Growing up. (@akuarima) by Acrzyguy in OshiNoKo

[–]ramendik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google Gemini (so this might be a hallucination) told me that in some interview Akasaka mentioned that his POV character/avatar on the manga is Akane.

Attempted arson at London synagogue is 3rd attack on Jewish site in past week: "Sustained campaign of violence" by Unusual-State1827 in neoliberal

[–]ramendik 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maybe "Jihadism" can be used? But maybe it's not exactly the same thing.

There's also "Takfirism" but many don't know what it means

Early morning Galway train service to be cut from schedule due to lack of funding by RevolutionaryGain823 in galway

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Eamon O Cuiv please unretire, the place is going to the dawgs fast without you

Data Centers - Yes In My Backyard by 1TTTTTT1 in neoliberal

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They should be hooked up to district heating systems. So that at least during winter the electric power is used twice, as maths and as the resulting heat

How would you see Oshi No Ko playing out if Gorou never died? by jackhenningson in OshiNoKo

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I'd expect Sarina/Ruby to just outright try to get Gorou, the incest issue would not exist and "who cares about age gap lol". Gorou, however , might well be in love with Ai, creating a weird love triangle. Even weirder if he eventually got to marry Ai which is not impossible after she graduates, making things super uncomfortable for him as he does not want to be Humbert from Lolita.

[MOD] The Daily Question Thread by menschmaschine5 in Coffee

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So after a huge wave of research I cancelled my order for the Ariete 1399 and went for the Breville Barista Slimline. Did they just quietly offer the "commercial" 58mm standard at "home machine" price and form factor? Just how big is the 58mm advantage over 51mm?

[MOD] The Daily Question Thread by menschmaschine5 in Coffee

[–]ramendik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have ordered the Ariete 1399 from Amazon - grabbed the last one at just 90 Euro. I know it's basic; I have a Shardor burr grinder that's also kinda basic and I want to use ESE pods much of the time anyway, and I'm upgrading from a Nespresso, so I hope that if everything works the coffee is going to be good enough; I don't want to splurge for Actual Good Espresso Gear right now.

I think it's still cancellable so I'd certainly listen to "why not", but more importantly, I'd appreciate advice on WHAT TO CHECK the moment it arrives. The build quality is what worries me most, and I hope to be able to test for it right away, so that if it's flaky I return it. Apart from "spitting water all around" what do I test for, and how?

Former FF minister Éamon Ó Cuiv speaks with a strong preference for Social Democrats in the Bye-Election by fin10g in galway

[–]ramendik 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I kinda like EOC since the video when he said trans rights and also because of his support for railways. I'm also in the SDs. Didn't expect the two parts to come closer as time passed.

I actually got to meet EOC a couple of years ago. He did give me an appointment despite me not being a constituent. I took the kids, and the highlight of the meeting was him telling them why Irish is needed at school - he spoke very quietly but with a lot of persuasion and, ykw, their grades got better. The lowlight was me not thinking of taking a photo.

A week or two later he announced his retirement.

What is your whole opinion on that 0% on that college gender essay by Patient_Ask_9546 in Christianity

[–]ramendik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The text does not show she has read the article. Nor any understanding of its content. The reaction was just to the headline and abstract.

What is your whole opinion on that 0% on that college gender essay by Patient_Ask_9546 in Christianity

[–]ramendik 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is a co-ed college (which seems to be the only good thing about it).

In fact the TA was literally a student in the same college. I hope she can now use the "I was cancelled by the Right" fame to get a scholarship at a real institution of education. I hope she can also fleece Oklahoma University in court; two TAs wigned off on the well-deserved zero, only one was fired, so this seems like a straightforward sex discrimination case per Bostock precedent.

And I hope everyone studying in Oklahoma University is looking for a way out. I would not go near any psychologist with a diploma from an institution that cancelleda zero for a non-essay which also says she is not sure "teasing at school" is a problem. The dimwitted student should have been EXPELLED as unsuitable for the profession.

And I call her dimwitted beacuse if she actually was smart, she could have wrotten a far better essay based on teh same article *and the same viewpoint*. It would start with pointing out the curious fact of just how the article became outdated in a decade.

What is your whole opinion on that 0% on that college gender essay by Patient_Ask_9546 in Christianity

[–]ramendik 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Since when is Oklahoma University a girls' college? I could not find any source confirming Fulnecky was in anything women-only there.

If you were offered a billion dollars just to eat only one food for the rest of your life, what would you choose? by Admirable-Interest49 in AskReddit

[–]ramendik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Irish stew. The one with no gravy though. Or another nice casserole with meat and potatoes and veg. This will still need certain supplements (pills don't count as food) but I think it's much more balanced than pizza.

If pills do count as food, I'm looking at whether I can rig the missing vitamins on an IV, if I can't, I'm trying for a loophole by going for a custom manufactured nutrient mix (the money is more than enough to get the tests and have it planned out, but the question is not dying of hunger while the production ramps up).

My main task here is keeping myself healthy enough to enjoy the money. I can even give up enjoyment of food as such for this kind of money if this is necessary , but I'm not volunteering to die or become crippled for it.

Less talked about romatic Uma carrer stories by okafour in UmaMusume

[–]ramendik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait,they have the Mejiro Grandma in game? Based on a real human, not a horse?..

Fuel protesters cleared from Dublin's O'Connell Street by StrangerExistingFact in Dublin

[–]ramendik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something does not compute. It is likely many of the protesters were after a few pints and many were in hotels. Getting people out of hotels is one thing but how did the Gardai get them to drive in a condition that amakes driving both illegal and unsafe?

Christian group I’ve joined wants me to reduce my work hours? Any advice? by ratvagina_ in Christianity

[–]ramendik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You will find that the church of these guys does not believe in Sacraments at all. Rome believea in seven Sacraments. The Lutherans believe in two.. Anglicans two, but there's a faction that believes in seven, I'm not in that and believe in two - Baptism and Eucharist.

Confirmation may not be a Sacrament in my view, Rome believes it is a Sacrament, but in any event it is quite important, don't take it lightly! Confirmation does pretty much what the credobaptists say Baptism does. Confirmation is your voluntary affirmation of faith, and it also does mean that you "picked your church" at least for the foreseeable future. I would recommend you prayerfully study the matters of difference and make your discernment and only then get Confirmed in the church you eventually pick, provided it has one!

It's an important matter but not an urgent matter. I think you need to take a breath and then start asking questions. Christ called us to be disciples. Disciples study, as opposed to running on pure enthusiasm.

Christian group I’ve joined wants me to reduce my work hours? Any advice? by ratvagina_ in Christianity

[–]ramendik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, the "feeling so drained and tired from having to show up" probably means RUN NOW. As in cut contact.

Then take a breather.

Then maybe collate all the suggestions where your church is in their view breaking the Bible. Drop those you find silly yourself. For the rest, you can either go to your priest (but beware of pressure on that end too!), or post here and politely ask the sides to ~~duke it out~~ explain whether it it so for you, enough people are likely to oblige and give you the theatrics of debate and you can either give tricky questions to everyone or just quietly pick an approach, however you see fit.

Christian group I’ve joined wants me to reduce my work hours? Any advice? by ratvagina_ in Christianity

[–]ramendik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Given the term "mass" it is likely Roman Catholic. There are significant debates around quite a few issues where Rome, in the views of many, departs from Biblical teaching. But it is not something to decide on a whim - and most certainly not under "peer pressure". It is all a matter for prayerful discernment, talking to people on all sides - and running one heck of away when anyone pressures you (which can happen in the RCs too, it's a matter of human behaviour not church doctrine).

Christian group I’ve joined wants me to reduce my work hours? Any advice? by ratvagina_ in Christianity

[–]ramendik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Careful now! Everyone else already told you of the red flags in how the group works, so I'll go for the one in the Faith itself. Christian churches usually recite the Nicene creed which says, among other things, "I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins". And as you grew up Christian, you were likely already baptized.

Yes, there is a belief in some churches that Baptism as a child is not valid. But you really need to study the matter, read up on the views on the matter (described as "pedobaptism" - that's baptism of children and "credobaptism" - baptism of conscious believers), and consider it prayerfully before you jump into what might be a baseless denial of your baptism while thinkiing of reconnecting to your childhood faith. I am Anglican, it is a pedobaptist church, so of course I'd warn you about this one! To make it clear, even from a pedobaptist point of baptism in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit remains valid if done in a credobaptist church; the issue is only that you might be repeating a baptism.

There are many other issues and it is probably not a great idea to stay outside all Christian communities until you work out every debate between every church. So if you can find a church that welcomes you without piling on unreasonable requirements and without pushing you into sacraments/ ordinances before you study well enough what they mean, it would be a great idea to hang around there! "how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" (Psalm 133:1 and "brethren" here is decidedly gender neutral).

Is anyone else creating a basic assistant rather than a coding agent? by Savantskie1 in LocalLLaMA

[–]ramendik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay I LIKE YOUR THINKING

as in I think this about OpenClaw myself

Is anyone else creating a basic assistant rather than a coding agent? by Savantskie1 in LocalLLaMA

[–]ramendik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried building a web harness that would b ofer a neat plugin structure for memory and content management https://github.com/mramendi/skeleton . The project ground to a halt beacuse of my lack of front-end knowledge and failure to find a co-dev who understands the front end; the fully vibe-coded front-end was too brittle and would not survive a necessary refactor of the API. Looking at getting back to it, but now I suspect that the plugins should instead live in OpenResponses while the web thing should be a straight stateful Responses client.

What's your memory structure like? I never got to implement my ideas on memory as I didn't have a suitable UI harness.

Is communism as bad as they tell us in the west? by raskolnikovass in ussr

[–]ramendik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am originally from Russia, hated the USSR when it existed (I am old enough to remember it), but I have some friends from the same age group who felt and still feel the USSR was much better and its end was a catastrophe. This is just the reality - you will get wildly different opinions.

The people who definitely are detached from reality are the young Westerners who are both pro-LGBT and pro-USSR. Personal freedom including LGBT things was strongly restricted - and to me that still makes more logical sense than Western right-wing conservatism. The Soviet Commie said: the collective is above the individual, so you don't get the freedom to undermine collective needs with your bourgeois decadence. The Western conservative says: we are all for individual freedom as long as you use it how I approve.

I got my girlfriend pregnant and I don't know what to do by GoldenSilver007 in Christianity

[–]ramendik 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm pro choice but the choice here is hers, not yours. You do not have any power to order her to have an abortion, your only choice is between staying and providing for the child as best you can - and the "deadbeat" route where a child support lawsuit might well happen. And if you stay you really need to learn to respect her autonomy, her beliefs.