To add to this, and to answer the second part of OP; no. You absolutely should not use it unless you like replacing your washing machine and having plumbing bills. For lower quality garments it will technically make them last longer; but whatever cost you save in clothing you’ll lose a thousand fold when you need to have your washer taken apart and cleaned or replaced entirely when it stops working.

Oh hey, you finally figured out the two guards riddle, congrats.

Maybe a dedicated team? At this pace we might get ESVI slightly before the heat death of the universe. They’re 2 years behind Duke Nukem Forever at this point.

She also believes there’s no free will, which is a pretty common belief with these people. It literally cannot be her fault guys, she doesn’t have free will, her being a piece of shit was determined at the start of the universe.

Since Obama, that’s a bit of a problem. If your incumbent doesn’t scare non-voters from the other side into voting, they are logically the better vote than a “radical” newcomer. Obama proved there is a ridiculously large contingent of people that will entirely upend their entire political, economic, and social beliefs if faced with a possibility of a candidate that triggers a particular phobia or hate inside them.

Just be aware that at some point Google will stop supporting it, and with Google’s track record, there wouldn’t be a warning. Theoretically that would be okay as long as someone maintains the current open source versions without upstream support but at that point why not use an actual open source browser designed that way.

The very short answer is yes but; the longer answer is there are two types of employees (this isn’t all types of workers, but specifically employees of a company)

Non-exempt employees, which is most labor. You’re paid hourly, you’re paid for your time and/or quality of work, you have rights like breaks and minimum wage laws. This should include all blue collar workers, all non-‘professional’ labor, and all unskilled labor.

Exempt Employees, this is Executives, Administrative Employees (think managers), Learned/Creative professionals (everything from Doctors to 3D Artists), Computer Professionals (this is usually Ops/Dev level, not IT or support), Outside Sales, and Highly compensated employees that do at least some tasks from the above categories.

The idea is for non-exempt employees, you’re the grunt labor that literally anyone can do (plus professionally-licensed blue collar workers), and for exempt employees you’re paid for your results and independent skill set.

The original idea was that exempt employees would be so invested, involved, and integral to the company that they may need to work 90 hour work weeks, but may have periods where they do no work at all because they have to wait for the results of their work to be realized (An executive may make a decision one week, and need to wait for it to actually be completed before making any further decisions) If you pay them hourly with overtime, they may get a paycheck of a few tens of thousands of dollars, then no paycheck for a month. So instead you guarantee them a salary above a certain amount of money ($684/week for specifically exempt employees, or total annual compensation with no manual labor of $107k/year); and you can work them as hard as you like, as often as you like, but you can’t chastise them or easily fire them if there’s no work for them to do.

How it’s used in actual reality is you’ll be ‘promoted’ to a position that has like one underling and now you’re exempt and don’t get fairly compensated for your now 80 hour work week.

Fun Fact, the American Shitretailer Dollar General has been sued multiple times for misclassifying their employees because for a period of time all employees were managers, and thus were denied overtime.

Don’t worry, right after he’s reelected he’ll start a committee to encourage creation of a congressional sub-committee to get to the bottom of this new radical leftist divisionary idea of ‘climate change’ and propose a committee based on their findings to propose non-binding legislation to be voted on by 2050 only to get shot down by all republicans and whatever number of democrats are needed to ensure none of that ever happens. Mission Accomplished.

Money is and always will be more important in a money-based society than the continued existence of that society; despite the paradox that if the society collapses money is worthless.

The stock market is mostly a ponzi scheme, hence the new regulations every few years when someone from the lower classes figures out a way to exploit it the old guard haven’t though of yet. Then again Capitalism is a ponzi scheme since it requires an infinitely expanding set of poverty slaves for any class to increase its personal wealth.

…Yes, yes they will be. And not based on a moral judgement – it’s illegal in Australia for flat chested women to appear in porn or to knowingly transmit porn containing flat chested actresses. Any Lemmy instance hosted in or accessible by Australia is at risk of being shut down and owners extradited if they live in a country with an extradition treaty.

Instead of a thin-blood, you’re an Elder fresh from torpor.

Welp, there goes the exploration of the world factor.

A mainstream fairly well funded sequel to a cult classic owned by a company that has yet to develop anything even close to the same quality as a janky pre-release third-party source game that has switched developers at least once now?

…I’m sure it will be fine, it’s not like there’s at least two other examples of that exact scenario failing miserably.

Just a reminder; the solution to traffic is almost never more roads.

Yes, absolutely. If it takes me a year to make a high-quality table, then I shouldn’t keep getting paid for the table for the rest of my life + 70 years + whatever new extension Disney comes up with.

“If you protest us stealing your home, we’re going to steal your home!” said the democratic republic that officially has not recognized that it is steal homes.

When a company actually exists that utilizes your view of DLC, then it might be a valid criticism of the phrasing; but zero day one DLC released for any game has been anything but carving up a complete product into an incomplete main product and several DLCs to increase the price without increasing the price. Oblivion was the first example of this. Horse Armor was already developed.

Yes, given there is no ‘empty land,’ you are always destroying something if you create a windfarm on land. On the other end of this, offshore windfarms unironically create local ecosystems. If your goal is not just decarbonization, but decarbonization in order to better the health of the planet, which it should be, then offshore would be the best option.

See: Germany tearing down land wind farms in order to mine more coal. Those turbines aren’t going to be repurposed, they’re going to scrap yards.

Hyperbole works against your goals, and is a direct driver of teen vaping. There are absolutely positive effects with nicotine, to pretend otherwise is simply ‘Reefer Madness’ for overly panicked sheltered millennials. The primary problem, and thus the messaging, should be that the positives do not outweigh the negatives; and nicotine addiction is incredibly hard to break away from.

An ‘evolved’ society that resorts to pointless, unfounded, unscientific scare tactics to justify government control isn’t an evolved society, it’s the 1920s.

That’s more secure than most setups, the VPN with killswitch will defeat any and all attacks you’re likely to encounter if you don’t open files on that same VM.