Wouldn’t be surprised if that’s how it shakes out in time or in the reality behind the pr piece but the article does specifically mention that that this extends to employees too and that was actually what the quote in the headline was in reference to specifically.
This action was so fucked up and beyond my list of shitty things that the US might do that it honestly didn’t occur to me and so when reading the headline I found it confusingly phrased but thought maybe it somehow meant there was some hint of support for the ICC’s decision and warrants which would have been amazing. Imagine the rollercoaster for me when they actually managed to surprise me with a decision and stance worse than I could have imagined.
Could you just actually drink coffee? I mean I guess the caffeine isn’t necessarily the best for situations of anxiety, but I find a cup of coffee really relaxing and if it helps when it looks like you’re drinking it I wonder if really drinking it wouldn’t help similarly.
Yeh but then, if a person is genuinely obviously extremely attractive, or clearly has traits like a capacity to lead or influence people, or is objectively wealthy, or is clearly very smart, those are all things that come off as really conceited to the rest of us unless their acknowledgement is very careful. If such a person is too quick or too ready to acknowledge these things about themselves, despite their accuracy, we’re pretty likely to think they’re a dick. It seems like for people who are in some ways exceptional, the appropriate level of humility, wherever it is on the scale, does need to involve at least a little bit of pantomime and false modesty. The right size in such cases will need to be at least a little smaller than they really are, not too much smaller, or it’s interpreted as disingenuous, but not exactly true to scale either.
Never heard of anything on the playlist before and I doubt I would have really stumbled on it normally because it’s not the style I normally seek out but so far it all slaps. How is it they’re allowed to include this stuff on their website?
When I want to find an app I haven’t pinned to the home screen I swipe up from the bottom of the home screen to bring up a search bar where I can search for an app by name or scroll through list of all apps on the phone....
Planning to switch to Graphene OS for several reasons, but I have a reason why it will be better for me not to do that until a bit later so until then I’m just trying to be comfortable with stock.
It sounds like it but, in general I prefer to have 1 maybe 2 home screen pages of stuff I know I’ll use all the time right away and anything else I’d rather just search.
I suppose if you have only enough apps to fill maybe a single home screen page then by that standard I’d have a lot as between my less frequently used apps and all of Google’s pre-installed ones that’s probably a few pages, but generally I try to be sparing with them.
It’s strange but listening again to music from about 20 years ago, during a time when I was mostly sad and depressed, and where the musical choices reflected that, gives me a weird sense of nostalgia and longing for that time....
The experience of nostalgia I understand is bittersweet and often melancholy. I guess what I’m finding strange is that normally one experiences nostalgia for something they’d actually like to be able to return to, and that usually means something that they actually liked, a previous happiness. Weirdly I seem to be pining for a particular way I felt that actually, sucked at the time. It’s weird. I know what you mean about it being best not to dwell but it’s such a powerful draw, it’s like I’m swimming around the edges of a vortex.
It’s just like that. Actually it’s an interesting point about wanting to try it again and get it right. I think that’s a layer that probably explains some of the feeling like I miss something that actually wasn’t great to experience.
I wouldn’t dare defile Douglas Adam’s memory by not mentioning that you should keep a towel with you at all times, but my second contender is a surprisingly short three-parter:...
I guess it shouldn’t bother me, after all I try my best to avoid watching anything on youtube that I didn’t go there to watch in the first place but nevertheless, it’s hard not to see the clickbaity thumbnails for suggested videos to the right of the one I’m watching, and also, when I’m researching something it’s...
The trouble with that idea though is that for a start I’ve always done this, and also, it’s very specific in which kind of rage bait and cultural warfare it’s pushing. I don’t want to sound all “both sides” but, if I wanted to, I’m sure I could design a similar kind of keep 'em angry list of suggestions that looked very different. I could have suggestions filled with videos of police brutality, I could have videos filled with women being mistreated by misogynysts, the suggestions could be about court cases about abusers being jailed or they could have been about lack of diversity and inclusion in film and media. All of that could be rage bait, it’d all be about being aggrieved in some way. I’d say in a way I could sympathise with vastly more but it would still be cultivating outrage and extremism.
Something about how sudden this is and how hard it’s pushing and the specific bias it’s pushing towards is indicating something’s changed. It’s like a dog with a bone. An interesting thing I’ve noticed is that on Newpipe there’s a related items button that I started pressing after watching something just to compare to my desktop and those items are well … related, there’s no fucked up shit. On one video it was suggesting a lot of stuff related to guns and I was starting to worry but I realised it was only when watching a slow Mo Guys videos involving shooting so it actually made sense. On all other examples it’s just something vaguely related to the topic of what’s been watched. Admittedly I don’t know if the related items button is akin to suggestions but if so then there’s a clear difference.
Anyway thanks for listening to me moan about YouTube recommending things I don’t like. I hope it stops.
You’re not totally wrong, this does boil down to “person who deliberately avoided giving machine that turns data in to relevant recommendations shocked that they are given irrelevant recommendations” but in my defence, I have always done this and there was no obvious agenda to the suggested videos. They weren’t random, because clearly despite my best efforts YouTube can identify me from visit to visit, and there was a clear link between them and my viewing habits but at least the link was comprehensible and there was no ideological basis for any of it.
That would be interesting, but it’s really only been going on about 2 weeks and I haven’t noticed a change pushing ant further in to the crazy at my location in that timeframe.
‘It’s not vital to spend five days a week in the office’: the bank boss who works from home (www.theguardian.com)
US hints at support for sanctions over ICC warrants on Israel (www.bbc.com)
If an oven only has fan forced mode do i still need to set it to the fan forced temperature in recipes? Ie 160 instead of 180.
Landlord put in a new oven and not sure how it works.
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I wouldn’t dare defile Douglas Adam’s memory by not mentioning that you should keep a towel with you at all times, but my second contender is a surprisingly short three-parter:...
I never sign in, I delete cookies everytime my browser quits, but Youtube keeps pushing right-wing, incel bullshit at me
I guess it shouldn’t bother me, after all I try my best to avoid watching anything on youtube that I didn’t go there to watch in the first place but nevertheless, it’s hard not to see the clickbaity thumbnails for suggested videos to the right of the one I’m watching, and also, when I’m researching something it’s...
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