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chocosoldier ,

I spent most of my 20s alone, and met the woman I married at age 33. It’s never too late.

chocosoldier ,

I transferred schools in the middle of 10th grade, and the new Algebra class I landed in was several chapters ahead. I never caught up, but the teacher passed anyone who turned in literally anything for homework so I did that.

Now in my 30’s I’m getting into indie game design, and I need that gap filled so I can write the code I need. So I went to the local thrift shop and picked up a couple old textbooks (since it’s safe to assume that nothing groundbreaking has happened in the field of basic algebra in the past twenty years) for fifty cents and I’ve been working my way through them. I don’t understand everything that’s happening, but I’m pushing ahead with the faith that somewhere along the line things will “click”.

chocosoldier ,

“Gifted” education in the US means they burn us out with weird “critical thinking” extracirriculars and then berate us when the senioritis hits two years early.

chocosoldier ,

and here i’d been blissfully unaware of it for days now. damn you all.

(wear earplugs to concerts kids, especially if you’re playing)

chocosoldier ,

  1. This is foosball. This is foosball.

  2. The sport with the egg is “gridiron football”, we call it “football” for short for the same reason other countries call association football “football” for short, it’s the most popular variant here.

  3. We don’t call it “American football” because that’s not what it’s called, you lot say that because of point 2. Nobody is going to say “European football” because that’s not what it’s called either.

  4. The word “soccer” was imported from the UK (seriously that word is british as hell, you really think we came up with that shit?), and we use it for reasons outlined in points 2 and 3, and also because “european football” is inaccurate, tiresome, and stupid sounding.

  5. This is the first and only time I’ve ever heard of rugby union football being referred to as “ruggers”, I never thought I’d read a dumber-sounding word than soccer but you’re just full of surprises today. For some reason i was imagining one of the replies was the same person, this was in error.

chocosoldier ,

who the hell calls rugby “rugger”? that’s even worse than “soccer”.

chocosoldier ,

i find that people who cry about this-or-that is destroying humor or whatever, are pretty much universally bad at being funny. maybe up your game and stop blaming punctuation.

chocosoldier ,

oh look another troll dragging geopolitical culture war bullshit into everything

chocosoldier ,

fuck it, where do i start? if spending a little bit of my time writing a css sheet results in Google losing market share i’m 1000% down.

chocosoldier ,

not at all, thank you!

chocosoldier ,

look im as stoked as anyone else but that information should really be in a section explaining it in detail further down the page, for Tyson, for Simpson, and even for Trump. Say who he is and what he did that’s notable, not what the government did about it. it should say “fraudster” if anything, because that’s who he is. i don’t think labeling people vaguely as “felons” helps anything, and mostly serves to dehumanize people who have caught charges whether it was justified or not. that’s just my two cents.

chocosoldier ,

or, as i like to call it, gnu plus linux

chocosoldier , (edited )

basically everything beyond launching itunes/safari/whatever is tucked away in weird non-obvious places. i literally had to have someone show me how to get the list of all apps (it’s called something absolutely baffling that i’ve since forgotten) after clicking on and combing through things for like half an hour. the longest it’s taken me to suss out the same, to get a list of applications, on literally any other OS has been seconds, maybe a minute at longest.

so yeah, my example is the single most basic thing a user should be able to do in order to use the computer, is so unintuitive on mac that a grown ass adult who is a chronic distro-hopper needed help figuring it out. and god forbid you want to change a setting beyond the wifi, screen brightness, and audio volume.

chocosoldier ,

you know VMs are a thing, right?

chocosoldier ,

it went over my head, sorry for the mistake. have a lovely day.

chocosoldier ,

i grew up in a rural area where nascar is very popular (i personally never cared for it or paid much attention) and never understood the seemingly irrational hatred some people seemed to have for mr earnheardt, but that one quote makes it all make sense. thanks for clearing that up for me.

chocosoldier ,

ITT people baww at the mere mention of race and gender, and proceed to behave as if the problem is other people being too sensitive about race and gender.

chocosoldier ,

only white men can read an anecdote about a woman being tired of having her own field mansplained to her, and turn it into “…and that’s why this is bigoted against me, actually”. Holy fucking shit dude.

chocosoldier ,

As a Linux user whose first distro was Arch, I heartily endorse this advice. Arch is a terrible place to start.

chocosoldier ,

it sounds like you’re not only deeply insecure but unwilling to better yourself out of a misguided sense of spite

chocosoldier ,

this is news to all of us greymuzzles with multiple decades invested in the fandom

chocosoldier ,

if you won’t talk to me except through insta then you’re not worth being friends with just fucking text me like a normal ass human.

chocosoldier ,

same except i haven’t felt there’s a problem. get better friends.

chocosoldier ,

maybe try being less of a condescending ass

chocosoldier , (edited )

Is that what’s happening here though? I don’t have any context for this and there’s no obvious tell (that I could find) that the business is Jewish-owned and that it wasn’t put up by the owner, just looks like a small business taking an anti-genocide stance to me.

If the context is what you’re saying though, that’s fucked. Jews deserve blame for the actions of the extremists running the Israeli state the way Christians deserve blame for the actions of MAGA - these fascist groups don’t represent the religion or the people they’re just wearing it as a hat.

EDIT: To the reader: I should have read farther, another reply chain provides context that

  1. this is in fact a Jewish-owned business, and
  2. this specific Jewish-owned business has expressed a pro-Palestine stance on its Facebook account (specifically, its pfp is a palestine flag overlaid with a raised fist encircled by the words “Free Palestine End The Occupation”).

It seems very unlikely that this is a targeted act of hate, and PerogiBoi should be ashamed of themself for inventing a narrative out of whole cloth based on one factual detail and then proceeding to decry everyone else as “reactionary”.

chocosoldier ,

SCOTUS knows that Haley polls better against Biden than Trump does. It’s in the interest of their owners that they block him from running.

chocosoldier ,

the US military uses a personal cooling vest that was invented by a furry to keep cool in his fursuit

chocosoldier ,

when the disagreement is about whether we should be allowed continue existing it’s a bit much to handwave like that, and fuck you very much for deigning to not only frame it like that but 'splain it to us like we’re children. get bent.

chocosoldier ,

This is how I’m learning there’s an emulator for Switch games.

Funny thing is Switch was the first Nintendo device I’d even considered buying since GBC, but now that I know I can use my own hardware instead of paying through the nose for a locked-down Pi with a tiny screen and a shitty doll-size controller I’ll probably go that route instead. If I decide their branded shovelware is even worth playing in 2024 that is.

chocosoldier ,

“credibility” gtfo that’s hilarious.

hey guys you need credibility to be a random jackoff on a forum with an opinion now.

chocosoldier ,

“paying people who create value for your company is too complicated to worry about” is a weird justification

chocosoldier ,

No. Only tea is tea. If there’s no actual tea leaves in it then it’s an infusion. Not goddamn tea. You may as well soak orange peels in hot water and call it “orange coffee”, it makes zero sense.

chocosoldier ,

Tea is also not chunks of dried fruit and random herbs, it’s a specific plant.

chocosoldier ,

ITT people who think all coffee is like the Z-tier roasted-until-burnt held-until-stale blasphemy they serve at Starbucks.

ITT people who think all tea is the result of oversteeping a lipton bag in a cup in the microwave.

ITT people who think any random plant plus hot water is “tea” but are oddly specific about what is “coffee”.

chocosoldier ,

I’m sorry you were taught words wrong.

chocosoldier ,

Fox news pulled out the old “rich liberal having a private jet makes them a hypocrite because emissions” nugget they’ve been falling back on since the 2000 election (if not longer, that was the year i started following politics) and now it’s getting astroturfed everywhere like it’s a brand spanking new meme and not the same old conservative media tripe. more meaningless culture war shit, basically.

chocosoldier ,

while i also feel private jets are bad in general this is a conservative-media-led dogpile meant to smear her as punishment for telling her fans to vote or somesuch. there’s more productive things to do with that drive and energy than parrot literally decades-old Fox News smears. why are we playing their game?

chocosoldier ,

ITT people worry their hate speech won’t be seen

chocosoldier ,

i don’t think it even rises to the bar of a free speech issue, honestly. it’s akin to throwing a tantrum because someone took your jerkass note off the corkboard, it was a courtesy to let it stay there in the first place.

chocosoldier ,

the internet is just stuff on various computers, most of which are privately owned - imagine someone complaining that their free speech rights override your right to control your property, because you took down a note stuck to your door. “dystopic tool for social control” dude go meet your neighbors and make some connections that matter instead of worrying about forcing yourself onto as many strangers’ screens as possible. so fuckin dramatic.

chocosoldier ,

political memes in 2024 be like:

  • octogenarian with laser eyes
  • reskinned voldemort vs dumbledore memes
  • recycled memes from 20 years ago that used to be about Al Gore
  • weird tribalist overreactions to said recycled memes because we stan billionaires as long as the correct people put on a show of hating them, apparently.
  • shitting on grossly underpaid workers because their industry forces them to rely on gratuity
  • im gigachad and you’re wojak
chocosoldier ,

steven crowder, a far-right talking head who moves in the same circles as Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, etc. if rush limbaugh was vader then crowder is kylo ren.

chocosoldier ,

chemistry is an evolution of alchemy, because they strived in that way. Whereas Sovcit belief is a degenerate form of practicing law, more like a cargo cult imo.

chocosoldier ,

thats like saying theyre wrong because words are spelled correctly yes the number is correct but the machine doesnt know what the hell it is, or what it’s for, or in any sense “understand” what it’s regurgitating to the user as evidenced by the fact that it listed it twice. “AI” doesn’t know anything, it just copy-pastes shit.

chocosoldier ,

meanwhile i asked it to write a short simple hello world in a scripting language designed for children, and it spat out nothing but garbage. one of us is leaning on confirmation bias.

chocosoldier ,

sees headine oh, that’s good news!

sees source oh it’s gay fox, which means it’s probably sensationalized to the point that the headline is a lie, because that’s what they do over there.

chocosoldier ,

honestly it would make sense and i didn’t doubt it until I saw it was on PinkNews - it’s not about bias, it’s about their headlines too often being the exact opposite of the real story (when there even is a real story; much of their content is sensationalized nothings). Just absolute crap reporting. Thanks for providing the original source.

chocosoldier ,

John Oliver is a national treasure.

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