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- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
That’s all well and fine but do you really choose to abbreviate shampoo as “poo”?
- Comment on A great disturbance in the Fediverse 1 week ago:
What’s this in reference to? I’m out of the loop.
- Comment on This ad that claims that windows 11 is 3 times faster than windows 10 1 week ago:
Does that make Windows Millenium Edition, equivalent to Windows 1000? If so we’ve have some pretty weird-ass technological developments. 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, 1000, 8, 10, 11. If you were just tracking history through windows versions you’d think we’d gone through some sort rapid technological expansion followed by a civilization destroying catastrophe, followed by a very long road to recovery that we’re still in the midst of.
- Comment on >:)> 2 weeks ago:
I can’t believe I’ve never seen this before! This was fantastic!
- Comment on I fucking hate modern design and modern designers. 3 weeks ago:
I’m more unhappy with messaging apps that notify people if you’ve read a message. It did have a positive side effect in that with Facebook, I couldn’t quite bring myself to delete the account because it was the only way I maintained contact with many people, one they introduced that feature sometime around 09 or something, it caused me to reduce my use of the messaging capabilities significantly but frankly I’m not sure that’s really what Facebook or I really wanted. It’s a common feature in measuring applications and I fucking hate it. I need to read the message to decide if I want people to know if I’ve seen it and I can’t do that without telling them I’ve seen it.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 3 weeks ago:
You know, I wish I could remember what it was, there’s something a little sad about it being the last one and me not even remembering what was on it. I think I would have burned what will likely be my last ever DVD quite a lot more recently, probably about 2018 or 2019, but CD, that’s a way’s back.
- Comment on Back up off my nuts 4 weeks ago:
In Australia Clive Palmer is famous for constantly sending out texts during his campaigns, people complain they got multiple per day. I wasn’t aware there was any law against it here, in fact I thought people had been saying it OUGHT to be illegal.
- Comment on Why do we tolerate it that Luigi Mangione is being held in prison. We know its absolutely the least safe place he can be? 4 weeks ago:
The question is easier to answer with any sympathy and understanding when you ask any given individual if they’re personally planning a jailbreak on behalf of this person. At least that seems to be the calculus for what “tolerate” means here.
There’s little room for parties not directly involved to work within the system and if the independence of the judiciary is under suspicion then “fight and die” is literally the prospect people would have to face to reasonably do anything about this and that’s a pretty high bar, one which I doubt many would-be critics of the “fat, lazy cowards” would be willing clear themselves.
- Comment on Anon struggles with a one day chip 5 weeks ago:
What anime is the comment at the top from? The one where she’s smoking?
- Comment on Winning 5 weeks ago:
In terms of therapy, what are you looking for?
- Comment on *Doesn't look like anything to me.* 5 weeks ago:
I wonder if those dates are always accurate. Is the source date something searchable or likely to come up in results when a user searches for something “90s”? Maybe it really is AI garbage that’s just tagged 90s.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This instantly put the Resident Evil 4 “what are you buyin’” guy’s voice in mind?
- Comment on If trump shaved his head and didn't wear any makeup do you think you would recognize him? 1 month ago:
Woah, he looks like a normal human being, why on earth did he put so much effort to choose to look like he does now?!?
- Comment on Is there a good way to import/export/migrate playlists between platforms? 1 month ago:
Those are also a good thing to find in a page source to use with yt-dlp if you want to rip a video from a page, it’s like the playlist for DASH so you download all the pieces of a video and it’s audio and they get put together as one thing instead of getting little silent 5s videos that you have download one by one and also find the audio for them separately.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 1 month ago:
Why doesn’t the damaging and hot particulate matter in smoke do any harm to or otherwise clog up their spiracles like it does to the inner lining of lungs? I gather lungs are wet and also very delicate, but if they’re directly oxygenating their organs through these spiracles eventually it must get to somewhere wet and delicate for the smoke to get in and potentially harm.
- Comment on It's a fun new game 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Could you grind up a loaf of bread back into a flour and make a new loaf of bread? 1 month ago:
They might end up making a pretty crappy load of bread but it’s a bit much to imply they’ll become a bad person because of this.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I don’t have kids and I don’t know anything about sports. If you continue reading after those disclosures, I’ll offer a perspective anyway, since you put this out to the internet for comment.
There isn’t really a way you could have put this to your son that would be taken well, it’s evidently sensitive for him and despite your intentions it’ll feel like a tragic monent. It’s just hard news. Whether it’s right to break that to him, well I’m not sure but I think maybe you’re putting too much emphasis on this one interaction like it was your one shot and there was a definitive right it wrong way to do it. What will matter most is more likely to be what you do generally moving forward. You may have your doubts about his ability in his chosen path and perhaps they’re well founded but you can still encourage him and be rooting for him whilst gently suggesting having backup options in times when he appears uncertain. If you consistently do all you can to help in whatever way you can with whatever choices he makes, then if they don’t work out and he has to abandon that dream, he’ll at least know you supported him all throughout despite your concern and that should count for a lot. If somehow he ends up unexpectedly rocketing to success in football he’ll also remember you’d been there all along encouraging and assisting. It’s ok to counsel against putting his eggs all in one basket, but just don’t push it, you must respect his choice whatever it ends up being and he there to help pick up the pieces if those choices don’t make him happy.
Much like with football fans, you support your team by just showing up to every match and cheering on. Perhaps he didn’t like the uncomfortable dose of reality today but so long as you are consistently a positive and helpful force he’ll hopefully come to appreciate what you’ve been trying to do for him.
- Comment on If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be? 2 months ago:
Senescence maybe?
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 2 months ago:
It’s bad that this scam is running of course but, I have to say this particular scam has almost a nostalgic quality to it. It reminds me of the type of trickery that old school malware back in the day used to rely on to get on to people’s computers. It’s kind of quaint how unsophisticated it is and how much active work it requires of the victim to successfully infect them.
- Comment on Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway? 2 months ago:
There’s a podcast called hot money that goes in to this. Got shelf check it out, I reckon you’ll like it
- Comment on You better say "Thank You"! 2 months ago:
Hope the EU aid has some doctors as well to help that woman with get creepy event horizon demon eyes
- Comment on Receipt checkers trigger me 2 months ago:
I don’t live in the states but there’s similar systems in some department stores here in Australia and I suspect, but don’t know, that applicable law in these cases is broadly similar. The store and their employees aren’t law enforcement and can’t arrest you or have any legal recourse for you ignoring their demands to stop and allow your receipt to be checked. They likely also have the right to refuse service to you and deny you entry to their premises and so long as this isn’t being done for a small number of specifically forbidden reasons (such as on the basis of race for example) they don’t need a legal justification to do so. This would mean that refusing to comply with their receipt checking policy might be enough if they see fit, to decide to deny you entry to their stores going forward. Many large department stores are incorporating facial recognition and don’t it seems feel the need for proper informed consent beyond some printed signage saying that but entering you’re consenting, so the practicality of them doing this is at least a little bit higher these days but I guess there’s no way to assess how likely this really is.
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 2 months ago:
Can’t believe they couldn’t find a way to include one more t in that acronym, I mean come on, at this point you’re just obligated to.
- Comment on conflicted about my coworkers' overpunctuality 3 months ago:
This is the most obvious answer but given OP’s strong feelings on the matter, they presumably already thought this would be the best course of action and would already be doing it were it so easy. They didn’t say it directly but I think the problem they’re having is that their colleagues are not only themselves choosing to waste their time in this manner but because they are, they are expecting it of OP and it sounds like they’re having some kind of conflict about it that they’ve brought up with OP directly. I’m guessing some of them have complained to OP or indicated to them that they’re “supposed” to be ready by 12.30 even though they’re wrong.
This makes it difficult because in that scenario OP can’t simply plough on doing their job to the letter of the contract and just ignore the others, they have to choose to actively fight it out with them or just relent and start arriving early. It sounds like what they’re having the dilemma about is if it sounds reasonable to have that fight, given that although it feels important to OP, they recognise that it’s more about the principle of the matter than the objective scale of the problem. Seems like they recognise that 5 minutes of their time wouldn’t be that big a deal as their colleagues have concluded, making it seem petty or disruptive to have that fight and all the awkwardness that will ensue just for those 5 minutes, but the principle that they should have to give up any extra time at all, regardless how long, just because their workmates are doing it is troubling OP.
Depending on how whiny and motivated his colleagues are it might be advisable to pick their battles and let this go, but if they think they’re in a position to stand their ground and not have to suffer too many consequences and loss of standing with their workmates then of course they should, and even encourage others to do the same. I don’t think we have enough of an idea what their workplace is like to know which one of those situations they’re in.
- Comment on YouTube won't let me watch a video unless I sign in... 3 months ago:
Well yes there’s always the seven seas I guess. They were always a refuge for me before YouTube as well.
- Comment on YouTube won't let me watch a video unless I sign in... 3 months ago:
Realistically we didn’t need it before YouTube existed and I should be fine without it, but I think it’ll be tough, I don’t have an aerial for FTA tv anymore, nor a tv in my bedroom and I don’t really want to sign up for a subscription streaming service. Plus a decent chunk of my employers use YouTube as end point for the videos I edit so that could be a bit of a hit too. There’s always reading I guess, that might be doubly necessary if I end up poorer and can’t afford much else.
- Comment on Anon wants $3 million 3 months ago:
This sounds like an absolutely terrible idea. Aside from the people that will hurt themselves trying to break that glass, it’s a public bus stop. People will hurt bystanders and damage the bus stop and make it in general a place no one wants to be because of idiots constantly hurling stuff around or kicking it while you’re trying to wait for the bus.
- Comment on Anon sets up a prank at school 3 months ago:
Holy shit that’s some serious preplanning and manipulation. It’s impressive and kind of fucked up all at once. Everyone else was here was just fucking around.
- Comment on Anon sets up a prank at school 3 months ago:
Haha we all did that one. So funny watching angry teachers trying to click on things that were just screenshots. We also did it with things that were like annoying pop ups so you’d be really motivated to click to get rid of it.