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9hr ago
I would choose my current career in IT, but without clankers. Setting aside debates about efficacy, if my career turns into prompting clankers I'm going to hate it. I got into this field because I actually like programming, but right now the industry seems to be trying to take that joy away.
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16hr ago
Yeah I think that would be fine too. There were a few people vocally upset about Favre going to the Vikings, but most Packers fans don't give a damn about the Vikings - they aren't the rival team, though they seem to think they are. And even the fans who were upset wouldn't take it out on a Vikings fan who came to town.
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17hr ago
As a lifelong Packers fan, that's really funny to hear. Obviously if you show up to the stadium wearing the opposing team's colors you're going to get a lot of shit talking (as you should, that makes it fun). But as I'm sure you experienced, it's all friendly shit talking and people aren't going to start throwing hands (even if you were wearing Bears gear).
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5d ago
I'm also a native English speaker and had never heard the song before either. I know of the Killers, but only through other songs (Somebody Told Me and When You Were Young). Never heard this one despite its apparent popularity.
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6d ago
I don't give a damn what their lawyers say. It's Legos, and they can go pound sand with their trademark.
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6d ago
Or they only listen to one line and never pay attention to the rest. Such as people playing Born In The USA in attempt to be patriotic, when the entire rest of the song outside the chorus is extremely bitter about the USA.
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9d ago
Sure, but the specific phrasing of "if it's shown on screen, it must be used" is false for TV and movies. We don't expect that if a movie set has a bed in the background, the character will be shown sleeping at some point. Whereas in theater it probably is the case that if a bed is part of the set, it'll be used. The two media just have very different expectations for what is a normal level of background detail on the set versus a deliberate inclusion.
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13d ago
Sure, I know that's why they did it. But that is their own problem, not mine. And when they chose to solve the problem by betraying my trust, I chose to end the business relationship and encourage everyone else I know to do the same. It isn't much, but one should vote with one's wallet IMO.
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13d ago
Sure. But that doesn't make it ok, of course, and I refused to allow them to continue to get my business after that kind of betrayal.
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13d ago
For me, it was the underhanded way they did it. If they introduced a setting and it's off by default, fine whatever. If they turned it on by default but gave copious notice, that's not great but I might have been ok with it. It was the fact that the setting was both on by default and they snuck it in (I found out from a hacker news comment thread) which I found so unacceptable.
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13d ago
Amazingly, Dropbox has never betrayed me over the course of 15 years.
Depends on what you consider a betrayal, I guess. A year or two ago, they added a new setting that (if memory serves) allowed them to train models on your data, and turned it on by default. I considered that a massive betrayal and moved to a self-hosted Nextcloud instance after that. I might move to Proton Drive once they have a Linux client.
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14d ago
Now you have me curious. Why ultimogeniture over primogeniture? Obviously anything is better than gavelkind, but I can't say I've ever had a reason to prefer one heir over another to be the one who inherits.
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16d ago
It's all right. You can hire a spymaster for that!
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16d ago
10 years? Man, time flies. Dicks out, everyone. Ladies of the motte, you'll have to improvise something. I have faith in you.
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16d ago
Sounds like @ToaKraka needs to consult with the Crusader Kings community, all of whom are domain experts in dealing with the problems arising from gavelkind/partition succession. I'm not saying he should plot the murder of his relatives so that they aren't in the way of his demesne consolidation... but I'm not saying he shouldn't do that, either.
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16d ago
Doesn't the globe fact render the direction important? So it sounds like you can pick any direction.
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19d ago
None of those is the claim you originally made, so I'm not going to get dragged to a debate on any of those points. What you said was "generally speaking, blacks behave in an irresponsible and anti-social manner compared to members of other groups". For that to be true, it would require most black people to behave in an irresponsible and anti-social manner (because that is what "generally speaking, (group) behaves" means). To show that a group has higher rates of such behavior does not suffice for proving that most members of the group have that behavior.
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19d ago
Even the FBI crime statistics, by themselves, aren't enough to support the original claim. The claim was that (paraphrasing a bit) you can have guns, black people, or a society without much violence, pick two. For that to be true, you need more than statistics which show "look, most crimes are committed by black people", because it does not follow from such statistics that most black people are committing crimes. You need evidence to bridge that gap, the crime statistics themselves can't get there.
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19d ago
Yeah, the claim that generally speaking, blacks behave in an irresponsible and anti-social manner compared to members of other groups is very obvious and very well supported.
It most certainly is not. If you want to make that claim, you best bring receipts if you want people to take it seriously (or if you want the mods to not ding you for making inflammatory claims without evidence).
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20d ago
I mean, he certainly has strong views and presents them forcefully. I can't say he's ever convinced me by his arguments, though, so I guess it depends on what you mean by "win".
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20d ago
Somewhere in my early 30s I guess. I was 32 when I got married, and around that time my mom started to have health issues. Notably, one time when she was visiting she was super short on breath and wound up having to go to the hospital because she couldn't breathe. I chalked it up to altitude sickness or something, but right before I got married she got a diagnosis of congestive heart failure. I guess in a sense there's not much to worry about, because her condition is what it is. Can't be fixed, only slowed. That was almost 9 years ago, and she was given 10 years by her doctor at the time, so yeah.
Similarly around that timeframe (though maybe a few years later), I started noticing my dad was having more and more health issues because he keeps pushing himself like he's a young man still. But he's not (he is 69 in three weeks), and his body frankly can't take the intense physical work of farming like it once could. He has had a torn bicep, injured his butt some kind of way I forget, and so on. But he's a stubborn Polack (just like me, hah) and he isn't likely to change. I just try to gently encourage him to sell the rest of his animals and pursue his hobbies, like woodworking (which has its possible injuries but isn't as hard on the body as the shit he gets up to now). Perhaps one day he'll listen.
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20d ago
100%, except for cases where it stops fitting (either because I get fatter or it shrinks in the wash). If I buy an article of clothing, it's because I like it enough to wear it.
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20d ago
No, I don't think those two things are in fact equivalent. For example, one could reasonably say that "nigger" is an offensive term for black people in America. The vast, vast majority of people in the nation would be greatly offended by using that word to describe people. By contrast, only a small (but vocal) minority considers "Gypsy" to be offensive. As such I don't think it merits saying the term is considered offensive at all, because unless you inhabit an extremely lefty bubble nobody is going to bat an eye of you say "Gypsy".
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20d ago
in America, "Gypsy" is a now-offensive term for the Romani.
Gypsy isn't offensive in America, unless you're talking to someone who goes out of their way to be offended by everything.
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