Allero
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- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 12 hours ago:
Must be true indeed
- Comment on Anon always gets his man 19 hours ago:
VacuCake ™
- Comment on Anon always gets his man 22 hours ago:
No, because it will dissipate such heat.
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 1 day ago:
On your question: I haven’t lived in USSR (born in Russia already), but from what I could gather from relatives and older acquaintances, it was quite similar.
Generally good on workplace equality, quite some everyday/domestic sexism going both ways. One negative change in the workplace since the fall of USSR and rise in private enterprises is reluctancy of some bosses to select female employees, as they are feared to take maternity leave and be on the company’s budget. I wouldn’t say this happens everywhere, but it’s common enough to be notable.
The positive shift in the domestic part started about 2010’s, as new wave of feminism has been accepted by many in the Russian youth. Still, there are some issues on that front, particularly outside big cities.
In any case, the Soviet legacy clearly shows, and it sure has helped immensely, especially in the workplace.
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 1 day ago:
One observation I made is that when women get to comprise a significant part of workforce in science, those things seem to be flatten out.
Working in the place and field (Russia, food technology) where women are about 50% of the workforce, I’ve never witnessed anything talked about here. Women are taken just as seriously on the position, they are promoted on par with men, they are in charge of many high-profile projects, and actively taking male and female students under scientific supervision. Any sort of workplace harassment will not just contribute to your potential termination, but will earn you very bad reputation - you’ll be seen as a dangerous weirdo no one wants to deal with.
One other observation I made is that international scientists often come from the position of entitlement, which is also weird to me. Male scientists tend to flaunt their position any time they can, and many of the female scientists tend to sort of mimic this behavior, but it feels different, like if they try to claw the attention they were consistently denied.
For me, it is weird and unnatural. Where I live and work, some baseline respect towards your more experienced superiors, male or female, is to be expected, is taught since school, and doesn’t require such performances. Students are not afraid to contact their superiors, but do it respectfully and with full understanding they take valuable time of a high-profile scientist. Why do people have to constantly fight for attention and respect in many other cultures is beyond me.
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 1 day ago:
I’m not super good at remembering things I don’t need or accept, so I’ll speak a bit generally, but, for example, the cosmology and all the quasi-gods are extremely intertwined, excessively overcomplicated, but actually simple and repetitive;
Also the pretentious way it poses as a way to direct you in life (monks went so far as to say Buddhism goes far beyond modern philosophy and psychology and is at the forefront of knowledge in life of dignity and happiness), while really it can be condensed to “endure pain and man up, feelings don’t matter, just do what needs to be done”, which is super toxic and not really effective (and I wonder ifit’s also contributing to the toxic work culture in the Far East).
Also, as in many religions, it’s full of stories about miracles happening every day (like, the man who was terminally ill, was set to die within a month and barely walked, but then decided to go 8000km by foot through entire Eurasia to the main temple, and he lived, and succeeded, and lived as a monk ever after).
Etc. etc.
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 1 day ago:
Tibetan, it’s a mix of Mahayana and Vajrayana
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 2 days ago:
Fair point!
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 2 days ago:
I felt a bit sympathetic to Buddhism up to the point when I actually visited a Buddhist temple and listened to the speeches of monks.
The amount of brain rot disguised as wisdom has made me feel Christianity ain’t that bad after all.
Sorry in advance to any Buddhist out there, but it struck me how the common perception of it differs from the actual thing.
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 2 days ago:
A typical 4chan user is very concerned about privacy, because it’s a place they do stuff they wouldn’t do elsewhere.
Once a trust is broken, it is very hard to regain. Technically, nothing stops it from appearing again. But will the userbase follow?
- Comment on In heat 4 days ago:
Google correction
- Comment on My Steam Community Content bingo card: appreciative screenshot, endearing fan art, random Russian post, how to sex, and an in-depth guide. 1 week ago:
For those interested, the Russian description just reads “Cold lake Arrius and Cheydinhal”
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
As an alternative to Obsidian, there is Trilium. Much the same stuff, but actually open-source
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
OBS, Portmaster, Trilium, FlightGear
+all the minimalist Adwaita apps on the Flathub. Love 'em.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 1 week ago:
Yep, but that’s just a small piece of it. But it was nice.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 1 week ago:
Nah, I started with Skyrim, and I played Oblivion without mods. It’s not great, problematic in many places, but it is playable if you want to discover the story.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 1 week ago:
I would certainly love to see Morrowind remake.
Oblivion is at least playable for newer gamers. It’s not a good experience, but it is manageable.
Morrowind, for all its immense benefits, makes everyone who entered the game scene after 2010 scream in terror. I personally never left Balmora, because it’s just a terrible experience by modern standards (graphics, character animation, battle mechanics…), which is a great shame because the game seems to be great otherwise.
TES I and II, while deserving recognition, are very Doom-like in terms of gameplay, and I don’t believe an adequate remake could be made, because they are so different they can’t adequately be turned into a modern experience.
So, I guess for me all hopes are for Skywind, so I could finally walk the streets of Vivec without the need to fork my eyes.
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 1 week ago:
Zhōngguò is sufficient
- Comment on Do it 1 week ago:
Guillotine in my ass (Banks)
- Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ 1 week ago:
Let me fix that for you: Sony: we’ll let the whole world pay astronomical amounts of money because it makes us rich! And if someone calls us on it, we’ll say it’s all because of the US!
- Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ 1 week ago:
I’m sorry to hear about your situation - I’m in a somewhat similar financial position myself - but people are people, and in any income bracket there are things to be concerned about.
For you and me, it’s getting enough money to eat. For someone else, it is affording a Switch. For others, it’s the rise in the price of caviar forcing them into cheaper options.
Interestingly enough, all of this causes a significant amount of stress, and should you eventually get more money to spare, then after a brief euphoria you’ll have the same worries about Switch prices and other things you don’t seem to care about now.
In any case, I wish you all the best and hope you’ll find your way out of a situation. Hope your spouse gets the surgery and becomes able to work, you have your teeth, and everyone lives a bit happier going forward.
- Comment on Well that's one advantage that they have 1 week ago:
Yay!
- Comment on Well that's one advantage that they have 1 week ago:
Hehe~
- Comment on Well that's one advantage that they have 1 week ago:
Joke’s on you, I can see my tits AND my dick!
- Comment on You cannot learn without failing. 1 week ago:
Yup, metrics kill it all
- Comment on You cannot learn without failing. 1 week ago:
Ideally? Yes
But a modern scientific environment puts a lot of pressure to present your results better than they really are.
It damages good science a great deal
- Comment on After years of historical 4X games, Endless Legend 2 is a much-needed flight of fantasy for the genre 1 week ago:
Waiting for Endless Space 3 so bad
- Comment on The good old days 2 weeks ago:
Corpos. Corpos never change
- Comment on Adobe Creative Curse 2 weeks ago:
20 centimeters, give or take
- Comment on Adobe Creative Curse 2 weeks ago:
😮𓂸?