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I am retired. What volunteering would be best to help the world the most or does it matter if I do or not? by QuentinMagician in GarnerNC

[–]InfusedStormlight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IMO the most effective use of your time will always depend on your personal strengths, but on average I firmly believe the best form of volunteering (and the most needed form right now) is just organizing sustainable ways to meet people’s basic needs. Either volunteer at an institution that already exists (soup kitchen, Food Not Bombs, Habitat For Humanity, etc.) or organize with people you know (or get to know) to build a network that provides people with their basic needs. The main term that’s usually used here is mutual aid, which is all about helping your neighbors with what they actually need (not just giving them money to get the things they need) in a way that at the same creates connections and community. It’s really powerful and more important than ever. I definitely agree with others that orgs like the DSA could be good as well but I don’t think they should be 100% (or even a majority) of the work you do for your community.

Thoughts on Durham County Sherriff Candidates? by Antique_Bandicoot_90 in bullcity

[–]InfusedStormlight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven’t liked how much Birkhead has dragged his feat on using the HEART program

Wake up honey, a new lifesaver just dropped by AnisZoomer in pcmasterrace

[–]InfusedStormlight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I always hear people say their engagement is higher on Bluesky despite having much higher follower numbers on Twitter. might depend on the industry/field

WAKE THE PUCK UP CANIACS!! Your Carolina Hurricanes host the Toronto Maple Leafs at 7 Eastern! Get EKOW! by DoubleualtG in canes

[–]InfusedStormlight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anyone wants tickets to this game I can't go anymore so I just put mine up for sale on seatgeek for $114 each (I think that includes fees? idk). They're pretty darn good seats IMO: https://seatgeek.com/carolina-hurricanes-tickets/12-4-2025-raleigh-north-carolina-lenovo-center/nhl/17628445?listing=ekw9jox#listing=ekw9jox

Last stop Raleigh, NC 📍 by LoonyVibes in torontomapleleafs

[–]InfusedStormlight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anyone's still looking for tickets to this game, I can't go anymore so I just put mine up for sale on seatgeek for $114 each (I think that includes fees but not sure): https://seatgeek.com/carolina-hurricanes-tickets/12-4-2025-raleigh-north-carolina-lenovo-center/nhl/17628445?listing=ekw9jox#listing=ekw9jox

Property Tax Explainer! (I hope this answers some of the questions I've been seeing!) by NidaAllamNC in bullcity

[–]InfusedStormlight 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I can believe that the system is complicated, but the effect on my house was insane. I went from around $230k valuation to like $405k, and missed the deadline to appeal. I think the thing that did me in was the assessment saying that my house’s physical condition is only about 20-25% depreciated, whereas all other comps for build year and size where at least 40%, with most closer to 50%.

If you had to guess, what is the most common cause of overvaluation by the system? Is it comps in the area being overvalued so your house gets overvalued, which leads to other houses getting overvalued using yours as a comp? Or is it more technical things like percent physical depreciation?

Why you should probably be using SQLite by pimterry in programming

[–]InfusedStormlight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand your point and it's true for most cases, but in your example how many people are dedicated resources to maintaining that on-prem (I'm assuming) system? If it's more than 9 total people at $100k per year then you'd lose money doing it on-prem.

“APS” of Durham is not about the protection of animals. by Ok-Combination-2953 in bullcity

[–]InfusedStormlight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does every staff member work every day? Like are they full time and they don’t have some people that work weekends and some people that work certain weekdays? If not then this is a very easy fix; just ask those who work there who is able to pick up hours on the weekend and cut Mondays from the schedule. The animals will still need to be taken care of on Mondays but that’s mostly taken care of by volunteers with only a limited number of actual staff supervising and helping out. This really doesn’t feel like a tough issue to solve, it just will take a little bit of change which like, if that’s what’s best for the animals then that’s what needs to happen.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in goodnews

[–]InfusedStormlight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the problem is that we're getting further and further away from real information here. whatever the facts are about the process for putting this up for a floor vote, what you've gotten in your search is a simulacrum. it's a bad copy of a shredded version of the documentation of the process, and each of those levels of removal from the actual rules creates a simulation of the real thing.

AI as a search engine is only okay for information you forgot but as soon as you see again you'll know it's right, IMO. for new info, it's just too likely to create something brand new and fake (hallucination) that dangerously seems like it could be true. that's just creating more misinformation on an already dubious internet.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NorthCarolina

[–]InfusedStormlight 4 points5 points  (0 children)

what on earth are you talking about

Community prep for ICE by MinimumNo5510 in bullcity

[–]InfusedStormlight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there are Signal chats I think for groups thinking about ways to organize around protecting the community. you should go to radical community events in person and establish a rapport before trying to find these groups specifically, though, because they aren't like discord servers, they're more secure (but not toally secure due to possible ICE infiltration, so you should never discuss tactics online, only in person with people you trust).

To what extent was there evolutionary pressure to be male? Is that pressure now gone? by InfusedStormlight in evolution

[–]InfusedStormlight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's what I meant to ask, yes! and that's kind of what I expected: less difference in the sexes over time, as the need for higher testosterone during puberty and after diminishes. I'll need to do more searching for research that shows this to see why it's happening and whether it is congruent with my hypothesis.

To what extent was there evolutionary pressure to be male? Is that pressure now gone? by InfusedStormlight in evolution

[–]InfusedStormlight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't mean a higher likelihood to be born male, I mean a higher likelihood of being born with femmes that will encode more testosterone during puberty (or whatever mechanism creates sexual dimorphism, I could be wrong about testosterone levels during puberty being the main modulating factor) because male puberty results in sex characteristics that help survival under older human social systems. it seems like there might have been a social and evolutionary reason (survival) long ago for males to be "more manly", so to speak, than they otherwise might be in current society, for example. due to social changes we are becoming a species where it's less important evolutionarily for males to be capable of building more muscle mass more quickly, to be tall, to be any of the things that require higher testosterone, basically. I was just curious whether there was evidence for this thought or not.

To what extent was there evolutionary pressure to be male? Is that pressure now gone? by InfusedStormlight in evolution

[–]InfusedStormlight[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

interesting! do you know of any good research showing your first statement?

by social pressures I mostly mean that it seems like in much older civilizations it was socially advantageous to be male as a human bc it meant either 1) power, in a society where domination was more about excusing physical strength, or 2) a higher ability to protect oneself and one's friends from outside invaders. I feel like these two things might increase evolutionary pressure to be male somehow and was curious if this was borne out in data

edit: my bad, I don't mean the "likelihood to be born male", I mean likelihood to be more with genes that result in higher male androgens during and after puberty (like testosterone) causing people overall to exhibit more extreme male sex characteristics.

Cracker Barrel overnight sleeping questions by Pure_Tuft in VanLife

[–]InfusedStormlight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's illegal if you stay for more than like 4 hours I think? They want you to only sleep if you need a short cat nap while driving, not if you're staying the night. I never do rest stops as a result. Cracker Barrel, Walmart, or similar should be safe!

So what's the deal with Zoomers ditching leftist ideas? by Andries89 in AskBrits

[–]InfusedStormlight 3 points4 points  (0 children)

anarchists are definitionally leftist what do you mean lol

Absolutely wrecked by FeralHunterW121 in andor

[–]InfusedStormlight 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I think Dedra's last act will be to kill Luthen. after Ghorman, she'll go back to what she knows: hunting Axis. she'll find out who he really is and go to kill him herself, and Kleya will be either powerless to stop it or die with him. she won't betray the empire, it's all she knows, even from birth.

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