ViatorOmnium
@ViatorOmnium@piefed.social
- Comment on Anyone else? 5 days ago:
Almost every single time I hear someone saying this, it’s impostor syndrome talking.
- Comment on Anyone else reckon Bethesda will go the way of Bioware? 1 week ago:
Exactly, if Bethesda had put half of the effort CD Project Red and Hello Games put into fixing their games, they could have polished Starfield into a great game. The potential is there, it has some interesting ideas, it just has some very rough edges.
The way they just abandoned it vs how CD Project Red keeps releasing “final final final” updates to Cyberpunk like they still have something prove shows the huge gap between both studios culture.
- Comment on Do all popes have to use name's from past popes or saints? Or could I be Pope badassmotherfucker? Or just my regular name? 1 week ago:
It’s just tradition. Early popes used their own names. The tradition started in the 6th century because an elected pope was named Mercurius after the Roman god and he thought it was bad PR to keep it. The last pope to use his birth name was in the 16th century (Marcello II)
- Comment on If at a restaurant a guy is choking and I give them the Heimlich and accidentally break a rib while trying to save his life. Can I be sued? 1 week ago:
And some (for example, most of continental Europe) take further and have a duty to assist, where if there’s no one more qualified to help you are required to do your best to assist.
- Comment on Show me what slimed you. 2 weeks ago:
The intersection of government incompetence and corporate greed. I guess popular classics are popular classics for a reason.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Because people can consent while drugged /s
Fuck pro-rape shit like this. Reported.
- Comment on Why is "sunsetting" used as a term to indicate a service is shutting down? 2 weeks ago:
Shut down sounds abrupt, sunsetting implies there’s a gradual process.
- Comment on Does the net positive of Eugenics out weigh the negative? How so? 3 weeks ago:
Because the mutation that causes anemia is the one that prevents malaria. You can’t have one without the other.
- Comment on Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore? 3 weeks ago:
The browsers do no such thing. Domain names and servers are usually configured to redirect traffic as needed, but if you expect traffic on www.yourdomain.example the browsers won’t redirect yourdomain.example to it unless you explicitly tell them to.
- Comment on Why? 4 weeks ago:
They can. There are brands selling durable USB-C cables, I think they cost around 20 Euros each.
For Apple stuff, they will make it durable once their customer base stops being a cult.
- Comment on Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude 4 weeks ago:
Are they saying they are enslaving what they believe is a conscient being? Oof
- Comment on Britain’s second richest person leaves UK for Monaco 5 weeks ago:
In America they applaud people who create wealt
Bullshit. We have all seen their labour laws.
- Comment on Is it possible to leverage your dreams towards more mundane things? 1 month ago:
If i went running in the woods more, could i leverage my brain to give me more pleasant dreams like that?
Probably yes. Both running and being in nature are known to improve the overall state of mind, and having your thoughts in the right place makes it less likely to have bad dreams. But every person and situation is different. Just running in the woods will not make trauma go away even if can lessen it in most people, for example.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Why did the US rescind tax free imports for shipments below $800 in customs value?
Under which rock are you living? So I know where to start answering, what’s the most recent US President you know?
- Comment on UK's 'dismal' Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPs 1 month ago:
They have a sizeable group of supporters in lots of European countries that will vote on them and no one else no matter what. There’s also a large group that will not vote on them no matter what, but group splits the vote between all the other contestants. So in general, Israel benefits from the polarisation.
- Comment on Rail passengers get automatic right to switch operators for free when trains are cancelled 1 month ago:
East Midlands Railway, which has been beset with problems while introducing malfunctioning Hitachi bi-mode trains, will also not be immediately included due to its ongoing mass cancellations and shortages of seats.
But it’s not available where it’s needed the most.
- Comment on Genderfluid 🚿 1 month ago:
People take their phone to the shower?
- Comment on FTC sues Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of "secretly and systematically overcharged" misleading advertisers on its platform by manipulating its pricing and auction systems. 2 months ago:
So the trick to get customer rights in the US is to be a corporation?
- Comment on Infuriating day of the week layout 2 months ago:
Weekend as in both ends. End can already mean extreme points of something.
- Comment on Infuriating day of the week layout 2 months ago:
I personally would put the one in the middle on top PR bottom, like
* * * * * * * - Comment on Infuriating day of the week layout 2 months ago:
7 is not divisible by 2, and the package designer wouldn’t settle for anything non symmetrical, so they took the playing card layout.
- Comment on ASML stands for Advanced Semiconductor Materials and Laser, and was an American company, so when did it become a French company? 2 months ago:
It isn’t. Even though it has an English name it was always based on the Netherlands.
- Comment on ASML stands for Advanced Semiconductor Materials and Laser, and was an American company, so when did it become a French company? 2 months ago:
ASML was never an American company. It started as a joint venture between the Dutch Phillips and the equally Dutch ASM, and when it became an independent company it remained in the Netherlands. Did you know non American companies are also allowed to have English names?
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 2 months ago:
I drank beer more often at 16 (which was the drinking when I was growing up) than I do now. And I did it for the flavour. Though granted I had better choices than american “Budweiser”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I could find this particular one, but you can see examples like https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA23609, https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA25693, and https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA25017 to see what the pictures actually look like. While Jupiter’s storms seen from space do have a certain Van Gogh feeling, the one on this post has saturation and contrast dialled up to 11.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
NASA: heavily edits a grainy drab picture to make it look like a Van Gogh painting
Internet: Van Gogh must have had telescopic 3rd sight.
- Comment on No Enforcement ⚖️ 3 months ago:
Considering the 5 countries that were supposed to coordinate in enforcing the rules immediately went for each others throats and that two of them have a competition on who can accumulate more violations of international law, the UN is actually going an amazing job at preventing the world from going up in flames.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
The prevailing theory in Europe at time was still Aristotle’s idea that a force was necessary for objects to remain in motion. The theories on how an arrow or any other thrown object remained in motion involved an impromptu Rube Goldberg contraption involving the object and the atmosphere.
- Comment on Urine Luck 3 months ago:
Wait until you find out where milk comes from.
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 4 months ago:
⚽ is also an Adidas World Cup match ball.
The difference is that the design was streamlined and iconic enough to be timeless and become the football design in public mind.
Before the Telstar footballs looked like this:
