BlameThePeacock

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[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Part of that is going to depend on what exactly you're doing with the computer, and how fast the other components are.

If you're just browsing the internet and want to be able to have more than 5 tabs open before your computer starts stuttering, the extra ram will be far more important than the speed.

If you're playing games, and your CPU and GPU are really good compared to your ram already, the bottleneck from the ram speed dropping may slow things down rather than speed them up.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 27 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Budgeting and more probabilities/statistics are where I think it should be.

Both of those directly relate to improving your life.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 21 points 6 days ago

This is one of those situations where nobody wins. They tried to do something nice, you didn't like it, and both people ended up unhappy. Neither was being unreasonable.

Buying someone a gift of a new thing isn't unreasonable. Even if you tend to like older/used things it's still not an unreasonable concept to buy someone an upgrade.

Not liking a gift because the old one is fine is also not unreasonable. Especially if you have established this as a preference before.

The best option here is for the partner to realize that the goal of the gift is to make the other person happy, and if that didn't work, figure out the path forward that does make them happy. (in this case returning the gift, and finding something else)

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Your phone isn't connecting fibre optically, it's connecting to a WIFI router, as part of you switching they set up a new WIFI router and even if you used the same password there's about a half dozen other things that could be configured differently that would prevent them from easily swapping over. Everything from a different SSID, to using different encryption, to using different wifi specs (802.11b/n/g/ac/ax), to using different bands, could cause the problems you're encountering.

Get your technician back, and have them help you fix it. I don't mean to be rude, but you aren't qualified to do this on your own.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

It won't matter in the slightest.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

And home theater systems are much cheaper than they have ever been. You can get a massive TV and sound system for under $1000 at this point.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

If you go read the US laws, those are not uncommon at all. Some states you'd think would be strict are even less restrictive than Alabama.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

It means that using the correct term matters, because the crimes he should be convicted of are different based on the age involved.

Even Epstein's island has age of consent laws and degrees of charge that vary by age.

Stupidly enough, at least in the US virgin islands (where that is) your spouse can consent even outside these allowed age ranges most of the time.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 week ago (6 children)

IMO, Sex with someone 15 or under, as an adult should not be allowed.

What she's arguing, and she's correct about, is that there are separate words for people are attracted to prepubescent, early pubescent, and late pubescent children.

For some reason, the one for the youngest group (Pedophiles) is being applied to all of them in general conversations.

The laws are even frequently different for these different groups, so it makes no sense to use one blanket term:

The current Code of Alabama codifies Rape in the First Degree as:[9]

"(a) A person commits the crime of rape in the first degree if:

(1) He or she engages in sexual intercourse with a member of the opposite sex by forcible compulsion; or (2) He or she engages in sexual intercourse with a member of the opposite sex who is incapable of consent by reason of being physically helpless or mentally incapacitated; or (3) He or she, being 16 years or older, engages in sexual intercourse with a member of the opposite sex who is less than 12 years old. (b) Rape in the first degree is a Class A felony."

The current Code of Alabama codifies Rape in the Second Degree as:[10]

"(a) A person commits the crime of rape in the second degree if:

(1) Being 16 years or older, he or she engages in sexual intercourse with a member of the opposite sex less than 16 and more than 12 years old, provided, however, the actor is at least two years older than the member of the opposite sex. (2) He or she engages in sexual intercourse with a member of the opposite sex who is incapable of consent by reason of being mentally defective. (b) Rape in the second degree is a Class B felony."

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Each thing gets washed once, with the appropriate chemical if needed.

Generally for the toilet bowl, something with bleach.

For surfaces like the toilet and sink, especially in a bathroom, I usually swap between using just some vinegar and Fantastic all purpose cleaner. Vinegar is fine most weeks, Fantastic once in a while to get some of the stuff Vinegar may not have got properly with those extra chemicals that it has but I could easily go months without needing it.

I use water and a microfiber cloth for the mirrors and the faucet, a drop of dish soap if there's something on it (like dried toothpaste spittle). This also works for walls most of the time if you wipe those, but I don't wipe my walls very regularly, maybe once a year.

Hot water is fine for the tile floor too, maybe it gets something stronger a couple times a year.

You don't need a lot unless someone in the household is sick with something that could be transmitted through a bathroom. Then hit it with harsher chemicals.

One thing to note may be that in certain warmer climates, there are other considerations for mold and bacterial growth that I do not have to worry about where I live (in a cooler climate)

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 201 points 1 week ago (12 children)

It's a fucking struggle right now, and It's not supposed to be like this.

You shouldn't have to work a full time job, and take care of the house, and take care of the kids. Neither should the wife/partner.

The fact that it requires two working parents at this point to afford life is the problem. There's enough to go around even if just one parent was participating in the economy, if it was distributed more fairly.

The pendulum has swung too far on capitalism, and it's sucking the vast majority of people dry just to feed itself. There's a reason why birthrates have jumped off a cliff.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work that way in reality. While the criminal laws are all public, there's other rules and regulations that may not be.

At least where I'm from as an example, the building code is a paid product you have to purchase from the government. Yet if you build a home and don't follow it, they will not allow you to live in it.

That one really bugs me. Anything the government produces in terms of rules or regulations should be available to the public for free.

 

Intent to injure?

Based on that call, any sort of pushing or shoving should be called.

 

Unfortunately, it looks like he's going to elected in a couple years. I just hope people remember after a term of the Conservatives cutting important environmental policies like the carbon tax, that they will have failed to make like more affordable AND fucked up the environment more.

The conservative parties that won in the UK didn't manage to make things more affordable, the conservative party that won in Australia didn't manage it either, no party anywhere has managed it.

This crisis isn't caused by local government zoning policies, approval red tape, or anything else that the parties are talking about. It's caused by landowners (including people who own only one property) using a home as an investment.

You cannot have homes appreciate in value faster than inflation (investments) and also have affordable housing. It's impossible. That's literally just a pyramid scheme.

Until the government starts implementing policies that start reducing existing home prices, this will not be fixed. Building more units doesn't do this unless you build impossibly (literally impossible) large numbers.

So stop voting with your emotions and vote with your brain.

 

In case anyone was wondering what happened at the grocery stores over the last couple days.

 

I love Mattias Krantz and his wacky music projects.

 

Because reasons?

 

Somewhat clickbait title, it went from 80% to 89% of new unit starts for this one month period compared to last year.

Apartment units have been the majority of new units for more than a decade now.

 

More technical issues. The ferries are starting to become a real issue here on the island.

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