dexa_scantron

dexa_scantron , 5 days ago to Lemmy Shitpost in App development

There are plenty of women who live like this now. It's a cultural thing, not a timeline thing. I had a roommate in college who would wake up before dawn to do her makeup so nobody would see her without it.

(Also high society women certainly didn't make their own breakfasts... well, ever, but especially not hundreds of years ago)

dexa_scantron , 8 days ago to Cool Guides in A cool guide on emailing like a boss

https://lettersofnote.com/2010/08/05/the-tiger-oil-memos/

DO YOUR JOBS AND KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!
(Signed)
EDWARD MIKE DAVIS

dexa_scantron , 8 days ago to Cool Guides in A cool guide on emailing like a boss

Hello [First name]

If you're in a more casual industry/company, or

Hello [Dr/Mr/Ms Lastname]

If you're in a more formal situation and know their salutation, or

Hello [Full Name]

If you're in a more formal situation and you don't. It's ok to be less formal in email than in a written letter.

dexa_scantron , 1 month ago to 196 in lemmy stop silencing SA survivors rule

Hypothetical question posed to women: would you rather be alone in the woods with a bear or a man? Many women said "bear". Many men took that personally.

dexa_scantron , 1 month ago to RPGMemes in New adventuring party just dropped

Sooo much more. The Baroque Cycle is like Cryptonomicon squared.

dexa_scantron , 1 month ago to RPGMemes in New adventuring party just dropped

Pretty much Jack Shaftoe's storyline in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle

dexa_scantron , 2 months ago to Science Memes in epidemiology

This is a plot point in The Accidental Time Machine: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21608.The_Accidental_Time_Machine; the main character

spoiler

jumps forward into the future a bunch of times, longer jumps each time, and hits a time where the human population is almost gone, and they're like "yeah, the fucking time travelers keep showing up and bringing old diseases":::

dexa_scantron , 2 months ago to Political Memes in 248 years

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

You should think about reading the Declaration of Independence sometime:

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

dexa_scantron , 2 months ago to Collapse in Can Wind and Solar Solve Climate Change?

We're using them. The problem is they aren't replacing fossil fuels. Instead of a polluting coal plant, you have a polluting coal plant and a bunch of solar panels and wind turbines that were manufactured, transported, built from mined substances. It's better than building another coal plant, but it's not solving climate change. Power demand grows to use the available supply.

dexa_scantron , 2 months ago to US Authoritarianism in The New Jim Crow Embroidery

Cross stitch is a type of embroidery.

dexa_scantron , 3 months ago to politics in Opinion | Elon Musk Is Preoccupied With Something He Doesn’t Understand

I don't think that his plans for Mars are good for anyone but himself. Creating a small privately owned Mars colony is more likely to increase problems like climate change and inequality than reduce them. If it were Nasa or another government agency, we could argue that technological advances from the attempt would benefit everyone, like they did in the space race, but this won't even do that. Best case, it makes him even richer. Worst case, it pumps a lot of carbon into the atmosphere and wastes a bunch of resources for no benefit.

dexa_scantron , 3 months ago to politics in Opinion | Elon Musk Is Preoccupied With Something He Doesn’t Understand

If you're that much astronomically richer than everyone else, how could you possibly be comfortable with it? How do you convince yourself that you deserve it? You either genuinely try to do something good, or you convince yourself that you're just Better Than The Poors because of some innate attribute. I don't think there's another option.

dexa_scantron , 3 months ago to HistoryPorn in Car being delivered by 2 horsepower, 1930s?

Looks like a ~'31 Rolls Royce Phantom? Somewhere around 29/30/31/32, after that the styling was different.

dexa_scantron , 3 months ago to Traditional Art in Thread of Progress, 2022 - Michael Cheval

That is not how you use a spinning wheel; it's not even close. This is the equivalent of a painting showing someone using a computer by clicking the mouse with their foot, typing on an upside - down keyboard that isn't plugged in, and with no monitor.

dexa_scantron , 3 months ago to The Right Can't Meme in This isn't even being taught in schools

Another example: all sound recording and amplification technology was developed to make white men sound good. So all audio equipment makes masculine voices sound better than feminine ones.