I know what you mean but as someone with several chronic ailments I'm gonna go "huh" to the second part of how bad "those people" have it.

Sure as fuck didn't protect me from social media induced madness toward the end of covid and I talked to someone two weeks ago who claimed to have no indoor plumbing and no way to have a compost. On social media... sooo...

I reject your fantasy world.

Gender being different from sex is a concept invented by a child abuser called John Money.

This monster pushed the parents of David Reimer, whose penis hat been irreparably damaged in a circumcision to have the boy surgically turned "into a girl" and raised as such.

He then experimented with the twins and forced them into sexual encounters WITH EACH OTHER at the age of six.

David committed suicide after being a distraught and unhappy child at the age of 38.

THAT is where this monstrous ideology of yours comes from. If you have any sense or heart in your body, you will stop peddling this crap.

Manning is still a he. Unless they found a way to CRISPR his Y chromosome somehow.

...MS keeps being pretty blasé about it.

And yet, everyone and their dog keeps yammering on about how everything must run in Azure yesterday.

I am utterly incompatible with humanity sometimes :D.

I use my fitbit mainly to track my sleep. I don't think its readings are accurate enough to give me any scientific edge. The sleep quality measurement has about a 50% chance to fit the way I actually feel.

First thing I did after activating my subscription was cancelling it. I have no idea, none whatsoever, what possible benefit I'd have from paying ten bucks a month. Which still is much better than the Whoop membership at 265 Euros a year.

These products, IMO, are nothing but gimmicks. If they cost up to a hundred bucks and did nothing than dump sensordata you could then use in any open source or paid app to get statistics... or Excel if you were so inclined, that would be something. But no, they all sell you on the app and hide the sensordata behind that.

And I gotta say... with all the enshitification going on, software devs have now reached the same level of societal usefulness as lawyers and insurance salesmen.
I know it's not you guy who suck directly but you all keep taking money for producing shit software... so yeah, I kinda do blame you personally.

People of the conservative persuasion (to which I often count myself too, mind), seem to imagine that more than five percent of the people actually do work all hours that they clock.

I would bet many of them even overestimate their own work ethic.

As someone who has dealt with bore-outs, let me tell you that it is EXHAUSTING trying to look like you're working when you aren't.

Having fewer hours to squeeze your work in might have enormous benefits in this regard. Deadline pressure makes it easier to find motivation and fewer hours to play this damn charade might free up SO much efficiency. Seriously, I see a lot of potential there.

I think it depends on what you define as work. I've heard people say that n medieval times people supposedly worked much less than today.

And I have this suspicion they only calculated the time they spent working for their liege and completely ignored the time they spent on feeding themselves and in the dark hours mending clothes and tools.

I do think those people had probably better stress management, outside of actual famine and war, but that they worked any less? No... Hard to imagine.

Manufacturers have taken a pretty "who gives a crap" stance on many very basic things we would not have thought ever possible in the 90s.

Did you catch the Boeing situation by any chance? Some of the self driving car shenanigans are also quite interesting.

As long as there is a net profit, a lawsuit or two can be chalked up as cost of doing business. A death or two don't make some MBAs lose any sleep as long as the bottom line is in the black.

Reddit hasn't been user focused in a looong while.

Climate controls, volume and cruise control should have been on that lsit as well.

Lol.

I'll grab the popcorn. It'll be exciting to see which way the moderation goes on this one :D.

Well, yeah. That last paragraph of yours is not only true but oh so completely irrelevant to the discussion.

If Assange obtained the information illegally, he will have to be a martyr for it. That's how the world rolls.

The fact that this information didn't lead to any punishment is the people's incapability of holding their governmental service providers to anything. Tragic, but that has nothing to do with Assange.

Obviously the US wants to make an example of him. Is that reasonable and ethical? Hell no. But once again, to keep the public servants ethical is the duty of the people and well, here we are.

If two can collude, then so can three.

Why not break up Visa and MC instead?

Why am I not surprised that rsilvergun reacts to a critical question with an ad hominem and then points to a youtube channel for "reeducation"?

"marry two of the largest companies in any given field" should by default not be possible...

What possible good could come out of this for society as a whole?