Eiri
@Eiri@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Why isn't Putin receiving the same level of hate than people like Trump and Elon are? 3 hours ago:
Expectations.
People don’t expect a country that’s supposed to be a close ally to do actual pure evil.
Russia has always been in a different category. It’s oscillated between being an outright enemy and being a distant, somewhat-ally the West is suspicious of. Either way, Putin was never someone you trust.
When someone betrays your expectations, you have a stronger emotional response.
When you feel like your country is actually helping with evil acts, that’s another layer of emotional response.
But if someone you feel like you can’t do anything about and has always been bad anyway is being evil, again… Well it’s a bit of a “no shit, Sherlock” moment. Doesn’t spark anger in quite the same way.
- Comment on Anon needs cooking advice 4 hours ago:
Once i completely forgot the salt in my bread. It was disgustingly bland; like, I couldn’t believe a teaspoon of salt would have such a massive effect.
But I actually salvaged it by putting salt on every slice of toast I made with that loaf.
It worked out okay!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Assuming it’s just like a Steam Deck without the screen, how would that compare to popular controllers like consoles first-party ones or 8bitdo’s offerings?
- Comment on How to avoid having cat hair all over my house and clothes every 2 days? 3 days ago:
Have you tried brush-gloves? The idea is that they allow you to brush your pet every time you pet them. Having several in every room where you’re likely to spend time with your cat could be the key to brushing more while not feeling like you do.
- Comment on gen z gorillas 4 days ago:
Both are young. I think that’s about it.
- Comment on Anon plays pretend 4 days ago:
I used to do it a lot as a teenager. For everything in my life. Now much less. I wonder why.
- Comment on RIP 6 days ago:
Feels vaguely threatening lol
- Comment on Anons discuss PC vs console gaming 1 week ago:
Sadly TVs with DisplayPort support are very rare, and mine is not one of them.
- Comment on Anons discuss PC vs console gaming 1 week ago:
Used to do this. I had issues with either the audio or the video feed randomly dying, though, so I ended up finding a way to make HDMI+USB work when I moved.
More reliable, but now that I’m starting to think about reorganizing my office, copper will no longer do for 4K120 as that’ll go over the 5-meter limit. And an optical high bandwidth HDMI+USB isn’t cheap.
Upsides and downsides…
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 1 week ago:
I wanted some foreign goods to get more expensive. To end slavery, not to escalate a trade war!
I should have checked my vicinity for any stray monkey’s paws when I made that wish.
- Comment on The doctor then had to go and treat that lawyer for being a burn victim 1 week ago:
Upscale it to 4K for no reason
- Comment on Why did the pope announce anime mascots? 2 weeks ago:
Come to think of it, I’ve heard that all my life but never questioned it. Is it really true for all of them?
- Comment on She must be unhinged 3 weeks ago:
I just thought that in real life, when they were out of on-stage roles, other children would do something else. But then again if the children are, like, 7, it’s not like you can assign ALL the jobs to them.
I hadn’t thought about it. But then again, I never did any sort of play at school.
- Comment on She must be unhinged 3 weeks ago:
I thought casting students as inanimate objects or plants only happened in TV shows.
- Comment on Half as Hot 4 weeks ago:
Wait, does it? Are joules in thermal energy per kelvin a purely linear relationship?
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 weeks ago:
How is that unclear?
- Comment on Drink it, I dare ya 4 weeks ago:
Dicarbon monoxide. Wikipedia is shockingly poor in information about it, but “stable” is certainly not the first word I’d use to describe it.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 weeks ago:
What kills me is when people will mix the two in a single context.
“Between eight and 13 percent”
NO. If you’re writing one number in digits, you need to write them all the same way.
- Comment on Anon has priorities 4 weeks ago:
What would be a solar eclipse though
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, definitely very old stuff, huh.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
I regularly say “from the 20th century” when I want to emphasize the age, the irrelevance, of my lack of knowledge of something.
I don’t know crap about cars, so sometimes, someone would ask me about an old one or something and I’d say “not sure, mid-20th century I think”.
It’s a funny way to talk about it and it almost masks the fact I just tried to get away with a 25-year window.
Although in a more rude manner I’ll also say I don’t care about some 20th century movie or something.
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 5 weeks ago:
Well they don’t know know, but there are signs. For one, we fill in timesheets, and lying on them is a no-no. I could probably get away with stretching the truth a little, but if they notice I only commit between X and Y time, or that I’m seldom available for developer questions at a particular time, they might get suspicious and investigate my hours.
As for overtime… Well I think how companies handle it is they don’t actually ask us to stay late; they just give us unrealistic targets that kinda require overtime unless you’re a god if we ever complained they’d say they never asked for us to stay late.
We used to be able to accumulate time indefinitely and take time off according to the bank of extra time we’d worked, but once, someone accumulated hundreds of hours and just left on an unplanned vacation for nearly a full month and they really didn’t like that. So now, you need to work your quota (which you can have them adjust to your capabilities; 30, 35, 40…) on average every month. So, sure, I can work only 20 hours one week, but that’s 15 hours of extra time I need to do within that month.
And if you have extra at the end of the month, well, that’s lost.
Which sucks, because I used to use those as sick days over the legally required two paid ones we get per year; my health isn’t exactly resplendent.
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 5 weeks ago:
This is so common in Quebec that I have trouble believing it’s illegal. I think it might be a loophole.
- Comment on Cheeky 5 weeks ago:
Oh yeah I pick up stuff with them sometimes but I wanna try the monkey experience lol
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 5 weeks ago:
I have a salaried position. I don’t clock in. But it’s typically only used to deny us overtime. If I work 35 hours a week, I’m paid 12.5% less than my colleagues who do 40. And if my lunch break is too long, I’m expected to stay late sometime within the month to compensate.
And while I do have a shit job (save me) I’ve never seen someone whose employer didn’t mind their hours as long as they got shit done.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Final Fantasy 5 weeks ago:
6 and 9 are huge fan favourites. I hated 6 enough to drop it, and while I did finish 9, man was it mediocre.
10, 13 and 7 are my favourites.
- Comment on Cheeky 5 weeks ago:
It’s just a really well-known phenomenon. People thinking they don’t stink because it’s the smell they’re used to. I’m just speculating, and there’s of course a chance I’m wrong.
As for how I know I stink, i have a much keener nose than the average. I can tell when my hair stinks because it’s been too long since my last shampoo, for instance, a thing most people can’t even tell about others apparently. Even though it’s the grossest smell ever.
But even then, most of the time I can’t tell my breath stinks. It probably has to do with how close the mouth is to the nose. Mostly, I’ve associated sensations in my mouth with instances where I was told I stunk and work from there.
As for what I eat, oh yeah, I absolutely do eat carbs a normal amount. But I really don’t think this should have much of an effect when I’m not eating. I have trouble imagining bacteria having a stock of food for when I don’t eat.
- Comment on Cheeky 5 weeks ago:
Tbh if I could I think I would turn on the gene for prehensile feet.
Just to try. Looks fun.
- Comment on Cheeky 5 weeks ago:
I do intermittent fasting.
My breath stinks quite a bit on days I don’t eat. The bacteria develop very well on those days, since they’re not being washed off as often. And that’s before “keto breath” even comes into play.
Point is, your mouth bacteria are fine producing all sorts of “charming” smells even without food.
You probably do stink. The two of you are just used to it.