pyromaster55

The "facts don't care care about your feelings" crowd from a few years back sure does seem to be sensitive to facts and only give a shit about their feelings.

These look fantastic!

Anything by Duncan has been great for me, even if the mini he's painting isn't what you are painting.

Empathy is literally about understanding the feelings of others.

It's about putting yourself in their shoes, and ask yourself how you would feel in their situation. What led to them being where they are today. Sure some people like to steal, but the vast majority of food thieves in society today are literally going hungry otherwise, often due to situations outside of their control.

What would you do if you lost your ability to feed your family tomorrow, lost your job, many folks would lean on family or friends, but what if those weren't in the picture, or in a position to help. Imagine what state of mind you would be in. Would you risk getting caught stealing some storebrand food if it meant feeding yourself or your family?

Now, let's say this particular instance isnt that. This is just someone stealing for the fun of it. You can't honestly say that the above scenario doesn't happen every single day, all over the world? Should we not try to help those people, even if it means someone may benefit from it that doesn't need that assistance? Or that we shouldn't help them because it wouldn't completely eliminate shoplifting, so why bother? Since obviously the risk of being caught doesn't also eliminate shop lifting, why bother with it then?

And it's obvious that the threat of being caught doesn't eliminate this behavior, since desperate people literally steal to survive, and the thrill seekers are literally drawn by the danger, is it not in the store owners best interest to help those in need, as it will eliminate that segment of shoplifting? Eliminating food/housing insecurity is the first step on getting those that are so desperate back on their feet, and becoming functioning, productive members of society.

So yeah, having empathy with someone who is struggling (maybe not this person, but all those who steal food) is far more productive than assuming the worst in them and feeling vindicated.

Chilling with hobbits sounds pretty cool.

Eat lots of good, local food, drink loads of beer, smoke tons of weed out of sweet ass churchwarden pipes.

Anycubic mono 4k is a fantastic deal, $169.00 right now, it's basically the cost of a combat patrol.

And the anycubic ultra DLP is great as well at sub $300.

I have had great success with both the mono 4k and the D2 (updated ultra). My D2 has been running non-stop for about 3 months now with only a few misprints, all user error.

If you have any questions about either I would be more than happy to answer them to the best of my ability.

Many delivery companies have a contract with restaurants for 20-30% off the price of each item, plus they add a mark up on every item, a delivery fee, a service fee, and then you tip the driver.

Often most of the delivery fee and all of the tip goes to the driver (it's supposed to anyway, but they often find ways to get that money back from the driver, there was an issue with the order, customer needed assistance, etc)

The service fee, discount on menu price of the item, and additional markup goes to the company.

Just about everyone gets fucked minus the delivery company.

I worked the back end in tech and management in the field for like 6 years. They're pretty fuckin awful.

https://time.com/5404475/history-tipping-american-restaurants-civil-war/

Like, 2 seconds of googling my guy.

I'll need to generate some Pokemon content I guess.

A decent flashlight.

A streamlight stylus pro is $20, uses 2 AAA batteries, is barely bigger than a pen, and can be an absolute life saver. It produces way more light and throws it way further than your phone's light, and I've been carrying the same one every day for nearly 15 years now with no signs of it failing. I use it nearly daily in my personal and professional life, you will genuinely wonder how you manages without it if you make it a habit of carrying it.

Or go nuts and get yourself a something like a surefire G2. Bigger, heavier, but more durable and incredibly bright.

I'm a big fan of FOSS, BUT I also have absolutely no problem paying folks for their time and work. Sync was the absolute best way for me to access reddit, and even though it's a beta, it's been such an easy transition over to lemmy with it.

I like the experience with sync, have for years, I don't mind if it's not free or open source, it works better for me, so I happily pay the developer for their time working on it.

This judging people for how they choose to browse is so juvenile. Let people enjoy things.

This is a much happier signing.

Pretty disappointed, but if shuts the fuck up and plays decent hockey I will survive.

Wife and ai got season tickets for the first time this season, and if he starts spouting his bullshit I don't know what I'm going to do with this.