sartalon

@sartalon@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the past 5 years, whenever I talk it's like my brain's buffering. I can't find words or "load" the next sentence or sequence things. I used to be able to give unscripted presentations. Why?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You may have sleep apnea as well.

  Like others said, you really need to see a doctor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He was no friend to the middle class⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like this bastard at all, but we also have FMLA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saving⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Except that word/excel refuse to let me enable “auto save” unless the file location is in a folder that is part of OneDrive.

  The only thing ignorant is your comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saving (2)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s how they get access to all your data for scraping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saving⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft will not allow you to enable the auto save feature unless the location is part of OneDrive.

  You can manually save to a local store, but that is it.

  There are some work around, but it shouldn’t be necessary in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Geese, why are you like this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No joke, that’s how I defended myself on our farm.

  Granted I didn’t punt them like that, but I would give them a good healthy kick to push them back if they really got a hair up their ass.

  We had five, named after the Marx brothers.

  They were generally ornery, occasionally vicious, but we never had a single issue with predators and our chickens.

  I never understood why, after years, they NEVER, ever chilled out with me. Fucking assholes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My grandmother had a pantry like this in her basement and did the same thing. She religiously shopped deals/coupons, and stocked up on things when they were cheap. These days, I can’t find a place with a pantry bigger than a coat closet. So, like you, we turned a spare room closet into a long term pantry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age gap⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Found the groomer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn straight!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an EE with utility clients. If a lineman/wireman started making the same as me, I would feel the same way.

  All the money is sucked out by equity holders.

  This economy makes me think of Hamilton’s “Dragon”, where everyone sank most of their paycheck back into the company to get a high enough “stake”, to even get a chance at a meaningful job, at said company.

  I’m not even sure when this good little Republican became radicalized. I’ve done pretty well for myself and yet I would happily watch it all burn down to the fucking ground if it meant everyone actually got a meaningful standard of living and healthcare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Both sides of Niagara Falls.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a lot of work for a not fun costume to wear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 9/11 America was afraid of a Improvised Nuclear Something made out of used uranium. How would that work? Just get a piece of dynamite and some nuke dust and light the dynamite?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the biggest concern is inhaling or ingesting the “dirty” material. Our skin does a pretty good job providing some protection against the low levels of the alpha emissions of depleted uranium. However, if you were too inhale or ingest, then you face direct absorption, which carries significantly higher risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It does look cooler than a cross⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is the artist’s name scrubbed off?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No bitey my horsey [TW: a spöder eating dinner]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like spiders, but I didn’t think I can feed it a horsefly out of my hands like that.

  And how did he not get bit by the horsefly himself?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a MAGAt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you need help?

  If that is what you truly believe then I fear that you are a danger to yourself and others and should not be trusted to be alone or around children. There are a lot of resources available to use, even in the U.S.

  I implore you to seek help from professionals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Easter Lemmy.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Motherlover or Dick in a Box could both work here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have a plan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean isn’t this post kind of asking for consent?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have a plan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m afraid if I offer suggestions I’ll start getting knocks on my door at 2am.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So my experience accounts for nothing?

  So even though I’ve lost access to multiple titles because other software companies can’t get their shit together and were a terrible experience, I’m not allowed to use that as an example of why Valve has become the standard?

  But any argument against your opinion is “simping”.

  Do you even hear yourself?

  What you are doing is a form of manipulation and gaslighting.

  Those things Valve was sued over were also industry standard practices.

  Your argument is awash with emotional outbursts which tells the real story here.

  You’ve picked a side for one reason or another and just make bad arguments, trying to support it.

  Show me a single game company, of that size, that HASN’T been sued. Since that seems to be your metric of what makes a company so evil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a very narrow viewpoint that is borderline disingenuous.

  You blame OP for being a simp, BECAUSE OF A MEME, then argue the plaintiff’s narrative without any critical breakdown or context.

  You are not any better.

  There is a lot of nuance here that you just ignore.

  Valve is not using their resources to prevent/undermine competition.

  Valve’s percentage is absolutely worthy of debate, but does not make them a monopoly.

  I will state that I support Valve when it comes to the big releases, but definitely wish they tiered their fees to support smaller developers.

  I get why they do it, but I wish they were a bit friendlier to the smaller developers

  If the other companies used a platform that was even remotely close to the ease of use as Steam, I might feel differently, but they don’t

  I have lost access to several titles because of these companies’ “competing” platforms.

  Valve provides a service that is critical and beneficial. And in a way that these other companies seem incapable or unwilling to provide.

  They are not preventing them from doing it in any way.

  They just don’t want to get undercut on products that use their service. That is a valid argument.

  Maybe if other companies didn’t create such bloated, underperforming crapware, they wouldn’t feel forced to use Steam.

  And smaller developers aside, these companies already suck so much money out of the user/buyer as they can and are not passing that revenue to the actual software developer, while Valve does share its revenue with its employees, despite your claim that Gabe is buying his “27th yacht”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You had me at Cavill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Red, White and Blue⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, this is Valmond’s second post I’ve seen today that he just completely talks out of his ass.

  His other post got a bunch of upvotes, so I guess it is working for him. :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This made me wonder what it would actually look like.

  It would be so big, would it curve around with the Lagrange point?

  Would it be significant enough to see with the naked eye?

  Would we see ripples or waves cause by other gravitational forces. Could it be used to detect gravitational waves?

  That would be cool. Except the whole, “not seeing the moon anymore” thing.

  Can you imagine the energy you would need to keep something like that from drifting off and or bunching up under its own mass?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was told it would be a cultural experience⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly.

  It’s always an unknown factor at other places. Some of them you feel like you are taking your life in your own hands.

  But Buc-ees is always a guaranteed a clean experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean just Terry Pratchett, right? 😢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My anecdotal experience.

  I was in SERE school, in the US Navy.

  We were in the field portion of the training, the low mountains of SoCal.

  I would periodically get this weird, almost bitter smell. Fast forward a day and I realized the smell was when there was an ant on me.

  I don’t know if it was a combo of the environment, the type of ant, the lack of food or showering for a few days, but it was pretty reliable.

  After SERE was over, I have never experienced it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you done yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “You need…”

  Is not a command…

  You keep placing false intent and meaning. That is a form of manipulation and gas lighting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to let it go, or get over whatever this weird outrage this is that you are having.

  I can feel however I want, you don’t get to gatekeep that.

  I didn’t tell George RR Martin to do anything. I said a line on a social media forum.

  You are choosing to take my words in the way you are describing and not in the way I intended. That is a form of manipulation and gas lighting. Especially after I clarified.

  Who called me entitled? I guess I missed that. That’s a weird take, whoever said it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could at least come up with a response that already hasn’t been said several times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man the Sanderson hate in this post is real.

  I only suggested him because he helped finish the Wheel of Time series.