My wife is a high school teacher. We returned to her classroom one evening after dinner this week so I could help her put together some shelves. After 30 minutes of assembly, I realized I needed to use the bathroom. She gave me her keys and pointed me towards the staff bathrooms. Whilst sitting on the porcelain throne, I realized that I couldn't remember the last time I did a #2 in a public bathroom. I've been WFH since March of 2020 when COVID started, and while I'm sure I've crapped in a public restroom in the past 3+ years, it's so infrequent that I can't remember.

That's not really the point though, more that I've actually been thinking about it all week and reflecting on what working in an office used to be like - crapping next to your coworkers, packing a lunch, trying to look busy when you just aren't feeling it that day, the small talk, and everything else that result in me being absolutely drained by the time I got home. Seriously, sometimes I would just sit on the couch and stare at the wall for 30 minutes when I got home.

It took the greatest global event of the 21st century to shift us to WFH. We can't let companies force us into backsliding into these out-dated work practices when all common sense says otherwise.

I was about to say add uBlock Origin to that list but apparently they don't accept donations per the bottom of their homepage.

I will not accept donations or sponsorships of any kind.

That's some fuck you energy right there.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the 11 million losing medicaid is due to red states choosing to "unwind" it. It's not really an economy thing so much as a deliberate asshole thing.

Everything else is spot on though.

The wording is confusing but they are making more money from the price hike. They were losing money, they are now losing less money.

Streaming Loss Shrinks by $300 Million

Back when I was on reddit, I subscribed to about 120 subreddits. Starting a couple years ago though, I noticed that my front page really only showed content for 15-20 subreddits at a time and it was heavily weighted towards recent visits and interactions.

For example, if I hadn't visited r/3DPrinting in a couple weeks, it slowly faded from my front page until it disappeared all together. It was so bad that I ended up writing a browser automation script to visit all 120 of my subreddits at night and click the top link. This ended up giving me a more balanced front page that mixed in all of my subreddits and interests.

My point is these algorithms are fucking toxic. They're focused 100% on increasing time on page and interaction with zero consideration for side effects. I would love to see social media algorithms required by law to be open source. We have a public interest in knowing how we're being manipulated.

So legally speaking, what happens if it was my 8 year old son, who clicks buttons with no regard for human life, that agreed to this BS TOS? How is that legally binding?

Fully agree. I worked in beer for years and this guy does not speak for the industry. Makes me wonder how bad things were at the brewery he worked at if he thinks this is the norm.

Additionally, seasonal beers and beers not "regularly advertised" (whatever that means?) are a way for breweries to test concepts and demand before scaling and planning distribution; fruited or otherwise. Most breweries have a pilot system where they are testing concepts, techniques, flavors, etc. These beers make it to the taproom and/or see a limited release and then the brewery assesses the response.

I could not disagree more with this post.

I would like some of your plenty of examples.

For the uninitiated, as someone who's looking to move from Windows to Linux and Ubuntu is probably my first choice, can you share what's not to like about this?

Edit - insightful answers. Thank you

Serious question, what about Ubuntu worries you in terms of privacy?

No, everyone pays the bill.

I get these texts occasionally. What's their goal? Ask for money eventually?

Thank you. Besides the profit comment I made, I struggled to articulate what else bothered me about that comment. You put it into words.

Oh don't worry, you'll hear about that vulnerability in two years.

So the people that elect the asshats that run Texas get a pass?

Bet you think you're enlightened or something.

One thing I do dislike, the post width on desktop is limited. Between the sidebar always being shown and the container being 1140 px wide, the comment section ends up only being 760 px wide; way too narrow for me.

I wrote a Stylus script for Firefox to make the posts full-width.

URL starts with: https://lemmy.world/post URL starts with: https://lemmy.world/comment

Script:

.container, .container-lg, .container-md, .container-sm, .container-xl {
    max-width: 100%;
}

.col-md-8 {
    flex: 0 0 80%;
    max-width: 80%;
}

.col-md-4 {
    flex: 0 0 20%;
    max-width: 20%;
}

His book Ghost in the Wires is a fantastic read.

"Because profits above all else." -NHL

All jokes aside, I imagine cremating horses was the preferred method of disposal. I'm sure no one wanted to dig holes big enough to bury a horse. I wonder if that's how it was discovered.