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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • My 5D chess move would be:

    • Go: ok bet, you wanna shut it down? Your stores are now in immediate administration under some eminent domain law
    • In order to mitigate political backlash, make it known that they’re able to sell their business to someone else, or the city, provided that the subsequent owner is bound to either run it, or sell it to the city

    Watch them get mad because you haven’t technically seized it, they can still sell the business (maintaining the sacrosanct rights to private property capitalists love so much), you’ve just prevented them from closing it down, and everyone gets to keep their jobs :)



  • It’s not the multiple partners that are a problem in my opinion (You do you. Polyamory is not for me, but no hate), it’s the many-to-one relationships. Even in cases where an immoral power dynamic doesn’t exist, you’re still setting up for societal shenanigans if it’s consistently many women to men, or vice versa, which seems prudent to avoid.

    That being said, monogamy in a legal sense has probably only persisted so long because involving more than 2 people would be a massive headache for the courts lol

    Probably only works in countries where one “partner” has more rights than others.




  • Work forced our update and it’s massively slowed down everyone’s computers.

    The IT guy gave me this knowing look when I came to ask if I could do anything about it.

    Nope.

    Bloody ridiculous because in terms of functionality it’s a step backwards in many areas, some decent little improvements in very few areas, and overall trash performance.

    Really wish they had paid for extended security updates.







  • I haven’t seen it, but the problem is that dairy is consumed to ungodly levels in the US, and even mandatory for school food programs, I believe. The problem with dairy is the myth that it’s vital to a healthy diet, despite like 50% or more of the world not being able to properly digest it.

    If it’s addictive, then seems like a bit of an issue if it’s being pushed on kids.

    It’s not gonna kill you in moderation, though.

    The US really has a weird obsession with cheese, in my opinion. I live in Australia, a western country with the majority having European ancestry. As such cheese is consumed, in large qualities also. But my lordy, the US is on a whole other level with cheese.

    The most revolting thing I’ve seen is “gooey” liquid cheese “sauce”.

    🤢🤢🤢🤢 Yikes.

    Haha, sorry for the rant, kind internet stranger, I am glad you enjoy your cheese, and if it makes you happy, then bless your heart, even if I don’t understand personally


  • I don’t mind cheese, but I have never understood the obsession with piles of cheese.

    Cheese pizza has never made sense to me. Margarita is already plenty of cheese to topping ratio.

    Just enough cheese to hold it together. That’s it, that’s the right amount of cheese (my opinion, of course)

    I recently came across the question whether cheese or sauce is more fundamental to pizza.

    The sauce. It’s 100% the sauce.






  • MisterFrog@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldNot fair
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    I finally found you, an engineer actually using π=3 (or 4 as you say), and not just people making fun of it.

    I am also an engineer, but I’m going to wager much more recently graduated (worked 3.5 years).

    Who hurt you?

    Like, I get it, in a world before calculators, but there’s a button on the calculator, in your spreadsheet, in whatever program that approximates pi to many, many, many digits.

    Putting in a design/safety margins into pi seems like a strange choice.

    Sincerely, an engineer looking for answers on this π=3 meme.

    Even if it’s back of the napkin first past approximation. You have a phone calculator. Please use it for our collective peace haha

    (All jibes in jest, I’m genuinely curious)



  • I have never had any reason to use any of Adobe’s stuff other than acrobat.

    Having used 2 competitors extensively at work, Bluebeam and PDF X-Change (and the free version of 1 of those, PDF X-Change, at home), it’s not even close.

    Acrobat is so much worse, and they came up with the format.

    It’s embarrassing.