[-] MegaUmbreon@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

I think it's to give the top women a platform, for young girls to see people like them on the TV and make them believe they can do it too. If enough young girls start playing and keep playing, there should be plenty of female players that can compete with the best men in short order. There are also women's titles that have lower requirements than men's. It's a pretty controversial thing; some women refuse to take the "lesser" WGM title over the open IM title.

I'm not saying this works or I agree with it, but that's the thinking.

[-] MegaUmbreon@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

This attitude on here is really annoying. Starting a community is a big time commitment if you want it to be moderated and run effectively. A lot of us don't have the time to do that, no matter how much we want the platform to succeed.

[-] MegaUmbreon@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

I don't think the dirty air issue is solved as much as you think it is. It looks better than it used to, but you can see in situations where drs is disabled that following close is still pretty difficult unless you're Max Verstappen.

The FIA are finding it really difficult to tune the drs zones though. Passing either seems guaranteed or impossible most of the time, haven't seen much happy middle ground. Maybe they could invest in some better simulation software to make their guesses better.

[-] MegaUmbreon@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

The real issues? Social anxiety, general guilt and regret about the past, the acceptance and occasional pain in knowing that I'll never have a partner.

But the situation has been the same for about a decade and I've moved past the point where it bothers me other than acute episodes. I'm fortunate enough to have a good job and enough money that I don't have to worry about housing or food, and aside from work I can basically do whatever I want (the positive side of "no partner"). I have hobbies and am going to start traveling soon and work keeps me busy, so I don't really have grounds to complain.

Also, at some point if you're not dangerously depressed, it just becomes a part of life and the new baseline. I feel "meh" at the best of times aside from when I level up on OSRS, and having that kind of pessimistic outlook does have some advantages. I don't really panic when something goes wrong because everything is shit anyways, so the boiler breaking down or w/e is just another Tuesday. Makes life much more chill then the rollercoaster of being an optimist.

[-] MegaUmbreon@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

I loved Opera 20 years ago when the built in RSS reader, email client, mouse gestures and unique rendering engine that was either faster than the others or completely incompatible with websites. Now I don't give it much thought, all the chromium browsers feel the same.

[-] MegaUmbreon@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

My local supermarket sells these "exfoliating gloves" that you wear in the shower and basically just use like a wearable washcloth. They're awesome.

[-] MegaUmbreon@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I'm pretty new to the fediverse, but I haven't been too negatively impacted by lemmy.world's issues, especially in the last few weeks since the performance issues were solved.

I wouldn't be against setting up another acct on a smaller instance, but I don't want to have to maintain two sets of sfw subscriptions. If there could be a service to sync your subscriptions between instances I'd be all over it.

[-] MegaUmbreon@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Fuck PlanetF1, this clickbait bullshit was why I stopped visiting that site a decade ago.

[-] MegaUmbreon@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Windows 11. Don't @ me, I don't have the mental or physical energy to deal with Linux. I've never had a Linux install that's had close to everything working, there's always a device (network, sound, graphics, usb toaster) that doesn't work and attempts to follow people's instructions to fix it either make it worse or just do nothing.

Maybe I'm just useless or unlucky, but I'm due to die in a few decades and I don't have time to deal with that nonsense when Windows does everything I want it to.

[-] MegaUmbreon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Damn McLaren are on it.

[-] MegaUmbreon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I don't know how sainz hasn't ragequit. If I was red bull I'd be tempted to try and engineer a trade for Perez.

[-] MegaUmbreon@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Very strong drive from Albon, love to see it.

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