Key is that you think of it as a luxury, where Americans think of it as a luxury item and a necessity at the same time. They can’t fathom real public transit because they’ve never had it. It’s describing color to a blind person. Many have never left their few state radius, and few have even left the country, so anything different is terrifying and unknown to them. It’s what they know, and they have no idea what they’re missing.

One who openly admits they’re fairly senior and living in one of the tech hubs oh no way. To be fair to people outside of the tech hubs, it’s absolutely nuts when you live near big tech. They’re always sort of… Looming. Like when homer was working at the bowling alley and then loses his job and it pans up to reveal the nuclear power plant looking over everything. Except it’s Amazon.

Yup. I’m very happy to take the bus daily, and we are becoming a 1-car household in no small part due to that

K. Don’t need you to believe me. They asked I answered.

I’m all for it if it convinces more people to leave. Unfortunately I see way too many people who see ads though and think “yup that’s just the way it is thank you more please”

This last job search was between Amazon and Meta. I was at the offer stage of both. Then a third smaller company came in. I’m pretty sure the third could have been a whaling company and it would have been a less bad option. Was very happy to turn both of them down.

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Agreed. No wonder our parents brains are melting if that’s the horrifying shit they see.

I mean, the UK just said they’re starting to regulate it literally today, why is anyone surprised by this?

Of course hooray bumble for… Being forced to implement it anyway?

Eh, I like them, but once we get more memes going I could see them being relegated to their own community

Not sure If I should be happy they’re folding or sad for them. The industry is suffering and they made some amazing films, but they also got wrapped up in this franchise hell, making things like matrix resurrections. If they were still making new thoughtful movies like oceans 11 and the original matrix that would be different

We should start thinking that we may be forced to do this as instance admins. The question isn’t going to be “how do we avoid this” it’s going to be “what’s the safest way to accomplish this?”

This is part of what broke my beliefs. It gets crazier than this even.

Let’s put aside free will and just say it’s God’s will. Oh this flood happened, it must have been God’s will! I ask, to what end?

The average Christian will reply “something good will come of this, you’ll see, we just can’t see it yet”.

Okay, let’s pause there. God is infinite and all powerful, correct? So, that means, in true infinity and all power, no matter what he is doing with his Devine plan, there are infinite alternative ways he could have achieved it. That’s infinity. If there aren’t, then he’s not infinite. If he can’t do some of those infinite ways, then he is not all powerful.

If he can do any of those infinite ways, then he chose this one, the one that destroyed homes and lives, he chose it out of infinite other options that wouldn’t have destroyed people. There exist infinite other paths, he chose the destructive one.

So God is either not all powerful, and he’s just a guy trying his best, which hey, good trying and I understand, but not “God” then. Or he’s sadistic and chooses this.

That is the one that broke my faith.

I kinda wish I was on piefed, but the thought of migration sounds hella daunting. Ping me if you find a decent script or something

Oh I’m sure it’s someone who did some chat app a while ago and it’s still stored on some server somewhere. For the quality of the webcam and images they’re pretty old

The photos are the super shitty part. Guaranteed whoever that is doesn’t know her photos were stolen and are being blasted around the internet

Halt promotion, does that mean that we can still get it?

Safer to stay away for sure.

Could it be what we’re doing to them? No it’s the people’s fault

Same. Groups were merged a while ago but I’ve never seen them