elfpie

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Vale Night (2022) (imdb.com)

If for nothing else, I needed this movie just for how the camera moved. It followed the characters and the action without dozens of jump cuts. I thought the long take during the opening was just a nice way of presenting the players and the incident that would affect their lives, but it became the norm throughout....

elfpie,

“If you have an outcome-based approach and you do not reach the goals, then you have to apply additional measures […] whereas now you say okay, I tried, but unfortunately, it didn’t turn out the way I wanted to,” Paulus explained.

Politicians and producers love good ideas that will attract the public’s attention, but should be tweaked just enough to not be executed as intended.

elfpie,

After ruining some installations and learning some more, I started questioning the fact that pyenv and some venv management are not taught at the beggining.

elfpie,

It’s your site too if you stay - even if not technically true. I’d hate to see dissenting voices leaving or afraid to speak up. I understand the moderation argument, but I also know that having your contribution removed will feel like being silenced because that’s what happened. There was a reason, but there’s always a reason and the blow won’t soften unless you agree with the reasoning.

You wanted to get the world out and couldn’t. I believe people are listening here, on beehaw in general. You felt you were censored. I can’t really deny that, but I’d suggest to still give the place a chance and see if a pattern emerges. Maybe don’t visit for a while, it really worked for me getting away for several weeks.

Americans are confused, frustrated by new tipping culture, study finds (www.washingtonpost.com)

It’s gotten rather absurd. If my interaction is with a kiosk short of being handed something, it’s an insulting extra step. I’m already paying the price for my employer’s pay scale … I can’t take on someone else’s stinginess....

elfpie,

The problem with tipping not being an extra is that one theoretically ends up paying the waiter’s salary directly without being in a direct work relation with them. The restaurant pays people to be there, the clients pay the people to provide a service, the restaurant doesn’t share their profits with their employees, the clients are pressured to decide how much of that profit should be shared and generate that number on the side.

It’s the old two categories being exploited and pitied against each other.

elfpie,

He was, uh, totally asking for it.

I’ll admit that I got confused. If you visit the site, the article is a response to the research that says women also hit men. I’d argue they simply chose stories of men beating women, flipped the gender and wanted people to be outraged.

elfpie,

Basically, they want to exclude people that answer “some difficulty” which equates them to “no difficulty at all”. There’s a world of difference between " I have no difficulty walking" and “I have some difficulty walking”. I imagine the researchers judge the difference by seeing who’s left behind and ignoring who is suffering to get to the same place.

elfpie,

Understanding people’s disabilities more precisely is the direction we want to go. Using that to decide some of them (a lot of some of them) are not disabled enough is the problem. The researchers defend their method in the name of uniformity, which tends to squash personal realities.

elfpie,

I’ve never played any of the games, but I would understand that Link is a silent character that uses sign language.

elfpie,

For the people who suggest users just change apps. Imagine I just ban all your current forms of text communication (you can still have e-mail), but only you, your family and friends will keep their ecosystems. Do you care you won’t talk to them anymore? Can you convince them to use a new app? Does it affect your life beyond social interactions? Is it worth making your life harder?

elfpie,

Telegram is the same. It’s the app people will migrate to because it’s the app people learned to use when WhatsApp can’t operate for some reason. Not many people there. People here are overly attached.

elfpie,

The article didn’t go in the direction I expected. Theoretically, open source software can be fixed by experts outside of the main company, but it would be very niche. The expert would need to be familiar with the specific hardware at least, have varying degrees of medical knowledge and have access to the individual in need in some cases.

Forced updates and treating medical software as no more special than a game is the problem when dealing with apps. Tag medicals apps and make it so that system updates have to be manual or go through warnings before being deployed. Offer the option to go back to a version that previously worked. Create regulations to make companies liable for malfunctions.

elfpie,

Daily quests, login rewards, any other mechanic that wants to dictate when I should play, all that ruined my relation with a lot of games. I actively try to ignore them nowadays. If my line of reasoning is I should play a little more because the reward is around the corner and will be gone tomorrow, I’ll let the most precious opportunity go to waste to protect my mental health.

elfpie,

Who exactly are you talking about when you say Brazil? There’s a lot of people here that really don’t care at all, but there’s also people working to preserve the forest for a variety of reasons at different levels.

elfpie,

No, that’s just racist. That’s something to remember when you argue with someone like that.

elfpie,

The airlines keep saying that they will make sure the staff follow the policies instead of providing training to avoid negative bias. The policy they talk about is one that changed because of racial bias (asking for medical license). The doctor of the article only had their license at hand because they had recently talked to the doctor who was previously profiled and motivated the change in policy.

Let the community work it out: A throwback to early internet days could fix social media’s crisis of legitimacy (www.niemanlab.org)

[…]why should a few companies — or a few billionaire owners — have the power to decide everything about online spaces that billions of people use? This unaccountable model of governance has led stakeholders of all stripes to criticize platforms’ decisions as arbitrary, corrupt or irresponsible. In the early, pre-web days...

elfpie,

The problem that I see is that power comes in great part from the responsibility to educate yourself. In a community, you don’t have to know everything to contribute to its workings, but someone has, enough people do you escape the clutches of external players. Everything is quite individualist right now though. Things must just work without the help of anyone.

'Not of faculty quality': How Penn mistreated Nobel Prize-winning researcher Katalin Karikó (www.thedp.com)

In the discussion I read elsewhere, people wondered if the way funds are granted would change and advocated for it. I don’t think a system that can say they profit greatly from the status quo will ever care. I also remember how public funding were denied to researchers and then cut without all of it being used.

elfpie,

“That immediately causes them to tune out because … that puts their guard up,” she said. “If you were to go to anybody and say, ‘I am telling you this because you are potentially a violent person,’ and that person feels that fundamentally they’re not, that’s going to cause that person to get defensive and tune out. That is something that we’ve seen across all of the research that we’ve done, that the young men on college campuses find that [prevention education] is either completely ‘name, blame, shame’ or is irrelevant to them as men within their campus community.”

The culture of victim blaming creates an enemy instead of focusing on the real issues. And the biggest issue is that we can’t recognize abuse as easily as we believe we naturally do. It’s normal, it’s okay, but it isn’t.

elfpie,

They probably are. That said, it’s always a good idea to ask the question: “why would people use the worse alternative?”

elfpie,

They can block access to the site if they don’t comply. Then people use VPN.

How do you understand federation?

I don’t really want a definition of what the fediverse should be or was initially envisioned to be. I just want to understand how people actually use it. I started wondering because I felt the talks about its current state and growth stumble in invisible misunderstandings about the basic nature of what we are using or how we...

elfpie,

The rest of the population should also pay attention, and it’s the kind of support that shields the protest from being easily dismissed.

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