Boozilla

Boozilla , 1 month ago to Work Reform in can you help me formulate an answer to a colleague who is not my boss but feels entitled to tell me how I have to work?

"There's no need to micromanage me. I got this, and I know what I'm doing. When you micromanage me, all you're doing is wasting your time and mine."

Boozilla , 1 month ago to A Boring Dystopia in Can homeless people be fined for sleeping outside? A rural Oregon city asks the US Supreme Court

I hope so. Appreciate the optimistic thought.

Boozilla , 2 months ago to A Boring Dystopia in More older Americans delaying retirement, returning to workforce

Turns out they were silent but deadly.

Boozilla , 2 months ago to A Boring Dystopia in Can homeless people be fined for sleeping outside? A rural Oregon city asks the US Supreme Court

Yup. They want people spending money or going to a job. If you don't participate in the machine, they mark you a criminal.

Boozilla , 2 months ago to News in US drug shortages reach record high with 323 meds now in short supply

We get to pay way more than other countries and they're running out. Awesome.

Boozilla OP , 2 months ago to CreepyWikipedia in Mari Lwyd

I'm a fan of spooky Christmas. My spouse hates it, but one of my friends decorates a human skeleton as their tree every year. And I notice the Halloween-Christmas mashup decorations getting more popular in general.

Boozilla , 2 months ago to News in Texas surgeon accused of secretly blocking patients from getting transplants

I have a gut feeling that he may have been practicing bigotry against some demographic or other. Possibly an "out group" like obese people. Wouldn't surprise me if others in the system turned a blind eye to it. I hope I'm wrong about this.

Also, having worked in a hospital previously, some surgeons are revered as gods. I've seen it.

Boozilla , 2 months ago to Today I Learned in TIL: Eating pine nuts can occasionally cause some people to experience a bitter or metallic taste lasting from a few days up to 2 weeks

That must have been a little scary.

I've noticed an odd aftertaste from them, but nothing that lasted for days.

Boozilla , 2 months ago to Ask Lemmy in Have you ever devoted a significant amount of time to something only to later feel it was pointless?

“We are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different.” --Kurt Vonnegut

Boozilla , 2 months ago to Work Reform in to those of you who get bored at work if there's lots of downtime, why?

I love the downtime and use it for personal stuff. I am of course chained to my desk and phone. But there's always hobbies and interests to pursue. I seldom get bored.

If I were more ambitious, I could become on of those over-employed people with multiple full-time jobs at the same time. But that lifestyle would stress me out. I also work in a field/area with a gossip network. So it would be risky. Anyone gets caught doing that, word would get around quickly.

Boozilla OP , 2 months ago to CreepyWikipedia in The Silver Train of Stockholm

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the feedback.

Boozilla , 2 months ago to No Stupid Questions in If hot air rises, why is it colder at the top of a mountain?

Think of the atmosphere as a layer cake. The bottom of the cake is very dense and the higher up you go, these layers get less and less dense. Up on a mountain, the air is very thin.

In other words, there are fewer air molecules per cubic foot (volume of air). The molecules are farther apart and can hold less heat energy. Because "heat" is what we say when we mean molecules are moving around. The more they move, and the more molecules there are, the more heat you have.

It's also helpful to know that the air is heated by the ground and oceans. The heat from our sun mostly passes right through the atmosphere, not directly warming the air up very much. But the surface of the planet will warm up wherever the sun is shining on it. And in turn, the warm ground or the warm surface water then gradually warms the air from the bottom up. (This is because heat is transferred in different modes: radiant, convection, and conduction.)

And the warm air does indeed rise. As it rises, it gradually spreads out and cools off again. Some of the heat even radiates back out into space.

There are "fountains" of air constantly circulating throughout the atmosphere, and this creates weather patterns. It tends to snow on mountains because the warm air has carried some moisture with it on its way up. As it cools and thins, it can't carry the moisture any more, and the moisture precipitates out. Which is why we call it precipitation whenever it snows, rains, sleets, etc.

So by the time air reaches a high mountaintop, it's probably going to be cool or even frigid cold.

This is also why hotter regions, like the southern US, tend to get very humid in the summer. The warm air can carry a lot of moisture, and there is a lot of warm surface water. Our sweat is less efficient when the air is moist, because it takes longer to evaporate and carry the heat away with it.

Deserts have few water sources. So they also have hot dry air, and much less humidity, and therefore little to no precipitation. But they also get cold at night, because there's very little humidity to hold the heat overnight.

All of this is to illustrate the complex interactions between the sun, the atmosphere, and water (or lack of it) on the surface, and humidity in the air.

Inside an older building you're more likely to experience warmer air on higher floors than lower floors because the air is trapped in a nearly closed system and hot air rises. Of course, HVAC engineers try to compensate for this in modern buildings.

Boozilla , 2 months ago to Privacy in Where are places you see ads?

Pitcher's mounds. When you watch a baseball game on TV, they often super-impose an ad on the damned dirt. Also graphics at the bottom of the screen will often have an ad box.

Every available inch of visible space must be covered in an ad. It makes me resent those brands.

In particular, I stew over insurance companies spending millions on celebrities in commercials and prime time slots. That's money that could have gone to pay claims that were denied, or lowered their ridiculous premiums.

And I'll never understand people who purchase expensive t-shirts or caps with some corporate brand's logo splashed across it. They are paying more to be a human billboard. Are we supposed to be impressed with their taste in something millions of others have bought?

Boozilla , 2 months ago to Fediverse in Could the US Government Self-Host a Fediverse Server?

Sure, but I'm thinking they'd make some noise on their own, and/or infiltrate other instances en masse (potentially).

Boozilla , 2 months ago to News in Hillary Clinton tells voters to 'get over yourself' when it comes to Biden-Trump rematch

Well said. The two front runners are like creepy old lords from Game of Thrones or something. One is much worse, but neither is good.

The Clintons need to retire quietly, nobody wants their input.