Tar_alcaran
@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on US education 19 hours ago:
The first arclamp is from the 1800-1810s. They weren’t exactly selling them in stores by then, but they had been invented.
- Comment on US education 19 hours ago:
You could place “understanding” at many points in history, and several in the future:
Building an arclamp powered by a portable generator is damned impressive.
Sending a message via electromagnetic waves shows very impressive understanding of electricity too.
Having a small electromagnetic particle accelerator in your house to show moving pictures is pretty damned amazing.
Using electricity and basically sand to do maths is insanely impressive.
On the other hand, you might argue we don’t understand electricity because we don’t have a unified field theory.
- Comment on US education 22 hours ago:
Given it has a (good quality) color photo attached to it, it was definitely published when we already understood the theory of electricity really well, so it doesn’t get a pass.
It’s even worse than that. Electric lighting predates the photo camera by several decades
- Comment on US education 22 hours ago:
In 1890 they had telegraph lines between continents for about 40 years.
- Comment on US education 22 hours ago:
Masochist here, you’re wrong
- Comment on The european mind can't comprehend this 2 days ago:
Note that this Obesity (BMI over 30). 76% of the US is overweight (BMI over 25)…
- Comment on The european mind can't comprehend this 2 days ago:
It gets much worse when you look at the outliers. 9.4% of the US had severe obesity (BMI>40) in 2023.
The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany are around 1%, I couldn’t even find a number for France that was more than “<1%”.
- Comment on Google AI strikes again 2 days ago:
Language works by majority consent though.
- Comment on Makes sense to me 4 days ago:
The observations are a fact, the 2nd part is a possible explanation that you could call an opinion.
Is it possible the 'higher-skilled", again an opinion, players have a different common factor? Like maybe age.
Ok, but that doesn’t change it
- Comment on Resources 5 days ago:
I won’t live it, my kids will. Good luck kids!
One of the many reasons I didn’t have kids.
- Comment on My condolences. 6 days ago:
Mmmm Gulab Jamun. I should make that again. Thanks for making my clothes a size too small!
- Comment on The long hard road 1 week ago:
I used to work at a botanical lab, but after it got infected, it turned into a disease lab too. I hope we managed to isolate it in time.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 1 week ago:
I see zero comments there, so yeah, probably.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 1 week ago:
I have posts being critical of it from over a year ago.
Not on this account…
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 1 week ago:
Screwing over and generally being a major asshole in eve online that screwed a lot of people out of very real money.
Ok but… That’s the correct way to play EVE online.
- Comment on Anon is rude at work 1 week ago:
I enjoy the work I do. I’m self employed and I got to hire all my coworkers myself. But "this person should be my close personal friend"is a very poor criterium for hiring someone.
Maybe I could have phrased it better. Most people at work I have a perfectly fine professional relationship with, but I wouldn’t be friends with them. It’s like neighbors, it’s good to be nice with them, but in the Grand scheme of things, we’re only spending time together because of physical proximity.
Maybe I have really high standards for friends, but if I didn’t work with these people, we wouldn’t find eachother remotely friend-material, so why does working together change that?
- Comment on ice treat 1 week ago:
All the other stuff in the drink might lower it a bit though, especially the 14% (!!!) sugar.
- Comment on ice treat 1 week ago:
Is Jägermeister really that green in the US?
It’s brown everywhere else.
- Comment on cultured 1 week ago:
- Comment on xkcd 2682 for linguists 1 week ago:
“how many languages are there” is the same kind of question as “how many colours are there”. It doesn’t work like that, you can group stuff into as many or as few categories as you like.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Friend: “that armor looks so cool!”
Me: “well, if you hate bending down, or lifting your arms higher than horizontal, I guess…”
- Comment on Anon is rude at work 1 week ago:
Friends are people I like, share hobbies and interests with and want to have around me in my life. I picked my friends myself and I’m proud and happy with them.
Coworkers are people I’m stuck in a room with 40 hours a week. Of course you should be polite and friendly, because you’re stuck with them. They got foisted on me and dealing with is part of why I get paid.
There’s a huge difference between “not a living hell” and “sharing my private life and feelings”.
- Comment on Anon is rude at work 1 week ago:
You could only get away so much with job hopping.
Really? Because that’s not been my experience at all. You can even come back to the same company multiple times. Sometimes it’s even easier since you “know the company already”.
adjusting to new working culture and environment can be challenging and eventually drain you as a person.
I guess that’s a personal thing. I don’t experience that at all, but if you feel the need to personally reconnect to all your coworkers, I can see why it would be very draining. If you see your coworkers as coworkers, it’s a lot easier.
- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 1 week ago:
You should watch Starship Troopers.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 1 week ago:
No, the correct reaction is “I do not know the Jah-Oi of which you speak. What is this art form that I have never heard of?”
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 1 week ago:
Exactly! And not just doing it, but sticking to it AND vulnerably admitting to struggling.
If only more people could do it.
- Comment on Anon is rude at work 1 week ago:
I’m self employed, which means I get to avoid the vast majority of these events. Unfortunately it also means that them inviting me is a Big Deal, and saying no isn’t really an option.
One company did a quarterly outing to a brewery. Now, ignoring it’s a bad idea to get drunk with coworkers (and then drive home), they only had IPAs, and I loathe IPAs. And they had “BBQ” which rivalled the mediocreest microwave leftovers.
And they claimed to love it. Either they’re huge liars, or have horrible taste. But I did note only about a third of their employees were there at the time.
- Comment on Anon is rude at work 1 week ago:
Also, building a work friendly relationship with coworkers will pay off when you want to get promotion or recognition, because you will get good word of mouth from colleagues and thus build a good reputation.
Haha, yeah, and just look them in the eye and give them a firm handshake!
Meanwhile, in modern life, the way to get promoted and better paid is job hopping, or starting on your own.
- Comment on Anon is rude at work 1 week ago:
Obviously don’t SAY that it out loud.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah, who doesn’t enjoy getting money…