Did his dad make him go? I thought the story was he was gonna go with his wife but his son took the spot because he wanted to go.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/26/mother-of-teenager-who-died-on-titan-sub-said-she-gave-her-place-to-son

She said: “It was supposed to be Shahzada and I going down. I stepped back and gave the place to Suleman because he really wanted to go.”

lol, well … let me clarify the “beautiful” comment …

so a coworker won “Most Attractive Employee” or something like that, yes it’s a weird company party. Anyways, the next morning I was using it pseudo-sarcastically in front of everyone by calling him a beautiful person in front of everyone. However, my other coworker thought I was talking about him and said “thank you”. However, it made him smile and I just started doing it all the time to my fellow coworkers. I definitely consider them all mates.

What’s funny is that I actually don’t compliment my female coworkers the same way. I feel as though it could be misconstrued and I’d not like that.

For those of us familiar with QI, I’m sure everyone’s thinking of this bit when you read this: https://youtu.be/uXom0OP3Rwk

lol I told some of my coworkers, “how’re you doing you beautiful man” … they’re like, “thank you for saying that”

of course, you have to have a certain relationship where it doesn’t come off too weird but dudes complimenting dudes should be normalised.

I wonder if dudes complimenting other dudes mainly applies to like “skills”. Like you’re a great fisherman or driver or coder or something. I wonder if those are more typical?

What’s a house phone?

j/k

I’ll check that out! Thanks!

Not sure if it’s my Lemmy client but the spoiler doesn’t work for me.

You young’uns. I immediately thought of The Outer Limits with David Hyde Pierce: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0667983/

I bet there’s a Twilight Zone episode that does it too that someone will tell me I’ve missed, lol.

Don’t forget to be awesome

I mean I’m far away from my college days at this point. However, I’d be using AI like a mofo if I still were.

Mainly because there was so many unclear statements in textbooks (to me) and if I had someone I could ask stupid questions to, I could more easily navigate my university career. I was never really motivated to “cheat” but for someone with huge anxiety, it would have been beneficial to more easily search for my stuff and ask follow up questions. That being said, tech has only gotten better, and I couldn’t find half the stuff I did growing up that’s already on the Internet even without AI.

I’m hoping more students would use it as a learning aid rather than just generating their work for though. There was a lot of people taking shortcuts and “following the rules” feels like an unvalued virtue when I was in Uni.

The thing is that education needs to adapt fast and they’re not typically known for that. Not to mention, most of the teachers I knew would have neither the creativity/skills, nor the ability, nor the authority to change entire lesson plans instantly to deal with the seismic shift we’re dealing with.

I take Uber, so I’d appreciate any of my driver’s doing this. Please like me!

All I know about condos are that condo fees are quite high. It’s like $800 / month for the ones I’ve seen in Toronto. A lot of people see that as reasonable but it feels like a lot to me.

I had to move back to those a few times instead of using WSL during the early days. There were quite a few growing pains.

Fixed it fully by installing Linux.

Yeah, I’d feel creeped out with those glasses too, lol.

The Beyond 2 looks pretty neat especially with the light weight. In addition to the points you’ve made above. The main things which stops me from using my VR headset now is that there is no real killer app for me (Beat Saber, and Superhot were awesome but I’m largely done with those now) and it feels a bit lonely doing VR a lot.

Here it is: https://youtu.be/byOlBCpNKeM

Rewatching it, I used the word “calm” and I still think that but she was “yelling” but not due to the subject matter. It was more due to the number of people outside and the ambient sound.

Like, she’s just on the side and talking to the guy to me. Not unreasonably.

Out of curiosity are you familiar with the meta glasses? If you have, what are your thoughts about those?

I don’t think they’re VR, I think they’re AR? nonetheless, what do you think?

This is typical right wing shit. They sound smart to people who don’t understand what’s going on and infuriating everyone else.

I feel bad for this lady. She was calm and talking in public with two other people and she gets meme’d like she was being unreasonable. She wasn’t, but even if she was she wouldn’t deserve it.

Odd question but why does it have to be clone? What about a sibling or perhaps a twin? Or are those effectively equivalent too and I’m just splitting hairs?

Silo is an amazing show too.