Back in the 90s there was this true story of a botched surgery at a hospital in my home town.
In 1999 a man was diagnosed with lung cancer and was scheduled to have his left lung removed by the chief surgeon. After he woke up the surgeon informed him that he had removed the right lung.
The surgeon was demoted to an assistant physician again and shortly after sent into early retirement. He also had to pay a fine of 8400 €.
Unrleated: Following you from a new acct on mastodon.
I say life because removing the wrong lung when the correct lung was 4th stage cancer-ridden is a death sentence, more or less. There's not much to do except to maaaaaybe get a transplant. Someone who gets to go retire and live off their wealth while leaving someone else to die just irritates me.
https://nichegamer.com/microsoft-cautions-developers-to-avoid-curvy-female-characters/ #Microsoft really should mind their own business about what kinds of characters players want to play. It's okay for a character to be "sexy". I think that ultimately, the style of the game is going to depend a lot on the game. It's silly to pretend that every game should fit awfully particular and seemingly utilitarian criteria.
@olives I love to see games with diverse body types, but excluding particular types because reasons seems silly. Some folk are curvy; why are we sending the message that curvy is bad?
My recents:
Semi androgynous and skinny
Fit and smol
Tall and curvy
We could do better at inclusion, but that does not mean excluding those body types traditionally represented in games.
Do not, under any circumstances, sign up with T-Mobile if you can avoid it. After 15 (yes, you read that right FIFTEEN) years of continuous service with them I had to switch carriers because their network is unusable in my new home, and now they're trying to squeeze a final $100 out of me with some bullshit billing, after they lied to me on the phone and told me what my final bill amount would be.
The weirdest thing about 2024 is the rapid rollout of unconstitutional age verification laws for websites, and how little the “free speech” tech crowd seems to care about this.
@matthew_d_green If we're talking conservatives, they never cared about free speech. Worth remembering though is that anti-privacy and anti-speech bills are often depressingly bipartisan.
Just a reminder folks, unless you agree with them, no matter how polite you are, you will always get blocked... I get 10 examples a day why I cant stand the left, even as a person who is on the left (slightly)
@freemo I'm amused that they'll "simp for communism" (using their words) while ignoring the many human rights abuses perpetrated under its banner. Capitalism as it exists (corporatocracy) is terrible but at least I can still call it utter shit.
⚠️ URGENT ⚠️
KitsuGay will be going offline as of 23/03/24, in 30 minutes, as we use Hetzner for our hosting, and just found out that our instance violates Hetzner's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy on sexual material.
I feel personally violated by this policy that woem.men has been targeted with, as I need to now shell out money to protect myself and my instance members from the threat of being deplatformed.
Unfortunately, this means that I need your help. I need to find a proper replacement for a host of an instance that accepts queer, LGBT, and nsfw content. Suggestions will be appreciated as I figure out where to go. I'll try to get KitsuGay moved ASAP, but cannot give a timeframe for when it will be online again.
The DOT said in a press release Thursday that the review will examine whether U.S. airline giants are properly protecting their customers’ personal information and whether airlines are “unfairly or deceptively monetizing or sharing that data with third parties.”" #privacy
"They will then propose ineffective solutions with anemic penalties that in no way incentivize airlines to protect that data, allowing the status quo to continue unfettered by pesky regulation."
@crossgolf_rebel "Well, you're doing it wrong" is an unhelpful approach that alienates users. You're upset that I called your blaming users for not feeling included gatekeeping ("you just need to try harder" was the gist of your post) but you're perfectly fine throwing out blame when it suits you.
The average person using an instance isn't in a position to implement tech solutions, nor should they feel like they have to. This is essentially the 90's Linux Bro "just write your own code" argument repurposed for the Fedi.
"It's your fault because you don't integrate relay servers and bots and just make this a second job" is about the silliest thing I've read today. But it's early.
When you're blocked, I'm pretty sure its considered an asshole move to try to circumvent that block by using alts.
So rather than come back in with your alt to spew a multi-post manifesto, take the hint and go away. You weren't blocked because I "didn't like the answers," you were blocked because I have zero interest in a "you're doing it wrong" tech bro diatribe offering ridiculous solutions to end users that few have the time or inclination to implement.
And in case it gets lost in translation: Go away. You are not welcome in my @.
I feel like the funny thing for me with the Tiktok ban is that a lot of Americans, on either side of the debate, don't seem to realize that Tiktok feels to Americans like every single social media platform feels to people outside the US. You're telling me the app is located outside your country and your government's control, and you don't know how its data gets handled in that country? That's every app, to me.
@misty I'm not a fan of banning Tiktok at all, and I avoid most social media because their handling of data is just... oof. But for better or for worse, other platforms aren't state sponsored or state controlled.
I prefer the fedi for a number of reasons, but it still suffers from a "not sure how my data is being handled" issue.