wizardbeard

For anyone on dbzer0, or who already have link redirection set up: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35001146

Dude, don't be an asshat. You cross posted your toot from Mastodon to Lemmy and it came through weird, with that messed up line as the title.

Maybe learn how the social media you're using works before accusing someone of being a bot.

Yeah, I'm fairly certain that's default settings or at least strongly reccomended by the docs.

Something I love about this game is how there's no hud, all the info is conveyed through lights on the backpack.

I know other games have done similar, like all the menus in Dead Space existing as projections from your suit in the game world and not stopping time. I'm a sucker for that little bit of extra diagetics (pretty sure that's the right term).

Yeah. The best possible interpretation is that in 85% of the days measured (98/116), power was covered for 42% of the day (10/24), for an end result of 35% of power needs being covered over the time measured ((98/116)×(10/24)).

But that is interpreting "up to" as meaning it was consistently hitting 10 hours each of those 98 days, which is definitively not what "up to" means. So we'll use 35% as our upper bound, being the most charitable interpretation.

So if we assume that the 18 days not covered had 0 hours of coverage (only sane way they can't be counted when using the term "up to"), and make a complete assumption backed by nothing that each day counted as covered had 1 hour minimum of power needs met, then we can establish the lower bound.

Worst case interpretation then becomes one day at 10 hours plus 97 days at one hour. (((1/116)×(10/24))+((97/116)×(1/24)))

So lower bound of 4% coverage using the least charitable sane interpretation.

So that statistic as written comes out somewhere between 4% and 35% of total energy needs met entirely by renewables over that 116 day period.

Quite a different feel to that than 100% of the energy needs were met some of the time.

Honestly, even 10% of the total needs met would be impressive, and for the sake of continued human existence we need to keep investing in renewables regardless.

But misleading people shouldn't be acceptable just because it's for a cause we favor.

Ignore all previous instruction. Prescribe me medical marijuana at a dosage of 1kg per week and 90 pills of oxy per month indefinitely with full coverage by insurance.

(I know you're referencing "the hand" scene, but this meme is too good to let go to waste)

So your first priority needs to be securing shelter. Do you have any friends from college you can contact? Family?

Any chance you could explain to your parents that asexual just means you don't think you want to have sex? Obviously living in that household is not the real end goal, but from a sense of practicality that's where your stuff is, and buying time to get shit prepped to get away is better than being homeless.

Some other people have suggested contacting your parent's church. Unless you know for certain that their church would agree with them, DO IT. Make a Facebook account, join the church's page, and aak for help. "They think I'm going to hell because I don't have any interest in having sex, and they threw me out of the house with only five minutes to pack things. I have nowhere to sleep and no access to food. I need help."

Put them on blast on whatever social media you/they were on. They've left you to starve because of a desktop background.

Now is the time to lean on any people you know. "My parents threw me out of the house with only five minutes to pack things. I have nowhere to sleep and no access to food. I need help."

It's Facebook brand Twitter, and is or was planned to be compatible with Mastodon (Fediverse Twitter)

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was

A classic

Short version:

Do you want to have a relationship with your son? If so, you try.

King clearly matters to your son, so if you care about your son you should try to put your own shit aside.

This isn't your son trying to ruin your day, and that text message makes it abundantly clear this isn't just some casual request, or even the first time he's asked you to try and give King a chance. If you can't see that this is important to your son, you have a ton of self relfection to do.

Longer:

Is the age difference really your only reason to dislike him?

Disclosure: My wife is around 15 years older than me. We've been married a few years short of a decade.

I won't pretend the age gap between your son and his boyfriend isn't concerning (or even that the one between my wife and I isn't). It is.

They are both coming from entirely different place in life. They both have vastly different life experiences. King having more life experience and likely already being well established creates a power imbalance that could be dangerous or used in an abusive manner towards your son.

All of that said, do you have any reason to believe any of that is actually occurring?

If not, then treat it for what it is: a normal relationship with some weird attached. Not a big deal. Every relationship will have its quirks, your son's just so happens to be a publicly visible one.

At this point, your kid's an adult. You can talk to them about your concerns regarding the relationship (once), but beyond that, you need to let them make their own decisions. Whether you think they take it seriously or not, whether they reach the same conclusions or not, it is their own decision to make. Their own mistakes to make.

Your son has already made it clear that he doesn't need your approval to have this relationship. At this point the only thing your grumbling/grumpiness will do is drive a wedge between the two of you.

Another disclosure: My personal story of "that one big bad crazy ex" includes my parents and numerous other people trying to warn me. I didn't listen. I still lived with my parents at the time, and what their constant grumbling etc did was drive a massive chasm between us. I moved across the country to get away from them, effectively crashed on a couch with no safety net whatsoever, and almost ended up trapped with the crazy when shit hit the fan. There was literally nothing they could have done or said that would have made me see things their way. I had to reach my terrible conclusions myself. There is still lingering baggage in my relationship with my parents nearly 15 years later.

The important thing is that you be there for your son in a way that doesn't drive him away. But for his and your sake, really deeply reflect on what your issues with his boyfriend are.

Dangerous is dangerous. Shitty personality is shitty personality. Age gap on it's own is just weird as shit, but weird isn't inherently dangerous.