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  • ScrivenerX@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlDefediverse
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    It’s worse than just that. They argue that acknowledgement of Stalin’s atrocities is Holocaust denial.

    They are so scared and insecure they will lash out against anything that slightly challenges their beliefs. If they post sources it will be misreadings of fringe groups, or conveniently ignoring facts. Like how they believe tiananmen square wasn’t a big deal because the China killed about 300 people a mile away. Or how Cuba is a utopia even though it’s citizens chose to get run over by the coast guard instead of living there.


  • He said it was blown out of proportion, don’t put words in his mouth.

    There were literal TV spots on whether or not planes will drop from the sky. The threat was overblown.

    Lots of people did tons of work to keep systems online, but even if they all failed the end results wouldn’t have been that bad. Money would be lost, but loss of life due to Y2K would be exceedingly rare.


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    1 year ago

    I think more convenient and user friendly is a bit of a stretch.

    My wife gets confused by the remote and different profiles. My parents needed me to explain how to use Netflix more than once. Saying going to your PC and finding a torrent is convenient and user friendly isn’t true. But the point that having to search where to stream a particular movie or show isn’t user friendly is also true.


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    This is a lousy article rehashing an article behind a paywall.

    The cost they have is $87 a month. There is so much that’s confusing about this. They don’t specify how many streaming services they are counting in that, but it’s a good guess that is about 5, each at about $17 a month. I feel I have too many streaming services and share accounts with family, and I can stream from about 7, pay for one and watch 1.5. If I couldn’t share accounts, I wouldn’t have the accounts. I pretty much watch star trek and whatever show someone tells me to watch.

    They also don’t specify what $87 a month gets you in cable. Around me that’s about basic cable prices, which is significantly less content presented in a less convenient format and is almost entirely reruns filled to brim with commercials.

    Not only is the article missing key information it also misrepresents the information it has.

    Note: I’m sure people will tell me to pirate everything, but there are reasons to not pirate. And it doesn’t address that this is a poorly written article giving incomplete and incorrect information.





  • I’m not worried.

    The reason SNW is better than DISCO and ENT is that the characters are real and complete. We know exactly what type of person Ortegas is, and seeing her do stuff is exciting because I’m invested in seeing her grow and change.

    Compare that to Detmer from DISCO, I’m not sure what her job is, didn’t know her name for serval seasons and couldn’t tell you a thing about her personality. I don’t care if Detmer lives, dies or grows. She’s a person who exists in the background.

    The hard work of establishing the characters is done. I will be happy to see them go stuff.



  • He asked for a cocktail made out of bleach and ammonia, the bot told him it was poisonous. This isn’t the case of a bot just randomly telling people to make poison, it’s people directly asking the bot to make poison. You can see hints of the bot pushing back in the names, like the “clean breath cocktail”. Someone asked for a cocktail containing bleach, the bot said bleach is for cleaning and shouldn’t be eaten, so the user said it was because of bad breath and they needed a drink to clean their mouth.

    It sounds exactly like a small group of people trying to use the tool inappropriately in order to get “shocking” results.

    Do you get upset when people do exactly what you ask for and warn you that it’s a bad idea?


  • It’s because a huge amount of business is centered around made up things for going to work.

    Things you need to work in an office: suits, dry cleaning for the suits, dress shoes, a car (because public transportation is woefully inadequate for this reason), gas for the car, maintenance for the car, lunch, daycare, a dog walker, you have less time so you are more likely to eat out for dinner, also more likely to hire maids, you are stuck in a commute and radio is awful, so a music subscription, maybe a new phone, and might have to go out for drinks with the coworkers on the way home.

    Staying at home, and much of the country on highly limited income, taught us how much we spend on the “privilege” of work. Everyone is still shocked at the emotional and opportunity cost work had, we’re just starting to realize that most of what it sold to us either isn’t real or isn’t needed.

    If people don’t go back to work a sea of businesses will fail.


  • It is!

    Most companies make BS solutions for fake problems. Not going to the office exposes a large chunk of fake needs.

    Do families really need two cars? If you aren’t commuting every day, probably not.

    Having more free time means people are more likely to cook and clean for themselves. Can’t make money off of that.

    How many suits do you need to own? None! You only owned them because you are supposed to wear them in the office.

    Dry cleaners? No longer a bill.

    Gas? When you aren’t sitting in your cities parking lot of a freeway isn’t bought as often.

    Speaking of parking lots, you aren’t paying for parking anymore.

    Daycare and dog walkers aren’t needed anymore.

    Going up work is expensive and companies want us addicted to these fake expenses.




  • It’s not easy.

    When I feel myself rushing I try to think about why I’m in a rush and what I’ll actually gain. Like maybe rushing through a task will let me play a video game or something, but what does that do? Let’s me relax? Why not relax now and try to enjoy what I’m doing, or at least avoid having to do it twice.