We were staying at a small hotel, we just finished lunch when we saw a middle aged couple arguing with the young receptionist.
Their problem was that the all you can eat restaurant had self service and that they ran out of one of the meals. The receptionist tried to explain that this kind of thing happens sometimes but they try their best to refill the trays.
They then asked for the owner, but the receptionist informed them that he's out of town and not available, but if they want they could write a formal complaint. Hearing this the woman shouted: "then how will we get a refund???".
Could be someone who's genuinely trying to understand someone's viewpoint, but it reveals inconsistencies in the other person's logic, so they get irritated.
Sisyphus is really great. You should also check out Alice (not to be confused with Alice in Borderlands) on Netflix. It's also a time travel series but its true strength comes from its characters and all the different story threads coming together (which reminded me of the first season of Heroes).
I find it to be an interesting solution looking for a problem. There could be many applications but I've yet to see one that blockchain could solve better than anything else that we already have, outside of crypto currencies.
Web3 is an interesting thought experiment but I don't see how it would work in real life. It would be extremely slow, data loss would be a daily occurrence and it would be a privacy/security nightmare.
My dad believes tons of right wing conspiracy theories, it's like a hobby for him. Sometimes they even contradict each other (e.g. the war in Ukraine isn't happening vs. Putin is fighting against wokism and the "Jewish plan"), but that doesn't seem to bother him.
I tried to argue with him, tried understanding, but every time I ask questions that stretch his understanding he gets irritated and says I'm always nitpicking and that I have a closed mind.
So when he brings them up I just nod and change the subject. We're cool if we talk about anything else.
Same. My subscription feed is a curated list of creators whose videos I look forward to and probably watch on release. If I notice that I consistently don't watch the new videos anymore I unsub.
I was working on a hobby project where I used a niche framework in a somewhat uncommon way. I was stuck on a concept that I think the documentation didn't explain well enough, at least for me, and I couldn't find any resource on it aside from the docs.
I asked Bing to write a piece of code that does what I wanted and explain each line. It was perfectly working and the explanation was also understandable. All it did was search for its official documentation. It really blew my mind.
The way I understand from what I've seen and read is that these are mostly people who were banned, shunned or chased away from other platforms. While Reddit can ban you, you can just spin up an instance of Lemmy, Mastodon or whatever yourself and play by your own rules.
Interestingly, on Reddit there were tons of trans related posts and comments, but what I see here (and other fedi platforms) is trans people posting whatever interests them, and not about being trans. It's like they can just be themselves without people constantly talking about or questioning their identity.
As far as I've experienced you need really good quality headphones in order to enjoy Tidal. Mine is on the high end of mid tier and I couldn't tell the difference in quality when I asked my wife to test me. I use Youtube Music because it's pretty much the same as Spotify plus no ads on regular Youtube.
"So in order to solve the dependeny issue, I think we should contact the...OMG those readings suggest an artificial quantum singularity, it must be a cloaked D'deridex-class Romulan warbird!! Red alert!"
In some countries they'll fail you if you don't bribe, even if your driving was perfect, in others they'll just overlook small errors that aren't too dangerous.
There are places where if you bribe they'll let you pass even if you can barely drive, in others they'll call the police on you if you bring it up.
Ask around locally, you should definitely not bribe if you'd be a danger to yourself and others.
We were staying at a small hotel, we just finished lunch when we saw a middle aged couple arguing with the young receptionist.
Their problem was that the all you can eat restaurant had self service and that they ran out of one of the meals. The receptionist tried to explain that this kind of thing happens sometimes but they try their best to refill the trays.
They then asked for the owner, but the receptionist informed them that he's out of town and not available, but if they want they could write a formal complaint. Hearing this the woman shouted: "then how will we get a refund???".