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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't wash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What soap do you use to wash your chicken?

  Washing the chicken doesn’t fix the problem you’re concerned with though. If it did you could wash the chicken and then just eat it raw.

  The bacteria is inside the chicken, potentially, where you can’t possibly remove it by washing. That’s why you have to cook it.

  Cooking kills the bacteria, and if you have to cook it then the only thing washing will do is spread any surface bacteria around to other surfaces and gives you wet chicken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't wash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like you maybe learned about food preparation in a factory setting, which is different than in a kitchen setting.

  Per USDA and CDC guidelines, you shouldn’t wash poultry before cooking because you’re more likely to spread any contamination, you’re unlikely to remove contamination that’s present since it’s not like it just lives on top of the tissue, and it’s already been washed during processing.

  Obviously if you’re the party doing the actual processing for distribution then things are different since you need to remove potential traces of feces, dirt or other surface contamination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't wash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll have to be more specific about what “this field” is. Restaurant sanitation? Food safety? Chicken washing? Microbiology?

  Whatever your degree, it’s not the recommended practice.
  ask.usda.gov/…/Should-I-wash-chicken-or-other-pou….

  You render meat safe to eat by killing the bacteria with fire, commonly called “cooking it”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits America⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because fastfood places need to compete on either value or quality. They can also try to do both by primarily aiming to convey quality and having a special menu or set of offerings that promise the same quality but at a better price.

  Wendy’s mostly brands themselves as quality focused as compared to other fast food places. So their “good deal” offering has to promise to offer the same quality at a lower price, which means smaller. So they call it big to camouflage that it’s actually smaller.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do we know the government doesn't just have a secret hardware backdoor in all our devices?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to think about what a backdoor looks like for different devices, and different functions of that device. “Backdoor” generally means a way to bypass security measures, but that entails can vary wildly in different contexts. For some things you can know because you can check to see if the hardware is doing what’s expected because the only meaningful backdoor would be local to the hardware.
  For example, hardware based encryption systems can have their outputs compared against a trusted implementation of the same algorithm.

  For cases where there isn’t an objective source of truth for “proper functioning”, or where complex inputs are accepted and either produce a simple answer (access granted/denied), or a complex behavior (logging login attempts and network calls are always expected) it can be harder to the point of impossibility to know that what’s being done is correct.
  This is also the case for bugs, so it can actually be unclear if something is a backdoor or an error.
  “Any sufficiently hair brained programming error is indistinguishable from an attack by a nation state threat actor”. (the goto fail bug is a great example of this. extremely dumb error every programmer has made, or a very well executed and sophisticated attack.

  Ultimately, any system can be compromised by a sufficiently determined attacker. Security cannot be perfect, because at some point you need to trust someone.
  The key is to decide how much you trust each system to handle whatever you need it to handle.
  I trust my phone’s manufacturer as much or more than I trust the network provider. If I’m doing something naughty the person I’m communicating with getting snagged leads to me via the network and their device without needing to compromise my hardware. I choose to focus on the weak link: the people I talk with who might be unable to properly conduct a criminal conspiracy, and getting them up to speed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has marital problems⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe filling out the divorce paperwork doesn’t actually make it happen, it’s just an application for divorce.
  It has to be filed with the court and a hearing held to make sure it’s all good and then the judge does the thing and you’re divorced.
  Mostly this is a rubber-stamping type situation, and the judge mostly makes sure that asset division is done fairly and any children are cared for.
  If no one has objections, the money is simple and everyone agrees, and there’s no children the whole thing is relatively simple.

  So filling out or destroying the paperwork doesn’t actually do anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eeeeh, at least then there would theoretically be public accountability. The FCC has limited censorship power that they’re generally unobjectionable with.

  I’m honestly more concerned with the censorship from private enterprises than with government consorship currently. Less accountability and less recourse.

  It also really only becomes censorship if the rating system is used to prohibit speech. If we instead made it more like the nutritional guidelines on food it could instead give more of a content breakdown than setting an arbitrary age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy birthday, peon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I interpreted it as a week with a holiday. If you get labor day off, taking the rest of the week gets you 9 days off for 4 days PTO.
  Likewise, if your birthday is near there and you get it for free, it’s 9 days for 3 days PTO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy birthday, peon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are also some places that might just do a nice, if not grandiose, gesture for someone on their birthday.

  Previous place I worked it was pretty routine for a manager to grab one of those containers of store made cupcakes if it was someone’s birthday and they knew they didn’t mind, make sure they got one and leave the rest in the break room.
  Never anything more or less than just a nice gesture.

  I’m guessing someone tried a nice gesture and it came out looking sad, so they posed for a picture for a chuckle and moved in. I don’t know anyone who would be really upset by being given a pizza bagel on their birthday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy birthday, peon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My workplace gives you a free day within a month of your birthday. Most people take the closest Monday or Friday to get a three day weekend, but some people are lucky and get to bump a three to a four.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a bit skeptical as well, but there’s at least one seemingly reputable academic researcher who says as much: en.wikipedia.org/…/15_February_2003_anti-war_prot… (first citation).
  So even if it wasn’t, one could easily be forgiven for the mistake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claim Denied⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  From what we know about real hitmen, they tend to be unsettling, since a willingness to murder people is at minimum a sign of an indifference towards life.
  They often buy not always have personality traits in common with serial killers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You mentioned a handful of games without doing any research on them, and one of them accidentally proved my point.

  You asked for a list of games that fit my “steam hasn’t impacted pricing” statement, so I gave you games that had prices inline with what steam prices games at and industry standard. Like I explained in my previous comment. I know how much those games cost: between $50 and $70 dollars, which is what games have retailed at for decades.
  Games on steam and off steam have had roughly the same price, and games not on steam have had perfectly reasonable times making sales. Except the one on epic.

  They set the $50 price tag to maximize revenue

  My point was that even with lowering the price to the low end of standard, they have had some difficulty getting enough revenue to cover the cost of the game.
  If other retailers are able to compete just fine, and one isn’t despite lowering prices and paying for exclusives, and it’s the one that, as you mentioned, people complain about when they buy an exclusive, then maybe the issue is with that retailer.

  statista.com/…/average-price-of-video-games-by-pl…

  If you want more discussion, you can Google “video game prices over time”.

  Given that you’re starting to ignore large bits of replies and have been repeating yourself pretty consistently without expanding on the point, I’m not sure that there’s much value in continuing. You think it’s anticompetitive, I don’t think it’s so obvious. We’ll see what the courts say.
  Have a nice day, and I hope you find the same passion for your next endeavor. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So, a court document is an argument, not a smoking gun. The court didn’t dismiss the case because it has enough merit to be argued, which just means it isn’t plainly false at first glance. The court did dismiss earlier versions of their claim. Earlier versions being rejected and this one being allowed to move forward have little to do with anything.
  Repeatedly asserting that it’s “anticompetitive bullying” doesn’t actually make it anticompetitive bullying.

  This isn’t going to end well for you when Valve becomes as openly evil as Google.

  Lol, what do you think is going to happen to me? I think maybe you’re taking this conversation too seriously.

  Yes, Alan wake 2 was lower priced on epic than on consoles by about $10, after epic financed the game. it also has yet to turn a profit, with most revenue coming from titles that aren’t exclusive to epic. You also ignored the list of other games I mentioned, each of which launched for $60 to $70 and wasn’t on steam.
  Half life 1 cost $60 on launch. Same for 2. Same for the original star craft. Same for basically every full featured game for years.
  It’s not “sus” that most games sell for the typical price for a game. It’s a sign that valve isn’t driving up prices, since prices are roughly the same regardless of platform, vendor or time, including when steam didn’t exist yet.

  I know you think you’re arguing against a mindless steam fanboy, hence you’re starting to break out some insulting language and condescension. I can assure you you’re not, just like I assume I’m not dealing with a dense contrarian more interested in punishing valve for success than actual critical thinking.
  I don’t think that suing someone necessarily makes you right, and that a financially motivated lawsuit is an inherently slanted description of events, when the trial hasn’t happened and none of the claims have even been responded to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And of course it’s not possible that they’re despised and not doing well because people don’t like their platform.

  You still haven’t convinced me that they are price fixing, to say nothing of it hurting consumers. Full feature games on steam are still around the same price console games are, and that games have been for many years. If they’re price fixing to artificially inflate prices, they’re doing it in a way that hasn’t really kept up with inflation and has been in line with retailers on platforms they don’t even sell on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Listing your product on Steam isn’t advertising.

  They literally present your product to people as recommendations and make it discoverable by the people likely to buy it. No, it’s not banner ads, but you use them because they get your game in front of consumers likely to buy it. That’s the entire reason the platform has appeal to developers.

  This entire lemmy post is about someone being upset that Epic is successful enough to have an exclusive

  Yes. Because it’s a worse store. People being upset that a thing they want has a hurdle they’re not willing to jump over doesn’t mean the preferable system is a problem.

  Is it reasonable for Nordstrom to go after a company selling the same product at Wal-Mart cheaper?

  If they signed a distribution agreement, then yes. It would almost be like a game signing an agreement to sell exclusively on the epic game store and then deciding to sell on steam anyway.

  It’s a flawed analogy though, because Nordstrom’s and Walmart buy the product and then resell it, rather than facilitating a sale. Valve doesn’t buy 50k licenses from you for $20 each and then try to sell them while keeping all the revenue for themselves.

  They know their price fixing department would have to become a “watch for prices on other platforms and adjust our prices / cut to be competitive” department.

  🙄 That would make sense if valve set the prices or adjusted their cut in real time.
  Epic is allowed to compete with steam on price. Games don’t have to be on steam to be successful. Valve has no way if stopping you from choosing to use a different store, and as you pointed out in the beginning: This entire lemmy post is about someone being upset that Epic is successful enough to have an exclusive. You can’t be mad epic isn’t “allowed” to compete when they’re actively competing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How much does Diablo cost? How much did StarCraft 2 cost? Alan wake 2 ? Every Nintendo game? PlayStation or Xbox console exclusives?

  It’s trivially easy to find full featured games that didn’t launch on steam and have the same price point as a full featured game on steam.

  I’m not entirely sure what you mean by “the economics of an exclusive launch on a smaller platform are going to be completely different”.
  Isn’t your whole point that the smaller platform can compete by taking a smaller cut and allowing developers to offer lower prices for the same revenue?
  How does developers not doing that become irrelevant?

  And it’s two small publishers who had their remaining claims joined by the court after variously having them dismissed and reframing them. Class action doesn’t mean that a large number of publishers have actually made the complaint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve not letting you use their advertisement and distribution network at the same time you undercut them on sales elsewhere doesn’t feel anticompetitive to me.

  Some games choose to skip steam and use epic. Epic pays them to do so, and the publisher doesn’t lower prices.

  If you’re a publisher, why would you want to offer a lower price elsewhere? The appeal to a lower cut to you is higher revenue, not equivalent revenue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or blizzard, riot or epic. All of which are perfectly successful without using steam.

  Communication between valve and publishers about TOS violations is only an issue if it’s an anticompetitive clause.
  If publishers want to offer lower prices, they can use a different storefront like the others. If they can’t make sufficient revenue without valves advertisement and distribution network, then maybe the service is worth the price valve charges for it.
  Valve has done nothing to stop consumers from using other stores, so I’m not particularly sympathetic when the stores are upset about consumer choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Price fixing is, as your highlighted bit says, a conspiracy to not compete on prices. Valve isn’t conspiring with their competition to fix prices, nor does valve even set the price.

  The lawsuit alleges that it’s anticompetitive, not price fixing.

  I personally don’t think it’s anticompetitive , given the number of popular games that don’t use steam. I just think that epic has a worse product, which isn’t valves fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally said “companies that don’t use steam”. If a publisher opted to not use steam, it should have lower prices, right?

  Except we see games not released on steam still selling for the same $60 for a full feature game that we do everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  … That’s not price fixing.

  Do companies that don’t use steam offer comensuratelty lower prices?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not why epic has to pay for exclusives. They have to pay to cover the income gap developers would face from eschewing the better store.
  Publishers are free to skip using steam and pass along their savings, but they invariably don’t. They just pocket the difference.

  That epic game store exists, takes a lower cut and gives away free stuff, and still struggles to be viable is an indicator that valve isn’t be anticompetitive.
  It’s not illegal to have a better product, only to use your market position to keep other products from trying to compete.

  It’s one thing to be generally against big companies, and another to be against one in favor of another, when the stakes are “which company keeps money”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SHAME.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly not the case. “The vaccine is untested, as any immunity that a vaccine gives you will be weaker than what you get from natural immunity. Your immune system will never get stronger unless you let it work. I’m gonna get COVID eventually no matter what, so I may as well get the good immunity without risking the side effects of the vaccine. It’s just a cold anyway, so I’m not risking much”.

  That whole corner of the family is very ignorant and susceptible to misinformation. I’m just some guy who can explain things and show them CDC or WHO sources, which are unreliable and suspect. I don’t have the gravitas of a very confident tiktok creator or a podcaster.

  I’m also a little salty at them because they were all excited to see my new twins until I asked if they could be up to date on their vaccinations since they were in the NICU (premature, all good now). Variously “my family will not get the COVID shot”, “the flu shot will give me the flu”, and “I shouldn’t need to get a Tdap booster, I’m tired of needles”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SHAME.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. And less effective at giving immunity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SHAME.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But you could also use it to separate them from their money, which is an even greater good.
  Also, it potentially keeps the people in their care who have no agency from getting listeria, which is up there with lining your pockets via virtuous con artistry in terms of moral virtue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SHAME.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I damn near throttled someone who said that to me. They said the COVID vaccine was too risky, and they’d rather get a real immunity from actually getting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since the government can theoretically access the location of everyone's phone, wouldn't it be unsafe for an undocumented immigrant to have a phone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They werent allowed to disclose location and times

  That makes it wholly unsuitable for a dragnet surveillance system.

  Further, a business can aquire data that a police agency can’t gather without a warrant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think being left-handed gives any unique qualities or advantages compares to other right handed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Notable advantage in a lot of beginner and intermediate level sports. By the time you get beyond that everyone knows how to compensate for left handedness.

  Easier for you to assault a castle with spiral staircases while using a sword.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since the government can theoretically access the location of everyone's phone, wouldn't it be unsafe for an undocumented immigrant to have a phone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Accessing that location data isn’t trivial. The data is typically held by various private companies who put up at least token legal resistance to cover themselves from lawsuits.
  Intelligence agencies have their own avenue for getting the data, and on paper they’re not allowed to share it with police agencies.
  Police agencies typically need to specify the individual in question, or the specific location and time to get a warrant. This is because they’re not supposed to be able to blanket surveil an otherwise private piece of information without having a good reason.
  The classic example is not being able to listen to every call on a payphone they know drug dealers use because they’ll listen to people who have not done anything illegal.
  Intelligence agencies are an entirely different thing with weird special rules and minimal and strange oversight.

  This is all relevant because the government doesn’t actually know who’s allowed to be here or not.
  Most people in the country without proper documentation entered legally and then just stayed outside the terms of their entry. The terms can be difficult to verify remotely, which is why you’re not actually here illegally until you go in front of a judge, they deport you, and then you return again.

  Finally, there are significant chunks of the country where location tracking via cell tower is imprecise enough to get the country wrong, and a lot of people live there. So any dragnet surveillance setup is going to have to exclude some pretty large population centers to avoid constantly investigating people in Windsor sometimes quickly teleporting into Detroit.