my_hat_stinks

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[–] my_hat_stinks 6 points 1 day ago

It depends on who built the trap. John Kramer is the original jigsaw and came up with the whole "the choice is yours" thing so his traps are always technically escapable. Amanda is the first apprentice and breaks John's rules by making traps completely impossible, she ends up in three separate games (if you count Saw 2) because John wanted her to stop. Then there's the cop who's lead killer for like three movies but I still never remember his name, he just straight-up murders people so obviously his traps aren't always winnable either. I'm not sure why he even bothers with traps. The guy from Spiral has no real connection to Jigsaw and just uses traps as a cover, but that's also a detective movie more than a Saw movie; the plot would barely change if there were no traps at all.

[–] my_hat_stinks 1 points 2 days ago

I think you've missed the point. You don't say it that way because it's ambiguous and it's natural to avoid the ambiguity. The same applies to your example; you're speaking in an intentionally awkward way and you already know how you'd say it normally.

[–] my_hat_stinks 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But you literally just demonstrated how dealing with ambiguous pronouns is a non-issue? You'd get the exact same ambiguity with "a mother and daughter went to a concert but [she] got ill".

[–] my_hat_stinks 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you're talking about a court case the only person you should be getting advice from is your lawyer. We don't know who you are, we don't know where you are, we don't know what your case is about, and chances are the majority of people here aren't lawyers. It's also very unlikely you're "being dragged into court over a boycott" so I'm certain there's more to the story you're not telling us. Don't bother filling us in though, I'm sure if you let your lawyer know about this post they'd tell you to take it down anyway.

As a general rule of thumb you can't be forced to purchase a product or service if you haven't made a binding agreement to do so, but we can't tell you if or how that applies to your case. Very little of what anyone says here will be useful to you.

Speak to your lawyer.

[–] my_hat_stinks 43 points 1 week ago

I'm not so sure about that. As an outside observer, it seems pretty obvious to me that the lack of a left vote in the US is because they do not have a notable left wing party. The best way to win someone's vote is to represent them. If nobody represents someone nobody will get that vote.

Obviously to actually fix that you'll need election reform, this is pretty much the expected outcome of a single vote FPTP winner-take-all system.

[–] my_hat_stinks 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And I've never understood why some people think "JuSt Be CoNtEnT" is a sane response to someone saying they're unhappy. In your experience, how often does saying that actually help someone?

[–] my_hat_stinks 2 points 2 weeks ago

Why bother? They're safe at room temperature unless they've already been refrigerated, might as well use that fridge space for some that actually benefits from the cold.

At room temperature they're good for a month or two. If you want long term storage you might as well prep and freeze them which will last you about a year, or there's a ton of other long-term preservation techniques.

[–] my_hat_stinks 1 points 2 weeks ago

"Better economy" is vague and nebulous, it's my belief that if someone tells you that's why they voted they way they did they either didn't care enough to actually look into their candidates' policies or they're trying to hide the real reason they voted. And it's very unlikely if their primary concern is the economy they wouldn't bother looking into economic policy beforehand. If that's what they truly voted for they'd have specific concrete talking points instead, eg changes to some specific tax or changes in funding for some specific type of business.

The same goes for candidates with a platform of "better economy". Is it a better economy if everyone still struggles as they do now but the people at the top get infinitely richer? Is it a better economy if all big businesses fail but more people now have enough to live healthily and safely? "The economy" is too broad, it means nothing. Specific policy or it's all bullshit.

[–] my_hat_stinks 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That seems iffy to me, that font only has upper case. I ran it through myself and got Caligula Regular, a free (afaik, check before use) font which seems to fit just as well.

[–] my_hat_stinks 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It seems crazy to me that some people find roundabouts so hard. I've always found them pretty intuitive but I'm definitely biased, when I was learning to drive there were about 8 roundabouts of various sizes near my house and I'd invariably have to take at least 3 at the start of any journey.

It's probably just because we're so used to them here but pretty much everyone seems to know how they work. Off the top of my head the only exception is one badly designed roundabout where you're meant to stay in the outer lane unless you're taking one exit that's practically a u-turn, people always take the inner lane (like you'd normally do) and have to change last second.

[–] my_hat_stinks 16 points 3 weeks ago

Nonsense article. They claim Americans "work harder" because they have longer hours, no regulation, and no legal requirement for time off. In other words, they're closer to slaves.

[–] my_hat_stinks 4 points 3 weeks ago

This is true for all public holidays in the UK, there's a (usually) fixed number of public holidays but the dates are flexible.

They're also included in the minimum 28 days paid time off too, meaning if you're a full time worker and have to work on a bank holiday your employer is legally required to offer an extra day off somewhere else instead, either a fixed date or added to your holiday allowance. Conversely, the "extra" day off you get when a monarch keels over may be subtracted from your holiday allowance for the year. This is also why my employer is allowed to follow English bank holidays despite having next to no presence in England; the number is fixed but the dates are not.

 
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I signed in this morning and checked my profile to find I'm not actually here. Did anyone else accidentally stop existing overnight?

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Not sure exactly how long this has been happening, but it's been bugging me for the last week at least.

Running Firefox 129.0 (64-bit) on Linux Mint, it seems like the login session is just constantly expiring. Every time I boot up my machine the first time I open programming.dev I have to sign in again. Closing all programming.dev tabs and navigating back to programming.dev without closing Firefox seems to always preserve the session and not require a new sign-in.

~~Closing all Firefox windows then opening Firefox and navigationg to programming.dev is a semi-reliable way to reproduce, about 75% of the time it requires a new sign-in even when I'd signed in less then a minute ago before closing the window.~~ Further testing shortly before submitting this post and those steps no longer reproduce the issue, I'm signed in even after closing the window. Maybe it's a recurring transient issue with login service?

Potentially relevant add-ons are UBlock Origin (0 blocks, shouldn't be an issue) and Privacy Badger (also 0 trackers blocked). I'm connected through VPN, but the issue seems to appear regardless of whether I stay on the same VPN server or switch servers. Firefox reports Content-Security-Policy issues but these seem unrelated and also appear when the session is successfully preserved.

Possibly helpful, occasionally when I open programming.dev I'll see it's signed out then automatically signs in after a second or so; this might have been a known Lemmy issue at some point with delayed authentication as a (now insufficient) solution. A good chance that's a dead-end, might be worth checking anyway.

Edit: It's worth noting that I'm also signed in via the android Jerboa app on another device and don't get signed out there. This could definitely be relevant if it turns out the Jerboa session somehow interferes with the Firefox session.

 
 
 
 

Source

I'm not sure this specific piece has a title, it's just listed as Shop Art for the board game Flamecraft.

 
 
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