I would have little respect for a journalist who didn't know how to use an em-dash, so I don't think that proves anything. But I agree that there is a lack of coherent thought throughout, though that's something humans are also fully capable of.
But yeah, fully agree. Never mind that network connection speed is not really the relevant bottleneck for most office situations these days. If Germans are less productive due to technology it's because they still use freaking fax machines over there, not because employees are stuck with five year old smartphones.
It's all over the place. In the middle of the article they suddenly talk about how software updates, modularity and repairability is important so that old devices can be made to keep up with contemporary demands, blaming the fact that this is an issue on big tech.
It seems to be an RSS feed showing this post, which is then bridged back to the fediverse by web.brid.gy, which then posts itself back into the fediverse.
Could this create a recursive loop? Whatever is going on here it looks a bit messed up, but if this post itself makes it back to the RSS feed and then becomes bridged things get messy real quick.
@[email protected] - this might be worth for you guys to be aware of, even though I guess the bridge is technically working as intended.
Then again, it might be easier to make people stop doing something than it is to make them do something mindfully. Doing anything with intent is difficult.
Not that I disagree with you, I'm just afraid it's a lot to ask. I guess that goes for asking people to stop using social media as well though.
Long story short, PornHub was knowingly cooperating with a porn producer operating on the basis of institutionalized rape for years. Lots of women have committed suicide in the wake. The ringleader of the network PornHub cooperated with was recently sentenced to 27 years in prison. I'm of the personal belief that PornHub executives should have been brought in to keep him company—they are as guilty as anyone in this. I really doubt that Girls Do Porn is a unique story in anything else than the fact that it ended up before the courts.
Historically death camps tend to start out as mere camps, but then suddenly they are full of people who are deemed unwanted anyway and keeping them alive is expensive and difficult so why bother.
On its current trajectory there's no US camp that shouldn't be expected to turn into a death camp. And as others have pointed out, thousands "missing" from a huge, poorly managed camp in the middle of a swamp is worrying to say the least.
Americans today are like Germans in the 30s, watching the trains roll by.
What the fuck. Back in my day gooning meant having someone pour alcohol into your mouth, typically from a bladder container such as a wine bag from boxed wine. I have fun memories of gooning with friends in hot tubs. I guess that's a sentence I can't use any more.
Looking at the comments in this thread I'm mostly amazed at how many users have their number of comments in the several thousands. I see you have 1.2K comments on your instance, but only ~300 of them federated over to PieFed.
I had Kbin and Mbin accounts before this one, so my total count of ~900 in this profile is not the complete picture, but it's still fascinating to me how relatively inactive I am compared to the big time posters out there. I'm pretty sure I already spend way too much time on here.
Move to a different area if your current area it’s not pleasurable to you. Find a higher quality group of friends or become someone that can enjoy their own company. I could keep listening, but I’m not going to make this thread too long.
I guess a lot of people people don't have this opportunity because they need to work boring jobs in order to feed themselves. They should be plotting a revolution, but instead are exhausted by work and get pacified by brainless entertainment the few hours they are not either working or sleeping.
For whoever can afford freedom there's plenty of things to do in the world, yet a bunch of them end up bored anyway. I agree that they could often escape their boredom if they were braver.
I have tried to buy good laptops in the past (ThinkPads) and have been profoundly disappointed, part of the appeal of the Framework for me was that I could choose myself exactly what I wanted from my laptop. And I really couldn't be happier with the hardware - build quality and everything is really great, and a completely different league from machines I have wasted money on in the past even though I tried my best to do my research.
It's possible I should have tried System76 or Tuxedo, but I am really very happy with my Framework. Don't think it makes sense to say it's worse than the competition. But of course, a small company + repairability is reflected in the price.
I write scientific articles with inline R code in Latex (using knitr), so I need syntax highlighting that jumps between two different languages within the document as well as spell checking and advanced (non AI) grammar tools for the text documents. Also I want something that looks kinda minimalistic and neat as a writing interface - there is more writing than coding involved.
I'm sure there's some wizard somewhere who can do everything I need in Emacs, but I'm not terribly sophisticated. I just want something that works. Sadly, as much as I try to avoid anything Microsoft, VS Codium is the only thing I've found that fits my needs in a good way.
There's a similar weird thing going on just north of Trondheim in the middle of Norway (and the middle of nowhere, really). I have no idea what it's about.
@[email protected] (not sure if Mastodon mentions work from PieFed)
Confirmed—only journalists would have the audacity to place spaces around an otherwise fine em-dash.