rainynight65 @ rainynight65 @feddit.de

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if I somehow dragged them into the mix

You know, there were a number of snarky comments that came to mind. But in all seriousness, if I have 'family circumstances that my family need to deal with', you'll find me in a number of places, but certainly not zoned out from mixing alcohol and prescription meds, lying in the streets of Canberra swearing into my phone. My family wouldn't stand for it, and my employer wouldn't stand for it, if I somehow dragged them into the mix. They wouldn't merely ask me to 'consider taking personal leave'.

Needs a better chair and more ergonomics around the desk. Otherwise you'll be happy momentarily, but after a few months your back and other body parts will be quite unhappy with you.

As someone who has been eating eggs out of our own production for several years now:

I've never washed an egg. Ever. When we get eggs from our hens, we mark them with the date and they go into the fridge. When we want to eat them, we take them out and do whatever is required.

We mainly consume eggs in boiled, fried and scrambled form, but also sometimes in a carbonara pasta, where they'll get heated but not cooked.

None of us have ever gotten sick from consuming those eggs, in whichever form. We don't consume eggs that are significantly older than one month, but that's pretty much our only safeguard.

A zero-sum game is a situation where one person's gains must be balanced out by another person's losses. This is usually the case in financial markets - since there is no endless money supply, if someone profits from a market movement, someone else makes a loss. There is no change in the overall amount of wealth in play, hence zero-sum - add up the profits and losses and you get zero.

Reactionaries treat things like diversity, equality, anti-racism and such as zero-sum games in the sense that if someone gets more rights, it must come at the cost of someone else. Which is complete and utter rubbish, but it's very useful to stir up resentments against these efforts. The narrative is that equality for women, people of colour, trans people etc means fewer rights for, respectively, men, white people, cis people.

I'm sorry, you basically have no clucking fue what you're talking about, and you're lecturing me?

Wow. It's like Reddit all over again.

Since you proudly professed to have no idea what a zero-sum game is, and I have at least somewhat of an idea what a zero-sum game is - yes, I'm sure.

Let me give you a hint: not wanting to settle for less has exactly nothing to do with zero-sum games. Nothing whatsoever.

No it doesn't. Gitlab's pricing has been pretty stable, with one increase in the premium tier in the past six years ($19 --> $29 per user per month).

I am not sure you know what a zero-sum game is.

There is no such study because there is no 'anti-white movement'. Diversity, equity and inclusivity are not zero-sum games, even if reactionaries like to pretend they are.

I love how the response to backlash against comments like this is almost always along the lines of 'sorry if you're offended' and 'the comments were taken out of context'.

These comments by Horman are very clear, they have plenty of context on their own, and they give me a pretty good picture of what kind of person the owner is. It's enough for me to make sure I don't set foot into their shops if I am ever in Melbourne.

The pandemic is not over by a long shot. Current Covid levels in the US are the second highest they've ever been. They have almost 2000 deaths each week. We don't know nearly enough about the long term impacts of Covid on both individuals and society. There are mounting indications that Covid, especially when contracted repeatedly, really does a number on someone's immune system, the effects of which will manifest only much later in their lives. A lot of people have had long-term or permanent health impacts, some are functionally disabled.

But the pandemic, in people's minds, was over the moment the first politicians declared that we needed to 'return to normal'. We couldn't 'stay locked down forever'. We couldn't 'live in caves', and similar hyperbolic bullshit. Any further efforts at keeping Covid at bay were doomed once NSW famously lost control of their Delta outbreak and shifted rhetoric from 'we can contain this' to 'we have to learn to live with it' literally within hours. They forced other state governments' hands, and now this shit is endemic, happily spreading and mutating, and nobody gives a toss because every effort has been made to keep it out of the public consciousness.

I fear that we will only know in ten or twenty years what the true price is that we as humanity have to pay for treating this pandemic so lackadaisically. And to think this all could have prevented with smart policies, by governments who put people before the economy, and who weren't scared of making difficult decisions.

The Coalition decided to turn the Voice into a political football. Once they saw that their initial FUD got traction, they doubled down on it, kept spreading the same lies, even the ones that had been refuted a hundred times, and weaponised the division they created. To them it became primarily about damaging Albanese, even more so than denying constitutional recognition to Indigenous people.

The reason Dutton 'favours' a legislated version of the Voice is that it can be un-legislated any time and at the whims of any future government. We've seen many versions of Indigenous representation come and go, some legislated, some not. The only thing that will have a lasting foundation is constitutional recognition. And that's what conservatives don't want.

How many floppy disks does GTA 6 come with?

She's one person influencing millions, if not billions, that's for sure. She's not some random author, she is one of the most well known personalities of the 20th and 21st century. Her opinions carry weight, as misguided as that may be on the part of her followers.

I'd partially agree with you if we were talking about some random who has sold a few hundred kindle copies of their book on Amazon and is spewing nonsense. And even then I'd call for people to not support that author in any way shape or form. JKR is however hugely influential, and that absolutely should matter when it comes to deciding who you give your money to.

Only a single monitor, and then it's not even an ultrawide?

What kind of a low-rent setup is this?

I suggest you do your own research then. From everything I've read, JKR is a horrible person and virulently anti-trans. There are a lot of ways to br horrific without outright calling for people's deaths.

She actively campaigns against trans rights and has said that if you buy her stuff, you support her position.

Also, the erstwhile lead designer was a far right agitator.