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The owner - the man who invested his capital - he's important - in fact he's the whole cheese

A big peeve of mine is when someone says they did something, "I remodeled my floors, I painted the walls, I fixed my car, i put in a fence", when they really mean they hired people to do these things. It's straight up taking credit for other people's work and it's normalized.

I grew up poor where hiring help was rare so when someone said they did something, they always said it proudly and they meant they did it themselves.

Now I always ask and point out they didn't do anything. I'm really fun that way. But honestly i think the language matters. For big jobs i personally say I had the walls painted or I got the car fixed since that implies getting someone else to do it.

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Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims

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In our testing, the VPN always continued to report as connected, and the kill switch was never engaged to drop our VPN connection.

This is the only place they mention kill switch. I feel like it needs a slight clarification on whether it was enabled and didn't work, or if was just disabled and therefore not "engaged".

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Dang good catch on the second user, I wouldn't have noticed since I usually don't look at people's profiles.

It's kind of funny that reddit will become this chamber of advertisers making posts and fake users "engaging" while the real people all migrate to lemmy.

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Public trust in AI is sinking across the board

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Took a look and the article title is misleading. It says nothing about trust in the technology and only talks about not trusting companies collecting our data. So really nothing new.

Personally I want to use the tech more, but I get nervous that it's going to bullshit me/tell me the wrong thing and I'll believe it.

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Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard'

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I "bought" this game when I was in high school. I've graduated high school, college, and I've been in the workforce for 7 years. Still no game.

So yes, they should figure out this game is going to be, set a launch date, and work towards that schedule. This forever-in-development thing they have going on is ridiculous.

Edit: Alright, it's not fair to say "still no game." There is a game you can download and play, but the question I have is does it have all the bells and whistles you expect from a complete game, or is it a technical demo with some game features? See my other comment in this comment chain for why my opinion is what it is.

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a cool guide to diets

For those interested, science vs is a great podcast where they review the latest research studies and interview scientists publishing papers about various topics, with all their sources cited.

They have a few weight loss/diet episodes, and while everyone here is correct about how different food has different impacts on the body, it seems like science always concludes that losing weight comes from eating less food no matter the diet.

So while this post may be oversimplified, if your goal is just to lose weight, it's not wrong. Maybe not healthy, but not wrong.

The podcast is targeted at the layman, so it's not just boring academics talking about things, check it out.