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[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

That's really interesting. Do you have any insight on why Poland seemingly punches above its weight on software development? Is programming a heavy focus in public schools?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Airships can have a casino and shopping. They just need to use lightweight materials for the fixtures. And if things cost a lot, the ticket price can be increased to match. Billionaires pay a lot of money just to say they've been to space, even if their capsule only just barely escaped earth's atmosphere. I'm not claiming it's practical or economical, but things being impractical and excessive hasn't stopped people from making crazy bets on rich people shit before.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Literally they are all around 6 minutes as well. This leads me to believe it is the standard expected behaviour at Cannes and not done kind of mark of quality. Like saying your Uber driver has 4.9 stars. That just means he doesn't murder people.

Reminds me of the phenomenon described here where something that is meant to be a subjective measure of quality begins getting monitored and treated as an objective measure, so people stop being honest in their subjective assessment and start thinking about what the thing "deserves"

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Ça me rappelle de cette XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2916/

[-] [email protected] 24 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Why do so many games companies have offices in Poland? Is there some kind of government incentive for gamedev there? No offense to Poland, but for such an economically small country, I feel like I hear a disproportionate amount of games come from there.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago

That hasn't stopped billionaires from building spaceships or submarines. All I'm saying is that we would absolutely see some weird eccentric billionaires building and riding in zeppelins if it weren't for the bad PR of the Hindenburg.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

Yeah my experience is that gaming gets better and better every year. Also, I do play early access games if they are from small studios and appear to have enough content to engage me. I just avoid triple A games.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Agreed. Nimbys do so much damage.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

I see your point, but Cruise ships have significantly diverged technologically from any "practical" ships some time ago. Also, recreation for recreation's sake is and always has been a driver of technological progress.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

They can be made with helium

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago

Jesus Christ dude. This isn't a prompt for other people to answer, it's just you spilling your insanity on the internet. Find another board to post on, because this isn't "asklemmy" material.

Also, seek therapy.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

Cruise ships are wildly impractical for getting from point A to B as well. There can be other reasons to do a thing besides efficiency

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Moi, mon père, et mon frère vont visiter la nord pour deux semaines (le 28 avril - le 13 mai).

On vient de Canada, et mes compagnons de voyage ne parlent pas le français. Mon père grandissait autour des franco-ontariens alors il comprend un peut, mais il ne peut pas le parler. Et mon frère n'a même pas pris les cours français de l'école secondaire, alors il comprend rien. Moi, je suis le seul membre du groupe qui peut avoir une conversation en français, grâce a mon poste au gouvernement fédéral. Mais je sais que le plupart des Français peuvent aussi parler l'anglais. Mais j'ai peur de se tutoyer par accident en parlent avec un Français, car on se tutoye beaucoup plus ici en Canada, et j'ai pas l'habitude de se vouvoyer. Je prévois demander beaucoup d'excuses pour me tromper.

Notre plan de voyage c'est de visiter premièrement les endroits d'importance dans les deux guerres mondiales, mais aussi des belles villes et villages dans la region.

On prévoit visiter Ypres (en Belgique), ~~Dunkirk, Calais~~, Arras/Vimy, Dieppe, Rouen, Le Havre/Honfleur, Caen/les plages Juno et Omaha, Rennes, et finalement Paris.

On a déjà acheté les passes pour le chemin a fer, et c'est comme ça qu'on prévoit se déménager entre ces endroits. On ne prévoit pas louer un auto, mais je crois que toutes ces villes et villages soient assez accessible aux piétons et avec la transport publique.

J'imagine que peut être vous avez des idées quand vous lisez cette itinéraire, alors donnez moi vos idées! Est-ce qu'il-y-a quelque part qu'il faut visiter qu'on manque dans l'itinéraire? Est-ce qu'il-y-a des "must-see" attractions qu'il faut visiter dans ces villes que j'ai listé? Ou, est-ce qu'il-y-a de l'info important pour savoir quand on voyage en France?

Merçi en avance!

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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I live in Canada. My girlfriend is Chinese (also living in Canada), and while we are able to communicate via SMS, her mobile carrier isn't the best, and so there have often been issues for us with regular texting. She expressed a strong preference to use WeChat, at least as a backup option for when texting fails us. While I have some pretty significant reservations, it's not the hill I want to die on. So my question is: what can be done to use WeChat without compromising my whole phone? I'm okay with it if our conversations aren't private, but I'd like to know that I'm not giving unfettered access to all of my phone's systems and data to the CCP. What can be done to limit the reach of this ubiquitous app on my device?

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I live in Canada. My girlfriend is Chinese (also living in Canada), and while we are able to communicate via SMS, her mobile carrier isn't the best, and so there have often been issues for us with regular texting. She expressed a strong preference to use WeChat, at least as a backup option for when texting fails us. While I have some pretty significant reservations, it's not the hill I want to die on. So my question is: what can be done to use WeChat without compromising my whole phone? I'm okay with it if our conversations aren't private, but I'd like to know that I'm not giving unfettered access to all of my phone's systems and data to the CCP. What can be done to limit the reach of this ubiquitous app on my device?

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I 🇨🇦 went to see this movie last night with my girlfriend 🇨🇳. I'm pretty sure I was the only white guy in the theatre 😅

It's got an interesting tone, swinging between really funny and really serious very quickly. Sometimes you'll be raucously laughing at some goofy humour one second, and then something dark and heavy will happen and give you whiplash. In that sense, it felt a bit like a Wes Anderson film to me.

The main source of comedy in the movie comes from the dynamic between the protagonist, his wife, and his coworker/ex-girlfriend. The wife plays up the "nagging wife" trope pretty perfectly, and contrasts the diligent coworker. At times it can be hard to tell if you're supposed to believe that the protagonist is a bumbling fool, or a competent investigator. In that sense, the comedy bits reminded me a lot of Steve Martin in the Pink Panther.

The theme is interesting. It examines what the punishment should be for people who use what could be called "excessive force" in self defense. A bit high-minded at times and the ending felt a bit cheesy, but overall I liked he way the movie's core theme was repeated across many different subplots.

Overall I think it's worth watching if you like comedy/drama.

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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/trees

Hi there, I'm not a member of this community (only a very sporadic user myself) but figured it would be a good place to ask this question.

The TLDR version is: My lady friend OD'd on edibles and is still a bit sick a day and a half later, is there any good remedy to help her get back on her feet?

Longer version below:

The girl I'm seeing recently had a downright awful experience with weed. She hasn't ever used before (she tried smoking once but didn't inhale properly so no high), and I expect she probably won't try it again any time soon.

On Friday night she was hanging out with some friends and decided to try an edible since her friends were having some. Her weed literacy isn't great, and she didn't know that edibles hit different, nor that they take a while to kick in. She was also on an empty stomach since we had a dinner date in a couple hours and she often skips lunch at work, and on top of all that she's on the smaller side, so less bodyweight.

She only had a third of what her friends took, but ended up being super unwell. I'm talking throwing up multiple times, bad vibes (crying, saying she didn't want to go to sleep because she would die in her sleep), and acting irrational (kept trying to leave her friend's house because she didn't want to be late for our date).

Her friends texted me from her phone as it was happening because she was insistent on leaving and they wanted to let me know it wasn't happening. I told them about the thing with black peppercorns and apparently that (plus telling her not to worry about standing me up) helped enough that they were able to get her to fall asleep.

She ended up sleeping and being nauseous for basically the entire day yesterday and I only heard back from her this morning.

Anyway, that's all just the loredump. My actual question is, is there anything that can be done to help someone feel better when they are recovering from OD'ing on edibles? She's still not feeling 100%, probably from throwing up and panicking so much. I know for someone who is badly hungover from alcohol there are all sorts of folk remedies that at least work as a placebo if not as an actual cure. Just wondering if there's some equivalent for weed. I want to do something nice for her since I think she must feel awful about missing our date.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/techsupport

This started a few days ago. I've been getting texts from friends with iPhones in the wrong order, and seemingly they are getting mine late. So I texted a friend whose grandmother was in the hospital yesterday, and her conversation with me looked like this. These texts from her arrived around a minute apart each. I think the intended order of them is fairly obvious. It's worth noting that every time I send her a text, the read receipt line under the text shows a little clock for a few seconds or more, which I think means it hasn't been recieved by her phone yet. Also worth noting that I had a conversation using the same stock messaging app with my mom yesterday who has an android and I don't think we had any such issue, but that may have actually been RCS.

Anyway, here's the example. It's not the only example I've had with her or with another iPhone-using friend in the past couple days.

Me: Hey, how's your day? Any updates about your grandma?

Her (a few hours later): I feel relieved

Me: does that mean you got good news?

Her: how was your day?

Her: yeah

Me: my day was good, (proceeds to describe what I did that day)

Her: my family feels relieved too

Me: what was the good news? Your grandma is okay?

Her: Hey $bionicjoey, I didn't get much sleep last night but I just heard that the doctors say my grandma is out of danger.

Edit: I texted her last night saying something weird was going on after that exchange, and then this morning at about 7:30 AM I texted her saying "let me know as soon as you get this". She just texted me at 2:30pm saying "I just am just now seeing your texts"

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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Back in my days on Reddit, my favourite feature was the ability to hide individual posts if I had downvoted them. It made it easy to hide things which I didn't want to see or felt shouldn't be seen

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Mercato Zacconi's owner says business 'unfairly targeted' by AGCO inspector

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