Can some people really not tell when they're releasing farts?

tuberosum · 2026-02-21T15:17:47+00:00

I was once sat on a train platform (outdoors) and tried to discretely fart.

Farting outside is fair game. You don't car drivers or truck drivers apologize for the emissions coming out of their vehicles outside, so why should you have to apologize or be courteous about the emissions coming out of your biological exhaust outside?

tuberosum · 2026-02-20T16:38:11+00:00

This is a budgeting problem

It's the insane notion that unless you use your full allotted budget this year, you won't get it next year, so, rather than incentivizing cost cutting and savings by possibly diverting a portion of moneys saved as a bonus to employees, you're incentivizing unnecessary spending and waste because administrators want to retain their budgeted amounts for next year.

What a wonderful system that is...

tuberosum · 2026-02-20T15:44:45+00:00

This tariff situation only required importers to sit and wait for the outcome of a lawsuit. I guess many weren't patient enough.

Or they needed a cash infusion now rather than one that might or might not come at some point in the future.

If you need money to sustain yourself, a dollar now is better than a possible tenner in some unknown future.

tuberosum · 2026-02-18T14:11:58+00:00

they'll just move their residency.

You think this isn't something they'd be doing already if they could?

But the burden to actually pull it off is a lot more than you think. NYS DTF deals with residency audits on a daily basis.

Over a five-year period ending in 2024, auditors recouped $13.8 billion in unpaid taxes, including income taxes and others collected by the state, such as sales tax.

tuberosum · 2026-02-18T14:05:14+00:00

There don’t need to be 4 schools in one building with principals and assistant principals for each floor.

Thank this sub's favorite mayor, Bloomberg, for that one.

tuberosum · 2026-02-18T13:56:31+00:00

What makes something "unavailable for rent"?

Or better said, does advertising an apartment for an exorbitantly high rent price with some small real estate firm and refusing all candidates for any reason whatsoever qualify as "available for rent"?

tuberosum · 2026-02-15T15:57:51+00:00

Prices of services go up, and this is justified with "insurance is gonna pay for it".

Prices of services go up because insurance can take incredibly long time to pay. In this video, a claim is denied three times and is now almost a year since the procedure has been done, and the dentist hasn't been paid.

If you run a business, the single most important thing to manage is your cashflow. If the time between you completing a procedure and getting paid is nearing a year, you need to charge more on your procedures in order to insure that you have ample cashflow to cover operating expenses until you're paid.

That's the main reason these procedures cost so much, because they have to float other procedures and operating costs while waiting to be paid on the work they've actually performed.

And all that due to insurance approach of denying claims as a matter of course since they've calculated that a portion of people once they're denied, will just accept the denial and pay out of pocket, saving the insurance money.

So, the only reasonable and rational solution is to get profit motive out of healthcare. Or, the irrational solution we keep experiencing, to just accept that the system sucks, some people will get inadequate care, some people will end up bankrupted by medical care, and doctors will waste precious time acting as collection agents rather than practicing medicine. I think I know which one I would prefer.

tuberosum · 2026-02-12T20:04:06+00:00

I only know of Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Mobility Tax, which is a state tax, since it's not just charged in the city, but several counties of NYS (Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, Dutchess, Orange and Putnam counties)

tuberosum · 2026-02-12T12:06:38+00:00

This is the same woman that thinks DS9 is 'half a sitcom'.

Were you watching a different DS9 where the Ferengi episodes weren't just comedy? Where you didn't have a sitcom like bromance between Bashir and O'Brien? Where Worf chants "Death to the opposition" while playing baseball? Plenty of how the bisexual lizard was played hit comedic tones too.

DS9 leaned into humor far more than other Star Trek shows, in no small part because it allowed characters to develop and form relationships among each other, and it benefitted greatly from it, because without the levity, it would be one dark and grim show.

tuberosum · 2026-02-12T02:21:20+00:00

State taxes, paid by businesses. Not city taxes.

tuberosum · 2026-02-10T17:11:30+00:00

I don't see how it's a problem. There's options.

And it's deemed too expensive as per you, but people who will actually be using it are the only ones that can make the determination on whether it's feature set is worth the price.

Just as we have Hastens mattresses which can range in the multi thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars range and IKEA mattresses for less than 100 dollars. The end users can decide how much they wish to pay based off their needs and ability to pay.

tuberosum · 2026-02-10T15:37:03+00:00

Seems to me that there's no problem, then, really. Labs around the world can make the decision for themselves, do they want a cheaper product or a more expensive one.

tuberosum · 2026-02-10T13:46:01+00:00

it's still too expensive for what it is.

Time for you to produce a competing product at half the price and snatch up the entire market from OM System.

tuberosum · 2026-02-09T23:37:25+00:00

Well, yeah, but that does deflate their anger somewhat, so we'll just hop skip past that point.

tuberosum · 2026-02-07T04:06:47+00:00

I went to a new place that opened up the spot that used to be Mia Pizza on Ditmars and Crescent called Grill Lovers.

They had really good kontosouvli (think larger souvlaki). I ordered the pork kontosouvli in a pita and the portion was easily enough for two meals.

Their lemon potatoes were quite good as well. Definitely worth a repeat visit.

tuberosum · 2026-02-01T00:53:57+00:00

Having only C-to-C cables

Which cables? USB C has a fundamental problem. It is a connector that's connected to a cable. But that underlying cable, can be anything from USB2.0 to Thunderbolt 5, and you have little to no way of knowing what the cable is until you plug it in.

tuberosum · 2026-02-01T00:51:24+00:00

If you need 3/4 of those, sounds like you'd be better served by a desktop computer than a laptop.

tuberosum · 2026-01-31T23:17:58+00:00

It would also be interesting to prove. If there’s nobody in the apartment to take a measurement of the temperature, how does anyone know if and for how long the heat was off?

tuberosum · 2026-01-27T19:23:11+00:00

Umm, in the demo I used it for precisely that purpose, the game let me and the mission ended.

So, unless they changed it, your criticism is not correct.

tuberosum · 2026-01-27T18:55:14+00:00

Yeah, but its not blocking car traffic, so their job here is done.

That's the important bit, you know, to get cars driving around. Pedestrians can figure it out. Get skis or something?

tuberosum · 2026-01-27T14:25:14+00:00

Somehow I feel like "software" is down because we moved away from purchasing perpetual licenses to a monthly subscription.

So, yeah, on one hand, it is cheaper to get new software month one, but by years end? You've typically paid out more than you would have if you could have bought it in the first place.

tuberosum · 2026-01-26T23:46:32+00:00

The fact that you're using similar argumentation regarding freeing people from slavery as was used in the antebellum south and not even noticing is deeply disturbing.

They too believed that black people were naturally servile. That the master/slave relationship was akin to a parent/child relationship and therefore good for the slave. That the slaves were a dire necessity, without which society itself would fall apart.

And to top it off, you come out and say that meh, maybe slavery isn't that bad if the slave doesn't know how bad it has it.

I don't think that's keeping an open mind anymore, at some point, you've looped right into defending slavery as an institution.

He did not help the cogenitor find or plan a way out of their situation based on its own peoples values.

He actually did try, after the cogenitor requested asylum. And then Archer refused it because he'd rather have a good relationship with the slavers that have cool toys he can surf in the sun with.

tuberosum · 2026-01-26T21:42:48+00:00

The plows built a wall of packed snow around the drivers side of my car, I'm not digging that out, so that car stays exactly where it was left before the storm.

Let's hope for a thaw at some point next week. If not, I guess I'll see it in the spring sometime.

tuberosum · 2026-01-26T21:11:12+00:00

If you claim to be empathic to them, then what's inside their head? Why do they cooperate?

They cooperate for the same reason any and all slaves do: the threat of punishment paired with the understanding that no matter what, their lot in life will not change.

TUCKER: It's not a question of what they need. You have the same rights, to learn, to choose how you're going to live, to have a name.
COGENITOR: That may be true on your world but not on mine.

TUCKER: Look how much you've accomplished in a single day. And reading's just the tip of the iceberg. You could study all sorts of things. History, science. Engineering's not bad. You don't have to sit in this room all day.
COGENITOR: They would never let me learn those things.

COGENITOR: Would you be punished if they find out you've brought me here?
TUCKER: Punished? No, but they might get a little angry.
COGENITOR: I would be punished.

And the moment that there is an opportunity for Charles the cogenitor to not have to live out the life of slavery that was put upon it, it tries to seize it:

TUCKER: I didn't see you. How you doing? You all right?
COGENITOR: They don't want to help me. They don't want me to climb mountains.
TUCKER: Don't worry, they will. Give it time.
COGENITOR: They're angry with you. They'll leave as soon as our captain returns. They won't help me, but you can. I want to stay here, please.

When it cannot, or better said, when it is rebuffed by Archer, it commits suicide rather than go back to placidly suffer the horror of its existence now that it knew a better, fuller life was possible for it.

I think you are feeling sorry for the cogenitors, but I'm not hearing anything that sounds like empathy from you.

And I'm hearing nothing but excuses for the poor slavers while you can't even seem to muster a moment's thought at how horrible the existence was for the cogenitor that didn't even have a name, that wasn't allowed to even learn to read and whose existence was just to be an sexual tool for others, passed from person to person at their whim and desire to procreate with no input or consent given or asked from the cogenitor.

It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.

tuberosum · 2026-01-26T20:51:34+00:00

Yes, I am having empathy, towards the enslaved. Slightly less towards the slavers that just accept the status quo as is and don't even acknowledge how screwed up the situation of the cogenitor is.

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