Theharpyeagle

@Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Swedish church leaders seek to ban fathers giving the bride away⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Even though the scene feels nice for future bridal couples, we can’t disregard what it symbolises: a father handing over a minor virgin to her new guardian.”

  This seems like a silly thing to get hung up on when the bride isn’t a minor (and perhaps not a woman) and can choose who they walk down the aisle with. The article even mentions that some choose to walk with their mother, and likely there are others who walk with other important friends or family members. I’ve never cared too much about wedding ceremonies, but I know that walking down the aisle can be a really important and symbolic thing for the bride and the person they walk with. Seems like taking that choice away is more restrictive to women than, you know, letting the woman decide for herself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't look now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest I still chalk it to to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A surprising number of 'iPad Kids' are on X, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol as if these generations are doing anything different than they were doing before. Kids have always lied about their age to do adult things. Not saying it’s healthy, just like it wasn’t healthy for kids to get their older brother to buy cigs, but it’s not a unique problem and these generations are far from a “lost cause”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i like welch's⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was looking around at rental houses a few years back because the owner of our current rental was kicking us out to sell. I visited a house that the owner was “flipping” for rental and noticed there was no stove/oven. I asked the owner about it and he said “oh, tenants usually bring their own.”

  Place was sketchy as hell in other areas, too; tons of those cheapo plastic panel walls propped up at odd angles hiding god knows what, bare hardwood floors that had clearly had the carpet ripped up without refinishing or even removing all the staples, and slanted floors that really made me feel like I was about to fall into the basement. Luckily we were able to find another place, but it was a low CoL area and I’m sure some desperate family got stuck in that heap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a reddit Sync user and was super bummed when (large scale) API access was shut off, so I jumped on the chance to use Sync for Lemmy. It defaulted to world for signups, presumably for ease of use for migrating reddit users. Knowing that Sync already had a loyal audience that was willing to put in some effort to migrate, it seems the dev opted to make everything as similar to the reddit UX as possible, including registration.

  Now that I’m more familiar with the fediverse, I’ve been considering migrating to a more specialized instance that matches my interests. Truthfully, though, it seems unlikely that much of anything would change if I did since I’m going to keep using the same app, so I’ve been slow to move.

  To compare this with my experience with Mastodon, I was absolutely overwhelmed by the idea of instances and really had no idea which to join, nor did I have a familiar app to work with. I figured it out eventually, but a lot of the artists I follow didn’t or didn’t have time to, so overall I haven’t spent much time on it. I’ve spent way too much time on Lemmy so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sloths 🦥⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think so, looks like Prince Wu up to the right there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  According to Samsung SDI’s VP, automakers are interested in its solid-state battery packs because they are smaller, lighter, and much safer than what’s in current electric cars. Apparently, they are also rather expensive to produce, since it warns that they will first go into the “super premium” EV segment of luxury electric cars that can cover more than 600 miles on a charge.

  Apparently not, though this is all marketing speak

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Mint 22 released: An attractive option for migrating away from Windows | Windows 11 system requirements block millions of PCs from upgrading, while Linux Mint continues to work on older hardware⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve installed Mint on pretty much any old machine I can get my hands on. Right now I’m using it with KDE as my daily driver and couldn’t be happier.

  I’d say for most people coming from windows, there’s little in the way of expected functionality that would be included in other distros.

  • signed, a Mint simp
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention Travelocity broke the law by allowing her to work for free while benefiting their company.

  In general, as long as an employee is engaging in activities that benefit the employer, regardless of when they are performed, the employer has an obligation to pay the employee for that time.

  …wikipedia.org/…/Fair_Labor_Standards_Act_of_1938

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look you've just to got read the prologue that was a limited edition IHOP giveaway in 2015 and the story is awesome⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the opposite experience, I only watched it a couple years ago and thought the hype would totally kill it for me, but I actually ended up really enjoying it and EoE in particular stuck with me. I loved the idea that love is born of the risk we take of truly being known by other people.

  I will say that the quality of the Netflix dub probably helped a lot. I know they changed some translations which kinda sucks, but overall the voice acting is so much better. No hate to Spike Spencer, he’s obviously a very prolific voice actor, but I think his performance of Shinji is at least part of why people thought he was so whiny. We were originally going to watch through the rebuild movies dubbed, too, but it was so bad we decided to switch to sub.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look you've just to got read the prologue that was a limited edition IHOP giveaway in 2015 and the story is awesome⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I can get into a series if people say to skip the first couple episodes/seasons because it takes a little to figure itself out (like how you can skip the first season of Parks and Rec and miss nothing of importance), but weird watch order is not something I’ll bother with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look you've just to got read the prologue that was a limited edition IHOP giveaway in 2015 and the story is awesome⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t bother with anything weird, just watch the series through and then the movies in release order. Yeah it won’t be quite chronological, but I don’t think it really needs to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Headlines⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh?? The West has been almost entirely united behind Ukraine. I mean it’s the controversial stuff that gets clicks but I don’t think anyone is on Russia’s side here. Hell there’s graphic videos on Lemmy of Russian soldiers being blown to bits and no one bats an eye.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when planes and hospitals had smoking sections? (Probably a lot of you do not).⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think smoking rooms in hotels are still a thing, but they’re certainly less common than they were. My mother and I got stuck in a smoking room despite booking a non-smoking room well in advance and it was awful. Stayed just one night and our clothes smelled like cigarette smoke for the rest of the trip.

  I don’t really care if people smoke, but gosh, ya’ll need ventilation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything old is new again.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, there are some pretty legitimate concerns about employee welfare with Uber. Do the drivers get paid while waiting for customers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hello lovelies!!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Potato salad is fucking amazing and I will die on this hill

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old-timey doctors⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Something about the phrasing “you should do a lot of cocaine about it” really tickles me. I wonder what you call breaking grammar rules for humor like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sync, I’ll be sure to let them know. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird, I did format it that way but it doesn’t seem to stick on editing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had someone with a super long scarf play basically the entire second half of the game with me. So fun to find ways to communicate with just the little pulses we had.

  !Also absolutely heartbreaking when wet froze together at the end!<

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android has a "Ctrl+Z" feature, the keyboards just dont support it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve also used hacker keyboard to ctrl+c/ctrl+v when apps block the regular context copy/paste actions, pretty handy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get Pasteurised⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s just the overwhelming stupidity. The covid stuff I can kinda understand because it was a scary and uncertain time. And maybe, to a point, I had kind of just accepted that the antivax “movement” had gained a twisted sort of legitimacy in some people’s eyes purely because it has been around so long.

  But this… this is just beyond dumb. Dollars to donuts these people have been drinking pasteurized milk their entire lives and never had an issue. Missing vitamins? Take a multivitamin and have more than your body knows what to do with. Want probiotics? Eat yogurt!

  I also just read that Louisiana might approve milk for pet consumption and that’s just so god damn sad. It’s one thing to spew from both ends due to your own stupidity, but quite another to inflict that stupidity on creatures who have no choice but to rely on you for their health and comfort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2932: Driving PSA⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing gets me closer to road rage than people waving me on when they have the right of way at a four way stop. Like yes thank you that’s very polite, but we both could’ve been through this intersection if you’d gone when you were supposed to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blast!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel this so hard! Sometimes I wanna be a little quiet, mysterious, wait for them to come to you. But someone says anything that remotely interests me and I’m suddenly jabbering like a turkey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neuralink's first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company says⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really feel conflicted about this. I hate Musk as much as anyone and think this experiment is a little irresponsible, but if I were going through what that guy is dealing with, I’d probably want to give it a try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have people been unsafe in unisex bathrooms?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is not a stereogram. If you look at it a certain way it will not resolve into anything.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoa the crossed eyes thing is wild. The human body is weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨blast me off, fam⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Soda is in ounces until it reaches a liter. Alcohol is ml until you get to 40 ounces. Milk is always pints, half gallons, and gallons. Why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the issue is that people were expecting a custom (enough) OS, software, and firmware to justify asking $200 for a device that’s worse than a $150 phone in most every way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  DVDs but they can also come to your house and snap the disc in half without offering a refund. Now that’s customer service.