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Sway_Chameleon, in So, who or what ruined Christmas this year?
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Lost my grandmother a few days prior, got bumped out of my shitty job to a lower paying even shittier job, and have to pass on a good job opportunity bc it would mean a big move and my partner refuses to move with me. And shes going traveling for 1.5 months on vacation right away without me. We have a house together and have been together for almost 14 yrs.

13esq,

Ouch. Why is she going without you?

DudeDudenson,

She doesn’t want a third wheel

Sway_Chameleon,
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She has a ton of overtime hours from her job. She hasn’t had to use her banked vacation time in years. I only get 3 weeks and if I accumulate more they start trying to force you to use it. My family/friends live across the country and I just went to see them recently, so I don’t have the vacation time to travel. It’s not malicious on her part, she just loves to travel and I just can’t go this trip. More jealous that I’m stuck not going, but I don’t mind the alone time.

Tolstoy, in Who doesn't use an adblocker and why?
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By default I’m using adblocker but when I notice I’m visiting a new site more frequently like wikis for games, I disable it and keep it off if the site is usable.

lustrum,

I need to start doing this more. I just forget

hemko,

if the site is usable

Unfortunately most of them are in Fandom so that’s a big no.

Iceblade02, (edited ) in What makes a (good) monarch?

I submit King Haakon VII - the first modern King of Norway. Throughout his reign he worked to support the Norwegian people, acting as a unifying and stabilizing figure, particularly in times of crisis. Examples are during the first few years of the country, during WW1, the occupation of WW2 and also after the 1927 elections, where he decided to uphold parliamentary convention and allow the workers party (which at the time espoused a revolutionary socialist manifesto) to form a government (against the wishes of the liberal and conservative majority in parliament, which had failed to form a government).

stoy,

I agree, and for the most part C Gurra hasn’t really been this kind of figure for us In Sweden, but in the last few years he has made a speech to the nation at christmas, which I feel have started to bring the out the unifying figure we need.

neidu2,

For konge og fedreland!

Naich, in Have you ever seen a rudolph moment happen in real life?
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My wife takes the piss out of me for turning every task into a spreadsheet, but who ate a perfectly cooked, stress-free Christmas dinner exactly when it was supposed to be ready? We all fucking did, that's who.

lingh0e,

As a fellow spreadsheet nerd, can you explain your plan of attack? Like, how many dishes and how varied are the cooking temps/times in order to make everything come out of the oven and off the stove in time? And do you account for variables like washing utensils for reuse and/or operator error? I’m so uncoordinated in the kitchen that I can turn a 45 minute recipe into a 90 minute recipe just because I’m scrambling to find the right spices or washing utensils between uses or I spend too much time measuring things with absolute precision.

If I could plot out the entirety of the process in a series of Excel tables, I might actually be able to cook a meal efficiently.

Naich,
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18ku0y2MCbRveTwnLy4ZYOipqtys_SjyBvepzgX6gAkQ/edit?usp=drivesdk

That's the actual sheet. If you adjust any times, sort on column E to get it back in the right order.

Likwidkat,

Super curious to take a look, but it looks like I need to request access. Could you update the sharing settings so anyone with the link can view?

Jeff, in So, who or what ruined Christmas this year?

Have been working so I could take vacation time for end of year. Finally was here on the 19th. The next evening we took the kids to see Santa for pictures and to let them tell him what they wanted for Christmas.

Old guy sounded off. Weak voice and raspy. Ok well he’s old and a bit large, whatever. Only thing we had planned for the week going out was that. There and home which was good.

Next evening wife says she feels off and starts coughing a bit. Wake up to all of us having fevers. By the 22nd she started losing taste so we test and yup ol Saint Nick gave us an early COVID present to the whole family. I got it last so I’m still unable to taste.

Not sure I had get the Rona from a boomer store Santa on my 2023 Bingo card but there ya go.

VubDapple, in What makes a (good) monarch?

Well, perhaps Marcus Aurelius? Kind of the original philosopher-king.

Iceblade02,

Having 20 years of relative peace to start off is no small feat given the size of Rome and the issues mounting at the time. Still, he failed to in securing a good heir to lead the empire after his death. His son, a mere 18 at his death would be rather unprepared to lead the empire. It might have been more prudent to adopt a more suitable heir.

Sordid, in What makes a (good) monarch?
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If titles are anything to go by, murderizing an absolute shitzillion of people makes monarchs pretty great.

Kolanaki,
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Can’t be remembered as bad if you kill all the haters.

Sordid,
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Ordinary people just trying to live their lives hate this one simple trick.

Albbi,

Reminds me of how nobility are talked about in the Brandon Sanderson book “Tress of the Emerald Sea”.

He’d apparently been quite heroic during those wars; you could tell because a great number of his troops had died, while he lived.”

CorrodedCranium, in Why do Lemmy users delete their comments?
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It might be other platforms not saying a comment has been deleted or users here being more likely to engage with content and delete it for various reasons.

For example a post said “What was wierdest gift you’ve received this years?” and someone may have missed the this year and told a story about a prior Christmas. They could have also accidentally replied to a different comment instead of the post itself.

Lemmy also uses up and down votes like Reddit so maybe they got a few too many down votes and just deleted it.

Not sure though. Just spitballing.

atomWood, in Who doesn't use an adblocker and why?

On top of an adblocker, I use Pi-hole/Adguard home for DNS blocking.

For added privacy, I also use my own unbound DNS server, which can be easily setup with Pi-hole, so that I make as few external DNS requests as possible.

Kalcifer, in Have you ever seen a rudolph moment happen in real life?
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“Deviation from the norm will be punished unless it is exploitable.”

rosymind,

As a kid I took it to mean: everyone has a place in society. It might just take a while to figure out what your purpose is

burliman,

Just like evolution.

brown567, in So, who or what ruined Christmas this year?

Mother-in-law’s Adderall addiction and years-neglected mental health issues

Might shake things up enough for some meaningful change to finally happen tho, so 🤷‍♂️

slazer2au, in Who doesn't use an adblocker and why?

My wife, she plays mobile games where you get temporary boosts if you watch an ad.

Arin,

your wife has too much "free" time

spacecowboy,

Care to explain your comment?

Rhynoplaz,

I’m going to guess that they do not approve of those games and think that the wife is an inferior person because she enjoys something that they don’t.

BraveSirZaphod,
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Yeah, she should be spending her time doing much more productive things like shutting on other people's wives on niche nerd forums.

TheInsane42,
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You both know that good ad blockers let you whitelist some games?

I have 2 tablets, 1 to play the games, 1 to run the ads for those games. (And the ad tablet has nothing else on it)

frozencat, in So, who or what ruined Christmas this year?

my catboy porn addiction and autism

TheDrunkard, in Who doesn't use an adblocker and why?

I don’t use any ad blocker, and I don’t care.

Reverendender, in So, who or what ruined Christmas this year?

My first bout with Covid. Thanks company holiday party!

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