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My guess would be the plot of Fallout New Vegas

That’s when you kill them with magnets /s

At least in Europe, I haven’t seen any with audio

Yeah that shit is more common than people think.

A big part of the business of cloud providers is that most orgs have no idea how to do shit. Their enterprise consultants are also wildly variable in competence.

There was also a large amount of useless bullshit that I needed to cut down since being hired at my current spot, but the amount of containers is actually warranted. We do have that traffic, which is both happy and sad, since while business is booming, I have to deal with this.

I know using work as an example is cheating, but around 1400-1500 to 5000-6000 depending on load throughout the day.

At home it’s 12.

Car heating can be adjusted to decimals usually. So can the heating in my home. The oven can’t, because the chicken doesn’t care if it’s 180 or 181 degrees.

My guess is that the Google org culture breeds people who don’t care about the users of their tech one bit.

Make something that’s fun and interesting for the person making it, release, get promoted, abandon.

It’s the kind of people I tend to avoid hiring, and for a good reason. Google makes pretty much all its money from search ads, and hasn’t innovated on that in decades.

Nah, you had to use all 3. It was 3 connectors for different things.

Our codebase is a mess and I suggested putting “we are not stupid, we just work with Google” into our job ads looking for data engineers proficient with C and JRuby.

I just had someone on my team work with 3 closely related Google data libraries, basically 3 connectors for the same data churning thingy.

One was only compatible with Python, the second was only workable in C, and the third was in fucking JRuby.

The people who would be okay with this already don’t own computers, they go with a phone.

They are complaining about having to pay taxes and having that tax money spent in social services.

Which one do you miss?

Some idiot with too much money is already on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Games

Athletes are adults … and they have a right to do with their body what they wish - my body, my choice; your body, your choice, … And no government, no paternalistic sports federation, should be making those decisions for athletes

Except for living as their gender dictates apparently, as:

According to D’Souza, athletes should also be categorised based on their chromosomal sex.

That said, if I understand this correctly, they are basically making, letting and forcing (select the one you like) trans men to compete in women’s sports.

At least in my area where the rules are the sane, motorbikes just exist outside the law. You park them wherever, but nobody gets in trouble when someone on a motorbike dies.

Not likely, this would get ripped apart on engine start.

For a crash, you need to at least get to the part where you attempt a takeoff.

I don’t see this as that.

My reading is that “I want to touch my GFs butt but I won’t since she’ll get mad, but I really want to”.

Nothing wrong with really wanting to. Maybe don’t call your SO a bitch though.

So are chemical weapons, but police tear gas people all the time.

But Diaper Donnie does what bad people command.

It’s not like Trump has a plan. The people behind him do.

To quote Elon Musk, “we coup whoever we want”.

Naming problems is okay. Do that. Name them. Try to find solutions. That doesn’t make you a doomer.

Telling other people to not be happy, and be engaged without pointing to a specific problem does.

All I’m saying is that Big Tech and AI bots peddle and foment defeatism. Look at climate change propaganda if nothing else.

Yeah, but doomerism doesn’t help engagement.

Doomscrolling and commenting in echo chambers is not engagement, it’s the way the system traps you. Being merry at Christmas, then helping your neighbour and building community so that you can set a mansion on fire together is engagement.

Jokes aside though, let’s say you live in Europe (this is a European platform, so let’s default to that). Here is the way to get engaged: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/

Look at the Stop Killing Games initiative. You can do what that guy did. If you don’t feel that you can shoulder that level of engagement, then just get your ID, go through the list on the website, and sign the petitions you think are worthy. Takes almost zero effort, zero money and it makes a difference since these are legally binding petitions. Tell your friends, coworkers and family too.

Then go find out what political parties are campaigning around you, find one that is closest to your vision of society, and help their activists trudge through the snow to get people out to vote next time. Or if you don’t feel like trudging through snow yourself, just brew a bunch of hot tea and take it out to them to make them feel supported.

Go join an union.

Or go volunteer, or at least donate to an organisation that does something good. Put your time or money into something worthwhile. You can plant a tree or buy a combat drone, depending on your priorities, but everyone is taking donations, and every little bit helps.

You can acknowledge that shit’s fucked, and still be happy in your community. In fact, building and sharing that happiness is the biggest way you can help stop this. The people doing this, and the people supporting them are not happy people, and one of the biggest reasons they are doing this are because they are not happy people.