had to dig in the article for the means of transmission between dogs and humans, and could only find it from an article linked inside there that mentions "The disease can spread to humans through canine reproductive fluids, but they can be treated with a long, strong course of antibiotics."
The article here also mentions "two people caught it this year from dogs"
...oh. oh dear
reading further, after the knee-jerk:
half of my loss of faith in humanity from this is restored
another reason I heard is it's also another tool to give the company wiggle room to say they're not in the best state they could be, that there's still room for growth. under the current system, companies have to keep growing and keep appearing to have the potential for growth, or die
I really do like it for something that I want to just add quick/small edits to, or something that can be slapped together quickly. But I do hope this isn't the start of a trend to bloat mspaint and aim to compete against more robust image editors.
The pessimist in me fears they're going to, and start slapping on AI data harvesting measures that they're integrating into Windows, like for training their own AI art generators. But this addition, in a bubble, is a welcome change.
there's literally a sex% speedrunning category https://www.speedrun.com/baldurs\_gate\_3?h=sex&x=7dgemg72
"You'll own nothing, and you'll like it"
[tosses you out of the kidnapping van]
oh, I'm pretty aware of the entire saga up to now. and the malware company created a malware suite in 2010, after which they did the typical PR spin of disavowing personal responsibility for by stating it was bad actors, and has kept their heads low in scummy digital advertising practices for about a decade up until 2022 when Unity brought them aboard to "synergize their tools" (paraphrased by me from the original announcement).
The current CEO was an ex-exec at EA that was taken on board at Unity at 2014, and another EA ex-exec also came over as Unity's CFO in 2015 (who was replaced for ambiguous reasons sometime before 2020). 2014 was around the time when they made many small scummy changes, like stop giving out lifetime licenses and altering the ToS in regards to existing lifetime licenses, and minimize dev support for recently-expired subs, while at the same time starting their pattern of frequent smaller updates to the engine after moving to Unity 5 - instead of larger, less-frequent ones (to work into their minimization of expired-sub dev support). It was around the time I swore off their engine after spending years of my life on it.
If any of this is wrong, I'd appreciate being corrected with more updated info - The CEO stuff I'm acutely aware of, but the IronSource+Unity stuff was only tangential to that for me, and after I already cut ties. I just don't like bringing all this up so frequently from how topical it's become recently; it's a sore spot.
and, a final thing to add, I haven't come across any concrete evidence IronSource created malware since being caught, and haven't seen any concrete evidence of Unity containing malware. I just assumed they merged with them for the spyware and analytics software they fostered since then. Don't get me wrong, I really don't like Unity's business practices, but I don't want to hate them based on what could be lies spread by motivated actors.
okay, I'll concede, my scope also was pretty limited. I still stand by not trusting the public with deciding what's the best use of AI, when most people think what we have now is anything more than statistics supercharged in its implementation.
it really is that predictable
so that's what the controller would look like if it wore pants
that's at least a little more than mildly infuriating
for me, the main selling point of kbin over lemmy was the transparency in user interactions on here. the last straw on the camel's back over at lemmy for me was seeing blatant vote manipulation hiding behind the end-user anonymity; kept an eye on some accounts that would instantly always get the same number of upvotes, dependent on the specific account, less than 3-5 seconds after posting. it was always some single-digit amount (I assume to not get flagged by the system), but that's all it takes to signal others to feel safer upvoting it.
the same can be done likewise to bury others' content that they can view as competition to what they want seen, multiple early downvotes can act as a subconscious deterrent to others
I'm not defending bottled water, but in regards to the shower argument, there's a reason things are rated for topical use vs food grade
the better argument is someone drinking bottled water while using tap water to wash their foods
I think you misunderstood what I said, I'm agreeing with you on the mental gymnastics, but the argument you put out wasn't exactly the best when given to the PoV of the gymnast; they're avoiding ingesting tap water in favor of bottled, but they ingest it regardless, unless they wash everything with bottled water like a very crazy person
and didn't expect to respond again about this crazy hypothetical person that lives rent free in both our minds, but I'm going to evict that person right now for my own sanity
you also don't have to understand how 5g works to know it spreads covid /s
point is, I don't see how your analogy works beyond the limited scope of only things that result in an immediate loss of life
people who burn less gas and consume less resources burn less gas and consume less resources, more news at 11.
but it's nice they're pinning numbers onto the amounts