Rakonat
@Rakonat@lemmy.world
- Comment on Smells Great 2 days ago:
Huh, well keystrokes for later
- Comment on If it works it works 6 days ago:
To that person. Huh? Nearly every interplanetary launch has been using a gravity assist to save fuel despite such journeys taking much longer
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 3 weeks ago:
The friend isn’t there for when the date is in the public space. The friend is there for after to ensure the girl gets home safe.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe I just to respect the French language /s
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 3 weeks ago:
yeah my keyboard doesn’t have those funni french accents.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 3 weeks ago:
Your read of the situation is pretty tilted, ngl.
He said he’s not paying for her, the implication is they are going out to eat for a date. Not chilling at home or somewhere in private. Bestie can chill somewhere else other than at the table the date is happening at, if homegirl feels threatened or scared of the guy she can signal for bestie.
I can totally understand wanting a trusted friend around to ensure a date goes fine, hell ive done it several times for girls and guys I’m friends with. But that safety net can stay in the background and doesn’t need to be at the table interfering with the date. But never once did I expect the friend I was wingmanning for to buy me food or drink while I hovered in the background. All homegirl had to say is bestie is paying their own way or homegirl was gonna give her some money.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 3 weeks ago:
You’re selling an underpowered console that spies on the home for 800usd. Stfu about the price being tough on the company
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 3 weeks ago:
Dude never said friend can’t come, dude just said he’s not covering her bill.
I’m fine with a girl bringing a buddy or backup but don’t make it a third wheel unless your intention from the start is a menage trios.
- Comment on Do we have a deal or what? 3 weeks ago:
Deal.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 4 weeks ago:
I couldn’t make it through the first season and tried picking up season 2 to see if it improved any. Didn’t watch anything past that.
It was written by people who didn’t have a good grasp on what star trek was, or thought they could remake it better for a new generation. But they ended up making something that just leaves a sour taste in your mouth if you know what that setting is capable of being.
To me, STD and the first season or so of Picard feel exactly like when a video game you thoroughly enjoy gets adapted into movie. There’s recognizable elements there, but nobody is acting the way they should and everything has that uncanny valley affect where you know what it’s supposed to be but it’s clearly failing to do it convincingly. It’s hard to point to what is actually wrong but you know several elements are off.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 4 weeks ago:
Hamburgerius
- Comment on Lead 4 weeks ago:
double chin is too small as well.
- Comment on Alliyah 'married' their teacher at 13. No-one else knew 4 weeks ago:
I work in residential therapy. Abusers always find some means to justify and normalize their abuse so the vulnerable youth just go along with it thinking they are the ones at fault. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking how many youth I work with that have to be deprogrammed from this kind of thought while simultaneously taught healthy boundaries for other youth and adults. Nothing claws at your soul more than reading about all the awful shit an abuser did or put a child through only for that child to be crying at night begging for a chance to talk with their abuser again.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 4 weeks ago:
Disney absolutely who the antagonist represented in the winter soldier
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 5 weeks ago:
First game was just Diablo 2 but FPS with guns. But I can totally respect anyone that didn’t jive with that. The humor was very hit and miss and definitely made but a group of people who insisted they were hilarious.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 5 weeks ago:
Couldn’t have been less interested. Borderlands hasn’t been remotely interesting since 2 and everything since then has been a soulless cash grab.
- Comment on The bullet engravings as per WSJ 1 month ago:
Given that both individuals that tried to enact their plots against POTUS were registered republicans, I wouldn’t be surprised if some MAGA idiot did shoot Charlie over some falling out. Though my money is definitely on Mossad given recent events.
- Comment on The bullet engravings as per WSJ 1 month ago:
Was going to say, weren’t they claiming the round was from a 30.06? It should be necked and considerably longer.
This is turning into a worse frame up job than Luigi. Does the DoJ just tell local authorities to find a scapegoat if the shooter can’t be found in 12-24 hours?
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 1 month ago:
Inb4 Doom can now run on birds.
- Comment on Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity 1 month ago:
This plant is part of a bigger chain. So while yes, on its own it seems waste of effort, as part of the entire chain it’s a reasonable step to be more environmentally friendly and recover some energy in the process.
A local plant desalinates water, resulting in fresh water and a brine solution that has much higher concentration of salt in it than regular sea water.
Dumping the brine solution on its own would kill most plant and animal life around the dump site due to large saltwater concentration, so an alternative method must be found to dispose of the brine.
Waste water from other processes can be mixed with the brine to bring it more in line with seawater salinity, making it safe to reintroduce to the ocean without severe ecological impact. This waste water is deemed to difficult or intensive to purify and treat to bring it back up clean water standards, and I’m assuming tested or filtered so as not to introduce hazardous chemicals that could damage the reverse osmosis membranes as well as sea life.
Because there is way to mix the waste water and brine through membranes that can be used to generate electricity, this process is utilized to recover some of the energy expended in purifing the original batch of seawater resulting in the brine.
It’s not a perfect process but it is a means of getting some use out a waste product, similar to burning garbage or rotting food rather than just dumping it into a pit and letting it rot and release methane.
- Comment on Checkmate Atheists! 1 month ago:
The world’s largest unisex public urinal.
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 2 months ago:
Is that his story or is there actually witnesses to his claim that aren’t teenage prostitutes that beat the shit out of him?
- Comment on Power Word: OBEY 2 months ago:
It’s start with ONE THING
- Comment on Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows 2 months ago:
Worth noting lot of industry experts in renewables and outside of it criticize LCOE for not properly taking inflation and total life cycle costs into account. It’s still a useful number but never let it be more than a single data point in determining which form of energy is cost effective balanced against environmental impact.
- Comment on They even got their own island 2 months ago:
He calculated the odds, but boy he was bad at math.
- Comment on They even got their own island 2 months ago:
Some girl when I was in middle school, 14ish, used to get picked up by some tatted up 20 something, pretty sure he was at least 25 but no idea. We thought he was like an uncle or something. Nope, turns out he was her boyfriend. Pretty sure that guy went to prison for meth related activities.
- Comment on After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17 2 months ago:
I thought it was strange on steam that it was so hard to get across when I was sure when I played it on Xbox that I basically did it first try no sweat.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Find a person who makes it worth getting out of bed every morning and they feel the same about you. Everything else is crap.
If you still want advice from a stranger on the Internet about dating advice, in your situation I’d probably be looking for people closer to my age than not. But if some 20-22 year old says and does everything that puts a smile on your face, then go for it.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 2 months ago:
There’s always been criticism but until now it’s been low level insiders and nobodies like pirate software. And the reasons the publishers and big names that would be affected did SKGs didn’t say or do anything until now because they didn’t want to give it any oxygen. They were smart enough to ignore it because they knew if they said anything it’d rile up a shift storm. Which is exactly what Pirate Software did so he’s probably got a lot of people on both sides pissed at him for being too narcissistic to shut up and let the movement die.
Now that it has enough signatures to be taken seriously you’re going to see the fire hoses open up and a lot of misinformation spread about how the movement would make the gaming industry unviable for the current model. Now is the point where if you are an EU citizen that you write and call your representatives who would consider this issue and help write the law if it did pass on how important it would be to you personally to not allow game companies to revoke your ability to utilize a game you paid for.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 3 months ago:
None of these a reasons the store, which posts it’s own prices and barcodes, can’t just include the total on the tag, or better yet set the price to the nearest whole number (or division of .10/.25) and take the tax out of that full amount. I know because I live in the midwest, I worked in retail/grocery store and our store piloted a test program of doing exactly that. Customers were incredibly happy and our overall sales actual went up because people who didn’t normally shop with us started to because it was easier to budget.
We got shut down by corporate beancounters who were freaking out because we were supposedly making less money. Except our sales and profits were up for the 8 weeks we demo’d the program and 4 weeks after we were forced to stop sales dropped below our year-on-year average. Literally forced to stop a program that benefited the customer and retailer because corporate greed couldn’t tolerate the customer not being screwed.