Kichae @ Kichae @kbin.social

Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger

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Yeah. I admit, I didn't look closely, and didn't realize it was all spin from union brass. It sounded like a labour win. Maybe I was just too excited to hear of it.

This is unfortunate. Hopefully the employees balk at the contract and hit the streets. I'm sure the bluster was coming in the face of the threat of back-to-work orders from government, but if levied, the striking workers need to stand up to government.

Not that I expect that they will. If it's anything like here, they'll be back to work within hours of BtW legislation/exec orders.

No, there's also the problem that they're Google developed formats. I think an increasing number of us want to be done with Google as much as possible, and there are good alternatives that aren't getting the support they need right now to give us that freedom.

Make default programs support JPEG XL and the problem goes away, too, all with less Google.

Yeah, let's not confuse "not guilty" with "not a creepy old man". The bar for the state taking away your rights based on your activity is fairly high -- as it should be -- but not being able to produce sufficient evidence of acts that don't leave a whole lot of physical evidence behind doesn't make the accusations false.

It just makes them not enough.

And, I'm sorry to everyone out there who seem weirdly motivated to want to believe that accusers are overwhelmingly liars, but his hand-waving away of the accusations was not confidence inspiring.

It seems well managed to me. I get that one may not like their decisions, but I don't think that's the same thing as being poorly managed.

And, like, it's their website. They can choose what content they host there however they like. And I welcome a space where people who don't want to abide by their choices can keep doing their thing.

And when did hearts become things that men are supposed to be afraid of? Thinking you're not masculine enough because you like a shape, or you like love, seems pretty fucking dark.

There's join-lemmy.org, but that's just a list of instances.

There's no "main URL" to a decentralized space. There's only the URLs of participating websites.

"Disengage from the world, and chase escapism, and things will be better" says someone too privileged or too blind to know any better.

Yeah. I was born in the 80s and only knowingly watched this like 5 years ago. If I saw it when it was relevant, I was too young to remember.

Yeah. "We spent some money on something we assessed and determined to be a sure thing" is what they call risk. Meanwhile, opportunity costs for actors are never considered a valid concern. The risk of taking a bad gig over one that turns into a long term job exists for every everyone in the industry, and they're not insured against lost income from taking the wrong job.

Meanwhile, studios never fail to consider the opportunity costs in finding projects. Are you profitable, but the studio thinks something else would be more profitable? Well, better hope there's a project that's actively losing money that they can cancel, or else you'll be on the chopping block.

Officer Whiplash reporting for duty!

My guess is either they don't have the funding to spit out a full 24 minutes anymore, and they never figured out how to write for shorter, or the lack of commercial breaks aren't forcing them to hit certain milestones in the episode. But I really don't know.

The self-referential aspect of the episode was a bit much, but I was actually buoyed by the episode on the whole. The content was kind of meh, but the tone was right. The Comedy Central episodes always seemed to suffer from tonal issues.

Now, the pacing felt a bit weird in this one, but I feel like a lot of TV is weirdly and poorly paced now.

Seems like a good place to remind people that the police do not prevent break-ins, robberies, or muggings. They just show up after-the-fact and do little to nothing to get people's stuff back.

No, they'd still need IP rights for the characters/world/name. Releasing it for free doesn't alleviate that issue in any way.

They could strip it of all of the Simpsons related stuff, but they'd also have to create new levels, since those are owned by the epriginal publisher.

Sure, it's fine. It's fine that people with means can see a doctor quickly, while those without cannot. And it's fine that the wealthy can get those tests done right away, and those scans complete day of, while everybody else is on a 6 - 12 month wait list.

There's totally nothing absolutely fucking evil about that. And it definitely incentivizes politicians to improve the public system for the poor.

Yeah, I'm not sure who's going out buying a new TV every couple of years.

Wait. Do... Do you guys not have e-transfers? Holy shit, this is why Venmo's a thing, isn't it?

WTF did Elon even bring to PayPal when he merged with Confinity if he still has control over the x.com URL and name? It certainly wasn't competent leadership.

Myabe he managed to hire well or something?

A protest that doesn't affect anyone is an ineffective protest. Protests are not billboards for a cause, they're an attempt to force people in charge to enact change. One of the ways of doing this is to make their problem is your problem by getting in your way.