stray

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[–] stray@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

I took that other post as a riff on the kinds of people who put unrealistic and shallow demands on an idealized partner while offering little to nothing in the way of good partnership material themselves.

[–] stray@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have a kettle with a temperature setting that solved this problem for me. It can also maintain the temperature electronically, but I've usually give through a liter before it has a chance to cool much.

[–] stray@pawb.social 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Tea will taste different depending on what temperature water it's brewed in, but I can't think of any reason the water itself would be different.

e: The material of the vessel would matter. Perhaps you like the taste imbued by your kettle, which would be lacking if you heated the water directly in a mug.

[–] stray@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

Use one of those mixing bowls that has a spout.

[–] stray@pawb.social 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Coincidentally, this is the latest drama on my WoW server:

[–] stray@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The new administration has also introduced Christian prayer at the start of its meetings, with a Reform councillor, the group whip Dan Price, saying the UK was a “Christian country”.

Cool.

[–] stray@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I believe they were engaging in irony, accusing Dr. King of having been a violent thug when he should have protested peacefully like Dr. King, to highlight the necessity of directed violence and the flawed thinking of complete pacifism. I believe they simply worded themselves in a way that was lost on many readers.

[–] stray@pawb.social 9 points 1 month ago (26 children)

Regardless of what we might prefer, we're all forced to deal with capitalism until we build something better.

[–] stray@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't think I grasp this at all. They say the encryption is forced, so that means that I can't just access my files with Linux or whatever? But then at the end they say to use an extra hard drive as backup, so that can't be right. Is their problem that the cloud storage is encrypted? Wouldn't it be a huge, glaring issue if it wasn't? Regardless, I would expect to be locked out of my files on a cloud storage service I got locked out of, so I don't know what encryption has to do with it. I don't get it.

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like the treadmill or walking outside.

[–] stray@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I obviously can't be sure about you, but in my case my tastes have crystallized pretty dramatically, and I'm now much harder to please than when I was younger.

One thing that has changed though, is that games in general tend to have much more detailed stories and dialog in a way that just wasn't in the budget or storage space previously. Nothing annoys me more than having to watch a movie when I want to play a game or to jump through hoops just to get to the next chapter of a book. These are very different activities which require very different moods to enjoy.

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