BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on who is part of my family and who isn't?? 4 hours ago:
If you turned up at their door randomly, and they’d feed you and let you sleep at their house for a night while you’re passing through, they’re family.
In some ways, friends are family too.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 17th 5 hours ago:
Just “finished” Factorio’s new Space Age expansion. Just a few more achievements to collect, but I need to start a couple new runs for those so I will be continuing on with that until Path of Exile 2’s early access in December.
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 5 hours ago:
This it the real answer. It’s usually just easier to do it because it’s the expected situation.
- Comment on Is there any word of the how the tariffs or taxes that will be imposed by next USA government affect consulting from external countries? 3 days ago:
Trump only has an idea of a plan at this point, there are no specifics
- Comment on How do I get over fear of cooking? 4 days ago:
Start small. Learn to make ramen
Oh boy, please tell me you’re referring to just simply instant ramen.
It takes me 2 days of cooking to make a proper ramen with the stock, tare, noodles, and toppings.
That rabbit hole goes waaaaaay down.
- Comment on is "oh boy" considered a gendered term? 5 days ago:
replace with Y’all
- Comment on In the event you believe a contract killer is in breach of contract, who adjudicates? 6 days ago:
The real answer is you can’t actually contract for illegal things, the contract is void from the start.
- Comment on What are the next steps for Americans to help prevent the worsening of genocide in Palestine? 1 week ago:
You absolutely can get worse than Biden Harris stance. Just watch.
- Comment on Could Joe Biden use his remaining time as president of the US to do away with presidential pardons? 1 week ago:
The president doesn’t control that. The federal government doesn’t even control that.
That’s a state by state situation.
- Comment on Are disabled people and the elderly going to survive another Trump presidency? 1 week ago:
Define “survive”
Humans are incredibly resilient but at the same time yes, more of them will end up homeless and some will likely die before they would otherwise have.
That being said most people won’t care, because the ones that will end up in the worst situations are the ones without family or friends to even be aware it’s happening.
- Comment on I have a very strange question about washers, dryers and the Middle East. 1 week ago:
I’d like to point out that a lot of the world doesn’t even have separate (or even any) devices for drying. Especially areas like the Middle east, Africa, and Asia. It’s still very common to hang dry clothes in many warmer climates. Japan for example doesn’t use them very much because electricity prices are so high and space is so limited. They may also just be a combined washer and dryer unit in one that does both functions due to a lack of space.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
So do a chargeback with the credit card company, tell them it was in fact fraud.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If Capital one already reported it as fraud, what’s the problem? You shouldn’t need to prove it’s fraud, the business should need to prove it’s valid based on what I’ve experienced before. That’s their problem, not yours.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 3rd 2 weeks ago:
Almost to the Fourth extra planet in Factorio, just beefing up Nauvis production first so I can bang some higher quality items out first.
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 3 weeks ago:
It absolutely can lead to people treating you poorly, so yes it can hurt you if you do it.
Not using profanity doesn’t tend to cause the same issue, even in workplaces where its common.
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 3 weeks ago:
Learn to code switch better. Profanity is almost never useful in a professional environment.
- Comment on Want to buy jewlery as a gift for the girlfriend, I know nothing about jewlery, where to start? 3 weeks ago:
With your price point, I’d highly suggest looking at Swarovski crystal jewelry. You can get much “nicer” looking jewelry at much lower prices, but obviously it’s just crystal rather than gemstones. Almost nobody can tell just by looking at it though.
- Comment on Does hair in food carry any health risks? 4 weeks ago:
From a technical perspective, yes, there could be health risks from hair in your food. There may be chemicals in the hair from various hair products or there could be bacterial contamination, though that’s a low risk unless you’re consuming a lot of hair that hadn’t been cooked.
In reality, it’s unlikely a few hairs are going to cause any sort of issue other than texture/mouth feel.
That being said, Trump’s hair could be made from asbestos for all we know. That shit doesn’t look natural at all.
- Comment on What do you call your first cousin's child? 4 weeks ago:
First, Second, Third Cousins have to do with how far up the tree you have to go to find a common ancestor. So someone with the same grandparent as you is your first cousin, someone with the same great grandparent is your second cousin, etc.
Once, twice, thrice removed is how far down they are in relation to your generation. So if someone is your cousin, and that cousin has a child, they would be the same type of cousin but once removed.
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 4 weeks ago:
That depends on which flavor of Christianity you’re looking at, but even the Catholics don’t think they go to Limbo, the pope had an entire study done on it, and the result was “we hope they go to heaven but we don’t know”
A lot of the other denominations don’t subscribe to the original sin shtick, and therefore babies would go to heaven even without being baptized.
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 4 weeks ago:
Except clearly any aborted fetus would immediately go to heaven based on what’s written in the bible. In fact, heaven should be absolutely completely full of dead babies based on miscarriages, stillbirths, etc. if you believe that they get a soul at the moment of conception.
So that logic doesn’t really make sense either. Which is par for the course.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
In this case, any money the person receives is money thay another person who needs it does not receive.
- Comment on If I was selling a bag of flower and sugar to a CI who thought it was meth or coke can I get in trouble? How or why when I am selling a legal substance? 4 weeks ago:
A) Flour
B) Fraud
- Comment on Has "Self-Driving" devolved? 4 weeks ago:
The public honestly shouldn’t be allowed on roads yet either… they’re fucking terrible at driving.
- Comment on Is there a reason the US is sending 100 of our people to Israel? 4 weeks ago:
The US is at war with Iran.
- Comment on Is there a reason the US is sending 100 of our people to Israel? 4 weeks ago:
Iran has a stated goal of destroying Israel. That’s why they’re funding multiple terrorist groups to attack Israel.
Israel doesn’t have a choice at this point, any more than Ukraine does fighting Russia.
- Comment on Is there a reason the US is sending 100 of our people to Israel? 4 weeks ago:
Israel couldn’t be fighting Iran without Western support. Iran is literally 8 times bigger in terms of population, and has oil money to fund itself.
Agency is worth nothing if you can’t back it up.
- Comment on Is there a reason the US is sending 100 of our people to Israel? 5 weeks ago:
They aren’t there to protect it, they’re there to operate it.
It’s a defensive missile battery, the US expects more missile attacks from Iran and plans to counter them.
This whole thing is a war between the US and Iran, it just happens to be occurring in Israel.
- Comment on Is there a reason the US is sending 100 of our people to Israel? 5 weeks ago:
This is the true answer.
- Comment on How is the calories meter on exercise bikes accurate 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t need to be perfect, just reasonably close.
If you’re trying to track calories down to even double digits you’re going to have a ton of error on both the input and output.