ta_leadran_orm

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[–] ta_leadran_orm 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Just wanted to add to this for those who don't know, windows games work through a comparability later called Proton, it usually works great, but some games don't work well with it. (Mostly anticheat and stuff like that causing issues IIRC) I would always recommend checking ProtonDB before purchasing any game without explicit Linux support

[–] ta_leadran_orm 3 points 1 month ago

I've had two in the past, had my third just three days ago, my gums are still a little raw. My most recent root canal was on a hyper-sensitive tooth, so there was initially some pain, but once the dentist applied another couple of doses of anesthetic, it was painless, basically a more prolonged filling. The only thing I'd add is that my dentist recommended ibuprofen for after the anesthetic wears off, since there may be some pain, I'd second that recommendation since your gums will be sore for a few days

[–] ta_leadran_orm 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Flippers wouldn't help really given how horses actually swim, they kind of kick back with each of they're legs in a sequence similar to a trot. Their hooves already have a bit of a hollow which likely helps with swimming. Honestly though horses are pretty good swimmers, because they have huge lungs which helps them stay afloat with ease

[–] ta_leadran_orm 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, there is a technical difference between a limit of 10 requests/minute and 100 request/10 minutes. The average is the same, but the later allows for 100 requests in a minute followed by 9 minutes of nothing, whereas the former does not and 1 request/6 seconds is even worse

[–] ta_leadran_orm 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As an Irish person, we have ranked choice single transferrable voting, one big benefit I see is that people can vote for less popular candidates that they closely align with without throwing away their vote, since when the candidate is eliminated your vote is transferred to your next choice.

One other thing that I thinks is very important is proportional representation, which means that for a given constituency, instead of a single candidate being chosen multiple are, for example is my constituency we have 5 Teach Dáile (members of our Dáil/parliament) This means that less popular candidates will have a real chance of getting a seat. It also means that more of the population is represented, for example in my constituency each candidate would get on average about 15%+ of the vote, meaning that 75%+ of the voting population are represented, unlike the 40% or so that a two party system usually has

And it's not confusing, we're thought how it works in school and voting is the easy part, counting us more tricky, but is understandable when properly explained

[–] ta_leadran_orm 15 points 6 months ago

Because each is worth $100

[–] ta_leadran_orm 4 points 8 months ago

Which is ironic since, in Catholicism (at least), people are apparently born with sin, and also everyone can be forgiven. Just shows you how much they really care about what their religion says. They prefer the beliefs that make the world seem a lot more simple than it really is

[–] ta_leadran_orm 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think the point is that people's routine isn't tied to sunrise. For example, in the summertime I start work about 4 hours after sunrise, and in the winter I start work 20mins after sunrise. The difference would actually be more dramatic without daylight savings With timezones and modern internet you don't need to look up the offset at all, you just look up the current time in that zone and decide if that's an appropriate time to call. Speaking as someone who deals with timezones a fair bit, both in work and personal life. And as someone who understands the headache of dealing with them in international computer systems, the time zone system is a very nice compromise. Though daylight savings need to die

[–] ta_leadran_orm 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would have agreed with you a couple of weeks ago, but this video explains it well. It wouldn't be such a well known fallacy if it wasn't so counterintuitive.

https://youtu.be/ytfCdqWhmdg?si=bNplB3ftYAfvnLYO

[–] ta_leadran_orm 4 points 9 months ago

A local beach near me in Ireland has people parking exclusively on the beach, that said, it's a massive breach with plenty of space.

I never have heard of anyone's car getting overtaken by the tide, but perhaps the local farmer has pulled a few people out

Another local beach is as you described, no parking on the beach, walk on only. I think it depends on the kind of beach and the way things are set up

[–] ta_leadran_orm 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm not entirely sure that horse riding is more dangerous, I'm not that experienced with motorbikes, but I ride horses all the time, I reckon you might fall from a horse more often, but it's usually a fairly simple thing, not going too fast or anything. Unless you're talking about horse racing which is quite dangerous, but most riders do other, much safer thing on horseback.

That said, I live in rural Ireland where from what I understand, the roads are significantly more dangerous for motorbikes do that might be skewing my perspective.

Though random fools telling you that what you're doing is dangerous are, to me, overstepping. As long as you're not putting others in excess danger you should be left alone.

[–] ta_leadran_orm 14 points 1 year ago

I'm going to assume that you're arguing in good faith and aren't just a troll.

I myself am very anti-war, but I tend to take a more practical standpoint, because in order to avoid war, both sides must work at peace, not just one.

There's a few problems with your line of thinking.

For one, you suggest that Russia formally agreeing to tolerate Ukrainian culture would be enough, but suposing Ukraine did back down on that condition, how could they possibly trust Russia to stick to their word once any bargaining power they had is gone, especially since Russia has previously recognised Ukraine as a sovereign nation and had no problem ignoring their own word on that.

That brings me to problem two, or modern day notion of nations is relatively recent, but it does seem to work. Before the world wars, there was always borders changing and this was seen as normal. But since at least world war II this has changed, nowadays nations choose to recognise other nations right to exist with a given set of borders, this is a fragile system and if we simply allow countries to arbitrarily go against it without any repercussions, then why would any other country abide by it?

Also if Russia and Ukraine could agree to have Ukraine become part of Russia, I, as someone from neither country, would have nothing particularly against it, as long as it was entirely peaceful diplomacy, Russia removed that option the moment they started gathering troops near the border, because at minimum, that's a threat.

I am no expert on the history involved here by any means, so if I have made any mistake, feel free to correct me, I'm simply thinking through the logic.

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