But the fact that a lot of editors fight about such issues means that it ends up being somewhat neutral, no?
This seems to be a general societal problem rather than a generational problem. And yes, it's because of echo chambers.
When I was younger, people who were batshit crazy would have their craziest instincts checked by people around them. Now, they go online and find other batshit crazy people.
How do I do this?
Memes only matter if you're 14, unfortunately. Based on the number of comments and users, I'd say lemmyworld is the default.
Using olive oil for sunbathing sounds like some sort of slow oven roast recipe.
The next month or so will be the true test. Monthly stats up till now look good, but that's because there was an active push factor (most of the reddit exodus happened in the last month). There will probably be a slow decline over the next month as people who signed up lose interest. The steepness of the decline will determine lemmy's future.
Well, Threads is at least aiming to do that and integrate with Mastodon, but the group mind has decided that this is bad.
I'm not part of that group mind, but I'm cynical that they will federate. From a business standpoint it doesn't benefit them, so I'm betting it's just a buzzword they're using.
"No, where do you live?!"
"On the Internet."
Wow. The government chose to resign because they couldn't agree on a deal?
Our parents and grandparents' generation fought so hard in the 50s, unionised and organised strikes, to end this despicable practice.
70 years on we've found ourselves under the same sort of economic slavery!
These companies are just pushing the problem to 5 years later, when all the elderly physically can't work anymore.
It's true. I see more and more elderly working around me, when they should be living off their pensions.
Some people are just twisted.
Apple's philosophy has always been to make things as easy as possible for users, but only if the users agree to pay through the nose. That's fine, but they also actively stop anyone from trying to do anything outside the limited number of actions they consider acceptable. It's a good thing the EU is trying to stop that.
Good for you. Some of these board members are retirees who try and get a sense of power from policing rules unnecessarily. I hope I have better things to do with my time when I get old.
Don't want to listen to the information I have to tell you? Your loss.
Here's a shorter story of malicious compliance, again from when I was working front desk at a value/budget motel.
After working at a front desk for a while, you get used to all kinds of guest interactions and don't take it to heart. Some guests are more talkative, some are just curt. I never get bothered either way. I know some people came off a long drive and just want to sleep, and don't particularly want to talk to me, that's fine.
During check-in, I have a standard script that I use for every guest. It depends on the hotel, but it's always something like "Here's 2 copies of the room key, turn the key clockwise, it sticks a little so wiggle it a bit. Your room is on the left/right of this corridor. The ice machine is down that corridor. Breakfast is available from 7am-10am at the lobby, check-out time is 11am. You can adjust the heat in your room using the knob on the wall, but please don't leave the windows open while running the heat."
I usually say all that while holding on to
We used to look up to our teachers as role models. It is sad what the education system has become.
"Don't touch my bag!" OK, I'll do exactly that!
Thanks for building up this community here! I used to love reading it on reddit. I have a story from many years ago, I'm not a good storyteller but I'll try!
I used to work in a motel. Some guests are chatty, some are just curt. That's fine, some people came off a long drive and just want to sleep, I completely understand. But some people were just plain rude for no good reason.
I was doing an overnight shift when a man came to check in. I could already tell he wasn't nice by the way he threw his ID on the counter. When I was processing his reservation, he was tapping his fingers on the counter constantly. His assigned room happened to be pretty far away from the main lobby. Once I gave him his keycard, he took a look at the room and said "this room is too far away. I want a room that's nearer.
I checked the system, but we were pretty full up that night and there wasn't anything closer, not even if I cleared him for an upgrade. I told him we had no rooms that were closer, and he sta