Kraiden

omfg, I wasn’t looking for suggestions! I said I would play Oblivion, I played Oblivion. I had a fucking great night. Had pizza for dinner, got a little drunk, finished the shivering isles main quest… 10/10 friday evening, thanks. jfc

Sure, I’ve got no issue with teenagers, but the question had two answers that I felt were both incorrect. I don’t know how you solve that, because I don’t think giving the jury the ability to add option c is a good idea, but neither do I want to give bad advice just to move to the next question

Needs a way to skip a question. I got hit with some teenage drama, and honestly, neither option provided is correct

The fuck are you talking about? It’s not about price, I’m on Linux. Did you read the article? I’m going to play Oblivion because I WANT to play Oblivion.

Shockingly, Australia has a right wing too

I get paid today and was gonna pick this up tonight… Guess it’s back to Oblivion then!

It’ll be really dumb if this works, but try explicitly turning cellular data off. I’m wondering if the connection bridging could be causing issues

eta: oh, and disable wireguard when you’re on the local network in case you’re not already

Lol, that was maybe a bad example then. I was just looking for a technical term that the general public wouldn’t need to care about, but that all sounds like reasonably important information

That’s like saying he shouldn’t be expected to give advice on Seroconversion kinetics*. You’re right, but it’s also not really the point.

He, like your manager, is responsible for taking the knowledge of the “engineers” and turning that into practical advice and/or legislation for the public.

Which he is not doing… Which has resulted in a body count… Which should at the very least cost him his job…

But if anyone thinks that’s going to happen, they’ve not been paying attention.

*(I don’t know what that is btw, that comes from wikipedia. It’s some technical thing to do with vaccines)

Oh FFS. I thought this was preventing regulations WRITTEN by AI for 10 years. I was about to go on about the GOP actually getting something right for a change, like a broken clock. No matter how low my expectations, they still manage to dispoint.

The group, […] argued that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing “the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve” its earnings goals.

Sorry, am I missing something here or is this them saying the quiet part out loud?

I read this as “Investors are annoyed that public backlash prevented UHG from fucking over, and in some cases KILLING their customers, and wanted the company to acknowledge sooner that they wouldn’t be able to fuck over and kill their customers”

We were discussing the usefulness of receipts, why are we now discussing the maturity of my friends and my ability to set boundaries?

I’m more than happy to pick up whatever my friends would like… because they’re my friends, and so long as I have hands to carry it, it’s not an imposition.

I just expect them to pay for it. Expecting me to foot the bill WOULD be an imposition, and I wouldn’t be ok with that. THAT is my healthy boundary.

Receipts help with this.

There is no one size fits all when it comes to group dynamics like this, and I’ll thank you to not make assumptions about my friends like that.

If I’m only getting a scone and a small black coffee, I’m not paying for your soy mocha latte with almond sprinkles and unicorn hair. “I’ve got next” is a luxury of those not on a budget. All my friends get it, and we all agree you pay for your own. We save rounds for the bar where everyone is drinking the same thing

Also, fwiw, I’ve never even been to America

Because only Americans buy more than a single donut?

I mean, yes, but that breaks down when you start thinking about a donut, two croissants, a cheese scone, and 3 coffees, 2 regular, 1 large, one with regular milk, one with almond milk, and one black, for me and the two friends in the office who then need to think about reimbursement

Ye, the medical thing concerns me. NZ has a national health record system that let’s you register a primary emergency contact. From everything I’ve read, that, coupled with the fact that we’re in a defacto relationship should be enough to prevent that being an issue. I hope that stays untested

I’m in NZ. Theoretically we’re listed as each other’s primary emergency contacts, so that shouldn’t be an issue. I just hope we never have to find out.

As for children, property etc. NZ has this idea of a defacto relationship, which you can enter into either by living together for 2 years, or by having a child together. It offers the same protections that marriage does. I think it gets a bit greyer if you just have a child together, but living together for 2 years is as good as a marriage in this regard.

Where it matters the most is if one of us passes away, but that can be negated through a will.

It could matter if we ever decided to move out of the country, but I don’t see us doing that in a hurry. We’ll cross that bridge if we ever get to it

Estate can be managed by having a good will drawn up, and in NZ there is no distinction between a married couple and a defacto relationship (living together for >2 years) when it comes to separations and property.

Marriage is a big ceremony where you declare that this person is now your family in front of the people most important to you. From that angle I’m on board.

Where I’m out is that you have to register that with the govt. I HATE that. I’m in a het relationship, and gay marriage is legal here, so I have no idea why that irks me so much, but it’s like, who the fuck are they to tell me my marriage isn’t real because it’s not registered with them?

Here there aren’t even any good tax benefits, so I really don’t see the point.

We’ll probably have a ceremony, but it won’t be a legal marriage.

“but you can call me the fediverse chick guy/person”