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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Moral members of society have an inherent obligation to be activists, for as long as marginalized groups exist.
- Comment on Anon reflects on a conundrum 1 week ago:
I knew this, I just disagree completely. Flipping the image doesn’t help, but changing the focal length does. It’s not the mirrored image, it’s the lens distortion
- Comment on Batman Forever– The Schumacher Cut finally released: Why this darker version could rewrite DC history 2 weeks ago:
Okay, where’s it at?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
People type their credit cards into online stores all the time.
Sure, under the assumption that it’s not being stored without permission, or securely with permission. People are and should be very cautious about what sites you directly submit your card info to, and for less popular sites people are more and more opting to use a third party payment processor like apple, amazon, PayPal, etc.
In the US, most restaurants still take your card out of eyesight to be processed, although processing devices at the table is becoming more popular.
One of the most common ways cards get skimmed in person. You should absolutely be wary of this especially if it takes an unusually long time. I’ve been at group dinners where this was commented on. Seems pretty common sense.
I don’t think most people even think about it most of the time in the US because the credit card companies take care of disputes. Europe is definitely way ahead of us on secure payments!
I disagree. This is a common point of concern in my experience with customer facing roles, and anecdotally in my social life. When I worked for a major cell provider, for example, we sent a digital form to the customer so that we didn’t have to collect card info over the phone at all. In the event that we did as a fallback, customers were very wary of this across the board.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’ve only seen those in movies, and I haven’t even had an embossed card in years. but most people (rightfully so) would refuse having their card info written anywhere these days. Things have really changed
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
When I worked in a restaurant we still had paper bills in the office we could write up if our system was down. If you wanted to pay with card, we would offer to write down your card info and charge it later, or accept cash only. We’d always inform new customers of this before taking their order.
If someone already ordered and was unable to pay we’d just take the loss on good faith that they’d return to pay, no holding ID or anything like that. It’s a relatively small loss for the restaurant to maintain a good reputation. Orders get comped all the time for more trivial reasons, and food cost is already a major part of a restaurant’s overhead.
But if power is out, then that generally means the kitchen isn’t functioning either unless the restaurant has generators
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 1 month ago:
They’re cheaper which is insane. We could see a boom if third party manufacturers hop on steamOS now
- Comment on PirateSoftware's Take On $80 Games 1 month ago:
Another shill take from the rat, what a surprise
- Comment on Roku TV requires internet connection to EDIT THE HOMEPAGE 2 months ago:
The early days with roku channels like rev3 were great. They took a while to go down hill
- Comment on I have been thinking and am curious what are the worst qualities of authoritarianism that make it so unbreably bad for populations? Why do rulers come to turn towards authoritarianism in tough times? 2 months ago:
Just wanted to say thanks for posting a legitimate answer. This is how we can fight authoritarianism. Through information and education. Not by strong-arm removing posts.
It doesn’t even matter to me if he is trolling everywhere. We are presented an opportunity to battle this with knowledge and it appears that the moderation here has succumbed to the very thing they’re claiming to prevent.
- Comment on Anon fixes their games 2 months ago:
No.
Depth of field is when backgroud/foreground objects get blurred depending on where you’re looking, to simulate eyes focusing on something.
You’re thinking of draw distance, which is where objects far away aren’t rendered. Or possibly level of detail (LoD) where distant objects will be changed to a lower detailed model as they get further away.
- Comment on Anon, the All-Knowing 2 months ago:
Yeah and if he can kill a gods, and you’re trying to use him to kill the gods you can’t, and you’re not even a god yourself?
Goodluck
- Comment on Anon tries to learn Japanese 4 months ago:
Sup brah I’m trying to learn this shit you got a blog or something
- Comment on Would you do Onlyfans if needed the money? 4 months ago:
The percentage seems to be padded out by inactive accounts or something, even the worst only fans profiles I’ve seen are showing ‘top 1%’ banners
- Comment on Would you do Onlyfans if needed the money? 4 months ago:
I volunteer as tribute
- Comment on The Last Of Us Part II will require a PSN account to play on PC, making it unplayable in over 100 countries 4 months ago:
Maybe you’re thinking of Empress
- Comment on Resume help 4 months ago:
Yeah the OP is the opposite of my experience with ADHD. I’m fucking terrible at moving from one task to another, that’s literally the hardest part about it. I just studied Japanese for 12 hours straight yesterday instead of working or writing any code, just because I got the sudden urge. I haven’t actively studied Japanese since 2020 so I’m just reviewing shit I already learned years ago. I’ll do this for a couple days until I either burn myself out or find a new thing to fixate on.
If I’m in burnout, I’ll start rapidly changing between tasks, playing 10 minutes of every game I own chasing any shred of dopamine I can find, or scrolling through short form video content for hours until I find something that catches my attention and then I’ll be fixated on that for anywhere between 1 full day, to about a week.
Like I have coping techniques and medication, but they only go so far and sometimes I just can’t seem to reign it in. Sometimes I can fixate on work or study tasks, (e.g. Japanese) but usually it takes a Herculean amount of effort, determination and discipline to actually control my focus to what I need it on. When I manage to direct my focus to the important stuff it feels like a superpower to fixate on it, but those moments are few and far between.
- Comment on SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck 4 months ago:
I’m not shy about Linux but my eyes glazed over reading that flow chart. Don’t pretend this is okay for typical users switching from Windows
- Comment on Latest photo of assassin suspect released by NYPD 5 months ago:
I don’t think he’s the one having issues
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 6 months ago:
Did you try the new netcode test? Just saw the discord announcement today
- Comment on flouride 6 months ago:
I also came across the same study while looking to disprove a conspiracy nut. We should really do more research on the effects of fluoride.
- Comment on Air fryers are simpler than you think, but still pretty neat [19:38] 6 months ago:
Watch the video
- Comment on Air fryers are simpler than you think, but still pretty neat [19:38] 6 months ago:
And I watched every second of it
- Comment on It's a matter of perspective 7 months ago:
Thank you. I’ve seen the old one before and I knew there was an illusion but I obviously couldn’t find it in the OP.
- Comment on Zotac Zone review: Display galore with class-leading inputs 7 months ago:
These reviews never do a great job talking about UI/UX and that’s literally the only thing I care about until they get the steam deck OS or Microsoft actually enters the space with a Windows version.
- Comment on Where does the music go? 7 months ago:
I can’t say this did or didn’t happen, but I absolutely had ‘philosophical’ thoughts like this as a kid.
When I was ~10 I asked my mom how we know other people aren’t ‘aliens or something’. She just dismissed me as being silly, and I didn’t know it at the time but in retrospect I was absolutely experiencing and asking her about solipsism.
I didn’t know it was ‘philosophy’ but I think it’s integral to how we experience the world and sentience in general.
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 7 months ago:
So did I, and I didn’t even know I could play until years later when I sat in front of a friend’s kit for a lesson with them. They basically talked me through the setup, gave me a song to play, and I just played the opening without much fuss. They basically told me I could already play and I just needed time on the kit, left the room and let me go ham.
- Comment on He's just lucky I guess 7 months ago:
Yeah it’d almost be like if a person got swallowed by a whale or something. Someone should write a book about it.
- Comment on Steam Now Warns Consumers That They're Buying a License, Not a Game During a Purchase 7 months ago:
It’s data.
It’s never “owning” in the traditional sense, because data is not physical.
When people say they own something, there’s an implication that it’s theirs until they decide to part with it. That is true for games bought without DRM. DRM free the closest you’ll ever get to ‘owning’ data, you possess that on your own local device and it can’t be taken away.
You can lose the ability to download the game, sure. But that is an additional service, not the game itself. You have that data until you delete it. Same with GoG Galaxy. that’s an extra service.
You’re arguing 2 or 3 different things. Ownership as a legal right, ownership as in possession, and a weird third thing where you seem to be confusing meta services with the ownership of the thing itself.