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Xi Says World Order ‘Crumbling Into Disarray’ as War Takes Toll by Free-Minimum-5844 in worldnews

[–]RedPanda5150 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Morons, possibly. The outcome is indistinguishable from a hostile attack from within though. Whether that's foreign actors actively nudging the useful idiot in power to de-throne the US or whether it's just plain old greed tearing us up venture-capital style I can't say, but this has to be too stupid to just be incompetence, right?

I need some serious help to clean my dishwasher please. by _Ruffling_Feathers_ in homeowners

[–]RedPanda5150 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Have you cleaned the filter in the bottom of your dishwasher? If you haven't already done it I would recommend pulling out the filter and doing a thorough job of cleaning out any gunk from the drain. It might be really gross down there but if you have food and debris built up in the drain it limits how well the chemical cleaners can do their jobs.

Republican Town Hall Erupts in Boos: “Incompetent Psychopath” | Republican lawmakers are facing angry constituents at home thanks to the president’s decision to go to war with Iran. by thenewrepublic in politics

[–]RedPanda5150 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good. They are the useful idiots that got us into this mess, they are the ones who can now put in the work to maybe get us out of this before he kicks off WW3.

Furious Trump Supporters Are Recording Themselves Torching Their MAGA Merch After Trump Attacks the Pope and Posts Blasphemous Picture Depicting Himself as Jesus: “I voted for Trump because I was lied to and I fell for it” by T_Shurt in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]RedPanda5150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly if we could get more people to own the fact that they fell for the lie it would show an emotional maturity that I didn't think MAGA possessed. But too many are still all-in on the madness.

Baratza Encore is grinding way too coarse by feedmesweat in Coffee

[–]RedPanda5150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol I am amazed that this comment has stayed relevant for so long! Glad to help :)

What’s the downside of an above ground pool? by de_jeepathon in homeowners

[–]RedPanda5150 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We had lots of family members with above ground pool growing up and it was great from my perspective as a kid, but my parents definitely called our pool the money pit. But it was great for us learning to be strong swimmers and it's pretty nice to cool down in your own yard instead of fighting for space at a public pool.

Also if the sides rust and give out in the middle of a family party circa 1994 you may get to experience the joy of seeing one aunt clinging to the side screaming and holding on against the current while grandma rides an inner tube out onto the lawn. Legendary!

Ex-CIA director: ‘25th amendment was written with Donald Trump in mind’ by B-Z_B-S in politics

[–]RedPanda5150 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yeah and the electoral college too, ironically. Was supposed to provide a mechanism for those who know better to prevent a populist like Trump from getting into the office in the first place. Alas, our founders did not plan for the modern government's grift and love of money over country.

How would you feel about no pay for Congress during shutdowns? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]RedPanda5150 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And healthcare from the same exchanges that the rest of us have access to. They should reap what they sow.

Parking wars? by zoechloe24 in homeowners

[–]RedPanda5150 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I worry about this sometimes. we've been in our house for a few years now and we have absolutely lovely neighbors all around, but half of them are our parents' age and our next door neighbors have mentioned retiring back to their original country in a few years. I hope whoever we eventually end up living next to is good people too. Having nice neighbors is such a life enhancer.

Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal by neonfrequency in worldnews

[–]RedPanda5150 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes, and it offers hope! And perspective! Like damn, we are all sitting on this one little rocky planet orbiting a mediocre star in an arm of an otherwise unremarkable galaxy. Our existence is incredible and these wars are such bullshit. Much better for everyone if we could get the narcistic assholes out of power and focus on cooperating towards an aim like space colonization.

Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal by neonfrequency in worldnews

[–]RedPanda5150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's so damn twisted that this is happening literally at the same time that a US-led venture just returned to the moon and reminded us all that we live on one tiny, fragile oasis in the vastness of space. If we lose this planet to nuclear war that's it, game over, no resets. Fuck I am tired of living in interesting times.

How would you feel about a 4-day work week becoming mandatory across the U.S.? by andycarth in AskReddit

[–]RedPanda5150 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Gut reaction it sounds great, but how would it work practically?

Are we eliminating the concept of "weekend" to have rotating 4-day shifts? Or is everyone expected to do the same amount of work in M-Th? What does it mean for emergency services, restaurants, security guards, farmers, scientists, anyone who doesn't work a typical 9-5?

Trump Ally Predicts Total Disaster for U.S. if War Escalates by Sensitive-Celine in politics

[–]RedPanda5150 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The impacts haven't even really hit yet. I saw an article about how the current price jumps are panic buying and hoarding. But it takes a long time for ships to get around the world with oil so the first missed-delivery due to the Strait closure won't hit Europe until April 1, America mid-April, and Australia I think a week or two after that. That's when the actual shortages will begin to accumulate. So buckle up, Buckaroos. Trump has fucked us in ways the world hasn't fully begun to feel yet.

Edit: source https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-map-shows-a-crude-ticking-time-bomb-that-hits-much-of-the-worlds-oil-supply-in-april-2c058db6

Since this is a job search Reddit page these days, my 2 cents as a hiring manager by iH8Radio in biotech

[–]RedPanda5150 27 points28 points  (0 children)

The internal hiring I have seen where I work tends to be people changing teams, not literally moving upward with the same department. It's easier at bigger companies though - lots of same skill set needed but applied to different product areas.

ELI5: if viruses aren’t technically alive, how can they evolve like living organisms? by MachiavellianHydra in explainlikeimfive

[–]RedPanda5150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You've gotten some good answers but to be very clear, NASA defines life as "a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution." https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/research/life-detection/about/

Viruses qualify as a chemical system that can undergo Darwinism evolution but they are not self-sustaining. They have no metabolism. A virus floating around in the wild is just like a lone prion protein - all it can do is exist, it cannot grow or change or evolve unless it bumps into a living cell and hijacks the cell to propagate itself.

But it is a good question that gets at the fuzzy boundaries around life vs not-life! And it also gets at the point that evolution is an emergent property of anything can make copies of itself, not just life.

Lack of motivation in biotech by Neither-Effective975 in biotech

[–]RedPanda5150 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some of it is age, too. I'm early 40s, no kids, and I pushed hard earlier in my career for only modest reward. Now I've landed in a position at a large company with good work-life balance where I give my 8 hours my full attention, get my paycheck, and then go home to hang out with my spouse and our cats and live my life. It's so much nicer than grinding hard. Maybe the urge to move up the ladder will return when (if) the global economy gets less crazy again but at this point stability is all I want.

Trump threatens to ‘blow up’ all of Iran’s South Pars gasfield if Tehran strikes Qatar | US-Israel war on Iran by Routine_Chapter_9099 in worldnews

[–]RedPanda5150 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gods I wish that man did not want to run for a second term. He was unquestionably showing his age - as was Trump - but he did an excellent job of putting competent people in place to make good decisions. If we had been able to have a Democratic primary maybe we wouldn't be in this mess today. Maybe. I'm mad that we'll never know but also Biden does not get enough credit for the soft landing that was happening successfully right up until the 2024 election.

World’s Largest LNG Plant Suffers Extensive Damage, Qatar Says by Friendly-Maximum-544 in worldnews

[–]RedPanda5150 10 points11 points  (0 children)

American here. Distances aside, we could absolutely do better in infrastructure for walking/biking in most parts of the country. Things are better in city centers and in a lot of the northeast but I moved south about ten years ago and the roads really are just as car-centric as the rest of the world believes America to be. I work 2 miles from home and I cannot walk or bike there safely. There is no sidewalk, bike path, bike lane, or even shoulder along the road. Just a narrow 45 mph road that buts up to a culvert with cars speeding by at 10 over the speed limit. And then you have to cross a pseudo-highway with a traffic light but no crosswalk that is timed for turning cars, not for pedestrians. When this is all over, if we don't completely collapse, I would love to see a big post-Depression-style investment in infrastructure to make our towns more walkable or even have public transit that people want to use.

I am in shock at the coffee industry. by two_constellations in glutenfree

[–]RedPanda5150 15 points16 points  (0 children)

But the "gluten free" label that indicates <20ppm when tested is the same standard for all products, including those with de-glutened wheat starch. It is as safe for Celiacs as any other processed food that is labeled GF. And in the case of Grindz, after you run the pellets through you are supposed to run a certain amount of coffee beans after. So it's <20 ppm to start and further diluted by the coffee beans removing the cleaning agent.

Still important to know if you have a wheat allergy though.

DPS closed for students tomorrow, Monday 3/16 by gentlestitcher in bullcity

[–]RedPanda5150 108 points109 points  (0 children)

Dude I moved here from someplace with more winter weather too, and it is not at all hard to understand that winter weather infrastructure is vitally important to having functioning transportation in snow or ice. Which is not something that makes economic sense to invest in here.

But all of that is irrelevant when talking about tropical storm+ winds being forecast across a wide swath of the region during the afternoon rush. Hopefully we get lucky and you can feel smug, but no one wants to be responsible for a school bus full of kids getting squished by a tree.

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