I have friends who are Afghan who have had arranged marriages so this led me to be curious to ask, why does this practice still persist into the 21st century?
im lost as to how you consider it slavery when it's supposed to be a consensual and mutual legal agreement of partnership. keep in mind that in most cases, either party can exit the legal partnership whenever they want through the process of divorce.
if either side does not want the marriage, then sure. but having a dedication to a loved one hardly constitutes "slavery".
I do believe it's a bread problem. Now you can either fix that, or you can start loosening your asshole.
Sounds like a joke, but I fart a lot and they've become way more quiet after I've started using dildos. I'm gay, but you don't have to be to enjoy anal.
It's happening right now with ESO's 10th Anniversary celebrations.
It kicked off with an in-game Anniversary Jubilee event that started two weeks ago, and almost immediately players noticed the insanely low drop rates for some event items, taking players on average about 20 hours of mind-numbing grind of the same old content for certain pages, and some even longer.
The kicker with these low drop rates is that it's unprecedented for ESO in its current form after having implemented plenty of progression systems for loot to lessen the impact of RNG.
Even now, at the end of the event, Zenimax Online Studios has refused to acknowledge the low drop rates, which only means that the player frustrations are intentional, most likely to pad player numbers for the sake of appeasing shareholders and/or daddy Zenimax Inc.
One week after the event was launched, ZOS also released a Public Test Server build of their latest chapter, Gold Road. This iteration of the PTS is supposed to have a copy of everyone's PCNA characters so they can use their existing gear and setups for testing the new abilities and content. Template characters were also available to create, offering players a ton of gold, unlimited resources, and literally all the gear in the game; Public Test Server, after all.
About 30 minutes after the PTS went online, it was taken down, and so players who were on the PTS at the time went back onto their Live servers.
Turns out, the PTS wasn't running a copy of the PCNA Live database.
It was using the PCNA Live database.
So now we have players who have deleted existing characters to create template characters on the PTS with a billion gold and trillions more value in loot running around on Live. The gold has been dispersed into the in-game economy.
The Live servers were taken down 20 minutes later.
There's nothing else to be done; a server-wide rollback is imminent. After all, it would be dumb to just quarantine the players who have logged into the PTS and attempt to manually track down all the rogue gold and loot, right?
Right?
Well, ZOS is up to the challenge! First, they issue permanent bans on all the players who logged into the PTS (you know, the most loyal and experienced of the players) with an email stating that it's temporary, that their accounts would be rolled back to about 9 hours before the servers went down (I assume that's when their last backup was), and we could expect this issue to be resolved and for our accounts to be unlocked in 2-3 days.
Keep in mind, an event is active right now. There are reward boxes for completing any quest with high chances of dropping motif pages, crafting recipes, materials, currencies, etc, and most players are doing the 7 daily crafting quests for those on each character (max 20 characters).
The locked-out players are missing out on about 140 of those boxes per day.
3 days went by, there was another update. We'd be freed soonest at the end of the week. That makes 5 days of lockout. We'd be compensated, of course; they'd make things right.
5 boxes. Is all we get.
Okay, we also get a lot in another currency that lets us buy certain items in their microtransaction loot crates, and naturally the non-locked-out players are pissed about that.
Remember the event items with insanely low drop rates? We get all of those too. Would be useful to me if I hadn't sunk 33 hours grinding those all out already.
With the event, there's another currency that you can earn once daily, and you can use it to buy certain items from the event store. We're not getting compensated any of those, though, even though those matter a lot for the sake of the event.
End of the week comes by. New update: there's a maintenance right after the weekend, and they would discuss when best to take the server down after that.
We are guaranteed at least 8 days of missed game time. The event is almost over.
That server maintenance is happening right now. I will update on what they say next.
Update: they said earliest we'd be unlocked is Thursday. They'd also grant us one of the rewards we'd miss from the daily logins.
I don't wear thongs, though I do have an interest in trying. That being said, I think it might be comparable to wearing flip flops; sure you'll feel it between your toes for a bit, then it stops registering.
I started designing the Qazimodo in February and just got the first aluminum case from the manufacturer a couple days ago. Very happy with how it turned out.
For what i heard, a lot of people on the Linux community use Krita for image manipulation, even though, it's intended for digital painting, and GIMP is the one intended for image manipulation, because people don't like the GIMP's UI....
I'm just looking through this entire thread, and call me crazy, OP, but you seem angry not more people are using GIMP. You're quite aggressive about it, attempting to shut down legitimate UI and UX concerns at every corner, and it is genuinely fatiguing to see.
Used a couple of US recipes recently and most of the ingredients are in cups, or spoons, not by weight. This is a nightmare to convert. Do Americans not own scales or something? What's the reason for measuring everything by volume?
Unless you're baking cakes from scratch for fun or trying to make aesthetically perfect macarons, I just don't really see a reason to use a scale.
With cup measurements, it's scoop, level, dump. I hate having to fuss around with getting perfect measurements of ingredients; it's the second-most boring part of cooking.
I really subscribe to Adam Ragusea's methodology of "cooking by feel", and just so happens it aligns with how my own culture treats cooking as well.
If you're measuring a whole chicken breast by weight, what are you going to do if a piece exceeds the weight called for in the recipe? Are you just going to cut off the excess bits? And where would those excess bits go? The bin? The freezer, perhaps, but which recipe would call for "just a sliver of chicken"? Would you rather not just keep that excess weight in and have a bit more chicken in your meal just to avoid all the fuss?
I go entirely by feel most of the time and only use cup/spoon measurements as a first step when I'm making batters or cookie or pizza doughs before adjusting based on how the dough is turning out. At that point it's less of a measurement tool and more of a scooping tool to me.
I don't see the point of consistent results outside of a commercial setting, but that is an entirely subjective view. I personally find more enjoyment in testing and tweaking and changing things up, even in baking.
You're just putting words in my mouth at this point. I'm saying that being anal about precisely measuring my food sounds like a miserable time, nothing about scales or justifications for "how I do things" (which is how everybody here, where I am, does things).
Secondly, the discussion from the beginning was about measuring ingredients for cooking, not for calorie tracking. It's evident that your priority in this is for calorie tracking, which is an entirely different subject and I can see that having a scale to be able to do so would be beneficial, but that is none of my concern. My entire point is about measuring ingredients for cooking, which I just generally don't care getting too precise about.
So to answer your question "How do you measure chicken breast?" more clearly: I don't. I have no need to measure chicken breast. I just eyeball it.
And while I applaud you for trying to be health-conscious and count your calories, I simply just do not care about doing so for myself. You do you, but do not preach it to me, for I have no need for it.
I do jot down the volume measurements that I use any time I bake (approximate, never exact, since I adjust little by little based on how sticky my cookie dough or how wet my pizza dough feels), and using that gives me consistent results already if consistent results are what I want.
There's not enough variation in the ways I scoop my flour or salt or baking powder or sugar that would net me results that are noticeably different to my previous batches.
I just find this method more fun. Perhaps people prefer to skip the step of cooking by feel and adjusting their flour amount based on how wet their dough is, etc., and just prefer to follow exact steps to get to an end result; I myself find the challenge fulfilling.
I don't know if it's SpotX the problem, but around the time I implemented (a few days ago) when I shut down my PC it says an app is still running and I need to cancel it and shut down again....
If the issue isn't there after that, we can determine that a fresh install of Spotify is not the problem.
You can then try running SpotX and checking for the issue again; if the issue reappears, SpotX is the problem, or at least the version of SpotX that you're using.
what lie? they told the customer the truth from the beginning, and still agreed to the customer's demands to work on the problem. they agreed to remove all viruses from the peripherals, which they did, because the peripherals were returned to the customer at the end virus-free.
My right arm is completly numb and I panic out of my bed sometimes. The reason is that I fall asleep on my shoulder and sometimes it takes a minute til it functions again....
IANAD, but if it's causing you stress, bro just change your sleeping position, or buy one of those gimmick mattresses that specifically has slots for your arm to fall into (like the SONU Sleep System).
Consult a doctor first if that's cheaper than buying a whole new mattress.
The main thing? Optimization. Mobile games are built for mobile, so naturally, graphical stuff like polygon-count, particle effects, texture resolutions, shadow quality, etc. are all toned down to be able to run smoothly on mobile hardware.
Couple that with the vastly smaller screen sizes and the diminishing returns of graphical power to visuals (e.g. visual jump from low shadows to medium is further than medium to high), and you're getting a fantastic mobile gaming experience for a tiny fraction of the power consumption.
This year I‘ll be able to upgrade to 25/25Gbps and I‘m planning on using at least 20Gbps for seeding 24/7. Is any maintainer of private trackers interested in inviting me?
I think the grand majority of software license purchases are corporate, where companies are willing to shell out a premium to free up labour (and wages) on stuff like in-house tech support.
Even many freelancers shell out for an Adobe subscription, simply because the time they spend on having to learn how to pirate software, how to fix it, and the risk of being sued far outweigh the monetary benefits of piracy.
Even I, with my good amount of experience using pirated software, am slowly making the switch over to FOSS software just to avoid all the delicate details in piracy.
I know downloading/torrenting copies of movies that you don't own or have a license for is illegal in most countries, but I'm not sure on how legal it is to simply just view them for free on a site like Flixwave.
I really should look more into game theory; that was a fantastic read!
I don't like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in...
under normal circumstances, i would be inclined to agree. however, your country's voting system is anything but normal.
i'm afraid that your view of the available options is nothing more than misguided.
you're throwing away what little choice you have. you're pretending to make a statement and pretending to support the party that you vote for, knowing full well that they won't win.
good luck with trump, my friend; i will be watching in disappointment.
Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures?
I have friends who are Afghan who have had arranged marriages so this led me to be curious to ask, why does this practice still persist into the 21st century?
Chinese numbers ( sh.itjust.works )
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Why are my farts hurting my ass?
I have gas from eating lots of bread, which is not unusual, but for some reason today's farts hurt my ass....
Lost my 3DS Stylus Rule ( lemmy.ca )
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Which game series had the worst anniversary celebration?
Rockstar didn't even acknowledge GTA IV's tenth anniversary. Only by removing several songs from its radio stations....
What side do you open a banana from?
I shaved for the first time in a while so I could update a profile picture and my chin looks like this. ( lemmy.world )
I don't particularly want my new profile to have that meth chic look.
to those of you of either sex who wear thongs or strings, doesn't the back side get in direct contact with your anus?
and, don't you notice something rubbing against it when you move?
Qazimodo prototype ( lemmy.world )
I started designing the Qazimodo in February and just got the first aluminum case from the manufacturer a couple days ago. Very happy with how it turned out.
Is it true that addicts never stop being addicts, they just replace their addiction?
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(Read before Comment) Why you don't like GIMP UI?
For what i heard, a lot of people on the Linux community use Krita for image manipulation, even though, it's intended for digital painting, and GIMP is the one intended for image manipulation, because people don't like the GIMP's UI....
Why do Americans measure everything in cups?
Used a couple of US recipes recently and most of the ingredients are in cups, or spoons, not by weight. This is a nightmare to convert. Do Americans not own scales or something? What's the reason for measuring everything by volume?
How do you Lemmings like your tea?
Since I implemeted SpotX on my computer I need to shut down it twice
I don't know if it's SpotX the problem, but around the time I implemented (a few days ago) when I shut down my PC it says an app is still running and I need to cancel it and shut down again....
Whats your favorite nostalgic cartoon?
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Of all movies that you gotta watch more than once to really understand, what is your favorite and why?
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Does my arm take long term damage if it falls asleep every third night?
My right arm is completly numb and I panic out of my bed sometimes. The reason is that I fall asleep on my shoulder and sometimes it takes a minute til it functions again....
What is the deal with mobile GPUs vs PC GPUs?
For anyone who knows....
Seeder for private torrent tracker
This year I‘ll be able to upgrade to 25/25Gbps and I‘m planning on using at least 20Gbps for seeding 24/7. Is any maintainer of private trackers interested in inviting me?
Economic explanation for piracy and the prisoner's dilemma
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Please, for the love of God, VOTE! ( pawb.social )
I don't like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in...
KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?
What is a dish whose component parts you all like individually, but put together as a dish you think is nasty?
What skill can I learn while stimming?
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