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  • Overheard two ladies in Cambodian Tire talking about how the election was stolen and clearly a fraud because "The liberals got themselves over 26 million votes!"

    Lady, there are only 28 million eligible electors in Canada. If we had 93% voter turnout just for the liberals... I mean, shit.

    Bible belt region Onterrible btw.

  • Friend, I came here to say just this.

    Siege of the Tower by the White Rose and it's just absolute nightmare fuel. Man and Woman slaughtering one another by day only gives way to wizards trying to find the most creative ways to slaughter them all by night.

  • We usually can see it but only once it's too late. If you're fast you can usually get rid of all the brood comb and pray it doesn't continue to spread but usually the hive is a goner.

    It's spotted by discoloured larva, a bad smell and poke tests. It's one of those diseases you can't really manage. It contributes to hive collapse syndrome along with varoa mites which we're still studying.

    A big reason this disease gets to spread along with Varoa is because of factory farming of honey and the global transportation of colonies for annual pollination cycles. Especially barley and other grain.

    Capitalism is literally at fault for hive collapse syndrome.

  • People who write their skill modifier in the big box weren't raised right. Big box for big number. Little circle for little number.

    Yes, I'm a nerd. Fight me, you'll probably win.

  • Ah, shit. I forgot where I was...

    Kind philosopher, certain citizens of this democracy have associated social hierarchy to the order of the alphabet.

    This is related to the observed hierarchy of wolves. Those enjoyers of fables such as Homer's writings have taken a liking to comparing themselves to famous heroes in these fables.

    One may see Zeus as an Alpha. The leader of the pack who lays with all women.

    Or the enlightened mind may see Hephaestus as a Sigma for, despite being ugly and disliked he still lays with the goddess of beauty and sexuality.

    Further, one may consider Odysseus a Beta/Cuckold because he does not take the advice of Ariadne and becomes lost within the labyrinth (of his mind?).

    Memes may be portrayed as art on urns or as murals in bath houses depicting such stories of victory, lust and woe. Many people enjoy sharing these for a quick chuckle.

  • It's a derivation of the cultish manosphere philosophy. Further related to the idea that wolves and humans are organised in packs by social status.

    Alpha: The typical macho leader

    Beta/Beta-cuck: The nobody that lets the alpha fuck his girl

    Sigma: The far evolved thinking man. Leads from the shadows, could take all the girls but doesn't cause they're too busy in the pursuit of knowledge. Basically the line wolf.

    This is again an extension of the Cool Chad/Slut Stacy/Nerd trope but with the addition of a Sigma.

    Nowadays you call someone a Sigma to basically say they're a Chad/cool.

    Then there's also a meme where you just ask people "Hey, What's a Sigma?"

    Here's a KYM page about it. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sigma-males

  • I typically play female characters in games too. Always have. They're something outside my world experience, I can experience the story through a lense I may not have seen otherwise.

    It's nice to see yourself represented but like... Shiiiiiiit dude. I'm reading a book or playing a game to be immersed in the story. Why people put so much stock into who or what a character is; it's beyond me.

    I just want some good stories with good characters. I can't fucking wait to kick ass as Cirilla in the Witcher. I loved being Girlboss V in Cyberpunk, Senua was stellar.

    Open world RPG? Bet your ass I wanna be goth mommy in plate armour ripping out a dragon's throat.

    Also sometimes games had smaller hitboxes for women and little me fucked with that more than anything.

  • People of colour aren't a thing anywhere? Damn, gotta inform like.... 6.5 billion people they don't exist.

    Do you fail to see how people of certain socioeconomic backgrounds and racial backgrounds may have different values and viewpoints thus making them worthy of inclusion by virtue of having different values and viewpoints?

    Like... I feel like you're focused on the racial background of this while ignoring the fact that -to paraphrase you- Poor little Mayo kids will also benefit from DEI practices that admit people based on personal experience over "qualification".

    Isn't part of the American dream that anyone, of any make and model can find opportunity if they talk to the right person?

  • Not American here: isn't a large proportion of the USA's impoverished population made up of immigrants and people of colour?

    So... Would that make poverty BS a pseudoscientific category (partly) defined by skin colour?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    Adm_Drummer @lemmy.world

    Why don't carts have a little handheld scanner, then you pay at a scale?

    Pretty much the title. Like, get those handheld scanners and attach them to the carts. I scan items as I put them in, roll up to a "register" where the cart is weighed and verified by a cashier. I just hand over the cash then leave. Or even better, install load sensors in the cart.

    Usually I like to pack my groceries into my boxes as I get them into the cart. Keeps things orderly and neat and I also don't buy more than I can carry home. But this means I have to unpack them to place on the belt then pack them all over again after paying. It would be kinda nice to just pay by the cart load.

    Warhammer 40k @lemmy.world
    Adm_Drummer @lemmy.world

    Black Company Chaplain WIP

    My first ever fully painted miniature that didn't come free in a box with paints.

    Paints used:

    1. 2:2:1 Black Templar:Lahmian Medium:Ultramarine Contrast (Citadel)
    2. Pure Red (Warpaints)
    3. Skeleton Bone (Warpaints)
    4. Greedy Gold (Warpaints)
    5. Cobalt Metal (Warpaints)
    6. Skeleton Horde (Citadel)
    7. Nuln Oil (Citadel)

    I've got some places I definitely want to touch up. Places where my brush control was lacking for sure and I'm not happy with the tone on the belt. I find it mixes too much with the gold. I'll be adding some more layers to that as well as touching up any spots I missed with paint.

    Overall I'm pretty happy with it. I'll be continuing to edge highlight with the cobalt Metal on any exposed armour and will attempt my first OSL from the eyes.

    Funny thing is, this isn't even from my main army. I have 2500 points of Nids I need to prime and paint. I've just been having a bit of the winter blues so I forced myself to paint something to try and kickstart my engin

    Linux @lemmy.ml
    Adm_Drummer @lemmy.world

    Dual-Boot causing slow boot, solutions?

    Quick and dirty is this:

    Running a new dual boot system. Windows boots fine and fast. Grub bootloader grinds and grunts to startup. Systemd checks point to Fedora waiting on the Win10 disk to boot (+45s!!!). Obviously, I don't need that drive to run, but Fedora/Bootloader thinks it should.

    Disconnected the Win10 drive, Fedora booted in 3.6s.

    So... Windows bootloader knows to ignore the Fedora OS drive and launches fine. Fedora Bootloader insists it try everything to get that Win10 drive running to my own detriment.

    Is there a way to just ignore the Win10 drive the way Win10 ignores Fedora?

    Been scratching my head on this one for a bit to be honest.

    EDIT: Seems the issue was caused by RAID incompatibility from my internal backups for Win10. The RAID drives wrongly pointed the finger at the boot disk because the only thing I could really make sense of in diagnostics was the Win10 boot stalling for 45+ seconds. Once I disconnected all the drives and incrementally reconnected them