I used to think this way until I considered how they felt. It's really stressful to have someone breathing down your neck while you work, so I usually just show them where the work area is and answer any questions they have then tell them where I'll be if they need something.

On the flip side, the only time I've judged someone in this situation is a girl who had been sleeping before we came by for maintenance, didn't answer the door so we let ourselves in (notice given in advance) and she was in the bedroom still half asleep and just awake enough to tell us which rooms were getting worked on for turn. She was literally crawling back into bed and covering herself in a blanket while speaking to us. Wasn't harsh judgment or anything, more of a "that was a weird interaction."

The Michael Richards strategy

Who are these slimy comments of yours actually for? You're just acting like an antisocial freak for nothing.

They optimize the roads for speed because that means easy revenue from issuing speeding tickets to people moving at a rate that road has been optimized to handle. Unsafe driving practices are just opportunities for profit. Tail light out? You get pulled over, ticketed, and then released back onto the road still with a broken tail light, only now you have to both pay for the tail light and potentially the fine if you don't take time off work to go to court and get it waived.

Actually making the community safe isn't profitable.

And the penalty needs to be steep enough that it's not just an operating cost for these companies.

Google might just budget a few million a year for paying the fine every time a court rules they pushed someone to kill themselves if it's profitable enough.

This thread? The one that started with a comment using the words "social media?" The one that you replied to?

I'm not the one that's confused. If this isn't bait, call your doctor immediately.

I dunno man, I could have sworn someone said something about it as soon as the first sentence of the linked article.

Even those people who just read the headline and start commenting could probably assume it's relevant to the conversation at hand considering the giant picture of Mark Zuckerberg at the top of the page.

Joke's on them, I hate Star Trek too.

Some of them weren't

That's a Fiat, Dale.

I sure hope he's right.

Oh that's a good move, I'm gonna press that again. Hmm, it's a completely different move now.

Every time.

That was exactly what I did, but I still found the quality of its searches ultimately no better than a standard Google search with a basic ad blocker purging the sponsors and AI summaries. Not worth half its price, especially when the guy getting the money is as nutty as he is.

That kid is getting scouted by the US military by end of day.

Couple that with the fact that so many Americans wanting to shoot as many human beings as physically possible is still an enormous cause for concern even if we somehow prevent them from getting a gun.

I don't see "both things can be true" or other equally irritating Reddit-coded expressions on Lemmy.

Nice how people don't feel the need to remind you that nuance can exist when they aren't used to talking to bots exclusively.

Bandcamp is one of those services.

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Downloading that music to your devices is all well and good until you experience a RAID array failure. Or your SD card gets corrupted. Or your old phone decides it doesn't want to turn on anymore. Local digital storage is a limited, degrading resource. The device you put your file on is something you anticipate becoming eWaste that will be thrown away someday, and in anticipation of that happening we generally introduce redundancy that means more stuff that will eventually get thrown away.

I say this as someone who has his own Jellyfin NAS setup and who has both lost physical media in natural disasters and digital data to simple memory failure. None of these systems are infallible and physical media has value beyond simple nostalgia factor or novelty.

Those digital alternatives are provided by services that broadly reserve the right to pull your access to that media at any time. That doesn't even get into how many of these services are owned by large corporations who take the money that you the consumer give them for access to the media that they control and contribute it towards political campaigns or environmentally damaging ventures far worse than manufacturing a CD and wrapping it in a layer of plastic.

And if you're wary of either choice knowing that, there's always piracy, which naturally has been criminalized.

They say it's because "PETA is crazy!" or some other non-statement like they don't turn around and bitch about vegans as a whole.

People don't hate them because they're "annoying" or "crazy." They hate them because they're right. No one wants to be confronted by their Jungian shadow.

It's OK he's me now