SreudianFlip

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Eating a tiger liver would probably kill you with Vitamin A poisoning, a particularly painful affliction.

Easy to just avoid eating entirely, even if the rest of it is safe enough.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well that's piqued my interest so I glanced over your comments. I have to point out that yes, people respond badly to you sometimes, reminding me of reddit.

You should know that you seem unaware that your comments occasionally have a pugnacious or even bellicose tone, not necessarily intentionally mind you, but noticeable. Sometimes dismissive or contemptuous attitudes leak out and hostile replies state they are responding to that. It's not simple bullying, it's buttons being pushed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Apple doesn't want people using the mouse with the cable attached because it would cost them a fortune due to failed charging ports within the warranty period. It's a wireless mouse. Using it plugged in will fuck it up.

I fix computers and an apple mouse with a bad charge port is just a throwaway.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mac Mini M1 when it was released was a good deal compared to same form factor machines at similar prices. Same for the M1 MacBook Air, despite the base RAM.

That advantage lasted a while, too, considering battery life and build quality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

As a hardware repair person I am pretty sure that the engineers compromised with this design to prevent the inevitable problem of idiots leaving the charge cable plugged in while using it and breaking the charge port before warranty is done.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I can corroborate that it gets crazy even in courses expecting high literacy. I had the painful experience of teaching a 3rd year course in communication studies that was part of the media production stream. It required writing preproduction documentation and a script. There were a lot of questionable attempts but there's always a range of interest and skill, right? One student, and let me remind you this is third year at a university, I called into office hours. I'm a fan of poetry, so I just had to be sure that she wasn't cleverly lampooning Gertrude Stein in some ironic way. Sadly, no, she just had no fucking clue how to write ANYTHING coherent. Amazing.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

iMac G4.

The iMac G5 started the fat monitor on a leg design.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I'm the one who is awake by the fire when the sabretooth shows up at midnight. I'm the one going around telling everyone to get outside, the house is on fire. I'm the one who is suddenly at the bottom of the small cliff, still steaming and naked from the hot tub, doing first aid assessment on the partier who fell off. I'm the one who burns for 14 hours and gets the team to push that working build out minutes before going live.

There's dopamine in there. We're starved for it daily so we can go hard in some way when it counts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Did you have one in mind? Or are the words synonymous?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Land Back" is relevant to North America and Australia etc. because the genocides and expropriations are within living memory and in some cases ongoing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Respectfully, carbon footprint as a measure is just a measurement and is really useful in the right context. It's important to remember that it's the misapplication to individuals that is a con game.

When Rees and Wackernagel came up with ecological footprint as a measure, it introduced a systems analysis to human activity that we really needed. Carbon footprint is just a subset of that and ignoring it is futile. Just apply the analysis where it matters: militaries, mining, transport, energy, civil engineering, etc etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Not only did I opt out, verbally by calling OnStar from the car, I then removed the cell antenna (SparkEV), which works well in the rural areas where I live, not sure about a cellular-dense location, they can probably track pings now and then. So, if I get around to it I will look into disconnecting the cell module under the passenger seat.

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