BananaTrifleViolin

If I was laid off by a company I wouldn’t go back unless I had no other choice. If a company didn’t see your value previously and now it supposedly does, what is to say it will not change again in the future and fire you again? A lot of companies do a last-in first-out approach and are cyclical about hiring and firing to please shareholders. That’s where these tech companies are at now.

Also who wants the potential of a CV where you were laid off twice by the same company? It’d be like them taking your CV and wiping their arse with it before handing to back to you as security escorts you out of the building.

Don’t go backwards, keep moving forward.

This is the problem with believing too much in models. A model can show you anything you want - it’s output is only as good as the parameters and algorithms you set it.

Modelling the climate in the next 50-100 years is already extremely difficult and fraught with inaccuracies but we have lots of models and data to extrapolate from, so we do have a crude idea where we’re going. But we can’t model next years weather with accuracy, just the base trend. Crucially important warning for climate change but limited otherwise.

Modelling out to 250 million years is basically a crock of shit. The tectonic movements are predictable and gross predictions that a pangea arrangement might be warmer may have some validity but modelling the climate and evolution and status of mammals is pure conjecture.

Good thing about modelling that far is you will never have see you model’s accuracy being tested. Publish a paper, play into current fears around climate change with an irrelevant prediction about 250million years away, get an article published in the New York times and egos massaged all round.

To be fair I think Polygon have misunderstood the email.

Calling it “second run Stadia PC RPG” implies Microsoft thought it was going to launch as a Stadia exclusive for it’s first run. This was back in 2020 when Stadia was still a thing, and trying to sign up exclusives.

That doesn’t mean Microsoft underestimated it, but that it thought it’d already have had a run on Stadia which would make it less likely to be an important title for Microsoft.

It’s called confabulation, and it’s not “normal” aging, it’s a sign of memory loss. Dementia is a common cause.

I find it staggering that the democratic party are going with him as their presidential candidate. Feels like a mix of the sunken cost fallacy and a fear of turning away from someone who is currently beating Trump in the polls.

Arguably Trump confabulates too but it gets dismissed as he’s been a liar for so long no one notices.

2024 is looking like an election with two elderly men with dementia vying for the whitehouse, and another one as senate leader. That’s how extreme US politics has become - you could put up a literal monkey now and as long as he’s in the right party he would get nearly 1/2 the vote.

It’s all a sign of how dangerously broken the US electoral system is.

I dunno, I think it’s a game somewhat damned by faint praise. I hear “It’s good, not great” a lot and I get it. If you like Skyrim you will like Starfield. But I’d say the big achievement is to scale up a game like Skyrim into such a big playspace.

It’s certainly good quality in terms of the look and what they’ve technically achieved. But the actual gameplay isn’t that far away from what they did in Skyrim and Fallout. I get it - if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it - but to be honest it feels a little dated. And No Man’s Sky does alot of the non-RPG elements better.

It’s been a strong year for games; and look at Baldur’s Gate 3 - that game actually pushed forward narrative game play.

Starfield is huge and interesting, but ultimately a bit samey. I think the “ocean wide, inch deep” is too far and unfair but the basic concept kinda applies in a crude way. Baldur’s Gate 3 is smaller in scope but so much richer and varied. Time was Bethesda was the undisputed king of RPGs, but I think CDProject Red supassed them with the story telling in Witcher 3 (and then fell back with Cyberpunk 2077) and now Larian have supassed both with Baldur’s Gate 3.

It’s a good game, but it’s impact is dimmed a bit by what else has come. It’ll make a ton of money and probably be around for years, but it doesn’t feel the same huge leap forward as when Skyrim came out. But hey, hard act to follow to be fair.

I get where you’re coming from but I think you’re overstating the impact in this day and age. If this had been 1995 it’d be a big deal. Now it’s rediculously easy to install any alternative you like for free.

Libre Office is an entire free fully features office suite.

I’m less bothered about removing WordPad than I am about Microsoft advertising and pre-installing it’s products in Windows - they force Edge on people, they push OneDrive and preinstall a preview of Office. That’s the real problem - not losing WordPad.

At one point Anti-Trust / Anti-monopoly regulators globally punished Microsoft for pushing Internet Explorer to consumers and for a long time in Europe had to offer a choice of Browsers to download on new Windows installs. Now it’s allowed to get away with abusing it’s dominant position to force it’s products on consumers.

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I’m torn on that, it comes down to motive. If it was an accident then she shouldn’t be going to jail at all. If it was deliberate as contended - she was charged with murder after all - then it’s shocking and strays into pathological territory - in which case should she ever be released?

I think the father would be right if it had been involuntary manslaughter but to be charged with murder for a car crash is highly unusual. Having said that it’s possible this was an inappropriate charge and judgement and might get overturned on appeal.

Strange case.

Sorry but there is a lot of bizarre takes in this thread. I work in healthcare - the issue here is she LEFT you during a procedure to deal with another patient after comencing your procedure. What!? What other patient - she had already started a procedure on you and had anaethetised you and then left the room? And then by the time she came back and continued the procedure she got to the point where she couldn’t provide any more anaesthetic?

The whole thing sounds like a mess. If for example she is running multiple rooms at the same time then that is frankly bad practice and greed.

Your friend’s feedback that you “made the dentist feel threatened” is also bizarre. You’re the one in the dentist chair, mouth open while someone is approaching your with drills and metal work. If she felt “threatened” then she should have abandoned the procedure completely - not leave and come back. Patients can be very anxious and tense - thats normal and either you know how to deal with it or you don’t. As a health care professional on the occasions you can’t deal with it, then you don’t proceed - stop, make it safe and get someone else to do it. This was an elective procedure to fix a crown - why on earth would she then proceed with a procedure after having felt “threatened” - it doesn’t make sense.

That dental practice sounds like a joke to be honest. Either your dentist is inappropriately treating multiple patients at the same time or she is indecisive - feeling threatened, walking off for safety but then coming back and completeing the procedure makes no sense and just made everything worse. You’re hardly going to be less tense with this dentist after that experience.

Find another dentist.

Just on the “There are so much socialists/communists around, including Lemmy’s founders. Even the ‘subreddits’ called communities.”

You really need to learn to tolerate and listen to the views of people you disagree with. Just cutting those voices out entirely and not wanting to hear them really is putting yourself into an echo chamber. You are an individual - don’t fall into the trap of thinking you need to belong to a “group” and agree with all the thoughts in that group and disagree with all the thoughts outside that group. It’s important that you are open to being challenged and hearing other peoples world views, even if yours is ultimately unchanged. Otherwise you’ll just be a sheep thinking how others are directing you to think.

Also, the idea that the word “community” is socialist/communist is the most rediculous thing I’ve read in a while.

An oddity that has been around for a while. It was a fairly simple client on Windows 10 too. We used to use it for my mum to access her Gmail as it was so simple.

Moving from a local client to a Web based client is all about moving windows and it’s software to a cloud based service. For that to work all your data needs to be remote in the cloud too. This is about what is good for Microsoft, not it’s users.

So a few options (I’m on kbin but similar):

• move to an instance where the users aren’t signed up to those communities (remember All is not the whole fediverse, All is just the content that is local to that instance plus that users on your instance have subbed to. On a big instance you will see a lot in all)
• block individual communities or entire instances. I have been blocking the numerous meme communities for example which tidies up my All feed, but it is tedious as there are so many
• browse Lemmy or Kbin using Subbed instead of All or Local views. On kbin you can do that by going to /sub, clicking the link on the toolbar or setting it as your default view.
• create your own personal instance of lemmy or kbin and only sign up for content you want on that aerver. You can browse new communities to join via other instances then add it to your instance.

I think you misunderstand what is happening. You’re merely guests in the cats second home, and he’s making sure you’re not misbehaving in his property. That cat is on the make.

Ultimately “live and let live” is all we can ask of anyone. If that is their attitude then they aren’t a bigot. People are expecting too much of other people now - not embracing someone does not make someone a bigot.

Your starting position to me is honestly enough but unfortunately many people are way away from that. As a gay guy, I’d be happy with people just saying “do whatever you want want, just don’t ask me to like it”. The problem is too many people claim that with words but then actually act differently.

Facebook has been stagnant for a while, as they focused on pushing advertising and monetising users. It’s not just “uncool”, it’s broken what made it good in the first place. I left Facebook a few years ago due to it’s enshittification, and it’s very very different to what it was right back at launch. It’s a very similar issue to Reddit’s but just manifesting in a different way.

Meta bought Instagram and Whatsapp to stay ahead of it’s competition, particularly with younger users when it comes to Instagram. It’s increasingly pushing ads on Instragram and trying to monetise users, and at the moment trying to monetise Whatsapp by getting businesses to pay for access via new tools. They’ve already changed terms of services on Whatsapp to the benefit of businesses and Meta, and are trying to merge it in with Facebook and Instagram messaging. On all platforms it is harvesting and selling user data.

Meta’s revenues fell for the first time in 2022, and profits are also down, plus the “metaverse” is not succeeding despite heavy investment. Expect “enshittification” to accelerate as ultimately Meta cares about it’s share price more than anything else, and shareholders in the tech space expect year on year growth. Meta’s pivot to the Metaverse is because the company knows there is not much growth left in it’s core social media products, and also a lot of competition it’s struggling to beat (TikTok for example).

Meta is treading water at best, and it already monetises it’s users and disrespects their privacy and data in ways that people wouldn’t tolerate if they understood what is going on. I honestly wouldn’t hold Meta up as a company that Reddit should look to for good PR.