dubyakay
@dubyakay@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Tired of hearing about “The offshore team” 1 day ago:
Germany has nearshoring. Anything that doesn’t require native level spoken German or isn’t physical or under some weird regulation that it has to be in-country, it will be outsourced to a country with a significant amount of German speakers like Slovakia, Hungary, Romania or Brazil (Blumenau).
- Comment on At least 1440p is good for heating my house 2 days ago:
From your desktop to your deck? How’s the effective frame rate of that?
- Comment on Why do people say things like "I didn't do nothing"? 5 days ago:
“Nem csináltam semmit!”
Damn, it works in Hungarian too.
Maybe it’s just English that’s stupid, and not every other language.
- Comment on My post was removed because it was not political? 1 week ago:
- Comment on how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight? 1 week ago:
We were on a Zoo trip during summer camp, me and my brother and a bunch of other kids from our judo class. Mostly early teens.
Certain areas in the Zoo had free roaming animals, mostly kangaroos, emu, peacocks, some cobra chicken, goats and sheep. A couple kids had the great idea to pester the pelicans. Pelican are a funny bunch that keep begging for treats with their giant beaks open and waddling around. They look less than threatening, although they have that frowny looking eye.
Anyway the kids decided it’d be fun to take turns spitting into the beaks of one particular giant pelican instead of giving it treats. It didn’t really like it but the kids kept persisting, daring to lean in closer and closer into the pelican’s wide open beak. Finally my stupid little brother in the spur of the moment thought he’d show the other kids how it’s done. He ran up to the pelican, leaned in really close and spit the most nasty wad into its beak. At that moment the pelican turned its head sideways and
*** CLAP ***
I’ll never forget the sight of my brothers head being completely engulfed by a giant beak.
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The grab only lasted for a blink of an eye. My brother didn’t even have time to realize what happened and struggle against it. He came out with a surprised and slightly scratched face. The surprise turned into a grin and then laughter within seconds.
Nevertheless, the pelican gained the respect from the kids and they’ve stopped pestering it. But somehow I imagine that this is basically the worst they can do. Give you a stereo-slap on your ears with their beak. You are safe against that brown pelican.
- Comment on If we're living in a simulation, why would the simulation creators allow the sims to ponder and speculate whether or not they live in a simulation? 1 week ago:
maintain self-preservation
The simulator running us clearly did not define this restriction.
- Comment on What a bargain 1 week ago:
Printing that label cost more than the sale price difference. Gotta recoup the expense somewhere.
- Comment on Project Zomboid set for a massive update that should get a Beta before Christmas 2 weeks ago:
What’s cataclysm?
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 2 weeks ago:
Toaster.
- Comment on Anyone else bounce around from game to game with no clue what to play? 3 weeks ago:
If we are going down this path, I’d actually recommend touching grass first (proverbially), before a sinking time and money into a professional. It’s an easy, non-committal step, that may do wonders.
- Comment on How Trump's Tariffs Could Cost Gamers Billions 3 weeks ago:
The EUR and GBP prices included VAT, import fees and whatever other fees levied by the local govt on electronics.
- Comment on What gives you hope to keep going? 3 weeks ago:
Dude won’t make it that far. Or much further than that.
- Comment on What's your favourite it's all in the gameplay game? 3 weeks ago:
I always hated it as a kid. All hundred iterations of it, despite always playing with them a little.
- Comment on So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence. 4 weeks ago:
You can easily get rid of those nails sticking out with just a hammer.
Hit it from the top. Cover your eyes. Hit it from the bottom. Hit it from the top. Off it flies, good luck finding the broken off piece.
- Comment on So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence. 4 weeks ago:
I read it as “they can’t afford saw and screws”
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 4 weeks ago:
ASSUMING CONTROL
DIRECT INTERVENTION IS NECESSARY
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 4 weeks ago:
Never too late.
- Comment on What do you create? 4 weeks ago:
Time to get off lemmy. Go for a run/jog/walk in the cold to the nearest stationery store and buy some pen and paper. Then get home and get to writing.
You can do it!
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t understand this line of thought. As in you are childless by choice BECAUSE of what is going on in the US?
- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 4 weeks ago:
No, it was rather easy. I was only eleven years old though. The consciousness of it and the method to squelch it at first, without saying it out loud, helped a lot. The therapist really only highlighted it once for me. But it didn’t help that to get to this point I got traumatized by a whole class of vicious fifth graders laughing at me while I was reciting something in front of the class. 🙄
- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 4 weeks ago:
All good. Looks like my comment got axed for some reason, even though I’ve intended it as a positive critique.
I’ve noticed that people like using “I mean” as a filler or figure of speech. But when you keep seeing it over and over again, especially multiple times in a single comment, or in a comment chain, it’s really noticable.
I used to say “uhm” out loud a lot while forming sentences. It’s a placeholder to give your mind a pause to catch up what you are trying to say. A speech therapist highlighted this to me and got me to slowly phase it out by first squelching it and just internalizing the “uhm”, then completely getting rid of it and rely on silent pauses instead. It helped me realize these speechpatterns, doesn’t matter whether they are used as a run on or a pause. And “I mean” really caught on the past few years as a faux intellectual discourse marker, so it’s extra noticable for me.
Looks like there’s some more about its usage here:
- Comment on Reminder for all Lemmy moderators and admins. 4 weeks ago:
How do you get past the great firewall to post here?
- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 4 weeks ago:
Your number of “i mean”-s per post is ridiculous.
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 5 weeks ago:
For the outer layer, do not go with synthetic stuff, despite what people will tell you. An oversized Icelandic wool sweater or similar will catch snow and wind much more effectively (and dry in no time when indoors.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 5 weeks ago:
PCX 😒
- Comment on my idiot friend printed parts of my 3d printed gun experiment with pla instead of abs 5 weeks ago:
Fuck the haters, OP.
They will thank you for your experiment & sacrifice when they have to resort to printing these. When the only weapon left against the fascists, that confiscated all weapons, is this.
- Comment on I spent 6000+ hours of my life building this character 1 month ago:
- Comment on Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey 1 month ago:
Weird that it’d be random when they could just ask every user. Would give a more accurate breakdown on certain categories.
- Comment on Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey 1 month ago:
How do I take the survey?
- Comment on Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce? 1 month ago:
How do you make it?
