Pyr_Pressure
@Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
- Comment on when you need to graduate 1 week ago:
It’s not bad, it allows more freedom. You don’t have to graduate in 4 years if you don’t want. If you’re parking part time you can just take 3-4 courses a semester instead of 5 courses and just take your time.
You can also choose different time slots for different courses to fit your life style, like only morning courses or only afternoon courses, no courses on Fridays, etc. (depending on the course popularity and how many are available each semester.
- Comment on salmon 2 weeks ago:
Because they do not need to survive like that for long lol they die like immediately after.
- Comment on doggos 2 weeks ago:
I would assume it’s because pooping is a very vulnerable moment, and they prefer to not face the sun and being blinded while doing so.
- Comment on Bugs me when audiobook series do this 2 weeks ago:
I would rather the audiobook wait to release by a few weeks/months if it means keeping the same actor.
- Comment on Against The Storm's 1.3 update is out now and it's one for the zoomers 2 weeks ago:
To me it’s not really a challenge, it’s just annoying. It’s pretty easy to adapt, but I like having things symmetrical and it annoys me when I get certain layouts. So much that I almost feel like abandoning my settlement immediately upon start.
- Comment on Against The Storm's 1.3 update is out now and it's one for the zoomers 2 weeks ago:
I just want to be able to place my starting warehouse instead of being forced to build around the random start layout :(
- Comment on Jack Black All But Confirms He’s Steve In The Minecraft Movie 3 weeks ago:
Microsoft handles everything like idiots. Because all they do is try and improve how much money they make, not how good their products are.
- Comment on California law would give employees the 'right to disconnect' during nonworking hours 3 weeks ago:
The flaw with salary is that there is no defined amount of “work”.
It wont always be because you underestimated the complexity and mismanaged your time. If they asked you to complete a task and the only way to do it was to work 80 hours a week, sure that’s sometimes necessary. But what if they do that every week? Unless you were aware of those requirements during the hiring process and salary negotiation there’s nothing you can do. What if they pile on even more to your 80 hour week and you need to work the occasional 100 hour week?
There’s no way to regulate salary abuse, that’s why the system needs to be based on an average of hours.
- Comment on Why bag the hydrant? 5 weeks ago:
Well ya, that’s why you put it on when the thing is being installed. Not talking about a Reno/repair.
If they didn’t put salt resistant paint on it when they first installed the thing because it was a few hundred dollars more that would be stupid.
- Comment on Why bag the hydrant? 5 weeks ago:
I was driving down a highway once and noticed that there was a blue reflective marker on top of the concrete barrier every few hundred feet or so.
Took me about an hour or two before I noticed that it aligned with where the drainage basins were, probably for snow removal in the winter.
- Comment on Why bag the hydrant? 5 weeks ago:
I imagine a fire hydrant is pretty expensive as well. Can’t imagine covering it in salt resistant paint would be that much of a price increase and even if it is I don’t imagine it would be cost prohibitive if it means a 20 year replacement cycle vs. a 10 year cycle.
If anything this may be protecting them from dog piss.
- Comment on California law would give employees the 'right to disconnect' during nonworking hours 5 weeks ago:
There needs to be legislation to reign in salary type work as well.
It still needs to be based on hours, like an average of 40 hours per week sort of thing.
Yes your pay cheque will be the same every week for simplicity, but you shouldn’t be expected to work 60 hours just because you’re salary. If you work one week 50 hours, you should be able to tell your boss you are only working 30 hours the next week.
- Comment on Nepal tells Everest tourists to take their shit with them 1 month ago:
The fine should be enough to pay someone to go up separately and collect the garbage.
If someone is willing to do that for $50k then the fine should be at least $50k if not more.
- Comment on Nepal tells Everest tourists to take their shit with them 1 month ago:
Wonder how much it would cost to install some sort of tube system where you carry up cylinders and can send them down the tube periodically as you climb with your shit and garbage inside and it just slides to the bottom where you take care of it later.
- Comment on Nepal tells Everest tourists to take their shit with them 1 month ago:
Eh, imo if you decide to risk your life unnecessarily climbing a mountain, plan to take your garbage out because you shouldn’t be let back down without it. Freeze up there with the garbage.
- Comment on Dragon’s Dogma 2 modders are finding ways around the otherwise acclaimed RPG's controversial microtransactions 1 month ago:
$100 games shouldn’t have microtransactions.
Either have a large upfront cost or be free with microtransactions.
- Comment on Breaking pi day to name and shame 1 month ago:
There are so many different journals out there it’s hard to keep track of which ones are actually reputable anymore.
Almost need some overarching scientific body that can review and provide ratings for different journals to be able to even cite from the information within or something.
Like science and nature would be S-tier, whereas this journal should be F-tier apparently and people shouldn’t even be allowed to cite articles found within it for their own papers.
- Comment on Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says 1 month ago:
Can puberty blocking be reversed at a later date?
Or can blocked puberty be reverted later?
I could agree with a ban whole heatedly if blocking can be reversed and blocked cannot be reverted, but I would likely to oppose a ban it if blocking can be reversed and blocked could be reverted.
Gets a little fuzzy if it’s one or the other though.
Wouldn’t want someone to miss their only chance to block puberty, but also wouldn’t want someone to make a permanent choice at 13-14 which can’t be reversed if they want to later on.
- Comment on Boys admit killing more than 20 animals in break-in 1 month ago:
“Dafne Moran Toha, defending the 11-year-old boy, said his behaviour was due to his “lack of maturity” and “very young age”.”
Fuck that bullshit. There are hundreds of millions of young people with little maturity across the entire globe, and hardly any of them decide it will be a good idea to murder small animals. These boys are mentally ill in some form or another and need therapy or meds of some sort.
- Comment on Boys admit killing more than 20 animals in break-in 1 month ago:
Exactly. Killing animals shows you don’t have good character, it’s literal proof of the opposite.
- Comment on Amsterdam testing system that can remotely slow e-bikes down 1 month ago:
I’m fine with slightly less bikes on the street if it’s just the people who aren’t responsible enough to be in public with them.
They can cause damage to property and injure people. If you drive a car without a seatbelt you get a fine. If you ride a bike without a helmet you should also get a fine. Head injuries cause strain on the healthcare system. There’s plenty of reasons to require people to register and insure bikes like vehicles.
- Comment on Amsterdam testing system that can remotely slow e-bikes down 1 month ago:
Sure thing, have the parents register the bikes when they buy them. If the kids aren’t responsible the parents get the fines and can decide if the kids get to keep their bike or not.
- Comment on Amsterdam testing system that can remotely slow e-bikes down 1 month ago:
People need to start registering and insuring bikes and bikes used in public just like cars in my opinion.
Have them use their own license plates and everything.
If you get three fines for going too fast on your bike let it get confiscated for a few weeks/months.
- Comment on Stuck 1 month ago:
Does that still apply to vehicles that weigh 6600+ lbs?
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 1 month ago:
Do they not give out laptops with an Ethernet port? Or is the extra 2lbs too much?
- Comment on Plastic tea bags 1 month ago:
If it’s at least possible for those micro plastics to be broken down, would it really matter if they don’t break down ina landfill? Either they stay in the landfill forever causing no problems or they leach out / blow away outside of the landfill and voila, proper conditions to be broken down into starches and consumed by bacteria.
- Comment on I had some that looked exactly like this 3 months ago:
They’re still there.
- Comment on HP CEO says customers who don't use the company's supplies are "bad investments" 3 months ago:
Companies that force people to use their supplies are “bad companies”
Make good products with competitive pricing and your customers will use your supplies. Easy.
- Comment on Fuck Ubisoft. 3 months ago:
I don’t know how they all manage to do it but EA, Ubisoft, and Rockstar are all my most hated companies of all time. They can make some good stuff, but I just absolutely hate how they all force people to jump through so much hoops just to play the games you pay them for.
They force you to make accounts with them and use their stupid launchers which never work properly and are just advertisements. There have been so many times I just wanted to play a game and then forgot my password to the account and got locked out or the launcher needed an update and I had to wait like 20 minutes.
Fuck all large game corporations.
- Comment on $500 per semester 3 months ago:
I can see it useful for people who are guidance counselors, therapists, etc. in order to guide and advise their students and patients