Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 10 hours ago:
I make mistakes because my replies are often my stream-of-consciousness, and the primary review is mainly to make sure I even want to reply to the comment at all. I don’t use autocorrect so my fingers slip frequently.
If you look through my comment history, a good chunk are edited because I catch more grammatical errors in my comment after I post. I suppose most others don’t bother.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 5 days ago:
The question they are answering is the first one they read.
(/s)
- Comment on Are any calls without caller ID legit? 1 week ago:
From Canada: I get legit calls from private numbers. Usually it is based on something I have inquired previously about, by phone, text message, webform or email.
Random non-scam cold calls have been largely: surveys (a federal election is coming), requests to donate places from places I’ve donated to before, telecom companies I have ditched begging me to come back. But anything that begins with an automated sounding message I just hang up immediately.
- Comment on Read the Letter 1 week ago:
I am really getting the sense this group of PhD holders are doing their almighty best to pick words and write their statement in a way that people with a grade-school reading ability can understand.
- Comment on Power isn't energy. The difference matters more than you may know. | Technology Connections 2 weeks ago:
Power = Energy ÷ time, and conversely, Energy = Power × time. Even though in English, people use the two colloquially.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 2 weeks ago:
Regarding your confusion and surprise, the person you replied to merely gave their reason why they bought it and supported a transphobe, and it was because this person’s sister requested that game specifically.
I know the question posed was mostly rhetorical in nature. But I’m not sure why you are questioning why someone is answering the question, and I’m not sure what kind of satisfactory answer you could get from anyone who had purchased the game (and supported a transphobe, yes, which I haven’t).
The rest of your comment is a legit response, but I’m only pushing back on the first sentence of your reply. Or even moving that sentence to the back of your comment to make it less charged. If someone’s going to answer a loaded question, let them, but get to the point about how misguided they are with their justification before you question the answer. That would likely make for a more constructive discussion. Unless you think that these answers are unhelpful in the first place, that we’re better off not hearing why people have done transphobic things with different intentions, and we should refuse to give them space to reflect, learn, then own up to their transgressions if they don’t come right out of the gate to apologize. Then sure, ignore what I said.
- Comment on Should I withdraw/stop putting into my 401k? 2 weeks ago:
Are you going to retire in the next four years? Or take all your cash out into gold, quit your job, and go into hiding for the next four years?
If neither apply to you, you can leave your money in your 401k. Selling index funds right now is ultimately up to you, but in the long term time in the market tends to beat timing the market.
What I’ve read in books is: Building up savings itself is more important than whether the returns are +10% or -10%, early in your career, since it will fluctuate but tends to average up.
And remember if your national index funds, bonds or whatever market and government backed investments lose half its value, you have bigger problems on your hand of the state of your country at that point which having cash on hand may or may not help anyway.
- Comment on They said the packaging would be discreet! 2 weeks ago:
That’s contraband in the state of Texas.
- Comment on SOMBRE TIT 2 weeks ago:
Fossilesque has taken a sudden interest in ornithology. Or maybe started playing wingspan !boardgames@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 2 weeks ago:
I think a lot of people are waiting for the first Civ7 expansion pack to be released, whenever that may be.
Civ 6 without R+F, GS feels like a completely different game. As an example, in vanilla you can expand anywhere right up to someone’s borders whereas with the expansion straying too far from your territory you could just lose it to influential pressure from neighbouring cities.
- Comment on Lemmy told me to make a lamb cake. Went about as well as I expected. 3 weeks ago:
You made an excellent cake, it looks just like what you were totally going for from the start:
the dog from undertale, a blob with four equidistant legs on the bottom, two ears and a pointy tail
- Comment on Wave-riding and wave-passing by ducklings in formation swimming 3 weeks ago:
Now give me the Foie-rier Transform of that.
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- Comment on I was all set and then crushed in disappointment 4 weeks ago:
It made that patch of grass more attractive for dogs to piss on, for one.
- Comment on ICE Returns All Migrants From Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities 4 weeks ago:
It’s nothing but a cruel dog-and-pony show for Trump.
- Comment on Trump rejects Australia's bid for tariff exemptions 4 weeks ago:
Canada: Psssst… straya. We should produce and refine each other’s steel and aluminum. Pass it on to New Zealand
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 5 weeks ago:
If you want to read the story of someone’s experience trying to block all the big tech companies from their life back in 2019. Their first week was trying to block Amazon.
- Comment on What is the minimum number of words needed to communicate 5 weeks ago:
- Hello
- Thank you
- Excuse me
- Sorry
- Do you speak [your native language]? [Native Language] please?
- Where is …
- Check in?
- The bill?
- How do I get to…?
- I am from… [your country’s name in the foreign language]
- Yes/No
- How do you say [word] in [foreign language]?
- The bathroom?
- the hospital?
- Help me!
- Emergency!
- Payphone? Portable charger? ATM?
- Taxi stand, Bus stop, Train Station?
- Restaurant/Eatery?
- Water, Food, [Your dietary restrictions]
- Comment on Friday is a boycot day of online retailers. I saw this from CPUSA. 1 month ago:
Bud, it’s about teaching Americans about solidarity, because anti-unionism propaganda over 70 years has beat it ojt of them. This one day of not buying stuff, is like Day 1 lesson of Solidarity Kindergarten. You have to start somewhere.
- Comment on What are the democrats actually doing to help? 1 month ago:
Certainly, maybe you can make a new AskLemmy post for that.
- Comment on What are the democrats actually doing to help? 1 month ago:
They have slowed some appointments in House committees.
The Senate Democrats have stayed late to filibuster nominations
Democrats have an upcoming opportunity to refuse to pass a budget with the trillion dollar tax cuts that Musk and other billionaire are trying to somehow justify with every fibre of their being. This means that everyone in the House (including purple state Republicans) have to be in lock step, even 2-3 R-defectors will mean it doesn’t pass.
Democrats have been proposing amendments left and right, into the night… House members have suggested excluding people with wealth over $10M, $100M and $500M, all voted down Congresspeople are doing their job harder than they ever thought they would have to, but we should expect more.
- Comment on Why Are People Surprised When Trump Actually Follows Through? 1 month ago:
Trump during the campaign has said a lot of things during the campaign. Some very concerning, some things appealing broadly. Some things he has said polar opposite things at consecutive campaign rallies. (You can still see it happening now with the “Ukraine started the Russian occupation” then “Russia started the Russian occupation”). Some promises he hasn’t done a thing to keep, such as make life affordable. I think a lot of people were holding on to that promise.
A lot of other things he didn’t promise at all, he is doing, supposedly to bury the lede. Did he ever talk about Denmark, Greenland or Panama in his 2024 campaign? We know he likes tariffs but I think the 51st state BS came about after his election.
- Comment on Instance A does not federate with Instance B. But B federates with A. What does it mean to a user? 1 month ago:
Instance A defederating B or vice versa is the same result. Any posts on the now inaccessible community wi
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 1 month ago:
Change one thing just because you can. Take a different way to work, whether it is walking (and leaving much earlier), or a different bus/train or car route.
Listen to your favourite songs… look at the birds around you. Borrow a book from the library and read it, one bit at a time. Make the choices in your life, deliberate and DIFFERENT. Break your routine. Feel human.
- Comment on Anon shares his taste in music 1 month ago:
Anon’s favourite music genre:
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 month ago:
I mean saying the government doesn’t use SQL, in tech-speak is about as dumb as saying the government doesn’t use numbers.
Government is full of what are known as relational databases as you are well aware, and though it stands to reason that they aren’t all using the same software to manage it, many can be accessed using a standard language of commands. It could be a Microsoft Access, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle Derby, Microsoft SQL server, PostgresQL, SQLite, SAP HANA, so on and so forth.
And saying there can be multiple entries in a database for one item with respect to the Social Security Database is, to me, a silly distraction and spreading BS FUD to ignorant people.
- Comment on Speedometer, or Siegometer? 2 months ago:
120km/h Hitler is just raising your hand to answer or ask a question. 160km/h Hitler is just showing off how flexible he is.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
No, only stupid reaction GIFs are allowed at my company. If an emotion doesn’t involve sending multiple megabytes of data to every member in the conversation, it’s not worth expressing.
Note: Standards are higher for secretarial and HR staff. At least 20% of the gifs must have Minions in them.
- Comment on Are mods usually confusing as hell or am I just an idiot? 2 months ago:
As the name suggests, a mod is “modifying” the game, in ways that the original creators never intended to support. That’s why out of very few exceptions (such as Paradox and Steam mods), there is not a centralized hub maintained by the creator to organize and apply mods.
The process tends to be different for every game because every game is made differently. To boil the concept down, basically if there’s no official interface for custom functionality (such as a plugin system), then modders will usually “hack” this in themselves. Installing the mod often means replacing a game file with one that hooks into the game, to be able to load custom code and custom game resources.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Not a border crossing but Nova Scotia’s toll road, the Cobequid Pass is doubling rates specifically for US commercial vehicles.
