SoleInvictus
@SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Same here with different nonsense. Oh well.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 1 day ago:
For real. When I was 24, I dated a 19 year old for like two weeks. They were really nice and interesting, but ultimately the age gap proved to make a relationship unviable. I can’t even imagine a nine year gap at that age. Gross.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 2 days ago:
And Empress is gone, though they were pretty toxic so that’s no big loss for me.
- Comment on Good luck! 1 week ago:
You can rent the space for only $1600/month in San Francisco!
- Comment on Practice makes perfect 1 week ago:
Fuck yeah it does. I learned better emotional regulation and how to analyze, form, and deconstruct arguments thanks to Reddit’s general argumentative douchebaggery. Now I’m an even more insufferable prick than ever!
- Comment on Anon hires a goth chick 3 weeks ago:
This is a really common sentiment. Humans are social apes but many cultures have severely curtailed what kind of touch is considered appropriate.
I highly recommend hanging with cats. When I was younger, I volunteered at a cat rescue. Friendly cats are almost always down to be pet and to rub their furry little faces all over you. It’s hard to feel as lonely when you’re hanging out with your cat buds, and the rescue cats need friends too.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 3 weeks ago:
They should be fine anyhow if homeopathy really works. They just need to take a little train material, serially dilute it to 10⁻²⁰ strength, then take it with sugar pills. Train immunity!
- Comment on leading ai company 3 weeks ago:
Racisms per minute (RPM)?
- Comment on i just think they're neat 4 weeks ago:
I was surprised to see them called inedible. The young gourds are tender and taste like squash.
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 4 weeks ago:
Here’s the relevant wiki article:
- Comment on It's why the thrift store has so many of them 4 weeks ago:
Use linesman’s gloves and don’t unplug them first for extra effects!
- Comment on I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑 4 weeks ago:
100%!
- Comment on I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, the “in matters is taste” line isn’t true and appears to have originated on the internet in about the last decade, being popularized on Reddit. The original phrase was “the customer is always right”, full stop.
The slogan has its origins in early 1900s retailers, as the previous predominant principle in commerce was essentially “buyer beware”, that the relationship between buyer and seller was inherently distrustful. In an attempt to gain shopper’s trust, retailers such as Sears and Marshall Field issued instructions to their employees to satisfy customers regardless of if they’re right or wrong. This led to a number of similar maxims, including the above.
Why so I care so damn much? Two reasons. First, I’m a stickler for facts and “in matters of taste” is entirely unsupported. Second, and greatest of all, is how it shifts the responsibility for encouraging bad customer behavior from the retailer to the customer, as if the customer is intentionally misinterpreting an element of the social contract for personal gain. The original intent, to require retail employees to satisfy customers regardless of their behavior, was driven by retailers for greater profits at the expense of their employees. It grooms customers toward bad behavior as they know acting out will get them a better deal or service. Sure, customers must choose to behave in such a manner, but it’s the retailers condoning and even encouraging such behavior that allows it to so easily continue.
- Comment on I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been orbiting the sun for more than 40 years and that’s the first time I’ve heard that
It’s because it’s not true. It was always “the customer is always right”, full stop, originating in 1920s department stores as a slogan to encourage employees to be doormats for entitled customers. Gotta make the owners richer at the cost of the employee’s self respect. Then folks on the internet uncritically started repeating this “matters of taste” nonsense in the last decade or so, and here we are.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I suppose you and I have different notions of what defines smart. Being “brainwashed” into supporting something that someone of even middling intelligence can see is overwhelmingly stupid suggests a lack of the most basic critical thinking skills, which I would not say suggests any notable degree of intelligence.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
As someone who did both of those things, be sure not to conflate educated with intelligent. I have met many very well educated, astoundingly stupid people in academia and industry.
- Comment on Anon puts himself out there 4 weeks ago:
It’s definitely a third date or beyond activity. When I was single, I always asked third dates to compare their emotional baggage with me, but wouldn’t discuss it in depth until later. We all have it, so might as well bring it out.
- Comment on Anon shares a family moment 5 weeks ago:
Especially after that island was invaded dozens of times since it’s a great strategic location. Grandpa was very dumb.
- Comment on Anon shares a family moment 5 weeks ago:
Haha, you too?
- Comment on Anon shares a family moment 5 weeks ago:
Peak “fuck you, got mine”. Same with my grandparents. Grandpa was also notoriously racist. I laughed so hard when some genome sequencing revealed a ton of sub-Saharan genes in that side of the family. My dad was about 25% African and Grandpa was hella dark. Now how could that be…?
- Comment on Anon shares a family moment 5 weeks ago:
A cardboard box can qualify as a nursing home as long as it’s staffed by enough care roaches.
- Comment on Dogs need love too 5 weeks ago:
I’m only more likely to do something like this when high because I’m already likely to do something like this when not high.
- Comment on Which way? 5 weeks ago:
It’s chemical cauterization. The phenol kills the cells responsible for growing new nail.
- Comment on Permian Park 5 weeks ago:
I was going to say the same about Cambrian biota, but it would be faster, cheaper, and less horrifying to simply make more movies based on H.P. Lovecraft novels.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 5 weeks ago:
Sort by new and you’ll find it’s a bunch of Germans too. Ich liebe meine deutschen Freunde der Nacht.
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s interesting if you’re into etymology or language in general.
Broccolo is the Italian term for the brassica flower crest and is the diminutive form of brocco, meaning sprout in a botanical context. Broccoli as a surname can mean their ancestors were broccoli farmers, soldiers as a brocco is the center of a shield, carpenters as it can refer to a type of nail, or even arborists as it can be the stump left after cutting off a tree limb. Italian is a very old language, the associations get wild.
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 5 weeks ago:
That’s what the Broccoli family (of James Bond fame) claims, but it’s contested. The James Bond IP is the source of their wealth.
- Comment on JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip 1 month ago:
The party of “small government” once again governing small. Small mindedly.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 1 month ago:
I did use “normal people words”, you just assumed otherwise for no apparent reason. That’s how I found the correct legal term.
Can you provide any of these endless articles and links? All I could find is articles explaining how to do it with no mention of any restrictions.
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 1 month ago:
I like us building alternatives on the internet. The fediverse makes me hopeful again.
