flop_leash_973

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 hours ago

Anything related to healthcare has no business being any closer to the whims of "the market" than the public roads.

It would be unheard of for a government to stop maintaining a public road because whomever was supplying some ingredient of the asphalt said that particular mix is "to old and the new mix is not compatible with the roads created using the old mix".

They don't want to do it anymore, fine, then provide whatever is needed for someone else to maintain it for the cost of the materials to print/email/upload to GitHub the technical documents. It should not be legal to get someone hooked on your life altering medical device then rug pull them like this.

 

As if those AI overviews weren't already useless enough.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Once ads are allowed into a platform they will ultimately be what destroys it eventually.

Might take a week or a decade. But the lust of that easy ad money will ruin the thing they were put there to fund in the end.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Right along with story points.

Not meant to be a measurement of time, but of effort. But everyone ends up using them as a measure of time because that is what the MBA at the end of the tables wants.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Tony Hawk pro wheelchairs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Food, hopefully.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

I wonder how much longer it will be before Reddit has to start paying people to moderate the subreddits since no one will want to do it for free anymore.

Who am I kidding, there are so many people that are already taking their payment in the HOA like authority being a mod gives them that will never happen.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

The trailer made it seem like the kind of pretentiously boring mess that the director seemed to think had some profound message that I tend to really dislike.

Or put more simply, "Looks like the director set $120 million on fire to win Oscars, not make something entertaining."

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I honestly don't see an issue with the people going back to the office because they want to work from there. I just want others to stop trying to force me to do the same.

This sort of thing seems to have always been a plague with a set of the extroverted sort. They seem to feel the whole world should for whatever reason cater to what makes them happy and us introverted types that do not like the social activities that they do should be made to partake anyway. For our own good. Yet the world is ending when those same extroverted people have to spend a large chunk of time alone or simply being quiet.

The older I get the less patience I have for those sorts of games. Which could become an issue for me professionally I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They did this with the body armor from Starship Troopers as well. There was at least one episode of Power Rangers where it was used.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Nice, thanks for the movie recommendation. Gonna have to check that one out.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago

There is something society could learn about itself if we spent anytime thinking honestly about how much of a dead end it is politically speaking to increase our use of nuclear power as a means of reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. Yet, when big corporate interests want it for their own reasons, it is no big thing and almost no politician will speak ill of it. Even though if some kind of disaster comes about because of it they will be left holding the bag of public opinion since that industry is so heavily regulated.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Eugenics taken to their logical conclusion.

As the parent of a child on the spectrum that is very aware of what such practices would mean for him, I would never agree with it in real life. But I do have a fascination with what we could do if we just said the hell with ethics and started trying to breed "perfect" people.

 

It feels dirty to agree with an ISP on something. But even the worst corporations are on the right side of something from time to time I suppose.

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Jesus, that is a gross way to inject advertising into turn-by-turn navigation.

Edit/update from 9to5google so this post does not spread what is apparently inaccurate information: https://9to5google.com/2024/07/08/google-maps-pop-up-quick-detour-ad/

 

It is hard to imagine that there was not someone inside of Nike that lost their faith in humanity when the pitch for these things was originally taking off.

 

Well, at least they aren't outright throwing the functionality in the trash.

 

I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.

 

As if the Prime Video app couldn't get any worse.

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