hraegsvelmir

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[–] hraegsvelmir@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago

No, it just doesn't make sense to me to do so. I mostly play single player games, so special skins to show you preordered are pretty pointless, and the most you tend to get is a discount on some DLC that I can just buy later, once I know I've enjoyed the game enough to warrant it, or items to give you a stat boost.

It's not like preordering a physical game, where at least I get an art book or something in exchange for handing my money over.

[–] hraegsvelmir@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

religion dictates that the pope is always right whether they like it or not because god

While Catholics do have a lot of wacky beliefs, papal infallibility is somewhat more limited than this. It only applies when the pope makes an ex cathedra statement, so he would have to state this in a much more specific and formal manner to be considered undisputable doctrine.

[–] hraegsvelmir@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Genies are probably just super bored stuck in their magic lamps, have to get their entertainment when and where they can.

[–] hraegsvelmir@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

G as in gnosis.

[–] hraegsvelmir@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

There are countries that do, but you'll still need to demonstrate that you have the financial means to support yourself without working or needing recourse to public services for the duration of your study, so there's still a fairly significant financial barrier to entry for most individuals. If you have the money to put down for 3 years of rent, food, utilities, etc, while you complete a degree in Europe, I imagine you're generally doing pretty okay for yourself in the US.

[–] hraegsvelmir@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Respect is a two-way street, though. People don't deserve to be disrespected or dehumanized just because they've fallen on hard times, it could happen to any of us, after all. My respect for crackheads is about as limited for my respect for the guys jerking off to lone women on the subway, though. If the system has chewed you up so thoroughly that you need to smoke crack to get through the day, you have my sympathy Go do you, hope things get better for you. On the other hand, I've got effectively no sympathy for the crackheads where I used to live that would get high as hell, then shit in the staircases, get into fights with the only elevator in the building until it broke, or just sat outside all night, screaming and blasting music.

I'm a reasonably healthy younger person, so having the elevator out of commision for months at a time because of their antics was a nuisance, especially when it came time to haul groceries up to my apartment on the seventh floor, or bring my laundry down to the basement to wash it. It was outright dangerous for more elderly residents on the upper floors, who essentially became housebound, though. My mother-in-law couldn't deal with all those steps, and there were elderly people on higher floors put at risk because paramedics couldn't reach them nearly as quickly if they had an emergency, not to mention the challenge of bringing someone down a bunch of narrow stairs on a stretcher.

Just because they're suffering at a given moment doesn't give them the right to degrade everyone else's quality of life, if not outright endanger their lives.

[–] hraegsvelmir@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Hey, now, that's unfair to third world countries. Some of them actually have functioning public health systems.

[–] hraegsvelmir@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

Got a concussion in a pillow fight. I was in the top bunk in a lean-to at summer camp when I was maybe 13 or 14. Forgetting the low ceiling above me, I jumped to my feet, planning on launching a pillow at someone poking around another bed. Promptly slammed my head into the ceiling, knocked myself out and wound up going to the doctor shortly after. Pretty sure I still have a disc somewhere with images of the small minor brain bleeding I got as a result.

[–] hraegsvelmir@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

Go to another account she hasn't messed up on her phone, and make her watch as you use the password manager to get in. Then, you can tell her for sure that the tech is working, and you've done your part, but you cannot fix her behavior. If she wants to keep resetting her passwords all the time, that's on her, otherwise, she'll have to put a small amount of time and effort into adapting to using the password manager.

If she isn't going to follow your suggestions and advice, why is she asking you for help? If she sincerely wants help, she needs to make an effort on her side to follow through.

This is a problem with psychology and boundaries, not a tech issue.

[–] hraegsvelmir@lemm.ee 105 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While simple, it can honestly be kind of fun to just go in and let them know. When I was recently laid off, it went something like this.

HR: "I know this might be a shock–"

Me: "Yeah, you're letting me go, I know. Here's my work laptop and badge, I've got all my stuff in a box outside, what do I sign? Trying to catch the next train home, so I have like 20 minutes."

It totally threw off my boss and the HR lady trying to do their sombre, dignified thing, and was pretty funny to watch.

[–] hraegsvelmir@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm not sure that's really the sort of architectural change that was intended. It's not fundamentally altering the chips in a way that makes them more powerful, just packing more in the system to raise its overall capabilities. It's like claiming you had found a new way to make a bulletproof vest twice as effective, by doubling the thickness of the material, when I think the original comment is talking about something more akin to something like finding a new base material or altering the weave/physical construction to make it weigh less, while providing the same stopping power, which is quite a different challenge.

[–] hraegsvelmir@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Snigger is just a variant form more common in the UK, where snicker is the preferred one in the US. Though I wouldn't put it past a 4chan user, it's also a perfectly normal word they may have learned being taught and exposed to UK variants of English.

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