BeefPiano

joined 2 years ago
[–] BeefPiano 19 points 1 day ago

I read this in the voice of “Macho Man” Randy Savage.

[–] BeefPiano 8 points 2 days ago

Eraserhead (1977)

[–] BeefPiano 9 points 3 days ago

The interesting thing to me is that you can code and share your own feed sources. This means you can integrate APIs, or even scrape sites.

[–] BeefPiano 6 points 6 days ago

This reply is a great way to alienate people who are interested enough in a general strike to get in a thread and point out questions that literally everyone will have.

[–] BeefPiano 47 points 1 week ago
[–] BeefPiano 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I asked it “Write a pitch for unionizing my office” and it replied with about 10 paragraphs of pro-union text

[–] BeefPiano 2 points 6 months ago

Cheaper than the alternative.

[–] BeefPiano 5 points 6 months ago

Where’s the article?

[–] BeefPiano 102 points 6 months ago (14 children)

Start saving for retirement now. You can make literally millions by putting away 10% of your income early on. Do it automatically so you never even notice the money gone.

If you are worried about making the wrong choice and your company doesn’t have a 401k, open an IRA somewhere (Fidelity if you need someone to make the decision for you) and pick a date targeted fund. Set up auto deposit. Never look at the balance.

You can always make it better later but for now the best thing to do is start. Don’t let analysis paralysis get in the way.

[–] BeefPiano 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can Mario jump off Yoshi, sacrificing the noble creature to add yet another star to the cruel plumber’s collection?

[–] BeefPiano 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Mastodon is adding a feature that will tag links with Fediverse ids. So if I post an article link, and the news site has the special meta tag, the. The journalist’s Fediverse is will be linked below the article’s embed in my post.

This is probably an effort to help journalists find their audience on independent social media, which would help the whole ecosystem.

[–] BeefPiano 13 points 6 months ago

Bless your heart

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by BeefPiano to c/[email protected]
 

I’m kind of amazed that this is getting downvotes after 20 minutes, even though the video is 33 minutes. I guess you already saw this?

 

This is a tough piece, one that I share without fully endorsing. It lays out the problems that women experience with some men, like that men are not getting college degrees at the same rate as women or the lack of emotional modelling provided to boys and young men:

For a variety of reasons — mixed messages from the broader culture about toughness and vulnerability, the activity-oriented nature of male friendships — it seems that by the time men begin dating, they are relatively “limited in their ability and willingness to be fully emotionally present and available,” he said.

Where I think it stops short is in thinking about the root causes of those things, and how supporting men can bring them into the feminist tent.

 

I know USA should be getting them sometime in November, any idea when though?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BeefPiano to c/adhd
 

Compared to other killers from a public health standpoint, ADHD is bad. Smoking, for example, reduces life expectancy by 2.4 years, and if you smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day you're down about 6.5 years. For diabetes and obesity it's a couple of years. For elevated blood cholesterol, it's 9 months. ADHD is worse than the top 5 killers in the U.S. combined.

Having ADHD costs a person nearly thirteen years of life, on average. Barkley adds, And that's on top of all the findings of a greater risk for accidental injury and suicide....About two-thirds of people with ADHD have a life expectancy reduced by up to 21 years.

This is from Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey in their book ADHD 2.0

Here is some more background on the research

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by BeefPiano to c/[email protected]
 

cross-posted from [email protected]: https://lemmy.world/post/1938153

Recreational marijuana has been legal in Michigan since late 2018, but in the years since people looking to work for the state of Michigan were still subject to marijuana testing. But that changed this week in a unanimous vote from the Michigan Civil Service Commission.

This change means regulations will look at recreational marijuana use much like alcohol use and won't test for it in new hires.

 

Recreational marijuana has been legal in Michigan since late 2018, but in the years since people looking to work for the state of Michigan were still subject to marijuana testing. But that changed this week in a unanimous vote from the Michigan Civil Service Commission.

This change means regulations will look at recreational marijuana use much like alcohol use and won't test for it in new hires.

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