If we just accept these things, they will keep pushing for more.

They are going to do whatever they want to do. They’ve long passed the point of caring if they anger people.

Thank you, I’ve made my donation!

Thank you, I’ve made my donation!

Dude, setup a GoFundMe! (But, you know, use an open source alternative)

I’d give $10 a month to Ukraine… it would be one of the cheapest subscriptions I have.

No one knew that fixing the issues in the Middle East could be so difficult.

The ‘Concert for George’, tribute to George Harrison is pretty great.

Another article I saw said that they are there for ‘protection’. Not sure how effective they would be.

Same. I bought the lifetime pass on sale many years ago, my setup is still working fine without me having to have touched it for at least the past 3 years outside of applying an update from time to time. I don’t stream their free shows or movies and have those setup so that they don’t even show up as an option on my tv.

Do I wish it was still the same company it was a decade ago? Of course… but so far they haven’t impacted my experience to the point that I feel the need to replace it with something else. The second that happens I will be spinning up Jellyfin.

There are plans to create a 9-foot-tall version in bronze in the works

Oh good, that’ll make a beautiful visual as well pull that piece of shit down!

The output is only as good as the model being used. If you want to write code then use a model designed for code. Over the weekend I wrote an Android app to be able to connect my phone to my Ollama instance from off my network. I’ve never done any coding beyond scripts, and the AI walked me through setting up the IDE and a git repository before we even got started on the code. 3 hours after I had the idea I had the app installed and working on my phone.

Just like gas prices went down after the price of oil dropped?

Try being more direct, you can still write out your whole email with the full description, but put in a section somewhere that’s easy to see that’s labeled as “QUESTIONS” and then enumerate the questions you want answered. I often will have the whole section bold and further highlight important words in red. This makes it easier for people to answer inline on the reply and helps ensure questions weren’t missed.

The truth is, most people don’t like the ‘email’ part of the job and may only check it once or twice a day and I’d most likely just skimming through several messages and not fully devoting much time to each message. By making it easier for them to reply you end up with a better result.

You can also use this when you expect someone to take action from your email. Let them know precisely what you want them to do, and make it very easy to find ‘The Ask’.

EDIT: Or, you can just downvote any comments that actually offer suggestions and stay of the opinion that everyone else is wrong and only you are correct.

who the fuck just stands there like an idiot after a gunman supposedly tried to kill you

The idiot who looked into an eclipse?

CBD.

Living in a prohibition state it helps make it sound legal.

That’s almost as satisfying as seeing a Russian soldier turned to static.

You’re out in nature while helping to clean up

You’re out in nature… IN AUSTRALIA! He’s risking his life being out in nature picking up garbage.

…but it’s always at least entertaining.

Careful, that’s how I used to hear Joe Rogan described.

When I had covid I didn’t want to risk inhaling from my vape, so I grabbed my ABV and sprinkled a few spoonfuls into a peanut butter sandwich. That got me pretty high… but, ugh, I don’t recommend it. I was burping cannabis burps all night.

What word is that?

* Except the ‘n-word’.