Formerly /u/Signtist@lemm.ee
Multiple major dictionaries seem to define computer hacking as: “to gain unauthorized access to a computer network, system, etc.” or something similar. So yeah, it seems that using a password you found somewhere to access an account that isn’t yours would indeed be considered “hacking.”
Thanks! I couldn’t get past the idea that they were somehow using telepathy to see their own futures without her in them.
Dang, I often use these for baking if I want to add some flavor to a cake or something. They’re fun for mixing into carbonated water, too!
Hey, now, I remember Party Rock! That was the only dance song of the 2010’s, right?
Well, the work I did last month made my company over 4 million dollars, and my salary earned me about 7k. That’s a normal salary for my position, but if you and a partner made that much money together and they took 99.8% of the share, it’d feel pretty scammy, right?
I’m not sure how much money my ISP, electric company, grocery store, or hospital make, but I can imagine that they have a similar issue where the people doing the work get way too little of a piece of the pie. We consider it normal because it’s so prevalent, but it used to be that the CEO and other executive suite members had a much smaller piece, allowing for everyone else to get relatively more.
Sure, the higher-ups always took the biggest chunk and always will, but at this point our economy is entirely based on the idea of extracting as much wealth from the people generating it as possible, which is definitely a scam.
A Hawaiian corset tests hundreds; indie hero icon hence absolved.
I’m sitting here wondering why I ever trusted one that didn’t.
You’re expected to bring your own. Have you not been doing that? Awkward…
Bavarian cream-filled donuts
Source: I’m classified as Bavarian by diet
You might be interested in the furry community.
That’s really interesting. I’ve often used that exact example to re-contextualize the difference between million and billion to people, since while most understand conceptually that one is 1000x bigger than the other, they fail to truly understand just how big that difference is.
One person explained to me that they understood that 1000x was the difference between $1 and $1000, but that didn’t feel like that huge of a difference, since their monthly bills were significantly above both numbers. So, they applied that same feeling to the difference between $1 million and $1 billion, making them feel like it wasn’t that big of a difference there, either. This was despite the fact that they had a college degree and could obviously do basic math; they simply didn’t think about it enough, instead using the “feeling” of what 1000x meant to smaller numbers to judge the size of larger numbers, significantly skewing their understanding.
That’s the issue with most people’s brains, though it seems you’re immune - we can understand the logic of the scenario, but unless we also think about it enough to get past the instinctive “feeling” of that difference, which requires more thought than we usually give to a scenario, we won’t really understand how big it is. To people stuck in that window, re-contextualization to things like time and size that they understand more intuitively can really help them see how far off their understanding is.
I believe it’s also related to how some people can understand that they’re more likely to lose a bet than win it, but still gamble over and over because they “feel” like they’re going to win this time.
Oh shit, my wife and I only do egg day on Saturdays! I’ll have to step it up a notch.
I specifically chose my instance by what content they did and didn’t choose to block. I turned away from several otherwise appealing instances because they didn’t block some of the content I would’ve wanted them to. I know I can do it myself, and I do when I need to, but I want an instance that aligns with my interests enough that I don’t have to worry about blocking every problematic group as they pop up. If something changes and the instance ends up blocking things I wouldn’t want blocked, I move to another instance. It’s as easy as moving to another seat on the bus - barely an inconvenience.
Technically I am too, but a gigabyte isn’t something I can truly visualize. Again, it just turns into “wow, that’s a lot,” which is something I say so often about so many things that it loses all meaning. I’d say “wow, that’s a lot” about a gigabyte of Epstein files, and I’d say “wow, that’s a lot” about a petabyte of Epstein files, but when I can visualize the size against something like the Eiffel Tower that I can actually see in my mind, it keeps my brain from automatically filing it into the “wow, that’s a lot” bucket, and I can truly get a relative grasp of the scale.
I really don’t care, which seems to piss everyone off. If I need to run outside to grab the mail or something, I just do it. It doesn’t matter if I’m barefoot in the snow, or wearing socks in the rain, it all warms up and dries out eventually. Shoes are a pain, though, and I only wear them if I’m actually leaving to go somewhere.
I often think about how I don’t know anything about my great grandparents. Maybe they were great, maybe they were terrible. Maybe they succeeded at everything they did, maybe they stumbled through life and felt totally incompetent.
Either way, the world kept going for better or for worse, and forgot the details that probably seemed so important to them at the time. One day when I’m long gone, all the highs and lows of my life will be evened out just like theirs were. It helps me recenter and just enjoy the ride.
I honestly like converting units of measurement into something immediately and viscerally understandable in situations like these. Like, yeah, I can understand that 2100 feet or 650 meters worth of paper is a lot, but that’s all I think about it; it’s big enough that I just default to the general “a lot” in my head. But when you say 2 Eiffel Towers, I immediately picture myself looking up at the Eiffel Tower with 2 huge stacks of paper towering next to it, which makes me feel very different about the amount of pages.
Nah, we’re the Big Cherry:
My family calls the TV remote a “gonk” because apparently my grandpa called it that once back when they were still a pretty new thing, and it stuck. My mom and her siblings passed it on to their own kids, and now there’s just a small packet of people in Minnesota who call TV remotes gonks, much to the confusion of our peers.