elephantium @ elephantium @lemmy.world

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$0.003 cents per stream.

So... #verizonmath means I have to ask: Is this supposed to be 3/1000ths of a penny per stream? Or 3/10ths of a penny per stream? You labeled the amount with both dollars and cents :(

The aliens near the end were probably the biggest sf heartbreak ever for me. I want a sequel to Children of the Mind :(

That's a good way to think about it. If someone is doing something nice for you, let them!

With my credit card. I don't carry cash consistently.

Occasionally my wife will pay the bill, but mostly I get it #genderroles

We still date each other even though we're "boring" and married now 😉. Who pays doesn't really matter seeing as we're married, but hey, old habits

Depression

And given that the appliance needs to communicate with the app on your phone while you're not home in the first place, there probably isn't even a separate tracking API vs. data just being harvested as part of normal operations. So "back door" doesn't really fit. "Broken by design" or "spyware" would be more apt, I think.

Still, I'm really not a fan of calling any spying/data harvesting a "front door" -- IIRC, the term was coined by an FBI head pushing for back doors in our phones so the FBI could scan our messages. But he called it a "front door" as a way to dodge the reasons why building back doors in our security software is a terrible idea.

It's just another step in the terrible trend of "let's pretend that this horrible idea is ok if we just rename it" :(

What would the "front door" even be in this case? What comes to my mind is the corresponding app on your phone, but that doesn't really make sense in this context.

I read the situation as: Expectations are so low that you can work the job for merely 3 hours a day and still get your work done. It's an indictment on the companies: Workers doing this should be making triple their current salaries in one job and doing so much more there -- but that capacity is wasted.

Oh no, not again

What does algae have to do with extinction events? It seems like you're using that as a sort of "gotcha!" line, but I don't see the connection.

Have you ever heard the phrase "golden child"? It's sadly relatively common for a certain sort of dysfunctional family. Screws up entire lifetimes for people.

See also: Drinking melk instead of milk, and adjusting the antanna to get better radio reception.

Oy bot that ain’t youtube its the dictionary.

Did you click the link?

Always safe with a caserol at a dinner party.

Imposter! A true Minnesotan would know you bring hotdish. Casserole is a Southern dish.

Edit: Also, WTF is up with "caserol" instead of casserole?

I'm morbidly curious what region Minnesota is in if it's not the Midwest. Surely he doesn't call it part of the Old West? That would just be bonkers.

Could partly be that they don't want to support the development effort. Fewer phone sizes to support means they can get away with fewer staff working new versions of ios.

Only a mortgage.

I had student loans, but I finished paying those ~5-6 years ago.

And Corsica just vanishes

could be radians

That's a reach. 360 (degree) spin is a common enough "could care less" type expression. There's no way OP meant "spin 57 times, then turn a little more than one quarter more."

So... you could say that the US exerted sufficient water pressure to open the faucets in Gaza?