Dana Gonzalez, who spoke in favor of withdrawing from the ALA, said the commission “ought not promote, celebrate or support what scripture condemns” and then quoted Bible scriptures that she said condemned what Drabinski wrote in her tweet, according to the Daily Montanan.

Ah, there it is. You have it served up to you on a silver platter - a literal self proclaimed Marxist - you know, the thing they claim that everyone to the left of Mussolini is, and they skip that and go straight for the gay angle.

Oxo good grips is extremely highly recommended everywhere - it hits that perfect balance of well designed, durable, and not too outrageously expensive.

This is interesting. I don't think any really productive debate is going to come out of this - it'll be the same one that's been rehashed a million times - but it's hard to say "be a parent and control what your children do" when they're literally running away from home and threatening suicide when the parents try to parent.

I suppose if nothing else, hopefully we get more research and support services for these extreme cases of behavioral addiction.

Today, Gene Fourney is the CEO of IT company TechnologyWest in Denver. I thought this story wouldn't be complete unless I made an attempt to contact him. I emailed him, asking him some questions about NetWorks at the time, but he wasn't interested in reminiscing. "I'm not revisiting an issue that you may have experienced in 1998 with Networks," Fourney wrote. "Times are dramatically different in 2023 than they were in 1998. Not sure why anyone would have an interest in revisiting 28K dialup days of 1998."

Lmao, what is wrong with this guy? I found this whole article to be humorous and light and it was a fun look back on the old days. Tons of people have an "interest in revisiting it".

Given his location it strikes me that I have a solid chance of actually meeting this guy in person and sussing out why he's such a no-fun prick.

speak for yourself

efficiency is when you have to recall your cars the most out of anybody because it's more efficient to get them out the door and in to the suckers customers hands and then fix them later

I guess at the core of this, we are afraid of ourselves. We are afraid that the worste of humanity outpaces the better parts, that the inputs and training aren’t altruistic but are more pointedly “bad” or “wrong”, and thus leading to “harmful”, whether through misinformation, lies, or fabrications.

Is there any reason not to be afraid? I think you could say that Tay was essentially the same idea a few years back and it took like 48 hours loose on the internet for it to spout literal Nazi (1930s-40s German NSDAP) rhetoric. Besides that being a PR disaster - if "AI" is only getting stronger and more integrated into human life and society, that can be pretty problematic.

I'd really love to know what the percentage is that is or is at risk of truly being lost - this article just completely ignores that piracy exists. Maybe you can't buy game boy games or Metal Gear or Unreal Tournament anymore but the idea that they are inaccessible is just plainly wrong. I guess you probably can't advertise that in business insider (if only to prevent some ridiculous lawsuit from Nintendo) but it changes this number drastically.

I actually do remember stuff from the 90s and 2000s that's truly lost, and it's a damn shame, but the black flag will always provide.

There's nothing inherently hypocritical about calling something an "asshole move" and then voting for it. It just means you're an asshole, which is no great surprise.

It's in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - THE authoritative guide on what is or is not considered a mental disorder, yes.

This is hardly groundbreaking stuff - people can be addicted to porn, food, exercise, pretty much anything. Really the primary criteria in calling any addiction a "disorder" is "what negative effects is it having on your life?" Well, "I literally want to kill myself when my parents cut off the wifi" is a pretty negative effect.

Be honest, on a scale of 1 to 10, how much does this question have to do with your constant posting about how the maaaaan, maaaaan, is holding down all your crypto "investments" and they're due to go to the moon any day now as soon as the cabal of lizard people who run the world is eradicated?

I'm going to assume that 4g works decently enough where you are at this point. Much the same thing happened during the 4g rollout - it was too sparse, the phone spent too many resources hunting for a 4g signal when 3g was right there. You end up with a less stable connection because it's constantly bouncing back and forth.

I think if you look up how to disable 5g on whatever phone you have (which is possible on any phone) and stick to 4g for now you'll find the performance is as good as ever - if not better, with some of the load from other users being pushed to 5g.

I worked for "a major phone company" when 4g was rolling out. It's unfortunate during this period, but I don't know how you prevent it. 5g will objectively be better for 99.9% of users at some point - it might not be now, but everyone has to sell a 5g phone to "future proof" and have another selling feature. I wish the companies would educate people a little more on the rollout but then you're basically telling them "this thing we're selling you isn't really ready yet". And I mean, if you live in a major city, it's working just fine... but not everybody does.

I suppose you're probably the best person to ask about this. Do you have a grasp on how much of the "people regret their failed SAs" phenomenon is due to the classic "I realized in that moment that life was worth living and I made a terrible decision" thought, versus things like being hospitalized (most likely including time in the psych ward) after the fact, long term consequences (which may include injuries, disfigurement, long term physical/cognitive/other problems, six figure hospital bills in the US, etc), shame about the whole matter which may include shame that "they couldn't even do that right", etc...?

I did bother to read it. Did you? Just because it hasn't been fully fleshed out to be officially listed with diagnostic criteria and full information for the manual doesn't mean that it hasn't been defined or that it doesn't exist or that the APA does not classify it as a mental disorder.

Do you have some kind of ideological problem with the concept of gaming addiction, specifically, in the universe of all the other behavioral addictions out there? Gamers™ sure do seem to get sensitive any time anyone says anything that could be construed as remotely negative about their hobby - like that some people develop crippling addictions to it as outlined in the topic article.

I dunno, it's pretty unclear to me. I think half the reason all this stuff gets delegated to the states is because any time the feds try to do... much of anything, really, you can count on a state suing to block it and the supreme court siding with them. The first example that comes to mind is how the ACA got crippled by such lawsuits.

Defederation from this garbage ass instance when?

Can we run an over/under on how many subscribers it will have in a week?

You have to vote to change all that too.

I think if you crack open a history book you'll find that the vast, VAST majority of changes did not come about by voting. Historically it hasn't done much at all, actually.

Remember that time he said he was going to solve the COVID ventilator crisis and sent out a bunch of obsolete overstock sleep apnea machines that nobody wanted and weren't actually useful for the purpose? That was a good time.

The last two Republican presidents were installed while receiving less votes than the Democrat. If Democrats had spent the past 23 years blaming a rigged system, and trying to change it, rather than vote-shaming and insulting the general public and their intelligence (by claiming that they don't, in fact, vote more than Republicans), maybe they'd have actually gotten something done by now.

That assumes the idea that they actually want to get anything done other than send out more emails about how your 27 dollars is vital to the fight against fascism.

I think both of your points are correct but a lot of celebrity types write straight up essays attached to some of their pictures - it's like where they get out everything they can't fit into 280 characters.

Spotify is a publicly traded company. Their financial reports are required to be audited every single year. They really are losing money. There's no way around that.

The studios, most of which are also publicly traded, report billions of dollars in profit every year. Hollywood accounting is about using shell companies to move money around (back to the main studio) while ensuring that nobody ever gets paid out on the profits of the movie by the LLC they set up to produce the movie.

I finally got out of accounting. It's really hard to commit fraud at any scale when you're a publicly traded and audited company. People are gonna call bullshit on that but I'm serious. I would be in favor of requiring every "small business" to be audited on a regular basis because I don't know the exact percentage but I would testify in front of Congress right now that easily over 50% of all the small business clients I ever had were committing fraud somewhere.

One case that comes to mind is a guy with a small construction company who had funneled over a half a million dollars to his personal house, calling it business expenses. I took this to my boss - who signed a code of professional ethics and has a professional license on the line - and their reply was "he's defrauding the government out of about a quarter million dollars but we're not the accounting police and that's why we don't sign his tax returns."

No, it happened because we have an extremely stupid system, which was designed by slave owners, racists, sexists and violent criminals (men who raped their slaves, genocidal maniacs, etc) to restrict who is allowed to vote and allow someone who gets less votes to win the presidency, and the democrats have spent a quarter century not saying a word about it despite it happening twice in that period. Please try to focus the blame where it belongs. Well designed modern democracies DO NOT have this problem.

The United States was fundamentally broken, immoral and undemocratic from day one, and no amount of ranting on the internet about how it's the public's fault 250 years later will change that fact. This entire thread exists because people are rapidly losing faith and trust in the legitimacy of the system that was built upon that foundation.

You realize that this line of thinking basically boils down to "blackpilled leftists are too stupid to form their own ideology and conclusions and are mere puppets of the right wing", right?

It's really condescending and I wish liberal democrats spent half the effort actually fighting the right wing as they did anyone even slightly to their left.

If you had somehow been living under a rock that also has access to the internet, and were somehow not aware that Elon Musk is a far right quasi-"libertarian" (but only for the people he likes and agrees with) techbro douchebag, pulling up duckduckgo with the simple search "elon musk public transportation" would immediately make it clear how he feels about it.

There does come a point where "sincere questions" - assuming they are even sincere to begin with, serve only to muddy the waters and create confusion where there should be none. I'm not saying everyone should know everything - but if you're really "just asking questions" about Elon Musk, on the internet, on LEMMY, in the year 2023.... at some point it's on you and it becomes extremely hard to assume good faith.

Elon Musk is the world's most prolific shitposter ever since Donald Trump's fall from grace. He's not an obscure figure, and this isn't like me telling you to "do your own research" which involves a bunch of unsourced 3 hour YouTube videos. You can find out literally anything he's ever said about anything by, as they say, googling it. If you really care enough to know about it, you can take the five seconds to do that, rather than "JAQing off" in the comments section.

I'm perfectly chill, and since this is your go to line of attack, I assume you know I'm right, too.

Gambling addiction - a rather well documented phenomenon over centuries - wasn't even in the DSM until the fifth edition. Gaming addiction will be in the sixth. See you then.

One of my favorite takes to throw out at random is "The Grateful Dead was the greatest country band of all time".

Now I'll admit I mostly say it to wind people up, but I don't not believe it, either. It hinges on two things: most people don't really think of country music as having bands (even when the singer, of course, has a backing band) and I think Workingman's Dead is a genuinely great all-time country album. American Beauty crossed genres a little harder but it has its bona fide country moments too.

What I'll say is - if you always dismissed the Dead as "17 minutes of masturbation via the electric guitar" (and you're not wrong either), at least give Workingman's Dead a spin. The tracks clock in at standard radio play length and I think it will give you a different perspective. If you still don't like it, fair enough.

The absolute irony of Americans (and specifically, politicians who voted for a half dozen needless wars of aggression over their career) suddenly caring about innocent people being hurt in a pointless war.

"Hey, you can't do that, only the US and our buddies who we arm in Israel are allowed to do that!"

It's weird how nobody ever goes off on these philosophical treatises about what a downvote is REALLY supposed to be for unless they copped a shit ton of downvotes for their awful takes

To quote the famed philosopher T. Soprano: "Alright, but you gotta get over it."

The median salary for a software engineer in the US is something like $70,000 a year last I checked on the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A gigantic portion of those 26 million people "in tech" work boring help desk jobs or run the IT for small companies or whatever. It defies logic that FAANG etc would pay people with a few years' experience a half a million dollars in total comp if they were so easily replaceable.

Lol. Okay.

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You wouldn’t believe how many people thanked me as they walked into the store and took off their mask after seeing one man simply dissenting against the bullshit.

More and more people are saying it, folks

I'll be praying for you when the wave of recalls start coming out

Your opinion is duly noted and taken under advisement.

Will we ever be far enough removed from the pandemic that we can talk about how the federal government lied and ignored 100+ years worth of science on the efficacy of masking (including effective mask mandates during the "Spanish"/Kansas flu pandemic), without being accused of being an antivax conspiracy theorist?

I'm vaxed, waxed and ready to party, but it is a stone cold fact that they told people not to wear masks - and caused untold numbers of deaths - because they didn't want the general public to reduce the current supply.

(Fauci also did an absolutely horrendous, I mean historically awful job dealing with the AIDS crisis, but I guess that's for another time.)

In case you missed it, the cold war was fucking stupid. Furthermore I would argue that the US's bad behavior at home and abroad ramped up MASSIVELY once they didn't have a counterbalancing superpower they had to take seriously.

Whatever you say, sport.

Sure you are, champ.

I hope you don't act this embarrassing whenever you do whatever you think of as "politics" in real life.