Th4tGuyII

@Th4tGuyII@fedia.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Personal trainer wins £150k payout after driving from Germany for a meeting – only for her boss not to show⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this was clearly about far more than just that headline.

  This is years of retaliation and malice being not just actively covered up, but even upheld by her Nuffield Health. Like this is a textbook example of illegal workplace conduct.

  I'm glad she was rightly awarded monetary damages in the end, but she really deserved more for what she was put through - and those involved should've been punished.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose chicken.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can be one step sadder...

  Disclaimer: Our eco-friendly shirts are legit and we will be planting real trees in the ground, but please be advised that Wood Milk is 100% fake and completely made up. Only dairy milk is real milk. Paid for by America's Milk Companies.

  American milk companies have paid for this. When Americans buy milk, a small fraction of that is going towards this website.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Example⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly yeah, that's so sad. The Obamas looking like goals, whilst the Trumps look like they're halfway through a divorce trying to look friendly for the kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes - not because I particularly like the idea of bigoted speech, but because like most Governments have already started to demonstrate over age verification, any tool of censorship you allow to be used against your enemy will eventually be turned back against you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doomer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the infinite growth machine can't make a profit fixing climate change, it simply won't be fixed.

  No amount of home recycling, power saving, water reduction, etc. you can do will offset the pollution generated by companies in the pursuit of money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doomer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah... In situations like these, you kinda just have to do whatever you can do.

  Unless you're someone with the power to actually influence policy of the country you live in - in which case what the fuck are you doing reading this, fix your shit - then you realistically can't do jack about these issues.

  If you try to fight every battle that's coming our way, rally behind every issue, you'll get burnt out - and that's exactly what those sending them to you want to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have said, a license is a legal tool that allows you to enforce how you want your program to be used.

  And in the case of FOSS this is a really big issue, because just publishing code doesn't put it into the public domain, and leaves you open to exploitation by big companies.

  There are various types of licenses, but for FOSS the main ones are unlicensing and Copyleft licenses.
  Unlicensing essentially declares your code public domain, so anybody can use it for any purpose.
  Copyleft licenses are usually fairly permissive, especially for individuals, but obligate that any offshot/fork must also be made Copyleft - so prohibits close sourcing of your work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their attitude towards us really depends on what their evolutionary pressures were. If resources were/are plentiful, they might have a less aggressive nature and simply wish to meet us.
  Otherwise, we might be on the chopping block.

  As for us. I imagine a decent portion of humanity would immediately default to rampant xenophobia or weirdly sexual obsession.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Her underarm hair was visible?!

  Never mind Jeffery's paedophile cabal, how will higher society ever get over such controversy as a woman's armpit hair being visible??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pulled a pretty girl with progressive dating values and fucking moans about it.
  With a personality like that, he was the lucky one, and I'd bet many others would've gladly taken his place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Enjoy the peace of impotency?
  Surely he doesn't think his penis actually has a brain right?
  Its your brain that makes you horny, and it will still make you horny even if the equipment don't work anymore.

  If you're that horny-brained that its causing you stress, your best option (aside from therapy, cause that's expensive) is to get offline and find a hobby to distract your mind with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a good metric??

  Isn't this just stating that you're letting something with the coding ability of a toddler run amok through your product, having to constantly be bug-fixed by your remaining engineers?

  This is exactly what Microsoft started doing, and its so far worked out terribly for them. Loads of their new software updates have had unacceptablely large bugs for even simple like task manager!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not a good sign⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But how will we get more money to the shareholders if we stop pushing humanity towards extinction!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wing boy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Poor book. Nothing short of the crappiest, soulless literature out there deserves to be desicrated with wing sauce like that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Killing Games throw weight behind California bill that would force companies to either keep games working independently after server shutdowns or issue refunds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm not even slightly surprised. Sounds like the exact MO of Stop Killing Games.

  You don't have to keep services running forever, that's not fair at all, but you should have to give people the tools to do it themselves - because people should be able to preserve these experiences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Annon was an oracle⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was first released in North America, parts of Europe, Australia, and South America in November 2013

  Unfortunately so, welcome to getting old

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literally though⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough. I imagine as a PhD its easier to avoid since you're doing new research, so you're presenting unique information with (in theory) unique sentences.

  Whereas for a lot of undergrad students, up until the tail end of their degrees, they're writing about fairly extensively covered topics, so you're much more likely to accidentally steal wordings from others who have already written about them.
  In fact at that stage, I'd bet having too low a plagiarism score would more likely indicate you're barking up the wrong tree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literally though⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Genuinely. As a student I don't think I ever saw a Turnitin score for my work below 40%.
  There are only so many ways to wrute a sentence about the same thing, so its impossible to not accidentally plagiarise someone's works.

  I remember one lecturer telling me that they don't really look at the % unless its something aggregious like +70%. But more often they're looking for patterns in what it highlights.

  Loads of tiny highlights with individual sources are likely to be a false positive, but big chunks of highlights from only a couple of sources is likely to be a true positive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While it certainly seems like a bunch of idiots taking the piss - the reality is that our GP system is in utter shambles, and has essentially forced people into using A&E as an intermediate.

  Think about it. Besides pensioners and SAHPs, who actually has the time to sit by the phone at 8am in the morning and call the split second the GP opens for just a chance of seeing them that day at a time that is most likely going to be during your work day - meaning you'll need to get permission just to go!

  Oh, and almost no GP has an option to book appointments in advance, and those that do often have them weeks in advance.

  So what exactly are you supposed to do??
  Fight on the phone every day, possibly for multiple days on end, or wait so long for an advance booking appointment that you may very well end up needing to go to A&E anyways!

  The only other option that has recently opened up is going to your pharmacist, but they're already busy enough as is, and will likely end up buggered the same way if we don't fix our GP system first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're Not Bad At Job Hunting—30% Of Job Postings Are Fake⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Companies keep ghost jobs active for several reasons:

  To build candidate pipelines for roles that might open later

  To signal growth during hiring freezes

  To leave approved positions stuck in limbo due to budget cuts

  To satisfy internal posting requirements or HR quotas

  So in other words companies are ghouls willing to turn what is already a grueling process nowadays into an even more gruelling one simply for the sake of gaining more metrics?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ahead of her time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  "Could" is doing about as much lifting in this article as Atlas lifting the world.

  I'm holding my reservations until something actually comes along

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Far-right thugs throw rocks at Filipino NHS nurses on way to work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely disgusting.
  Poor nurses trying to save lives and they're paid back by having these racist EDL cunts throwing rocks at them.
  Should get Keir Starmer send these pieces of shit over to Rwanda instead, and see how long they last.

  As @theskyisfalling said, these are the same ignorant arses that brought us Brexit, and continue to make our country look like an absolute laughing stock on the world stage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A kick right in the selbstbild⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Arguably their biggest mistake was trying to fight both world superpowers at once, in the USSR and Great Britain backed by the US.
  I can't imagine how they thought that would go well, but thank fuck they did, cause I wouldn't want to see the world they envisioned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old AF⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that complex life as we know it is only about 500-600 million years old, around the time of the Cambrian Explosion, the only image that comes to mind is two Eukaryotic cells getting frisky, having a one replication stand, then parting ways

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman's UBI study finds that money can buy happiness • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Duh. The phrase is meant to mean an excess of money can't buy you happiness - having enough money to pay off what you need to, and being able to spend some on yourself without worrying where your next paycheck comes from will of course make you more happy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh god, that can't be good...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes you wonder how long it'll be until even the worst AI images are indistinguishable from human-produced images

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anon has movie night⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Most Greentexts are, but it's often more fun to joke as though it were not

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is one sniff away⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You got me good with that punchline

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anon has movie night⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Anon managed a double homicide on the movie night and his social life in one go, all while being completely blind up his own arse. That shit's impressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is one sniff away⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  at the end of the day my right shoulder smells of women's perfume

  That's gotta count for something right?

  If you have to ask this question, you know it doesn't count.

  Also, I think you'd be better trying to flirt with the Salsa ladies than sniffing for their perfume on your shoulder