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gerryflap

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  • That's a Monday reply

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  • No I work 8 hour days, I just have every 2nd Friday off. Though those 8 hour days do include random coffee breaks etc, as is probably normal in office spaces. Not lunch tho, so I tend to work from 8:30 - 17:30 with 1 hour lunch break.

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  • I'm part of a union and I work 36 hours a week (and would like to go 32 once I have a bit more financial headroom). But 8 hours a day is pretty typical right? I don't know anyone who works less than that. I use the hours I don't have to work relative to a normal 40 hour workweek to take days off, not work less per day. On a 6 hour workday I'd probably be as productive as an 8 hour one, but that's my employer's problem and not mine.

  • Why the fuck does it cost money to get smarter??

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  • Yeah okay but OP is asking why it costs money to become smarter. The answer is: it doesn't. But it does cost money to get help with getting smarter and to get a certificate that you did get smarter. And that does indeed cost more than it should in many places

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  • Uhhhhh you don't? 8 hours are normal pretty much everywhere. Maybe I misunderstood you

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    Is it normal not to care about anyone?

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  • No definitely not. Like, it's fine if you don't care for some uncle who's kind of a dick and who you see once a year. But if you care for no-one but yourself then something is out of the norm. Might not be something you can help, but it's probably a good idea to run this by a professional.

    Personally I'm kinda extreme in the opposite direction. I can feel intense empathy towards inanimate objects. I'll feel sad for the slightly fucked apple at the supermarket because no-one will buy it. I struggle to watch movies with too emotional plots because I start to experience those emotions myself intensely.

  • I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider

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  • Yeah that's a bit much tbh. Personally I find the train to be way too loud usually. Other people talking, train noises, maybe a screaming baby or something. I'll just listen to some music and stare out of the window (if it isn't dark).

  • The Worst Bug In Games Is Now Gone Forever by Two Minute Papers [Video, 11:41 min]

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  • Two minute papers has really gone down the drain. Or my perspective changed. I used to love the channel, but it got increasingly clickbaity and shallow. Rather than explaining the contents of the papers the videos became hype talks that made it all sounds way more impressive and revolutionairy than it was.

  • What do all you coders actually do?

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  • Dad uses a computer in 2025

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  • Aren't CRT monitors actually quite nice for pixel art games? Maybe the dad just really likes his old games

  • What is something you enjoy doing but suck at?

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  • Yeah I also tend to play against the bots. Me and my friends have hundreds of hours against the AI at this point. Nowadays we tend to play against the Hard Barbarian AI. We usually win, but the AI can be very variable and sometimes it just turns on and destroys us. If we manage to expand aggressively in the early game, manage to contest roughly half the map (or have a good choke point), we can survive the early onslaught and out-eco the AI in the late game. Which is the most fun way of winning imo. Chill behind defences and slowly get the upper hand until we waltz over the AI with experimental units. We did ban ourselves from "cheesy" tactics like nuking the AI, target bombing their economy, or aggressively targeting our long range artillery at their economy. The AI just doesn't seem to sufficiently defend against these and it quickly ends the game in a lame way. Unless we're losing hard, then everything is permitted.

  • What is something you enjoy doing but suck at?

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  • Same. I don't like playing RTS games the good way. I just like building a cozy little camp and defending it, slowly exploring the map and just building whatever units I feel like building. I enjoy games like Age of Empires and Beyond All Reason because the maps tend to be quite large and random. It usually takes a while before I get overwhelmed if I'm losing I those games, and if I'm winning I can spend a lot of time just messing around without the game being over.

    Games like Starcraft or Warcraft seem to be built too much for quick games where you have to be constantly moving. Expansion locations are very determined and scarce and resources run out way too fast to just turtle in my little corner.

  • rule

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  • But he still did morning cardio and I did not, nor did most of us here. Going for it in any way is better than not going at all

  • I would give my life savings for something that eradicates them from my apartment 😌

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  • We have no guarantees that you're human, you could be a mosquito spreading anti-spider sentiment!

  • I would give my life savings for something that eradicates them from my apartment 😌

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  • I have 2 spider homies in my bedroom. The past summer they caught a lot of bugs and now they're just chilling. As long as they don't enter the no-no zone they can stay. Jumping spiders are always welcome too

  • Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad?

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  • I'm not American but Dutch, but our far-right government also really hates Antifa so the answer is probably similar.

    1. Antifa is anti-fascist, yeah. But the name is most often not used by all people who are anti-fascist but rather by a rather extreme subgroup of people who have a tendency to escalate protests into riots. They often seem to fight for something good, but not really with the means that are approved by the more centre-leaning average people.
    2. Both MAGA and the Dutch far right are also a bit fascist, although MAGA is more advanced in that regard, so they probably don't really vibe with anti-fascism anyway. It's all populist politics. They outlaw the "scary left-wing terrorists" to both vilify the left and show their voters that they care about law and order.
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    People aged 25+ How often do you hang out/see friends?

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  • At the moment almost every weekend in person, though on average it's more like every 2 weeks I think. It used to be way more but after finishing my study it became insanely hard to meet new people like myself. I also game with friends more than half of the days in the evenings tho, so that's nice.

    The main loss since finishing my study is the regularity and spontaneity of meeting with friends. It requires careful alignment of agenda's and planning ahead for over a month to get something done. I hate planning, but the downside of making friends who are like me is that most of my friends also hate doing so. So sometimes I have to push a bit to get stuff planned. Previously we'd naturally run into eachother and just decide to grab a beer that evening or watch a movie or something.

    I'd also live to make more queer friends where I'm at but every group seems to be for students or elderly or something.

  • Dutch people eat like an alleycat in a cartoon

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  • Yes (apart from the tail, bones, and head). It's honestly very nice.

  • Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions

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  • I want to use it but I keep forgetting it exists. Something like this should just be accessible via button in the UI so no-one misses it

  • I've printed so much useless stuff.

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  • I recently got a photo printer and the experience is surprisingly similar

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    Are people in your state or country getting tired of the government finally?

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  • I'm unaware of our governments invading Africa right now, so I'll have to inform myself there. I definitely also don't agree with past invasions done by western countries under dubious circumstances like Iraq or the colonial times. The west definitely had its fair share of deplorabele behavior in the past (and potentially the future) and it's alright to criticise that.

    But we should also absolutely defend our borders and our democracy, as well as other sovereign states like Ukraine. Defensively Europe has been asleep, and when Ukraine was invaded we were kinda caught napping. It sucks that so much money needs to be invested in war instead of good things, but democracy is worth defending. At the same time we obviously also need to make sure that there's still a democracy and freedom worth the protect with all those far-right idiots around. Our democracies definitely aren't perfect, but they're kinda the best we have.