Pyr_Pressure

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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Wait, if the researchers don't know who got the pal ebo but placebos can cause actual effects how do they know which effects are from the medication and which are from the placebo? If someone got a placebo and experienced headaches but no one on the medication did do they still have to warn that the medication may cause headaches?

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Their electrical companies don't exactly have the best record for maintenance and repairs...

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They should train them to bring down a little can on a string so you can talk to them 😂

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

But what if it's your domestic turkey you raised from an egg and fed all its life on your farm?

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

There is one way a wealth tax probably wouldn't be passed down to renters.

If everything over a certain point is taxed at 100%.

Including stocks and all that stuff that rich people typically store their money.

That way it doesn't matter if they increase the rent they still won't get more money out of it so there's no point in increasing it.

They may be incentivized to sell properties in that case to bring property values down and therefore rent.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Are there middle class property owners in New York city?

I feel like middle class would all be renters there and upper class wealthy the only actual owners.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

I tried cloud gaming briefly and gave up immediately.

Fuck having to wait in a queue to play your games.

I spent more time trying to figure out how to stream from my own gaming PC (to my TV) and it couldn't do it. How can you make a device that can stream games from a random PC but not one in the same room? Ah purposeful design to prevent that. Fuckers.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes I feel like many people misunderstand AI capabilities

They think it somehow comes up with the best solution, when really it's more like lightning and takes the path of least resistance. It finds whatever works the fastest, if it even can without making it up and then lying that it works

It by no means creates elegant and efficient solutions to anything

AI is just a tool. You still need to know what you are doing to be able to tell if it's solution is worth anything and then you still will need to be able to adjust and tweak it

It's most useful for being able to maybe give you an idea on how to do something by coming up with a method/solution you may not have known about or wouldn't have considered. Testing your own stuff as well is useful or having it make slight adjustments.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I also don't need 1/3 of the episode being flashbacks explaining a characters backstory instead of advancing a plot.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I mean, what they going to do if you take out a 10K loan and leave it all behind? Does US debt follow you to other countries?

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 days ago

Must be nice to be rich and able to leave the mess whenever it gets uncomfortable

 

I live in Canada, so I'm sure there are plenty of nice ones available in Japan or Europe etc but I fear where I live I can't trust if something is an actual good brand or just paid shills advertising things on Instagram or mass paid 4-5 star ratings on Amazon.

Any recommendations for good Bidets? It will be my first, so I don't know exactly what I'm looking for, but I don't need it to be a rocket ship with a different program from every day of the week or some shit.

I am not afraid to spend money on it and don't necessarily want to go for the cheapest option but I also don't plan on spending $1000 on a toilet seat either.

I have access to power nearby and have the capability of modifying plumbing if need be for hot water.

Anyone have any ideas for some options?

It's for an elongated toilet btw not round.

 
 

Recently bought a house with my parents and looking to turn the basement into a basement suite.

A problem I have run into though is at the base of the stairs, there is a width of 36" wall to wall and we want to put a door there to seperate the two floors.

However the basement entry door to outside is only 32". Does anyone have any ideas on how to close off the bottom of the stairs while maximizing the width of the opening? I feel like we can only fit a 32" door there is we still want it to look decently.

But then good luck ever getting furniture in and out of the basement.

I'm starting to think I might have to cut some foundation out and make the basement door entry wider, but I would rather not if it can be avoided.

We thought maybe sliding barn door but it wouldn't be very sound proof and I think my dog would figure out how to open it.

 

Hello,

I'm posting this to see if anyone has any advice as to what I might be able to do in order to improve communication/relations between my family members.

My sister and mother are currently in tension, where both will confide in me their feelings about the other but I'm not sure how I can try to help without betraying trust in one or the other.

No one in my family is good at communicating, unless it's judgement, criticism, or sarcasm. I know that's not all there is because they will say nice things behind everyone's back but never to their face.

My sister is a fairly recently new homeowner and about to have her first child (my mother's first grandchild). She feels disappointment that my mother never congratulated her on her success and achievement in purchasing a home.

My mother is excited to be a grandmother and wants to help my sister with her child, but is of the generation where physical possessions and items outweigh anything else so constantly buys things for the baby which my sister does not appreciate having to store in a box for two years before the baby can actual use the things. She also wants to be a good mother to my sister but everything she does is tailored towards physical things and items which my sister is fairly minimalist. My mother also gathers resentment towards my sister for never showing any appreciation for the things she tries to give her, as well as feeling like she can never do anything right.

My sister gathers a bit of resentment whenever my mother gifts her things, and has said as much on multiple occasions which hurts my mother's feelings as she is just trying to help in her own way. She is also not exactly the nicest person towards my mother, criticizing quite a lot (like house decor, etc) which makes my mom feel even more like she can't do anything right.

This all spills over onto my dad who doesn't care for how my sister makes my mother feel but I also understand how my mother makes my sister feel and why she responds the way she does sometimes.

So now I'm kind of stuck in the middle of things where everyone tells me how they feel about the other person, and I'm not sure how to help improve things without making someone feel hurt or betrayed.

I try and encourage one to say nice things to the other but then they respond with something along the lines of "well they never say nice things to me".

Any one have any similar situations or advice?

 

I have a grounding wire that is connected to a copper pipe in my house.

Originally, I imagine said copper pipe connected all of the way to the pipe which goes into the ground towards the well.

However, at some point, the previous home owners installed a filtration system and replace a lot of the copper with PVC pipe, so it goes Copper > PVC > Copper > Ground Wire

Is that ground wire still useful? Or do I need to extend it to where the original copper pipe extends into the ground towards the well?

 
 
 

So involved in right wing American politics, it's sad.

 

Bought a house - previous owner moved to a town home so we kept the chickens. There is a decent amount of space on the property, and half of it is a forested hillside.

Any suggestions for a newbie? A new coop is definitely first thing on my list. And a fence around the property.

One of the chickens is an outcast and I feel bad for her, doesn't leave the coop when the others go out in the yard and doesn't eat treats from the ground just food from the feeder. The other chickens get along well it seems.

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