[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago

I think the point was that "biological sex" is a legal term, not a biological one. Hence the application of the law here, irregardless of what this kid's actual situation is. It's a demonstration of why this law is stupid, and what stupid things a school board has to do to remain compliant.

They're almost certainly not grouping the kid with the girls out of spite, but to avoid being liable for not doing so if someone were to find out this kid is, according to the law, "biologically female". The school has to protect itself from this liability, and thus we get this extreme example of the law being stupid.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago

I'm fairly certain it's easier in Croatia than in most countries.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago

To be fair, a lot of people reject military service, unless their country is attacked. Opinions tend to shift at that point.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

To lower prices presumably.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wasn't it Ted Cruz originally?

EDIT: ah it was Mitt Romney.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

I suggested we play Sniper Elite 4 to my girlfriend recently. She's not usually one for shooter games (she's more of a Stardew Valley/Animal Crossing/Cozy Grove/Coral Island type of gamer), and I wasn't sure she'd like it. She thought she wouldn't, but she's happy to try out a suggestion of mine every once in a while even if she thinks we won't play it much.

We loaded into San Cellini island and she initially struggled with the controls and how to aim and shoot. The gravity and wind effects weren't super easy to grasp either (she's on the Steam Deck as well, making it slightly harder to aim too). She accidentally shot a couple times as I was giving her a quick tutorial, which attracted a Nazi soldier to investigate and try and shoot her (which scared her a bit as she got hit). Off to a rocky start, and I could tell she wasn't enjoying it at all.

We got to the first tower, where the game gives you a pretty good view of the area and lets you fairly securely shoot a bunch of Nazi soldiers. Time to shoot! Here we learned she gets a bit jumpscared if the game suddenly shows you a slow-motion killcam, especially if I was the one triggering it. Again, not a great start for her.

She struggled, but did hit a couple of them. Then on the 3rd or 4th kill, the game showed her the magic words after the kill: "TESTICLE SHOT". This caught her completely off guard, immediately exclaiming "WAIT DOES THAT MEAN I SHOT HIS BALLS OFF?!". I have never witnessed her doing a complete 180 degrees turn on her opinion of a game. Suddenly the game became extremely enjoyable for her. The first time she had a killcam where she could see the Nazi balls pop one after the other was like giving her crack cocaine or something. Total bloodlust.

We've played through the entire campaign in a span of two weeks, then the DLC, the overwatch missions (twice to play both roles) and now the survival maps. Every evening after dinner she asks if we can "shoot more Nazi balls". Her spirit animal is Hugo Stiglitz at this point.

God I love that woman.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

Dune 2 I think.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

The problem is that you're coming across as extemely insensitive by branding people with autism with what we now consider a slur. Your attempt at sympathy is considered insulting because these days we don't consider people with autism to be sociopaths. And in fact, we historically didn't really do that either, as sociopathy historically required a total lack of empathy, which autistic people don't have (they have trouble expressing or understanding it, but they don't lack it entirely). That's why, as our understanding of these conditions improved, sociopaths were mostly diagnosed with ASPD, whereas people with autism were diagnosed with ASD instead.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

There are enough sensors in cars to detect a rythmic motion. It doesn't need cameras for that.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

That's a misnamed quiche.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

A convicted pedophile even.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 9 points 3 years ago

Humble Bundle has a special relationship with Valve iirc, because of the charity work they do.

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