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- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 6 hours ago:
There are analog clocks that move the minute hand only when the next minute starts. But to be honest, you might profit from a little less rigidity in your “time usage” - it’s good for your mental health to not plan everything down to the minute. If i make a private appointment, i try to set time windows of 10-15 minutes for meetups; i aim for the beginning of the window, and if i get delayed it’s of no consequence.
Can you imagine that it’s not so long ago that people called a phone number that told you what time it will be at the next signal tone?
- Comment on 4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC 7 hours ago:
Since “chaotic neutral” includes the mentally deranged and insane, your description is apt.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 1 day ago:
The word that pops up in my mind when i read this is “sabotage”
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 1 day ago:
There’s a distinctive difference between american evangelists and other christian groups, for starters that the evangelists have been integrated in the state-religion the USA has been running at least since the cold war., and they are actively utilized by the Republicans. This also means that those evangelists believe that in the US white nationalists should be in power.
Please note that the “christian” part in this has gone pretty far from any christian roots - it’s for the most part just utilized to identify the in-group and to radicalize members. The quip “Y’all qaeda” comes pretty close to the truth - they are just as radical and socially regressive as any other islamic sect that would use terror to achieve their goals.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 2 days ago:
🫡 👖 👖 👖
Always have Jeans.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 3 days ago:
i think this meeting in particular puts emphasis to the fact that trump has lost it and that europe has to put more weight behind their support.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 week ago:
I mean the discovery queue is pretty much on point except for the blockbusters they insert “because they are popular”. I don’t care whats popular, i care about what i like, roguelike indies and metroidvanias for example.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 week ago:
“There were more sports cars in the parking lot in the PS1 era than there were in the PS4 era, …"
dude, fuck you, your parking lot and i wish that giant acme anvils drop on every fucking sports car you’ll ever own.
- Comment on Um... I'm not even using a VPN... Fuck you reddit. 1 week ago:
it’s time to start feeding game guides to gamefaqs again lol
- Comment on The guy President Trump nominated to lead the US Bureau of Labor Statistics 1 week ago:
This guy sits there so that the numbers say what dumpy mcshitplants likes.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 1 week ago:
umm thanks i guess 🥹
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 1 week ago:
- Prey 2016 - I love the designs, the art, the story, the lonely feeling in space, the soundtrack (Mick Gordon!).
- Nier Automata - The only game that ever made me cry - multiple times. Great Soundtrack too!
- Grim Dawn - for me personally the best ARPG ever made, and they are working on a new expansion, after all this time!
- Comment on why can't you be more like him 1 week ago:
That’s organic chemistry tho, so it might be a biologist in disguise!
- Comment on Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté? 2 weeks ago:
i agree on that one very much. on my way into burnout my cynicism and sarcasm increased steadily (in a way i tried to get relief from my pressure in a socially acceptable way), and even tho colleagues found my sharp tongue funny, it was not a fun experience. I only stopped shortly before i broke down - i couldn’t keep the facade up anymore, if i had tried i would have my breaking moment right there.
- Comment on Houston Pastor convicted in $3.6M fraud case returns to Church after prison release. "It's such a blessing to have our visionary pastor back at church. We are so excited." 2 weeks ago:
where do you even dig up pre-revolution chinese bonds wtf
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 2 weeks ago:
It’s not only to harvest your data to sell, it’s also to know how high the initial rent can be set (before you even see a property). That’s called an unfair advantage.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were at least one person on the planet with a card reader/simcard combo implanted in their buttcheek for those occasions. I’m also pretty sure that Visa/Mastercard would have no issues with that, but if it’s a gaming storefront then they are “omg”-ing
- Comment on Pretty but pointless 2 weeks ago:
depression
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 2 weeks ago:
There is a remake of MoM that play quite nice :-)
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 3 weeks ago:
I loved it and played against my little brother on one keyboard constantly, that was fun!
Too bad that the follow-up game went through developer hell, took ages and looked and played like shit :-(
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 3 weeks ago:
I fully agree, this is a pragmatic gift if you kept your discourse about sexual topics open with your child from the beginning. I would’ve gone for a gift card so they can choose themselves in privacy, but it’s fine either way.
For prudish families who learnt of this gift this would be gossip material for the next year tho. So many puritans in the US, the neighbors might be the biggest issue, so i would’ve kept it on the down low.
- Comment on Anon witnesses excellent security 3 weeks ago:
which still requires someone to swipe your phone and the owner not recognizing it long enough to do a remote wipe. I am not someone who hangs on the smartphone 8 hours per day, and even i would realize my phone is gone within 15 - 30 minutes, giving an attacker a pretty small time window to act.
- Comment on Off topic 3 weeks ago:
I swear, every time i see Angry Autist, he has either anger issues or is nitpicking whatever rubbed him the wrong way. Even if he sometimes has a good point, he seems like an insufferable person. Should block him, but like i said, sometimes he has a point.
- Comment on Resources 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t say how optimistic i am, just that we are not special in our interaction with the biosphere - not at all. The tragedy is that we are the first that have enough intellect to reflect about those facts, so we are the first that even have the possibility to escape the cycle. if not, we probably will be reduced to scavengers, just like the bacteria in the juice bottle.
- Comment on Resources 3 weeks ago:
our species isn’t more or less terrible like any other species on this planet that was able to utilize ressources better. for example trees: when they came along the absolutely strangled the planet, until their waste product (oxygen) became so concentrated that todays humans would die of it. even their corpses littered the floor in meter thick layers! (that’s what todays coal is). I’m pretty sure that during this change biodiversity took a hard crash until life was able to adapt.
this continued until finally a bacterium developed the ability to degrade cellulose. i’m pretty sure the trees weren’t too happy about that one, it must have been a massacre.
the same story happens in every bottle of juice: bacteria grow inside, exhausting all available ressources, culminating in a mass dieoff with a few scavengers left over. It’s just a question if our intelligence allows us to take a different path or not.
- Comment on You don’t see articles like this about moms with three two jobs who still manage to take care of their kids. 4 weeks ago:
if you are in that position and still cant fucking stop, it’s time to see a psychiatrist
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 4 weeks ago:
it doesn’t even stop there - it will be used to punish people who do not exactly like it’s expected, with the mere accusation of playing/reading/watching/thinking something “unchristian” as reason.
- Comment on Mayo project uses kites to generate power 4 weeks ago:
I can see this being useful for everything where you normally would use portable diesel generators - remote locations, temporary installations and similar stuff.
- Comment on AI-generated search result descriptions 5 weeks ago:
I saw that yesterday specifically on Reddit posts in my search for a software issue, and not on sites like stackoverflow, so my money is on reddit
- Comment on Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong 5 weeks ago:
and don’t forget to tell the movers to keep it upright while transporting it to prevent damage lol