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jtrek

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  • What is something that most people normally do that you find weird?

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  • Watch YouTube and similar video. If I want to know something, I'd rather read something for 5 minutes than watch something for 15. Throw some illustrations or gifs in there if you need.

    If I want to be entertained, I have many games and books. Or Lemmy to fuck around on.

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  • I think a lot about the time I saw two cops park in a fire lane in order to go to a Dunkin donuts. Was like watching a political cartoon in real life.

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    Gabe Newell Says Steam Sales Are the Secret Behind Steam’s Success

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  • "secret"?

    Yeah , if consoles were a good financial deal maybe I'd buy them. They're not. Steam is good value for the money.

  • Missed call

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  • If I was magically in charge, I would make it so if you got an unwanted text or call you report it and the phone company has to pay you like $10.

    They don't deal with this problem because they only care about profit.

  • Linkedin has replaced job search function with AI chat

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  • They're doing this instead of just making regular search decent.

    I just want to see jobs that use python. Stop showing me C#.

    Microsoft should be split up

  • We need a word for "literally" that doesn't also mean "not literally"

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  • "Exactly". "Truly". "Literally, in the traditional sense not the post modern sense where it means emphatically or figuratively"

  • Second commandment idol worship

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  • . I’m a bit surprised the Christian following hasn’t gone there.

    Many Christians are theologically incompetent. They don't know their scripture. They just like feeling good.

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    Rising Fuel Prices Are Making Return‑to‑Office Mandates Harder to Defend

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  • People mandating return to office are climate criminals, all. They should be sentenced to picking up litter and other community service for the rest of their lives.

  • Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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  • It's one of those self fueling problems. Businesses post on Instagram because people go there, and people go there in part because that's where they found out about businesses doing stuff.

    Better options are possible, but the big money is backing this hell. Less money to be made from RSS feeds , web rings, and email newsletters.

    I don't use any social media other than this. I find out about bands I like playing from their email lists or bandsintown. I'm on a couple "things happening in the city" email newsletters. It doesn't demand my attention.

  • Meet the Americans who choose to live without a car in the US: ‘It takes some doing’

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  • Living without a car in NYC is pretty great. That's whole categories of expenses I don't have.

    Took the train last night to an event, walked to a nearby bar, walked to get some pizza, took the bus home. Easy-peasy.

    Someone in the friend group took a car (Lyft) home, but I can't imagine wanting to spend like $30 to save maybe 20 minutes in that situation.

  • Our cities are choked by cars – here’s how experts would fix them

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  • In general, you need to make the right thing to do easy and the bad thing to do hard.

    If taking the bus was fast and free, and driving meant you had to file a request to get a day license and drive no faster than 25mph, people wouldn't drive so much.

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  • Unfortunately, laws only matter when they're enforced and people have equal access. It's easier to management to just break the law and, in the unlikely event someone challenges it, deal with it using their vast resources.

    That's why I think the penalities for anti labor actions should be capital (sorry, pun). If you do anything to fuck with labor, your life should be ruined. Assets seized, lifetime prohibition of management roles.

  • Gruleammar

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  • "steal higher" took me a couple reads. Steal doesn't sound like "still" in whatever accent I speak.

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  • I think a lot about how one place I worked at, when people started talking salaries, Management said that was a fireable offense.

    Personally I think everyone involved in saying that should have been barred from management roles for life.

    But because most of the people working there were in their early 20s, with no power alone and no organization, they went along with it.

    Some years later the company build a salary comparison tool on their website.

  • Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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  • I really would like to somehow convince more people to adopt the idea that, like, Facebook and friends are run by bad people and you can choose not to use their products. Just stop. Find another way. Be uncomfortable for a little while.

    But people aren't up to the challenge.

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    Checkmate

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  • I remember talking to this one woman who was like "I don't get polyamory and non-monogamy. Why don't you just cheat?"

    Because I have standards and care about other people, which seems not to be true for many people.

  • Sony PS5 sales drop 46%, even before recent price increase

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  • I'm reminded of that post that showed all the people in the "boycott cod" group playing call of duty.

    The bulk of video game players seem to be feckless marshmallow eaters.

  • Sony PS5 sales drop 46%, even before recent price increase

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  • I'm happy with my linux machine. Consoles would have to be a lot cheaper to be tempting. Or I'd have to make a lot more money.

  • AI layoffs backfire as cutting staff doesn't cut it, firms warned

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  • Yep. Place I'm at is in some sort of "hiring freeze". They're not replacing people who left. They also told the many (probably not strictly legal) contractors that they won't be renewing them. It's absurd.