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Went down the rabbit hole on this guy a bit. He went on to participate in the CyberNinjas audit of Arizona’s ballots after the 2020 election. He claimed to have technology that could detect whether ballots had been folded in the mail, and claimed to detect bamboo in “fraudulent Chinese ballots”.

He was such a kook, the other kooks rejected him.

Something isn’t right with this article. I’m suspect:

• Type 1 is where your islet cells die off and you lose insulin production. Type 2 means your insulin production is fine, but your cells are resistant to the insulin. A Type 2 should have plenty of islet cells so adding more doesn’t seem like it would do anything. Your body should regulate those cells to output the same amount of insulin as before.

• This same treatment has been done in Type 1s already. It’s not new. The problem is their body eventually kills off the transplanted cells and you have to do it again. Plus, you have to take immune suppressing drugs forever.

• “Despite a kidney transplant, his pancreas still doesn’t produce insulin.” - This is just nonsense.

Hear me out: Nuclear airplanes.

It works for the submarines. Think of the pros:

• Full power electric outlets at every seat instead of that bullcrap they have today
• Flight attendants can easily be trained as Nuclear Physicists
• If a meltdown does occur, it might very well recreate the entire plot of Donnie Darko.

Which is French for “the boob”.

The idea of agile is great, and easy to sell at a company in my experience. The problem is that the ideas in the manifesto can only be attained if the business stakeholders feet are in the fire as much as IT. That HAS to have top down support from leaders that understand software. But, in every agile company I’ve ever seen (I was a consultant for 15 years, so I saw a bunch), eventually a project goes south, and the business stakeholders throw tech under the bus by saying: “We’re not in IT. We didn’t know we should be thinking about what we want (and not just waiting until the end to demand more and more and more)!”, and they fucking get away with it. Boomers in senior leadership, who don’t know how to work their car stereo, say “Yea, that makes sense. IT, why do you suck!?”. And then “agile” is dead. Tech learns to cover their ass, and demand clear requirements up front and get signoff.

Hear me out: Ernest Saves Christmas

Been quoting lines from this movie for years:

• Every time we see Santa at the mall: (lean it to the wife) “His real name is ‘Santos’”
• Everytime we see a sleigh decoration: “‘Slay’! Not ‘Sleigh’”
• “Call it a fifth sense. Call it extra sensory perspiration.”
• “Right as rain sugar. Pork’s my meat!”
• “It’s all dem movie people want. Poison!”
• “Having walked from the airport, I’ll be dead soon”
• … and much much more

I think the science actually supports this. Studies have shown leftists tend to be more self-critical and are concerned for the nuances - the “shades of grey”. So their memes must cover more angles of an argument to be effective. Right-wing are more black and white thinking, and don’t question themselves once they make a decision. So their meme’s are straight to the point and simple (and usually so full of logic holes and lacking in comedy that leftists say: “the right can’t meme”).

I really enjoyed “Boss Level”. (Sci-Fi Action with some comedy here and there)

I worked at a restaurant that had a contest once for which server could sell the most orange juice. At the time, sodas were $0.99 and orange juice was $1.98. So, any time a table ordered 2 sodas, I’d ring it up as 1 orange juice. I won by a landslide. The customers would occasionally ask why their receipt had orange juice, but I’d just explain it’s the same price as the 2 sodas, and that was the end of it.

No, silly banana. He meant a “Masters of Computer Science”. The smells have obviously driven him to start a university program.

Wait, is that Mark Sinclair?

I usually start sweating then do “finger guns” at a random point in the room and say “Hey, working hard, or hardly working, am i right? Heh…eh”. The Captcha just goes away after that.

Really?! I’ve never been able to find anything definitive. Just plenty of articles like this one that basically just say: “Tomatoes are gross. Craaazy right?” with no real explanation:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/tasters-choice-why-i-hate-raw-tomatoes-and-you-dont/

Oddly enough, if you cook the tomatoes, it completely takes away the bad flavor. That’s puts alot of Italian back on the menu. And parsley is fine - it just tastes like nothing.

I don’t taste parsley at all. Love cilantro. No soap flavor. Hate tomatoes. Taste like a juiced corpse. So, I’m convinced parsley and tomatoes have an associated gene.

How do you know this? Do those DNA testing sites tell you this sort of thing?

You don’t have to run the rat race to get promoted. You don’t have to be at your desk at 7am and leave at 7pm to put on a show. Just be competent. Most people are not. You’ll eventually get promoted once you are old and white enough.

For the uninitiated: https://lemmy.world/c/the_pack

This is Mac for me. 14 things I can click on the left of the file explorer that show me the same exact files… sometimes in a different order.

Definately. ChatGPT for coding help, and learning new coding topics. And Gamma for presentations - if only for the nice formatting of content and stock imagery.