Dunno why you’d capitalize black unless it was at the start of a sentence. No one capitalizes white.

Even if you’re in America not all black people are African Americans. Black ppl come from all over the world. (Duh.)

Stupid designations about something that doesn’t matter, but they’re the best we’ve got.

Post headline deserves a downvote. Quote from article:

Lanier asked Mosseri what he thought of K.G.M's longest single day of use of Instagram being 16 hours.

"That sounds like problematic use," the Instagram boss answered. He did not call it an addiction.

He also didn’t say it was a tomato. Like wtf do you want, I can’t tell if he was asked specifically if 16 hours a day was an addiction. The prior question was about whether he had known she had a 16hr day, and he had not. (He should have; poor trial prep.)

This is sensationalist BS and I dearly want this platform to be better than that.

Just so we’re clear, Meta can die in a fire and the world would be better off, I’m not defending them in the slightest.

You vastly overestimate the competence of the workforce in general. If you show up on time, work hard, and work to improve over time (don’t expect to be perfect! Just learn from mistakes!) you will be a coveted employee.

Hopefully this leads to improved feelings of self worth.

Reminds me of the YouTuber Mat Armstrong w/motto “Hard work beats talent.”

As others have said, pick a trade. Make bank. Get some friends who value you for you. F everyone else. Not literally lol

Project 2025 is the lesser evil? Compared to?

Don’t forget obligatory data mining the crap out of you!

He personally does, but Grok calling him out on his BS makes Grok look better in my view. Still not going to use any product remotely associated with Musk though

Yup. Rare, but has happened multiple… oh wait, you said “strongly held.”

Even then, probably yes, but not a single… hmmm. I would say the closest I’ve come was this person talking about what it’s like to be trans. They said it’s like going into a shoe store, and you just can’t find a shoe that fits. Everyone is telling you you’ve got to buy a shoe that doesn’t fit. Why can’t we be ok with everyone deciding what fits?

They said it more eloquently than that, but it made the issue click for me. I was never against; I just didn’t understand, and they helped me understand.

Then much later someone pointed out the scientific data on SRY and that helped the data side of my brain. (The data didn’t change my acceptance, just furthered my understanding. I’m fully onboard and think it’s crazy that everyone else isn’t.)

Great question! (Mostly I have dropped out of online discussions, straw man arguments are so common it’s exhausting and not worth it.)

So much this. Please let politics be boring again.

Instead of trying to make idiocracy happen faster than previously believed to be possible.

I really miss having the delusion that MOST people were good, just more susceptible to media influence and bullshit.

Fuck, I really miss that. What a good response, thx!

Install jellyfin.

/annoyed I paid for a lifetime membership and still couldn’t invite household members without paying for their licenses too, with plex. I kinda got it working local only but it was still crappy compared to jellyfin, where accounts work exactly as I expect them to, for a server I maintain fully.

Well that and only boosting a little at a time. Generally you’ll see crashes and corruption long before you’ll kill a card, if you can avoid swinging for the fences.

Didn’t watch, did you?

Yes, they reported the first hand experience because they can vouch for it completely. But they also have hundreds of people who contacted them - often with evidence - about Asus being dishonest and deceitful.

In one of those people. I’m glad the word is spreading. Asus RMA really is that bad, too the degree the company just needs to die.

Tree style tabs ftw

I agree with you, except your use of “his.” OP only used the term partner.

Keep doing it. They all have strengths and suckiness at the same time.

Once they see you they’ll be there 12m and charge you for an hour.

Fuck our medical system.

I spent days (weeks really, but a couple solid days right beforehand) prepping for an appointment that was crucial to my health and life in general. Not overstating that: the meeting determined for how much longer I have to live a half of a life due to this condition.

The doc misremembered a few things, made determinations based on that misunderstanding, and left mid sentence. I have now spent weeks trying to clear up what would have taken another 10m to do in person.

You sound like one of the good ones, so keep fighting the good fight.

But it’s still a shit system. The goals are simply misaligned from the top down. Money is the goal, not care.

You should look into variable speed compressors and the temps at which refrigerants work. You’re correct on many points but misinformed on others.

2030: Cyborg w/AI will fry your brain. Literally though.

This is awesome!

Personally I would have used TIFF and either Immich or ResourceSpace (a DAM - meant for this kind of thing, but also maybe more institutional than you want.)

I am trying so hard not to be a pedantic ass about 1GB and 1Gb…

… and failing.

We knew what you meant!