Wereduck

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[–] Wereduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago

A lot of the eggs I get are fertilized (US, California), but maybe that's because I tend to get "free range". Can see the tiny embryo (~1mm) in a lot of them.

[–] Wereduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It looks like the synthesis of those two seemingly contradictory things is: If Congress is still in session after the 10 day grace period for the president to sign it has passed, the bill is treated as signed and becomes law. However if the 10 day grace period goes by and Congress is no longer in session at the end of that period, the bill is treated as vetoed.

Another approach: Does nibbling on it count as a signature?

[–] Wereduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I get where you are coming from, but this event is pretty much entirely the fault of Crowdstrike and the countless organizations that trusted them. It's definitely a show of how massive outages are more likely when things are overly centralized and proprietary, and managed by big, shitty, profit driven organizations. Since crowdstrike operates in kernel space, it doesn't matter which operating system it's on, it can break it if it does something stupid. In fact they managed to break some redhat machines not too long ago, and some Debian machines not long before that. It's just the impact wasn't as far reaching as this recent utter fuckup, just because fewer critical machines were affected, so we didn't hear about those smaller fuckups in the news.

[–] Wereduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Interesting! Most I know were either born in the US or have been in the US since they were kids, primarily communicate in english, and discovered their transness while here. You might be right with the cultural/language translation being a factor. But I've also seen "Transexual", "Transgénero", "mujer/hombre trans" used by Spanish speakers which tracks not that far from common English usage. I wonder if there's a different distinction being made or if it's intertwined with the particular individuals' conservative ideology in some way.

[–] Wereduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's interesting to me that your experience is so vastly different from mine given we live in the same area (SF bay area). Most trans people I know, including myself, fall on the far left, and at significantly higher rates than the cis people I know (Queer or not). I've also never heard the term "t-female-presenting" before, it is completely foreign to me. I mostly hear and use "trans women" or "transfeminine".

I wonder if there's another demographic factor, or you are in a unique community of trans people. The people in my circle are generally 20-35, nonreligious, working class, often living paycheck to paycheck, and are actively and primarily in community with other trans people, as a support structure. How would you describe your circle?

[–] Wereduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

If its and it's are used "incorrectly" long enough, it's possible the conjunction will lose the ' through use. Descriptive vs prescriptive etc.

Also, in response to the person you are responding too, there are advantages for our writing system not being entirely phonetic, namely that different dialects of English that may not be easily interintelligible via spoken word are interintelligible via writing. Like a weaker form of the same benefit of the Chinese writing system.

[–] Wereduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

I've encountered IT departments with an unencrypted passwords.xlsx file that they store on the network. Not always super small companies too.

[–] Wereduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 months ago

I think it also just took on a bunch of technical debt and was poorly managed, so I don't know if they could have pulled it off with more time. Like they were forced by management to use KSP1 code, and were not allowed to talk to the KSP1 devs, and repeatedly hemorrhaged workers meaning even less of the code base has experts. I think they maybe would be better off starting from scratch (reusing assets) at this point if they wanted to deliver their more difficult goals like multiplayer.

[–] Wereduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 4 months ago

Americans view Europeans in general as weirdly comfortable around sexuality. Which is I think just a side effect of Americans in general being bizarrely prudish around sexuality.

[–] Wereduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It seems to me that all of the reasons they provides are all reasons to get married. Especially raising a child, given the privileges that are afforded to married parents in a lot of places (especially in the case of adoption, or IVF using a stranger's genetic material). Something doesn't have to require marriage for the benefits of it to outweigh the cons for a specific situation.

The question seems to me to be kind of confusing. What alternative are you comparing it to? Some sort of local structure like domestic partnership?

[–] Wereduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

They are talking corporate death penalty (as evidenced by the rest of the comment), not literal killing of people. And they are correct.

[–] Wereduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago

How is it that we are the same person

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