Alright, I see the problem. I’m describing how some men literally spread their arms across the back of multiple seats and how some men literally spread their legs out so that each knee is blocking access to each seat beside the and you are interpreting that as people complaining about guys being allowed to use their armrests. No one is complaining that you take up physical space. They are complaining that you are spread out in a way that blocks access to the space around you that you don’t need. If you don’t sit down and spread your knees wide enough to block access to the seats next to you, then the term manspreading doesn’t apply to you.
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Size doesn’t make you spread your legs, blocking two other seats or make you wrap your arms around the back of the other seats. I’ve seen plenty of men who can keep their hands and knees in front of themselves.
What I picture in my head when I hear the term manspreading is the guy on every bus or subway who is sitting in a middle seat with legs spread wide. It could also be arms around the backs of the surrounding chairs.
stankmut@lemmy.worldto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK Employers do NOT verify your total work history unless you're applying for a government position.English4·2 months agoI made a typo for one of my employment dates while filing the background check. Caught it right after submitting it and then asked around and everybody told me that they’ll call and ask about it if they can’t figure it out from just looking back at my resume.
Next morning they called me and said they had to close the role because of budget cuts. Two months later I got an email saying my hiring was being paused because my background check was flagged and I had 10 days from the check to dispute it. I decided to call the company and they told me that they had already hired someone else for the role.
So yeah, getting the dates right can be important.
stankmut@lemmy.worldto science@lemmy.world•Popular Artificial Sweetener Linked to Higher Risk of StrokesEnglish6·2 months agoThey aren’t artificially sweet, they are a sweetener that is artificial (man-made). As opposed to natural sweeteners that you can just grab from nature.
stankmut@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Tennessee man pardoned for Jan. 6 offenses gets life in prison in separate case accusing him of trying in incite "civil war"English10·2 months agoMy point is that the part about the prosecutor only applies to the last part of the sentence. It’s the newspaper doing an “allegedly” thing. He was sentenced to life for these crimes that the prosecutor says he did. That way if it turns out he didn’t actually do it and later goes free, the newspaper will be less likely to get sued for libel.
The article later goes on to talk about how he was convicted by a jury and sentenced to life by a judge.
stankmut@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Tennessee man pardoned for Jan. 6 offenses gets life in prison in separate case accusing him of trying in incite "civil war"English14·2 months agoAccording to prosecutors is describing “…for plotting to attack FBI agents and seeking to incite a “civil war,”” not the sentencing.
stankmut@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•I honestly think they're impossible to understandEnglish4·3 months agoI taught my mom to play by using a couple of starter decks, giving a short overview of the objective and what the parts of the card meant, and then played a couple of matches with our cards revealed to each other. You just need to be patient, willing to explain anything, and be generous with allowing take backs and reminding about any rules they missed. And remember that if you want someone to keep playing with you, they need to be able to have fun too.
stankmut@lemmy.worldto Progressive Politics@lemmy.world•US judge orders release of Palestine advocate Mahmoud KhalilEnglish5·3 months agoLast time, the judge said they can’t hold him just because Marco Rubio wants to deport him. They were allowed to hold him under the flimsy green card application allegations. This is taking away their other excuse.
stankmut@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Tesla’s phantom braking nightmare: lawsuits surge as drivers lose trust in AutopilotEnglish7·3 months agoThis isn’t an issue with the Full self driving that people signed up for the beta for. It happens with the cruise control too.
stankmut@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Tesla’s phantom braking nightmare: lawsuits surge as drivers lose trust in AutopilotEnglish5·3 months agoYeah, Tesla’s don’t have ordinary cruise control. They have adaptive cruise control and autopilot, which is adaptive cruise control + lane keeping. Both just use the camera. If you’re hoping to rest your foot during a cross country drive, then you better prepare for it to lurch every time it sees a shadow. Once every couple of miles if the road has enough shadows.
stankmut@lemmy.worldto 3DPrinting@lemmy.world•Gillibrand Announces Legislation To Ban Distribution Of Blueprints For 3D Printed Firearms And Curb Epidemic Of “Ghost Guns” - Kirsten Gillibrand | U.S. Senator for New YorkEnglish6·4 months agoThis press release is from 2023. Not sure why it was posted like it was news.
stankmut@lemmy.worldto memes@lemmy.world•Americans will use anything as a unit of measurementEnglish23·4 months agoI think mistakes like this are usually caused by someone changing their mind on one thing they wrote and forgetting to proofread the whole thing to see if it still makes sense. I imagine this sentence started out as “Rock the size of a small boulder”.
stankmut@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Health insurance giant, Blue Shield of California shared the private health data of millions with Google for yearsEnglish4·5 months agoAllowing Google to run an ad campaign targeting their members wasn’t the benefit Blue Cross was talking about, that’s a side effect from them not turning off the data sharing option in the Google analytics settings.
The analytics data is used for prioritizing development work. If a tool they have on the website relies on a library that isn’t compatible with a new version of React, for instance, do they know how many people use it? Having analytics allows you to decide what’s worth spending the development time to maintain.
stankmut@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Health insurance giant, Blue Shield of California shared the private health data of millions with Google for yearsEnglish18·5 months agoThe analytics would be for the web development team to see which pages/features are used. Usually a product manager uses that data for setting priorities on what gets worked on.
stankmut@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•FSU shooting suspect used mom's service weapon and had far-right views, police and classmates sayEnglish12·5 months agoIt was his stepmom’s gun, not the mom’s. Article was probably edited at some point, since I see at least one place where they forgot the step part.
stankmut@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deportedEnglish41·5 months agoA real judge. Immigration judges are employees of the Department of Justice and follow the orders of the Attorney General. He has another case in front of a federal judge in New Jersey who can question that determination.
stankmut@lemmy.worldtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Trump says he is not joking about third presidential termEnglish6·6 months agoIt’s the final paragraph of the 12th amendment
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
stankmut@lemmy.worldtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Trump says he is not joking about third presidential termEnglish4·6 months agoIt wouldn’t be as easy as just having him run as VP, since you can’t be Vice President if you aren’t eligible to be President.
Crypto was an annoying bubble. If you were in the tech industry, you had a couple of years where people asked you if you could add blockchain to whatever your project was and then a few more years of hearing about NFTs. And GPUs shot up in price. Crypto people promised to revolutionize banking and then get rich quick schemes. It took time for the hype to die down, for people to realize that the tech wasn’t useful, and that the costs of running it weren’t worth it.
The AI bubble is different. The proponents are gleeful while they explain how AI will let you fire all your copywriters, your graphics designers, your programmers, your customer support, etc. Every company is trying to figure out how to shoehorn AI into their products. While AI is a useful tool, the bubble around it has hurt a lot of people.
That’s the bubble side. It also gets a lot of baggage because of the slop generated by it, the way it’s trained, the power usage, the way people just turn off their brains and regurgitate whatever it says, etc. It’s harder to avoid than crypto.