BEEdwards

works for me

Objectively yes, I'm not even sure that's a question.

I have some serious antinatalist leanings, but if one is going to live (assuming decent quality of life and what not) more life is always going to be objectively better.

We force life itself on them without their consent, so ensuring they actually live past childhood seems like a package deal...

https://www.politifact.com/article/2008/jul/14/obamas-wireta...

Everything has been commodified.

welcome to capitalism...

considering how fast we're speed running climate change I don't even think the present cares about the future...

Though I agree bard isn't the best name, gemini is a worse name.

Bard has connotations, but by it's self it makes one think of a person that talks well.

WTF is gemini? It is a twin, but this is a singular product. Beyond that it's just generic. It doesn't tell you what it does at all.

it also get's caught in stupid loops.

this game is fun for a bit, but shallow once you realize the gimmick.

you can go completely random bullshit go and get "super cyberwolfman zombie phoenixman" that's nonsense, of course it's "first discovery!"

Not for sales purposes, but I don't know what brand the bandaids I have in the cabinet are, but if i ask for one that's what I'll call them...

That cat is out of the bag, that term has gone napkin or bandaid.

I'm confused, you're lobbing this as if it's a gotcha or insult.

No matter what you think of them as a company Steam is a license to print money, of course basically everything they do is in service of it...

It was a mistake.

What do you mean, the game is objectively solid and is very much a continuation of the Boulders Gate series. It has flaws, but personally I think it's the best crpg i've played in years (and without nostalgia filters).

Hey BE why do you pirate media and refuse to subscribe to streaming services?

This is why...

Do you honestly think any significant amount of people will put up with the setup, latency, and inability to use their bank's website that would entail?

Most people don't know how the internet works, don't care as long as it works and do not think about it beyond that.

No conspiracy, the books sell. People buy and enjoy them. Not my thing, but it is what it is.

Microsoft very certainly did a tons of reliability and durability testing on their controllers (and it shows).

my xbox elite controller didn't even last a year (usb port died)... now tbf the x button on the replacement razer controller i got also died in the same time frame.

to be more fair though the wired xbox 360 controller i got with my original xbox back in ~2007 has never let me down.

You will run out of the people doing it remotely well very quickly though.

The high quality modding of askhistory, anthropology and other science sub reddits are provided by actual domain experts working for free. You can find someone to replace them, but the quality will plummet and the users will leave.

Apollo team should have had the foresight to see this coming years ago.

    Isn't this your fault for building a service reliant on someone else?

    To a certain extent, yes. However, I was assured this year by Reddit not even that long ago that no changes were planned to be made to the API Apollo uses, and I've made decisions about how to monetize my business based on what Reddit has said.

    January 26, 2023

    Reddit: "So I would expect no change, certainly not in the short to medium term. And we're talking like order of years."

    Another portion of the call:

    January 26, 2023

    Reddit: "There's not gonna be any change on it. There's no plans to, there's no plans to touch it right now in 2023.

    Me: "Fair enough."

    Reddit: "And if we do touch it, we're going to be improving it in some way."

Unfortunately users seem to violently opposed to this and open messaging platforms like XMPP have only caught on with military and law enforcement users.

I don't think it's the protocol users have the issue with, it's that generally to get the best out of it you need to run your own server and nobody wants to run their own server.

I run my own server and don't want to run a server...

Most of the other popular apps are also shutting down and the official app is garbage.

If I can't use Sync I'm not going to use reddit.

If you don't connect it to the internet it's not a smart tv...

You know there are more than twice as many whites right?

that statistic doesn't mean what you're trying to imply...

strongly encouraging minorities not to apply and implying that they will hire you if you pass a hearing test, while probably their true feelings are clearly parody.

You think a child would know off the top of their head that the first picture of an exoplanet wasn't taken by the new shiny telescope in the news and not the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in 2004?

That it's wrong about this isn't a problem because it's a basic fact everyone knows, but because it gets thing that people don't know wrong in a confident way.

People will assume this answer is as good as looking it up themselves and never check it.

Yeah sabotage works...

That's the origin of the word, but not what anyone (outside of historians) mean when they say it.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vandal

Then why?

The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer

https://theauthoritarians.org/

...did we read the same thing?

This is sinister music played over a video of someone doing the dishes.

"Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth."

150 emails in 2 years is a partnership?

All the provided examples are actual misinformation and low effort nonsense and at no point was twitter forced to do anything.

This is literally nothing.

employee gagging clauses related to workplace harassment

maybe I'm incredibly naive to the world, but the fact that this is a thing completely baffles me.

How can an employer prevent you from speaking about working conditions? Even from the companies perspective, this ban would seem to make it more advantageous to go public first, before reporting to the company which would limit your ability to do so...