Pika

@Pika@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  what’s screwed up is at 2010 a month it also disqualifies you from Medicaid in states that have low income eligibility. It’s not uncommon that if you aren’t getting benefits to self cap your hours at 20-25 hours a week because any more and you lose federal aid, so its cheaper for them to actually work /less/. All stemming from the companies inability to let their workers work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason it’s being hidden/blocks is because it’s pretty likely the republican seat is actually going to be a democrat seat if they allow the seat vacant, thats why they plan on just waiting until he naturally is removed from seat instead to allow for a proper vote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assmold fans being moldy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have touched a bit, only a handful of times to see if its better and I havent paid for a release since they tend to give games pit for free from time to time. It’s almost entirely just playing single player because online is just intolerable now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It do be like that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sims 2 castaway.

  Looking back, it didn’t make sense at all how addicted I would get to that game, because compared to the other Sims games, there was very little content. But I could play that for hours on end, easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits IHOP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, firm agree, like the employee should definitely be able to clarify that they understood what you wanted properly, but it shouldn’t require the customer having to use whatever internal lingo that the establishment decided they wanted to call a bagel or, in your case what they wanted to call sizes of the beverage. I’ve actually had a similar issue with Starbucks because our somewhat local one did that and I haven’t gone back since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits IHOP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They generally don’t use the full word, but I have 1,000% heard people shorten it to cringe. It’s mostly people that are millennial or gen Z though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits IHOP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would likely do the same to be honest, Customer experience is huge when it comes to stuff like that. I don’t care what your corporate overlords or your management wants. If what your management wants leads to me feeling uncomfortable spending my money there, I’m not going to spend my money there.

  In my opinion, I think it’s more than fair to be able to describe what you’re looking for or point your finger at a menu item and have that be sufficient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  mine is ftb skies 2, so like as long as I don’t leave my little island its safe XD

  Although I read the question more of you just become the character, not that you wake up in the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  minecraft, so meh? could be better could be worsem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither, this time it was one of those stupid third parties they hire to try and search for infringing content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, unfortunately, if that’s a US label, that is how the regulations work. The FDA allows rounding to the nearest five. However, if it’s less than five, they allow you to round to 0.

  (1) “Calories, total,” “Total calories,” or “Calories”: A statement of the caloric content per serving, expressed to the nearest 5-calorie increment up to and including 50 calories, and 10-calorie increment above 50 calories, except that amounts less than 5 calories may be expressed as zero. Energy content per serving may also be expressed in kilojoule units, added in parentheses immediately following the statement of the caloric content

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The legendary PS2⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seen a PS2 buddy, I still have a PS2. It’s chilling next to my TV collecting dust until I get the urge to play need for speed underground, cabelas outdoor adventures, 007 or sims 2 castaway again!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t play very many series-based games, but off the top of my head, I would have to say Subnautica Below Zero is my most hated series game. And if I had to choose the second one, battlefield 1, or whatever battlefield it was that added a bunch of smaller stories instead of having an overarching story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battle.net's discord permissions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The intent is almost strictly for WoW, discord is advertising that it’s to allow for merging of WoW clan chat and discord messages, I would assume via the discord client which is why it asks for so many intents. Screw that regardless though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battle.net's discord permissions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of these permissions I didn’t even think was a possibility for discord integrations, holy cow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like most devs are going to agree with this. Most aren’t against using AI as an assistive tech, they are moreso against using it as a generative tech. Formatting, commenting and suggestions? Sure. Sometimes it even recommends things you haden’t thought of. Actually writing the code and making the entire thing is where many draw the line into “this is bad don’t use it”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take cover⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the better alternative since it won’t kill application flows, is have a field somewhere saying that they need to mention the title of the job in a field that doesn’t make sense what it actually is,

  such as have a duplicate middle name field, but specify in the job description that the second middle name field should be what the jobs listed title is.

  To someone who didn’t read the job applicant, they would think that an error was made creating the job posting, but to anyone who bothered to read it they would know the second field is intended to be the verification process.

  Anyone who doesn’t supply the job title (case insensitive all special chars like trailing whitespace and ’ removed) as the second field just gets auto rejected

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take cover⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this… is actually fair tbh, the current applicant applies to so many different jobs, some people I know just mass apply to every job available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take cover⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t understand why myself. It’s not like a person is going to look at it anyway. It’s all automated now, anything that is short of a perfect image of what the HR thinks they need for the role gets throw out way before any actual human sees them.

  A cover letter was great at the beginning because it let the HR person be able to get a summary of what the person has to offer without having to go into technical details of the resume, but now its all automated anyway so if its made it to the HR desk then they can just look at the details.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Housing prices⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it would be fully okay to have the cost of a house be multiplicative, based off how many you own after the second house. So, if you are looking to buy a third house, the price is actually double than what you would be expecting, and then your fourth house would be triple what you’re expecting, etc.

  The price of the house will be the cost the seller lists it as, and the seller gets the cost that they listed it as. However, anything over the cost it was listed, if you are affected by that multiplier, has that money go straight into the government.

  The reason I say after the second house is because I do personally think it’s fair for someone to want a vacation home somewhere, I just don’t think it’s fair for someone to have an interest into having a second, third, fourth, or sometimes even fifth vacation home. And there are many cases where you would want to own a second property such as if you run a self-employed job such as a computer repair specialist, you will probably own a shop, and having a office that’s at twice the cost of what it normally would be is extremely cost prohibitive to someone wanting to get into the market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going Back ↪️🏨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You should at least put a photoelectric fire/smoke alarm in your kitchen, those are less sensitive than the ionization alarms, they will still go off if you burn something but, you will avoid the hassle of it going off because you decided to cook some french fries or something on a frying pan.

  Many people I don’t think realize that usually, you can usually press the button on the alarm, and it will suppress the alarm as well. I see many folk removing the batteries until it’s away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  but, what if instead of lowering the amount of food production to match what you said, we just outlaw throwing still good food out, and instead enforce a donation style regulation where leftover food that is still safe to eat must be donated or given, not wasted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried to login to the arch wiki but was given a 3 minute crypto challenge.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically, the internet already has what you’re looking for. It’s just not really standardized for video media.

  The beginning of the URL or the schema is already able to on most mainstream OS be controlled by a specific application.

  There’s nothing really stopping anyone from making it so there’s a video:// schema, and then configuring a schema handler to handle it. on Debian it would be a single desktop file with a MimeType=x-scheme-handler/video line indicating that type of url should be opened with that desktop file. I had to configure it for vortex to get it to open mod links, I never knew how easy that was

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried to login to the arch wiki but was given a 3 minute crypto challenge.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is every scraper for YouTube.

  The only applications that I’ve ever seen reliably access YouTube are the ones that work by patching the YouTube app and then using what the app would do.

  Applications like invidious or Grayjay almost always have a 15 to 30 second delay before any video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't politicians during a hearing let the person they are questioning actually answer questions and speak?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  because they don’t actually want the person to respond. they want to paint a picture of what they are trying to push across. The more they let the other person talk, the less detailed their picture becomes.

  It’s all of politics now a days, you don’t actually ask the question for the answer, you ask the question to push the narrative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My biggest problem with this, is lack of ability to resell. I would be saying the same if they made it so the disks are license only locked to the first account that plays them.

  The issue for me isn’t the content of the disk, it’s what the disk allows.

  That being said, if I had to choose between the disks acting like a key, or the disks containing the game I would obviously choose the disk playing the game.

  But if I had to choose between a disk acting as a key, or no disk at all. I’m going to choose the disk acting like a key.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like I should add while yes they removed the microtransaction, they did the absolute bare minimum they had to do.

  I also feel like this type of boycott doesn’t match that type, the one you linked was a permanent boycott until the changes were done, not a week long one. People were straight refusing to buy it period till it was fixed, and people who did buy it was review bombing it.

  For clarification: The issue was they implemented a massive XP grind that was reliant on you spending money to level your coach. At the same time they had removed the ability to make it easier to obtain the XP. They removed the microtransactions as a whole for that mode, and readded the previous games XP slider but removed the fastest mode and kept only a 1.5x mode, and didn’t rebalance anything else in the game, so you still have a game that was intentionally geared torward’s someone spending money to level, just without the ability to actually spend money to level. I’m sure some exec intentionally did that expecting people would complain and they could use it as a potential avenue to readd the transactions again as a “see we listen to our community”

  I personally do think a boycott on sony will eventually do something, but a week long one like this, isn’t going to do anything meaningful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this is a pretty accurate representation of most current day boycotts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Show markdown editor

  if its longer than a week maybe, a week boycott is just a piss in the wind.

  For perspective, the Montgomery bus boycott, which is usually used as a prime example of how well boycotts can work, lasted for 381 days.

  But yea a 1 week surely will do something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure why it’s a timed boycott.

  I already decided a couple years ago that this is my last console from sony. (likely my last console period tbf) everything else they have done since then has been no concern. I haven’t turned my ps5 on more than a handful of times in the last year. No reason to.

  Their games are too expensive, are shit quality, and their entire mentality on giving “free” games to subscription members backfired horribly since I never bought any actual games using it, so therefore when I finally cancelled my sub I have nothing to bring me to turn the console on as well.

  The Xbox has the same flaw atm, like yea gamepass is an amazing feature but, when you finally cancel that sub… there’s nothing left for you, you won’t see the advertising or the new games they offer, as you don’t have a reason to turn the system on. That was the biggest thing that kept me on my ps3 and 4, when I was playing my actual games, I could slide onto the PS+ area and see what was new, and if something caught my eye I either bought it or downloaded it. With the PS5 and Xbox X nothing has brought me back onto the systems… so nothing is making me feel like I should continue to spend money on the platforms.