Warl0k3
@Warl0k3@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 week ago:
Non joke answer: A bunch of reasons. Many precincts are understaffed, so they need all the hands they can get. The police union is huge and makes it extremely difficult to fire even the most homer-simpsonian individuals. Many of the hugely obese cops are assigned to “light duty” meaning the most exertion they face is paperwork, manning the public information desk and or doing things like serving writs (in some cases you’re even allowed to wear the uniformneven if you’re not a bonded officer). Additionally, fitness requirements are actually fairly rare across the whole spectrum of law enforcement - It’s surprisingly rare to see them for any positions besides uniformed patrol officer, even detectives or etc. aren’t always required to pass them - and even when you do, they’re usually pathetically easy to pass.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 week ago:
I don’t really know how else to phrase this, but I’ll give it a shot anyways: Anti-cheat isn’t intrinsically linked to root level permissions. It’s inclusion in a section about data sources compounds that concept. That is the claim that you are now making, and which isn’t supported by the section you’ve cited.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 week ago:
If that’s all it takes to dumbfound you, I am profoundly jealous. Anyways.
Those aren’t the claims fauxliving was making. They claim that there is no indication of taketwo requesting root level access and they’re strictly right, there is no language requesting that permission (or equivalents) (but I doubt that would matter to TakeTwo since they could argue it’s implicit)
They then claim that there has been no change to the game to include kernel level anticheat, which is also true.
What you presented does nothing to substantiate or refute those claims, just the claims made in the OP. Fauxliving’s comment was off base, sure, but substantially their points are correct.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 week ago:
That… doesn’t actually rebut anything FauxLiving said. That they may use anti-cheat, and that they may have automatic updates, aren’t the claims in question here.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 1 week ago:
… Are you serious? You should respect people who don’t respect you in turn because it “builds character”?
No, that guy in your story had it right. If this is representative of the culture you work in, I’d do the absolute bare minimum too. This is such blatant ‘hard work’ propaganda it’s actually kind of nauseating. Holy shit, take a step back and realize you’re helping your team get taken advantage of, and guilt-tripping them when they don’t comply with your corporate masters. You’ve progressed way beyond drinking the kool-aid, now you’re one of the guys holding the children hostage to get their parents to drink it.
Fuck’s sake, you’re the problem in that story.
- Comment on Airbuddy 🦛 2 weeks ago:
just Tumblr Brain things
- Comment on Definitions 2 weeks ago:
IDK maybe they’re just really bad at cutting pizza.
- Comment on Late 2 weeks ago:
Hmm. If you don’t mind me asking, what field was your masters in? During my grad work, you’d have been thrown out after a week if you did similar, but assignments were very much supplemental to the lecture and didn’t overlap with the lecture material much at all.
- Comment on Late 2 weeks ago:
You know, I’ve had students attempt this every quarter and I’ve still never seen it actually work. It might be a reflection of how teaching has had to shift as a result of the changes brought on by AI + the pandemic, though. I started professing only a little bit before then, so I never really saw the era where you could get away with such strict adherence to the textbook.
- Comment on Late 2 weeks ago:
While it’s good that you are disciplined enough that you can succeed without it, many students benefit greatly from a rigid structure more in line with the educational environment they experienced up to that point. After freshman year, attendance requirements are usually hreatly relaxed once people get into the swing of things (like not having to ask to to go to the bathroom anymore, god what even is the public school system). Personally I don’t care if you show up or not, you’ll learn something important either way and if someone uninterested isn’t there it means I have more time for the other students.
Also I can 100% promise that clicker thing was a contractual obligation from the publisher and not the instructor’s idea. Those things are fuckin’ awful to support on the instructor’s side, and goddamn Pearson managed to tie using their shitfucking software (including those goddamn clickers) to the state and federal grants unis rely on for funding. Fuck pearson.
- Comment on Late 2 weeks ago:
Okay setting aside that I’ve never ever seen that actually succeed, why would someone shell out for a college lecture if they’re going to do that? (You also can’t replicate lab or seminar time on your own, so I’m just not sure what you’re basing this on.)
- Comment on Late 2 weeks ago:
I accepted “I’m sorry, it was just too nice a day to spend it sitting in a basement with no windows” once because man, they had a point.
- Comment on Late 2 weeks ago:
I’ll generally accept any excuse unless it’s becoming a habit - in those rare cases I’ll happily work with them to try and figure out a solution. 80% of the time it’s family medical appointments or childcare scheduling issues (and my gosh I am so happy to accommodate people dealing with that) and the rare cases it’s not we can usually find a way to make up for what they’ve missed.
- Comment on Late 2 weeks ago:
If you can pass my class without attending lecture, why wouldn’t you just ask to test out of the class???
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I scream, into the void. - Comment on Late 2 weeks ago:
I really really should have noticed that, thank you that makes this so much better.
- Comment on Late 2 weeks ago:
Even sending me a note that you’re going to be late is more consideration than I usually get. I’ve got enough on-spectrum students that I can very much see this being a legit scenario, too (though I teach CS so it’s a little expected). IDK, if they’re an otherwise decent student I might let this slide, though almost entirely for the novelty of someone actually letting me know they’re running late.
- Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip 3 weeks ago:
It seems best to disregard them entirely…
- Comment on Really chess.com? 3 weeks ago:
If you look, you can see that the cream sections are also blended, its just much subtler than the green blended parts.
- Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip 3 weeks ago:
Back to your image board. Shoo. Don’t make me use the broom.
- Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip 3 weeks ago:
Hush.
- Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip 3 weeks ago:
None of us have met you, and yet…
- Comment on Common British L 3 weeks ago:
I guess? The alternatives to capsaicin (mustard, garlic, horseradish, etc) are all pretty overwhelming flavors, so if you want things even moderately pungent they’re the only thing you’re going to be tasting in a dish. I personally loathe the taste of most hot peppers (but love spicy food) so the trend of "spicy everything" is getting pretty tiresome.
- Comment on Common British L 3 weeks ago:
That the name of their unofficial national dish is in Persian/Hindi also suggets something, but I’m sure I don’t know what…
- Comment on Common British L 3 weeks ago:
Americans are borderline obsessed with hotsauces and spicy food, though. IME, the pushback about english mustard is usually the same as with vegemite - its too easy to use way too much, and thus obliterate the flavours of the rest of the dish. (Plus it doesn’t pair super well with a lot of regional menus.)
- Comment on Common British L 3 weeks ago:
Most american stereotypes I understand or even represent (fat white guy with too many guns here) but I’ve never understood the “american food is bland” thing - I can’t think of a region of the US known for bad food. Why the hell do you think we’re all so fat, if not because we have so much good food to tempt us into excess?
- Comment on Common British L 3 weeks ago:
Deep Fried Beer is a pretty good one, too. Not very good, though…
- Comment on Apartments and metros 4 weeks ago:
(Full disclosure that this response is transcribed from my retired civil engineer father, who is the primary source of any information I have on this subject)
Obviously most of the true Khrushchevkas are pretty old, but they were solidly constructed. Not huge, but the layout is pretty reasonable (square plan with living room / kitchen / bath / bed), you can look floor plans up online to get a better idea. The major points where they win over the modern hell that is a 5-over-1 are sound isolation (yeah famously they had no sound proofing, but it’s still a great deal better than what you find in any US stick n’ brick), access (you could pretty easily move a couch up the stairwell), fixtures (this one is both my own subjective opinion and not uniform across all designs, but the ones I have seen were quite nice - decently modern gas appliances (water heater and stove) and branch control radiators (I think this is the wrong term, apologies, I am very tired) as well as in-ceiling lighting fixtures instead of switched outlets - none of the apartments around [where I live in the US] have lighting fixtures outside of the kitchenette and bathroom), and just space (They were, despite being tiny, quite a bit bigger than the rooms I live in now)
- Comment on Apartments and metros 4 weeks ago:
Having seen the interiors, Khrushchevkas are way nicer than any 5-over-1 I’ve been in in the US. By a comical degree, really.
- Comment on The joy of going through pregnancy along with your sister 4 weeks ago:
It’s a shitposting community, I’m sincerely not sure what your point is.
- Comment on The joy of going through pregnancy along with your sister 4 weeks ago:
Why?