While epic aren’t the white knight we want, anti competitive practices should be stamped out. It’s come out that Spotify get special terms. How can anyone new compete with them? The cut taken by app stores for what is effectively payment process in most cases is crazy.
They command the power as they have users. However most users don’t choose to be there. They have no choice but to use the app stores. It is technically possible to download from elsewhere, at least on Android, but it gets harder and harder to do so.
Personally, a few years ago I never would have co sidered an android phone without gapps. Now it’s becoming more and more clear that it’s a necessity. More and more tracking. More and more rorting. More fees. More micro transactions. More and more locked down.
If marketing promises something, you should live up to that, even if plans change. If you haven’t gotten to the stage where you know what kind of game it is, you shouldn’t be marketing it that way yet.
Sure, things can change but if it’s something that might change, don’t market it.
Old marketing for an old product, sure. Products change over time. However forward marketing for a product yet to be released should be accurate at release.
Do you think the countries that are more inclined to tell students that are behind to not show up to school have an education ethos that will hel long term?
It’s ways good to compare but we should measure what’s being compared too.
I’ve been feeling down lately and I started re-watching futurama for some good nostalgia, but it keeps making transphobic jokes which is kind of just making me feel worse. Anyone have any suggestions for comfort shows to watch?
I also think there was gender swap in 3rd rock played for laughs, but I might be misremembering gender differences for an alien. I also don’t recall the episodes so not sure if it was just poking fun at gender as a whole.
Similarly, I think scrubs has some references that may be unpleasant but on the whole they tend to be good or thoughtful when dealing with subjects that at the time weren’t always represented well.
Unfortunately, a lot of older shows have unpleasant jokes. We just have to realize that jokes were a way to discuss the taboo and if we didn’t have those jokes back then, we might not have the progress to today. That’s not to say we want them now but we should judge the media on the knowledge and morals of the time.
I think the point is they are very different cuisines, not interchangeable. They both just happen to be spicier than the American palate is used to.
I don’t choose food based on country of origin but what I fancy to eat. Sometimes that’s Indian foods sometimes thai, sometimes vietnamese etc.
I live in Australia where there is not a great selection of Indian food (despite a relatively high Indian population) compared to the UK where I also lived. Even so, there are different styles of Indian food with different dishes available just in my suburb. It’s nothing like Thai food, which also has a large variety. Both Indian and Thai restaurants have a few dishes that are ‘classic’ and available at most mainstream restaurants. Like, it would be odd to not have Pad Thai available, or in an Indian, butter chicken.
Sometimes I’ll want a pad Thai. Sometimes a butter chicken. The pad Thai is not better than the butter chicken. A green curry is not better than a jalfrezi. They are different flavour profiles.
I would say there is more crossover between dishes from Vietnam, Thailand malaysia and China, with varying levels of spice and flavour but very similar dishes available and common.
Again, you might prefer a Vietnamese sweet and sour chicken, but that doesn’t mean Cantonese or Hong Kong style is better or worse.
Lol, there are many different types of curry. That’s like saying noodles. It encompasses Italian, Thai, Japanese, Korean…
Yes, food doesn’t have boundaries and fusion food can be great. Your point about people graduating from Indian to Thai still doesn’t make sense in that context.
You can also take the opposite and look at fortune cookies. Invented by immigrants and now associated with Chinese food. Is that any different to a foreign person creating a recipe in China with Chinese ingredients, or a French person in the UK using Chinese cooking techniques.
Is tempura less Japanese because the batter originated with Portuguese traders?
The trackers can’t tell which are manual clicks and which come from the plugin. That’s the idea. It obfuscates your tracking by random clicks you don’t see. It costs them data and makes tracking you worthless.
I think there is a setting to how often it clicks. From rare, 10%, to all, 100%. I understand what you’re saying about it now. I didn’t realise the option for all was there. I thought it was more random.
Beijing will likely retaliate. They will be wary of upsetting the EU as a whole, though. They played games with Australia when there were minor spats about unrelated trade.
From Italy’s point of view, if it’s not working, why stay and it looks like there was a specific out by giving notice. It’ll probably be more damaging leaving than entering was beneficial.
From.chinas perspective it’s embarrassing as if the terms are so poor that wealthy countries leave, poorer countries will feel emboldened, if they can afford to leave. If China keeps upsetting trading partners, they risk being always a necessary evil for cheap labour, but that advantage is dipping as they get wealthier.
The good wife. It became a bit distant from early episodes and meandered a bit. New characters were good but it was odd having main cast not share scenes due to personal falling out.
Sex and the city. Started out topical and fresh. Became a melodrama. Now revived as a melodrama.
Downton Abbey. Good cast and stories but time jumps meant you kept losing plots, characters and subplots, so it fizzled out.
Yes, I understand that. Ireland is still more catholic than Protestant. My point about Poland is that clean straight lines don’t seem to be important, it about which is religious.
There are different things being measured between the 2 maps I referenced.
While I get your point and agree that it would have made it more interesting, Carl wasn’t likable, which is needed for a moral core character. And the second season was a huge let down, so it was slow road downhill before Carl left.
Probably because all information changes I’ve notes in the last few years have nothing to do with improving information access and all to do with monetizing it.
Yes. The product was good and the ads surrounded it. Ow the ads is the purpose and things are designed around that. Not just with googlez but all companies.
There is a serious problem with commerce and friction in payments when most companies that are valuable in the last 20 years don’t have a product but help people to find a product already available.
I wonder if they could be sued under Americans with disabilities act. Requiring someone to suffer dysphoria to partake in the production would be discriminatory. Being trans is not likely protected, but suffering dysphoria might be.
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I think putting a question mark shows that they are unsure of pronouns and would prefer to use the correct one. However, I completely agree that ‘they’, or a name, would be much better.
I don’t think the intent is unkind but it is clumsy and inconsiderate. A small step above unkind.
The site owners have different values and notices than any one writer or journalist. The problem with ads is they became too intrusive. So ad blockers block all, including on respectful websites. It’s better for consumers to block all, but journalism does with no revenue and most don’t want to pay. We don’t yet have a middle ground.
It may just be a coincidence but my work voip, which is non Optus, went down for an hour two days ago. My csm software is in the cloud and uses an sms gateway, with a different company and provider. It went down twice yesterday for a few hours. I don’t recall the last time that happened. I wonder if there was some underlying telecoms issue that undermined them all at different times.
And the more support Israel gets to kill those civilians the more likely sympathetic regional neighbours would be inclined to join. And rightly so. It’s genocide.
Yes, a waterproof one for swimming. It’s life changing, but it means having to scour the seven seas for music as I don’t buy CDs or have an mp3 collection any more.
Red flag for me. I’m all for people having hobbies, but bringing up niche hobbies from childhood would not be great. I’m sure 2 fans would get along great. However, it would be odd to bring up with another adult who is not a known fan.
It’s a show marketed at kids. Manu adults like it as they grew up with it. Manu adultsike the games, but those unfamiliar are not starting as adults.
For me, it’s not about having a childhood hobby you still enjoy. It’s about not having the social awareness to not being it up on a first date. In context, sure, why not, if you walked by a poster or kid playing and it became a topic of conversation. But as a topic of conversation whose purpose is to get to know each other, I’d be worried they never matured.
I still.play video games from my childhood almost daily, when I get the chance. I won’t chat about combos or new sf6 characters with strangers or a first date.
Yes, but that’s partly my point. The teens and adults that are fans are only fans due to playing as kids, likely due to marketing to them. That’s not to say any game is good or bad, but to me it’s a sign of immaturity to bring it up. I’d have similar red flags with someone discussing non kid hobbies if I showed little interest. If someone wants to chat football or handbags, I’d equally want out. It’s a know your audience problem. If have no problem dating a Pokemon fan and I’d probably take up the game to play with them. My issue is being so into it it’s all you want to talk about on a first date. It would strine me as immature.
If we were discussing hobbies and they briefly brought it up, that wouldn’t be a red flag, per se.
Ask it to monitor all public cameras and notify when it finds the face you are stalking.
Ask it to analyze your known movement patterns based on public check ins and guess at future locations. Or ask it to monitor profile for check ons and give updates.
They aren’t as far as I’m aware. But a year ago, chatgpt didn’t exist either. It’s not a huge technological leap. Especially now it’s getting linked in to google and bing, which in turn are linked to your online presence with email, tracking etc.
The question is if they will be locked down well enough?
Your mistake is to assign any portion of the action to a corporation. They are a legal entity, sure, but they are an empty vessel. They don’t have morals or choice or a conscience. People do. The people doing amoral things are incentivised to do so. They make only a part of the corporation. That’s the point. To act as a collective, and as a shield.
Remove the incentive for the individuals and for the entity and the problem disappears. It’s not the fault of consumers. It’s a fault of the system. Change the system. Consumers can play a part in that, but that doesn’t make them to blame.
I’m saying change the incentives. That means fines in multiples of the potential profit. I’m saying fines for individuals, not just companies.
I’m saying put the bad actors out of business with the fines. So the other companies are incentivised not to do it, or they die.
I’m saying stand up and say no, so it’s a pr nightmare and loss for companies to encroach on our privacies and rights. I’m saying fines for data breaches. Fines for misusing data. Fines for using our likeness.
Fingers crossed. In the technology space, the path for profitability seems to be to restrict competition and competitor traction.
Facebook, Google et Al don’t produce a physical product. There is no reason they should be “sticky” as they are. It’s on purpose. They design their products to make it hard to switch from habit and dopamine fixes rather than quality of product. That manipulation should be punishable.
I think freedom of movement of data should be a requirement. Including using open standards.
We should also have open information. Companies know how much they made in advertising off users. Users should be aware. It might be eye opening and make more people question the service.
Gary Oldman Says ‘Thank God’ for ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Dark Knight’ Movies Because ‘They Saved Me’ (variety.com)
Google Loses Antitrust Case Brought by Epic Games (archive.ph)
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The Day Before joins Overwatch 2 as one of Steam's worst-reviewed games after players discover it's not an MMO at all (www.gamesradar.com)
As the PISA 2022 results were released a few days ago, how was the reaction in your country? (factsmaps.com)
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Comfort shows without transphobic jokes?
I’ve been feeling down lately and I started re-watching futurama for some good nostalgia, but it keeps making transphobic jokes which is kind of just making me feel worse. Anyone have any suggestions for comfort shows to watch?
Indian Food is praised worldwide and celebrated in countries like the UK and Germany. Americans, why do all your comedy shows rag on Indian food?
What is a privacy friendly application that you'd love to have, but no one has developed yet?
Italy withdraws from China's Belt and Road project (www.koreatimes.co.kr)
What is a TV show that was one of your favourites, but just went on for far too long? (kbin.social)
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Google could be working on a shared phone number blocklist for Android (www.androidauthority.com)
In the store, I sometimes encounter containers (e.g., beer, water, shampoo) with a volume of 618ml. Why exactly this number?
20 maps of prejudice in Europe (64.media.tumblr.com)
What character leaving a show made it less interesting or entertaining? (kbin.social)
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Google Maps widely rolling out new color palette (9to5google.com)
Australian naval divers injured after being subjected to Chinese warship’s sonar pulses (www.theguardian.com)
Acting prime minister criticises Chinese ship’s ‘unsafe and unprofessional conduct’ after Australian sailors had requested it stay clear
TX school bans trans boy from playing "Oklahoma!" male lead, recasts with cisgender male student (www.salon.com)
How to talk to trans people
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My friend thinks you’re cute (lemmy.ca)
What did the zero say to the eight?
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Firefox will support at least 200 new extensions on Android this December (www.androidpolice.com)
Optus network outage affects millions of Australians (www.reuters.com)
Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices (finance.yahoo.com)
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Biden Wants Arms Deals With Israel to Be Done in Complete Secrecy, Without Congress (truthout.org)
Modern Warfare 3 Accused of Being A $70 DLC by Fans: "It Feels Like Half a COD Game" (comicbook.com)
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X is officially worth less than half of what Elon Musk paid for it (www.theverge.com)
A year after he bought Twitter for $44 billion, Musk thinks the company is now worth $19 billion, a 55 percent drop....
An AI firm harvested billions of photos without consent. Britain is powerless to act (www.politico.eu)
Sundar Pichai argues in court that Google isn’t evil, it’s just a business (www.theverge.com)
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