You're right, I tend to lurk and up vote when I feel it's appropriate. I'll try to do better at making my voice heard if you want to have more contributions and build an actual community.
I'm sorry that your posts in particular seem to irk me to the point at which I felt I had to speak up. I'll tailor my browsing so that they won't show up, but I'm not giving up on having the main anti-capitalist community on beehaw as part of my browsing.
Socialist critique of elected officials is absolutely relevant to a socialist community, as is a socialist view on sex ed and nudity; I really don't know what to say to someone who doesn't understand that.
When those topics actually engender discussions pertaining to socialism, sure. But based on the discussion under the article about sex ed, it's mostly just more of the same discussion I would find anywhere else on beehaw — I would think you would want a community slightly more focused. I can't speak to the discussion re: "Politician bad" because there wasn't one.
Theoretically, if you are "extra productive" at a specific thing, there is a position you can move into where you do less of the things you're less productive with and more of the thing you are productive with. And if you are "extra productive", that should mean less effort for you to put into it: your reward is now less effort at work for the same amount of time and production, and if the thing you're doing is more complex or dangerous, that slrt of position should be negotiated for better pay by the union.
Instead, the "extra productive" person gets exploited by the employer until they burn out or are Peter Principle'd.
Okay, I don't want to be rude, and I am going to try to politely convey two things. Please don't take these the wrong way, as I appreciate the fact that this community exists.
You are the primary contributor because you post many, many articles in the span of a few minutes every couple of days. I'm not saying I'm a major contributing member, but getting my feed spammed every couple mornings with posts about climate news (which I accept can be marginally related to socialism), "Biden Couldn't Care Less About Human Rights" (not really related to socialism, just another "Politician sucks" article, but sure, he's doing it because capitalism, so just barely getting over the hurdle), and "Why are people frightened that kids will learn abouy sex?" (Absolutely not related to socialism, just a social issue), let's just say it makes me feel like this community is a dumping ground for left-leaning gripes rather than an actual discussion of socialist action and values.
I will say that I appreciate the posts about the numerous strikes happening around the US and world, those are good posts for this community. However, posting them all at once isn't creating a healthy community, it's just making me go "Oh, Wednesday morning is it? How many posts today? 9?" If the posts were spread out in time, I wouldn't have the same reaction.
"I made it and I'm in charge, no other opinions welcome" really is the weakest of arguments.
"Politician does thing, maybe poorly" isn't the same as "This is an issue that socialism could fix" or even related to workers at all.
This doesn't belong here the same way "Lauren Boebert kicked out of Beetlejuice musical" doesn't belong here. "Political enemy of the left does bad thing" isn't even anti-Socialism, it just is.
I've heard about this power-on issue but it's not the one I've been experiencing - the only device is the AVR and it can turn on just fine if I pull up the menu and hit Power through that.
I am aware of the CEC settings and they are working - the TV will power off the device just fine using CEC and it has the ability to power it on (I can manually trigger this) but the TV does not send a power on command to the AVR automatically when the TV is turned on. This seems to be a known issue but I don't have a link to the forum discussion I found a while ago where others have the same problem.
I also have a C1 and have been annoyed that it won't turn on my connected AVR when I turn on the TV even though it has the capability and it turns it off when I turn the TV off. This wouldn't happen to be one of the bugs you upgraded to fix, would it? What bugs did you encounter that you fixed with firmware upgrades?
I really like Wikipedia for stuff like this. This chart is helpful for a quick overview and you can always dig deeper into the linked pages for each specific CAT cable:
Better thermal conductivity (cast iron actually sucks at this but nobody seems to acknowledge it)
One of the main selling points of cast iron is the fact that it has low thermal conductivity - it takes a while to get hot, but then it stays hot for longer. This is an advantage for some types of cooking and is why I only use my cast iron for specific things.
Fwiw, I agree that if you only have one pan, don't make that pan cast iron - it's good at what it does but it's not as versatile as a stainless steel pan for most things.
100% this. I literally support fixing software installations and random crashing/errors all day anyway, sometimes when I get home I want my stuff to just work. I bought a console so I don't have to worry about why my framerate's dropping in Elden Ring or whatnot, it'll be fine and for 600$ less than building an actual PC worth building, a console is a no brainer for me.
"They are affiliated with a Korean entertainment company, debuted in South Korea, and sing in Korean," said one commenter, suggesting they should be defined as K-pop.
I think this is a pretty reasonable list of criteria to be considered K-pop. I might even replace "singing in Korean" and "debuted in South Korea" with "target the same market/charts" (I'm sure there are K-pop groups that have at least something in English).
It's the same reasoning I give for why Avatar TLA isn't anime: it's certainly anime inspired, but it's an American animation company and not a Japanese one. This group seems obviously K-pop to me.
Everdell! I know we're a few years "late" to this fad but we picked it up at B&N for 50% off after last Christmas and have played it tons ever since. It's very pretty, pretty simple, and quite replayable.
That's fascinating and I have not heard of this type of system before. Presumably in a system like that, they would still be returning the person's money when they left, though...
Hearing rumors @WeAreFarmers might pull out of Florida. If that’s true my office is going to explore every avenue possible for holding them accountable. Don’t get to leave after taking policyholder money. Can’t write auto if you’re not doing homeowners either. Zero communication!
"Don't get to leave after taking policyholder money"
What do you think insurance is? You're not "purchasing" anything, you're buying an ability to recover losses. It's not like when I cancel my policy I get to walk away with a pile of boards from Home Depot on my insurance company's dime because I haven't had major damage to my house.
It's like if Netflix decided to cancel all subscribers in FL and the response was "I gave you all that money and I don't get to keep watching your movies forever???"
Yeah that's like saying someone setting you up on a blind date is arranging a marriage for you