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I just went to Google maps to see where this was and was surprised and saddened to see that Google maps inserts markers for where the wildfires are, and that there are FOUR ACTIVE RIGHT NOW!

Earlier this year I saw the aftermath of fire devastation in Jasper Alberta. Hundreds of acres left with burned black tree trunks and many homes and businesses lost in Jasper itself. I feel for the Manitobans affected. These fires also look too close for comfort to the Pukatawagan/Mathias Colomb Cree Nation to the northeast. I hope everyone stays safe.

Time to start posting reviews with:

• “This game is impossible to win!”
• “I was told I could take Kyiv in 3 days. I’ve been playing for 1,190 days and I’m still not even close to Kyiv.”
• “Why is my enemy using smart guided anti tank rockets and my soldiers are riding bicycles and wearing Adidas knock off sneakers into battle?”

Who knows? Maybe the Russian military is out of tactical ideas and trying to crowdsource a military strategy from gamers to take Ukraine because they can’t do it themselves.

In 2016, I canvassed for Bernie Sanders. I spent my first day in Nevada walking door-to-door in the desert heat with a dying phone battery and a stack of printed papers delineating potential voters,

…and…

and advance the policies of my [trump] Administration.

Translation: “In 2016 I was doing the hard work of trying to advance progressive politics. In 2025 I decided to do the exact opposite and support oligarchy and kleptocracy.”

Unlike private industry layoffs that target middle management bloat and low performers, the government cuts its newest people first, regardless of performance. Anyone promoted within the last two years was also considered probationary—first in line to go.

Translation: “I was surprised to learn that government employee, which earn substantially less as a tradeoff, have more guarantees that their work long tenure and lack of job-hopping will be rewarded with more job security. This prevented us from cutting people who we felt earned too much because of how long they’ve been with the organization even though they carry institutional knowledge or those we feel we could replace with cheaper juniors we could churn through via burnout like we do in private industry. This also prevents us from implementing ‘stack ranking’ which we could use to pit each worker against each other making each fear daily for their jobs as a method of extracting more value from them.”

I couldn’t install Git, Python, or use tools like Cursor, due to government security policies. Fixing the root of the problem–making it easier for employees to execute–would require congressional intervention, and it was more practical to continue spending lots of money outsourcing the software development to contractors.

…and…

I also learned that my frustrations with the government laptopwere solvable; Charles Worthington, VA’s CTO, recommended getting a software engineering-grade MacBook.

Translation: “What I had confidently concluded on DAY 2 of my employment to be concrete evidence of the endemic corruption, waste and inefficiency of government was actually just me not aware of organizational policies I learned on DAY 5 of my employment.”

Meanwhile, the public was seeing news reports of mass firings that seemed cruel and heartless, many assuming DOGE was directly responsible. In reality, DOGE had no direct authority. The real decisions came from the agency heads appointed by President Trump, who were wise to let DOGE act as the ‘fall guy’ for unpopular decisions.

Translation: “Trump’s DOGE foot soldiers were being painted as the bad guy when it was really Trump’s agency heads commanders that were ordering the actions. Trump’s poor volunteer DOGE foot soldiers were blameless. The only thing Trump’s DOGE foot soldiers did was go through all the people, determine a methodology to fire people, then put the names on a list. It was those evil commanders that fired as many people as possible from all the names we gave them.”

I attended my first and last DOGE all-hands. It felt like a candid Q&A with Elon rather than a structured meeting. When he asked the room about improving DOGE’s public perception, I asked if I could open-source the code I’d been writing.

Translation: “I finally had an opportunity to raise my concerns to Elon Musk directly about the negative impacts our DOGE work was having on workers, services, most importantly the veterans we were supposedly there to serve. I could, at long last, employ my humanity to call out what I saw was how our work was being used destructively. Instead, I asked if I could open source my code so that I could legally access it later after I was done working at DOGE.”

I’m not sure there’s a market for a “Pipette Cry Repeat” based video game.

Unless they’re doing app signing or binary examination, some of the methods to “log every app” literally look for an executable name. Renaming “firefox.exe” to “explorer.exe” (an obviously allowed executable name) and then executing it will still run Firefox.

Also if you’re looking for actual practical applications of this that have happened, Cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev is actual .02 seconds younger than everyone else born at the same moment he was on Earth. He’s an honest to goodness time traveler that has traveled .02 seconds into the future (relative to the rest of us on Earth). He did this by staying in space for a sum total of 748 days on a space station traveling 27,700 km/h around Earth.

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This. Evolutionarily speaking, a pile of cells wanted to live as long as possible. They collectively chose to support the creation and ongoing maintenance of the “brain” organ. They all delegated their survival decisions for the whole collection of cells to just those in the brain. Your consciousness, possible by your brain, is the president. The whole of your body is your constituents. The body is depending on you to make good decisions so the body lives as long and as healthy as possible.

没办法 (méi bànfǎ) - roughly translated means “Nothing can be done to change it”.

There absolutely can be with savings outside of government pension to make that “the children/grandchildren” time, but current government based systems aren’t generally designed and built for that today.

If he, and the rest of that society want that, it will likely mean substantial tax increases. If that populous is fine with that, then it should be pretty simple for lawmakers to make those changes into law. Given that “the children/grandchildren” time not only isn’t in law currently, and that lawmakers are increasing the retirement age to 70, it doesn’t sound like there is support from the voters for that change.

“I’ve paid my taxes all my life. There should also be time to be with children and grandchildren,” Mr Jensen told outlet DK.

I can’t speak to the history of government supplied pension in the EU, but in the USA, our version (Social Security) was never meant to provide “a time to be with children and grandchildren”. The expectation was that most people would die before being unable to work, and Social Security provided a means for the elderly that lived to be housed and fed until they died. Social Security was designed to prevent living elderly from being in absolute poverty never to provide a time of respite before eventually dying.

I’d be very tempted to install Firefox in my local appdata folders (which doesn’t require admin rights to install), then install a theme to make FF look like Edge with something like this..

Still use real Edge browser for work stuff, but FF for less-than-work stuff.

Does your sport have a separate meme/shitposting community? If not that may be the missing component. Being able to both talk about the sport and make fun of parts of it are highly engaging.

Formula 1 seems to do decently here on Lemmy with its news and commentary community:

[email protected] with nearly 10k subscribers.

But importantly there’s also a place for shitposting and meming for the sport in a separate community:

[email protected] with 4.1k subscribers.

So for every one subscriber to the main community there is about 1 subscription to the meme community.

You can pay for ubi by taxing the robots, both physical and digital.

This suggestion is raised frequently, and quickly falls apart under scrutiny.

Give you me your definition of a “digital robot”.

This may be your lucky day then! You can likely use that lifetime sub now!

I did the Sirius lifetime deal a few years offered before the one you did (in 2003 I think?). At the time they called it the “Friends and Family” promotion. It was only $300 at the time for lifetime sub, and they gave you the hardware for free. I’m still using that same lifetime sub today.

I was told that was the last time I would be able to do that and in the future I’d be paying a $75 transfer fee and be forced into a monthly subscription.

This was absolutely true this was the rules at one point. However there was a rule change (via lawsuit maybe?) that allows UNLIMITED TRANSFERS and the fee is only $35/transfer. Its even on the SiriusXM website FAQ:

“Please note: You may transfer an active Lifetime Subscription to another radio an unlimited number of times. For each permitted transfer of a Lifetime Subscription, you will be charged a $35 transfer fee, and the transfer must be effectuated through your Online Account.” source

Your account is likely still alive with your name on it! Contact them and get back into it!

Further, back when you and I bought our lifetime subs the SiriusXM streaming service didn’t exist. It is actually pretty robust now. With your lifetime sub (even without it being on a vehicle), you have full access to unlimited commercial free streaming in their best quality bitrate (there was a time that they offered reduced bitrates for lifetime users but that’s gone now too).

For me, because of a further discount I only paid $230 for my lifetime sub because I got a credit for my previous monthly service and I’ve now had it for over 22 years. So if you do the math, I’m paying 87 cents per month for full in-car and streaming SiriusXM. Lifetime deal was SO worth it!

My power company charges triple rates from 2pm-7pm weekdays.

Holy crap! Triple for those hours?!

I have a western facing home solar array, for me that is most of my prime power generating hours (besides winter months, of course). 2:30pm to 3pm is my peak generation of the day. I just checked my numbers and I’m still generating more than my house consumes until about 8pm. This will change a bit when it gets hotter and the AC is running more.

The USA was actually on a survivable path with our low domestic birth rate because of the large immigration was compensating. Well, now we’ve fucked that up royally by kicking out our immigrants, and also made ourselves a pariah on the global stage so no new immigrants will want to come here.

Either there would be some sort of UBI program in place for workers that get replaced by robots

UBI wouldn’t be just for workers that get replace by robots. The “U” in “UBI” is Universal, meaning everyone gets the Basic Income. From the guy with untreated mental illness that hangs out in the park to the richest billionaire.

Now, the company says it imagines an “Uber-type of setup” to fill their ranks, with gig workers logging in remotely to argue with customers from the comfort of their own homes.

Alternate headline: “Identity thieves salivating at prospects of gain unvetted positions at consumer financial company”

Agreed. No AI voice changer please. Hopefully every one of us at one point in our lives has been read a story by someone else. Never once did the fact that all the different characters dialog was coming from one voice did that detract from the story or the immersion.

I’ve listened to audiobooks recorded with extremely deep masculine voices (think James Earl Jones) and when the voice actor was doing the voice of a 5 year old girl, (in only a slightly higher whiny timbre which matched the character traits) it was never immersion breaking. However, AI voice would. If I want different actors for different characters I’ll listen to radio dramas.

it’s just as likely to read that as assuming Microsoft will block all content in order to ensure the safety of sensitive data.

Hang on. If you’re rejecting rational use cases that companies use Teams for, then your assumption must be that Microsoft will block ALL screen capture when a teams meeting is occurring whether its of the Teams meeting content being shared or not. As in, even the presenter would be blocked from doing screen captures of their own system. Why isn’t that your conclusion?

Why are you, again, from the headline only, assuming that screen capture would mandatory for just content shared to you by a Teams presenter? You chose a middle ground, but why didn’t you choose full blocking?

Sniff tests have to be adapted when things tend to stink in general, or companies regularly try to cover up their smell.

So are you adapting yours back now because yours was proven wrong?