popemichael @ popemichael @lemmy.sdf.org

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Where's Jeeves when we need him? I'd ask him but…

This is the truth. I was being abused by a boss of mine, with him demanding to know the whole of my medical history. He also demanded doctor excuses go directly to him, and not HR as I was told,

Needless to say, HR shared that I was bitching about him and he messed up my desk, breaking an ornament and a knickknack that was precious to me at the time (I got it on honeymoon). I took photos, and HR even saw him near my desk at the time of all of that happened

It took a major civil suit to get the video, but after the judge saw it 'my case was won' according to the judge. It was so obvious of evidence of him breaking stuff, spitting on my chair, snapping my laptop.

I even got special consideration because my boss then gave me a laptop that was so old that I couldn't load the required VPN software.

I'm glad I got out of a corporate run tech field. It'll eat your soul without you noticing until it's too late...

I pay for Google premium and I support a few patreons, yes.

That said, I still use ad block, sponsorship block, and privacy badger

Stuff like YouTube content should be free to those who can't afford it. Plus, my privacy is my own.

Those are the two major issues here

You may not be going to the right areas of youtube.

I'm kept highly entertained with "True Crime" shows, audio books, manga & manhua recaps, and long form documentaries.

I'm always able to have something on my second monitor doing SOMETHING entertaining.

There is a reason that a lot of normal people have secret meth addictions now-a-days...

It wouldn't shock me if they removed ublock origin from the chrome store

Unless it's something that you are a super uber fan, avoid buying a game before it comes out.

It saves a lot of heartaches and headaches.

Plus, in today's world... why pre order? It's not like a game will run out of copies...

That's the same reason I don't complain about having to pay taxes for schools, even if I don't have a child in school right now.

I did telecom work about 5 years ago

It was shocking the amount of area that depends on a low-quality copper wire infrastructure.

I don't know if that changed in 5 years, but companies are going to have a hard time getting that replaced nationwide

I wonder if killbots would be better than the Jem'hadar. Certainly a Jem'killbot cyborg would be better than both.

I'm sure the Dominion put that to the test at some point.

Though with the power of the dominion, it wouldn't shock me if they invented the borg that way and the time shenanigans happened

$34,000 in stuff from Amazon?

I bet his house looks like an Amazon horder's house that was in the news a while back.

It sounds like it would be a net-positive energy wise if they installed holographic emitters in the mess hall. Not only could they have one less person eating resources BUT they can greatly improve crew moral.

Then they can have a rotating roster of the best cooks, swapping between cultures or even cram all of that knowledge into a single hologram a'la the EMH.

While cooking is a complex chemistry exhibit that requires a lot of talent, it shouldn't take anywhere close to the amount of processing power an EMH does. It just doesn't need to know tens of thousands of procedures on dozens of alien species.

At most, it needs to know the equivalent of 'not to overly kneed biscuits' and 'it's a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake'

I could see Janeway being based and using it that way

It could also solve the need for clones of the Vorta. The Dominion could just pop another one out of the buffer and not have to depend on cloning facilities.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall in like 50 years when they are able to open the CIA archives to the public on everything top secret that Trump did.

I'd bet half of the GOP would be in chains if that stuff came out today, let alone what Trump has said.

I agree 100% - It's an eventuality.

As of right now, Trump simply acts like it. Actions speak louder than words sometimes.

What's next? Company stores? They already have company housing…

Eventually Musk is going to have them buying 'X cookies' and 'X cereal' so that they don't have to pay them real money.

I pretty much run everything through paypal for the extra layer of security.

It saved my ass when I was doxxed and hacked. I had my logins and financial information stolen.

I can totally see not putting more than a few thousand into the balance if you're going to use it like a secured credit card.

Otherwise, keeping $0 in it and using it as a middle man between your bank and the outside world is a fantastic solution to protecting yourself.

'Based' means that you are very proud of what you have done and what you are doing and that you don't care what anyone else thinks.

It's like if IDGAF (I don't give a fuck) was an adjective.

I used to not like to learn these 'new' terms myself, but this one is an objectively positive to the human language.

I don't see the point of denying the growth of a language in my lifetime just because I become older. I hated it when my parents did it, and they hated when their parents did it... so I'm breaking the cycle

I didn't realize that Allison Pregler was still making videos post Channel Awesome fiasco. I always liked her movie and show reviews back in the day. Thanks for the recommend!

I can now see how I could be VERY clearly wrong in every way on the Tuvix topic from another perspective...

If only they could recreate the transporter accident that makes a perfect copy of a person. Then all that has to happen is to take the clone and split it before it realizes anything.

That way EVERYONE could exist together.