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Don’t flight attendants also only get paid for time in the air, and not for the work they have to do cleaning the plane and getting ready for takeoff and all the other work you need to do to fly?

Actually fucking wild that flights are so expensive but the people doing the work don’t get paid well.

Hate to “umm ackshually” over what amounts to a difference of fictional rules, but for what it’s worth, vampires do have reflections in the World of Darkness setting. Only vampires of clan Lasombra (not playable in bloodlines) don’t have reflections since it’s their clan weakness.

Otherwise, if all vampires couldn’t have reflections, it would be incredibly easy to tell who’s a kindred and there would be no way of keeping up the Masquerade.

That worked a charm, thanks!

Could you elaborate? Never heard of using a baseball cap like this and would love some social armour haha

It takes me out to browser and asks me to log in when I click the link (On Voyager). Am I doing something wrong?

Looks really cool, v interested to check this out

Seriously. I have too many American friends who are confused when I tell them I have and will have no interest in going down to America, even if it’s just to visit them, for the foreseeable future and they wonder why.

Could it be because your country was having open public discourse on the merits of annexing us? Or maybe that I don’t want to get thrown into an ICE concentration camp for no reason?

GPS via Satellites is offline! All satellites do(*) is transmit down to the Earth’s surface. Those signals will exist whether there’s a receiver there (ie. Your phone) or not. A GPS works by detecting those signals (ideally it will get at least 4 different ones for best accuracy) and calculating your location by triangulating it based on the signals (**). No upload on your end is required, it’s very similar to how radio works.

(*) As in, all they need to do is this. Specific satellites have different features for different jobs and specs. But all they have to do to make GPS work is transmit.

(**) I mean “triangulate” as in the principle of triangulation, as in being able to determine the geography of a point via the topology of it to other known points. It’s not actual triangulation with satellites because a fourth one acts as a correction factor – we’re dealing with signals going the speed of light after all. But that isn’t important for whether or not GPS needs to upload anything to work – it doesn’t.

No shame to anyone who bought a switch 2. My partner got one during pre-sales and is incredibly happy to have gotten one, and I feel so happy for him that he gets to have some joy in his life with it. I wish you the same joy.

But I just can’t get into it. I didn’t grow up with nintendo so the properties really don’t mean much to me. And now, I just don’t think I can swallow paying hundreds of dollars to start, then another hundred dollars to get games that seemingly play the same way as they did in the last release, plus a yearly subscription for online play. You may not see what you purchased the same way, and I’m glad that it’s meaningful to you even if I can’t find the same meaning in it – it’s good that there exists something for everyone’s niche.

I don’t see why this needs to be a competition. Are there really people out there who were about to get a steam deck but decided not to in favour of a switch 2? I feel like switch owners are well aware that it’s a Nintendo machine and theyre not gonna be playing a lot of their favourite out-of-franchise games on it. That’s what they expect and thats what they’ll likely get.

Never heard of that before, is that a thing in your area?

How do you keep your condensed milk from hardening between servings?

In my area they come in tin cans, so there’s too much to use it all up before it starts to thicken

Thank you! Everyone has been saying this and it’s so cop-brained that it’s frustrating.

They have not proven that he killed anyone. He is innocent until proven guilty. When you accept that he actually did anything before he is convicted, you are aiding the police’s and prosecutor’s job by making the assumption that arrest = guilt.

It should be illegal to remind people (me, particularly) about Steins;Gate while they’re at work

I can’t be fucking crying on the clock, dawg

Anyone got any show recommendations on CBC Gem? Bf and I just downloaded it but not really sure what’s good yet.

We’re fans of sci fi and fantasy if anything like that is available on it

Yep! This would be something you’d be expected to do in a royal court (or even in a regular noble’s presence) if you held lower station.

You know I didn’t think about this comparison until reading your comment, but like:

Back in the medieval period, it was vitally important (socially) that people understood your background and standing in society, because there were pretty strict rules about how one class of people is supposed to treat another. Like whether you were a social “superior” or “inferior” type shit. That’s how we got things like “your majesty” and how you might not be allowed to turn your back to someone while leaving them if they were a “superior”. In a lot of places in the world, wearing a kind of hat was legally required because that signalled “who you were” and how people needed to act.

A lot of those rules were done away with post French Revolution/modernity because the idea that people were supposed to be equal caught on. So nowadays the idea that you might have to kneel at the sight of someone because of who they are or not refer to them directly in speech because they’re “above you” is considered unthinkable.

I dunno, I guess now I see parallels between that old way of social thought and coming out today. It’s not as strict as the medieval thing (I don’t think we’re at the point where you legally have to come out or else you have committed a crime) but it seems like something cishet people socially expect queer people to do to “know who they are dealing with and how.”

I completely forgot that he used the notwithstanding clause within like… the last few years. I don’t know what it says about the times we live in (or maybe just my memory, im probably just exaggerating) that something that should be a major constitutional crisis for us happened and nothing came of it

I wish we had more Watergates because at least Watergate toppled a president

Given that Canadians don’t typically vote in American elections, I don’t see how that has anything to do with us or should affect our decision making.

The USA is tariffing us, not just the red states.

Also just as an observation: monotony is boring and I think aversion to boredom is a big reason people seek different things (maybe even things that require more skill to perform). Who wants to dance the same dance their whole life?

I feel like people in the past were as susceptible to being bored that we are – maybe even more because there were a lot fewer things to actually do back then.