Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.
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Become a dog. They’re the happiest people I know.
“Tell me you work in America without telling me you work in America”
Big orders for single people, especially for stuff like curry, pizza and chinese, could just mean they’re buying several meals at once and are going to freeze it for later on. Think of it as meal prepping without having to cook.
Everything is political, and South Park has been one of the most political popular shows. I guess he means it didn’t explicitly feature politicians as much.
You think genocide has only existed for two years?
Don’t be salty. We English invented the damn thing and, listening to some of us talk, I doubt we’d score near the top either.
This isn’t new.
The realisation as you go through life that things just aren’t as good as they should be is hard. The more you learn, the more you are exposed. What is new, perhaps, is that the scale of bullshit is bigger and the spread of it more actively pushed than before.
How to cope? Damned if I know. I just try to shut it out as much as possible.
(BTW, your colleague may just be exhausted with change, or demoralised or depressed themselves. It’s hard not to judge people when you see the answer so clearly, but it’s a trueism that everyone walks their own path and you just don’t know what’s going on in their life)
Right answer. In fact, the only viable answer.
As a 54 year old who has just had two weeks of agony because he forgot his age and tried to deadlift a 225kg motorbike by himself, I’m going to skip this one because I clearly haven’t learned anything.
I think what you’re looking for is known as kiosk software. Basically a locked down browser that has limited or zero user interaction possible.
Or by deliberately breaking DNS on that host. Add the entries you want to allow to /etc/hosts and not supply any upstream DNS servers. (Change of needing maintenance if those sites change IP)
“That’s a great question!” </ai>
The truth is, we don’t need AI to have misinformation, and AI is not the biggest problem in the current post-truth society. There has been a war going on globally in undermining truth for a long time. The old saying, “The first casualty in war is truth” is invalid now, because truth is no longer relevant and lies are weaponised like never before in history. People don’t want to be certain of something, their first reaction to news is to react at a deep and emotional level and the science of misinformation is highly refined and successful in making most people react in a certain way. It takes effort and training not to do that, and most of us can’t.
Journalists have been warning us about this for decades but integrity costs money, and that funding has been under attack too. It’s pretty depressing whichever way you look at it.
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I think this is the most downvoted thing I’ve seen on Lemmy.
Good show, chaps!
One of the interesting things about surveys is you only learn about the sort of people who complete surveys.
Thanks for the full and reasoned explanation.
I do agree there is nuance, and it is very difficult to balance these things when there is often not a great choice about who ultimately ends up with your money.
cancelled Prime in 2025 to boycott USA
Costco for local cucumbers, milk and cereal,
So Amazon bad, Costco good? Both huge American based multinationals, no?
Yes, I maybe misremembered the title. I couldn’t find it in a quick search and it’s up in the loft in a box somewhere.
A book. Teach yourself Perl in 30 days. (Edit - may have been 21 days)
I bought it around 25-30 years ago. I have dyslexia and autism and have had problems learning from books in the past, but something about the way that was written just clicked for me.
It allowed me to write some pretty cool software, including a huge system that ran a large animal charity for a very long time, tons of automation software and scripts, and several full webuis. Indirectly it led me to a new career where I write perl every day.
(I can write in many other languages now, but that was the keystone of everything for me)
Thanks for the PSA, genuinely. Have paused updates for now for caution. Hopefully it’s nothing.
(If installed via play, open app in play store, hit three dots and untick “Enable auto updates”)