chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on Winter is coming 4 hours ago:
I can always put on another layer. I can only get so naked.
- Comment on Pilot project 17 hours ago:
Anyone else remember the scene in Schindler’s list where the Nazis make a work camp Jew show how quickly he can make a part (a hinge I think), and then look at his completed parts bin and decide to kill him because he clearly hasn’t been working that speed the entire time?
- Comment on Like there was any doubt 22 hours ago:
A lot of good decisions were made when developing Arkham Asylum, but bringing in the BTAS voice cast was among the best.
I still can’t believe how good Asylum was. I know some people prefer later games in the series, but the intimacy of the smaller environment in Asylum made it the best of the series IMO. It felt almost like a Metroidvania but with Batman.
- Comment on About to ruin your whole day 23 hours ago:
You can buy a cheap Bluetooth OBDII scanner online and use a free phone app like Torque to read and clear codes.
- Comment on Dog Love 2 days ago:
Kristi Noem, on the left, is the former Director of Homeland Security. She was behind a lot of the ICE bullshit, and was fired by Trump a few months back. She bragged in her book that she shot and killed her dog because she couldn’t train it.
Kash Patel, on the left, is the current FBI Director. He’s terrible in every way. But the current news on him is about him changes in the FBI hiring process that include removal of automatic disqualification of those who had previously stolen from their employers or engaged in prostitution or beastiality.
- Comment on Dog Love 2 days ago:
That’s about all the nuance it needs.
- Comment on A close call 5 days ago:
I’m not sure if it’s all fenced but the entire thing (including the road) is on private land, so walking around it is trespassing.
There’s only 1 road going there and it ends at the visitor’s center, and impact crater walls are higher than surrounding terrain, so unless you get past the visitor’s center all you see is a hill.
- Comment on A close call 5 days ago:
The whole thing is on private land, including the road, so it just looks like a hill from anywhere you can get for free.
- Comment on A close call 5 days ago:
I went there, but they wanted to charge like 40 bucks a person to see the crater, so we left.
- Comment on It was cold this morning. You all know what this means. 5 days ago:
Home Depot near me clearanced out the Halloween stuff in September last year to make room for Christmas decorations.
- Comment on Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services 1 week ago:
There was also a time when you also didn’t need Steam. You would buy a game, install it, and play it without having to connect to the internet at all. Growing up, a lot of friends had gaming PCs in their bedrooms with no internet connection at all.
And if you did do stuff online, it was secondary and the publisher didn’t want a cut. StarCraft actually let you play online without owning the game - it specifically included an installer (The Spawn) that was for installing the multiplayer for free on friends’ systems. You only needed the disc to play singleplayer.
- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 1 week ago:
It’s essentially someone to man the front desk, route phone calls, process simple single-trade building permits, and manage the contractor registry for the building department. It requires either a degree (of any kind just to show minimum qualifications) or experience in administrative duties or in an office or municipal setting.
Our one applicant has never held a job more than 4 months and it’s mostly been retail or restaurant work.
The catch with the job is the commute sucks. It’s a very wealthy area. Literally every homeowner in the city is at least a multi-millionaire, with multiple billionaires, so exactly 0 staff members live in town. We actually pay a pretty large monthly gas stipend on top of every employee’s salary.
And while it shouldn’t impact a permit tech, the legal fights we have with residents are wild. The average person we end up in disputes with has more financial resources than the city itself, which is weird. Every city has residents c9nstantly threatening to sue over everything, and 99.99% of the time it’s hot air, but with us they actually follow through. Which, oddly enough, makes us less likely to respond to legal threats since we’re used to going to court at this point.
- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 1 week ago:
For us it’s an issue with marketing the position in a manner thay doesn’t result in 5,000 automated applications from an Indian headhunter firm that blindly clicks everything.
I’ve had a job opening at my city for weeks that pays higher than any other city in the state does for the same position, and we’ve had a grand total of one applicant who wasn’t qualified.
- Comment on No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly to the sun 1 week ago:
I’ve tried it several times through the years wanting to like it because it sounds like something I’d enjoy, but it just never sinks its teeth in.
And that’s okay. Not every game has to be made for me. I love that people love it and that the developers have worked so hard to deliver on everything they promised and more. I don’t enjoy the game but I’m so glad it exists for those who do.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 1 week ago:
Most fertilizer contains animal waste, so are you allowed to use it to grow plants? Bees are also pollinators, so many plabts also depend on labor from bees. We live in a biosphere and interact with each other, so everyone needs to decide where their line is.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 1 week ago:
How is that easy?
- Comment on Fox News sharing billionaire propaganda 1 week ago:
Fast food is a crazy example they point to. You’ll spend 12-15 dollars a person easily at fast food places these days, and they serve hundreds of customer an hour. Giving the entire staff a $15/hr raise would be an extra 2-4% to the cost of a meal.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 1 week ago:
Monkeys paw. They comply, but don’t say which stocks they’ve already bought or are planning to sell.
- Comment on Video games 1 week ago:
The showrunner of TLOS was also the head writer for the game.
- Comment on How about instead, a longer healthier retirement? 2 weeks ago:
Make no mistake - you have always been expected to work until you stopped being useful, then die. Social Security was there to deal with the remaining husks of those who beat the odds instead of having homeless old people dying in the streets where everyone could see it.
When the retirement age was set at 65, it was higher than the average life expectancy of Americans. Most people weren’t expected to reach that age. But then we started living longer and fucking up the math.
- Comment on Life is hard 2 weeks ago:
It depends. The air conditioning will remove moisture from the air while cooling th cab, so the condensation can only form on the outside, where you have wind and windshield wipers to wipe off the condensation.
- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 2 weeks ago:
Tying benefits to employers is idiotic. Even if you want to tie benefits to work requirements, this system fucks the millions of people with multiple part-time jobs.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Gamerant is saying the studio was legitimately out of funds and they were furloughed weeks prior to launch and that dozens gave already been brought back.
This was their first game, and if they do bring back the team members (with back pay) now that the game is a sucess, I would actually be much more understanding.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
So to reduce time spent looking for new jobs, devs should make sure games take even longer to develop and are in even worse shape at release so they have to hold onto the team for bug fixes.
- Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am 2 weeks ago:
We need societal-level solutions to homelessness. We need housing, free healthcare, free mental healthcare, criminal justice reform, and more. But until we can do that, the reality is, concentrations of the homeless are associated with higher crime, reduced patronage of businesses, and decreased property values.
It super duper sucks, but homelessness is a really difficult problem for cities and property owners they aren’t equipped to address. Since they can’t fix the problem, they instead focus on keeping the problem away.
It’s all so fucked.
- Comment on Hot Ones trying to sneak in the package protection 2 weeks ago:
The Credit Card fee makes sense if they accept non-card payments. If they just build the 3% into all prices, then they’re effectively collecting the fee for people who pay via other means as well.
- Comment on There are solutions to our problems... 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. I work in municipal development and people think we’re just a bunch of officious pricks making people do unnecessary paperwork.
Things you don’t think about can kill people. Yeah - you don’t see a lot of people dying from building collapses and fires, but that’s because we make people address the complicated issues. Want to build a guesthouse? Great. We don’t care. What we do care about is that you put in a safe building and don’t grade in the floodway blocking the path of water causing the house to get carried away or diverting the natural watercourse into your neighbor’s house or the street.
Yes - you have to hire an engineer, and no, you can’t just do whatever you want because it’s your property. What you do impacts neighbor’s, the city, its infrastructure, your guests, and the next person who owns the property. It’s complicated and expensive no matter how much you contractor insists he does good work and you don’t have to worry. Contractors are liars who don’t know what the hell they’re doing half the time because they operate based on their gut and whatever is cheapest.
- Comment on An American city has been without power for 2 weeks, unacceptable. 3 weeks ago:
It’s the place that knew me when.
- Comment on This camouflaged speed bump 3 weeks ago:
Most speed bumps/humps these days require you to go below the speed limit to avoid damage to the car unless you’re driving some jacked-up monster with loose suspension.
- Comment on Greatest unsolved mysteries 3 weeks ago:
Looking at the TV’s legs and the surface it was on, the culprit appears to be physics.
