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Fondots ,

Or "His Dudeness" or "Duder" or "El Duderino" if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

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It wasn't much, but back in high school I basically worked as sort of a personal savings account for a couple weeks.

There was one dude I wasn't exactly friends with but we were friendly, never hung out or really talked outside of school, but otherwise were on pretty good terms. We often sat at the same lunch tables, had some mutual friends and such, talked and joked around between classes, etc.

He was also kind of an irresponsible druggie. Nice guy, wasn't out committing crimes or anything besides drug possession, just made a lot of dumb choices, came to school drunk, high or tripping balls a lot.

I kind of looked the part of a stoner back in high school- long hair, sort of a grungy style, listened to a lot of classic rock and metal, etc. so I was in a lot of the same circles as him, but I didn't drink or do drugs and it was also pretty well known that I was a reasonably smart, responsible, and honest dude.

So a few weeks out from senior prom, he realizes that he's going to need some money for whatever his post-prom plans were (I didn't ask, I figured it was probably better that I didn't know.) He also knew that he couldn't be trusted with his own money, he'd blow it on drugs or something else stupid.

So he asks if he can just give me money to hold onto, and I agreed. He'd hand me a few bucks here or there over the next couple weeks, whatever he didn't use from his lunch money or allowance or whatever, and I just held onto it.

But at the end of it, it added up to a pretty decent bit of money (by "high school kids 20 years ago" standards anyway, it was maybe around $100)

And the day before prom I gave it back to him and he let me keep I think $10 or $20 for my troubles.

Fondots ,

He did eventually sober up, I think he did a little bit of time in jail or prison along the way. As far as I know he is generally doing pretty well now, is married, has a kid.

But he's still an idiot. I remember seeing I'm parroting some bullshit about Trump being better for the middle class maybe about a year ago.

He did message me a bit after the election saying something about how he felt bad, but I was still pissed off myself and in no mood to hear him out and blocked him. I was within days of deleting my Facebook anyway so I was about to lose contact with him anyway since I've never had his phone number.

Fondots ,

How much of that is still a reaction to their upbringing though?

Say someone is raised in an abusive situation, and because of that they decide to be nothing like their parents when they grow up and become the epitome of a loving, nurturing parent, or maybe decide to not have kids at all to make sure they break the cycle.

Would that same person make those same choices if they were raised in a more "normal" household?

We can't really know for sure, but I suspect in a lot of cases the answer would be no.

And of course there's all kinds of little butterfly effects.

For example, I've known one of my best friends since preschool. We attended the same public school from kindergarten through graduation, but after pre school I never had a class with him again until 10th grade. If my parents had decided to send me to a different preschool, it's very likely I'd have a different best friend, and who knows how that might have affected my life?

Or later in life, when my grandfather was no longer able to drive, my parents ended up with his truck, they could have sold it but instead they held onto it and when I started driving it sort of unofficially became "my" car that I used to commute to community college. If they hadn't kept that truck, or just didn't let me use it, I probably would have had to take the bus and would have had to arrange my class schedule differently and never sat next to a guy in a history class who would eventually introduce me to the woman who is now my wife.

So those two little decisions made in my upbringing had big effects on the trajectory of my life. I'm quite happy with where I've ended up, but I had no say in either case, so I think you could definitely argue that I'm a "prisoner" to those decisions they made. I'll never know what twists and turns my life might have taken if they'd chosen differently. Maybe there's an alternate timeline where my best friend from a different preschool convinced me to buy a bunch of Bitcoin in 2009 and I could be a retired multimillionaire right now.

Fondots ,

I don't think growth is a determining factor for imprisonment. If someone is sent to actual prison and is successfully reformed and rehabilitated and able turn their life around, does that mean they were any less a prisoner than someone who didn't learn and grow from the experience?

I don't think so, though you may certainly feel differently. I think the defining characteristic is the lack of agency. You are the product of countless choices that you had no say in during your childhood, you are a prisoner to those choices, nothing you can ever do will undo those choices, you can work around them, overcome them, and make the most of them, but ultimately you are who you are because of them.

Fondots ,

Richard Attenborough

Fondots ,

I think we're going to need a little more context on who he is and how he's using the word "goy"

It comes from Hebrew/Yiddish, so it's a word used predominantly by Jewish people, and so not inherently antisemitic. It basically means non-jew, it's roughly synonymous with the term "gentile" that you might be more familiar with if you've had a Christian upbringing.

How Jews use it of course varies a lot, plenty just use it without any particular deeper meaning, just a matter-of-fact statement that the person they're referring to isn't Jewish.

Some of course do use it with a bit of Malice if they value non-jews less highly than their fellow Jews.

I've also heard it used, usually somewhat jokingly, by Jews to refer to other Jews who aren't acting in a way that they think is in accordance with Jewish customs. I remember one time my one Jewish friend who keeps kosher (kind of, he definitely bends the rules more than a bit) was teasing another Jewish friend who had ordered a bacon cheeseburger or something while we were out grabbing lunch, calling him a goy and lumping him in with the rest of the non-jews sitting around the table. It was all in good fun, just a bunch of guys joking around over a couple beers.

Again, I'm sure there's some Jews out there who would do something like that and mean it as an actual insult.

If the person saying it isn't Jewish themselves, that's where you might have a case for their use being antisemitic.

I'm not Jewish, I could definitely see myself using goy or a handful handful of other jewish words and phrases I've picked up when I'm joking around with my Jewish friends. I might even call one of them a goy jokingly like in that bacon cheeseburger situation. Mostly though I'd probably use it to refer to myself, like if they were talking about, let's say a Chanukah celebration, and I didn't understand what they were talking about, I might tell them to need to explain it again in "goy" for me.

But if I'm not with friends that I have a good rapport with, I probably wouldn't joke like that, I don't want to give the wrong impression that I'm genuinely criticizing them for not being Jewish "enough," as a non Jew I really don't think it's my place to be making that kind of judgement.

And I certainly wouldn't be using it seriously to criticize Jews. I wouldn't call Israeli Zionists goys (goyim I believe is actually the proper pluralization) based on their Zionist beliefs, there's plenty of totally secular terms I can come up with to criticize them.

I could also see an antisemite using Jewish terms like goy in a mocking fashion, which, yeah that's pretty antisemitic, basically the same thing as a white supremacist making fun of a black person for using AAVE.

And of course, depending on the person, the tone, how they're using it, their target audience, etc. it could be totally non-problematic.

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Occasional nudist/naturist here

Depends a bit on the beach you're at, but generally yeah, that's pretty inappropriate and would get you thrown out of or even arrested at any of the places I go to. Nudism isn't about sex, it's just about not wearing clothes, there are people with kids who enjoy nudism as a family, etc.

The resort I normally go to has a very lively swinger community, sometimes it almost seems like my wife and I are the only couple there not part of the lifestyle, but even still any sort of sexual activity stays out of the open, you go back to your room/tent/RV for that.

There are definitely some places that will turn more of a blind eye to it, but in general unless you're specifically at some sort of a lifestyle resort where that sort of thing is officially condoned you shouldn't be doing it in the open.

Personally, I wouldn't be too bothered by it, I'd think it's trashy as fuck and would judge you pretty harshly for it but it wouldn't ruin my day. I can't speak for everyone else in the nudist community though, and if you search around you can find a lot of horror stories of someone finally convincing their friend to try out nudism only to have the bad luck of that friend immediately encountering some creep or someone having sex out in the open and being immediately turned off by the experience never wanting to try it again

Fondots ,

Is it actually a dedicated gay nudist beach, or is it a nude beach that the gay community frequents?

There's a nude beach not too far from me, and it's pretty well-known that the one end of the beach is the "gay" end. There's no official demarcation, it's just a regular public beach where nudity happens to be allowed, and the one end of it is where the gay people tend to congregate, if you're not already in the loop about the local nudist community, you'd have no real way of knowing that until you found yourself there and maybe noticed a lot of rainbow flags and same-sex couples holding hands or something.

But that end of the beach does also sometimes get a bit raunchy, which isn't really legal though usually police turn a blind eye to it as long as they stay down that end, it wouldn't bother me too much personally if I stumbled onto it without knowing, but it probably would a lot of other people, and I'd still generally consider it trashy and inappropriate at best.

If you were actually at some sort of private gay club where public sex is allowed, all good, but I feel like you probably wouldn't be questioning and trying to justify it if that was the case.

Fondots ,

I work in 911 dispatch, so getting people to calm down, stop what they're doing, and listen to me is kind of a big part of my job. Things are of course a bit different in-person than over the phone, but here's generally how I'd approach something like this.

If you know their name, use it. A lot. People respond to their name, that's kind of the whole reason names exist. It will get their attention which is half the battle.

Getting them to calm down from there is the other half, and it's not easy, especially if you don't speak their language. Body language and tone of voice goes a long way though.

Not that they're going to understand you in this situation anyway, but remember that no one in the entire history of calming down has anyone ever actually calmed down after being told to calm down. Don't even bother trying that.

Try to get them to take some deep breaths, use some gestures.

Your hospital really should have access to some sort of translation service, either humans on location there in the room with you who speak the language, or some kind of service like languageline (not plugging them specifically, I have a lot of complaints about some of their interpreters, they just happen to be who we use at work) that you can call up and get on speakerphone. Google translate and such are wonderful tools, but they're not perfect and sometimes you really want that bit of a human touch. I've also occasionally had some great interpretors who will chime in with some helpful bits like "they're saying'this' but in our culture that usually really means 'this'"

If you can find an excuse to hand them something, maybe some paperwork, that can also sometimes kind of create a little bit of a break in whatever they're doing for you to work with. They'll probably stop screaming for a second to look at what was just handed to them, and then you can try to work on something.

Fondots ,

Looks like other have covered the issues with a bull pup revolver well enough, don't think I have anything to add there

Handgun hunting is a thing, I don't really understand the appeal myself, but AFAIK .45 colt is a reasonably popular choice in that field, and with the right ammo and a reasonably short range can even be used for bear

.410 out of a revolver is probably pretty useless for hunting though. Since the barrel is rifled, that shot is going to start spinning and make it spread out a lot faster and farther than out of a smoothbore barrel, you don't have that much shot in a .410 shell to begin with so there's gonna be a whole lot of space between them when it gets to your target. You're gonna need a big target at close range and a lot of luck to make sure that shot is hitting somewhere vital, and at that point you're probably better off trying to hit it with a regular rifle or handgun.

Fondots ,

It's been quite a while since I used it but I remember kind of liking the smell.

There was a tiny undertone of some sort of funky rotten garlicky smell, but predominantly I thought it was more spicy and piney smelling

Fondots ,

I'm kind of wondering if the plan here isn't to goad trump into retaliating by blurting out where our own missiles are pointed at.

They threw some obvious ones out there like the Pentagon (duh of course they have missiles pointed there)

And then padded out the list with some defunct sites to make the list longer because someone like Trump is going to want to one-up them by listing at least that many of our targets. Russia probably doesn't actually have missiles aimed at most of those places, but this way they don't actually have to give up any of their actual targets.

And trump will probably take the bait to beef up missile defences around those defunct sites, wasting money, time, manpower, and resources that could be better used anywhere else.

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There's a lot of questions to be answered here but I feel like this could potentially be a pretty cool thing

He's created a strain of yeast that seems like it could function as an oral vaccine

You could just filter off the beer and eat the yeast, or maybe put it into pills or something, or purify it into a normal injectable vaccine

But there's a lot of people out there who are skeptical of pills and afraid of needles, or who just won't want to eat powdered yeast

But a lot of those same people will happily drink a beer.

It could also be a way towards sort of decentralizing vaccine production. Imagine he starts selling little packets of dry vaccine yeast for people to brew beer with. Yeast is pretty forgiving in its storage requirements, keep it in its little sealed envelope and keep it reasonably dry, and it should be good for a couple years. You can ship that around the world without much fuss.

And people all over the world know how to brew beer. Get that packet of yeast into the local hooch-maker's hands anywhere in the world, and they can turn it into a bunch of 1-pint vaccine doses in a week or two. No particularly special equipment or distribution networks needed, and vaccine distribution becomes as easy as hosting a kegger.

And if they're able to reclaim some of that yeast to brew another batch, you've potentially even set them up for long-term vaccine beer production.

You might also be better able to convince people who might otherwise be skeptical about taking a traditional vaccine to just drink a beer. It's not something scary like a needle, or weird and unnatural like a pill, it's "just" a beer.

And you can focus your efforts a bit more on who you need to convince about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. You don't need to convince a whole village to trust vaccines, you just need to convince the local brewer that the people already trust, and then you can piggyback off that existing trust.

Hell, I'm pro vaccine, but I know I'd probably be a little more proactive about getting mine if it meant I got to go have a couple beers.

Again, there's a lot of questions that need to be answered, not the least of which are the basic safety and effectiveness of this

There's also informed consent, making sure that the people drinking the beer understand that the beer is a bit more than just a beer, and the risks of alcohol (although if this is an effective delivery system, I think it's likely that those risks are well-outweighed by the benefits of vaccines)

I definitely think it's something worth exploring.

Fondots ,

It's possible I missed it, but I didn't see where it said how they came up with this strain of yeast. I was kind of assuming they used CRISPR or some other kind of gene editing to make it.

Regardless of if it was edited or selective breeding and random mutation, I do share those same concerns about how fast it might mutate and lose its effectiveness.

As far as it mutating into something harmful, sure it's a possibility, but the same possibility technically exists with any strain of yeast out there in the world, untold millions of generations of yeast have lived, mutated, reproduced, and died in breweries, bakeries, and vineyards since humans first started brewing beer and baking bread, and it hasn't gone horribly wrong yet. It's certainly worth being cautious about, and I'm certainly no geneticist to make an educated statement about it, but I suspect it's probably a pretty low likelihood.

Fondots ,

It's funny that you specifically mentioned the '60s, because back then they were pretty routinely administering the oral polio vaccine on a sugar cube for school children

That's how my dad got it back then

Fondots ,

New York has one of, if not the largest steam systems like that. A pretty significant chunk of Manhattan is hooked up to it.

Although it should be pointed out that those systems aren't without their own risks, there have been a handful of pretty bad explosions and such caused by that steam system. Not saying to knock it, any system where you're trying to distribute a large amount of energy has the potential for some catastrophic accidents to happen, it's all about weighing the relative pros and cons.

They're also pretty common on a smaller scale for college campuses, industrial complexes, etc. places with a lot of different outbuildings and such, it can be easier/cheaper/more efficient to have one central boiler room/house and pipe steam around than it is to have heaters in ever building.

Also, bit of a tangent, but many moons ago my dad was a pipefitter/steamfitter, and worked with a lot of steam systems, and from what he's told me about those days it sounded like absolute hell having to go into cramped service tunnels around searing hot steam pipes, all kinds of dust and asbestos everywhere, rats, high humidity, etc. that was probably almost 50 years ago, but I suspect things probably haven't improved all that much since then, so kudos to the people who are willing to put up with all of that.

Fondots ,

It was around 2016, I was about 25, and I went camping with some friends for a few days.

Up until that point, I felt like I had managed to stay relatively "with-it"

But we had little to no Internet access for a few days, because that's how camping works.

I came back and dat boi was all over the internet.

I had no idea what was going on with that meme, it never quite clicked for me

And from there it was all downhill, more and more new memes just stopped making sense to me.

Fondots ,

Most veggies in grocery stores are bred for things like appearance and shelf life more than actual quality.

I think tomatoes are a prime example of this.

Tomatoes bruise easily, and people kind of want to buy the perfect, round, bright red tomatoes, not a weird lumpy-looking, funny colored bruised up one.

So big farmers grow tomatoes that look pretty, and are sturdier to better handle being shipped thousands of miles, that will last better on grocery store shelves, etc.

But there's trade-offs there for things like texture and taste. That perfect-looking tomato may be bland and watery.

They may also be doing stuff like picking them before they're fully ripe and artificially ripening them with ethylene gas or something later in a warehouse.

When you get tomatoes from a smaller, local farmer though, they don't have to be shipped as far, or sit around in a warehouse or grocery store as long, so they don't need to pick varieties based on shelf life and ability to stand up to shipping, and can instead grow varieties that taste good. And they can pick them at their peak ripeness because they're going more directly from the field to the consumer and they don't have to rely on tricks like ethylene.

My wife isn't a picky eater, but when we first started dating she thought that she didn't really like tomatoes.

But she had only ever had regular grocery store tomatoes.

Until we moved in together and I grew some myself. Then she discovered that tomatoes can actually be really good. Now she can't get enough of them, as long as they're good tomatoes.

And I didn't even grow any particularly fancy tomatoes. That first year that I made a convert of her I just had some regular ol' beefsteak, Roma, and cherry tomatoes that I picked up as pre-started plants from Walmart or home Depot or somewhere like that, and grew them in pots on the patio of our apartment. Basically entry-level gardening, but that was enough to blow her mind.

Another year I grew, I think the variety was called something like "mucho nacho" jalapenos. We love jalapenos to begin with, but holy shit. That particular variety was everything we ever wanted a jalapeno to be. We had one or two other varieties going that year to have a comparison, but that one stood head-and-shoulders above the others, bigger, a little hotter, and just plain tastier.

And farmers can probably get their hands on even better varieties than whatever I could get at a big box hardware store, and have the know-how to really give them ideal growing conditions.

Fondots ,

Not exactly the soundtrack, it was fine, but nothing special and overall forgettable

But I want to give a small shout-out to Morbius for having really good sound mixing. I definitely expected it to be a "whispers and explosions" kind of movie where you couldn't hear the conversations, and action scenes blew your eardrums out, and the background music was all over the place

But no, everything was at a reasonable volume, I could hear everything crystal clear.

There was just nothing worth hearing unfortunately.

Fondots ,

I work a bit of a weird schedule

I do 12 hour shifts on a 2-2-3 rotation

So week 1 I work Monday, Tuesday, and Friday-Sunday

Then Week 2 I only work Wednesday and Thursday

Technically for payroll purposes I think technically that Sunday I work is part of week, but that's a stupid way to think about it day-to-day

So basically one week I work 5 days, and the next week 2

Or if you're a payroll bean counter, 4 and 3

So on average 3½ days a week, or basically a 4 day work week.

And I really like it despite the fact that I actually work slightly more hours than someone with a normal 40 hour work week.

I never have to work more than 3 days in a row without a 2 day break

I have days off during the week to squeeze appointments and such in

Sure I have to work every other weekend, but every other weekend is basically a free 3 day weekend.

And if you plan your vacations and such carefully you can get a whole week but only need to take 2 days off. That gets a little funny because our PTO is mostly based around 8 hour days since most people here have a normal workweek and they dont change it for those of us who work 12s, it mostly averages out, especially since we work less days overall, but it's not exact and I'm usually left with a handful of hours left over that don't add up to a full shift at the end of the year. A lot of it can carry over year-to-year though, so not a huge deal.

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You posted a picture of someone with earrings just about a week ago

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Fondots ,

My go-to easy party thing is buffalo chicken dip, I basically never measure anything so if you're not comfortable eyeballing stuff there's a million recipes out there to get you in the right ballpark.

The way I do it is requires maybe about 5 minutes total of actual work

Cook some chicken. I just throw some chicken breasts in the pressure cooker. Crock pot should work fine if you have the time, or bake them in the oven, poach them on the stove, hell just buy pre cooked chicken if you want, a lot of grocery stores near me even sell pre-shredded chicken which would be ideal. Whatever's most convenient for you. Pressure cooker or crock pot lets this be a one-pot kind of deal, and you can serve in it to keep it warm.

I just throw the chicken in there, little bit of salt & pepper, maybe some cayenne if I know people can handle the spice, some garlic and onion powder if I actually like the people I'm going to party with and it's not just a work function I'm half-assing things for.

Shred the chicken. I just go to town with a hand mixer. Use whatever method you like.

There's usually maybe a cup or so of liquid that cooked out of the chicken in the pressure cooker, I just leave it. If you're using other methods you may need to add or drain off some liquid - water, chicken stock, whatever. I think some added liquid is good and help it stay "dippy" even if you can't keep it warm for serving.

Add some cream cheese, Frank's red hot (or your preferred buffalo wing sauce,) and crumbled Bleu cheese

I like to shred some carrots and celery into it with a grater. Totally optional, but I think it kind of helps get the full experience of a basket of wings with a cup of blue cheese dressing and a couple celery sticks.

Mix it all together, easiest to do if it's still warm of course so the cream cheese can melt.

A lot of recipes call for shredded cheese, I don't think that adds to the flavor profile here, and just kind of makes the dip stiffer and less dip-able.

Serve with your preferred dipping chips, pita/naan, etc.

I've also used basically the same exact recipe as a filling for things like pierogi or rangoons. In those cases I do usually drain off the liquid from the chicken so that it's a bit thicker.

Fondots ,

I believe the geomagnetic pole falls somewhere in that region

Fondots ,

That's a map of the magnetic "dip" pole not the geomagnetic pole. They are slightly different things.

I'm a bit out of my depth, so I'm not gonna try to explain the distinction because I don't really understand it very well myself, it's just a fun fact I picked up somewhere.

But AFAIK, the geomagnetic pole is still supposed to be somewhere around Canada/Greenland

Also, not for nothing, but those are two different map projections so with how things get distorted around the poles in the OPs map,it's a little hard to directly compare them. Remember that with cylindrical projections the whole top edge of the map basically represents a single point (the geographic north Pole) so things are often a lot closer together than they may look on the map. Just from eyeballing the two maps as an amateur who uses maps more than the average person but doesn't exactly study them, I wasn't 100% confident that the dip pole wasn't in one of those higher spots of the puffin's range (it's not, I confirmed on a couple other maps, but it's closer than you might think just from casually looking at these two maps.)

Fondots ,

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Fondots ,

My computer is basically the same computer my wife built around 12 years ago, as she did upgrades over the last decade or so I just saved her old components and eventually stuffed them into a new box. It was a beefy rig when she built it, and still runs most of what I throw at it with (what I think is) pretty acceptable performance and settings.

So that old motherboard and processor aren't windows 11 compliant and with the windows 10 end of life I decided it was time to make the switch. Don't quite have the wiggle room in the budget for a major upgrade right now.

And truth be told, even if I were to do a major upgrade, I probably was looking at Linux anyway. I don't like the AI bullshit and a lot of the other dumb crap Microsoft has been pulling with 11. I want to get away from the corporate overlords in general. I've always been pretty big on FOSS, so really it was just gaming that's been holding me back and I felt like proton and such the state of gaming on Linux has finally reached a place I can be happy with.

And not for nothing, it's free, and I've always felt like MS charges too much for windows. I'm a bit of a cheapskate, if I can save a buck I'm going to. The F in FOSS is a huge draw for me.

And I've had half-baked plans to turn this current rig into a home server/NAS whenever I get around to building a new rig, so that meant Linux was in the cards for it at some point anyway, and I might as well start getting my hands dirty with that now in preparation.

Fondots ,

Savage Daughter by Sarah Hester Ross comes to mind

Fondots ,

The implications of Tyranids vs Chaos are kind of wild to think about too,

With their whole hive mind/shadow in the warp thing, 'nids are more-or-less immune to chaos corruption. And even if the forces of chaos somehow managed to enter into some sort of dialogue with the hive mind as a whole, what do they have to offer each other? All the tyranids want is to consume biomass, and they're doing that just fine on their own, constantly adopting and growing more powerful. Sure, maybe chaos can offer them tools to do it more efficiently, but then what? The 'nids consume all of the sentient races in the universe and chaos has nothing left to corrupt and feed off of for itself?

And the tyranids have no particular interest in the demons and other entities of the warp since they're not really "real" they're immaterial, made of the fabric of the warp. There's no biomass there for them to consume.

Although, since encountering the aeldari and adapting to create zoanthropes and the ability to use psychic abilities beyond just being a hive mind, perhaps they will even further adapt to be able to consume warp entities.

Tyranids are as big of an existential threat to chaos as they are to the rest of the factions in 40k. It will likely never be explored in the lore, but I think it's likely that some time in the future well beyond the 41st millennium, that if tyranids continue their advance, that things could work out that chaos may need to step into a sort of protective role fighting back the tyranids, because if they succeed in consuming all life in the galaxy, that's pretty much it for the chaos gods as well.

Have you done anything you're proud of lately?

This could be work or recreational related. Anything you've done that you sit back and go "hell yeah I did that". I'm typically wary of working on cars because I have big hands and no auto specialty tools. But, I was able to make a pretty involved (for me) repair last week and I've felt really great about it since. What about ...

Fondots ,

Couple weeks back, but this is still one of the things I'm most proud to have ever done in my life

My friend works security at a bar. He texts me a pic of a guy sitting at the bar wearing a shirt with some SS lightning bolts, and said the girl he was with was wearing them too.

They're not otherwise causing a problem, so the manager won't let my friend kick these guys out, but he really wanted to.

I'm at work, probably 5 miles away, and I can't leave to go start a ruckus. But I like this bar and I'll be damned if I let Nazis get a foothold there.

So I think through my options. I remember that the bar has a jukebox with an app you can queue songs up on. I open up that app and see that I, for some reason, have a ton of credits on there.

And even better, you don't actually even need to be at the bar to play songs there.

So I begin queuing up every anti-nazi, anti-fascist, anti-racist song I could find.

According to my friend, after a couple songs he got visibly frustrated and steps outside to have a cigarette as All You Fascists Bound to Lose comes on (sadly the jukebox did not have much Woody Guthrie, so I had to settle for the Billy Bragg and Wilco version)

He comes back inside and is created with Youth Against Fascism by Sonic Youth.

I keep it up. I find a version of Bella Ciao to play, Racist Friend by The Specials, This Is America, etc.

This bar has their jukebox set to a family friendly mode, since they also operate as a restaurant during the day. This limited my options somewhat, but I managed to put together a pretty solid dozen or so songs.

He starts looking around the bar, trying to figure out who is playing all this music obviously targeted at him. Of course I'm not even in the same town, so he finds nothing. My friend is keeping busy checking IDs and such at the door and occasionally texting me an update.

At some point in the middle of this someone queued up a single kid rock song, and I strongly suspect it was them.

It only took about an hour and they decided to close out their tab. He walks out to Michael Jackson's They Don't Care about Us.

But that's not the end of this. I'm on a warpath now. I fire up a throwaway Google account and leave a 1 star review of the bar complaining about the Nazi. This causes a bit of stir with the management, and my friend is successfully able to argue for more authority to throw Nazis out.

Nazi punks can fuck off.

Fondots ,

Just as an aside, most police codes aren't really standardized across different agencies.

There's a handful of 10-codes that are pretty much universal, like "10-4"

67 isn't one of those codes. A lot of departments do use it for a report of a death

But it's also commonly used to advise of an important incoming message

And other agencies may have other uses for it

And other agencies use other systems besides 10 codes, I believe some departments in CA have been known to use penal code numbers

But so because of that, there's been a big movement in emergency service to use plain language over codes for the last decade or two, mostly since Katrina since different agencies using different codes lead to a lot of miscommunication there.

I work in 911 dispatch, at my agency and pretty much everywhere around me it's all plain language. One or two 10-codes linger around, more as informal slang than anything that gets official use. 10-4 sometimes gets used, but that's practically just part of the English language now.

10-96 also kind of lingers around in my agency, which in the set of 10-codes they used before I started was for a subject with mental health issues. We're not really supposed to use it but no one has really come up with a better shorthand for it so it still pops up from time to time, mostly from our officers.

Fondots ,

Funnily enough, I actually work in an agency that's very close to Philly and deal with my counterparts in the city fairly regularly.

I don't get (or want) to listen to a whole lot of PPD radio chatter, we have plenty in our own county to keep us busy, so I don't know for certain if they're actually still using 10-codes or any other similar system or not. I can't think of any time I've heard a Philly officer or dispatcher use one with me, but it's certainly possible that they're still in use there internally.

Also even though we're using plain language, there's still some weird miscommunication that happens.

I remember one time needing to advise Philly of a report of gunshots we received that might have been relevant to them, it was near their border.

So I called over to their dispatch and advised them that "we received a report of shots fired in the area of..."

Which kind of sent their dispatcher into a bit of a tizzy because in Philly dispatch lingo "shots fire" basically means an officer has fired their gun, but to us it's just any report of gunshots (which, more often than not, means fireworks or something that the caller mistook for gunshots)

Fondots ,

It is and it isn't

Certain things absolutely need to be standardized

But in other cases it can just kind of bog things down.

I remember one training thing we had to do to keep our certifications up to date, part of it had to do with fire dispatch.

And at the beginning of that, our instructor basically said "Almost nothing in this course is at all relevant to us. But it's a national standard and we have to teach this to you"

It had a lot to do with wildland firefighting and some other specific situations that have nothing to do with how things operate in our area or with the kinds of situations we deal with.

It was interesting, I learned some fun facts, but I haven't yet had any reason to use any of the knowledge I picked up from that training.

And that time could have probably been better spent doing something else.

Fondots ,

A 302 can actually be up to 120 hours

303 is up to 20 days

304 is 90

There's also a 305, which I believe is up to 180

And technically a 306, but that has to do with transferring involuntary commitment patients to another facility or something.

Like I said in another comment I work in PA and my wife happens to work at a psych hospital so I get to hear all about this stuff.

Fondots ,

All good, I always feel like it's 72 hours, and I think the equivalent in most states is only 72 I think we're the odd one out on that, and I feel like in most cases patients managed to get stabilized enough to be discharged after the 72 hours.

I kind of feel like the extra two days are mostly so there's time to get everything set up for a 303 in case the patient tries to fight it and it goes to court. I had to be a witness for that over a call I took once, I only got like a day or two's notice because it all has to happen on such a condensed timeline

Fondots ,

A fridge stocked full of Orbitz

I don't even remember if it was any good, and the handful of times I had it I'm pretty sure it was already discontinued, I remember getting it from a discount grocery store that sold a lot of stuff that was damaged or near its expiration date.

But it left a mark on my childhood.

Fondots ,

Not a fan of the bait and switch, and I haven't really looked into her beyond this article so I can't say if this is the case

But I kind of wonder if this isn't actually a pretty good strategy.

A whole lot of Texans aren't going to vote for anyone who doesn't have an R next to their name, regardless of if they actually like their policies or not.

So maybe if you just do everything as a Democrat would do but register as a Republican and don't talk about it too much, you can slip one by them and get the idiots to vote for an actual RINO.

Of course the trick is getting the word out there to get Dems to vote for someone without a D next to their name as well without clueing in the Republicans that that's what's going on. The Republicans are a little more used to listening for dog whistles than Democrats are.

Fondots , (edited )

I think a whole lot of "maker" type channels have all stayed pretty solid, off the top of my head

This Old Tony
Adam Savage
Xyla Foxlin
Clickspring
Blondihacks
Colin Furze
Inheritance Machining (though compared to some of the others he's relatively new)
Stuff Made Here
Jeremy Fielding

Branching out a bit

How to drink
Caitlin Doughty (ask a mortician)
LockpickingLawyer
NileRed (and NileBlue)
Tasting History
Townsends
Useful Charts
EDIT: Almost forgot Technology Connections

Some of them have changed their format a bit over the years, I don't think that's been a negative for any of them. Also due to how YouTube revenue works these days a lot of them have had to rely more heavily on sponsors, patron, merch etc. don't hate the player for that, hate the game.

Fondots ,

I believe you'd still be controlling the player character, you'd just be seeing through the eyes of the enemy

I don't know how well it would work as a game mechanic, but I could see a cool take on this in a cyberpunk setting where the player character is blind, but can hack into other people's eyes to see, so you go around seeing yourself from different viewpoints

I imagine it would get weird

You shoot someone and suddenly you can't see through their eyes any more since they're dead. Or maybe their bionics are still powered for a while but they're not facing any useful direction, maybe they fall face down and all you can see is the floor tile they're laying on, or they're facing up and all you can see is the ceiling until you walk right over their corpse

Maybe after you kill a room full of enemies you need to lug around a corpse or maybe just a severed head so that you can find the exit because none of them fell looking the right direction.

I'm not normally much of a writer, but that idea actually inspired me a bit, so here's a little short story I guess

I walk into the lobby and I begin to see through the eyes of the security guard seated at the desk. He's reading a newspaper - an actual ink-on-paper newspaper. I didn't know they still made those.

The door chime beeps and his eyes are immediately on me, zooming in, trying to get a read on me. I see my own features, distorted by the fisheye lens of his implants.

These security types always have some high-end bionics- night vision, thermal imaging, zoom, image stabilization, extra-wide field of view, facial recognition, the works. They think they can see everything but somehow they never seem to see it coming.

A notification pops up in his vision "Unrecognized person detected, check ID" the angle changes as he begins to get up. I see the back of his hand as he raises his arm in a "stop" gesture. He's wearing a wedding band. That's unfortunate.

I see movement in the bottom corner of his vision. He's doing something with his other hand but I can't tell what. Is he reaching for his gun? Is he smoothing out the wrinkles from his shirt? Is he just trying to put the newspaper away?

Maybe that's why he reads an actual newspaper. He's supposed to be alert and paying attention, if he read on his phone or tablet like anyone else his employers could track it, they'd know he was slacking off. Smart.

Through my own ears I hear him ask for my ID.

Through his eyes I see myself reach into my coat pocket he zooms in slightly. I love it when they zoom, it makes what comes next so much easier.

I see my gun come out. The angle changes abruptly but strangely smoothly, that image stabilization is doing some heavy-lifting as he tries to duck for cover and reach for his own gun.

His eyes are fixed on it, he's staring right down the barrel, I can even just about line the sights up through his eyes, he's making it too easy.

A flash. A loud bang heard through my own ears. Flashing warnings at the corners of his vision reporting critical vital signs.

The angle changes again, I think he's fallen backwards and is propped up by his chair. He's not looking straight up at the ceiling, but he's not looking straight forward at me either. I can catch glimpses of the top of my head here and there as I stumble blindly towards him.

My face comes into full view as I make my way around the desk. I start going through his pockets looking for a key card to let myself into the elevator.

I find a rectangular piece of plastic on a lanyard stuffed into his pocket, and hold it in front of his eyes to confirm that it's what I was looking for. I tap it on the sensor on the desk and hear the elevator doors slide open.

I point his head towards the elevator so that I can see where I'm going. A message notification pops up in his vision from "Bae💜" asking if he'll be home for dinner. I see myself sigh as the door closes behind me.

The steel and concrete of the building sever me from his ocular feed as the elevator starts climbing and everything goes black once again.

Fondots ,

OP, after scrolling through your history and the modlog a bit, I don't get the impression that you're a troll, but you absolutely do come off as one or at least as a real asshole in nearly everything you've posted to Lemmy since creating this account. In fact, I can see that I've personally downvoted you a couple of times for it.

But going through that history, I can see that you have some mental health/neurological issues. That kind of makes things fall into place.

I have a few friends in similar boats. If they were more-techy people I suspect their comment histories from when they've had an episode or gone off their meds or what-have-you would look a lot like yours. They're good people, who unfortunately have issues that make them sometimes seem like they aren't. And I feel like that's the case with you.

I won't pretend to know what the best course of action for you here is. I don't know you, I don't know what kind of help you're already getting or what different kinds you may need, or what you would ideally like your life to look like on or off of Lemmy.

But you're on here complaining about getting banned by mods, so I think it's safe to say that you don't enjoy that.

So I think you need to realize that if you act the way you have been, that's going to continue happening. It feels very trollish, annoying and disruptive, and honestly maybe even a bit dangerous in some cases. I definitely get why mods have felt like they need to step in with you, I'd probably do the same in their shoes. Their role isn't to cater to you, but to protect the community as a whole. Sometimes they step out of line to be sure, but I'm just not really seeing that in your history.

So you gotta change something, man. Maybe it's something small, like exercising a little extra mindfulness and taking a moment to think about what you just wrote before hitting "post"

Maybe it's something bigger-therapy, medication, inpatient treatment (all easier said than done, I know)

Maybe it's something else entirely.

But if you don't like the bans and having your comments removed and such, the fix is something that needs to change on your end, not the mods'.

I doubt you're going to be too interested in taking that advice from a stranger on the internet, but I figured I'd al least try.

Fondots ,

No, that's the opposite of what I'm saying.

I do believe you're being 100% genuine.

But your genuine self looks a hell of a lot like a troll to the vast majority of people who aren't going to comb through your comment history and realize that you have mental health issues. They're just going to treat you like a troll and move on with their day.

And regardless of whether you're genuine or trolling, at the end of the day, your intent doesn't really matter, if it's annoying, disruptive, etc. the mods are going to treat it as trolling, and they are right to do so.

Fondots ,

There was a thread I saw not too long ago where someone brought up a little conspiracy theory I think I may subscribe to

There's a new Alzheimer's treatment, Lecanemab/Leqembi, that was given accelerated approval in the US by the FDA this year in January, so just as trump took office.

It's given by IV every 4 weeks. Trump has been seen with what looks like makeup thats covering up bruising from an IV

It also seems like he has highs and lows where he declines for a couple weeks then perks back up a bit before declining again, and you can maybe kind of match those up to a similar 4-ish week cycle.

And it also calls for regular cognitive tests and MRIs to monitor if it's effective, and, well, trump has been doing that.

Fondots ,

Real tree

I don't really want to do a tree to begin with but if my wife's gonna make me do it I'm going to do it right.

Also I don't have to wrestle the damn thing up and down the rickety ladder to my attic, it's bad enough that I have to do that with the bins of ornaments.

And I get the catharsis of getting to burn the damn thing after the season is over.

Also it gives my house a slight piney scent.

Fondots ,

That is just not the case.

The case that people tend to cite when this comes up is Burdick vs United States, that determined that people can choose to decline a pardon.

And one of the reasons they gave for why someone may choose to refuse a pardon is because it can be seen as implying guilt.

Basically, some people will see you take the pardon and think "if he's innocent, why is he taking a pardon instead of seeking exoneration?"

But of course, if you know anything about the US "justice" system, that argument falls apart pretty fast.

Actually admitting guilt is not part of accepting a pardon, it's just that a lot of people think that it means you're guilty, and the pardoned people don't want to have people think that about them.

And of course spreading this kind of misinformation only makes that issue worse.

Fondots ,

Couple months ago I found myself needing to stop at a McDonald's in probably one of the worst neighborhoods you can find outside of the inner city. Nature was calling and it seemed like my best option.

It was for paying customers only, fair enough, I made a token purchase of a McChicken and some fries, and got an employee to unlock the door for me.

I was greeted with that eerie blue light that bathrooms in places like this use to deter drug use because it makes it harder to find a vein.

It gave off an all-around really unsettling vibe, but I will admit that, at least as far as I could tell given the lighting, it seemed to be immaculately clean.

Are people with High functioning autism allowed to become police officers?

I wasn't able to join the military because of it. I tried calling up my local PD and asking the source itself. Not only did they not know the answer (I'm shocked too trust me), they said I had to pass a medical test AFTER I go through all the prerequisites. So I'm asking here before I dedicate myself.

Fondots ,

This is probably going to vary a lot depending on where you're applying, every state has their own regulations and every department their own standards, so there's probably not going to be a one-size-fits-all answer for you.

At the very least, if it comes up, it's probably not going to be seen as a mark in your favor. If, hypothetically, the hiring choice came down to you, or an otherwise identical candidate who isn't autistic, 9/10 times they're probably going to go with the other guy.

If at all possible, don't bring it up. If it comes up on a form or something, don't lie, if you get caught in a lie that's probably gonna be an automatic disqualification, but if they don't ask, don't tell them. Don't volunteer the information that you're autistic unless it's specifically asked for. If there's a question anywhere along the lines of "do you have any conditions that will prevent you from carrying out your duties as a police officer?" The answer is "no" unless you do believe that your autism will be an impediment, in which case, don't be a cop.

Also, between stuff like this and the potential of RFK wanting to send people to work farms, I think it's very important for people to ask themselves before pursuing a diagnosis for autism (and other conditions) "how do I stand to benefit from a diagnosis, and how will it potentially hurt me?"

If you're at the high-functioning/low-support-needs/however-you-want-to-phrase-it end of the spectrum, what kind of additional resources and support will a diagnosis actually unlock for you and do you really need them? Or will it just come back to bite you in situations like this? Unfortunately people really do need to be weighing that.

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Fondots ,

I have a couple friends who moved to Florida, mostly for a job. It didn't last long, they're back in the land of the free again.

TIL "Mausoleum" is another one of those things that's just named after a guy ( www.britannica.com )

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Fondots ,

the Latin word Caeser

...which comes from the name Caesar