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Lauren Boebert Can’t Shake the Beetlejuice Debacle

“I learned to check party affiliations before you go on a date,” Boebert told TMZ

Doesn't this entirely invalidate the claims of people like Boebert that woke-ism ruins people's personalities and thought processes? Shouldn't she be able to see that this guy was a degenerate trans groomer or whatever without needing to know his "political affiliation"?

If not, perhaps the negative side effects of people-with-different-opinions is not actually a fatal condition, after all.

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In-N-Out bans employees from wearing masks

Me in summer through winter of 2020: "Well, silver lining about COVID is that we all learned how to wear masks once this all blows over."

Conservative family: "Agree!"

Me during the unending apocalypse in summer 2023: "We should wear masks with the air quality so poor [unsaid: due to the now present and undeniable human-caused climate change."

Exact same conservative family: "That sounds like socialism and fascism to me"

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Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice

I don't use Haier products but a similar thing happened with Chamberlain when they blocked the MyQ integration even though it was using the legitimate API and not breaking any rules. No attempt to work with anyone in the HA community at all, just shut everything down.

On one hand, this means projects like Home Assistant are getting popular enough to have enough usage to effect these companies. So that's great! In the long term, we'll all figure out solutions, but in the short term it feels like an increasing fight between corporate and open-source control over smart devices.

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Lemmy.world active users is tapering off while other servers are gaining serious traction.

I haven't fully settled on a "home" instance yet.

I bounce around between Lemmy.world, Beehaw and Kbin the most. As things stabilize with the various software updates and federation between instances gets worked out I will probably settle on one, but I could also see jumping to more niche instances (really hoping a sports-related instance like Fanaticus takes off) being the long term strategy, too.

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'Suits' Was Streamed For 3 Billion Minutes on Netflix and the Writers Were Collectively Paid $3,000

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The previous comment did most of the work for you. Writers, actors, crew, and generally everyone involved in the entertainment industry does not have a salary gig like office workers. They aren't working consistently--which has only gotten worse in the streaming era--and thus rely on royalties as part of their total compensation.

So, in summary, they are completely different situations that cannot be directly compared.

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LMG has made a response video to Gamers Nexus' concerns

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Billet Labs sent them a 3090ti to test with and LMG lost it before they filmed the review. They comment on the GPU being wrong in the video. .

BL also commented on the video explaining why it would perform poorly with the 4090.

Someone at LMG agreed to send it back before they sold it at auction. Then that didn't happen and there was no apology or attempt to make it right until the GN video came out.

They always knew it was being tested wrong.