can pack it out with no mess, no smell!

Never goes bad, as far as I know, can't be too dry.

 

Sometimes we use the other bathroom, same deal. I never find the lid down, she never finds it up.

I feel like this is some magic that should never be talked about openly, like we agreed without speech and discussing it would break something. Lived with many women, this has never happened.

I'm just being weird, aren't I? I love her for it in any case.

EDIT: I wasn't clear. I'm talking about the seat. We're gross and don't put the lid down when we flush. Yes, I'm aware that tosses bacteria around, don't care. Unless one of us ends up with a compromised immune system, it's not a big deal. And we pretty much never fall ill.

 

That's an 80s Eastern Bloc (Hungary or Yugoslavia?) military greatcoat. Warmest thing I own. Must admit, that outfit screams for my reproduction black-powder rifle. "Hang on guys! My powder's wet!"

If you can't cosplay a communist without being called a rebel, you might be a redneck.

 

Been gunsmithing on a crappy Hatfield single-shot tonight, listening to Paul in the background. I learned damned near everything I know about guns from Gun Dad.

 

Applied during COVID (2020), had to call in and provide more information. Aight. Waited on hold for hours and hours, over and over again, gave up. In the meantime, Florida said, "You legal to own? You good to conceal carry." Aight.

Got a license in the mail today. Very legit looking. Holographic pic under/on-top of the state seal, top quality, etc. My pic looks like Rob Zombie, not sure where it's from, but it's clearly me.

The hell just happened?!

EDIT: Compared my pic to my DL, not even close. Maybe I sent a selfie 4-years ago? Maybe, can't remember?

This guy is named and is legit: https://www.fdacs.gov/About-Us/Meet-Commissioner-Simpson

If I can conceal carry as-is, WTF does this do for me? State reciprocity? Make me more legit if I have to fuck with cops? Asking the next pig I see.

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