mecha_ghidorah

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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
God yes I hate how US centric a lot of this stuff is.
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
And the updates keep reinstalling things like facebook. It's awful. One of the updates actually uninstalled the facebook messenger app for some reason, no idea why it did that. EDIT: sorry I forgot to say thanks for the recommendation,
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
I dunno I'm only just 30 and I am way less excited by tech than I was 10 years ago. Less and less of it is stuff that caters to me... For example I got one of the second generation kindles and it was fantastic, and after that finally d
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
I remember seeing people complain that CP2077 wasn't punk because you could do jobs for the police and get paid for it... Which to me is actually incredibly punk in message. Sure the character might not be punk, but the suggestion th
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
I'm a man and I'm a chronic apologiser, and I think it probably at least partially originates from being physically abused as a child. It's easy to get in a habit of just apologising immediately for any sort of negative react
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
> More focus…hanging out with the dog… > These things literally contradict each other. I don't see how to be honest. I don't have a dog but I hang out with my spouse more now that we both work from home: instead of going to
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
> Exercise is practically useless for weight loss. The body demands a fixed number of calories (up until you're doing something at the level of extreme training) and shunts the available calories between systems. Exercise has lots o
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
> Whoever brought it up has some deep unresolved issues, however. Or was fishing for an argument. This was in the context one of those kink quizzes regarding what things someone was into, so genders, fetishes, bodily features, sex acts,
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
> I wonder what their position is towards someone who prefers trans people. They'd consider it fetishism, unless said person was also trans and only preferred other trans people because of wanting that shared life experience. Their
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
I did just literally get into an argument with an acquaintance last week because she was insisting that it was not an ok or valid thing for someone to not want to date trans women as a category if they were ok with dating women. So I wouldn
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
> This too is super disingenious line of questioning. How aobut not being able to go to anywhere else? Feels pretty weird just to drive to the gym and back. That has nothing to do with working from home though, it has to do with the pand
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
I pick a different start word each day to help keep it fresh I have a friend who always users yesterdays word as their first guess
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
I mean in that case you're still paying Microsoft for a Windows install. I'm not sure that is really "choosing a different OS" in a way that matters much. You chose Windows and a different OS, from Microsoft's poi
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
> "The men’s rights stuff is toxic because it’s about conflict. It’s about pushing back against feminism, which is essentially fighting against equity. With that said, I see nothing wrong with fighting for the interests of boys and
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
I still think it is amazing that the OK gesture being racist started as a prank, basically "these idiots on twitter see racism everywhere, lets make the some of them think the one of the most innocuous gestures imaginable is racist&quo
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
> As for the effect on Native populations; this wasn’t in the book at all. The Fremen are clearly based on Nomadic desert peoples like the Bedouin - people who swept to power seemingly out of nowhere and established their own sprawling E
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
Wow that is a huge difference, thank you for sharing. I am fucking against this auto pilot stuff a good deal and even I was looking at the video in the original link thinking "Fuck I dunno if a human would do any better". In the u
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
> I've never heard anyone vocally supporting abortion rights consider for any moment if or how much of the decision should be made together with the father. That to me is wrong and equally immoral. It's always "my body, my
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
I don't think they called it a return, they said it did return. They don't mean it in the sense that there was a profit made in terms of benefit, the benefit they are describing comes via the money changing hands and allowing al
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
You could probably make exceptions to the high tax rate for high density commercial real estate ownership so you could own a suite of offices without it kicking in as well as providing temporary tax brakes (as in, for X years after constr
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
Yeah I've never been an Apple fan, but I used to run iTunes on windows because it was fucking great. Then they added the album view stuff and performance degraded and it became unstable. I use Foobar now and sure Foobar takes a bit of
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
I think the issue is more at many places people don't feel empowered to just go and fix/build something. I've worked places where if I pull stuff in from the next sprint my manager gets annoyed because it screws with the metr
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
Ah thanks. I've had the scope shoved in my nose it is terrible (I had a chuckle after getting tested for COVID because boy is that camera worse). I definitely don't have a constant sinus infection, so it sounds like your situation
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
Hey can you please PM me a bit more info on how you were treated and some facts about your case if you are comfortable to? I have been using CPAP for years but my case is weird: I was diagnosed in my early 20s, I was not and am not overweig
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
Can you please expand on how mandatory voting has lead to harm? I'm genuinely not able to imagine how you can lay the blame for the current state of Australian politics on it
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
> Experience has taught me that I'm a weirdo and my aesthetic objections are usually anti-correlated with a project's success. I am the George Costanza of social media. Oh god this describes me. I was about 14-15 when MySpace s
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by mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
> Put on your wired headphones. Sit down (e.g. on the bus.) Now try taking off your shoulder-strapped bag to hold it in your lap, without first taking out your headphones. Well what I used to do when I had wired headphones was run the he