lime!

i prefer the jt sexkik version, this seems too high effort.

so you didn’t watch the video.

no but, how do you make it handle n64 games? i’m interested in setting this up. like i have this old rom of airboarder 64, which to my knowledge was not on the gamecube, and it emulates terribly. how do i set it up to run with dolphin?

that means they are about it.

can you explain how?

you know how when you send a letter to another country, it’s handed off through multiple instances that all just look at part of the address? first post office sends to the central post terminal, which sends to the foreign country, which sends to the state, which sends to the city, which delivers it to you?

the internet works the same, except every message is a postcard.

the problem is, apparently, that we just don’t know what sort of effect that heating has when it happens inside the body.

you know, never mind the radio spectrum part of what the sun puts out.

actually no, some of it gets absorbed. that’s why there are SAR values available for all cellphones. it measures how many watts of heat get absorbed per kilogram of brain.

since it’s non-ionizing though, the only effect is a slight heating. like microwatts of heating. 15 minutes in direct sunlight is equal to millions of phone calls. but we do measure it!

the ending of outer wilds, figuring out that the treasure really was the friends we made along the way, will always stand out to me as the most magnificent, joy-filled moment in my 25+ year gaming experience.

that, or getting the cool sunglasses in fez.

it was about nutrition. it started with the fact that proteins, fats and sugars all have different energy densities and so how much weight you gain is dependent on what the food is, which is all fair. but then i made the mistake of saying “your weight won’t go up by more than the weight of the food, anyway.” and that spiralled out of control completely. apparently that’s wrong and you can gain infinite weight from one chocolate bar.

as usual for this person they felt that i refused to take the “holistic” view into account.

a more recent conversation started with them talking about some sort of blood sugar sensor that athletes use and when i said “that’s interesting, what’s it called?” they started talking about gut microbes.

well, they do sell ones that work. you can measure them blocking all em radiation from exiting out the back of your phone… instead blasting all of it into your head. significantly more of it too, since the normal reaction of a phone that loses signal is to boost its own in order to find a tower.

doing 85
slamming on the brakes
doing 84

personally, i would add a third item to that list.

generally unions are hierarchically structured so that one smaller union can call on the resources of their parent organisation. my employer has a collective bargaining agreement with a union representing “white-collar workers” (it’s a more formal term here), which is itself a sub-union of the “central organization for professionals” which means that the sub-union sets the minimum terms and if the company fails to uphold them they get struck by all the sub-unions of the central org. since my employer is active all over europe, this may eventually escalate to the EUTC if bad enough, meaning the company would be seeing strikes all over the continent.

CBA’s occasionally get renegotiated based on directive from the central organisations. this includes minimum yearly raises and such. currently we’re just coming out of a negotiation period where raises were centrally agreed to 4.5% over two years, which together with inflation being higher than normal meant that most people’s actual salaries went down. however, this was not a surprise, it came as a request from the central bank as a means to lower inflation back to normal, which to their credit seems to have worked. so in the short run it was a bit anti-worker, but it stabilised the industry which means i still have a job. my previous employer did not have a CBA, with the reasoning that their terms were better anyway (and they were but the point is is the “collective” part, not the “agreement” part) and when inflation hit them they basically randomly stopped giving raises. a few of my colleagues actually passed me in salary.

as for another pretty interesting example, the tesla thing. the strike they are currently facing is due to them being non-union. there is no rule saying they have to be, but in general auto makers are unionised. tesla has a standing policy to not talk to unions, and they are not doing anything wrong on paper, so the union is basically besieging them. people working for tesla generally don’t want to be unionised (at least they say so publicly) so the strike is based on other unionised workforces (like electricians, postal workers, dock workers) refusing to do work for tesla. tesla are calling this behavior into question, and on paper it is questionable. it has prevented a lot of shit historically, so they won’t get anywhere with it, but looking in from the outside it must seem a bit odd.

you get the flyers from the company. unless its a non-union site, in which case you will usually have to climb over the picket line to get in. the one at tesla is coming up on 15 months now, the union have signalled that they have the funds to keep the strike going while paying every worker 125% salary for another… 200 years.

it’s developer-speak for “internationalization”. i didn’t want to type it all out on my phone. it’s a very stupid abbreviation because it conveys no information.

yeah i just realized it can’t be swedish because of the “o/min” text. i thought danish spelled it “slud” though. my biases are showing.

start is swedish for start and stopp is swedish for stop. leaving out a single p for i18n reasons does not really make the labels into a foreign language

outer wilds outer wilds outer wilds

i don’t know about “very”. it is a crutch. a well-made crutch, but still a crutch. i curse it every time i need to connect a serial port.