GreyEyedGhost

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[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

*Probably typed on a smartphone, one of the most technology-dense products ever created by humanity, currently used by over half of humanity.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Tell that to a bronze age engineer, and they will probably respond that those two are closer to each other than they are to his best efforts. And he would probably be right.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Or an r in wash. Warsh, or Warshington.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

It's generally only l before m, and b after m. So no l sound in salmon or calm, but there is in solve. Oddly, there's no l sound in salve. Likewise, there is no trailing b sound in bomb, dumb, or lamb. Of course, it's important to remember this is English, where the exceptions outnumber the rules, which is expected when you mash three languages together with a sprinkling of the rest of the languages.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Open-toed sandals with a skirt and button down shirt? If you can't take fashion seriously, how can I expect you to do your job? Business, business, calves, and then exposed toes? How am I supposed to focus on my job when you do things like that?!

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Old people have been saying this since I was a kid, and I'm old now. Our perception of time appears to be weighted inversely with how much we've experienced, so summer feels like forever for a preteen, but two years is a blink of an eye to someone in their 50s. Couple that with no significant events or milestones for months or years, and your perception of time is further distorted. And now all those old people, like me, can talk to a million people online about it, so it appears more prevalent than it was before, when old people couldn't or weren't communicating with strangers half a world away on a daily basis.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

If you think Pu~238~ with its half-life of 90 years is scary, check out Fe~60~ with its half-life of 2.6 million years. That must be super scary!

/s

I'm aware that everything with a higher atomic weight than iron wants to be iron.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Who were the Ukrainians killing before Russia came to save them?

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

There are a handful of commercial sailing vessels for both cargo and cruises, although they are hard to find. Here is one I found that still seems to be in service. A fairly complete list of sailing vessels can be found here. Some that are listed as currently sailing actually aren't, but it's still a place to look. The Royal Clipper seems to do the occasional transatlantic cruise, so that could be relevant for the OP. I didn't take price into consideration, they could be quite expensive.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, this reads like, "I suck at this skill, so this skill must be useless and the people who do use it are wrong."

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And you don't perhaps think your attitude is guided by your feelings? Why should others around you have to be the toilet where you deal with your feelings by having such a negative attitude? Or perhaps none of us are sufficient to do this on our own, and sometimes we rely on those close to us to get us through the parts we find difficult.

The fact you liken emotions to a waste product, and not an equally vital part of the entire process, says it all.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Holy shit, it's almost like men and women sometimes have different motivations! Maybe the problem isn't the event, but how she feels about it. And maybe the solution is to let her get it off her chest instead of suppressing it. I know, us guys generally don't like to deal with our feelings, but that doesn't mean they don't exist, or that it wouldn't be healthier if we did.

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