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Mesophar@lemm.eeto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that the forward part of a ship, the forecastle, is pronounced (and sometimes written as) "fo'c'sle"English3·4 months agoNow THAT should be in the Toot Oriole
Mesophar@lemm.eeto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What hyped thing did you fall for that you now regret and have to live with?281·4 months agoOh, no! They’ve fallen for the “don’t pre-order” hype!
Mesophar@lemm.eeto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•AMD introduces $599 Radeon RX 9070 XT and $549 RX 9070 RDNA4 GPUs - VideoCardz.comEnglish29·4 months agoThey don’t launch today
Yeah, that might be more accurate. Most of what I was thinking was in terms of MMORPG PvP arenas, or something like Sea of Thieves when you have two ships that get locked in a prolonged battle. Having one really good player going against a group of semi-coordinated average players can be a lot of fun, too! Like everyone ganging up on the really good Smash player (and still losing against them).
When there is no challenge at all, that’s when it gets dull.
100% agree! Sure, it might be disappointing if you spend 15 minutes in an intense back and forth before eventually losing, but it feels good! If one side is going to absolutely dominate the other, though, at least let it be over quickly.
Mesophar@lemm.eeto Europe@feddit.org•Signal's CEO: Then We're Leaving Sweden | Sweden HeraldEnglish1·5 months agoI agree that it would destroy the reason many people use it, but they aren’t outlawing Signal specifically. What they are doing is arguably worse, but this isn’t an “anti-Signal” action.
Mesophar@lemm.eeto Europe@feddit.org•Signal's CEO: Then We're Leaving Sweden | Sweden HeraldEnglish261·5 months agoIllegal unless they install the backdoors. They could choose to do that instead of leaving Sweden, but they are choosing to leave Sweden.
Mesophar@lemm.eeto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•My boss texting me how he wants me to cook his eggs every morning13·5 months agoThe only part that weirds me out a little is that those are the only messages! OP will have to tell us, is this like a chat dedicated just to egg requests, or does their boss not message them with anything else over text, ever?
Mesophar@lemm.eeto[Dormant] moved to !space@mander.xyz@lemmy.world•NASA just changed the odds of asteroid YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 yet again7·5 months agoWell of course, measurements will get more accurate as it’s studied longer, and everyone knows it’s much too difficult to train highly educated and skilled astronauts how to be drillers!
Mesophar@lemm.eeto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•So… one of my friends blocked me because she’s going to “leave me alone now”. Is this a bad sign?6·5 months agoYou could have written “sorry, watching a movie right now” and then stop responding or reading messages they send you.
Hell, even if you remove the “sorry” part of the message. At a certain point, you need to take accountability for how you write messages, despite being in a bad place mentally at the moment. Maybe they were frustrating you by continuing to message you while you were busy (and it does sound like they had prior knowledge you were busy with a movie), but it also requires that you were continuing to engage with them despite being frustrating. Nothing was preventing you from simply not responding until the movie was over.
Is this not a generalization of sweeping generalizations?
Mesophar@lemm.eetopolitics @lemmy.world•Adams case and other Trump moves threaten to open corruption floodgates, experts say7·5 months agoRight? If what happens now is pre-open floodgates, I cannot imagine what it will be like once they open.
Mesophar@lemm.eetoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Nazi flags can fly in Utah school, but not pride flags, GOP lawmaker says9·5 months agoI’d say that moral compass is spinning Right on the Axis…
Mesophar@lemm.eeto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Ordering coffee in the USA triggers meEnglish41·6 months agoSoda fountains keep being brought up here. If you order a soda with no ice, you typically get more soda. But that’s because the way the sods fountains fill is based on the volume in the cup, not the volume dispensed. The coffee machine in this post evidently measures based on coffee dispensed. If soda were dispensed the same way, it’s likely soda with no ice would also give you a less than full cup.
Also, don’t go insulting or blaming the worker in this instance. They likely have to follow the guidelines of the job or risk losing it. “Pre-programmed to not be able to problem solve”? Fuck right off with that. If the machine is set to dispense a certain amount of coffee, the worker would either need to press the button twice, giving away more product for free, or press it once and give a half-full cup. This has nothing to do with problem solving. Maybe the customer shouldn’t be pre-prpgrammed to expect more for less. I get the frustration of not having a full cup, but you’d only be getting a half-full cup with or without the ice in it. You are getting what you paid for.
Mesophar@lemm.eeto AskUSA@discuss.online•Do you get too much ice in your coffee when ordering in the US?English11·6 months agoSure, it IS fucked, but you’re getting what you paid for, and knew the amount in advance. Should the cup be filled all the way? Maybe, but you’re not getting anything less in this situation. It isn’t like they poured half the coffee out, or like you ordered a sandwich with no tomato so they took half the meat off as well. If you order a sandwich, pay for a sandwich, ask for no tomato, and get a sandwich with no tomato but they didn’t add extra meat to offset the lack of tomato, you didn’t get ripped off. The price of the sandwich might have been a rip off to begin with, but it isnt a rip off because of the removal of tomato.
Mesophar@lemm.eeto AskUSA@discuss.online•Do you get too much ice in your coffee when ordering in the US?English21·6 months agoThen don’t order from them? Evidently enough people don’t think it is a ripoff or think the convenience is worth it if they are still in business
Mesophar@lemm.eeto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Ordering coffee in the USA triggers meEnglish18·6 months agoYeah… you’re be getting exactly the same amount of coffee you had been paying for before. Getting upset at how little that coffee amounts to normally is one thing, but getting upset with the notion that you are now getting -less- coffee is just silly.
Wait, are people sitting and watching the computer as it shuts down? I shut my computer down every time I walk away from it for more than an hour or two, and every night. I just type the command and then walk away to do other things while it shuts down…
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