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  • So on the boxing, as I said I’m not a sports head, but I did watch it last night as my friends like sport. I don’t know enough about injuries to determine if it should be banned but you can die skiing, do we ban that too. What about crossing the street.

    You do seem to have a bias against sport to be honest. Like nobody makes you celebrate these people as heroes. I personally think it’s pretty damn cool to be the fastest person to run 100m.

    Let me ask you this. What should be celebrated then? Is my job something worthy of doing, as a software developer?

    Again, just because someone is the fastest or strongest doesn’t mean that is there everything.

    Imagine you’re really good a throwing a ball really far and you play whilst a university, you’re studying medicine but sport blows up and you’re offered hundreds of millions a year. You telling me you turning that down?

    With me not being into sports i can think of an example, but let me use music. Queen’s Brian May study physics at university. Pink Floyd were all well educated people.

    If I didn’t know any better I would say your take seems like it comes from bitterness or jealousy of some sort.

    If I don’t like football (soccer) who am I to say that those people don’t have a positive effect on the world. Marcus Rashford writes children’s books and does loads of community work in my city for instance.

    If it’s there level of wealth you have issue with, there are billionaires out here contributing less to society. I’d rather ticket money and shirt sales go to the players than some dude in a suit.

    Anyway, I don’t think any of us are going to come round to the others point of view and no hard feelings. It’s just if the roles were reversed here I might do a little introspection to see if I am being biased or not as I do try to treat everybody the same no matter how you make money, what you look like cause we don’t know shit about next man unless we’ve walked a mile in there shoes.

  • Russian soldier puts a washing machine drum on his head when he sees an FPV drone.
  • Easy to say this say in your armchair brother.

    So you kill your CO, fight off the rest of your battalion, make your way across to the other side, hope they don’t kill your first aye. Seems super simple that mate.

    Do I believe there are some people that thrive of it. Sure. Do I think every Russian soldier deserves to die. Nope.

    I am a vocal and staunch supporter of Palestine and their struggle against apartheid, but I still don’t think every Israeli soldier deserves death. The leaders however.

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  • You imagine

    You don’t have to imagine. Sports is arguably the most consumed thing on this rock mate. Just because we don’t partake in something doesn’t take away from how it touches the real world.

    Just one example I can think of off the top of my head is the Usyk fight last night. That gives a lot of hope and good feelings to the people of Ukraine as they go through a war of freedom.

    There are plenty of people who don’t like music at all and literally never listen to it, but for me I’d top myself if music wasn’t around as it’s an escape for me.

    I hope this doesn’t come across as me going in on you, just highlighting that what matters to us isn’t the same as what matters for others and if we want to be better then we should understand these things as it could help us make connections with other people and be less divisive.

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  • Could the same be said for music?

    Most people haven’t played music since school but I’d argue Chopin’s preludes are not children’s music.

    I wouldn’t really go out of my way to watch sport but man does it have a great atmosphere when with friends and they’re passionate about it.

    It’s quite arrogant to think this way in my opinion.

    As is tying all sportspeople with the same brush. It really shows your ignorance. I don’t like UFC but Jake Shields is one of the few people speaking out in favour of Palestine from the sports world.

    What’s more likely that everybody that was ever good a sport was also an asshole or that you’re misrepresenting people.

    Disclaimer I suck at most sports, but I’m quite goated a pool. Everyone on my pool team was a different kind of person and had different personalities, morals and levels of empathy (all of which had more than you’re showing here.)

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  • Now go have a look at Chet Hanks (the spawn of Tim Hanks) many interviews in a Patois accent.

    I don’t even know how I feel about things like this either. On the one hand it’s pretty cringe, but on the other can you imagine growing up with Tom Hanks as your dad, it’s a tough act to follow and it must be hard to find yourself.

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  • I recall reading somewhere that it would have been a proto- chicken kind of thing. Like not quite a chicken but it laid an egg and the first chicken came out.

    Maybe a gene mutation of some sort.

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  • I believe this is correct as I read in a book somewhere that it was a kind of proto-chicken if you will, that laid an egg of which came a the first chicken.

    The more interesting question is how long did it take for the first BBQ Chicken.

  • As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music?

    As an example. I grew up in hip-hop but at a certain point I stopped listening to new people and realised recently that I’d slept on some bangers. Like Kendrick particularly, but even people like Juice WRLD and Xxxtentacion.

    The same for the Kendrick and Drake (the nonce) beef which has given some rabbit holes to go down.

    So I’m wondering what I can do to keep in the loop with my younger brothers and sisters?

    Is it something as simple as watching trending videos on YouTube (somtheing I’ve never done) or are there people to follow etc. I don’t like Twitter though so hopefully it’s not that.

    Edit: Man I got so many replies. You guys are awesome. I am going to work my way through them all today, but I’m hella tired and off to work so may take a while. I will reply to you all.

    Edit part deux: God damn I think I got all the replies.

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    Is any body able to provide some advice to help my friend through a bad patch?

    So I’m a bit of a degenerate but making better choices lately and sort of getting things on track.

    My friend had some health issues and had to stop working, my other friend now does all the labour, and he just runs the business.

    He then split with his partner who he has children, as frankly he would never be at home and it was always going to happen.

    I just found out the health condition has gotten worse and he will have to lose a leg. He never improved his diet, kept hitting the coke hard and gambling. So recently he has gambled away £35,000 and had a breakdown with another friend.

    How do I even be there for him and keep him on a good path, providing he is open to change.

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    I just heard about Brazilian Butt Lifts which is a procedure where they take fat deposits from somewhere on your body and place it in your butt?

    My question is once this procedure has been completed and say the person really got into some heavy cardio and thus were burning a lot of fat would the body be able to burn the fat that was moved to the buttocks or does it not have the associated blood vessels to enable this?

    I’m not even sure if that’s how lipids are metabolised, but I assume it’s through the blood.

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    What would happen if every atom on earth was to simultaneously double in size?

    As an extra one, what would happen if one in every 10 atoms was to vanish from existence.

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    What’s this bug?

    I added links to three images in a comment and it only renders one, has an infinite scroll of black, and crashes the app.

    I can submit on GitHub if preferred.

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    Can you separate the art from the artist?

    As the title says, I am wondering if people are able to separate the art from the antics of the artist.

    The reason I ask, is I wrote Kanye West off many years ago, that and me drifting away from Hip-Hop for a minute means I never heard MBDTF.

    MBDTF -> My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

    Well, I’ve been on a hip-hop trend again and decided to listen to something other than UK Drill and go back to the states. I wanted to listen to the most critically acclaimed albums, and Kanye was first. Next is Kendrick.

    OMG. What an album MBDTF is. Like out of this world for production value. I need to listen a few times to focus on the substance but god damn every track is a banger.

    Nobody IRL gives a shit so thought I’d ask here.

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    Looking for advice as a junior software developer

    As the title say I am looking for some advice.

    I’m almost 6 months into my first role and it really isn’t what I expected.

    I’m late thirties and always had an interest in tech, but personal circumstances and a late start in life left me unsure if I was good enough.

    I did too many boot camps and in all them they discussed how in your first role you would get lots of support to help develop your skills.

    I work for a small company < 10. I don’t feel I get the support I expected.

    A lot of time the spec is kept in the lead engineers (owners) head and when given a task I get no timeframe, the task is given verbally with 100 words when I need 1000 words. It’s confusing to understand their vision so I’ll do something and either be told great or no that’s completely wrong.

    If wrong I’m not called out and they will spend a little more time going over what they want.

    The boss is always so busy that sometimes you feel like a burden asking for pointers.

    The tech stack is great but as a mature company they have refined the process over numerous projects and the newest will start as a copy of the last one, keeping all the shared hooks and stuff, so naturally it’s second nature to them and I feel stupid.

    I guess my question is is this normal and how do I write an email expressing these concerns and to gauge how I am doing?

    As an aside, there is no remote work and no headphones in the office, even though nobody really talks about work that often. So when is a good time to start looking for your second role.

    I feel like I flip between I am a god and can code anything and omg I know nothing show me the nearest bridge.

    Thanks.

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    I’ve been somewhat of a fuck up in life, now doing better but still struggle with things. More details below.

    So I was diagnosed with ADHD in my late thirties and before that I was a mess, job to job etc. then got lucky and worked for a company that afforded me the chance to study for my dream job without work pressure.

    I am now a software developer and although I went from being the smartest person in the groups I roamed to the dumbest person at work I still have half a foot in my old life of drugs and poor decisions (although the usage has dropped by 95% and I’ve got a good routine and go to bed early).

    I feel like a pretentious dick when at a party and someone asks what I do for work, I kinda feel ashamed saying I’m a software developer. Like a fraud I guess.

    How to stop this?

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    Factorio @lemmy.ml dependencyinjection @discuss.tchncs.de
    Wondering if anybody can provide a checklist of sorts? More details below.

    So I’m preface this by saying I love this game as it lets me just do things and forget about life for a while. But, I kind of suck at planning (ADHD) and so I’ll just end up watching play throughs and building what they build, where I would rather just play it on my own but I can never keep the motivation to see what I should do next.

    So I’m wondering is there some kind of checklist for each step.

    Like:

    • Gather resources
    • Set up electric power
    • Get 1 red science per second set up
    • etc

    This is as worded hella poorly and I will delete if not well received.

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