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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Admin team update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for the time and energy you’ve put into making this instance what it is, I hope you can rest, recharge and start enjoying it with the rest of us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just saw this in a supermarket and I am now very upset and angry at whoever thought of such a thing and you need to feel my pain.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Be careful, that much antihol in one go won’t just get you sober, it’ll send you right out the other side. Few can deal with that clear a view of reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard may have violated the UK GDPR following my 2019 Data Erasure Request⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pre-ordering something would usually cause a $0.00 transaction to confirm the card details are valid. It would be a ‘pre-auth’ transaction where the merchant reserves an amount on the card for payment at a later date, when they ship the item. If a fraudster makes a pre-order they xan validate that the card details are valid, then cancel the order, usually leaving the victim none-the-wiser. In your case, the bank noticed the transaction and notified you, but that seems to be rare. Once the fraudster knows the details are valid, they can sell them on.

  It’s just a theory, and unless your bank and Blizzard work together to track the transaction, why it happened, and who instigated it, its going to be difficult to get to the bottom of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard may have violated the UK GDPR following my 2019 Data Erasure Request⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there any chance your new card details got leaked from somewhere you used them? Using stolen details to sign up to something like that and, say, making a pre-order, would be a good way for a crook to validate them without a transaction appearing on your statement.

  If it’s not that, then Blizzard definitely have some awkward questions to answer. Good luck!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard may have violated the UK GDPR following my 2019 Data Erasure Request⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whilst it’s quite possible they’re up to no good, it’s also possible that someone is fraudulently using your payment details in Irvine to create a new Blizzard account. It sounds like your bank already blocked your card, which is good, but they may also be able to block payments to Blizzard when the card is unblocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Further research shows that they blew everything up trying to deal with the ancient, insatiable, worms they released on themselves out of curiosity. Upon reflection, it is probably better that we didn’t arrive earlier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve got to leave something interesting for the alien xeno-archaeologists of the future to uncover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plat plat plat⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had not considered the concept of an army of bipedal, running, neurotoxin coated, suicide frogs, and now that I have, I intend to stay far away from amphibians, just in case. I still think they should each sport a set of human like teeth though, just to really drive the point home.

  Kudos on ‘Kermitkaze’, that gave me a good chuckle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plat plat plat⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue is you’d really need an evolutionary pressure for them to develop that attack behaviour. It could be defensive, but jumping on the thing you’re trying to fight off is a rather bold strategy, especially when the results aren’t instant. Alternatively, it could be an attack behaviour, allowing them to take down larger prey. Thus just leaves the issue of how the frog would consume its meal. They could probably evolve to swallow smaller prey, but the obvious adaption, which I think we’d see in this case, would be for the frogs to evolve teeth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's never a bad time to check your biases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes their emotions have gone so far past reasonable that the first thing you need to do is bring them back to the point you can actually reason with them. After that, yes it’s really vital to take their emotions seriously, they need to understand them and trust that the people around them will take them seriously, but they also haven’t yet built the skills to moderate their own feelings, so sometimes you need to add those externally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's never a bad time to check your biases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof, yeah I could see how that could happen. I guess you really should know the kid before trying something like that. I usually find that making mine laugh is enough to start to reset them, and then helping them calm down is a lot easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's never a bad time to check your biases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was told that one way to help a young child break out of a tantrum is to ask them an odd question, something like “What color shoes are you wearing?” It does seem to work sometimes, usually by annoying them so much that they forget what they were upset about in the first place. I can well see it working for someone who needs to get out of a mental spiral.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It hurts me.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t one of the main issues with carbon-monoxide that hemoglobin preferentially binds with it over oxygen, and so it doesn’t get expelled from your bloodstream via your lungs? You can tolerate quite large doses with little more than a headache, so I doubt you could overdose from internally generated amounts, but a large enough dose dangerously reduces your blood’s oxygen carrying capacity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a plan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Spray-paint a polar bear orange and stick a mane on it. Confusing and scary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This made me so angry, enjoy!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  122L

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Effort require Effort⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof, that sounds rough. Are these the kids got hit hardest by the pandemic lockdowns? If so, maybe there’s a glimmer of hope that this is an aberration and next year will be a bit more 'normal ', if you can get through this year with your sanity intact. It’s got to be rough on the kids too, the ones who aren’t causing trouble must still be struggling to deal with itm and the ones who are just sound desperate.

  I enjoy teaching, or at least, transferring knowledge and experience, I’ll do it to pretty much anyone who sits still long enough, and I’ve been told I’m good at it, but you couldn’t pay me enough to teach a classroom full of kids all day, so you have my respect for that.

  Good luck, and I hope things get better for the kids and teachers everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon can't sleep⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you swing them to and fro?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Launches⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A suitably large catapult would deliver the necessary delta-v, not release pollutants into the atmosphere, and would make a satisfying ‘sproing thump’ noise in doing so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could say you just go round and round hunting for it, but no matter how hard you try you just can’t corner it.

  Well, you could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inaccuracies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bend them the other way. Start with all fingers open for zero, and curl them as needed. You only need to move them a bit, so even twenty (thumb and ring finger back, the others curled) isn’t too hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This took me a great deal of strength to publicly acknowledge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t go cold turkey, but if you reduce your intake slowly you can probably wean yourself off of it.

  (Please don’t do this)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Creates step by step instructions on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mayonnaise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lucky to be alive? Come on now, thats a stretch.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How’s he doing? Well, he’s been up and down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German Dinosaurs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘This post is a palaeontological disaster’ is a marvelous turn of phrase, and I intend to steal it for use at the first opportunity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ImHex requires a GPU with OpenGL 3.0 support in general. There are releases available (with the -NoGPU suffix) that are software rendered and don’t require a GPU, however these can be a lot slower than the GPU accelerated versions.

  If possible at all, make ImHex use the dedicated GPU on your system instead of the integrated one (especially Intel HD GPUs are known to cause issues).

  This sort of thing drives me round the bend. It’s a hex viewer, not a AAA game, why does it need or even care about your GPU. The data visualisation is nice, but there are other tools for that, Gnu Poke springs to mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whales⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yes, humpback whales reach sexual maturity by around 10 years of age (some much before then it seems). A marine biologist is still practically in it’s larval form at that point.

  (Yes, yes, I know that wasn’t what you meant, but I couldn’t help myself)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perfection⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Crabadile - the ultimate lifeform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Garfield do you smell burnt toast?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks a lot, I just sprained my brain trying to make sense of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Long Cow is coming⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s obviously just a glitch in the matrix, and you may be the chosen one for noticing.

  I got a 504 server error the first time I posted, but apparently it worked anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Long Cow is coming⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was doing fine, seeing two cows, right up until I read your comment, and now I see it as some sort of weird giraffe like creature with short legs and a surprising ability to balance even with its neck stretched out that far.