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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tired of hearing about “The offshore team”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Since it isn’t happening to you personally I guess it would be hard to back up with evidence but is there not somewhere you could anonymously report these abuses and concerns to? Any government department? At the very least the misrepresented conditions seem like they must be a violation of something . If it’s anonymous hopefully you’d be shielded and you don’t personal face the same risks to your well being. If there’s anything that is actionable it could result in better conditions all round.

  Your tip might be a piece of information that they can add to any other such information to trigger an investigation maybe. Here in Australia at least, the government does at least sometimes act on abusive labour practices, they’ve swooped in on farmers employing fruit pickers who are almost entirely foreign and who suffered absolutely blatant wage theft and abuse and other high profile instances such as foreign embassy staff being treated as slaves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great tee shirt with words of wisdom that I bet you never realized⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah but is it still the same hand?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Super disconercting when you’re not the one in the lift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excellent anti smoking ad⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, he chimp, the duck and the frog all looked pretty cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes weed eggs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  First time I ever ate weed a friend of mine took my birthday nuggs and ground them up and put the weed in a pan with some butter then drained it in to a shot glass with honey and gave it a little nuke to soften everything up. Considering how makeshift it was and the gross little bits of leaf getting caught in your mouth it was surprisingly good, the actual weed component of it made the whole thing taste a little like crunchy nut cereal with an oddly herbaceous element to it. Having seen how you’re supposed to make weed butter properly in the time since, it’s surprising that this worked so well but my god I was high as a kite, it was amazing. Don’t know if, given the pretty brief time spent on heat with the butter, maybe it was necessary to actually eat the weed itself rather than strain it, wouldn’t recommend that if can be avoided but then again this was all ready in under 10 minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donuts are good for you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Did it make you buy her a gold necklace?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon loves his sister⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This ended way less fucked up than I thought a concept called “sisterpilled”, from 4chan, was going to go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germ Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I particularly hate those airblade things even more than regular air dryers. I like that they’re faster and typically not as gross and warm but they are designed in a way where you feed your hand in to a narrow gap with powerful air jets on front of and behind your hands in this gap. Your hands are not a completely uniform symmetrical shape, the jets buffets your hand around and it inevitably touches the device where the jets are located, right where everyone else has had the same thing happen. It grosses me out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨definitely⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You sure do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You best start believing in a cyberpunk dystopia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On balance it could be that the risks to your personal safety might outweigh the perceived increase in secrecy. To me I don’t like the idea that I’ve left a record that can be questioned if I’m getting prosecuted, but you’re right I haven’t factored in the overall risks from the alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays spin the bottle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds… ominous

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays spin the bottle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not an entirely faulty line of thinking in that environment. Those bastard kids really did do that kind of thing all the time and they found it hilarious. When all your experiences up until that point made such an unexpected scenario seem unlikely, the chances of it being a cruel prank instead probably really are higher or even higher still someone recognising your plight and trying to be charitable whilst not quite realising that that hurts almost as much.

  As you probably guessed I didn’t enjoy school a whole lot either. I hope she was sincere though dude. God knows school fucks with your mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You best start believing in a cyberpunk dystopia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, indeed. Hence the earlier, “HOW GET MONEY?” someone so eloquently asked in relation to this dead drop method. You could arrange your own dead drop for the dealer’s payment I guess, or stuff the money in to the same tree. It’s all a bit fraught, and requires you both to trust each other even more than a deal normally would. The system seems to be pretty flawed. Guess it works of you’re happy to leave an indelible record of you transacting with this person and if you trust them to actually put the goods there rather than just take the money since you’ll never see them and have no recourse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You best start believing in a cyberpunk dystopia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be uneasy with electronically transferring funds for illicit drugs, cash seems wiser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did the first people to settle in very cold climates decide to settle in such a harsh climate?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious about the “better tech than us” claim. Can you give some more detail and context to this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give us your best infodump.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a secret rouse so you won’t suspect the stuff that they don’t tell you and get together every few months to co-ordinate keeping under wraps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Better that than confused people watching videos of Joe Rogan or Trump or something, maybe there’s a natural deterrant against disinformation in the name by just getting people to watch cows all day long. Then again I’m sure people would start taking cow dewormer eventually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or cowvid for that matter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is the mexican-american war considered "the last war of humanity"??⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  WTF!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am a very liberal person and I have very liberal children, except for one. I'm pretty sure my Gen Z son has been taken in by fascist doctrine. What can I get him for Christmas?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeh, this is a weird question. Kid has to know he’s going to be accepted by his own Dad and still be able to make up their own mind on things. Hopefully when they’ve more fully developed they might sway a different way but acceptance from their Dad shouldn’t really be conditional upon it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you go about evaluating sources of information for truth/credibility/etc.?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No person nor source gets it right all the time, I like your idea as an evaluative technique but I think the assumption that being incorrect here is necessarily because of lying might mean discounting a lot of sources/creators who are otherwise reputable. I’d look at it more like degrees of doubt cast over everything else they say where you don’t have the expertise to evaluate the accuracy. Much like a driver’s licence, you get dinged enough times for more and more infractions and eventually you lose your license. If they keep continually getting things wrong where it’s something you know something about eventually you can probably discount them on anything else as well, but if it’s just once or twice, especially where they’re not egregiously wrong, some benefit of the doubt could be beneficial to all concerned. Better I would have thought to take what feels like their salient points on the content they produce on topics where you aren’t knowledgeable and check if other people are claiming anything similar and where something is verifiable, try to verify. Of course theoretically you should do that all the time but in practice at least each time you know someone is wrong about something it’s an indication that for them specifically further checking is required.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeh you don’t like it, sure, but the question was whether it had gotten worse in some way that’s quantifiable different to how it used to be in the past, or if it’s just OP’s personal taste changing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What good thing just happened in your life?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The other day I made butter chicken and it was one of the best butter chickens I’d had, at least as good as restaurant quality. Can’t wait to make it again and it was my 2nd try ever so I think I nailed it pretty quick. Wicked proud of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the event you believe a contract killer is in breach of contract, who adjudicates?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s better answers here addressing the unlikeliness of contract killers existing in the sense of a freelancer available for hire to all the general public rather than someone trusted by peers in a criminal enterprise and also about the “contract” not really being a contract because it’s unenforceable but I think you could also draw the conclusion just by reasoning alone that if a contract killer in that Hollywood sense of the term existed, and breached their contract and you the client don’t have the personal connections or power to threaten that particular assassin’s life in response, there’s always just good old reputation at stake. I mean, it wouldn’t help you in your specific case if they’ve nicked off with the money and left your target very much alive but to have hired them in the first place would have required word of mouth in hopefully a pretty small community of people since you can’t exactly expect to find them on fiverr so you could make it know pretty quickly that this person doesn’t honour their contracts so their wet work career would be over pretty quick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That funny feeling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know this was common for other people. I’ve always viewed my capacity to cause what should be a sporting injury from lying in bed as a uniquely personally shameful indictment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I mean, what would you say in that position? It’s hardly going to help any to come out and announce that everything is fucked and you’d probably also be pretty disinclined to say nothing of note was achieved in your own administration or that there isn’t really enough time to do much of anything in the remaining period.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm going to try not to swear when you're around. Is this a good apology to a coworker?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It also sounds like based on the preceding post that they really are going to have to do this as the initial reaction to offending their coworker seems not to have gone down well with them and their colleagues at all. It looks like they’re kind of having to do this to prevent things escalating any further which might be why their apology has needed to be workshopped and people are finding flaws in it. They’re probably having to work through a fair bit of resentment before they can find an authentic apology in themselves. Good for them though, that can take a bit of reflection and the initial instinct can be to try and issue a non-apology apology but instead they’re working through it to get it right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think lemmy will ever be popular?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t foresee Lemmy specifically reaching levels of popularity comparable to platforms like Twitter or Reddit. Barring some very strange disastrous upheaval of the whole landscape they and their ilk will continue to be Leviathans even with decisions at the top that look like outright sabotage. There is so much inertia. Maybe those two examples might disappear, but only if they’re devoured by another just like them.

  I can see Lemmy and similar Federated platforms with their quite sizeable yet comparatively miniscule user bases carrying on as they are and even growing a little bit and having some effect on the zeitgeist with the occasional piece of local culture seeping in to the wider platforms though people there will likely not know that’s where it came from. I also think efforts like Threads or likely something similar that comes after will be where the fediverse meets any mainstream success essentially becoming part of those bigger platforms in some way I can’t yet predict in detail.

  The big appeal of Lemmy is ideological and technical, this will always limit the number of people drawn to it. If there weren’t already giants in this space that wouldn’t matter because there’d be a snowball effect that would draw crowds who came because of other people not because of any interest in how the platform functions or ideals to pursue and with those crowds could come more crowds until you have a critical mass. But with the situation as it is now, the big crowds that draw yet more crowds still, are elsewhere so you’ll only ever have enthusiasts or ideologues that go out of their way to be here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully in a year or two they’ll eventually just call it Twitter or maybe if we’re lucky it will go out of busi and then they’ll probably still just call it Twitter because the X thing would then have just been a short lived portion of its overall lifespan.

• Are there any recent-ish single player, complete games that are similar to Rise of Nations and would work on Mac or at least on WINE?
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