[-] tchotchony@mander.xyz 60 points 1 year ago

When a fish bites your heel and it looks like an eel, that's a moray!

[-] tchotchony@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Also really depends on the frequency and reason. Did something go horribly wrong once and does this one-time effort fix it or gives enough time for a decent solution down the road? Sure, I'll put in some extra work. Don't look for me though when it's resolved, I'm on holiday with all the overtime I should've gotten. If it's a structural problem because management wants to squeeze as much money out of their employees and refuses to hire enough people... Fuck that. And yeah, corporate uses the first thing as an excuse, luring you into staying longer "one more time, we really can't do it without you".

[-] tchotchony@mander.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

It's rather unhygienic if you can't retract it and wash under it. Dead skin and other stuff tends to build up and form crusts.

[-] tchotchony@mander.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

Not in the curriculum, though a sister of a classmate actually fell while running with scissors. Permanently blind in one eye, and a lozenge as pupil. Indeed not something you forget easily.

[-] tchotchony@mander.xyz 22 points 1 year ago

Maybe just search for better games then. There's plenty of mobile games that don't rely on gambling. Most are indie, but there are really some gems in there.

[-] tchotchony@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Oh we definitely have racism. It's just less "black lives matter" and more "only my skin colour matters". And yeah, this definitely extends to the police too. But given they're very, very scrutinised every time they dare pull their gun in public, at least we don't have the "police raids wrong unit and shoots owner" happenings.

What is happening is still far from OK, any instance of racism is one too many, but the problems here are a bit more nuanced than what is in general shared on a public, overly-Americanized forum.

And in case you are American/Canadian/Australian, can I please point back to whatever is still happening to your native population? Not a single country is free from blame from what they did to other or their own nations. Call me butthurt, but I'm getting quite a bit tired of getting called out on the Congo on every single thread mentioning Belgium while that was mostly, originally one man's doing. Again, nuance, I know more stuff happened afterwards, but it's not relevant to this thread.

[-] tchotchony@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Then edit that into your first comment. Now you're just telling them to off themselves.

[-] tchotchony@mander.xyz 18 points 1 year ago

Secretly? I thought this was common knowledge. Mine definitely demands worship and pets every day.

[-] tchotchony@mander.xyz 23 points 1 year ago

Optional extra point to add on to #5: if the community that needs to replace a subreddit isn't here yet, MAKE IT. And advertise it, so it can get popular. Be the change you want to see!

[-] tchotchony@mander.xyz 41 points 1 year ago

Preventive maintenance? As in, where you take your car in every year for an oil change so it doesn't end up as one gigantic blob that gums up your entire engine or having your brake pads completely disintegrate, cleaning the lint out of a sewing machine, greasing your bike gears, ...

[-] tchotchony@mander.xyz 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, at the very least scratch the "face to face". I'd be more inclined to agree if a message or a call is acceptable, but some guys you really, really don't want to see in person a second time.

[-] tchotchony@mander.xyz 17 points 1 year ago

I don't speak Spanish at all, but I really wish more languages would adapt it. It's so much easier to interpret a sentence knowing it's meant to be a question or exclamation right from the start.

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Shawls! (cdn.discordapp.com)
submitted 1 year ago by tchotchony@mander.xyz to c/crochet@lemmy.ca

I recently took crocheting back up after a decade, and this is my first finished shawl ever. Two of my friends are getting married in autumn, and they both like to wear shawls so I decided I'd make one for each of them (and if they don't like it, I'm sure their cats will appreciate their new basket liner).

The one at the top is just finished, and is a free pattern Klaziena shawl with Scheepjes brambleberry whirl. The end corners are a bit turned inside, but well, first shawl ever, could've been worse.

This is the second one, Ceylon Tea shawl pattern with Peppermint Patty scheepjes whirl. Still got quite a ways to go, but I'm really loving the pattern!

Pattern Klaziena shawl

Pattern Ceylon Tea shawl

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