faythofdragons
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- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 hours ago:
Feels good to be on an instance with Anubis
- Comment on The defining conservative trait: selfishness 2 hours ago:
I grew up in red state poverty, moved to the west coast, and people up here genuinely do not understand what it’s like to live somewhere that sees travel as a bougie thing. I talk about how my parents couldn’t afford to send me with my class on the senior trip to europe, the first question that gets asked is why I couldn’t get a job and save up, not understanding I was childcare and housekeeping for my family while the adults worked. It’s not just coming up with the travel costs, it’s also coming up with the money to hire out replacements for the services I provided for free.
I’m privileged I could test high enough to get into a school that had a senior trip to europe, the public school barely got normal field trips. It’s not hard to understand why the person in OP would assume exchange students have access to a higher quality of life than them, they can clearly already afford to travel.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 2 days ago:
I’ve only played Witcher 3, and I thought it was obvious that it’s Ciri’s story being told from the perspective of the supporting cast, and that is an incredibly cool literary device.
- Comment on 7 for me 5 days ago:
I’ve been sleeping as 20 since I got chickenpox as a kid. The itchiness was completely unbearable, and I never liked how much pajamas bunch up when I toss and turn anyways. Now I only wear them on the rare night that it drops below freezing.
- Comment on Love this 1 week ago:
I remember patty-cake games being super popular in elementary school, and it switched to hacky sack games in late middle school through high school. I think the graph is accurate.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 1 week ago:
Man, they’re taking the “dark ages” part seriously.
- Comment on How are roundabouts made? 1 week ago:
You’re asking about something called surveying, if you want a term to search for. Modern surveying equipment uses lasers to measure the land, then they do a bunch of trig to create an accurate map. Once you have an accurate map that’s keyed to known reference points, you can design the roundabout. When you’re ready to build it, it’s just following the map and using the reference points to measure it back out.
- Comment on Something something far-left 1 week ago:
What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist – the right to life as the rich woman has the right to life, and the sun and music and art. You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah, Duterte just got reelected, and he’s in prison at the Hague rn.
- Comment on Life is unfair to landlords 1 week ago:
Really, you pull a “what about wheelchairs” then turn around and talk about how people should pay more if they value not taking the stairs?
- Comment on guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips 2 weeks ago:
Edible microchips
Look at me, I’m the cheese now.
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see why I should be okay with that either.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Democrats are also a conservative party. Biden is a conservative with empathy.
- Comment on Things are getting really crazy. 2 weeks ago:
The original artist took all his old videos down for unknown reasons.
- Comment on Things are getting really crazy. 2 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong about it being stuck in your head forever.
- Comment on Never gonna loosen them laces 2 weeks ago:
Usually because you were 7 and your mate told you it was a magic trick
- Comment on Never gonna loosen them laces 2 weeks ago:
I can’t help with wrecking the heels, but do you remember that trick from when we were kids? Where you can bite down on your fingers, then hook them together and pull, and it hurts like hell?
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 2 weeks ago:
The way paid time off works in WA is that it goes into a fund that you get paid out of for missing work. So, a minimum of one hour of wages gets added to the pot for every full week of work.
I go to therapy weekly, so I can choose to either take my PTO to cover the hour I miss each week, or I can choose to save it for when I actually get sick. Hypothetically, I could also save it for a vacation, but I’m not bougie enough to take a vacation.
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 2 weeks ago:
Legally, I get 1 hour of sick leave for every 40 hours worked. And this is a pro-worker state, most states don’t mandate any sick leave at all.
- Comment on Hotdog for Scale 3 weeks ago:
A wild false eyelash appears
- Comment on Hotdog for Scale 3 weeks ago:
Depending on your definition of ‘bun’, the centipede could be the bun here.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 4 weeks ago:
Because they need to sell papers?
- Comment on are periods of intense rage common in bipolar 1? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, mania can present as rage.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 5 weeks ago:
I too have seen that Clint’s Reptiles video, lmao
- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 5 weeks ago:
Oh, it’s not too bad. Rounds up to $60 a year and averages out to about $15 per game.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 5 weeks ago:
You’re telling me the bees get the munchies when they smoke…
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 5 weeks ago:
From what I understand, this is sorta like a hangover from pre-DNA taxonomy. We went “yeah, those all look like fish, we’ll put them in the fish group”, only to find out later that a bunch of them weren’t very closely related at all. So now we have a ‘fish’ group that’s a total mess, and we’re in the middle of getting it organized and re-labelled.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 5 weeks ago:
Obviously, the Greek hero Spiracles also rhymes with the bees
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 5 weeks ago:
No, he just doesn’t carrot all.
- Comment on Full Circle 5 weeks ago:
But this is the digital age, so it’s clearly e-migrating.