God Dammit Loch Ness Monster, I ain’t gonna give you no tree fiddy.

At some point, someone is going to figure out George Orwell was actually a time traveler, and he tried to fix things with books. He had to deliver the message that way because if he just shouted in the streets the things that were going to happen, he’d been written off as a madman. Change a few details here and there… and then sell it as “fiction”…

Your assuming that all the details are in the story, and everything said was accurate. Or hell, the story even ever happened and wasn’t made up.

Here’s an example, of people not really connecting the dots when they tell their side of the story. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t0QqrgWVvWw

Also, if a person shows up drunk to an interview, do you think they wouldn’t show up drunk to work? The kitchen is a dangerous place, I’ve personally seen many emergency room visits because someone was careless. And some people aren’t good at accepting “no” as an answer.

Or instead of just immediately playing the bigotry card on some green text…

Person could have walked in and was drunk, or high. Having worked in kitchens way back when I have seen both with great regularity.

Person could have walked in and been immediately inappropriate especially with the front house.

Maybe it was an actual high-end restaurant where it requires somebody to have actual skills,

And? Microtransactions were already standard for Blizzard a long time ago before Microsoft showed up.

All operating systems suck ass. There are problems and issues with all of them. It’s the same argument for programming languages. Now it’s the same argument when it comes to what brand of vehicle Ford or Chevy.

Don’t get hyper focused on a brand, on a label. Simply use what’s best for you and your needs.

Yes, being serious. You… may want to google “dopamine induced addiction”.

And perhaps read this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8638539/

But to quote https://diamondrehabthailand.com/what-is-dopamine-addiction/#4_Food-related_disorders

Certain foods, particularly those high in sugar, fat, and salt, trigger the release of dopamine in the brain’s reward centers, leading to feelings of pleasure and satisfaction. This dopamine-induced pleasure drives individuals to compulsively overeat, perpetuating the cycle of food addiction.

Possible low dopamine levels. Hot chocolate spikes it, so they end up chasing that feeling.

Devil’s advocate perhaps…

I’m assuming the green taxes even remotely real. Maybe the rest of the party was sick of that specific aspect of role play.

It’s far too early to tell. It’s in early development yet. People getting invites and expecting a fully complete, polished game have unrealistic expectations.

Pwsh 7.x works very well in Linux. Haven’t got any snags.

Well that’s fucked.

Are they providing support for the things?

Gives the user far too much control of their machine and you can accomplish a task far to easily.

If AI could replace anyone… it’s those dingbats. I mean, what would you say, in this given example, the CEO does… exactly? Make up random bullshit? AI does that. Write a speech? AI does that. I love how these overpaid people think they can replace the talent but they… they are absolutely required and couldn’t possibly be replaced! Talent and AI can’t buy and enjoy the extra big yacht, or private jets, or over priced cars, or a giant over sized mansion… no you need people for that.

You have to use a Windows desktop at home.

Sincerely,

Barnes & Noble

My car insurance has doubled in less than 8 years. But don’t worry, it has less coverage too! Oh, but I’ll get a teeny tiny discount if I let them install a lowjack!

That guy has never seen AI code before. It regularly gets even simple stuff wrong. Was he especially good is when it gives made up crap. Or it tells you a method or function you can use but doesn’t tell you where it got that. And then you’re like “oh wow I didn’t realize that was available” and then you try it and realize that’s not part of the standard library and you ask it “where did you get that” and it’s like “oh yeah sorry about that I don’t know”.

Again, please stop saying this removes protections for trans/gay.

What do you mean, again? You mean, for the first time? Because either you forgot you never said it or you’re trying to gaslight. I can’t read your mind. You don’t control me, nor anyone else. And do you want me to stop bringing it up because it’s hurting your argument? Should I throw in there too, there’s countries were you can be put to death for being Atheist? Or speaking out against the government. Why is it important for you to out these people or not consider them, because it very much seems like it’s one or the other. Why are you very much against increasing user security/privacy?

That information is already public

It’s sort of public, with steps. It should be, not public.

The blocking scenario is what happens now, you just wouldn’t know they made a new account unless you’re actually able to see it…

Are you new to the internet? That’s not how any of this would work. And I brought games in as an example, hoping to give an example you’d understand, clearly it didn’t.

If votes don’t matter now why not change it to a form where they do matter

Why should they matter? Why do you very clearly want to see what and how everyone votes? Are we going to implement social scores? If you’re upvote count isn’t high enough and your ration isn’t good enough,… hold on wasn’t there a Black Mirror episode with this exact premise?

So, if someone downvotes something, you expect them to defend it… but a simple upvote is perfectly acceptable. Just no, that’s never going to happen. Congrats you re-invented Facebook. Only upvotes and no counter feedback.

I’m genuinely lost as to why you’re not in favor if increasing security for users. I mean, I’ve given some simple examples but there’s honestly way more reasons why we don’t need everyone able to track everyone, to be able to stalk/harass everyone. And “banning” someone will do nothing since anyone who knows that’s a possibility, will just have a shadow account to monitor you.

Agreed. I’ve never liked that it’s already as public as it is. I remember when Lemmy was taking off and there was a discussion and to me it seemed like people were in favor of Lemmy stepping up user security, but seems that never happened. If user security isn’t critical, than the Fediverse is a complete failure and should NOT be used by anyone for any reason.