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  • I don't think that's the point of the post. Layoffs are inevitable for most companies, especially tech companies. The point is to draw attention to layoffs which are being obfuscated (presumably to avoid announcing layoffs). That's to do with a bad business practice by a huge publicly traded entity, not their responsibility as an employer to do right by their employees

  • For when part of the herb that's loaded in your pipe doesn't get ignited by capillary action and you need to put the flame directly to it to get it to ignite. Since you're trying to manipulate the position of the flame it's easier for your fingers to get in the way. It's more of an edge case and you can just get better at using a normal lighter, so I'd say this is just for viral marketing if it's real

    edit: and djeep lighters are better for this anyway

  • In my town we're more concerned with intraday temp cycle, so we just add another layer of brick. Store heat during day and release at night. I'm 32 and have never used a central heating system once in my life, shit's awesome

  • It's a false dichotomy. We can't make it so only Google can spy on us, and conceding to Google has no impact on other malware. Besides, it's the largest advertising company in the world by a large margin, with a near monopoly on online advertising. It probably wouldn't even make a difference.

  • That's pretty cool! But hell, I bet even Siri could do it. My gripes are with the google VA in its current state. I can't just call out "Hey Bing" and get an answer from my phone unfortunately

  • The only thing I want it to do is use simple context when searching something for me. If I have a sports event in my calendar, tickets saved to my wallet, and I say "Hey Google, what time does the {team} match start today?", it currently gives me a garbage answer linking to a Reddit post where someone asked that a year ago or something. The ecosystem already understands the info I want in this situation, they have all the data points, theres no sophisticated logic required to connect them. But Google Assistant can't do it, making it pretty useless other than for setting alarms and stuff. If your question isn't on the list of discrete preprogrammed functions then it just searches what you asked, which for my case should actually be "'{team} fixtures" or something. So it's often faster to just search manually in the first instance rather than trying to learn the obfuscated scope of what Google assistant can actually do.

  • 1995, I was 4. Can't remember specs, but it ran win95. I had some preschool games like The Playroom and Math/Reading Blaster, which were pretty sweet. And Rugrats adventure game, which started my affinity for point-and-clicks. Aside from that I would just think of cool animals or other shit I wanted to know about and looked it up on Encarta. The fun lasted until shortly after we got the internet in 99, I had to build a new PC to get more frames in flash games on the Nickelodeon website and with bonzibuddy

  • Mod tools are the obvious answer, but it's a platform in development. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me to trade off the pain of migration/adaptation to another growing platform also in development because one part of it is supposedly a bit further along right now. The vagueness and incongruence between the action and reasoning suggests they aren't genuinely offering their true reasoning. It also seems like they're trying to say that federation was never appealing to them, which seems ridiculous to me. Rather they will cast it to the wind now, following immature decisions they made about federation that didn't turn out very well.

  • Surprised to hear Canada doesn't have laws against bait advertising, I know the UK, Australia & New Zealand all do.

  • Aus here, for complex dental I can claim up to $800 annually on my extras cover, need braces for around $8000.


    Edit: forgot to mention it'd only have been ~$2000 around 2003 when I was first told I needed them, but my parents, whom paid off our house with a year's combined salary, couldn't afford it. My dad argued it should come out of his existing child support payment, and I didn't get them.

  • All the developer needs to do is push a button to make EAC work. They're probably busy hotfixing the 1.0 but I'm sure it'll work soon, they are excluding all steam deck users by not pressing it

    Edit: apparently it's not EAC that is the problem. The game has its own anti-cheat which also potentially bans your account if you try to play on linux https://www.protondb.com/app/2073850

  • Have you considered that those aren't the best places to get a good sense of the rational argument behind increased awareness of social inequalities? All the described platforms skew toward younger audiences and ineffective moderation - you were likely talking to literal children trying to come to terms with their inability to reconcile their morality with their environment, especially from areas that skew conservative.

    When I said actual leftist content I meant, pick an example of a person identifying as woke whose view you don't share, then vet your position by investigating the opposing argument and reflect on whether that person was offering a fair and balanced representation of that argument. If it isn't, then you can't attribute their slant to the school of thought they claim to represent solely based on your subjective experience reading comments on social media.

  • Bollocks. I don't believe you have seen too many people identifying as woke. People that hold the beliefs you're talking about don't generally identify as woke. You're talking about attitudes attributed to wokedom entirely by conservatives trying to rile up their base. They're using moral panic via the culture war to politically destabilise in an environment where they have no policy to bring to the table that anyone wants, and you've fallen for it. Go consume some actual leftist content and try to critique it the way you are now in good faith. You won't be able to.

  • What does woke actually mean to you in this context? Are you just referring to the way convervatives have appropriated it? Because that's exactly what woke is

  • Right, we have to just murder those kids so they can't be used as bombs. It's like you're seeing the matrix dude, amazing stuff

  • They're still regulated under Title 1, just not as much. Theres much less of an obligation to set a fair price, for example. More so pointing out we can't necessarily rely on net neutrality as something that generally protects anyone from anything anymore. It only prevents business from doing specific things that are seen as bad business, the consumer isn't really in mind

  • Net neutrality effectively ending under Trump might clear it up

  • Seems as safe as mostly any public torrent site to me. Use ublock and it should be fine, provided you aren't downloading and running a random .exe labelled as Avatar 3 or something