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You don’t have to actually lick it, you can just imagine

Shouldn’t be called an adaptation, really. They only dressed it up a tiny bit as Asimov for marketing reasons

The Hobbit. Like, all of it

Bad example, reddit blackouts did work. People left

I’m not doing the profile picture thing, sorry. It’s stupid and forces me to commit to one issue at a time.

Instead, I’ll put a clippy in the replies when relevant.

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You will have more parties. Internal party democracy is not that important then

Proportional representation is the way. X% of the vote means X% of seats, no shenanigans

git gud

If they hadn’t killed RiF client, I’d still be there.

Germany is not all of Europe, nor are Orban/Meloni/LePen/Nawrocki

Much less “trying to be the funniest person in the room” energy

Not a right winger though. I hope he’s a gateway drug for right wingers to some actual human empathy

What the fuck. She’s phenomenal.

Climate protesters in Britain got years in jail for even planning to peacefully protest on a motorway. Fascism is already here, folks. And fuck The Sun

Sometimes, but I have to make time. So I think in gaming sessions of 30 minutes to a few hours at most, depending on how much time I have. Then maybe I can’t play for a week.

This means it’s quite hard to pick what I want to play. Grand strategy or Civ is out for me, takes too long. Long campaign games I never even start. Often I end up with the same few staples like CS2, or a digital board game against AI. Lately I’ve been enjoying Balatro a lot

“Have you tried our new layout?”
“Did you know you now can…?”
“We’ve hidden this from you, but don’t worry! Click here to see them”
“News: We’re launching a new product!”
“Looking for X? It is now here!”
“We upgraded you to the new view. Revert to the old view?”
“Enable integration with (our other product) for an enhanced experience”
“You may not have permission to view what used to be on this page”
“Take a tour”
“How are you liking the new settings screen?”
“You will be automatically moved to the new X, no need to do anything”

Meeting requests tracking, oh my god. It’s a great feature but it’s got so many quirks.

Once you decline a meeting, it’s gone for good in your calendar. If you accidentally declined, you need to ask for another invite. More commonly, plans changed and now you can’t attend when you could have because you forgot all about it.

You can’t decline important meetings and still see them in your calendar, so people abuse ‘tentative’ as ‘I want to know when this meeting takes place but I won’t attend myself’

Can’t organize a meeting and then don’t attend yourself. Impossible. Neither can you transfer ownership when you’re going on holiday for example, so people are stuck with meeting requests nobody can change

Good luck getting a long series of meetings accepted by a meeting room. Every single instance must be available, that’s annoying but makes sense. You can cancel or move individual instances until the meeting room accepts it, but everyone gets spammed with invites.

After you made all manual changes and the meeting room finally accepted it, if you make any changes to the series, everything is reset and the manual adjustments starts all over

If you have to move one or two specific instances to a different room, you can’t! You can move in time or cancel an instance, but using the next available room is not possible. Both rooms will decline

Attention span is so, so short now. Caught my kid playing Fortnite, then alt-tab to YouTube Shorts when they got killed. For like 10 seconds of downtime to respawn. Atrocious!

Technically fine explanation but I’d add that it’s actually not less effort to be compliant, they would just have to stop fucking tracking their visitors and they don’t want to. Problem is surveillance capitalism ruining our internet, not regions having privacy laws protecting their citizens

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