GlendatheGayWitch
@GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 20 hours ago:
I understand that learning left from right is a skill to learn. However, it was rare for a teenager to be unable to distinguish their left from right, unlike today.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 22 hours ago:
It’s an easy way to introduce fractions, especially since it’s common to hear/say it’s a quarter passed 2, half passed 5, and a quarter to 9.
Also teaches multiples, since the numbers on the clock represent multiples of 5.
Helps with directions, clockwise is when the hands spin to the right and counter-clockwise to the left. You’d be amazed how many students can’t tell their left from right.
- Comment on PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC 1 week ago:
I have it set to automatically change to headphones when they’re plugged in and for all audio to go through headphones when they’re plugged in, however the startup music and log in screen music still play through the TV. After logging into a profile, it’ll switch over to headphones for all audio.
I’ve even left my headphones plugged into the controller after manually choosing headphones for all audio and then turning the PS5 off and on again and it pushes startup and login screen music through the TV.
- Comment on Good luck with that 1 week ago:
In the movie, none of them died. Wonka verifies it at his office door when he picks up the mail. Charlie asks about the other kids and Wonka says they’ve been turned back into their terrible nasty selves, but are hopefully wiser for the wear. Wonka then points Charlie and Grandpa Joe to the exit and apologies for not showing them out because he’d already wasted the entire day.
- Comment on PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC 1 week ago:
I never had any long load times on my PS4, usually only about 5-10 seconds. However, I think the 5-10 minute load times for PS2, even when just changing areas in a game made me a lot more patient for Playstation games.
I remember avoiding the save feature on Star Wars Battlefront due to the long time it took to save and hours spent on the PS2 Harry Potter games. Walking through a door would trigger a 5-10 minute wait period and you couldn’t necessarily use that as a bathroom break, because you didn’t want to miss a cutscene.
- Comment on PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC 1 week ago:
Not that the PS5 was a major upgrade to the PS4. Sure it can produce some better graphics, but the UI is such a downgrade.
I’ll never understand why they made an option to silence the beep at startup, but they push the boot up and login music through the TV when headphones are connected to a controller. That’s so much more annoying and last so much longer when you’re trying not to disturb other people in the room.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 4 weeks ago:
That makes sense now! Thank you, I was having trouble wrapping my head around it!
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 4 weeks ago:
Any clue why there are 2 bars per year grouping?
I thought it was maybe number of cases in each year, but 2000 at the beginning of the graph and when 2000 appears later don’t match.
- Comment on President Trump suggested people shouldn’t feel sorry for Joe Biden over his cancer diagnosis 4 weeks ago:
Here is an article about his response when the Minnesota speaker of the house, Melissa Hortman (democrat) was assassinated a few months ago
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 month ago:
Yeah, there was too much infighting and incompetence for him to do as much damage in the first term. His cabinet was dropping like flies the first term and we’re almost 8 months in and nobody’s been fired yet
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 month ago:
*2016 was the last normal year.
Let’s not forget the chaos and societal upset during the first term.
- Comment on Checkmate. 2 months ago:
They look at one verse, 2 Timothey 3:16 “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,”
and apply that to the entire Bible, including the letters written to different sects in different cities/regions clarifying rules to keep them from breaking apart. Kinda like from Ghost, they imagine god reaching down and writing through people I guess.
- Comment on Now it's stuck in your head too. You're welcome. 2 months ago:
It is, they didn’t even get the lyrics right. Makes you immune to playing the song in your head lol
- Comment on Be nice 2 months ago:
The genie just made 1 US Dollar equal to 1 Australian dollar. One problem solved, another created.
- Comment on Off topic 2 months ago:
That’s true. There should def be a TV and theater sound mix.
- Comment on Off topic 2 months ago:
The modern TV has awful audio since the speakers are pointed either down or behind the TV. It makes everything sound muffled, just so the screen looks like it has a little black frame around it. I didn’t need the subtitles when using a CRT TV because the audio was considered part of the watching experience and they pointed the speakers at the viewer.
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 4 months ago:
That’s not actually the original pride flag. That’s the one with 2 mission stripes that were taken away due to cost. The original had turquoise instead of blue and a pink and indigo stripe, so one color more than the rainbow. Rainbows have red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
The 8 striped also symbolized different things. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag_(LGBTQ)
I agree with what you’re saying. As they keep adding more things to the flag, it becomes cluttered and harder to see.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 5 months ago:
Even biblically speaking, it’s anti-christian. The first chunk of Galatians talks about how they should not force anyone to be circumcised. It goes against the bible to force anyone to be circumcised.
- Comment on Firestone email unsubscribe page isn't actually clickable so you can't unsubscribe 7 months ago:
It looks like the GDPR covers no unsubscribe option in emails
- Comment on Firestone email unsubscribe page isn't actually clickable so you can't unsubscribe 7 months ago:
Report it to the FTC. The CAN-SPAM Act calls for something like a $50K fine for every email sent that doesn’t include a one-click unsubscribe button.
- Comment on american culture 9 months ago:
I read both The Illiad and a shortened version of The Odyssey in school.
- Comment on Todd Phillips: Movie Theaters Should Ban Commercials Before Films 11 months ago:
That’s about average now in my experience for the movie to start 20-40 minutes after the showtime. Alamo Drafthouse tends to be better than the other chains.
- Comment on Will COVID death rates of Republicans have a significant impact on the outcome of the presidential election? 11 months ago:
I think the pandemic will definitely have an effect. If I recall correctly, Fox News changed gears and started promoting the vaccine after realizing that their base was dying at a faster rate than Democrats.
It could have been a co tributing factor to Georgia voting for Biden in 2020 and could be a reason why Biden was closer to winning TX than Hillary was.
Florida is hard to say, because a lot of retirees move there. So while the Republicans there may have been hit harder during covid, those may have been replaced with more Republicans moving in to retire in the sun.
- Comment on The Hunt For Gollum Won’t Be Two Films, But A Second LOTR Film Is Incoming, Philippa Boyens Confirms 1 year ago:
Maybe M. Night Shamalan is directing
- Comment on Goddammit Texas! 1 year ago:
I was hoping you’d be able to find it.
Maybe you can contact your county registrar and see what happened. The deadline for voter registration for the presidential election was October 7. Maybe there’s something that can be done.
- Comment on Goddammit Texas! 1 year ago:
That doesn’t look like the site specifically for TX. Not sure if there might be something that could cause another site to report an error.
Double check at
www.votetexas.gov
You’ll need to enter your TDL (Texas Driver’s License Number) and date of birth after clicking the “Am I Registered?” button
- Comment on Instruments 1 year ago:
I wish it was that way. I’ve seen a 20 year old get brass instruments mixed up. Many reference squidward when talking about clarinet, oboe, English horn, and bass clarinet. Unfortunately it isn’t just musician vs a 5 year old.
- Comment on Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees 1 year ago:
Yeah, they’ve been in Texas at least 20 years. Looks like they are in most of the states in the eastern half of the continental US and the states along the southern border.
- Comment on Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees 1 year ago:
Only office workers and managers are allowed to sit. If you’re in a customer-facing position with a chair, you’re supposed to stand up when helping a customer.
- Comment on Hey, Mother Nature, it's September. Chill out already. 1 year ago:
Yeah, it’s just like growing up. I remember as a kid hoping the weather would finally cool down by Halloween so we wouldn’t sweat through our costumes. In fact there were a couple years that we changed which costume we were going to buy because it would have been too hot to wear.