Yggstyle

I vaguely remember a dystopian book that described that exact thing as the protagonist thinking he was looking at an odd flag on the front of the truck until he realized what it was. Can’t remember what the book was though 😔

*** everyone but the lobbyists liked that ***

Take what you can … 🏴‍☠️

That’s some interesting insight - thanks 👍

I’ve done some sm work but as repairs and upgrades … it definitely was /easier/ to remove and replace: that was for sure. I’m unclear on if it ultimately had a higher real world failure rate though.

Personally I’m hopeful that their reasoning for this is increasing the quality of what does hit shelves even if there is a higher on line failure rate. They can’t always be the cheapest (and recently haven’t been) but if they can double down on “It just works” for a slightly higher price… I’m here for it and I imagine other makers likely will be as well.

So if I’m reading that right - higher failure rate on the line but those that passed I’d imagine have a higher rate of success?

Came in expecting league: was not disappointed. Welcome fam- Never a better time to join the club.

I dropped it for similar reasons… initially I got tired of fighting with devs over false flags on vm usage. Never lost a case but it seriously was just the stupidest hoop to jump through.

Hah. I should have refreshed. I just wrote a small novel theorizing you might have been making that exact point. Cheeky ;) I found it amusing - even if the point of it got buried (but made for another great example…)

Food for thought: as polarizing as this statement is - it’s not all that different from the cheap (generalizing) shot at OP for not having a broad enough statement.

I’m uncertain if that’s what @[email protected] was going for … but regardless: either by the statement itself or by the apparent downvote pummeling he got - demonstrates perfectly that nobody likes the feeling of getting singled out simply because of their grouping.

It’s almost always a dick move. Unless the group in question is a hate group or nazis… because fuck them. Topically - this behavior was (and is) championed by aforementioned groups.

Put simply: we can do better. Better than reddit at least, right?

It’s pedantic. At best because someone wants to virtue signal by tilting at windmills. At worst It’s a bad faith argument being made to isolate someone. In both cases it’s shite behavior:

An example would be assailing someone for not liking cookies when they simply said they enjoy cake. This tactic was originally used by trolls and hate groups to splinter larger social groups support structure and/or put people on the backfoot… It’s become so commonplace people will do it just because the opportunity presents itself. Because someone else will if they don’t, anyway. Might as well get the glory of taking someone down a peg.

It’s pathetic. Op made an affirmative statement about something they believed in and was promptly shit on by some cunt who brought nothing meaningful to the table themselves. What’s worse is the troll initially was getting nothing but positive reinforcement so they could go and do it again. Are we still enjoying all the polarizing “LOL [insert group] BAD!” It really brings the community together.

You don’t need to engage every person doing that shit… but for fucks sake stop upvoting it and reinforcing the behavior.

Keep calm and … what a magnificent shirt. I was always a fan of the taller of the Mario bros. The man not only is an entertainer - but clearly has inspired taste.

EA games with command and conquer and now this. The world surely is coming to an end.

Odd. In my experience I have seen many people refer to their home country in that way. Do you refer to your country differently? Perhaps instead of country if OP said here that would have left the pedants less triggered. I digress. Just because you view something as commonplace - does not automatically make it the rule… much less actually reality.

Agreed. Especially in times like these - having a free and open source of information is incredibly important.

While, surely, OP was speaking English - given the world state why did you immediately jump to the conclusion that the country being referred to was the US? Yes - the statement wasn’t broad enough to perhaps include you but it wasn’t narrow or hateful in its intent. People (broad statement, including you) need to maybe find some chill and perhaps look for common ground rather than constantly being pedantic cunts. There were a variety of ways to approach that statement without being a twat… so kudos for just going for it - most people would have more tact.

To be completely fair the American government currently does this with inflation, among other things. Actually inflationary item? Whoops we removed it from the calculation. All good here, boss. Sweeping something you don’t want to account for “under the rug” is practically normalized in this government. It isn’t right- obviously… but this isn’t really shocking either.

The elephant? Where? In this room?! We don’t talk about that.

I think the phrase they are seeking is signal to noise. The bots make noise but bury the signal making it harder to actually find and communicate with others who are actually engaging. Weird how that works.

Accidentally misplaced.

See it’s almost whimsical. Not scary at all.

Eyes front and center folks - wouldn’t want to make them think you’re thinking. Only terrorists would be thinking.

100%

Germany is providing an open source solution to gsuite (which I haven’t looked at yet) but am told it’s pretty good. More open and more choice is great.

were moderately smart

This is mostly the problem in a lot of cases. A lot of companies don’t pay you to be smart… they pay you to be “efficient” which normally means cheap.

Good and skilled people may be in a lot of these companies… but their hands may be tied in terms of choices.