invictvs

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This kid gets it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I got something more important — a life lesson! It serves me well now that I work in a corporate environment and turns out school is not that different, some of the management in my company even gives me back memories of the kindergarden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This kid gets it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You are right, I can’t imagine that happening in the real world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This kid gets it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was in high school we got to write an essay (or something like that, I don’t remember anymore) on some topic I didn’t have any opinions about, so I gave an empty sheet of paper with only my name on it. The teacher was really puzzled, an brought up this to me and my mom. She wondered why I didn’t cheat and copy something from the internet like a lot of my classmates did actually. We already had smartphones, it was around 2012-2013. I didn’t cheat because my parents taught me honesty, that was my answer to my teacher.

  Guess what? I got the lowest possible grade (essentially I failed this exam). People who cheated, and she knew they cheated got higher grades. Not that I’m complaining, I got the grade I deserved in my opinion. I would like to note that I wasn’t a lazy student or anything, it was this one time that I slipped up, and preferred to be honest about it.

  What school taught me is that cheating will get you further than honesty. If you can’t make it, fake it. This translated very well when I started working in a corporate environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the 2028 election was held today, who would you vote for?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know how you got that idea since I said that the president resigned, not that he was kidnapped by a foreign country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the 2028 election was held today, who would you vote for?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, since my country’s government resigned under the pressure of a nationwide protests, althou elections will not be held today, they will be pretty soon.

  As to who am I going to vote for, I’m still askig myself this. All of the parties have proven themselves to be trash in one way or the other.

  And the newcomer party that is expected to appear will be formed by the former president, who also resigned last week, not because of pressure, but to be able to form a party and participate in the upcoming parliament elections. And while he was president he made some statements that made it very clear he has sympathies towards Russia, so a big NO on the voting there too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But think of the landlords!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish! As someone who have lived in one of those concrete apartments from the communist era of my country, at least as they were made here, you do hear your neighbours. And if your neighbours have an active kid or a bigger breed dog that likes to jump a lot especially. Also every time they drop something on the fooor. I’m not very familiar with construction and material propeties, but there is something about concrete that carries vibrations easily. When a neighbour starts doing some renovations the power drill can be heard in half of the building (it was a nightmare for me, who worked night shifts at the time).

  Don’t get me wrong, I’d still prefer that hell to being homeless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bicycles should be allowed on the road with the full rights and requirements (tags, inspections, and insurance) as motor vehicles.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a driver I hate electric scooters on the road. As a cyclist I hate electric scooters on the road. As a pedestrian I hate electric scooters on the road.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey Grok⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s add Jeff Bezos to the exceptions list too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In Bulgarian “длан” [dɫan] (which in IPA is spelled close enough to “dłoń”] refers specifically to the palm while “ръка” [rɤˈka] can refer to the the hand, whole arm and some people may use it for palm even, although that last one is not correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they kind of do now. I don’t watch television and haven’t touched a TV for a long time, but recently I had to help a neighbour set his new smart TV up. It was one of the big brands, I don’t remember if it was LG, Samsung or something else. The TV couldn’t go through initial set up without me installing some app on his phone. If there was an option to skip I couldn’t see where it was, I only assume that if it was possible it was intentionally made un-intuitive or hard to discover. And of course, if you want the TV to connect to the app you must connect it to Internet. Again, it may have been a failure on my part, but I wouldn’t be supprised if they intentionally forced the user to do it this way.

  Samsung had something similar on their cheaper phones (the A series) where during the initial set up it asks you to login or create a Samsung account and you have to jump through a couple of hoops to skip it, as well as some other part where I don’t remember what the phone asked you to do, but the “Yes” option was blue, while the button to skip was intentionally colored the same or very similar shade of gray as an inactive button. So if the TV was Samsung I don’t doubt for a second that they will do some shady practice like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado delenda est⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The world does not need another Balkan peninsula, trust me. And especially not in a place where guns are legal.