Icaria @ Icaria @lemmy.world

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Not in the US, but yeah I do know a little Indian warehouse with a pretty extensive selection of stuff. I find myself preferring aluminum just due to the reduced weight, though.

Yeah, it appears to be trying to look legit, but that doesn't tell us much. I guess I could try making a really softball joke about Disco, and if I get a mod go on a childish power-trip over it, that'll solve the mystery.

I needed a new saucepan.

I've now replaced half my kitchen.

Out of curiosity, is this instance run by the same people as r/startrek?

My TF2 played hours is something like 3990, but that's misleading as a lot of that was idling on trade servers, or the game client not closing properly and Steam reporting I was still ingame for hours afterwards.

There's probably 3-4 games I've legit broken 1k hours in.

Speaking of people who start shit for no reason, invent grievances, etc...

Scroll up, the last guy tried your latest tactic already. Insults and comebacks =/= arguments.

Siiiigh, would it help if I said penis? The last time this happened, it happened to be a woman.

And it's pretty obvious when someone starts shit with people on the Internet for no reason, then posts their uglies all over the net, that they've got a pretty juvenile issue with attention-seeking behaviour in general.

What argument? I said insults and comebacks. You've tried very hard to miss the point.

More than once I had someone being an arse to me on reddit, I took a gander at their profile to see what kind of fucko I was dealing with... and it was full of their nudes.

One time it was someone who lived in the same town as me.

Yeah... your insults and comebacks don't hit quite as hard now that I know you're desperate for people to see your vagina.

They're still too much like reddit users.

At some point during his attempted coup, he realised it wasn’t going to work

When was that, exactly? Putin fled, reserve forces were standing by and not fighting Wagner, and he was a day out from an undefended Moscow. Worst case scenario was a protracted civil war, but he still would've lived longer than this.

Honestly, none of this makes sense. The fact that he aborted in the first place makes the idea that he was conspiring with Putin the whole time to flush out disloyal elements within the Russian armed forces seem credible... but then why kill him after? I'm not ruling out the possibility that either this was a genuine accident, or it was another false flag and he and his second in command just faked their own deaths.

I already am.

Most of those staff are going to have no trouble finding new jobs. It's a highly technical and specialised crew, many would already be in demand elsewhere, and a void left by LTT would be quickly filled by other groups producing similar content, who suddenly find themselves in need of more staff. Hell, a lot of former LTT staff would be gobbled up by LTT's own sponsors.

This is a terrible argument whenever there's any public controversies within the private sector. It's not worth thinking about 'the jobs' because that's not how the economy works. If there's fire behind this smoke, and LTT did fold, those left long-term unemployed are probably fewer in number than those who are currently being exploited and mistreated. It's almost always a zero-sum game.

A lot of bullshit work is administrative, jobs that exist to meet regulatory requirements (compliance jobs).

Or contract requirements (eg. sometimes one company will be contracted by another company to produce X amount of Y, then the other company will go bust and have no real need of Y, but the first company still needs to produce a minimum amount of Y for several more years to avoid being in breach of the other company's creditors and get sued, or a specialised worker will be given a 4-year contract on a project that gets cancelled, and it's cheaper to pay him to do nothing than it is to pay him out of his contract early).

Or as a result of a freak accident or screw-up that the company over-corrected on, at which point you're basically being paid out of the marketing budget to perform security- or QA-theatre, or being paid by another company or govt department to confirm that the security/QA-theatre is taking place whilst taking really long lunches.

A lot of the time a business or govt department will be too organisationally complex for anyone to figure out where the bullshit jobs are. You could have 5 departments under you, all of which justify their existence with a bunch of dense jargon, and any one of them could be operationally useless. And if enough time passes without you figuring it out, the personal cost to your career in just playing along will be less than if you admit that you had your bosses pay 12 people for 5 years to push and rubber-stamp papers that could've just been handled by two other departments knowing how to email each other.

It's called lifestyle creep. It's never that you're in a better place today than you were yesterday, it's always that you could be in a better place tomorrow.

And it's both right and wrong. We make ourselves miserable by always wanting more, but also a lot of us have less than we deserve.

I don't understand, what data from other instances is cached, exactly?

And usenet has existed since before the Internet itself, has been used for piracy almost as long, and yet I don't see many concerns there.

Instructions unclear, drank corpse water.

Used to play a lot of games, some sci-fi, some fantasy... was lazy and didn't like having to come up with multiple names. It just kinda stuck.

Reddit became too toxic for me around 2014. That's when they started replacing default subs with shit like r/sports, trying to court the most general audience possible, then forcing everyone to exist in the same space and expecting it to go well.

Same thing happened with Digg. Digg went from tech-news to general-news around 2007... 2008 we hit a US election year and the site became a cesspool. The Diggnation Podcast was hosted by the site's founders, they had to talk about the top 10 digg posts each week... they repeatedly had to feign interest in UFO and Ron Paul stories at that point.

I get the impression not a lot of people were reading, writing, or wiping there even when it was legal.