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  • The development cost for building it out in the new engine would probably be an order of magnitude higher than the simple upscale.

    If they thought they'd get an order of magnitude more sales from doing things that way, they'd have done it that way.

    I'm with you, though. I'd love a proper remaster that also came as a native PC edition.

  • Spreading and sharing those thoughts and memories, fragments of our selves, so that they can live on in everyone we ever interact with. People who will, in turn, spread those fragments on even further.

  • Even fewer will know that osteopathy is exactly the same type of nonsense. No, an osteopath is not (necessarily) a "bone doctor".

    The main confusion is that, in the US, schools of osteopathic medicine picked up enough real science that US Doctors of Osteopathy are real physicians... Even if the osteopathy part of their training is still pseudoscience.

  • 2033 is the year of Linux on the desktop.

  • The SGU is the one podcast I have to listen to every week. They have been putting out such great content for so long now.

    I'd recommend their show to anyone with an interest in science, technology, or thinking.

  • Laughing when someone's angry at you for something you've done isn't a very positive reaction.

    Of course you know your friendship better than we do, but nothing you've written makes it sound like you ever owed him an apology.

  • People who turn every discussion into a debate that they must win.

  • Did your "friend" make you feel bad for getting mad at him? Frankly, it doesn't sound like you owed him an apology at all - and if he didn't apologise, he absolutely should have done.

    When people get justifiably angry because their boundaries have been broken, emotionally abusive bullies often try to make their targets feel bad for "getting emotional". It's all an attempt to redirect the fact that they wronged you, not the other way around.

  • To what extent is the issue of using screens before sleep a question of mental overstimulation as opposed to specific frequencies of light?

    Genuine question.

  • I've read that the best way to remember your dreams better is to start a dream diary. Write as much as you can remember as quickly as possible when you wake up, and you should gradually remember more and more.

  • Part of the challenge of social media is that it leads you to interact with many more people than you ever could in normal life.

    While the vast majority of people are delightful, there are significant numbers of people with whom I wouldn't want to interact, either face-to-face or online.

    One thing I should get better at is avoiding engagement with those people online who I wouldn't benefit from interacting with.

    I don't talk to the crazy person ranting on the street, why would I do it online?

  • My assumption would be that the training would put a huge weight on precisely that.

    I really don't think they'd spend all that time just learning how to mechanically draw blood and not have entire courses and exams on patient safety, record keeping etc.

  • Sure, but there's not much they can do about it if things are properly encrypted, for example using DKE on M365.

  • Doesn't it take months of training (at least!) to become a phlebotomist? How can you screw up that badly on day one?

  • Sounds like your issue is a shitty workplace and shitty managers more than it is not not working from home.

  • This is what I was thinking. I'm very lucky to live somewhere where I can live without a car - even here in Helsinki, that's not always possible.

  • It'd be the equivalent to spending an extra 2-3 hours a day working (because that's what the total commute would be), plus money on vehicle upkeep

    Maybe this is one of the reasons I actually prefer going to the office. For me, it's only 15 minutes by metro.

    No additional cost, very little wasted/lost time, and I actually enjoy being able to draw a line between work and life by putting them in different physical spaces.

    Perhaps it also helps that my managers encourage people to work from wherever they feel they're the most productive. It's nice to know that I have the option to work from home without having to explain myself.

  • Different strokes for different folks, I suppose. It's the diversity that make social platforms interesting, even if some of it isn't interesting for me.

    That's why we can choose which communities we join on the Fediverse.

  • Not that I disagree with the rest of your comment, but

    No way any normal person would say no to 2mil.

    No way would I want the stress or weight on my conscience of having just stolen 2 mil.

    In my opinion, anyone who would take that money is the abnormal one.

  • This is familiar.

    In particular, my accent gives me a distinct advantage, as I speak with what some might describe as a "BBC" English accent. I work using English outside of the UK in a multinational company, and it's served me very well.

    In international contexts people just seem to trust that I know what I'm talking about, because they think that I sound like I should be narrating a nature documentary.