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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  how do we know no money was involved? both the new owners apparently work at the same company, which was recently created and is a subsidiary of a vc firm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft is rolling out its first glow up in years tomorrow⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  when they fix the hardcoded craftmethod table so we can do data-driven craftmethods, maybe. i tried years ago and the code was so spaghettified that i gave up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery starts storing wind and solar energy in crushed soapstone⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  depends. wood stoves put out a metric shitton of heat, no matter how hot their surroundings. the more of it you capture, the less wood you need. we have a massive old stone oven that takes a week to heat up but then keeps above ambient for like two-three. it’s several m^3^ in size, the house is built around it. it also keeps the house cool in summer by absorbing heat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery starts storing wind and solar energy in crushed soapstone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  this is an interesting idea if building a home as well. the resistive heating element could easily be swapped for something like a wood stove.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  honk if you soup ❤️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protip:⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  just wait until someone in your circles finds out about “frequency therapy”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Strawberries are nuts 🍓⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  strawberries are accessory fruits, not nuts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it stop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  what you’re describing is known as “expert agencies”. non-elected experts work together to suggest courses of action for the government on their assigned topic. since they are not elected, they can not make decisions, but they can draft bills for parliament to vote on. hey also do studies on request of other branches.

  you may have heard of some of these agencies, like the FDA, EPA, CDC…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home cooking⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  from this close, they always look like landscape.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  bin laden. like, they fly away with stuff from bins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to celebrate Pride⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  can i like get one of these from the state, or

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romantic gesture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  holy shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ach aye, Scottish words for plants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  sweden calls them worm roses

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reading random bits of history on wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  because it’s a screenshot from a chan board

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Om nom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pooooob

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Congratulations, homosexual!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  emergency testing initiative voice from the start of P2, just for the maximum level of unpersonness

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't like to brag, but⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  wow, your worksona is really fleshed out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They finally patched racism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  a colleague from another country recently thought i was being hyperbolic when i said vikernes was a nazi, and so went to look at his website.

  he’s selling shirts with runes and swastikas on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is a rural town in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yup

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨buddy of mine is in a horrible mood⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lol like any of them have abs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No context needed.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and to think all lemmy users live rike this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FFFFFUUUUUUUU⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  then you have your answer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FFFFFUUUUUUUU⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i think it’s more a case of the explanation being too long stupid to understand. like, when you have to issue hours of reading material (like the half-hour hbomb video essay on the CAD webcomic and the KYM page on Me Gusta and the entirety of Hyperbole and a Half) and the payoff is that the comic is now even more stupid than before, i think we both can agree that it’s just not worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨glupi jebeni bot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  now, i’m not the guy that had the original customer service experience you were mad at but that’s my experience with them. whenever they’re split up i rate the “agent performance” at 100% and everything else at whatever i felt they deserved, because if there’s one job that does not deserve more hate its customer service phone jockeys.

  but yeah, usually the questions are entirely unfit. our office review thing offered stuff like “i can contribute to my team to further the company’s goals”. it was a consultancy working on-site with customers. we didn’t have teams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨glupi jebeni bot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  no i mean i don’t know what a “batting average” is or why it’s apples to oranges to compare it to test scores.

  i’m assuming you mean that comparing a pure gaussian distribution to a weighted system is unproductive?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨glupi jebeni bot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  but as a customer i can’t be expected to know that a less-than-stellar review of my customer service experience (which i only contact if i already have issues and therefore am predisposed to be irritated at) will reflect badly an the person who fielded my call unless they explicitly tell me that beforehand. i may have rated the experience a 9 because the phone tree to get to a human was confusing, or because the hold music was shit, or because the agent had to look things up in the company’s slow-ass system so i had to wait. there are a million ways to have a bad time when calling customer service, and if you ask me to rate the experience with one number i would never in a million years give it a 10 unless everything is solved the instant i call.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨glupi jebeni bot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i have no idea what that means or why it’s relevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is a rural town in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  point stands

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨glupi jebeni bot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  most countries i know mark <50% as a failing grade

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨glupi jebeni bot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i see this all the time with software designed by americans. on an old job we used a tool called “officevibe” where you’d enter your current impression of your role and workplace once a month. you got some random questions to answer on a 10-degree scale.

  when we were presented with the result the stats were terrible because the scale was weighted so that everything below 7 was counted as negative. we were all just answering 5 for “it’s okay”, 3-4 for “could use improvement”, and 6-7 for “better than expected”. there had never been a 10 in the stats, and the software took that as “this place sucks”.