Only works in Timberborn because of the lack of capitalism 🥲

We won the 40 hour work week like 150 years ago, and we’re still working pretty much that…

in-video ads

They do actually have an in-built skip for this. It’s not as good as sponsor block though

Salvia is not a walk in the park for the dyslexic, damn

The more you learn, the greater you are aware of how much is uncertain.

Yes, but similarly, the god of the gaps is pretty hard to ignore.

There will be questions we never will have the answer to, and if you’re actually serious about the scientific method as a philosophy, you aren’t uncomfortable with “we don’t know”.

To me, a mysterious universe is more wondrous than “god did it” and yes, I do very much question religious scientists, despite many great scientists being religious.

If you’re willing to just believe things “just because” then how can I trust you’ll actually apply the scientific method (also a philosophy) reliably?

I can happily coexist and work with mildly religious scientists/engineers, but I would straight up refuse to work with a creationist or someone born again. Religion is anti-scientific.

Religion vs science is not a false dichotomy, despite it being possible to be religious and a scientist at the same time.

I still think it’s crazy that people aren’t calling for the abolition of presidential pardons.

Seems like a system that was just WAITING for abuse.

They aren’t completely equivalent, though it’s pretty close, sadly.

I agree that it’s better for someone to get involved with a third party, but if that third party’s electoral strategy is to simply try and receive more votes, then they’re actively hurting under the US’ terrible voting system. (This is under the assumption that this third party is less right wing that the Democrats, and that you don’t want the Republicans to win).

Any third party that is actively campaigning on getting preferential voting across the line by influencing the Democrats from the outside (yeah, first part the post is that terrible that this is necessary), or is revolutionary in nature, is okay in my books.

The rest are doing active harm because of the spoiler effect.

“Blue no matter who” is really, really dumb, and people really ought to get involved with groups within and without the Democrats to vigorously push for electoral reform, and better yet the abolition of capitalism and implementation of actual democracy (the US can barely be considered a democracy).

Parties that just are campaigning on: ‘Hey! Vote for us because we’re better’ with no actual strategy of changing the system are dumb, also.

well the US has now totally gone rogue.

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They’re just saying the quiet part out loud now

To me this attitude is the equivalent of telling a comedian to “stick to comedy” when they make jokes about politics, or how “woke” sci-fi is when they make commentary on society.

These things are intertwined, to a large degree.

This is why I’ve just never liked super hero universes.

In isolation, it’s passable, fun even, and I’ve enjoyed some marvel stuff.

When they actually try to do world building, it’s just so, so bad.

This is my opinion, apologies to those who generally like the Marvel universe, but I just can’t stand it. (Based on the handful of films I’ve seen or heard about).

It’s an apple inspired UI thing. Luckily, the built-in android date selector isn’t stupid anymore.

A banking app I use (on Android) put in a bespoke date/time selector with scroll wheels, with no option to type.

It’s like they went out of their way to make using their app a pain in the ass.

This is apparently too hard for some people

How else do you figure out who is being addressed? (I extremely rarely send an email to one person, there’s almost always like 3-7 people in the to and cc fields combined).

It’s so reliable I can set up filters for “Hi Name” & “Hello Name” and catch like 97.5% of the emails addressed mainly to me, vs ones I should just know about.

Almost everyone I know says “Hi Name” at the start.

Chat messages, not so much. Depends how old the person I’m talking to is.

The number of older people who will just write “Hi Name” and wait for me to respond is insane. This isn’t a phone call, you don’t have to wait for me to say hello lol

My biggest pet peeve is doctors referring to medication by brand name instead of active ingredient.

Should be illegal, in my view.

I’m a little shit and whenever “most dominant brand name for paracetamol”* and “most dominant brand name for Ibuprofen”* are mentioned by a doctor, I play dumb and ask if that’s paracetamol/Ibuprofen.

They’re literally advertising for companies who’s product is 5x more expensive for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

*I refuse to give them free advertising

Why would we do that to ourselves? I’d be willing to bet the proportion of people who watched the film who also regularly played the game at some point is less than 50%

Recommend PowerToys if you’re forced to use windows at work, it has heaps of neat stuff including find my cursor.

It makes windows 11 somewhat more bearable

Some dude I met who was previously working in Germany told me he came to Australia because tax was too high in Germany. He told me confidently that it was 40-something percent, flat tax when you earn over a certain amount. I queried if that was the top tax bracket and he told me no. I was shocked at high the marginal tax rate was based on that.

Turns out, despite being a highly specialised metal machinist, he doesn’t know shit, and Germany has tax brackets like everywhere else…

People are astoundingly uninformed.

#DIV/0

Voyager works fine for me (Android stock)

TIL modern medicine isn’t feasible because you couldn’t do it in 1859

If your software runs on windows or MacOS, this point is such bull, sorry.

Do you monitor what software people have installed accessing their banking needs on those platforms?