I got that email about google podcasts being shut down and went and found a FOSS alternative: AntennaPod. Been using it for a few days and does everything I need, free, no ads, no extra crap, and now I don’t have to start using stupid YT music.
I am so sick of employee engagement surveys and the resulting exercise in futility around soliciting changes that never get made. It’s honestly one of the more evil and deceitful processes that capitalism and academia have ever teamed up to create.
I put "pay us more money" in every comment box I can. It hasn't worked yet, weirdly... It's just a tool so upper management can jerk themselves off to anything good they can find, justifying their continued repression of the workers. They can point to one comment going "I love it here!" and then say any bad comment must be a bad employee.
Oh yeah, I collected a lot of them, but only up until the Q Continuum deck. I really didn't have anyone to play with, but I enjoyed the collecting part. Had some good ones, if I remember right, but never managed to get the full TNG bridge crew. Eventually gave it to one of my sisters...wonder if she still has them all?
I really enjoyed The Hyperion Cantos, and the first few Dune books I read a long time ago (may reread these now). Can anyone recommend some other books (or series) along these lines? Huge stories on an epic scale, space battles, cool future tech, etc.
The Imperial Radch trilogy by Ann Leckie was very good. It's got a few interesting themes along with the space battles and evil empires and weird aliens, like gender and personhood. I hear there's a new book in the same universe, but unconnected to the trilogy characters, that just came out I think?
Yeah, are they going to try to mod all the subs by themselves now? That's not going to work out really well. Either there will be no moderation and everything will be trash, or they'll have to hire people as moderators, which will cut into the profits they're trying to show. They're trying to bully people to behave how they want, and I hope it fails badly. But I'm still waiting for people to stop using twitter...
The drip-feeding of information around everything happening with the game right now is frustrating. No details as to what was in season 5 until yesterday (like, who knew Mischief and Magic was Prop Hunt?), showing what they've decided PvE will be in a video, and then later on going "Oh yeah, it'll cost $5 to keep", but no details on how substantial these missions are...they're just not great at telling people anything, which makes it all worse.
Won't someone think of the yachters. (lemmy.world)
xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas (imgs.xkcd.com)
xkcd.com/2929...
Tax the rich (i.imgur.com)
This week’s dead Google products: Google Podcasts, basic Gmail, and more! (arstechnica.com)
Wagner Group captures headquarters of the Southern Military District and the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Rostov, the headquarters of Russia's base of operations for War in Ukraine (lemmy.world)
https://press.coop/@nexta_tv/110596817441266741
Is anyone else tired of “employee engagement”?
I am so sick of employee engagement surveys and the resulting exercise in futility around soliciting changes that never get made. It’s honestly one of the more evil and deceitful processes that capitalism and academia have ever teamed up to create.
Anyone else remember the TNG CCG from the 90s?
Editor's Note: Apologies if this has been discussed to death, but I figured covering old territory may be necessary as we regenerate....
Looking for epic space operas
I really enjoyed The Hyperion Cantos, and the first few Dune books I read a long time ago (may reread these now). Can anyone recommend some other books (or series) along these lines? Huge stories on an epic scale, space battles, cool future tech, etc.
Here it comes - Reddit admins taking over subs (lemmy.intai.tech)
lemmy.world IS NOT a general discussion area. find another community....
Overwatch 2 is charging you for the PvE it didn't cancel (www.rockpapershotgun.com)