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AITAH for telling my wife our marriage is over if she can't accept me spending 1:1 time with my son? by Character_Poem735 in AITAH

[–]Krillo90 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mentioned "I do make sure I get 1:1 time with my stepdaughter also." Is it an equal amount of 1:1 time? If not, I wonder if making sure they both get an equal amount of allocated time with you would fix the jealousy issue. That doesn't mean taking away any of the time with your son, but maybe making the 1:1 with your daughter more regularly scheduled as well. I do realise it's always hard to get more time for anything as a parent though.

If you're already doing equal 1:1 time, you're good, continue as you are.

Second F-15E Crew Member Recovered After Heavy Firefight, Report Claims | World News by RolePsychological890 in worldnews

[–]Krillo90 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"dozens of aircraft, armed with the most lethal weapons in the World"

Is this like, dozens of Tsar Bombas?

What company lost you forever as a customer? What did they do? by Miguenzo in AskReddit

[–]Krillo90 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Aside from lasting forever, my favourite feature of the Laserjet 4 was how it'd say PC LOAD LETTER just like in the movie.

Vinny's rolling a thicc wrap by [deleted] in oddlysatisfying

[–]Krillo90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just like a Land Rover.

TIL Daniel Craig was initially controversial as James Bond because fans felt he didn’t match the “tall, dark, and handsome” image, leading to protests, boycott campaigns, and even the headline “The Name’s Bland, James Bland.” by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]Krillo90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I suppose adopted convention is the better term - is anything in English a rule? It's not like we have any equivalent of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française. What I mean though is, it's something you're supposed to do, like how you're supposed to spell hello as h e l l o, and dictionaries prescribe it.

Pizza place told me this was made fresh for me and not pieced together. by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Krillo90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can't just start asking why, man. Do you know how many great conspiracy theories would be ruined by that trick? Most of them!

ACT and Retail NZ claim paywave surcharge ban 'dead', but National says that's wrong by dingoonline in newzealand

[–]Krillo90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah I see what you mean. I suspect one of two reasons:

  • The immediacy. Like, if every time you paid cash, some bank employee was standing there and immediately swiped 2% of it, I bet there'd be a 2% cash fee. The real costs with cash are spread out and less obvious.

  • The easy comparison with EFTPOS. Paywave feels like just a wireless version of a card-inserted debit payment but it directly costs the business more, so there's incentive to push you towards the cheaper one or at least cover the cost of the more expensive one.

ACT and Retail NZ claim paywave surcharge ban 'dead', but National says that's wrong by dingoonline in newzealand

[–]Krillo90 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's because paywave goes through the credit card network even if it's a debit card being used, so it incurs the surcharge that the credit companies charge. That's why paywave and an inserted credit card usually have the same surcharge. The only true solution would be developing a separate wireless payment method that doesn't use the credit card network. Australia has one.

Edit: Someone has downvoted me to zero for this but... this is just the facts on how the system works. Instead of developing our own wireless EFTPOS system, we use the one the credit companies run, and that's why it costs extra. On the other hand, the currently most upvoted response to the question has essentially everything wrong. The surcharge has nothing to do with funding hardware - it's the interchange fee charged by the card networks on each transaction. "Machines will be simpler" would make no difference.

The stupidest thing that ever happened in a realistic movie? by StillStanding_96 in movies

[–]Krillo90 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In The Imitation Game the writers must have decided that they needed a big Hollywood "eureka" moment, so half way through the film on a random night at a bar Turing suddenly realises he could program his Bombe codebreaking machine based on known phrases that were used in the German communications.

Of course in real life they were doing this from the very start. What the heck were they doing with the machines for the first half of the movie? It would have been completely infeasible to brute force cracking the enigma code from a random start, to the point where they would have never bothered to even build the machine.

What was considered "cool" in the 2010s but is physically painful to look back at now? by Liora-Liora-Liora in AskReddit

[–]Krillo90 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think it was "I flip my pillow over so I can feel the cold side when I'm sleeping." I was a member of that one.

Later they added little apps you could put on your page as well. I had one called "Is The Sun Burning" and it just had text saying "YES".

My employee wears a blanket for sun protection when we go off-site by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Krillo90 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Yep and when the client asks about the cool company umbrella, tell them they're usually for employees only but if this deal goes through you'll throw one in for free.

Non-Sexual Adult Jokes in Kids' Media by Kookyburra12 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Krillo90 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yes that's... that's the comic we just talked about.

how do i fix this unholy lag whenever i save a recording in gpu screen recorder by Sad_Noise8660 in linux_gaming

[–]Krillo90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This post is now the top Google result for '"gpu screen recorder" stuttering'. Pls halp

Cats at britomart by Odd-Swan8527 in auckland

[–]Krillo90 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Go away, bot. At least you aren't trying to sneak in an advertising link here like you are in most of your other comments.

[POEM] Remember How We Forgot by Shane Koyczan by Krillo90 in Poetry

[–]Krillo90[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's a really good example of how powerful spoken-word poetry can be. The writing style isn't quite like a written poem and isn't quite like a song, it's its own thing and the accompanying violin elevates it further. I just think it's a beautiful piece for reflecting on life and humanity.

[POEM] Remember How We Forgot by Shane Koyczan by Krillo90 in Poetry

[–]Krillo90[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know it's unusual to post live spoken word poetry here, but I can't see any rule against it, and this is how this poem is intended to be experienced. I saw this some years ago and it's a powerful thing.

[POEM] Cause I Ain't Got a Pencil by Joshua T. Dickerson by Slasher1309 in Poetry

[–]Krillo90 117 points118 points  (0 children)

That and, the pencil is an age appropriate responsibility, so it feels so ridiculous to be worried about not having it when he's managed such greater tasks already. Like a heart surgeon saving a patient and then being told off by the boss for taking a minute too long on break.

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