snooggums

All that money and updates still require restarts.

It apparently works well enough.

I didn’t think I agree that it’s condescending.

The context is whether the person asking the question was involved in the process that went wrong and if the person who screwed up should know better. We are probably thinking of different situations, like how ‘bless your heart’ can be positive or negative depending on context.

If one person screwed up, saying ‘we’ comes across as patronizing because it generally means the person asking knew how to avoid the situation and expected the person who screwed up to know as well. Like if someone didn’t disconnect the power to a thing like they are supposed to because they were in a hurry and shocked themselves, saying ‘what should we do next time’ would be condescending. That would be very different than discovering a new fault in a group process and asking a team (adults) what should be done next time. “We found out that the plan to handle case Y didn’t work, how do you think we can prevent it next time” is not condescending because it is being asked to a group of adults (plural) for something new. “How do you think it can be avoided” would also not be condescending if asked for a single person.

It sounds nitpicky, but it is really nuance. Saying ‘we’ when the right thing is known is condescending for adults, but makes it easier for children who are learning to not take it so personally.

Same. My friends already have the ability to easily find all the dumb shit I post online if they cared to and nothing I’ve posted would cause any legal trouble, just piss off some bigots and those who don’t understand that crude internet humor is just humor. James Gunn’s old posts have me beat and he’s still doing alright.

The first is problem solving, the second is blaming.

The first is phrased in a way that is condescending for an adult.

land orca

Thank you for the new panda nickname!

I prefer clarity.

I hope you are thinink of mosquitos, and if so make sure to only pick the ones that bite humans. There are a lot of other species that don’t.

(I know which species you really mean)

It is always the right time.

Worth it.

I can play any number multiple repetitive/nonlinear games that don’t require keeping track of a story or events. So racing games, most FPS, etc. Right now I can switch between Helldivers 2, Call of Duty, Forza Horizon, Valheim, Tekken, and so on at the drip of a hat. I do end up customizing controls so they are similar within a genre, so HD and COD get trmapped to my standard first person shooter control scheme.

But I cannot stay engaged with more than one game that has a storyline/things to rememeber like the Witcher, Red Dead Redemption 2, or Horizon Zero Dawn even if they have handy in game reminders for what to do. Switching between stories is my dealbreaker for playing at the same time. I also have trouble sticking with a story long enough to complete those types of games which is a bummer because I like the idea of them.

My guess is that the edge or center is relative to the design of individual units, but after starting using the edge it seems to be more even so I’ve kept with it because the level of effort is basically zero.

Doing lower power for longer has far more impact on even heating if you aren’t making something that needs max power like popcorn.

With the long sell times it is possible that they could be real bids technically, but I can guarantee they will not end up selling for less than the average sale. They absoullutely will spike in price as they get closer to the bid ending as is the nature of auctions.

If the bid doesn’t go up enough the seller will use an alt account to buy their own sale and eat the ebay fee before relisting the same card.

We have multiple Burger Kings, and one of them is actually as good as I remember from being a kid. It is also the one with a high proportion of middle age workers who have worked there for years.

There is an overall trend of fast food declining in quality for sure, and my guess is that most people haven’t eaten at one of the few remaining places that still do a decent job with stocking and staffing.

I know people who have made mistakes in their job that cost the company lots of money and they weren’t fired. I know people who watched TV all day in the open office environment in full view and who weren’t fired.

Yeah, but those things are not blows to the CEOs fragile ego like a good old misunderstanding can be.

In written media, including scripts, it is just easier for readers to understand sci fi aliens as ‘human but different’ which is along the same lines as why robots are mostly bipedal human shaped. It also allows for stories about humans, since that is the basis for a lot of sci fi stories as well.

So time and effort restrictions too!

Choice is one of the slight differences that can lead to different outcomes. A rock falling down a hill will always fall downhill because of gravity. An animal can choose to slow itself or even work against gravity to move uphill. Instead of gravity, there are a ton of prior experiences that will influence that choice, but choice is still a distinct part of the process.

Nothing is truly random, including the weather. It is extremely complex and difficult to predict, but once it happens that is what happened. As long as dice fall with the exact same speed and hit the same surface in the same spot at the same angle it will always end up with the same result. The randomness of dice comes from how the very small differences influence the outcome.

Going back in time with the knowledge of what happened the first time means that either you will choose the same thing because something led to that original choice or something will keep you from interfering. Free will exists because we don’t literally know the exact outcome of our actions or the things outside of our control in advance.

You’ve already taken said actions but just didn’t know about it so nothing changes

12 Monkeys did this one perfectly.

You can’t change things because if you undid the thing, then there wouldn’t be a reason to undo the thing. If you go back in time, you are just going to do what you already did because that is in the past.

There was a clarification that people were still contagious even without a fever and that not everyone who gets covid also has a fever or even any symptoms at all. That would be to address the people who were going to public events because they didn’t have a fever or other symptoms.