uglyduckling81

@uglyduckling81@lemmy.world
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Joined 11 months ago

It was never worth the stupid value it was pumped up to. Why do you think Elon has been dumping so much of it.

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Duck duck go needs a lot of work to replace Google search.

I've used it for years but often I still get the shits and just bring Google up after duck duck go fails to find what I'm looking for.

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This is one of the weirdest statements I've ever read.

I don't like the repair policy of this company so I'm switching to Apple......

Tell me you live in a dark cave without telling me you live in a dark cave.

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The woman was German.

Why would Israel give a shit about these people murdering Germans?

If anyone would be making a measured response it should be Germany.

If it was my daughter being paraded through the streets dead, I wouldn't be thinking about a very measured response right now. I'd probably be trying to level the entire country.

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Fortunately you've got this left wing echo chamber to vent in for solidarity.

I'm with you comrade 🫡

They have a paid method in place.

YouTube Premium.

Free access you pay with ads.

All of us cheapskates have been using adblock or YouTube vanced to get the service completely free.

I'm not going to curse them for making efforts to stop us leaching their service for free.

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If I lived in a country where this was something to worry about, if worry about it.

It's not something I've ever thought about or considered in Australia.

Sure break-ins happen but violent crimes during break-ins... it's so rare I've never heard of or met anyone that knows of it happening.

I can. Have a meeting in Citrix and I happily work while people yabber on in the background.

The real killer is the face to face meetings. My group supervisor now demands anyone in the office on a particular day go into his office for the team meeting. That's a real time waster.

People online can't hear us properly standing around in his office. Can't get work done while standing in there.

Just let me work from home so I don't have a bunch of people wander over to me to ask stupid questions during the day.

If you want something send me an email and I'll get to it when I have time. Walking into my space, making me take my noise cancelling headphones off so you can yabber at me and break my concentration is so annoying.

I'm untouchable at home. I work until I need a break, then quickly sort questions and queries, then get back into my groove for another hour or two.

My employer told us all the rumours were true. Layoffs were happening. They called it "difficult conversations" instead of firings.

About 1/5th of a team of 1000 people.

Apparently they hadn't decided who yet.

Meanwhile we just received the biggest bonus in the companies history due to historic profits.

Then the CEO told investors that they expect a big pickup early next year and will need to hire a bunch of people to handle the demand.

So they are firing a bunch of people for 6 months to hit financial targets in the back half of the year before hiring people again.

Everyone that is to be fired is still waiting to find out who will be axed.

It's gone now but for a long time we had a 24hr fruit shop.

For example, how do I have the best experience gaming.... Switch to Lin........ Oh ಠ_ಠ

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Seems pretty easy to control though.

Once spammer is detected, you just ban them and the account that invited, all the way up a down that invite tree.

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100% a scam.

No one is ever getting a product from this.

Twitter made a small profit in 2018 and 2019. They lost money in every other year.

In fact the year before Musk started ranting about buying it, they reported their biggest loss ever.

The company was a disaster before and after Musk.

It's a short sighted argument to say baddies don't follow the rules so your only restricting honest people.

In Australia assault rifles and automatics are just outright banned. You need a licence to own any type of gun, which takes 6 months waiting for background checks to be done. Guns must be kept in Safes etc.

So whilst a baddie might want to get an assault rifle and go on a kill rampage he can't. There just aren't any around. You can't break in to a house and steal one.

Can organised crime get them? Sure. But that's not what this is trying to stop. It's preventing the impulsive bat shit crazy person going on a rampage.

It absolutely helps, as proven by Australias lack of mass shootings.

People who want to go hunting still can.

It definitely flew under the radar. I would say most people have never seen it.

I don't know how to do the cool quote thing you did but I'll answer in order.

  1. I don't care if you want to edit my race out of your game. It has zero effect on me. It's your private game. Why would I care? If I don't like the mod it I just won't install it. I'm never going to intervene to stop you from enjoying your game the way you want just because I don't agree or like it.

This argument is just trying to find reasons to be offended.

I'll give you an example that will definitely trigger you. I play HOI4. That game is a historical WW2 game. The game does not have an accurate flag for Germany because it's symbol is not allowed to be shown in Germany. I always use a mod to put the proper Nazi flag in the game because I want my historical game to be representitive of the period. Denying me the ability to use it doesn't make the historical event suddenly not happen. It happened. Am I suddenly a Nazi supporter because I want my war game to reflect reality?

Im not out Heil Hitlering, or calling for the deaths of millions of Jews. I'm just playing was war game in the privacy of my own home.

  1. I'm not American so the N word has very little meaning to me. I think it's stupid that people can't even write the word without being banned. How are you supposed to talk about it. It's rediculous. If your skin colour is the right shade then you can go around saying the forbidden word at will?? Honestly I'm never going to say it because it's not part of my cultural norm anyway.

In Australia the racist word people used for indigenous was 'coon'. I've never used it and I never will. Ive not even heard anyone use it since maybe the 80s when a kid was trying to be an edgelord. Do I think the word should be banned internationally just because some wankers used it 30+ years ago? No. If you're using it in a hateful way against someone or a people, then sure, that bastard should face some consequences.

I'm just never going to support blanket banning activities or words for everyone because of a few bad actors.

I think that's a terrible idea.

Now we are onto the apparently oppressed rich western people that want to be called some idiotic pronouns like xi, or horse person or some other BS. I'm not doing it. It's too stupid.

If someone wants to be called she instead of he, then whatever, I'll call them it. It causes me no harm and I really don't care. Live your best life.

Blocking a person from modifying their game because you don't like the idea? That's Nazi book burning philosophy right there. If you can't see it irony then I don't know what to say to you. You think your in the right, but your actually to oppressor, even if you think it's with good intentions.

Your probably right.

There a completely separate issue though.

I don't see any of this. It's probably because I ran https://christitus.com/windows-tool/ right after install.

I think it disables all the annoying parts of windows and you just get left with a stable OS.

I lived in a town with 50k back in the 90s. I don't remember there ever being a bus service except for the school buses.

The town was pretty massive though. Half the town was on a plateau as well so you had to walk up a pretty huge hill to get to half of it.

There was quite a few taxi's driving people around.

Maybe there was a bus that I never used and can't remember. As a kid I rode everywhere. That hill was a son of a bitch though.

If you don't want to feel excluded then don't install the mod.

I don't understand why people argue for less options that don't affect them.

No one is forcing the mod on you. Is it really that harmful that it exists?

I don't give 2 shits if a mod exists that makes everyone in the game trans or gay or anything else. I'm just not going to install the mod unless it improves the game in some way or it sounds like it would make the game more interesting with alternative play styles or something.

I'm never going to argue that the mod I'm not interested in should be removed because it's not reinforcing my beliefs.

Tolerance goes both ways. I tolerate your beliefs and you tolerate mine.

That tolerance doesn't exist in this woke reality we are enduring at the moment. Anything that doesn't repeat the correct narrative is subjected to cancel culture. It's always my way or the highway.

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A 9/10???

IGN is such a meme.

A 5 is average.

They are saying this game is so good, it's essentially flawless and beyond comparison in all areas compared to all other games.

How much does a 9 cost?

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I work a 9 day week. It's shit. 4 day work week only works if you don't have to do a 38hr week crammed into the remaining days.

I have to do 9 hr days to get that day off. The Friday I have to work is only a 4 hr day.

I often dream about just working all 7 days just so each day is shorter. If I did 4 hrs on Saturday and Sunday I could just do 7 hr days.

I fucking hate 9 hr days. I'm completely over it by 6 hrs.

I also consider just cutting back my hours to 24hrs, but then I think about my retirement. I don't want to be super poor when I'm old so I need to work as much as possible for the next 10 years atleast before dialing back a bit until retirement.

Can't argue with you. The reasons given to give up on brave is because the CEO doesn't have appropriate ideological view and because of its crypto system value being volatile.

Wooptydo.

I don't agree with the CEOs point of view on gay marriage but I'm not ceasing to use a decent browser because of it

The crypto thing is irrelevant to me.

Don't forget the hardcore left wing echo chamber... Oh wait that was Reddit as well.

Pulling your own pants on when you have dementia is no easy feat. He deserves to be celebrated for it.

This is the way

All the renter's calling for the heads of the upper middle class property owners.

Stop coming after us. We already pay the most tax and get the least benefits from the tax.

We don't get all the offsets the millionaires get, and we don't get the handouts the poor get.

We just get gouged everywhere. We don't know enough to invest in anything other than housing.

Stop coming after us. We aren't the problem.

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This is not a place of acceptance. This is a left wing echo chamber. You either tow the narrative or GTFO.

I think of myself as very moderate. I'm neither supportive of right wing horse shit or the lefts batshit insanity. I'll get downvoted into oblivion every time for pointing out this place being extreme left, or for making any comment that doesn't align strictly with the narrative taking points.

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The argument really isn't against pronouns.

It's against censorship. Why shouldn't I be able to remove that feature from my game if I want to?

Is it really hurting anyone if I don't want stupid pronouns in my game?

I'll note that I don't own the game and have never played it. Just an outside observer watching the stupidity.

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