TheOctonaut

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Much more likely to just be useful dirt they can keep on people and use it to deny or cancel their visa should they want or need to.

Irish people are very vocally sympathetic towards Palestine and other occupied territories because of our own history (and present).

"No more Irish J1 students" won't go down well in Boston. "This guy is a Hamas supporter, deport/deny them!" will.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes but

  • it doesn't let me charge and play at the same time
  • I could hot swap in and out batteries, but it doesn't report battery percentage
  • It also doesn't auto-pause when the battery dies, like other systems do
  • It runs through them quickly
  • it acts finicky/unpredictable when the battery is very low, rather than reaching a consistent threshold and stopping working
  • In combination with a bug/anti-feature I've posted about previously, my Steam Deck sees it as a new controller every time the batteries are replaced, despite the Bluetooth MAC/BDA not changing.
[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

For me, I want one with internal rechargeable (and replaceable) batteries, more reliable Bluetooth, and multi-device targeting (ie those 1,2,3 toggles you see on stuff like mouse/keyboards - I use mine on my Steam Deck and also on my desktop - dont want to mess with pairing each time. Plus if I end up with with a Switch 2, the trackpad would be interesting for mouse mode if those could connect (no idea)).

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 18 points 1 week ago

As as to be said somehow literally every time these headlines are published, nominations for any Nobel prize are kept secret and announcing that you've submitted a nomination if anything makes them less likely to be accepted as it harms the nomination by harming the image of the nominator. Anyone can say they've nominated anyone for a Nobel Peace Prize and they can't be proven or disproven for 50 years.

Oh and "Pakistan" can't nominate anyone for a Nobel Prize. All you need to be a nominator for the Nobel Peace Prize is to be an elected official or a university professor, but you do have to be a person. The likely of a headline not bothering to distinguish between a person and their 250 million people nation seems to increase linearly with distance east from the Greenwich meridian.

https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/questions-and-answers-about-the-nomination-process-for-a-nobel-peace-prize/

Please remember this when that Norwegian 'scientist' nominations Trump or Elon or whoever in October like he does every year.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Your code can compile while you're in a retro, retrospectively looking back at the action items raised in a previous retro but not assigned any sprint time in the current sprint so you just raised a "what went wrong" about it not being planned and now you have more non-sprint work to do because every problem should be presented with a solution and if you could have that for the next retro they'll review this retro's action items and see if you have a proposal for fixing retro action items

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what you interpret from the words "policy changes" but they dont usually refer to a weird feeling.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz -3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Vibes. Got it.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 6 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Raped some native girl and then... took custody of the child?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you under the impression other countries don't have Covid information websites? The issue here is radicalising a few hundred million people, not the loss of the info.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes. I specifically mentioned ISIS came from American misrule in Iraq. The people aligned with ISIS were on America's side during the Iraq war.

I can picture the pitch to an EU that has just accepted a massive long term project of trying to lift Eastern Europe out of post-Soviet destitution. OK bro, divest bro because obviously the techbros are going to turn America fascist once the boomers implode the world economy in a few years. Just do it bro. Match American military spending bro. You need it bro.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Until 2004, the EU was a western European entity, with Greece alone possible to describe as being anywhere near the Middle East, and lacking a land border with the rest of the EU.

The Iraq war did not cause and international migration crisis. People were primarily moved internally and to other (unfriendly) ME countries.

What really started the migration crisis was ISIS and the Syrian war, 10 years later. Where a Russian ally fought the byproduct of American misrule in the Middle East, and Russian allies directed migrants into Eastern European countries unready for them financially or culturally.

Quite what the EU, a non-military force that primarily overlaps with NATO, was supposed to do differently there I don't know. Should it have predicted that the US would essentially lose to Assad, to the Taliban, and that they would then switch sides and ally with Russia while still in NATO?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 8 points 2 months ago

OK boys you've had your fun with the sectioning, there'll be no more sectioning today.

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