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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Why do people insist on saying “The American experiment”??
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New RoboCop TV series has James Wan as executive producer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I’d buy that for a dollar
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon needs viewers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Better hope you don’t have a small dick, or you’ll tick all the terrorist profile markers and be in jail before you know it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon falls in love⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Ah didn’t realise you deleted it. It was in my inbox in sync and I replied directly there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon falls in love⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Reading lips is a visual representation of a sound. A teacher teaching you to read lips is only the relationship between two visual representations. Written word and moving lips. I think my point stands.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon falls in love⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
How could you possibly know what a visual representation of a sound sounds like if you’ve never had the relationship between the two pointed out to you??
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a good samaritan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
“I SAVED YOUR LIFE !”

“You ruined my death”

Incredible
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wise words⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Just because you don’t like her music doesn’t mean it’s mediocre or that you are somehow more evolved. When it comes to personal taste, how do you decide who’s opinion is the right one - like you have taken it upon yourself to do and gate keep ‘good’ music. Her music is undeniably popular and all of those people who like it would disagree with you about it being mediocre. So what makes you right and them wrong? There is no objectivity when it comes to things like music, only subjectivity.

Before you jump on me and label be a Taylor Swift fan, the big reveal is, I’m not. I have no problem with you saying “I think her music is mediocre” but that is different to saying " her music is mediocre" the former is an opinion, the latter is trying to paint an opinion as a fact.

This comment will probably not be received well simply because so many people seem to dislike Taylor Swift on here and will miss my point. Take swift is irrelevant to my point, sub in any band or artist if you need to understand that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An informative martial arts infographic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
He did a follow up study in 1998 co-authored by some people he met at a bus stop which confirmed these results. hoo cha
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches LOTR⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
To me, modern says more about the techniques and methods used. In that respect, not much has changed even though 25 years has passed. Even stylistically it is more similar to a current film than one filmed 25 years before its release, i.e. mid 1970s. As someone else said, contemporary is a better word for describing its age than modern.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches LOTR⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
They need to shoulder bump too, otherwise they could just be former colleagues or perhaps two men who met for the first time yesterday.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨jants⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Jrousers
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone feel like an actual adult?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I’d call ‘actual adulting’ having responsibility for another’s welfare. Whether a dog, cat or human, they are all varying levels of “if I fuck up, someone else suffers”.

I still don’t feel fully like an adult, but I do feel the responsibility of ensuring there is food on the table and a roof over our heads. My partner is also responsible for these things so it is a little less pressure.

All said I do not feel as adult as I saw my parents when they were my age. They seemed very grown up and very responsible compared to how I feel today. I was 11 when my dad was my age.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire grindset⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I remember one of the question styles in those crappy online iq tests being: If some clots are blahs and all blahs are ploots, are all clots ploots?

Interesting that the meme is about iq
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MS to update Windows every 3 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Many many people have no choice.

A number of software companies have software which has become industry standard and do not support windows. That means any new employees have been educated and trained in using that software. So to defy that , you are either the odd man or in the company, or the odd company out in the industry.

That causes you disadvantages of interoperability with colleagues or a need to train your new employees with skills that are typically only useful within your own company and delay the return on investment of your new hire which has financial implications.

Wine has come a long way but many industry standard softwares do not play nicely. E.g. Adobe software, autocad, solidworks. If you get it running, you are not guaranteed the next version will work and if your whole team upgrades except you, you might lose the ability to work with their files. Your boss may not be happy if you need to spent x hours or days getting up and running again because you had to upgrade from v21 to v22 and it didn’t work out of the box in wine.

Businesses need and require a different level of support vs home users so that issues can be fixed in a timely and reliable manner. Adding wine into the mix means every software problem now has potential causes not just in the software itself, but also in the wine setup.

So ultimately where no native application exists and no compatible application exists, wine is not yet an acceptable solution for business use except in very fringe cases. So that leaves virtual machines as a solution, but then you are running windows with extra support issues again. So why would you not just run windows.

I offer this answer as the reason windows is and will remain ubiquitous not as my own personal preferences or opinions.

I tried working in Linux for several months but I kept coming up against barriers that cost me time , solely because of my choice to use not use windows. When I encountered issues, it would not and could not help. In the end I deleted my Linux partition because I simply could not work with file formats colleagues were exchanging and I would have to switch to windows.

I’d you want windows gone, the only way is to convince large software companies to support other operating systems natively or for wine to reach 100% parity with the experience on windows. The former will only hassocks if there is a financial positive for the companies and the latter with likely never happen, or take a very long time due to windows being a moving target.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism indoctrination in progress.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It is pretty simple. Respect your employees and they will respect you. Respect starts with calling the employee’s contributions by paying them a fair wage. It continues with treating them well. A post of treating them well might be a point ping table, but that comes on top of a fair wage, not instead of.

A good manager might recognise a hard working team needs a way to relax and gets a pool table or something. The employees are happy and tell their friends they’ve got a pool table at work, everyone is jealous. It seems like the pool table is the reason but it is just a symptom of them being generally treated well.