Taalen

@Taalen@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell is making everyone return to office, too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s nice to go to the office from time to see the colleagues, but it’s horrible for efficiency. And, truth be told, I’d be a lot less happy when asked to drop by if I wasn’t reimbursed the travel expenses, paid for the travel time, and per diem for the trip. Office is a couple of hours away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sonic the Hedgehog film franchise pulls in $1 billion worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When King Kong (2005) came out, I got a decent chuckle about thinking how much I wanted King Kong and Gollum models to be swapped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an engineer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Felt I didn’t deserve to celebrate. Depression messes up with your brain big time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an engineer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I’ve done pretty well for myself, I’d like to say. I landed a nice job around six months later and have been able to show my talent pretty well. Due to fighting with depression I entered the workforce around ten years after most of my peers. As an engineer, I’ve caught up the median pay for my peers with 15 years more experience. Can’t complain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an engineer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just didn’t go to my graduation ceremony, despite there being free dinner. Was (and had been for ages) struggling with pretty bad depression and didn’t feel I deserved any of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon decides to live like the ancient Greeks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s the only thing you drink, price adds up fast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 7 dev on Ages system and series shakeup: "It's going to be the hardest thing for fans to get adjusted to"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly your average person just doesn’t care about consumer rights, in any matter.

  I learned my lesson about malicious DRM when Starforce broke my new computer’s DVD drive back in the day. Fortunately it was still under warranty so I had it fixed, but sucked all the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Hold them captive’: Australian billionaire boss aims to end staff going out for coffee⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to start over with 50 million, too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a magazine goes out of print and/or out of business, do the original 'master files' for each issue still exist somewhere?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know the Finnish National Library acquires and files a copy of every newspaper or magazine issue released in Finland, and many Finnish language ones released outside Finland. Other countries probably have something similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are they just typecasting him???⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a Marvel guy, but I’m vaguely aware of that. But as someone who only read the occasional comic as a kid, it’s something I only learned of after the movies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are they just typecasting him???⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, he does play Nick Fury.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Pride 🌈⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And gives them time to reflect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salt :)⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also ammonium chloride. So delicious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald's is getting rid of self-serve drinks and some locations may charge for refills⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here in Finland, since their return in 2013, Burger King has sought to differentiate from other chains by having self serve drinks and unlimited refills.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes the blindpill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in a long distance relationship, recently my girlfriend suggested we read books together by one of us reading to the other one over the phone - usually me, but occasionally the other way around. It’s turned into quite a precious bedtime story routine. Sometimes I also read to her while she’s cooking or doing other chores.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I debated whether I should say NA or American, but I figured I don’t know what Canadians use, so there we go. Anyway, nice to see that debate is still alive and healthy. I gave up on it ~20 or so years ago. Writing unitedstatesman was exhausting after a while :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a native English speaker, but my hunch is, soccer will almost certainly be understood. Also it will identify you as American.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨plaine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re reading it a bit more literally than it was intended. “Flying sardine can to the Canaries” being the gist I was going for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨plaine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was on it just this Tuesday…