RagingNerdoholic @ RagingNerdoholic @lemmy.ca

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Ariana Grande

I'm not a fan of her music, but I know talent when I see (hear) it, and her voice is impeccable. In fact, I don't think her overprocessed music is even the best showcase of her talent, she really shines singing randomly off the cuff.

Whoever this is

tldw; a contestant on a European pop idol type show had such perfect pitch and tone, the judges thought she was lip syncing. She wasn't and it's amazing.

Someone explain the math thing, because I have no clue what it could be.

Honestly ... they've pulled a lot of dumb shit that makes me think it's within the realm of possibility.

Just look at how things happened with "Microsoft accounts" since Windows 7...i refuse to use a Microsoft account because there's no way in hell I'm giving them my contact info, but also, it's a total clusterfuck actually managing the damn thing.

Windows 8 suggested using a Microsoft account.

Windows 10 setup a Microsoft account by default. In later subversions, you can only get around it by cutting the internet connection.

Windows 11 refuses to setup at all without an internet connection; instead , it requires you to perform a hidden hacky workaround by opening cmd accessible only by keyboard shortcut, running a specific command to enable offline setup, then rebooting to finally complete it.

You really don't think they're stupid enough to push ahead with this cloud dogshit?

I can "understand" what they dislike about everything here except for ... math? Like, what? What could anyone possibly have against math?

The Super Mario Bros Movie. I pretty much put it on expecting to be disappointed, as video game based movies are almost universally terrible, but ... I actually had a good time and really enjoyed all the reference humor.

Pure exhaustion from all the "hurry up and wait" of airport bullshit.

By the time I've gotten out of bed, gotten ready, travelled to the airport, dragged all my shit through the airport, unpacked and repacked half of it through security, boarded the plane ... my body just kinda gives up on being awake.

You can wash non-porous fruits with soap as long as you rinse them off completely.

265.2 septillion, if I'm not mistaken. Mind-boggling!

I've been feeling this way for a while, but it's like — and this seems largely endemic to the western world — governments are coasting on decades-old policies and mindsets that were great decades ago, but either fail or neglect to come up with anything inventive, effective, and successful anymore. It's just little baby step legislative things here with a sprinkling of token stimulus there, because they're afraid to cause even the slightest upset to anyone with a modicum of power or influence.

When was the last time a federal or provincial government implemented something that was truly solving a problem in a massive and permanent way? The only thing I can think of that vaguely qualifies is CERB, and even that was light-handed relative to revolutionary steps of the past. It was also popular and an easy political sell.

Many plausible solutions to the housing and personal income crises are easy to imagine:

• ban corporate and foreign investment properties, forcibly purchase existing ones and turn them into public housing or sell them to small time owners
• limit the
• limit maximum rent increases to a percentage of inflation
• raise minimum wage to a livable standard and legislate its increase tied to inflation
• tax the goddamn rich already
• implement basic income
• implement and enforce maximum highest-to-lowest earner ratios, accounting for all wages, salaries, bonuses, investments, etc., to prevent any corporate tomfuckery

But these things would piss off too many powerful capitalists, of which many legislators happen to be members by sheer "coincidence," so instead, we get piss-ant cheques every once in a while that ease the pressure for, like, three days.

I'm not saying any of these things would be easy to implement, but they're not even trying. "Not pissing off the capitalists" needs to stop being a concern for governments. The capitalists will be fine, and if they decide to pack up and leave for greedier pastures, good fucking riddance.

They have to want to fix the problem, not just make easy political layups that create a facade of "doing something" without fixing anything.

Because it's abusive and blatant rent seeking.

Look, if there's an actual service feature that continually costs money to provide (eg.: a cell connection for distant remote start, GPS nav map updates, etc), charging a reasonable subscription fee for that is totally acceptable. But charging ongoing fees for fixed features like heated seats is 100% bullshit unless you're going to include some sort of service benefits like free repairs (which I doubt they're doing).

Typical guilty shitheel tactic: play the "old and frail" card for sympathy points, just like how Harvey Weinstein busted out the walker for photo ops. He's still a rapist and Trump is still a traitor (and probably also a rapist).

What about it?

SyncMasterRace

Good. There should be no such thing as unserviced features that are physically present in a product and locked out against its owner. Not in cars or anything.

Oh right! I totally forgot about that.

And here I almost thought you were an Umbrella Academy fan.

I think... there are possibly more doors than that.

I guess you haven't see the "Android mode" option...