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JakenVeina@midwest.socialto Actually Infuriating@lemmy.world•Throwing food away because capitalism4·23 hours agoNot wanting to incentivise waste is a legit point, but this is the cruelist possible solution to the problem. Which is another thing capitalism is great at incentivising!
JakenVeina@midwest.socialto Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Elon Musk just opened a restaurant in Los Angeles. This is the menu.13·2 days agoThey should be fucking arrested for wasting Wagyu beef in a chili.
Sure enough, there it is.
The sidebar for the whole instance? I think that’s jusy not visible anywhere, in Jerboa. I’ll have to look for it at my desktop, later.
JakenVeina@midwest.socialto Sysadmin@lemmy.world•Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours4·3 days agoHehe. The manager troll was perfect.
I guess that was the downtime overnight? Glad to see an active admin team. Sounds like it’s time for me to setup a support subscription. Is there a Patreon account, or similar?
Boy 120GB doesn’t seem like much. Do photo uploads go somewhere else, perhaps?
JakenVeina@midwest.socialto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Florida's plan to replace migrant workers with children falls apartEnglish911·4 days agoI mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up.
The fact that “how it used to be” in your childhood produced a scumbag like you is a compelling argument to not let people’s childhoods be like that anymore.
JakenVeina@midwest.socialOPto Satisfactory@lemmy.world•Day 166 of posting screenshots every day, of whatever I've been working on that day, until I run out of content or get bored2·4 days agoI uhh, don’t really? I wouldn’t call any of this backlog, it’s all forwardlog. It’s just a matter of looking at the codex for “hey, what’s the next item I need to automate” then planning for that and doing it.
I do have quite a bit of backlog I’ll deal with eventually, when it comes to going back and up-clocking all the existing factories, and upgrading all the belts to match. But, like, there’s not much to remember, there. I’ll probably have to re-run some of the numbers for the older ones, but I still have the plans sitting in Satisfactory Tools. And the newer factories that I’ve been using Satisfactory Modeler for, I have all the files saved.
No, I am not a project manager. I am a software developer, though, there’s a fair bit of crossover there, I guess.
I think you’re very pretty - especially naked.
Something I’ve learned about compliments, in general, is to be specific. Like, even outside of the nudity, just “I think you’re very pretty” is rather a poor compliment. Leaving it open-ended like that plays into what others have said in this thread, that it can be interpreted negatively.
In this case, the obvious alternative in my mind is “I really like your tattoos.” That even opens up the opportunity for a conversation about how she got them and what they mean to her. You could could also complement her hair, as you mentioned you appreciated that as well.
asked her if she’d allow me to explain my obvious fuck-up
This is a very natural reaction on your part, and comes from a good place: you’ve recognized that you’ve caused someone pain/harm, and want to help alleviate it. Unfortunately, when it comes to topics where sexuality is involved, I don’t think there’s any scenario where it helps. Not unless they come to you seeking an apology/explanation. The most helpful thing for most people, in this scenario, is to have a little contact as possible with the person who made them uncomfortable. Even if you’re being genuine about this, most people aren’t.
I tried to explain to X again that I wasn’t sexualising her in any way
I think this is especially not going to help, because it’s not an apology. A real, genuine apology for a situation like this involves you recognizing that you did, in fact, do wrong to someone (which, again, in this case, I think you do recognize), so an apology HAS to focus on that.
For me, a true apology has to consist of 3 things:
- Contrition (I.E. “I’m sorry”)
- Understanding (what you did that was wrong, and how it was wrong)
- Amends (what/how you’re going to do better in the future)
Focusing on explaining your side of the story screws up the “understanding” part. It makes it about what SHE did wrong (“you reacted without knowing the full story”) instead of what YOU did wrong (“I didn’t consider that my words would make you uncomfortable”). Alternatively, it’s “you shouldn’t be feeling this way, because you don’t know the whole story” instead of “I shouldn’t have made you feel this way”. Even though that’s not what you meant to say, that’s an entirely understandable way to interpret it.
Explaining your side of the story can still be part of this, but it comes under the “Amends” category. I.E. “I wasn’t trying to sexualize you, so I need to work on avoiding sexualizing language” or “I need to work on choosing my words more carefully, I should be able to compliment someone without it coming off as a sexual thing.”
Anyway, that’s just my 2 cents. If everything you’ve told us is accurate, I think you’re genuinely a fine person, and you just need to file this one away as a learning experience, the best you can. Nothing more to be done about it now.
JakenVeina@midwest.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•I had a hysterectomy on Thursday and recovery is boring and painful. Do y'all have any questions for me?3·4 days agoWhat’d you have for dinner?
JakenVeina@midwest.socialto Games@lemmy.world•The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchiseEnglish39·5 days agoA) And yet, not long after, Andor was massively successful.
B) Then stop making games exclusively based off of third party IPs.
JakenVeina@midwest.socialto Television@piefed.social•Jimmy Kimmel Has a Blunt Message for CBS After Colbert Cancellation3·5 days agoSeems like a jab at CBS prioritizing those kinds of shows over the largely-more-popular Late Show. Alternatively, maybe making a jab at those being the best that CBS has to offer.
JakenVeina@midwest.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•The down vote button is not the "disagree" button, what do you use it for?3·5 days agoThese days, mostly for reddit mirror bots.
I dunno what people’s obsession is with Lululemon, and I really don’t care, but that fucking bot alone is like 5% of lemmy/all, these days.
JakenVeina@midwest.socialto Technology@lemmy.zip•Meta used AI to concoct low-carbon concrete it poured for a datacenter floorEnglish51·7 days agoThis appears to be a rare proper use of machine-learning tech.
No, they did not ask ChatGPT to whip them up a concrete mix. They (in co-operation with engineers) trained a mathematical model specifically for the task of predicting the performance of concrete mixes, in order to narrow down the number of mixes to do (time-intensive) real-world testing on. With a focus on also predicting the carbon-emission impact of the mixes.
This is the kind of technology we need more of. Not LLM slop.
JakenVeina@midwest.socialOPto Satisfactory@lemmy.world•Day 161 of posting screenshots every day, of whatever I've been working on that day, until I run out of content or get bored2·7 days agoJust northeast of coal lake. Around the giant pillar with the SAM node on top.
EDIT: Wrong post. This is the starter area in Northern Forest. The north-facing cliffside with all the iron nodes, overlooking the canyon.
JakenVeina@midwest.socialtoEl Chisme@hexbear.net•Still not a single word of apology from elmo5·8 days agoI was quite confused until I realized that Elon wouldn’t have his own handle be “elmo” and the remembered the event with ACTUAL Elmo.
JakenVeina@midwest.socialto chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•All right-wing politics is sexual pathologyEnglish24·8 days agoJFC, it’s real.
JakenVeina@midwest.socialto Ask Lemmy@sh.itjust.works•What are your thoughts on giving money to beggars?English1·9 days agoEvery situtation is different, but in general, It’s the same as the “innocent until proven guilty” concept: I’d rather give money to someone whose being dishonest than not give it to someone who really needs it. Cause I appreciate how close ANY of us are to homelessness and destitution in this world. My own generosity is my own generosity, not determined by the honesty, or lack thereof, of others.
And it doesn’t even rain on this planet!