GlendatheGayWitch
@GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
*2016 was the last normal year.
Let’s not forget the chaos and societal upset during the first term.
- Comment on Checkmate. 1 month 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? 3 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 6 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 6 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 11 months ago:
Maybe M. Night Shamalan is directing
- Comment on Goddammit Texas! 11 months 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! 11 months 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.
- Comment on How exactly do insurance deductibles work? 1 year ago:
Don’t forget, insurance covers 50% before the deductible is met, not after. When a policy has that verbiage, usually there’s a footnote that states how those claims are handled in the future. From what I’ve seen, that could mean that insurance will cover 100% of said procedure after the deductible is met or it could mean a co-insurance of 30%.
After the deductible is met, OP won’t necessarily pay 50%. The percentage of the bill that OP and/or insurance will pay will be on a footnote at the bottom of the blue plan overview page (at least it’s blue when looking at plans from the ACA marketplace).
- Comment on How exactly do insurance deductibles work? 1 year ago:
If you’ve met your deductible, you may not owe for the upcoming procedure.
However, you’d need to look at your policy or call the insurance company to see if the procedure counts towards your deductible. Normally the plan specifies that its 50% before the deductible and by an asterisk or buried somewhere in your plan’s terms, it may say that it’ll be 100% covered after tour deductible is met.
Is your deductible and out-of-pocket max the same? If you’ve met both, you may not even owe a copay. If you still haven’t met the out-of-pocket max, you will still owe co-pays.
Your plan documents or the company will be able to give better answers, as companies and plans can be very different in how they cover things.
- Comment on For a few beautiful hours, The Borderlands movie's $90m flop wasn't the worst-reviewed film of the summer 1 year ago:
I wonder how much can be attributed to studios still working on a film without a writer due to the strike.
- Comment on Why do people complain about multiple streaming platforms existing? 1 year ago:
It’s probably because they can remember how convenient and cheaper it was to see any movie or show that could be streamed. Streaming was supposed to disrupt TV by eliminating ads and allowing you to choose whatever you want to watch. Nowadays, in order to get the same amount of choices, you need to spend about as much as you did for a TV subscription and now many platforms have ads.
I think it’s more a frustration at what we lost than anything else.
- Comment on "Age of Mythology: Retold is going to be the most approachable game we have ever built." World's Edge developers talk rebuilding a strategy classic for Xbox and PC. 1 year ago:
It’s largely the same system. You can play as the Greeks, Norse, or Egyptians. Each civilization has the choice of 3 major gods (is Zeus, Hades, or Poseidon) that choice is kinda like choosing your civilization in AoE. Instead of going feudal age to castle age, you choose a different minor god to worship. Each god gives you a different god power and mythological unit (Cyclops, trolls, anubites, etc). The final civilization upgrade allows you to build a building that unleashes a titan on the map.
There is a new currency called favor that is used to research some improvements unlocked by worshiping specific gods and to train mythological units.
The types of games are largely the same as AoE, with different maps. The campaigns are a lot of fun. It’s a great game, especially if you like mythology. The stories are original and not based on the original myths, but you can learn some of the myths of heroes, mythical creatures, and the gods by right-clicking on them. The campaigns walk you through how to play and through the features that are different from AoE.
You can choose varying difficulty for the scenarios and can choose the difficulty of the computer players when playing a random map. This makes it about as complex as Age of Empires. However, just as with online AoE, the player vs player can have a steep learning curve if you’re matched against people that have been playing a long time.
Age of Empires and Age of Mythology play similarly, where it’s easy to cross from one to the other with many similar human units shared between the games. I think it’s definitely worth a look into! Even the remake that’s already on steam is worth it in my opinion.
- Comment on Dutch toilets 1 year ago:
In the US, it’s extremely rare to have a light switch outside if yhe room with the light. Usually there’s a lights witch and a couple sockets in the bathroom by the mirror.