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Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why

My wife is a high school teacher. We returned to her classroom one evening after dinner this week so I could help her put together some shelves. After 30 minutes of assembly, I realized I needed to use the bathroom. She gave me her keys and pointed me towards the staff bathrooms. Whilst sitting on the porcelain throne, I realized that I couldn't remember the last time I did a #2 in a public bathroom. I've been WFH since March of 2020 when COVID started, and while I'm sure I've crapped in a public restroom in the past 3+ years, it's so infrequent that I can't remember.

That's not really the point though, more that I've actually been thinking about it all week and reflecting on what working in an office used to be like - crapping next to your coworkers, packing a lunch, trying to look busy when you just aren't feeling it that day, the small talk, and everything else that result in me being absolutely drained by the time I got home. Seriously, sometimes I would just sit on the couch and stare at the wall for 30 minutes when I got home.

It took the greatest global event of the 21st century to shift us to WFH. We can't let companies force us into backsliding into these out-dated work practices when all common sense says otherwise.

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I was about to say add uBlock Origin to that list but apparently they don't accept donations per the bottom of their homepage.

I will not accept donations or sponsorships of any kind.

That's some fuck you energy right there.

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Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business

Back when I was on reddit, I subscribed to about 120 subreddits. Starting a couple years ago though, I noticed that my front page really only showed content for 15-20 subreddits at a time and it was heavily weighted towards recent visits and interactions.

For example, if I hadn't visited r/3DPrinting in a couple weeks, it slowly faded from my front page until it disappeared all together. It was so bad that I ended up writing a browser automation script to visit all 120 of my subreddits at night and click the top link. This ended up giving me a more balanced front page that mixed in all of my subreddits and interests.

My point is these algorithms are fucking toxic. They're focused 100% on increasing time on page and interaction with zero consideration for side effects. I would love to see social media algorithms required by law to be open source. We have a public interest in knowing how we're being manipulated.

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Do not drink flavored beers from microbreweries unless they sell it all year long.

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Fully agree. I worked in beer for years and this guy does not speak for the industry. Makes me wonder how bad things were at the brewery he worked at if he thinks this is the norm.

Additionally, seasonal beers and beers not "regularly advertised" (whatever that means?) are a way for breweries to test concepts and demand before scaling and planning distribution; fruited or otherwise. Most breweries have a pilot system where they are testing concepts, techniques, flavors, etc. These beers make it to the taproom and/or see a limited release and then the brewery assesses the response.

I could not disagree more with this post.

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I made the mistake of checking Reddit (using my last few days of Apollo) and came across a complaint about Lemmy that flabbergasted me

One thing I do dislike, the post width on desktop is limited. Between the sidebar always being shown and the container being 1140 px wide, the comment section ends up only being 760 px wide; way too narrow for me.

I wrote a Stylus script for Firefox to make the posts full-width.

URL starts with: https://lemmy.world/post URL starts with: https://lemmy.world/comment

Script:

.container, .container-lg, .container-md, .container-sm, .container-xl {
	max-width: 100%;
}

.col-md-8 {
	flex: 0 0 80%;
	max-width: 80%;
}

.col-md-4 {
	flex: 0 0 20%;
	max-width: 20%;
}