Talaraine

@Talaraine@fedia.io
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Joined 8 months ago

Am I the only person whose natural clock has me waking up later and later up to this point b/c of sunrise, and when this time change kicks in I'm back to waking up at the appropriate time and feeling amazing?

Hard to believe this is bad for me in any way. In point of fact, I don't understand why we just don't keep the clocks here.

Look y'all. North Korea and Russian recently signed a mutual defense pact. There's a clear reason why NK troops are only being deployed in Kursk, which is so it looks legitimate. NK is protecting Russia's borders.

All any country has to do is sign a mutual defense pact with Ukraine and pile on. That's all he's saying. I mean, I'm shocked Poland hasn't already signed on.. they're spoiling for a fight.

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These animals lived with their owner for years and were consistently photographed for Instagram. Yeah, people know how bad rabies is. They clearly didn't have it.

And officials are saying that no wildlife rehab service in the entire state of New York could take these two in? Internet famous, celebrity animals? Man, whoever believes that, I've got some land to sell ya.

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This is all the reason I need to support Khan, honestly.

They mean donations to whomever takes them in. Believe me, that means something to them. These guys never even tried.

Well duh, you didn't think Iran was getting nothing for sending all those drones to Russia, did you?

My father's mother died a few years back and due to a rabbit hole I won't get into, was left with cleaning out her condo by himself. She wasn't a hoarder or anything, but he was floored by the work involved.

During the pandemic hermitude, he absolutely purged his own house of everything like this. He didn't want us to be burdened with it when his time came. It's ironic that I was a little upset over some of the things he threw out xD

That's.... not really accurate. All the stuff with the Krogan and Rachni happened centuries prior to humanity making contact. What the story does hint is that humans are not the only ones with racist tendencies. (After rereading, this may have been what you were trying to say)

Humanity butts up against Batarian space and, due to their own conflicts with the galactic political paradigm, that race had shifted to a more hostile system of governance that freely allowed slavery and piracy and the like because everyone else was inferior.

Naturally, we hate them because they hate us.

Because they were mostly dead lmao

I could have sworn I just saw an article touting that Trump Media was now worth more than X though? Can someone ELI5?

Most of hacking is done by mass effort with maybe a couple percent of people that aren't doing basic things to protect themselves being affected. That couple of percent is enough to keep the hackers flush. (So please, follow basic cybersecurity steps, people.)

The plain truth of the matter, though, is that if a hacker or group of hackers is targeting someone individually for reasons, that person is in real trouble.

This has been a PSA for everyone chasing fame and clout.

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I don't think this post said anything about 'The Game' backfiring.

It specifically calls out that streamers spoke about exactly what they didn't want spoken. That's what the Streisand Effect is.

Congratulations to Game Science for a good game, but it's business as usual for the C-Suite being completely disconnected to how the social world works.

It's McCarthyism all over again. God forbid someone thinks Israel is fucking up and actually says so. This kind of shit was repugnant then and it will be repugnant in the history books.

Enjoy being on the wrong side, you intellectually stunted children.

I've seen this over and over in corporate environments.

Suit A has a terrible idea but enough fawning bootlickers to get the process moving.

Worker A, an employee, knows this is a terrible idea but doesn't say anything because they wanna keep their job.

Contractor B, obv a contractor, is there to make money and hopefully turn their stint into something more, so they speak up. And get canned.

What is it about Suits that they can't listen to literally anyone but their own echo chambers? Oh yeah, they're angling to jump into a bigger echo chamber. The 1%.

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I have to work SO HARD to see this the right way haha

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We've investigated ourselves and found proof that we're awesome!

I love how media is slowly moving away from "RTO is bullshit" to "It has some benefits but they're taking it too far". Next week it will be "What were we thinking? RTO is here to stay!"

As so many people have said, there's plenty of jobs where this isn't necessary at all. The conversation needs to stay focused on the flawed conceptions of corporate suits in an echo-chamber.

Yeah, everyone should take a real good look at him. When the guillotines come out you wouldn't wanna grab the wrong guy.

They are not 'returning to their core values'. They've been endorsing candidates since the '70's. They are defining their 'new' values, which is to slurp and suck.

AI said kill this guy right here

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My sister and I were wee little ones who one week brought home scads of stuff given to us by our school from the American Cancer society. We went running up to our dad screaming "We don't want you to die daddy!" with all that childish exuberance, and he quit cold turkey the next day.

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"Well, BYE!"

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History and tradition. You mean like precedent? That thing you've been railroading for years?

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A couple of years ago I had a conversation with a Haitian native on this very topic. While I deleted my reddit account and no longer have access to that conversation, the gist was...

Americans don't seem to understand that every time they swoop in to 'save' Haiti, what they are really doing is enforcing the same colonial ideals that landed Haiti in the mess to start with.

There's no politician in play down there that isn't on the take. His opinion was just to leave it alone and let the gangs sort it out. Either they'll pull together a government or the last gang standing will.

His statement had a lot more anger and quite a few expletives.. They're just sick of all of us, y'all.

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Good article. I think they hit on the real driving thought process behind the offer, and that's to divide any potential shorters on the opportunity to run the stock low.

For my part, good try Steve, but I'll pass on this 'opportunity'. The fediverse is my home now and I'll put in my efforts here.

Driving slow in the left hand lane

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What kills me about this is that my mom has been having home care for years now. At the beginning the workers were making $20/hr. Now they're making close to minimum.

I know FULL WELL how much this care costs. The fact that their pay has gone DOWN is the problem, and it's just more enshittification.

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What a fucking coward Bezos is.

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Because they are the ones using them so they know they're a real threat.

Projection at its finest.

I've tried to convince people that if we can have a No Nut November, we ought to be able to put together a No-Sales September or something. These mentally defective executives would absolutely go back to taking care of the customer if this were a practice.

Why do you think he strongarmed Teslas shareholders into that big pay day? He's known this was coming, y'all. Tesla's just paying for his misadventure.

I was just gonna say don't let shareholders form a board. Sometimes companies need money for investment, but there's literally nothing that states they have to give investors any kind of control. Can you imagine letting some nub who inherited dad's money at 22 to come in and tell you that he doesn't give a fuck about your company, he just wants another 1% profit? Why would you let any of these toxic fucks near your brainchild?

I've told everyone I meet that it really no longer matters how you feel about the 2nd amendment. You are entitled to your opinion, but you need to go learn how to use them, full stop.

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This was way back but had a basic support call for someone who couldn't get their mouse to work.

After speaking with them for over ten minutes and just being generally confused I cut to the chase and asked, "Ma'am, what are you doing with your mouse right now?"

The answer? She was moving the mouse around on the monitor.

Was gonna say I love this idea. Now I know what not to buy.

I swear this comment was a trolling attempt or one of the bloodsucking stockholder asshats that think linear growth is a bad thing.

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Back in 1988 I had a school project with a few people, one of whom came from a wealthy family. The project was regarding the stock market, and each team was given a certain amount of imaginary money to invest, to see who would win out at the end of the semester. My friend with the wealthy family came back with a recommendation from his father, of course, and we won the contest easily.

The recommendation? Put all our funds into Berkshire Hathaway.

I had the golden goose egg right in front of me and never invested a dime.

Red Dead Redemption 2 enters the chat

My father says the same thing about the slim margin of oil companies. That being said, when that slim margin is in the billions and millions of people suffer for it, there's room for inquiry.

Er well in this article where they spoke with the pilot, he had this to say, "Jokat said the pilot came to the back of the plane once the plane landed.

"I asked him 'what happened?' and he said to me 'I lost my instrumentation briefly and then it just came back all of a sudden'."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/511423/latam-airlines-sydney-to-auckland-flight-50-people-treated-after-mid-air-incident

So yeah, it is in fact looking like it may be something with the plane.