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- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 12 hours ago:
The reputation carried them for a while because they still sell older games, plus the occasional good game.
- Comment on YSK that in 1994, Ukraine voluntarily gave up nuclear weapons. Europe and the United States promised they would defend Ukraine if it was ever threatened. 3 days ago:
Maybe English isn’t their first luggage.
- Comment on YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header 2 weeks ago:
Why is anyone relying on reactions for anything important and/or time sensitive?
Also, even if you’re not getting your reaction summary email timely, you can look at the email you sent and see the reactions.
Also also, if I am scheduling something first thing and it’s late in the work day, I’m messaging the key people. To do otherwise seems like bad planning/choice making/trying to get out of meeting at that time. Alternatively, I would just send the invite as the first contact. At 8:59, if the key people hadn’t responded, cancel with the message, not everyone was able to meet. How about this date and time?
- Comment on YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header 2 weeks ago:
I also have a customer service requirement in my performance evaluation that says something about responding to emails within a fairly small amount of time. This reaction counts. So, yeah, everything that doesn’t require a real response gets a 👍 or a 🎉. I’m not missing an opportunity to get a raise or getting a quality improvement plan for something ridiculous like that.
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 5 weeks ago:
Well, you just start like most anything, I guess. I talk to them. A commercial comes on and I say why I don’t think it’s good to listen to. I talk about them targeting children, why that’s a problem, normalizing unhealthy things, predatory practices for poor/uneducated/whatever, and so on. I point out specific wording or presentation that makes it problematic and explain it. They probably don’t understand most of it yet, but the way I look at it, I’m planting seeds that’ll make more sense when they’re ready for it.
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 5 weeks ago:
How depressing.
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 5 weeks ago:
Not by me! I work my 40 and the rest goes my family. I’m lucky I can get by with 40.
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 5 weeks ago:
I usually let them go for me out of laziness, but I mute them for my family to spare them the exposure. I also regularly discuss the problems with the way things are advertised with my kids so that they won’t get sucked in by them. Crazy world. Hard to avoid adverts in the U.S.
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- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 1 month ago:
They can sting, but they (anecdotally) sting less readily than some other species of wasps. I’ve been around them all my life and never have been stung. But, I’ve never intentionally messed with them. On the other hand, I’ve been stung by a couple other species that were far less patient with my presence in their general area.
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 1 month ago:
If I am understanding the chart here correctly, bees are not a type of wasp. Bees, wasps, ants, and sawflies are all Hymenopterans, but distinct from each other.
- Comment on Nothing to see here. Just a pine cone. 1 month ago:
No, they let them fall to their doom.
- Comment on Nothing to see here. Just a pine cone. 1 month ago:
How is parasitism any worse than straight up eating something else? Also, house cats kill for fun. Should they go extinct?
- Comment on Added LED's to a clear bag 2 months ago:
Could you stitch a pocket on the back? When you aren’t using it, the remote can be turned around or inserted upside down so you don’t accidentally hit the buttons and change the color.
- Comment on well? 3 months ago:
So, dark matter and energy is the Universe’s theorized version of the Kelevin (from The Office).
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 3 months ago:
Sure, but what did they expect you to do before making that change.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 3 months ago:
So, how do you power it down?
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 4 months ago:
Wasn’t the issue with Indominus rex that the dinosaur tricked them into thinking it was gone and they left the door open, like idiots? Definitely some things in those movies are engineering issues, but it mostly was a problem because there were multiple points of failure in the system. This is the point I make about my work. My department catches behavior problems from reports, discussions, interviews, and providing technical assistance. We do tons of work regularly and there are overlapping ways to catch the same problem. When my department is given more work and no new staff, they can’t stay on top of everything. They still catch things because the work they are able to do usual catches one of the multiple opportunities. With enough workload added on eventually you end up missing something. When the stakes are life and death, you have multiple layers of protection programmed into the system.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 4 months ago:
And your cats would eat you if they could. I’ve had cats gnaw on my fingers and toes, like they were seeing if that would work. Cats are actually worse than dinosaurs, and modern birds, and reptiles, because they usually stop killing when they’re full.
- Comment on Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data 4 months ago:
I’ve had my Pixel 5 since around the time the 6 came out. The battery life isn’t great, but I can get by just fine. Maybe Samsung phone batteries are better, but before this I had a Samsung Galaxy. The battery on that was no better. I know this is anecdotal, but I don’t plan to switch when my 5 croaks.
- Comment on Menstrual tracking app data is a ‘gold mine’ for advertisers that risks women’s safety – report 5 months ago:
You need to teach me this skill. Any excuse to get frisky with my wife.
- Comment on Wolf Reboot 6 months ago:
The wolves were supposed to be the bouncers at the hip new club “Yellow Stone” and they were shirking their duties and started working at a different club called “The Underworld.” Because they weren’t there to stop those horny bastards, they fucked all those trees. It’s called wood for a reason, amirite? /s
- Comment on Your majesty 6 months ago:
The stale bread is fine for expansion. It’s the expansion into edible bread that annoys me.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case 6 months ago:
I’m with you. For the record, I was not advising people to act unethically, just surprised he wasn’t better at it.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case 6 months ago:
He’s smart, but not wise. When you don’t know everything and don’t know what you don’t know, you act carefully. When it comes to the law, you should be extra careful and he should have had attorneys that advised him again putting this shit in writing.
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 7 months ago:
A right she’s happy to not extend to our country’s children.
- Comment on YSK there's a web page where the defense team of Luigi Mangione shares updates about his case and dispels misinformation. 8 months ago:
I appreciate that you clarified. The c/whatevercommunityhere makes more sense now. Never gave it a thought prior.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online 8 months ago:
I’m guessing they said this to make ICE waste resources going after them. Of course, Trump wants to be able to deport citizens, too.
- Comment on sampling bias 11 months ago:
It’s also been shown that people often are bad a reporting accurately. So, your results may not be accurate just from that.
- Comment on just a little 11 months ago:
Also applicable to RFK, Jr.