Sure, the first year (or two) of COVID were wretched, but most of those barriers have since cleared — yet I’m still struggling. I’ve noticed the same with a number of people within my family and neighbourhood....
definitely. i’m usually dreading the part right after opening gifts. – the whole day feels stagnant and dead, everything is shut, there’s nothing to do but wait for how shitty jan and feb will be. brutal dead awful months
i’m american so this may influence my comment but – it is so fucking irritating when people casually suggest online ‘taLk tO yOuR DocToR!’ like yeah it’s definitely exactly as trivial as you imagine, sure. not to mention, i’m surely able to candidly speak about my issues and receive an honest, no bullshit response as easily as i would’ve if i just posted, right? because it’s that trivial of a matter? hearing a man in a coat tell me to simply drink water and do bed rest is just as helpful as someone online linking me to a youtube video on how to clear your sinuses.
fuck why can’t i live in europe. almost every day i have the opposite experience where a well meaning midwest person tries to be friendly and my brain just…stalls and does something like this
one of the few upsides of gig jobs is that you aren’t generally bound by the traditional grind like this - if you’re feeling bad on a monday, you can take that day off; if you’re bored on a sunday you can work, etc etc. i genuinely don’t think i could handle the 9-5 M-F rote button down shit without having a psychic break after 2 months
rather than this stupid fucking snip snap game where, instead of, as a user being able to buy into a company that’s building a massive, marvelous, library-of-alexandria-core archive of every good show ever made, you’re paying into some shitty ephemeral bullshit made by stupid greedy dickheads who have no fucking sense
and where is the office for streaming now? why can’t they at least all have the same shit, like with music streaming, and compete on features and price, rather than this absolute transient hell where it’s ridiculously stark how none of anyone involved cares for art or culture
Anyway, if the concern is that Plex, the company, has access to this data, then yeah, you probably should have read the privacy policy a little closer.
come on, you know this is a non answer. also plex shouldn’t have this data, it should be for the admin only.
why are you defending them? sure, they’re allowed because they’re a big company so they make the rules, but that doesn’t mean you have to lick their boots and say oh actually that’s fine you made the choice. even big companies SHOULD be ethical. we DESERVE ethical treatment, furthermore, even people who didn’t wade through the terms.
like I went to taco bell and they didn’t even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.
genuinely remarkable how he gets more and more lame by the day. imagine having literal trillions of dollars, access to opportunities and experiences and pleasures we couldn’t even begin to fathom, and instead sitting down and writing this fucking garbage that would make a middle schooler cringe
An estimated 60,000 gay men were convicted by French courts between 1942 and 1982 under homophobic laws that were repealed just four decades ago. On Wednesday, French senators will discuss a bill acknowledging…
the people that make a case against stuff like this are some of the dumbest and sickest in the world, with an obnoxious and particularly stupid dog’s understanding of morality (well ACHSKULLY it was Illegal then and you still wilfully and wantonly broke the law because you saw fit to thus the punishment was warranted!!)
i don’t want them knowing desktop or mobile either. we all have good enough phones now to handle a proper website on mobile – mobile sites are fucking garbage.
steve jobs during the original iphone keynote did a whole segment on how you could load the full rich widescreen NYT website and zoom in and out and look at that rich text rendering. apps are ass, mobile sites are ass.
i’ve always felt somewhat different than everyone else growing up, in terms of just…sensibility, or how i’d act or react to things, and especially with who i was attracted to. lots of straight girls, sure, but also this meme (sorry for reddit --> www.reddit.com/r/pansexual/…/ahh_who_can_relate/). it’s good to know...
but this is correct, that’s where the mic is, it’s more comfortable than holding it to my ear [especially the modern smartphone shape], and i like knowing i’m talking straight into the mic
it’s just so anachronistic that it’s still illegal anywhere. nobody deserves criminal prosecution for any drug, let alone marijuana. it should be trivial paper shuffling to fix it too, it’s not like it needs funding or infrastructure. just hit the fucking button!
It’s likely because some light fixtures that emit a ton of UV light also look “cool” and get used in the wrong setting. They’re supposed to be for stuff like disinfection. Looks like the bulbs outlining the dj both could be the issue. It wouldn’t be any of the professional fixtures. (Pic in comments because I don’t...
the ‘download’ offering is funny because you know it’s not a real download you can have faith in, it’s some fake bullshit where they’re allowed to let you hit a button
the web has been getting so shitty lately i’ve actually gotten into drawing and reading and vinyl and film, which i highly recommend as a backup plan; just the idea of this feels like the atomic bomb for the internet
Waiting tables. Bartending. Hospitality, food delivery, beauty salons, rideshare driving. The service industry, as anyone who has worked in it knows all too well, is notorious for relying on tipping to undercut employee wages and deputize individual customers to determine how much money a worker should be able to take home. Amid increasing recognition of these injustices, a number of campaigns and new laws surfaced, pre-pandemic, to abolish or meaningfully reduce the practice of tipping.
But despite the best efforts of these campaigns, tipping remains the industry - and American society - standard. Indeed, the perverse logic of tipping has broadened into an ever-present ‘snitch economy’ - an ecosystem of tactics like mystery shoppers and Uber and Yelp rating systems designed to police the behavior of workers while outsourcing the costs of said supervision to customers and other workers.
In the process, our snitch economy pits those being surveilled against those doing the watching, and the judging. Through a ubiquitous public-facing network of rating and reviewing other people’s labor - and often the behavioral disposition they exhibit while working - people with otherwise very little power are elevated to temporary positions of authority over others, fostering a culture of surveillance rather than one of solidarity. The snitch economy serves the dual purpose of not only giving working people a false sense of power when they’re the ones being served, but also reducing millions of human interactions to opportunities for not only snap judgments, but subjective rewards and retribution.
everywhere is also incentivized to make the process as bad as possible so people aren’t casually switching jobs when one presents intolerable conditions
Sarah Katz, 21, had a heart condition and died hours after she drank Panera’s Charged Lemonade, a large cup of which contains more caffeine than Red Bull and Monster energy drinks combined....
My Wife is Sick Rule (lemmy.world)
It's cheaper is what it is (lemmy.world)
Is it just my circle, or has it been a challenge getting into the Christmas/holiday spirit the last couple of years?
Sure, the first year (or two) of COVID were wretched, but most of those barriers have since cleared — yet I’m still struggling. I’ve noticed the same with a number of people within my family and neighbourhood....
This is America (lemmy.zip)
european stereotypes (feddit.de)
PlayStation accounts are being ‘permanently suspended’ and no one knows why (www.theverge.com)
Wake up, it's time for rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Why aren't streaming media contracts negotiated like 'you will provide us the 4K copies of the entire series; we will stream it forever and you will get X% of the profit..margin...etc in perpetuity'
rather than this stupid fucking snip snap game where, instead of, as a user being able to buy into a company that’s building a massive, marvelous, library-of-alexandria-core archive of every good show ever made, you’re paying into some shitty ephemeral bullshit made by stupid greedy dickheads who have no fucking sense
People who post content because it makes you angry : why do you help it spread?
Stuff like memes from people you think are wrong politically, cartoons you don’t find funny, etc etc. Why help the things you hate spread?
Which is the best part of winter: the sun setting at 5pm every day, or it literally hurting when you go outside?
Japan is living in the future that the 1990s dreamed of. (startrek.website)
Plex Discover Together shares a bit too much. ... (lemmy.ml)
Although the headline focusses on a obvious category of media, it really can go wrong on a lot of other categories as well.
Why is everything in consumer / American life so fucking shitty now - and companies literally just say 'oh bc profit margins' and we're now expected to swallow that and sympathize?
like I went to taco bell and they didn’t even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.
Does anyone else feel like just the bad parts of Mark Corrigan (anxious, awkward, shy, quiet) and Jez (stupid, arrogant, lazy, crude)
Columbine vibes rule (lemmy.ca)
You're just not yourself when you're experiencing the end of humanity, Rule (slrpnk.net)
Don't be a no-poster (sh.itjust.works)
French Senate debates compensation for gay men jailed under homophobic laws (www.france24.com)
An estimated 60,000 gay men were convicted by French courts between 1942 and 1982 under homophobic laws that were repealed just four decades ago. On Wednesday, French senators will discuss a bill acknowledging…
Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive (www.nytimes.com) Dutch
I hate chromium (fanaticus.social)
why do i constantly oscillate between having an a) intense work ethic where i consistently work hard and manage money wisely or b) pure gluttony and hedonism where i spend freely and accumulate debt
when i do A for long enough and my overall net worth comes close enough to zero, i switch to B and am only sometimes capable of wrangling it in...
Toughest Choice (telegra.ph)
I wonder what he used that time to think about. (startrek.website)
White sauce rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
I’d say about 100% of my woes could be solved by covering me in a creamy, white sauce.
Loblaws credits record profits to “raising prices on things humans need to live” (www.thebeaverton.com)
“That’s how you end up with a 4th quarter profit of $529 million, available to common shareholders,” Weston Jr. emphasized. “People don’t like dying.”
Touchscreen smartphones aren't even fun or novel anymore, they're just necessities for daily life
yet they’re still priced and treated culturally like luxury toys
Rollin'! Rollin'! Rollin'! (slrpnk.net)
Realized I was likely pansexual last night, some thoughts / observations
i’ve always felt somewhat different than everyone else growing up, in terms of just…sensibility, or how i’d act or react to things, and especially with who i was attracted to. lots of straight girls, sure, but also this meme (sorry for reddit --> www.reddit.com/r/pansexual/…/ahh_who_can_relate/). it’s good to know...
Aaaaaand it's over (lemmy.world)
Ohio votes to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use, becoming 24th state to do so (apnews.com)
Attendees at Bored Ape NFT event report vision loss and extreme pain (www.theverge.com)
It’s likely because some light fixtures that emit a ton of UV light also look “cool” and get used in the wrong setting. They’re supposed to be for stuff like disinfection. Looks like the bulbs outlining the dj both could be the issue. It wouldn’t be any of the professional fixtures. (Pic in comments because I don’t...
HBO Max is removing features from my plan without reducing my price. (lemmy.world)
Indian is one of my favorite types of cuisine. The spices are so strong and delicious. (lemmy.zip)
Maybe this isn't proper shopping but $18.50 for four veggie burgers, buns, and danish seems like a lot (lemmy.world)
Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM (9to5google.com)
The Chrome team says they’re not going to pursue Web Integrity but…...
This is literally the internet nowadays without an adblock (discuss.tchncs.de)
I cannot understand how some people are living with this. It is unbearable
Training hard (startrek.website)
Don't forget to tip your gas station (startrek.website)
Anon applies for a job (sh.itjust.works)
Panera now displaying warning about its caffeinated lemonade in all stores after lawsuit over customer's death (www.nbcnews.com)
Sarah Katz, 21, had a heart condition and died hours after she drank Panera’s Charged Lemonade, a large cup of which contains more caffeine than Red Bull and Monster energy drinks combined....
Google Maps Now Uses AI to Find Where People Are Having Fun (gizmodo.com)
Google is improving Maps with features including where to find EV charging stations and in-depth visualization.
Why does eating a frozen ready meal alone feel depressing even tho it's objectively good that I can have nice warm food easily
very kirk van houten coded...
18 people dead and suspect at large after shootings in area of Lewiston, Maine, authorities say (www.cnn.com)