Same (though not American). I did the opposite. I started off conservative cause that’s what my family and community was. Then found out that was hateful bullshit and am now extremely progressive. I’m happy to pay my taxes (and I pay waaaay more than average). I do sometimes wish they went to better things and weren’t squandered as often (especially on MPs paying for $16 glasses of orange juice), but overall Canada does a decent job at using its taxes. It’s impossible for taxes to go to 100% agreeable things, since there’s no satisfying everyone. They’re ultimately a net benefit.

I also don’t have kids but am happy to see kids get the benefits of my taxes (and many other things taxes go to that don’t directly benefit me). People who expect tax dollars to always benefit them are selfish and narrow-minded, which I think is the root reason some people don’t like taxes.

I think being more specific is also a good thing. Two letter acronyms are too broad. As CSAM, it’s unambiguous what it refers to. But CP means many things. Eg, in software dev, it’s often used for “control plane”. Some video games (eg, Pokemon Go) use it for “combat power”. I think ESO used it as “champion points” (though might have been a different MMO).

Ugh, I basically never watched any show that closely before DVDs. Mind you, I was also pretty young at the time, but that worked even more against me as it was much less of an option to record anything when it was entirely on my parents’ devices. Plus only one TV had satellite and my dad basically monopolized it.

I basically only watched things sporadically, as I was able to. Which also meant story heavy serials weren’t viable. Everything had to be at least decently episodic so that I wouldn’t feel lost due to missing half the episodes and watching reruns out of order.

I’m genuinely glad kids these days have it so much better. How many times as a kid did I beg my parents to let me watch some popular kids show and it wasn’t an option? And if I ever did get to see something I liked, it could be months before the stars aligned to get to see another episode.

K3s? What did you do to the other 5 letters??

In theory, the delivery charge should have been the money that goes to Uber to cover their costs. It’s expensive to develop quality web apps, manage drivers, do customer support, etc. But in practice, Uber double dips. There’s the delivery fee and restaurant paid fees (often resulting in higher menu prices).

In literally every pair of pants I have, I use that to store a hair elastic or two. Then whenever I need my hair up (eg, eating and hair would get in the way), I have one easily on hand.

As someone with a hearing impairment, robot phone menus are the absolute worst. Sometimes I just can’t understand what the options are and unlike a human, robots can’t rephrase or enunciate differently. I will literally go out of my way to not do business with some companies based solely on whether or not I can do everything online.

With more of a push for WFH (which could be legally required as an option in some cases) and ensuring smaller towns have good internet access, smaller towns could be a lot more viable. They aren’t to everyone’s taste, but there’s plenty of people who would love to live in a small town if not for the hellish commuting they’d have to do and the shoddy internet access.

Having decent transit options to the nearest big city would also help. Small towns often struggle with cars being a necessity because you’d have to go into the big city for many things.

I remember having one of those as a kid. For a few days, it was the best thing ever, till I got bored with it and never played with it again.

While I know they’re past the point of it being feasible to reboot, it always surprised me that they didn’t at least try to go the Star Trek approach of just starting a new show with a new cast in the same universe.

The “not vegan” scene is one of the funniest scenes of all time.

I wonder why Dbrand would even offer? That’s pretty messed up and certainly makes me think less of them.

Yeah, it sucks that if I were using Signal only on my phone and eventually decide to start using it on desktop, it doesn’t sync any conversation history, resulting in the desktop client showing nothing from before you set it up. It should have older devices send history to new ones. If you’re permanently switching devices, are you losing that history for good?

While I certainly do like chocolate chip cookies, where cinnamon buns are concerned, I don’t want to replace the raisins with anything. I’ll pick them out and eat just the cinnamon bun. So it’s definitely the raisins, with their unquenchable evil.

I love raisins on their own. And in raisin brand for some reason. But I strongly dislike their texture in baked goods such as cinnamon buns or cookies.

I have two levels of backlog. The first level is my curated list of tickets that are highly worth doing in the near future and is limited in size. It’s currently larger than I’d like at 30-something (for a team of a little under 10), but I’m trying to get the team to focus on it more after historically neglecting it.

The second level is literally just everything else. Hundreds upon hundreds of tickets, ranging from restructuring unit tests (which will frankly never happen unless the structure of the tests somehow became a major barrier) to cool features that just aren’t important enough yet (or would take too long). Plus all the super low risk bugs, often in edge cases that nobody really cares about yet or aren’t worth the time to fix yet. And then there’s all the automation style tickets about improving the handling of something (commonly edge cases of things already automated for the happy path), but often that something just isn’t common enough to be worth it.

Tickets in the second level sometimes do get done. Usually because some issue becomes more common, enough people ask for it, or we simply finally have time for a new feature (can only do so many of those at a time). A common theme I have is I’ll encounter a problem, file a ticket, then eventually encounter the problem enough times that I go, “fuck it, I’ll do it myself”.

It’s usually E or F, at least. Except when it’s space. Or tab. Wait, I’ve seen C, Z, and X before, too.

Seriously PC devs, get your shit together. What’s even worse is when the sequel changes the keys with no discernible reason, so I can play the games back to back only to have the hardest time.

They have like a hundred employees, which makes it a lot easier to figure out. Though some of those employees aren’t directly involved in creating videos, such as doing accounting or creating the many kinds of custom merch that they sell.

They have a bunch of employees doing specialized roles. Not just the usual roles like editing or writing, but they also what they call a “lab” that does stuff like identify findings about tech. But even with so many employees and all the specialization, they’re still clearly rushing. Eg, if they make a massive error, rather than fix it and do a reshoot, they’ll release it with the error, which is a terrible approach.

That’s exactly what happened in their biggest controversy with an expensive water block cooler. They used a completely wrong graphics card despite knowing that it was completely wrong and with an incompatible motherboard, then spent most of the video bad mouthing how it didn’t fit the motherboard or card instead of recognizing that they needed to just identify a compatible board, find the right card, and redo the shoot.

Really it’d be like, “I’m sorry… Just like this segue to our sponsor!”

They can’t put out a statement without a segue. It’s just not allowed! They love that word.

Yeaaaah, that’s sketchy. I can understand them blocking the communities out of fear of legal risk. They didn’t sign up for that kinda risk and we all know that piracy oriented sites get targeted by legal action (isn’t there currently an ongoing attempt to get Reddit to turn over user info about people who accessed piracy communities there?). But why the heck would they hide that they blocked the communities?

It’s the same as with Hexbear. I can understand why they defederated from that instance, since I’ve seen how they comment. They’re extremely aggressive. Even when they’re right, they’re assholes about it. And they’re often straight up supporting Russia, which is batshit crazy (they have no nuance, acting as if there can’t both be Nazis in Ukraine and Russia can also be an evil aggressor). But Lemmy.World was happy to silently defederate until they got called out. Even despite the fact that for Exploding Heads, they at least had a big post about it (even though Exploding Heads is far worse).