lord_ryvan
@lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network
Programmer by day, burnt out by night.
- Comment on Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00 18 hours ago:
I worked 9:00 - 15:00 for several months
I could not get away with that lol
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 19 hours ago:
It’s gotten so bad in the Netherlands, too. Especially with newer BMWs and Audis. Since both our countries don’t make cars, this probably is true in all of Europe.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 19 hours ago:
It’s also common with European cars, which are much lower and yet have increasingly bright (and bluer?) lights.
- Comment on So, has age verification really become the new normal? 3 days ago:
Age restricted videos didn’t play through Invidious, and in my case I need to provide a selfie with my passport for age verification so I’m not sure how to fake that.
- Comment on So, has age verification really become the new normal? 1 week ago:
Doesn’t get rid off age verifications.
- Comment on Woman of my dreams 2 weeks ago:
Ah, there are supposed to be 12 divisions, right? Thanks!
- Comment on Anyone feeling like doesn't belong anywhere? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve heard this from so many people who moved to the Netherlands, maybe we just have some very unwelcoming people I know it’s almost impossible to make friends as an adult here, as well. so if you don’t have friends at adulthood (for example because you just moved in) you’re out of luck, sadly
- Comment on Woman of my dreams 2 weeks ago:
Does anyone else get the vibe that this image is edited? I can’t put my finger on it, absurdity aside, just a vibe.
- Comment on Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them? 2 weeks ago:
Damn, all of them?
Same, mostly.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy "Language" so confusing? 2 weeks ago:
In my case, I always do it from the web client but I have no idea how to set the language with Jerboa or Voyager, so my mobile comments don’t have a language set
Sent from Jerboa
(sometimes I do go back on the web client to set the language on my posts when I’m back on the web client, though)
- Comment on Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them? 2 weeks ago:
I get where you’re coming from, YawningNostalgia!
- Comment on Why is it that when the graphics driver freaks out in your browser when watching a video, the page always turns this specific shade of green? 2 weeks ago:
The entirely wrong shade of green LMAO
- Comment on Why is it that when the graphics driver freaks out in your browser when watching a video, the page always turns this specific shade of green? 2 weeks ago:
The entirely wrong shade of green LMAO
- Comment on Why is the US so into Israel? 2 weeks ago:
Why is half of Europe so into Israel‽ It’s insane that we even need pro-Palestine rallies in the Netherlands!
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 8 months ago:
I would guess that if you go province by province, state by state, territory by territory, you can probably find others with very high gun ownership rates.
Well, yes, the Falkland Islands.
Out of the completely sovereign countries, Yemen would be second place, though the US more-than-doubles their gun ownership per 100 civilians indeed.
Now, Falkland Islands and Yemen also have far, far fewer guns than the US; their high gun ownership comes in part from their small population.
India and China rank second and third in total guns owned by civilians, but purely through their sheer population. Gun ownership per 100 civilians ranks low in China (3.6%) and so-so in India (5.3%).Don’t get me wrong, the fact that the US only barely doesn’t double some tiny territory’s gun ownership by population, still speaks volumes for the US’s insane level of gun ownership!
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 8 months ago:
As a Mint user, you got me worried about the community I’m in (^^;
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 8 months ago:
Not exactly an “outlet” but a place that was closed down for excessive fecal bacteria…to which he disagreed.
He disagreed with the fecal bacteria? I mean, whatever floats his boat, but they’re going to infect him anyway.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 8 months ago:
Or calories on packaging.
Or inches in Europe when talking about a screen from S. Korea, which was designed in cm to begin with.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 8 months ago:
Than remembering 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10; because metric has more measurements most people don’t use as well!
- 10 millimetres to a centimetre
- 10 centimetres to a decimetre
- 10 decimetres to a metre
- 10 metres to a decametre
- 10 decametres to a hectometre
- 10 hectometres to a kilometre
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 8 months ago:
Okay, but I don’t use a measurement system for close enough, I use a measurement system when I want to be precice.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 8 months ago:
Especially with several thousand kilometres.
“Eleven mega metre” rolls off the tongue much better than “eleven thousands kilo metre” IMO.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 8 months ago:
You can tell how bad a news site is when they translate billion to biljoona and thus making the amount 1000 times higher.
Looks like we have something in common! Hämmästyttävä!
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 8 months ago:
Almost, if I can believe this Wikipedia article Falkland Islands has just over half as much as the US.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 8 months ago:
This actually happens?
- Comment on Not stealing 8 months ago:
You’re right on with pets, had a lil’ doggo that did NOT want his medicine, lil’ pooch would eat around it in his food, squirm in six dimensions if you tried to force him, and yes one time he even used teeth!
Needless to say I was, in fact, not using teeth.Our current doggo tho, eats her food with or without medicine. One time we forgot to give her her pill when she was on medication for something, I just told her it was a biscuit and she ate it, no questions asked. This is a blessing.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 8 months ago:
Willen wij meer of minder MAGAanen in Nederland?!
/satire
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 8 months ago:
*cries in PVV majority*
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 8 months ago:
I feel lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/30883044 applied to “expat” as well.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 8 months ago:
Core memory unlocked: Looking at a store called “Expat store” or something in that vein in Den Haag as a little boy, asking my parent what “expat” is. “That’s an American immigrant.” “So, why are they not just an immigrant?” “That way they feel better about themselves.”
I only just realised how based my parents are.
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 1 year ago:
The first flaw is not discussing things with the people in charge of tariffs such as the secretary of treasury.