qyron

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm laic.

What beliefs a person holds to themselves is indiferent to me. And it should not matter to anyone. Relationships are a negotiated endeavour, from both parts, where everyone gives a little to reach a mutual understanding.

Unless a person subscribes views capable of leading to individual, personal and socially harmful and regressive thought and action, it does not matter.

Removing the religious view from your question: would you date a vegan, not being one? Would you date a non vegan, being yourself one?

Zealotry goes both ways. Both the believer and the non believer can entrench themselves in their views so deeply they become fanatics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's minimum wage in my country and many live with it. Where I live you can find a house with three bedrooms for €300 to €400.

Downside? Small, slow, semi rural, no jobs town. You have to commute to work.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

As someone who grew up inputing passwords in Mega Drive games with one: there are worst things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

So, they're lazy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

No it wasn't and it never did.

The constitution itself allows for a very small group of individuals to control the entire country, from the first moment it was written.

It was never truly reviewed to allow a proper redistribution of voting power throughout all the states and it still allows for indirect election of the most powerful state figure, where it should instead by directly elected by popular vote.

The gerrymandering, the filibusting, two chambers system, common law system, etc.

The american government was never created to be a proper one; it was an emulation of the english system but even more botched.

The document itself should have been thrown in the trash and a new one written, the moment the civil war broke. And again it should had been trashed when the market crash happened.

There is only so much an ammendement can do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Imagine if any country could manage itself, by thinking ahead and admiting bad actors could arise, thus preparing in advance for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I understand your take but it is not really hard to grab the basic mechanics and make a thriving city in any game.

The basic mechanics are universal.

What throws off the managing part is "enemies", "natural disasters" and other excitment mechanics.

A managed economy could happen and would be highly efficient, especially because running a nation is a collective endeavour. Individuals fail but groups have memory.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Under pressure for what?

It has already been stated that the import of food items, in detriment of the higher EU food standards, will not be negotiable.

Two simple examples: chicken and beef.

For beef, it would be as simple as stop pumping cattle with steroids and attest the origin of the animal, two things american rancher are unwilling and often unable to do. Argentina and Brasil sell meat to the EU. Isn't the US as capable?

Stop washing chicken with chemicals (likewise, eggs), treat the animals properly, with good sanitary conditions, no steroids, and it will be fine.

But the real issue is that the EU already produces enough beef and chicken indoors. And meat consumption has been in a sharp decline. No one will buy what they don't.

Besides these two, it would make a difference if the US stopped using artificial food colorings, with proven bad effects on health.

There are more issues.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Beet root boiling water is a very stubborn dye to wash off too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Which the occupants can clean themselves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Was that lamb properly cleaned? Sheep and goat have glands throughout the body that need to be removed in order to make the meat more palatable; it's still edible, just unpleaseant and smelly.

I personally prefer adult sheep or goat. The meat is very though and oily but slowly roasted, with strong herbs, it breaks down and becomes tender. The fat in the meat is superb to cook root vegetables in.

Nothing against horse; unusual nowadays but it helped a relative of mine to ward off a serious malnutrition, leading to low blood iron levels. Game meats are game meats. I personally enjoy boar but not being a hunter makes it hard to source such meats.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Nothing wrong, per se, just non sensical.

The animal does not have much to eat, the meat is though and very fatty and heavily scented. Also, unless it is "fat", it is not edible, leading to badgers in the area becoming leaner and more muscular.

Allso, it's a protected species.

 

Looking at my own digital dependency and comparing it to people I know, although being personally more of a tech geek than most, I find my dependency of technology lower.

Hardware wise, I tend to run everything I buy until it is rendered completely unuseable or it breaks down. This obviously ties with my preference towards FOSS but I think it is more of a tangent.

Services wise, I am a complete outlier. I never subscribed to a streaming service, I was quick to leave mainstream social media behind, I never boarded fads around wearables. Most applications that inhabit my acquaintances smartphones don't find a way to mine (Whatsapp, Amazon, Aliexpress, Uber, UberEats, etc).

This is the most extreme part of my behaviour but I have refused services that do not have a means of contact/interaction besides an application.

And I do not feel inconvinienced in my day to day life by this.

 

I'm feeling out of touch with how the world, society or whatever is trying to function.

I wanted a cake some time ago. Just a little something to celebrate a special moment. So I decided to stop at a local bakery that makes cakes on order.

Now let me underline the following: I wanted a cake. Something sweet to share.

However...

Once I say what I wanted, they call the "cake designer" to come sit with me to go over the details of the cake.

I wanted a plain old cake, rectangular in shape, light fluffy sponge, double layered, with strawberry jam filling, with vanilla scented cream cover and a single word on it, written in dark chocolate.

I could see the disdain mountain on the "cake designers" eyes as I described what I wanted. Followed by their soul leaving their body as I refused every single alternative or change to what I wanted.

Order settled, I asked to pay in advance, against an invoice. Some hesitation but it did happen.

Then, as I was about to leave, I was asked to add the bakery in Instagram, to which I asked why. It was for them to tag me in the photo of the cake, so I was alerted it was ready for delivery. But I don't have Instagram. Nor FB. Nor Whatsapp.

I literally live 50 meters away from the store. I said I could just stop by the next day and pick up the cake. It was like explaining an alien concept.

I'm going insane. It has to be that.

The cake was fine. But I won't risk going there again.

 

I'm in need of a CAD program with an easy aproach for someone with zero experience on this type of software.

3D printing is not a concern

I intend to draw the blueprints for my house. The building is old, no blueprints exist for it, and I intend to make renovations to it, so having blueprints to work on to plan the renovations will be a huge help.

 

A long time ago, when I was more invested into TTRPGs, I grew increasingly frustrated with the system of only distributing advancement/experience points at the end of a session.

This always made me think that certain challenges could be better dealt with if the players could access/develop abilities as the game progressed in real time.

At some point, I started to divise a play system that relied on a split experience atribution system, with players being able to automatically rack experience points from directly using their skills/habilties, while the DM would keep a tally of points from goals/missions achieved, distributable at session end.

A practical example: a burglar would have the lockpick skill. The skill would be tiered, with each tier having 100 points to max it out, and the higher the tier, the less experience would be given by making use of the skill, as the skill would be further and further refined and new breakthroughs in its understanding become harder to achieve. But DM attributed XP could either be spent towards maxing out the skill faster or gain a new or linked one, like disarming booby traps.

I drifted away from TTRPG and simply let my idea sit in a drawer in a notebook. Today I found my notes again as I was rummaging through the junk and the it brought some nostalgia.

To those with more experience in TTRPGs: would this be feaseable? Or enticing? Interesting?

 

I just got served with this. It is a real novelty item.

 

Simple shrimp and clam pasta. Quick, simple, nourishing. The picture is missing the parsley on top and the dish was missing a lot of chilli spice but there was one person at the table that can't tolerate it.

 

Per the title, what options exist in Europe for independent authors and creators to make themselves known and sell their work/receive support from fans, besides through their own personal websites?

Smashwords was the almost default option for years for indie authors; Amazon also took their piece of flesh. Then there was Patreon.

It always made sense to me to have an european alternative to those sites.

I've already found Xinxii and am in the process of exploring it.

What else is out there?

 

I'm getting constant system notifications alerting me that my alert - AMBER, etc - settings have been reset.

What is intriguing me is that these alerts are not broadcast in country. I'm in Europe. And those who do are broadcast through SMS service.

The first line on the system alert mentions something about "presedential communications".

Anyone else?

 

Pretty much that.

I've been trying to get a degree since I was in my early twenties. Too many things happened and I never got around to do it.

I have close to zero probability to ever work in my field of choice, which is Social Sciences, with a minor in Psychology, given my age.

Theoretically, I could try to become a high school teacher, as there is a great demand for teachers in my country and it will only grow in the next years to come, but entering public teaching is extremely hard and was made even harder after schools were handed direct hiring; nepotism grew ten fold.

I would like to be the first in my family to get a degree, if nothing else to say that I did it.

There is no need of going into debt for it, as I can enroll in a college where I can enroll only in one or two classes per semester and only pay for those; tuition would be around €98 per class.

But I know myself. I like to work alone. I have no patience to deal with group tasks. Never could. I don't mingle, I don't socialize. And I really have something against stuck up people, be them be teachers or fellow students. I'd get in trouble really fast.

I guess that is it. What do you say?

 

My partner is currently job hunting and I've got to know some very ugly behaviours from interviewers and train staff, towards the people applying for those jobs.

From snarky attitudes, to blattant lies and attempts on trying to withold information or ignore legal impositions and rights, these companies are power tripping and the people in them are deranged.

Well, I happen to have a job and am fairly aware of my rights, so I'm considering applying for these interviews and throw some poison back at this people.

 

Please allow me to share a little bit too much before going to the point of the post.

Last November I decided to enroll in a course to get official recognition of something I've been doing for the last twenty years, which is to put together and install computers. The course is Computer Hardware and Repair/Fault Diagnosis (loose translation)

I learned the hard way, by myself, making mistakes and taking apart old machines and trying to revive hardware I was constantly told it was useless and/or obsolete. Linux was a great part of this. I'm an obnoxious FOSS/Linux crusader and I'm not ashamed.

In order to finish a course where I gained absolutely zero new knowledge and was taken as non-serious for stating I do not use anything but Linux for my daily computer needs I now have to, with no relation whatsoever and classes on it, design on paper a computer network.

Because I'm petty, I'd like to design it completely around Linux and FOSS solutions. Just to mess with the people that have even imposed I have to write the assigment in Word, with Arial font.

Please, point me towards some sources I can use. Nothing too in depth is necessary.

 

I know the lithium batteries are supposed to be a pain to recycle but how are the conventional ones broken down to recover all the materials?

I have a bucket I throw dead batteries into and picking it up made me realize just how heavy it is. That is a lot of metal. And metal is money.

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