jtrek

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I think most people are so disorganized in their thinking, they can't "prompt" well. There's a lot of unclarified assumptions and leaps in how many people communicate

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 28 points 3 hours ago

Some people are better at them than others. I've had a couple toe-curling fellations, and a lot of "that's enough dear" ones.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 3 hours ago

Does gog do cloud saves, game recording, remote play? You could probably do recording by launching the game via the steam client, I guess.

I don't think you're going to convince people by ignoring their actual reasons, and writing them off as cultists.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 14 points 1 day ago

I have a game of ttrpg Vampire the requiem and one of the guys insists on saying variations of "I'm going to suck that guy" straight faced (heh).

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

Got a friend who lives out in woods that look (to my naive-about-nature eyes) like that. Seems nice. I send him pictures of cool stuff I find in the city. Some fun grass is greener times for all.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 56 points 1 day ago (4 children)

When I was on unemployment I asked them what the state expected me to do if I still didn't have a job despite my best efforts, and the unemployed benefits ended. They just awkwardly laughed.

We live in the bad place because we let people be rich, and then let them make the rules.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago

Turns out for some reason I thought the old 1920x1080 kind of display was 1k. Nope. That's not what you call that.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

NYC, but I can't promise I'm representative of how people talk, heh.

I went on a brief tangent trying to find what people call it by region but didn't find a cool map of anything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grocery_store does say that it's sometimes used as I did, though.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 13 points 1 day ago

Legitimately aggravating. Well done.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This supermarket used to have self checkout, but they got rid of it for some reason.

They do have a line reserved for Uber eats, door dash, etc. Not a fan of that.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER. Got it before I got laid off and before prices went super crazy.

I'm only playing on a ~~1k~~ 1080p monitor so i wasn't pushing it very hard, but it ran without issue.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago

BJ's does that and it's very fast. They have a guy at the exit do a spot check, but there's basically no line.

BJ's does have an annual subscription though, which sucks.

 

As the title says, how often do you admit you're wrong? Is it different when it's a factual dispute versus something more subjective?

I make an effort to concede early if I'm in error. I think because my mother almost never admits fault. She'll fall back to "that's not what I meant" or similar deflections first, and that's really annoying.

The last big factual error I made was about the distance of walking, and that's where I learned about Taxicab Geometry ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry ).

I think some people believe admitting fault is a sign of weakness, but I find it's more of a power move. It takes strength to do it, and people can tell when you're sweating and desperate. Usually it leads to resolving the conflict faster and cheaper, too.

(I expect some people will feel the urge to reply they're never wrong. I'll file that under never admits fault.)

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