chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on Student Parking 1 day ago:
I’m a third-party non-employee lecturer at my local university. I teach scuba, underwater photography, and scientific diving. The courses are taught off-campus at a dive shop using the shop’s its classrooms, pool, and equipment. The liability insurance is paid by me.
There’s a lake on campus we dive at, and the university charges students to enter it.
The students have to pay $3000+ in tuition for some of my classes.
…and the university doesn’t give me or the shop a dime. The students have to pay a 200 dollar lab fee, and that’s split between me and the shop for the semester. The only thing the university provides is the course numbers and taking the money, and they get 30 times as much money as I do.
I have multiple individual cameras I use to teach the class that cost more than I make in 5 years of teaching the photography class.
And they want to charge me $800/year for parking for the rare occasions when I need to go on campus.
Fuck that - I just let them ticket me. The parking services department isn’t a law enforcement agency. The biggest threat they really have is withholding grades for students who owe parking tickets.
- Comment on Retail stores still selling the same overpriced junk since at least 2019 and even pretending it's on sale 1 day ago:
Yeah. They published the minimum specs to get the OS to run at all with zero consideration for running actual software.
- Comment on Retail stores still selling the same overpriced junk since at least 2019 and even pretending it's on sale 1 day ago:
The thing with Vista was it was it was th3 first really major rebuild of Windows in a long time. Going to 98, ME, XP, etc you had increased minimum specs, but things like drivers and shit generally worked fine, so as long as you had the necessary RAM and processor to run the OS, you could just install the new version and shit would probably work.
So when Vista came along, the manufacturers selling existing models just shipped with the new OS expecting everything to work without testing.
- Comment on Retail stores still selling the same overpriced junk since at least 2019 and even pretending it's on sale 1 day ago:
Windows Vista launch was a fucking mess. My office bought a laptop for a coworker in early 2007 that shipped with Vista but didn’t have Vista-compatible drivers for the on-board audio. They had to buy an external USB sound card.
- Comment on Fable - Gameplay Teaser 1 day ago:
The third game also had that horrid “menuless” interface.
And in a series where magic was so OP it made other combat options useless in comparison, it had by far the most OP magic.
A maxed-out melee or ranged character would take twice as long to kill a single enemy as a low-level mage would take to kill a group of 10 enemies.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 1 week ago:
If they come to kill me they’re gonna kill me. I can’t stop that. But that doesn’t mean I should make it easy for them.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 1 week ago:
If we reached the point where they came into my house I’d be fucked no matter what, so I’d take as many as I could with me. No use in making my death meaningless.
- Comment on Huh? 1 week ago:
The rule is make it so loud that you only stick around while you’re actively buying and consuming overpriced drinks.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
Fire Marshalls in many places are way too bust for random safety inspections. They’re reviewing plans, inspecting new buildings and remodels, and sometimes also doubling as the city’s arson investigators. And in some jurisdictions they’re also the fire chief.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
Lots of the time it is a fire hazard, but unless the Fire Marshall knows about it nothing gets done.
Fire code is usually checked when the building is built or if there’s a remodel, but otherwise most places can go a long, long time without a fire inspection unless there’s a specific complaint.
Reporting suspected safety issues to the Fire Marshall or Building Official is okay. You’re not being a Karen. Building and Fire codes are written in response to avoidable tragedies and should be followed.
- Comment on "The trolley made me fear for my life" 2 weeks ago:
Matthew 25:31-46 ("Judgement of the Nations) is when Jesus lays out the standards by which people will be judged. I don’t think MAGA would rate highly by Jesus’s standards, since it’s based entirely on the treatment of the poor, the sick, foreigners, and the imprisoned.
‘When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left. Then the king will say to those at his right hand, “Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.” Then the righteous will answer him, “Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?” And the king will answer them, “Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.” Then he will say to those at his left hand, “You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.” Then they also will answer, “Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?” Then he will answer them, “Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.” And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.’
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 weeks ago:
Deus Ex Human Revolution’s initial release was the worst about this. A bunch of people who took the skills and inventory for non-lethal/stralth/hacking gameplay found themselves at boss fights that were straight-up gunfights. If you were kitted out and skilled properly to face-tank while using explosives and big guns, you were just screwed and couldn’t progress.
In subsequent releases, they added additional options in the arenas that allowed you to kill them using stealth and hacking skills.
- Comment on What is the champagne of champagne? 2 weeks ago:
I prefer beer that’s beer.
- Comment on the year of the linux desktop 2 weeks ago:
Lots of jurisdictions are blocking the site now, necessitating VPNs to access the site.
There’s probably a higher percentage of Linux adoption among VPN users.
- Comment on Is this even a question? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if it’s still tru, but they used to be the number one steak restaurant in the country because their streaks were so cheap.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 2 weeks ago:
When the butchers at a single Walmart successfully formed a tiny union, Walmart responded by firing every butcher in every store in the company and switching to pre-packaged meats only.
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 3 weeks ago:
And Reaganism.
- Comment on ai will surely save us all 3 weeks ago:
If I understand my preacher right, saplings and seeds are trees even before they’ve been planted, and anyone who says otherwise works for satan.
- Comment on Add a third, larger bar for "knowing the right people" skills 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t actually had to make an application in years now. I’ve been approached directly for my last 2 jobs.
- Comment on Add a third, larger bar for "knowing the right people" skills 3 weeks ago:
That’s my issue. I’ve been offered every job I’ve ever interviewed for, but getting the interview is the hard part.
And in the end, the jobs I’ve had have come through that third “who you know” column that got me to the interview.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 3 weeks ago:
The one good use of Monster cables I saw was a buddy who played guitar and was pretty energetic in his sets and not disciplined enough to take proper care of his cables.
Monster cables really were pretty tough compared to the cheap stuff, but the bigger deal was the lifetime free replacements. He bought 2 Monster cables for 1/4 cable to his amp, and when one broke he’d swap to the backup while waiting on the replacement in the mail.
- Comment on Is there an endgame to Trump he is trying to obtain? Or is he making it up along the way at the cost of Americans? 4 weeks ago:
I want that too, but I’ll gladly accept a toilet aneurysm today.
- Comment on Is there an endgame to Trump he is trying to obtain? Or is he making it up along the way at the cost of Americans? 4 weeks ago:
I might be very okay with that last part, conditional on timing.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 4 weeks ago:
I brought God into an argument. Your rational questions have no power here!
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 4 weeks ago:
42 years old, and I still thank onions should be left in the dirt. God buried them for a reason.
- Comment on Someone has a LOT of dusty computers 4 weeks ago:
I am indeed a very boring person.
- Comment on Someone has a LOT of dusty computers 4 weeks ago:
There’s also electric air blowers now that are prett6 great. My wolfbox blower is shockingly powerful.
- Comment on Word. 5 weeks ago:
The way it should be handled is to just let me rotate a single fucking page. It’s 2025 and there is zero excuse for that bullshit.
- Comment on Word. 5 weeks ago:
Want to edit the header just on page 6? Or feel like being sexy and having a single page in landscape or a different size?
Easy! Just make a bunch of separate documents, export them as PDFs, and merge them in Adobe Acrobat.
- Comment on Construction magic 5 weeks ago:
You could definitely kill others.