Carighan

Carighan , 11 months ago

Not seen this yet, tbh. Politics in fact seem a rather rare topic outside of the US-centric posts?

Carighan , 11 months ago

What is a Lemmit Bot?

Carighan , 11 months ago

Well it’s only fair, he essentially handed in an empty paper. You get an F for that in school, too. Plus he very openly mocked them about it, too.

Carighan , 11 months ago

This is fascinating to me, in both ways. It goes against everything established in cat health science. So I’m erring on the side of “the study is shit” and from reading it there’s even more red flags than the one SUC homeopathic injection fluid study for renal problems that always gets cited:

• Only 9% vegan diets.
• The owners were found based on how they feed cats, instead of taking cats and putting them on a diet.
• Most of the data is owner-reported. Frankly if you ever interacted with an arsehole that feeds their cat a vegan diet, you know they’d never ever report their cat being unwell, as that’d undermine their own world-view.
• The whole study is funded by a pro-vegan “food awareness corporation” that.
• (edit, found another red flag) The vegan population is statistically significantly more indoors-only, meaning they suffer fewer injuries in general so their vet needs and vet visits are going to be lower anyways, yet the resulting data is not normalized for this discrepancy (nevermind that I cannot find data about how one would have to normalize for this, so any real study would need to normalize this in the proband selection process).

If it were true anyways, it’d be pretty mind-blowing big news. So that’s interesting. Like I said, fascinating either way. But from the looks of it, it just seems like a shit study. Couldn’t even do random selection and normalized reporting.

Carighan , 11 months ago

I think what they mean is that if their neighbor is allowed to weight 120kg with 8kg of carry-on and they weight 85kg, they might as well be allowed heavier carry-on. Doesn’t have to be one on one, and of course the carry-on weight limit is also done for a few other reasons, but that seems to be the idea.

To be fair: Carry-on that is weighty is a safety risk. So is me in a window seat with a person that can barely fit into a single seat in the two seats aisle-side from me.

Carighan , 11 months ago

The article explains it.

Carighan , 11 months ago

I don’t need money for the treatment. #publichealthcare

Carighan , 11 months ago

And the crowd goes… mild.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Nowadays, not a whole lot. I have more money than I have media consumption time, no matter the type. There are still exceptions for situations where nobody wants my money, where I also feel that even calling it a form of “theft” is a bit rich simply because… what potential sale or income is being lost? Nobody wants to make money with it! I’d happily pay, it’s just that there’s no one there to receive the money!

Carighan , 11 months ago

Because they are educating the children! How dare they?!

Carighan , 11 months ago

I want to play a game of Dungeon Keeper now where the “good” side has gone wicked from repeatedly being beaten and goes wild building up their own horrific “utopia” and attacking everyone else.

Then again, they’d just build Florida I suppose. 🤔 and ban books in schools and shit.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Should localize them by using the Japanese title translation so it sound equally “foreign awesome” in English? ユニコーンオーバーロード is what Google Translate outputs and hey I will say, it immediately looks less silly to me, despite actually saying the exact same words. 😑 (I hate that this actually works)

Carighan , 11 months ago

Word. For all their bluster, politicians are just too afraid - because their personal wealth depends on this shit - to ever actually rock the boat and do to these companies and importantly their leaders just a fraction of what they do to everyone, even outside of the country in question.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Incidentally why I believe that every major decision needs to be undersigned by at least 50% people under the age of 30, that explicitly sign that they are also to be held criminally responsible for anything these decisions result in even after they are no longer part of the compant and that they are only signing this after having reached a mutual agreement with the older people about this situation.

Can’t find enough youngsters to sign that? Well, no major corporate decision it is. And no political lawmaking either, of course.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Even better, take some of their money and staple it to them as a replacement for taring and feathering.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Plus, it sounds to me like they need to take more tablets apart. There’s always tons of dead space, usually taken up by filled or risen parts of the structural case.

Sounds to me like you can see a rushed product development here in so far that a custom molded shell was never provided. OTOH, this makes repairs far easier. Which is a good thing for consumers, even though it doesn’t remotely go far enough and I really want a FairTablet or so.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Eh, with how "durable"™️ modern electronics are, might as well call it consumption.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Me too, imagine what the very talented people behind the platform could have actually made if managers hadn’t wasted their potential on this boneheaded cheap money grab.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Quite excited. A bit tricky because given how amazing Hades turned out I want to hold back with this and only play it once it’s complete. But that might be a long time. Still, from the little they’ve shown this is looking to shape up really really well.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Oh that’s interesting, quite a few new characters. Didn’t expect that to be a focus of this.

Overall I’m extremely happy with the booster pack. So many new courses, and while I thought I’d hate most of them, it’s quite the opposite.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Yeah the only thing I’m wondering about is whether you’d actively feel the pain before the receptors are destroyed. Not sure the brain would start interpreting the catastrophic receptor firing as pain in time for it to matter before the signals just shut down.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Just use an ice comet.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Remember how all of the Ukraine’s military was paid off anyways, so Russia could just march right in unopposed! 😅

Carighan , 11 months ago

Considering we can’t even get heads or state or imagining-they’re-heads-of-states to not:

• Wage war on neighboring countries.
• Try to usurp their own government.
• Promote wild conspiracy theories.
• Be ragingly against personal freedom even in the US, the countries that is supposedly all about that.
• Be ragingly anti-intellectual.

… I really have exactly zero hope we can do shit-all about climate issues. We can’t even handle far smaller and far more benign (by comparison) issues on a national level, what hope do we have to handle things that require everyone to pull in the same direction, on an international one.

Carighan , 11 months ago

That’s impressive, though I don’t really get what that has to do with my post. In fact I was sure you had replied to me in that topic about Ecosia from the other day. 😅

Carighan , 11 months ago

If they seem chemical, or have a bad smell, check if the washing machine washes well, or use another program to wash them more, or a short program to wash them again, only with water.

And importantly, clean your washing machine. The residue from the detergent and the grime will slowly build up, so it’s important to at least every few months run a cleaning cycle (95°C or whatever the self-cleaning cycle of your machine is) with an actual machine cleaner and no clothes.
Before that cycle, manually clean some parts like the detergent fill-in area and the door. Some of the remaining dirt will be washed off by the cleaning cycle then.

Carighan , 11 months ago

they feel so ‘chemical-y’ and their texture goes from soft to uncomfy idfk?

This feels like what you’re noticing is actually the removal of the “chemicals” (technically, the fibres are a chemical, too, even cotton - everything is chemical in nature, btw, there is no “natural”). There’s an oil on/in the fabric when you buy it to make it softer and to protect it during transport and storage, and over a few washing cycles this gets removed.

To re-apply this effect, use fabric softeners. That’s exactly what they exist to do.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Yeah well, of course. That’s also why towels absorb water so much worse when they’re new and soft - they still have the oils on them. As they get dry and scratchy with repeated washings they no longer feel nice, but they’re much more efficient at drying yourself off with.

Carighan , 11 months ago

That’s easily supported by the fediverse if a user wants it, by just running their own instance. It’s just more convenient for most users, as a result of not everyone being a technical user, to not do so and use someone else’s instance.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Yeah, my ex and me did this since the fourth Kindle generation or so. 12+ years ago? Something like that.

Carighan , 11 months ago

You’re welcome to take on the rewrite of our auth-service too, since it seems so trivial in your world. Always fun to drag legacy services around for those 12 really loud and angry users.

Carighan , 11 months ago

I wouldn’t say “hate”, to me it’s more… so what? They’re really bad at what they do, only impressive at first glance. Not bad for some brainstorming, but then you end up with a facsimile of what the actual result would be, and now have to use that as a guideline to create the result.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Have you seen that legal brief?

Carighan , 11 months ago

You mean clip-ons? They’re neat in theory, but my glasses are already relatively thick by virtue of my bad eyes, even in lightweight. So whenever I had a clip, the weight + bulk of the glasses started to annoy me. Pricey as it is, I’d rather just have two sets of glasses then.

Carighan , 11 months ago

To be it was truly bad, but not in a rage-y way, only in a “Wow, this is it?! All this hype, all this wait, and this tepid fart is all we’re getting at the end?”-way.

I finished it - which granted isn’t difficult given how brief the main quest is - then went through some specific side quests. I will give it credit, some of the side quests have really cool characters and are overall really well done. And the graphics can be pretty as hell in some if not most areas. But ~everything else, the main quest, the writing, the story, the city in itself, the software quality, the combat system, the upgrade system, it’s all there, it’s largely functional, but just barely so.

So yeah, just massively disappointing given how much work must have been behind it. I don’t even want to know how often management yanked the team around and made them re-do massive parts of it, the bugginess and tonal disjointedness of the finished game hints at it plenty.

Special shoutout to the driving, which highlights how the game was clearly not meant to have this until relatively late in development.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Eeeew, gin. 😛

Although, I found gin to be suitably tasty if, right before consumption, I replace it with something else. Water, rum, anything really.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Until I started working for a bavarian company (I live in Hamburg), I didn’t realize how warranted much of this resentment is. 😅

Carighan , 11 months ago

Don’t forget being the german state for beer and alcoholism, and being staunchly against legalizing cannabis because “OMG drugs”, apparently. The CSU needs to be dismantled. Period.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Same. It’s clearly by an inexperienced author but the story and moment-to-moment storytelling was neat.

Even the movie was great IMO, clever way of modernizing the components of the novel for the audience the movie was intended for.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Same. I thought it was actually quite enjoyable. Too long in the opening parts in particular, but once it gets going it has a lot of really funny moments.

Plus, as much as I could say “It could have been better”, I will also have to concede that given the modern Ghostbusters, fuck could it have been worse. 😅 Overall, pretty damn good.

Carighan , 11 months ago

To me it always feels as if people are just loudly signaling their own unhappiness in their existing relationship when they hate on polyamory. It’s a weird form of surpressed and internalized envy.

Carighan , 11 months ago

So person C enters the relationship and they form a polyamorous-trio, but instead of it being a true trio, it’s more like A & B still have their relationship (now burdened) and A & C have a relationship, but B & C don’t engage much. This is the exact scenario I have witnessed in the only 2 households I’ve ever known doing it.

That is in fact common, but would also not result in “moving in” or “forming a polyamorous trio”. That’s exactly not the point, it’s just one person having two relationships and - hopefully - each of the partners is fine with not having 100% of their partner. Which many people actively enjoy mind you, not spending all the time sitting on top of one another.

In fact I would say that from all the poly couples I’ve know over the years, very few are trouples and want to move in together.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Would you consider it a perfectly legitimate arrangement if one end of the “V” resents it and is unhappy?

That’s just called cheating, not polyarmory.

Mind you, I’ve been in this setup you describe for a long time. My previous partner had female partners on top of me after ~7 years of only having me, and while I was friends with some of the women - good friends with one, even - I wasn’t ever “close” to most of them. Worked perfectly fine for me.

And this wasn’t a short thing either, we were together for ~10 years after that point, and the longest “third” partner was for 6 years.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Yeah that’s indeed something. I had a sex partner on top of my romantic partner for a few years, and that worked okay - since you only meet for shagging - but wow would two romantic partners be too much for me. Still, I was perfectly fine with my romantic partner also having another partner in addition to me. They could handle it fine!

Carighan , 11 months ago

The person you first replied to asked you to see the legal brief as an example of why they mind using the output as the finished product. You then asked for an explanation. To which I asked you, hey, have you actually looked at that example? You have not.

What exactly do you want here, other than be argumentative for combative reasons?

Carighan , 11 months ago

Sure, and yet virtually no one doomscrolls 10 minute videos. And even the “longer” videos in the scroll - meaning 15+ seconds, which nobody watches to finish anyways - have virtually no content, being just someone making stupid motions or reading out a text message.

That is, TikTok is as if an AI got tasked to turn meaningless tweets into portrait format videos. It’s a facsimile of video content. As if the creator only knew about what videos are based on the wikipedia entry for it or something.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Sure, there’s always a bar to clear. And yet Electron can’t even properly alias fonts if the creator doesn’t do it properly, as it tries to use Chrome’s broken font rendering by default. Nevermind scaling the size of anything, which just becomes a blurry mess if the app wasn’t created well enough (see the mess that is Signal as an example).