Many have theorized that the MuskJet Tracker account was the biggest reason he purchased Twitter. Because Twitter refused to ban the tracker, so Musk started rumbling about buying it, in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance. Then that backfired on him when Twitter forced the sale.
Oh and there’s probably less of an emphasis on hiring business majors since the workers on the floor tend to have a better idea of how damaging decisions that seem to make more money on paper can be.
There’s also the idea that as employees rise through the ranks, they have a better understanding of how their old jobs are done. Let’s say you’re in a manufacturing job: Nothing is worse than being managed by a business degree who doesn’t even know how to turn on the equipment you use every day. Because that manager has no idea what is and isn’t possible to do with the machinery, what kinds of timeframes to expect from jobs, etc… So you’ll end up getting unrealistic expectations, based purely on numbers on paper.
There’s a huge difference between a game featuring politics as a sandbox for players to play around with, and featuring political themes as a main story driver.
Civ is a good example of the former; It has politics present in the game, but the politics aren’t presented in a hero/villain way. They’re presented as potential advantages for the player, potential disadvantages for opponents, etc, but the actual policies themselves aren’t central to the system.
The game pulls from historical political systems as a way to present them to the player, but it could just as easily forego that and call the system some made up word besides “political systems”. Because the politics and policies aren’t actually important to the gameplay; All that matters to the player is what potential benefits and drawbacks they provide. You don’t actually care if a particular civ is “democratic” or “totalitarian”, because those titles could just as easily be replaced with “A” and “B”. The only thing that matters to the player is how that particular civ’s political affiliation will affect their actions.
But if a game heavily features political themes and messages as part of a plot line, then it’s not something the player can avoid or ignore. If it’s central to the story, one side (likely the side helping the player) is inevitably going to be presented as the hero, and another side (likely the side working against the player) is going to be presented as a villain. Final Fantasy X, for instance, is a good example of the latter. It heavily features anti-religion themes and messages. It’s impossible to play through the game without receiving “religion bad” messaging, because they’re central to the game’s plot line, with religious leaders as the main villains. We can draw direct parallels to real-world examples. And if you’re someone who is religious, those parallels may make you deeply uncomfortable, because religion is being portrayed negatively no matter how you play the game.
Yup. In more modern politics, we’ve seen it in the trans debate. “I can always tell when someone is trans” is a fallacy, because you only notice the trans people who aren’t fully passing. It’s pure selection bias, where a large part of the population is convinced that all trans people look like beefy dudes in dresses.
Individuals who support fascism can be inept. But there are plenty of people (who would likely end up in charge) who are very smart and are using it for their own personal gain. Even if some fascists end up being inept, plenty will be dangerously capable.
It’s easy to reduce fascists down into “lol they’re dumb” but history has proven that’s a mistake. Germany’s leadership didn’t expect Hitler to rise again after his first failed coup. Hillary’s entire presidential campaign was initially “lol Trump has no chance of winning.” And now we have a failed insurrectionist running for a second presidential term.
Yup. Anyone from New Jersey who says otherwise has simply drank the Kool-Aid. The mandatory pump attendants are purely for a jobs program.
I remember when it became legal to pump your own gas at certain stations, and a ton of people who had never left their home state were on Facebook ranting about how it was so dangerous to pump your own gas. It requires specialized training. It’s messy and gets gas everywhere. You mean I have to get out of my own car when I park? On and on…
Meanwhile, everyone in the surrounding states have been tired of their entitled bullshit for decades, because every time someone goes out of state and needs gas, they end up screaming at a gas station cashier for not immediately leaving the cash register unattended to run out and pump their gas.
Yup. Rand() chooses a random float value for each entry. By default I believe it’s anywhere between 0 and 1. So it may divide the first bill by .76, then the second by .23, then the third by 0.63, etc… So you’d end up with a completely garbage database because you can’t even undo it by multiplying all of the numbers by a set value.
Yup, this list is biased as hell. It was trying to determine iconic characters. Put Mario and Lara Croft in front of a 90 year old person. They’ll recognize Mario immediately, but almost certainly won’t recognize Croft. Hell, I’d put Bowser, Peach, and Luigi over Croft.
He never would have made it to trial. His house would have been raided by six dudes in ski masks and an unmarked van at 3AM. And then he would have sat in a blacksite prison for the rest of his life. Or if he had already gone public, he would have been immediately arrested and given the Epstein Special once he was behind bars.
Yeah, the issue with implementing this is that it’s one step away from straight up eugenics. The full plan is “implement child licenses, (then restrict who those licenses go to.)” The quiet part isn’t even quiet.
For real though, I have written some truly monstrous operations in Excel.
What do you mean you want to use Excel to manage everyone’s calendars? And now you want to export that horribly built calendar management spreadsheet to Google Calendar? What do you mean you want the Google Calendar entries automatically formatted based on who is working on a particular day? I mean yes it’s possible but-…
Yeah, it’s always interesting to see how newspapers will twist the English language to keep using passive voice with cops. It’s not “cops kill innocent” it’s “innocent killed by police’s gunfire.” Notice that in the former, it’s the cops actively killing, while in the latter it’s the victim who is listed first, then the gunfire is what is active. It’s a small bit of psychology to make the police’s actions seem more distant and removed from the situation.
I’ve recently picked up Solo Leveling. I’ve already read the Webtoon it’s based on, so I already know all the big plot points. But it’s nice seeing it translated to a show. It’s only the second or third time I have actually read the “manga” (do Webtoons count as manga?) before the anime, so it’s interesting to be on the other side of the fence this time.
The scheduling demand thing is referring specifically to the project manager going “we need this for an upcoming major product launch, so you need to fix this before the launch.” It feels like Microsoft cracking the whip to try getting free labor, because it is.
If they truly can’t do without it for their product launch, they can fork it and fix the bug themselves. Surely Microsoft has the resources and brainpower to do so. But the PM didn’t want to do that, because it means they’d be spending their own time and resources on it.
Nah they openly admit it now. Now they’re trying to shift the narrative from “it wasn’t us” to “it was an accident and we had a report that they were hamas.”
Yup. Middle management’s #1 priority is justifying their own jobs. If nobody is in the office and their “management” boils down to watching a bunch of green “available” pips in Teams to see if any of them dare to turn into yellow “away” pips, then that can be outsourced or automated. So they’re clambering to get people back into the office, so they can make a point of strolling through the cubicle jungle and harassing their employees.
I think a lot of that is over-correction due to trolls. Because “both sides are the same” is a common trolling tactic to discourage democrat votes. So many democrats will assume by default that criticisms about Biden (even when true) will eventually lead to “both sides” trolling. So they just automatically skip straight to step 5 of the argument and start calling you a troll.
I was going to say replaying but I feel like that limits the question to games like Prey or Fallout New Vegas that have endings and games like The Sims 2 or Cities Skylines where you can play indefinitely end up excluded....
For what it’s worth, I wasn’t a huge fan of the story at first. It took me a few hours and a few quests to actually get into it. It suffers from Kingdom Hearts 2/The Witcher 3 Syndrome: The two hour long intro/tutorial is absolutely the worst part, which is a shame. The game really begins to shine once you get to Meridian, but that’s several hours in.
I actually enjoyed the story. Some of the themes and motifs were heavy handed, but that’s par for the course. Honestly, the biggest issue with the story is that players have come to expect a big plot twist. Bioshock 1’s twist hit first-time players hard, so later games have tried to replicate that. But the issue is that it only hit players hard because they never knew it was coming. They only remember it because it was truly shocking the first time you played through it.
So now players have come to expect that from the series, which means the series can’t replicate it; When players are looking for a big plot twist, you can’t really hide it anymore. Because as soon as you start foreshadowing it, players catch on. And if you’re too subtle with your signals, then players who have been looking for it will say that doesn’t make any sense.
Which is honestly just a step away from .txt. You can literally type out a .csv file in .txt if you want to. The .csv filetype simply tells the program that the plaintext is formatted a specific way.
Honestly, plaintext for text, csv for spreadsheets, etc… Plaintext can be read by virtually any program. If you want special formatting, then maybe use a program like Obsidian which allows for MarkDown formatting; That’s the same markup language that Reddit/lemmy uses, so you’re likely already familiar with it. It preserves the plaintext data, then uses special characters to indicate formatting.
For instance, the single underscores to make text italic or double asterisks to indicate bold text. The plain text is still available, and simply has the special characters to indicate formatting.
This is exactly why I use pencil and paper in work meetings. Even when we have a designated minutes keeper, it helps me remember things when I personally write them down.
Typically speaking, you’d want to cut instead of boost. Cutting is easy; You just reduce the volume. Boosting is much more complicated, because you need to “add” signal where none exists. So boosts tend to be noisy and/or outright distorted, while cuts will maintain a clean audio signal.
Need to boost around 2KHz? Try cutting everything else instead.
Elon Musk says his posts did more to ‘financially impair’ X than help it (www.theverge.com)
Musk admitted his posting wasn’t palatable to advertisers.
Larian publishing director on mass layoffs: 'None of these companies are at risk of going bankrupt. They were just at risk of pissing off the shareholders' (www.pcgamer.com)
Man Thinks Games Were Better When He Was Blind to Their Blatant Political Themes (hard-drive.net)
Amazon storing classified US government documents improperly (lemmy.ml)
wetdry.world/@ari/112230288896956003
Fuck ads at the gas pump
Idk if this is the right instance for this, but how fucking tired of these forced ads at gas pumps is everyone else?...
Life Hack (lemm.ee)
Lara Croft Crowned Most Iconic Video Games Character of All Time, According to BAFTA Poll (www.bafta.org)
What an… interesting list. What are we thinking?...
I did not know the origin of the quote (lemmy.world)
Cross-posted from lemmy.world/post/13888155
What is something that is completely legal that should be illegal?
))<>(( (mander.xyz)
Gunfire From Deputies Killed Teen Who Had Been Reported Kidnapped, Video Shows (www.nytimes.com)
What anime have you all been watching? April 2024 (hexbear.net)
I don’t think I’ve seen one of these threads in a minute, so why not? shrug-outta-hecks...
Microsoft opens a "high priority" bug ticket in ffmpeg, attempting to leech the free labour of the maintainers (trac.ffmpeg.org)
Microsoft employee:...
Strike That Killed World Central Kitchen Workers Bears Hallmarks of Israeli Precision Strike (www.bellingcat.com)
There is zero need for millions of office drones to be on the road daily. (lemmy.world)
Yeah we are not like that (midwest.social)
What are some games you find yourself frequently coming back to?
I was going to say replaying but I feel like that limits the question to games like Prey or Fallout New Vegas that have endings and games like The Sims 2 or Cities Skylines where you can play indefinitely end up excluded....
What file formats, technologies, techniques do you think would benefit most people by being more common? Or that people would benefit by being more aware of?
.7z seems to be good and I do recommend it to people, saying that it’s better than regular zip. Have recently started using opus n webm files more....
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