I love this idea, but I beg that it be fully random.

Because I want every board of directors to all have to write a contingency plan against a Union organizer’s monthly spinner outcome.

We could raffle off the right to be the one who makes the spin during the live stream.

I want to hear the billionaires pretend they have all the power while they still have to tune into our live stream of the big monthly spin. Lol.

Statistically, it’s mostly Barklay’s…

“I’m not trying to replicate babies anymore.” - The Improvised Star Trek

I have many communities blocked because I simply don’t have any interest in them.

Lol. Yeah. I’m glad that perhaps every local sports team has a dedicated feed, but I still block them so I can browse all for interesting stuff more easily.

That would save a lot of time…

As someone confortably in that top 10% and unfathomably infinitely outside the billionaire club, I hope you know I’m on your side, and I do care.

Annecdotaly, the majority of my peers are as well.

Our complacency is a huge part of the problem.

But for what it’s worth, we’re increasingly waking up to the fact that we’re also quite fucked by what the billionaires are up to, in the long run.

When I read your comment, “Huh. If it was that bad, you’d think I would remember it.”

When I finished the thread.

“Wait? Are we not talking about Warp 10 Child Abandonment?”

And a quick search later: Threshold

Right. The less said, the better, I suppose.

But we all agree it probably wins this whole thread, right? Lol.

So I suppose we can say the general storytelling rule across all of fiction is “There is only one of any character, unless there is a interesting plot reason for there to be more.”

Yep. That’s definitely why. And they made the right call. A lot of media does it, and usually I can just ignore it.

But having a full plotline of “I’m getting my file back” was just too much for my immersion. Lol.

I wish they would have cut away and handwaved over getting him back.

And let’s not even get me started on how the return trip could have been just the diff files for a few days of experiencs, and so should have been orders of magnitude easier than the original transfer. Lol.

Yeah. I always hand the other person my quarter, when we do this hand off.

Misleading headline. The memo snippet in the article is corporate speak that amounts to “we will stop doing what the law no longer requires us to do.”

Still shitty, but not it’s not quite the usual “billionaire fires anyone who doesn’t look like him” crap.

There’s better answers, and I’ve used some of them.

But I always return to just keeping a text file open with the Unicode symbols I need.

A step up from there is setting up text macros in my text editor. When I was favoring VSCodium, I pretty much copied my text file into the JSON config, added some shortcut names, and started using it.

I’m learning more about custom keyboard firmware now, and hope to have a dedicated virtual keyboard layer for fancy symbols and ASCII art, at some point in the future.

But in a pinch, I just end up with a text file to copy and paste from.

Yeah. People hear the word “billionaire”, but cannot fathom how much their own life would improve if the billionaires captured wealth was out in the world working for them, instead of working against them.

If they remembered when Amazon was still courting new users, because it still had competition, well it’s like that.

Another word is needed

The target is well regulated free trade.

It’s good to be angry at capitalism, because capitalism holds unchecked capital acquisition as a foundational right. We know that doesn’t work in a globally connected world, if it ever worked.

Notice that there’s no right to accommodate infinite capital in the phrase I used. And there’s also no complete ban on private property.

The things that work are usually not any of the crap spouted by vocal greedy world leaders.

We need to clip the right that capitalism gives to become billionaire, and then see where we stand on the rest of the rules, and decide together what we want to change.

We’re likely to find a lot more confortable compromises, after the billionaires thumbs are off the scales.

This is a great topic!

There’s a multipart Voyager series where they manage to email the holographic doctor back to Starfleet to check in. It’s fantastic overall. But at the end there’s a nail biting plotline where they send the doctor back.

1. That’s not how file copying works.
2. Even accepting some plot nonsense reason it needed done, it would still just be a bored and tired ensign waiting on the file copy and pressing “retry” if it didn’t work.

Open source projects aren’t doomed to lousy UX forever.

Shoves GNUImp behind a desk with a foot.

Just look at recent releases of Gnome and KDE. We can have nice things, it just takes time.

I mean, not quite every project. Some of my projects have been turned off for not being useful enough before they had time to get that bad. Lol.

I suppose you covered that with given time, though.

But that’s still pretty damn impressive for a machine.

Yeah. I’m so dang cranky about all the overselling, that how cool I think this stuff is often gets lost.

300 lines of boring code from thin air is genuinely cool, and gives me more time to tear my hair out over deployment problems.