Jhex
@Jhex@lemmy.world
- Comment on The roses, of course. Ow. 16 hours ago:
Awesome! I started running too… up to 4.5 km 3 times a week
- Comment on The roses, of course. Ow. 16 hours ago:
castle in the night… and my back is still ok fortunatelly
- Comment on House members erupt into a screaming match following senators forced removal from press conference 1 week ago:
I’m not fabricating anything… they are literally using a word wrong and we should not be “well, they meant xyz”
Whether they “don’t know” or just “made up a new meaning” is irrelevant
- Comment on House members erupt into a screaming match following senators forced removal from press conference 1 week ago:
and their lack of understanding should be highlighted and ridiculed, not compensated and interpreted for them
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 2 weeks ago:
How is someone that gets out of breath eating a donut going to protect and serve anyone?
They don’t serve anyone
- Comment on respect dandelions! 3 weeks ago:
What they said ^
- Comment on respect dandelions! 3 weeks ago:
Best gardening definition I hav heard:
if it grows and you didn’t want to, it’s a weed if it doesn’t grow and you wantedeit to, it’s a flour
- Comment on SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S 3 weeks ago:
Well, the truth of that is quite a bit different than how you put it, and it’s also more carrot than stick.
True, I misremembered… however, this is anti-competitive practice 101 anyway
What Microsoft did surely sucked for everyone, but fortunately, we live in a world where their recent efforts to do similar things aren’t working.
But the fact they keep trying these anti-competitive strategies and have no consequences for them is a problem. We cannot rely on “it didn’t work for them this time” as if that is a solution because next time it would work for them and then we are all fucked for another few decades
- Comment on SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S 3 weeks ago:
I learnt most of the story from this book Renegades of the Empire
The story is summarized here: gist.github.com/kirkegaard/1055336
It’s all about how DirectX/Direct3D was launching and competing with OpenGL (the open standard).
In a nutshell, MS literally ported games for free to Windows (Doom95 being the flagship example) and/or subsidized the development of games for Direct3D so there would be no appetite for OpenGL.
This is equivalent to Amazon or Walmart selling their stuff at a loss until all competitors go bankrupt
- Comment on SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S 3 weeks ago:
when Windows “challenges” others, they don’t compete on merit… it’s easier to blackmail game developers by threatening to kick them out of Windows / Xbox platforms if they develop for Linux… this is how we ended up with “windows is the only os for gaming” back in the 90s
- Comment on Cops Arrest Paraplegic in Wheelchair for "Kicking Down" Woman's Door and Fleeing "On Foot" 5 weeks ago:
only a truly mentally challenged cop would be unable to overcome that situation
by your logic I could call the cops on you and they should take you in even though we may not even be in the same country
- Comment on What DeleteMe and Incogni aren't telling you 1 month ago:
All I need to know to skip buying these services is that they relentlessly advertise through “influencers” on YouTube
- Comment on The Return of the Pebble Smartwatch Is a Sign People Crave Something Unique 1 month ago:
as pointed in the ps on my orginal comment, I just found out about that and removed the “failed” adjective from my question
- Comment on I'm working on a Sci-fi Point and Click adventure called Hope: A Sky Full of Ghosts. A demo is coming in a few weeks and would love a wishlist if that sounds like you jam. 1 month ago:
added, best of luck with the rest of the development
- Comment on The Return of the Pebble Smartwatch Is a Sign People Crave Something Unique 1 month ago:
Alright TIL, thanks for the informational reply
- Comment on The Return of the Pebble Smartwatch Is a Sign People Crave Something Unique 1 month ago:
yes, and discontinued right after, no?
look don’t get me wrong, I like the product and curious about its return. I just find it strange to pretend a version 2 of a product is “unique”
That is Apple level of “we inveted this thing that has been in the market for 2 years”
- Comment on The Return of the Pebble Smartwatch Is a Sign People Crave Something Unique 1 month ago:
successful products do not exit the market
- Comment on The Return of the Pebble Smartwatch Is a Sign People Crave Something Unique 1 month ago:
how is the return of a failed product “unique”?
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 1 month ago:
a bit harsh ig.
Likely, sorry about that
Maybe a better formed argument is that getting into a marriage legally is way too easy compared to the legal process of leaving one.
This is a completely different point than your original one though. And, while somewhat true, the countries that have strong marriage protections will not save you from a separation even if there is no marriage (more on this below)
The part about being in a hospital, only applies if the partner is not conscious
Or impaired in multiple other ways… but yes, the not conscious part if key because you could be in a medically induced comma to spare you the pain and someone may need to advocate for you in case a decision needs to be made. If you just had minor issues, there would be no problem but we are fending off the worst scenarios, no need for legal protection for minor stuff
Some other counties have another method for this where if you’ve simply lived together long enough those sorts of protections exist.
Correct and those same laws are the ones that basically have you automatically declared “common law” (or whatever preferred term) which makes a separation almost as hard as a divorce (coming back to point 2 above)
Is it a valid reason for legally formalizing your marriage? That’s up to you and your partner to decide.
At the end of the day, yes of course it is for the couple to decide… I just want to make it clear that you do not normally get the same level of protection by just having a will or a power of attorney (or it would be actually worse in those cases) and that people should consider this WAY more than “I don’t need a paper to say I love someone”, that is not what legal marriage is about
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 1 month ago:
Getting legally married is intended to protect the couple under certain circumstances as you suggest. You could attempt to perform the same with other legal means but it would be harder and costlier; like you deciding not buying a car but putting one together yourself.
The notion people get legally married out of love or worse that “a paper does not say I can love a person” seem to just have a 7 year old notion of what marriage is
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 1 month ago:
This is a shallow and very “I just think about the next few hours” view…
First of all, there are a lot more legal protections to married couples even if no kids are involved. Second, I guess you know when you are going to die so you can be certain there won’t be any end of life concerns, you are certainly immune to accidents, right? But also, you don’t have to be about to die to want your fiance to be allowed in the hospital room with you (which they won’t be if you are unable to provide approval and they are not legally your partner)
The “state” does not meddle in married life either… this is a rednecky thing to say… unless of course you are referring to treating your partner like crap or attempting to deny them any protection they are legally entitled to
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’ve met these women. They aren’t stupid, per se. They don’t want to “think”. They just want to live their simple life, doing whatever their husband or kids want
And they can, but they want everyone else to live like that as well
- Comment on Neverway is a horror RPG that blends action and life sim elements that looks incredible 2 months ago:
added to wishlist
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 months ago:
This is the type of alternative thinking we need to solve all our problems
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 months ago:
very small… I mean, can you imagine the accuracy needed for a bullet to find his brain?
- Comment on Standard tRump supporter 2 months ago:
Why not a bit of all?
- Comment on Standard tRump supporter 2 months ago:
wellfare
- Comment on Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’ 2 months ago:
And remember the follow up… If it’s legal for kids to work overnight with no breaks, it’ll soon be mandatory or you’d lose whatever social security survives…
And then it’ll just be mandatory because there is no social security safety net and you are now officially an indentured servant of the Florida kingdom
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 2 months ago:
Fine, give him your baby to experiment then
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 2 months ago:
Thanks for the info
definitely on the evil side considering he probably planed to infect them to test his theories