faintwhenfree

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[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 5 points 18 hours ago

English is technically my fourth language and I started learning it at age 12. However I really got good around age 16 when I started watching a lot of Hollywood movies with subtitles. Even now when I speak fluent English, with dare I say some "elegance", i prefer my movies with subtitles, because it's just a happy place in my mind.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Coma has body functions still working, so blood pumping, ceels dying and regenerating, which means if you had cancer it would grow, if you had kidney failure, your blood cleanup would fail. Only thing AFAIK medically induced coma does is help with anything that the brain might be doing to itself like swelling or other complications.

Hibernation supposedly would slow down all metabolical functions, so less to no, blood flow and so on.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I don't know about a lot of industries, but in finance, having a non-compete at least for a few weeks is essential as of your trading positions are known to your competitors, you end up losing quite a lot. I know it's one giant asshole protecting itself from another giant asshole, but at least I know that usecase is justified.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 2 points 5 days ago

For profit journalism is a curse to the society. All news source globally should be non-profit with ad revenues enough to ensure comfortable wages to reporters. There should be a capped revenue beyond which And any excess ad revenues should be put in a trust that helps to save niche journalism that might not be ad lucrative.

Of course inflation and national wage should be adjusting said cap every year.

And that dream will probably never come True in my lifetime, but hey a man can dream.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 2 points 5 days ago

They have done some good work in last few years, specially the events here and there are fun. But after the event campaign is over. There is nothing else to hope for.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Reminds me of no man's sky and it's empty bajillions of planets.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 4 points 1 week ago

That is genius, I wish I was that smart.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 7 points 1 week ago

I was on Linux mint XFCE at that time and even though it had a setting to decide what to do when power button is pressed but it was broken and would reset itself every few hours.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 29 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I had to disconnect power button from mobo because my room mate's cat would just shut it off, luckily I had a case whose side panel was very easy to open with a hinge, so I tied two cables near the latch and to turn it in, I'd turn the latch open the case, quickly short the cables and close the panel and latch.

Thanks for reminding me of that. Also I swear that cat knew what I did and kept trying to open the latch for a few months before giving up.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 4 points 1 week ago

I used to think that till I met absolute Chad of a man with failing kidney and he would laugh at the situation refuse to be treated, he was like I'm 47 I lived a happy life and I'll die if ill die but I'm not being bound to a bed, refused multiple dialysis interventions from his family and was clearly getting in pain towards the end, finally sold his very few possessions, gave some money to his youngest sister that struggled financially and took some drugs and died on a beach alone. (he had already gave up one kidney to save a sibling).

That man clearly didn't care much about, he didn't care about his family getting hurt because of his illness and death, he didn't care about pain to his body, he didn't care about death, and honestly I saw him 3-4 days before his death, he was still laughing like he was at peace and played a few games of uno with me.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 2 points 1 week ago

Must be nice knowing you don't overthink.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 25 points 1 week ago

Good joke. Everybody laugh.

Seriously gave me a good chuckle after days.

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