yeah I’m skeptical, but at the same time I’m sure the people showing up for job interviews in the past few years are less capable of basic first year college shit than they used to be. Heck, these days if you ask a basic data structures question at an interview they’ll go home and meme about how bullshit it is that they even got asked that because algorithms got nothing to do with real programming

Trump had their head of state assassinated, barely a month after illegally kidnapping Venezuela’s head of state. He’s the one choosing to set these new norms.

You say that as though corporations are fucking everything up for their own amusement, rather than in the service of making sure the “regular American” gets their luxuries for cheap.

I have to occasionally remind myself that some awful people go to church for the same reason sick people go to hospital. They can tell there’s something not right.

People seeding obscure shit is what makes the whole thing viable. Keep up the good work.

Remember, they could have easily negotiated license terms that wouldn’t have had this outcome for people who already paid. They chose not to. This wasn’t forced on them unexpectedly.

Also, tipping is a way to legalize paying marginalized groups less. It enables a system where young attractive White people make more money for the same work.

Also, the record high temperature in Singapore (1 degree north of the equator) is 9 degrees Celsius lower (37C) than France’s record (46C).

What’s rarely communicated clearly enough is that “warming” means “more energy”. If it had been called something like “atmospheric energy buildup” from the start, maybe there’d be fewer people saying dumbshit like “so much for global warming” every snowstorm.

Fuck Joanne Rowling in particular, BUT, I don’t think this particular post is a good example given what it’s actually saying…

The astonishing part is how they manage to both be overly heavy-handed on moderation and STILL keep floating a fuckton of racism and other bigotry to the top.

Require an AI SLOP disclosure.

No advertising bot is going to admit to it. The only people for whom failure to jump this hoop will be a blocker, are legit posters.

I don’t run ad block because they’re showing me ads, I run it because creepy fuckers are trying to collect everything I’ve ever done online and store it forever.

many 45s

All 45s. You punched the hole out yourself if you wanted to use it in a jukebox.

Not any more. I had a student not that long ago ask about the metaphor, ended up having to explain to the whole class what physical files and folders were.

Most users outside of Lemmy dgaf about corpos if it saves them having to type in an email address on their phone and get it right and then go to their email and then hit refresh a few times before going back and hitting send again and then checking their spam folder

yeah we’re like three quarters of the way through that Niemöller poem now

Yeah, it did exactly what it said on the tin.

Yeah I’d only barely heard of it, and even then I thought it was just what they were naming the new season of the TV show. Marketing department fucked up.

I see the FUD is still alive to this day.