I don’t think that’s a fair comparison as Nerd is usually seen as a negative trait, where having good traditional traits is seen as a positive.

It’s taking a nerd and using that negativity despite not liking it to exploit gain.

Where as having traditional wife is choose a positive because you like that positive.

I remember the heroic explorer Jebediah Kerman was on the way way back from the moon. The touchdown was flawless landing, the science was beyond value and the moment brought all the world together.

They had doubted sending Jeb but he silenced the doubters to low grumbles.

But then as the rockets were burning for the reentry burn and the orbit was decreasing, but the brain boxes had made a drastic mistake and undershot the fuel. A perfect mission and Kerbin’s greatest hero was potentially doomed all is a moment of low delta v.

He was so close. Getting nearer and nearer to home, but it wasn’t to be! Soon he was getting further and further away! Drifting into the darkness yet again.

The agency went into full swing immediately. How much food does he have, how much water, how much air!? How long until we have another rocket that can take off!? We only built one rocket there is no back up. Never before had a two kerbin rocket has ever been flown, never before had a rendezvous been attempted, never before had a rocket flown remotely. PR was there talking to the press was doing their best to save a near hopeless situation.

Then get this! I remember it like it was yesterday. Jeb wasn’t bothered at all. Out there all on his own he said he wanted to go on a space walk. It got approved knowing that he might as well enjoy his final moments before the highly likely death. But this is Jebediah Kerman we are on about now. Not for a moment did he believe he was going to die, he get out into space and begins to push the rocket using with his bare hands! The brain boxes can’t believe it!!! Its working. The orbit had done just enough to scrap the atmosphere. Jebediah was coming home! Only Jebediah. Then even the doubters had to say of Jebediah, he was truly the greatest of all astronauts.

I love how you can have a really complicated problem and it can be solved with such a simple premise.

It’s just such a basic idea that’s obvious in hindsight.

And Israeli bots (probably IDF and Pro-Israelis too)

Seriously I just discovered this. Go search any random Gaza/Palestine/Israel post you will see -50 for someone saying “Israel has killed children and should stop killing children” and like +300 for “this article is so biased it’s taking about Israeli attacks but no mention of how Hamas is the real cause of this death”.

I’m not even going to bother to link because I want people to see for themselves rather than it looking like I’m selecting the worst if it.

I’m talking about this

we already have a word for “female person”, and that’s “woman”

Female person doesn’t mean women.

The word has changed so it’s not correct to say that.

This just seems women are more touchy about this stuff then men.

Someone called me out on reddit for using the word girls for women and it was sexist because it is infantising, and it was stupid because they were making out I don’t call men boys. When I absoultely do, in fact I do it more than the alternative. Really the only way I was sexist on that is that I don’t do it as much as I do with men so if anything I should do it more.

But you can’t win, someone’s always going to be offended

Now, you could get around it by calling someone “a female person” - except that we already have a word for “female person”, and that’s “woman”.

We did have a word that meant that and everyone knew it. But that word has changed into something else.

Red Alert 2 was the only game where I watched the cutscenes.

Fuck that game was good. I’d argue at the time it was a perfect game.

No problem. Let me know how you get on and if you like it.

Well that’s a niche request, didn’t really expect such niche questions to come up on Lemmy. But what’s even more surprising is I can answer.

I set my phone up on D. But I have only connected it to one device currently.

I’ve only had the controller less than a week but it’s legitimately amazing. I was expecting some version of a crappy player two console you bought in a store that’s doesn’t really work or feel right. But also being make of the crappest lightest Chinese shit possible.

The controller feels perfect honestly. Edit: maybe a little on the small side but that’s it.

Are you from the Blizzard gaming forums?

Started eating a shit tonne of rice.

Losing weight really isn’t that hard. It’s calories in verses calories out. If that doesn’t work, congratulations you are breaking the laws of thermodynamics and physics is changed forever.

I just took out some higher calorie food and ate a lot more chicken and rice and the weight dropped off kinda scary fast seeing as I was eating 4 meals a day. Ended up adding extra calories with eggs and was more comfortable with sauces.

Another time I took up surfing. Fucking hell surfing is hard, running 10 miles is easier. Increased my food load and ate a crap load more protein and just changed shape in a few months, lost the fat around my tummy and my shoulders grew huge.

The world has got far more serious.

My comment was obviously exaggerating for effect. You’d have to be stupid to think I meant there are no jokes anymore.

The 90’s were just better.

People could have a joke and a laugh without everyone being so serious about everything and getting offended.

I dunno maybe my friends were too stupid to manage it.

But I got told you couldn’t get it on there and you couldn’t get it off their.

I didn’t see the point. Didn’t seem like owning it, seemed like apple owned it.

Not always. Consumers given choice they should go for the product that is best. That way companies have to make the best product. That’s competition working.

Like when ps3 offered free online but xbox didn’t. That killed the xbox market as everyone could choose a similar product that was cheaper.

Or when apple forced everyone to use their products people went to the Samsung because you could do what you want. That killed apple.

Or when some companies offered subscription model like Microsoft Office, everyone went to alternatives and that killed Microsoft Office.

Honestly I blame people. We had all the information and just laughed in the face of reason. We are choosing to spend more for a shittier product.

I honestly don’t get why people use apple. People have explained it to me and I think I just don’t get the reasoning.

People would tell me on the age of illegally downloaded or someone legally bought mp3s apple was better because you can’t play your mp3s you have to buy them again off apple. Or that apple is better because you can’t use something and instead have to use apples device which isn’t as good and more expensive but it’s white! Like I can’t get a fucking white one.

The walled garden is shit. Apple makes me angry.

I wish I could view other instances as a guest. I love the voyager app so much but it doesn’t seem I can do this.

I don’t want ro set up loads of accounts just to browse.

I’m on lemm.ee which I think has de federated with a lot but still got the tankie subs. So I’ll be interested to know what I’m missing. Lemmy.world needs my email so that one can fuck off. Don’t know what else to choose.

Thanks that’s very helpful. Exactly what I wanted (just didn’t know it)

I was just worried because I got banned from reddit then my alt got banned. Don’t know how they put that together. But was worried google could do the same.

But doing some research I found out about LibreTube

Stolen comment: "This is the part where LibreTube is different than Newpipe.

Libretube proxies the YouTube connections to the instance you choose, so your IP is not exposed to YouTube, with the cons of videos might be loading slower than Newpipe, depending on your connection to that instance"