[-] ChildeHarold@lemm.ee -1 points 17 hours ago

exactly. women on the other hand have higher obesity rates than men, too. so they're much bigger targets. endless design flaws, really.

[-] ChildeHarold@lemm.ee -2 points 18 hours ago

Being retarded: you.

[-] ChildeHarold@lemm.ee -3 points 21 hours ago

apparently you don't know what doxxing means, either. lmfao, keep owning yourself.

[-] ChildeHarold@lemm.ee -3 points 22 hours ago

said the person who would totally dox me if I posted with my real identity. keep talking moron lol

[-] ChildeHarold@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

their balls fall off. the rubber bands. on sheep.

[-] ChildeHarold@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

I don't get it either. isn't turpentine just a paint thinner, sometimes used in mixes to make varnishes or clean furniture? smells awful.

[-] ChildeHarold@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

This man has unlimited IQ.

[-] ChildeHarold@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

I took a job as a medical assistant. I was not certified. It was during COVID, and the manager was woefully understaffed. I had zero experience or training. They still hired me, because in her words "we can teach you everything you need to know, and your resume demonstrated you were a good learner so that's all that matters." (I had taught myself Chinese and coding, and put that on the resume).

I worked my butt off, and after two years when I had to leave to go back to school they offered me a massive raise, more training to get me a promotion as an actual technician to start making 80k/year, and they even said when I finished grad school I could be taken on as a partner and own the business (it was a small clinic). They wanted to do anything to get me to stay.

All these companies these days care too much about certs. They don't know how to hire. They should look for resume's that demonstrate learning, initiative, responsibility, and commitment. Because at the end of the day: almost anyone can learn any job that isn't a PhD-level.

Like, having managers be required to have a college degree is moronic.

[-] ChildeHarold@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago

TLDR yes, they are wrong.

  1. Prisoner's dilemma. As a pharmaceutical company, you know theoretically a cure for a given chronic illness exists. What you don't know is if your competitor is close to having one. If they are, it would render your pathetic non-curative regimes obsolete and you'd lose billions and be decades behind. Shareholders would be calling for blood, and if you're the CEO or board exec you'd lose your head. So you work on developing the drug because even if its possibly less profitable, its still in your best interest to do the research.

  2. Most people doing this kind of research are universities, which are publicly funded and would gain more profit from a curative drug than they would from letting big pharma continue using non-curative regimens.

  3. Government has strong interest in developing cures because chronic illness is a massive drain on the economy costing billions of dollars, with significant public health costs that eat into government budgets that politicians would much rather spend on things like weapons or parking meters that accept credit cards.

[-] ChildeHarold@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago

OP in 1939* "Why isn't there a cure for the consumption?! must be because the travelling physicians wouldn't make any money!"

This is a moronic take.

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I’m trying to pick a DSLR-compatible Canon telephoto lens for wildlife photography in low-light conditions (also, I like doing urban candid photography/street photography from distances, so that too). Naturally, this means high ISO and low f-stop. For some reason, all I can find are like f-4; is that normal? Also, what’s with all the “telephoto” lenses that max out at 200mm? Shouldn’t something like 400mm be better? I suppose I don’t want something too bulky, so 400mm is probably pushing it but idk… if you have experience in this, let me know what you think. I can only seem to find a handful of options, and most are for mirrorless cameras which sucks because I don’t want too many camera bodies so getting ANOTHER one for this purpose would really clutter my shelves as I don’t have any mirrorless Canon’s.

Anyways, budget is tight, nothing north of $1000, let me know what you think!

Edit: Posted in wildlife photo community, but it was dead (no posts since like 2 months ago) so figured I'd move it here.

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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by ChildeHarold@lemm.ee to c/wildlifephotography@lemmy.world

I'm trying to pick a DSLR-compatible Canon telephoto lens for wildlife photography in low-light conditions (also, I like doing urban candid photography/street photography from distances, so that too). Naturally, this means high ISO and low f-stop. For some reason, all I can find are like f-4; is that normal? Also, what's with all the "telephoto" lenses that max out at 200mm? Shouldn't something like 400mm be better? I suppose I don't want something too bulky, so 400mm is probably pushing it but idk... if you have experience in this, let me know what you think. I can only seem to find a handful of options, and most are for mirrorless cameras which sucks because I don't want too many camera bodies so getting ANOTHER one for this purpose would really clutter my shelves as I don't have any mirrorless Canon's.

Anyways, budget is tight, nothing north of $1000, let me know what you think!

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submitted 5 days ago by ChildeHarold@lemm.ee to c/asklemmee@lemm.ee

Ok so I watched this video and it actually did a really good job at explicating the context of the crusades in ways that a lot of school history readings didn’t for me. I've been notified that the channel is apparently a MAGA pipeline, and I don't necessarily endorse all views held in that channel, but I had to admit: it was refreshing seeing the Crusades explained through a rational, realist lens rather than just chalking it up to "evil bad man kill nice foreign people". And it got me wondering: does anybody here know any good books or book series on ancient European history - the Crusades, the Inquisitions, etc. - that don’t use objectivity as a facade for bashing Western culture? Like, books that use realism and rationality to explain the choices made and provide context into them? I'm looking for stuff as comprehensive as possible. I’m thinking something similar to Shelby Foote’s Civil War trilogy but with European history. Fairly detailed, objective, etc. Thanks in advance!

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