Vanth

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[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 1 points 40 minutes ago

Not familiar with the acronym "EI"

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 14 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

If they're any good at it, you won't know who stole your food. If I did know who the thief was, yelling/cursing/threatening would get me fired. It's easier to keep my food at my desk in an insulated lunchbox with an ice pack.

And finally, HR doesn't give a flying fuck about your lunch. They would laugh in your face if you threatened to sue them.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol, who's profiting? Big coconut oil?

Maybe spreading misinformation that unscientific home remedies are a substitute for modern dentistry, but that's a larger assumption than I wish to make of OP. I'll just go with good ol', "I forgot Google search exists".

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Curious why you would ask this here instead of just doing a web search? If you don't like reading search results, you can just get an AI summary. It's at least as reliable as asking a bunch of internet randos chiming in. Here you're probably more likely to get "10W-40, twice a day" answers over serious ones.

Personally, I prefer 5W and only oil pull once a month.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Idk why a ban is necessary. Just remove some of the protections so they can be held liable for things they should be held liable for.

They're currently not liable for third-party content (if they have reasonable moderation policies and respond in a timely manner to requests, yada yada). But if they promote it, they are no longer a passive hosting platform; they are actively promoting content so should be held proportionately liable for that content.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I know very little about the amateur radio scene and don't quite understand the impact this would have.

When I lived in a Western US state, there was some bad weather and a child went missing. The amateur radio community heavily overlapped with first responders and search & rescue types. Completely on their own, they organized and managed a search, mustering hundreds of people efficiently, while keeping local law enforcement in the loop. Law enforcement simply didn't have the resources and relied on this volunteer hobbyist community for situations like this.

If public frequencies are turned over to corporations, would that eliminate the ability for such a volunteer effort to spring up? Would they have to pay for frequency access and be subject to whatever limits and censorship some corporation inflicts?

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"Get" as in buy/make them for others or "get" as in receive them?

US based, for context. I have a large family spread all over the place. We do a Secret Santa drawing, where each person gets another's name and buys them their gift. So everyone gets one nicer gift instead of lots of little stuff.

We get our names and start buying around now so we can take advantage of Black Friday sales. People start receiving their gifts in the mail from early December through the holidays.

For non-family, non-Secret Santa, this is also the time I start buying gifts. I keep a note on my phone through the year for gift ideas, so it's usually pretty easy come November to buy for people.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com -2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You could have just agreed that it's crazy how far religious zealotry [has gone].

And you could have followed this exact same advice.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sure. Me. I've lived in and traveled to many states with paths that are part of the Trail. There is a very nicely maintained, popular walking and biking path in my hometown that is part of the Trail. Most people who use it probably aren't aware it's part of the Trail.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

I'd love to see a real effort to stop genital mutilation of all babies. When the most visible time men speak up about it though is when they insert themselves into a conversation about women, it does not build sympathy for the issue.

I mean this sincerely. If you are at all serious about stopping the genital mutilation of babies, I suggest you rethink your strategy.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

RSS reader -> skim headlines -> open the full article from maybe 10% of the headlines -> skim the first paragraph to see how clickbaity the headline was -> read through the full article on maybe 50% of those.

And this isn't just global and political news, I follow science, tech, sports, and other niche interest news this way too.

Some days I just listen to NPR's Morning Edition podcast snips. Double speed. Skip over any with a title that doesn't interest me.

And finally, I discard any completionist feelings. My RSS feed will never be all caught up. My podcast queue will never be empty. That used to bother me but I have some tools to manage my stress over it a bit better now.

 

Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster's taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing.

The earliest desired media I can remember that drove me to figure out sailing was DC Talk, a Christian rock band. Pop music was not allowed in my house, so a Christian group was tantalizing and scandalous to a rebellious, young Vanth. Things escalated from there.

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