TheMuffinMan

Blackout curtains + closed windows do not keep my first floor anywhere near cool enough unfortunately; I think it’s really poorly insulated as it is also really cold up there in the winter (though this is much more manageable to me.)

My problem with sleeping with a fan is they trigger my myofascial pain syndrome quite badly. My only relief is still air that’s cooler. I also run quite hot in general :/

I have noticed, however, that I can do a single top up at around 13:00, where I run the AC for a bit to get the upstairs room slightly cooler than downstairs. Then I turn it off and close the window and it stays somewhat bearable for the rest of the day, opening the window again at night.

I completely understand your concerns about power usage as I am eco-conscious myself, and I really wish I had a ceiling fan to use instead. Getting my landlady to sign off on that is a bit unlikely.

Those are very sensible suggestions tbf; it’s just that my house is really small! I live alone, renting. My room upstairs doesn’t fit any more than my bed and the AC (floor unit). The only way I can work up there is with a laptop on my bed, which is an ergonomic nightmare that will have me cramping in about 10 minutes.

I have a small sofa that is comfortable enough to sleep on downstairs, that I would probably use if I did not have the AC

I can lug the AC up and down the stairs but one of those 2 areas will be so warm that by the time I’ve moved it I’m immediately in need of another shower… and then again when I move it back.

I need my AC unit upstairs to sleep, but I need it downstairs so that I’m not peeling myself off of my chair every 5 minutes while working. The struggle is real.

Genuinely considering buying a second, despite barely having the space.

No idea; I’ve personally never phrased it like that. I just say that I pay (income/council/whatever) tax.

Feels like an Americanism to me.

Yes, that is what I referring to when I said that police have a lot to answer for. How multiple police officers fail to notice the victim was stabbed in is mind-boggling, let alone while he is literally telling them this. This is a level of incompetence that actually makes dystopian levels of job automation (including policing) seem favourable.

I think “where you fall on the political spectrum” is quite a personal thing for the attending police officers to know, as opposed to demographic information. I doubt you are insinuating that white people have uniform political opinions

I appreciate you summarising the actual story/news article, but that is not what I was asking about.

My comment was a reply to rambling about… “Lemmy says to punch Nazis and this is what happens when you don’t allow people to make mistakes” which was barely comprehensible, chock full of false assumptions about what happened and what Lemmy users think, and topped off with a smidge of Nazi apologia.

I think the comment I replied to has since been removed as I can’t see it anymore, so I’m guessing you saw my comment as a top-level comment. No biggie.

Anyway, while I’m here, I’ll leave my actual thoughts on the story itself, which is that it’s a horrible tragedy. It’s also sickening how the far right are hijacking his parents’ grief to stir division and make some delusional point about white people being oppressed in the UK. Police have a lot to answer for on this one.

What is the purpose of counting channels? A handful of servers I’m in have one.

Nobody challenged your legal rights.

You are a vile human being.

What in the world are you talking about?

I talk to myself when I am thinking, especially if what I am thinking about relates to emotional processing. I have never recorded myself doing this, but I don’t think I vocalise complete sentences. While I’m processing, I repeat a contextually relevant word or phrase over and over again, even if I think I’ve moved past it in my head.

I find myself doing this in public sometimes (whoops), but with silent mouth movements. Earphones help me avoid looking dodgy or like I’m hallucinating.

He is being childish, but if I am completely honest, it sounds like you are a little too. Not in how bothered you are by the situation (understandable), but more how you perceive it.

I totally understand wanting to just do the work and cut the meaningless chatter, but the reality is a job usually has more abstract requirements outside of specific job tasks. One of these is getting your manager to like you. Social cohesion is one of the things workplaces tend to look for.

Not every manager cares about small talk perhaps as much as yours does, but that’s the situation you are in.

My advice would be to decide on one of the following 1) work elsewhere where you can thrive without this obstacle, 2) develop the skill of faking being interested, or 3) do nothing but get frustrated and possibly miss out on promotions or similar.

Wishing you the best, from a socially inept person with autism who relates to that dread, haha.

Nice work on the truncation.

Opinions (even negative ones) are a form of discussion.

I get the sense that you are speaking out about circumstances relating to this specific artist (maybe they’ve been excessively hounded by a brigade of haters), but your original comment, esp. the last line was quite general, and is largely what I was responding to.

I don’t have any stance on this comic or this artist (never seen them before), but comment sections are kind of exactly for opinions to be shared.

Chad comment

Definitely had it at a fair share of parties I went to when I was at uni.

Haven’t had it since though, nor can I see myself buying it. But I really don’t care for gin. Only drank it in the uni days, because tonic water does a good job of softening the blow.

TBH, this makes very little sense to me, because that stereotype hasn’t been true for decades. I was once a braces kid (in a country where that was very normal) and have been living in the UK for 10 years. No significant differences in the state of people’s teeth.

Either the people you were watching are very old (born pre WW2) or an especially unlucky bunch. 😆

You’re right, but the absolute potato of a camera that was in the Nintendo DSi somehow made everyone look good 😆

That is absolutely wild.

When I was at uni (2016-2019), you had to leave all of your belongings behind in a designated area, and only carry a clear/transparent container with your pen(s) to the exam room. You could optionally bring a clear water bottle (label removed.)

If you ask to use the bathroom, there is no opportunity to go back to your belongings.

Trans man here, IMHO being nonbinary can be paired with being trans, but not necessarily, i.e. they are not inherently the same thing.

If they have dysphoria and want to transition to alleviate it (irrespective of whether they can), then yes, they are trans.

If the extent of a nonbinary person’s journey is to go by they/them, or they/them + the pronouns associated with their AGAB, then I would not categorise them as trans. To be clear, I am not saying that this is not a valid stance - just that the experience is not the same as being trans, though there may be some overlap.

Obviously you cannot work this out without intimately knowing the person, and it isn’t really anyone else’s business anyway, but to answer the question explicitly, I would refer to them as a nonbinary person (in the absence of further information, and where the ‘nonbinary’ descriptor is relevant otherwise I would just say ‘person’), not a trans person.