lemmefixdat4u

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[–] lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A pair of off-the-shelf reading glasses will make everything other than what's right in front of your face blurry. But please don't use them to blur distant things you actually will be looking at for long stretches. Your eyes will still try to focus on those blurry distant objects, and that will cause ocular muscle strain. If you did it for a few years, you could cause permanent changes to the shape of your eyeball. Then you will really need glasses.

[–] lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Me: I wish I could stop paying taxes. Genie: poof Wish granted! Me: Woah...I don't feel so good! Genie: It's a fatal heart attack.

[–] lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know how much your electric rate is, but a router or server that sucks down a hundred watts 24 hours a day may be a concern. An arcade machine would be my choice.

[–] lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was with you up until you decided to hide under the insulation. Seriously? I start scratching just looking at the stuff!

[–] lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

My house is built on an old vertical mineshaft. I'd take the secret elevator to the bunker 300 feet below ground where my command center is. Then I'd take control of the gun emplacements hidden in the trees and the fleet of AI enhanced drones. When the agents are eliminated, the robotic dogs will drag the bodies to the incinerator shaft.

Or maybe not. You didn't think I'd really tell you what awaits you Agent CraigOhMyEggo, did you?

[–] lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world 155 points 1 month ago (8 children)

That there is an all powerful supreme being that demands our worship or else we will suffer for all eternity after our death.

[–] lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I reuse the small Amazon shipping boxes. Each box has a number and a general category. My phone has a database. When I put something away, I take a picture of the item, add it to the database, put it in a box, and record the box number.

[–] lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Based on telomere degradation. Recent developments may result in human telomere repair in the near future.

[–] lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Where did I ever say that? Age discrimination is age discrimination. Either you're qualified for the job or not, independent of your age. It seems like OPs question is a one-size-fits-all reaction to the geriatric choices forced upon us by the two party system. The real solution is to open the system up. Ranked-choice voting does that. You don't have to vote for the candidate who has the best chance of beating the opposition. You rank your choices. First choice is the person who best represents you. After the votes are tallied, the candidate who gets >50% wins. If nobody achieves that, the candidate with the least votes is removed and the second choice of those who voted for them is used. This process continues until someone achieves the supermajority.

It has the advantage of doing away with the idea that you're wasting your vote by not voting for the candidate who has the best chance of prevailing against the opposition. If your candidate is removed, your second choice receives your vote. Your vote ALWAYS counts. A side benefit is that we no longer need runoff elections. Everyone's second (and third and fourth) choices are already taken into account.

[–] lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No. That's age discrimination. If you're concerned that a person could be suffering from mental degradation, require annual testing for it. I know folks in their 90's who are better critical thinkers than a lot of 20-somethings.

The problem we have is not that a bunch of old people run the country. It's that a bunch of young people put them there because they were the only real choices they had. Fix the two-party system first by employing ranked-choice voting. That will break the stranglehold that Republicans and Democrats have on the US political system.

[–] lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Well, the post a few days ago with the footage at the end of this video did say he was "immobilized".

 

My friend is a customer service rep who is ready to retire. Her company is talking about layoffs with 13+ weeks of severance, but when she asked (anonymously) if they were accepting volunteers, they said no. In case she's not one of the ones told to clean out her desk, what are the ways she could get terminated while preserving her ability to claim unemployment (which would equal the 13 weeks of severance)?

UPDATE: She took my advice and saw her doctor. He agreed that she's experiencing a job-related stress injury, set her up with a Disability claim, and referred her for psychiatric counseling.

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