praise_idleness

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“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work.” - Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

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praise_idleness,

Car isn’t much safer if we count all the factors.

praise_idleness, (edited )

Acupuncture is amazing. I live in South Korea where acupuncture is a very common practice and it downright works. I don’t know well enough to say this but I seriously doubt that while there’s no doubt it plays a big role in its effectiveness but it’s definitely more than just placebo effect. It definitely does something.

praise_idleness, (edited )

There’s a very famous case of frostbite so bad that the doctors insisted that the patient needed amputation(severance? Not sure how you say cutting off toes) but a traditional Korean doctor cured it only with acupuncture and some herbal medicine. The patient recently made an interview about it as well. I was able to find this related paper as well.

Still not sure if this can be achieved only with some form of placebo. Guess I am too familiar with the idea of acupuncture being real?

edit: was just curious. Thanks for the input!

praise_idleness,

It’s not only cost ineffetive but also less environmental option.

praise_idleness,

People still use magnetic tapes to store stuff. New standards are being made. Just because something is clearly better in a way doesn’t mean that it will make everything well he obsolete, especially when we’re talking about soldered RAM…

praise_idleness,

What would you consider not to be a shithole? You’re not helping anyone and totally ridiculous.

praise_idleness,

I’d rather work than to be forced to post something on vacation.

praise_idleness,

Apparently that’s what makes something legal/illegal. Whether it pleases corporate shitholes.

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised by how much laying off 1,500 employees negatively affected the streaming giant’s operations (fortune.com)

When Spotify announced its largest-ever round of layoffs in December, CEO Daniel Ek hailed a new age of efficiency at the streaming giant. But four months on, it seems he and his executives weren’t prepared for how tough filling in for 1,500 axed workers would be....

praise_idleness,

Well no shit. If you have zero problems after firing 1500 people at once, that means you were being a terrible manager this whole time.

praise_idleness,

Ever seen this?

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/8b474c17-d5fa-463e-a579-97d725ab23ab.jpeg

This is the reason why this ban is much needed. Tiktok is literally propaganda machine. If they can be this overt, what wouldn’t they do?

praise_idleness,

I do not want to be slightest of a Meta/Reddit advocate but domestic companies making political statements/actions, although I persoanlly do not agree, is far different from foreign captial, especially considering where the originating country is.

I’m not even US citizen but what they did was really concerning.

Forcing the sale of one company doesn’t do much but get it out of China’s hands (which… okay fine, this is probably good. We wouldn’t be in this scenario in the first place if congress could do anything to put more control in consumer’s hands in regards to their privacy/content).

fully agree.

praise_idleness,

Both can be wrong but something can be more wrong.

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

praise_idleness,

That’s disgusting.

praise_idleness,

I think it’s safe to say that over 99% of custom built pc doesn’t run on proper windows license

praise_idleness,

I came up with that figure knowing that there are much more 3rd world country people who can’t afford proper PC let alone windows license.

Honestly, considering China/India, I think my figure has to go higher than not.

praise_idleness,

Which is why I specifically mentioned custom built pc

praise_idleness,

37% is very hard to believe with custom built PC. I don’t think more than 90% of all PCs are pirated windows machine. That can’t be. Plently of OEMs and laptops alone will break that number.

praise_idleness,

I meant in a way that most of the people who would actually care to know what an operating system is will be against paying for it.

praise_idleness,

Show that kind of hostility while you can puny human.

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