Hildegarde

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Cake day: December 7th, 2024

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  • To everyone saying vandalism is bad because of insurance payouts is missing the point. Elon’s wealth comes from him owning shares. You drop the share price you eliminate his wealth. The share price is what matters, not the company’s income.

    Tesla’s price per earnings ratio is over 100. If you bought a share of tesla today it would require over 100 years for the portion that share represents to pay for itself.

    Comparing it to other car companies, toyota’s ppe is 7.52, ford is 6.86, gm is 7.76. Tesla is ridiculously overvalued. Over 10 times more than the biggest car companies. Its valuation is due to hype not its income or financial status.

    When vandalization of teslas, or tesla sales locations happens, it does far more damage to the public perception and therefore the share price than the meager insurance payout.

    I should make it clear I’m speaking hypothetically. I do not condone vandalism. Be safe.



  • Assembly was the language you used to write games back then. Most 8 and 16 bit console games were written in assembly. They needed low level code for the performance.

    If you played sonic spinball on the genesis/mega-drive, you played a game that struggled at 20 fps because the developers chose to write in C instead of assembly to hit their deadline. That is why most games were coded in assembly in those days.

    Sawyer started developing games in 1983. He would have learned assembly, and continued using the tools and techniques he was familiar with his entire career.

    Assembly was pretty uncommon by 1999. RCT is uniquely made, but not because Chris Sawyer was a unique coding genius doing what no one else could, but because he was one of the few bedroom coders of the 80s who held out that long.







  • I was about to write a criticism of this infographic then I rechecked and its been updated and fixed my concerns since I last saw it. Good job!

    Edit: Okay found some issues.

    Thunderbird is american. Its run by mozilla, which is a california based non-profit. So still american not EU. But also its an email client, whereas gmail is an online email service provider. There are EU based email services that should be listed instead.



  • Hildegardeto196Wives Rule
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    4 days ago

    Me too. My duty as a wife is to be a housewife. Stay home and cook and clean and raise the children. However the other wife of the house must go work a job and be the sole breadwinner for the family.

    That’s just what she gets for being born as the other wife.



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    1. Posts that assume the viewer’s gender and/or contain potentially triggering content must be spoilered and tagged at the beginning of the post title. Example content-warning tags that you can copy include the following:
    • [CW: Assumes Viewer is Transmasc]
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    • [CW: Assumes Viewer is Nonbinary]
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    I’d say its a moderation issue, but I also think its unwise to remove otherwise fine content on a community with so little of it.

    This largely needs to be a cultural shift. If you want to see more CWs, post frequently with them used appropriately to set an example.


  • Free and open source software are made collaboratively by communities on the internet, its difficult to determine any nationality for many projects. Trying to run a fully EU linux system is impossible. But as most free software itself is not a revenue generating business, so largely use what you want.

    But if your goal is a more European system I do have a few reccomendations.

    OpenSuse: Its a free to use version of an enterprise distro, similar in business model to red hat/fedora but it is based in Germany.

    Linux Mint: This is generally my pick for a beginner friendly distro. The project lead and founder is French.

    KDE: Is my choice of desktop environment. It is German. The lead developer is German, and the nonprofit that funds the development is headquartered in Berlin. There are many pieces of software under the KDE umbrella including the Calligra office suite, and the Krita image editor.

    I also recommend Blender, the 3D animation package. It is primarily Dutch, as the founder and nonprofit foundation behind it are based in the Amsterdam.

    But really use what you want and works best for you. Nearly all free software projects, including all I’ve listed are some sort of international amalgam.

    The best way to make free software more European is to be European and contribute. Volunteer, write code, write documentation, help users in community, report bugs, donate, fork, maintain or release something you made freely.


  • Hildegardeto196Pressure rule
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    California accepted a petition for an initiative to put a secession resolution on the ballot. The state of California agreed that the paperwork submitted was valid and so they are approved to start collecting signatures.

    No one in the California government is seriously discussing secession as far as I’m aware.





  • People rarely change their minds about things they believe when directly confronted. Its seen as an attack and makes them defensive and more certain in their ideas.

    They have to learn for themselves that they are wrong to change their mind. You can steer them in that direction. Appear genuinely interested and ask leading questions. Subtly guide them into having to confront the contradictions in their own beliefs.