EponymousBosh

joined 10 months ago
[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 20 points 2 days ago

Part of the problem is that the "Just Use BSD" Guys are to the FOSS-sphere what the "Just Use Linux" Guys are to the rest of the world.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 2 points 3 days ago

From the article linked above:

Concerned sperm donors should note that these cases are probably considered outside the norm.

In the cases cited, the sperm donor was also involved in the children's lives. So it's technically possible but very unlikely.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 3 points 5 days ago

If you've got any Benadryl/diphenhydramine in your medicine cabinet, it has some anti-anxiety properties. Not really something you can take for too long, for obvious reasons, but it can help in a pinch.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

First of all, I agree with the other commenters about getting assessed for a learning disability and/or ADHD. Your post is more coherent and well-written than a lot of stuff by people with degrees, and you were able to do the math to figure out if you were going to pass. If you aren't doing well in school, then it seems like there's something else going on there.

Second, you might want to check if there's a career center or something near you. If it turns out you do have a disability and you live in the US, there's a program called Vocational Rehabilitation (voc rehab for short) that can help with career assessments and such. If you're not US-based, other countries might have similar stuff; try searching for voc rehab or occupational therapy.

Third...you school only gives you seven hours to register for classes? That seems insane to me. Is that standard anywhere? Maybe your schools just suck, lol.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

People keep bringing up autism as an explanation, and as someone who is on the spectrum, has a sibling on the spectrum, and has at least one or two other relatives on the spectrum as well...I don't buy it. There's Something Else Wrong with that dude. I don't know if I believe in demonic possession, but Zuck is more or less what I imagine it would look like.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago

Also I suspect that most of the posts on r/inbreeding are fictional. The "niece" and "uncle" have identical writing styles, for one.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Genetically, as someone else pointed out, it's not a huge problem as an occasional thing. Ethically? It gets dicey.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Myopia/nearsightedness is one of the most common reasons for needing glasses or contacts. The happy people you're seeing online are most likely ones who only needed their distance vision corrected anyway (assuming the reviews were written by actual humans). I have farsightedness/hyperopia and astigmatism, and I've never really considered Lasik for similar reasons to you.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Haven't seen anyone mention Slay the Spire yet. The original is under 600MB and the sequel (early-access) is 2GB. They're both good! The first one is maybe a little easier, if you've never played them.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago

There's a ton of different variations on Pixel Dungeon. Shattered PD is probably the most fully-developed.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

At the zoo, by the meerkat enclosure, I heard a woman ask an employee "what kind of cats are those?"

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago

I can run antiX on my old Dell Inspiron, with 4 GB RAM and a 500 GB HDD. It's slow when it comes to browsing but it's functional.

 

OK, so a lot of people have a recurring dream where you have to go back to high school because you missed a graduation requirement, even though you're a grown-ass adult. But I'm curious if anyone knows what would actually happen in this scenario. Would they wave it off, or would you need to take a college class, or get your GED (or equivalent)? Any educators out there to enlighten us?

 

I'd been pronouncing it as "Mackle-more" but then I watched Todd In The Shadows' new video about him, and I swear he pronounced it "Mack-le-more" for half the video, and now I don't know which one is the real pronounciation and which one is the joke. I have no strong feelings about him as an artist one way or another but I'd feel like a dick if I'd been inadvertently clowning on him for over a decade.

 

Last night I had a "back in school" dream, only in this one, the McElroy brothers were helping me cheat on a project. Unsurprisingly, Justin was the most helpful. What weird ones have y'all had?

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