Over 7 million reported deaths is not a goddamn scam. COVID 19 is an order of magnitude more dangerous than your average seasonal flu, and often causes severe long-term harm to survivors.

Most of all, we had a chance to get rid of it. Even if it were just another flu, that would be incredibly significant. Now it’s endemic, the world is permanently a worse place for it, and idiots like you are a contributing reason why

My former employer did RTO with 2 weeks notice, no exceptions. A coworker who had actually moved to a different state moved their family again to comply, only to be laid off months later.

I had sold my car and planned to never own another. Plus the few times I had been in the office were awful, managing virtual meetings with coworkers around and overseas, listening to a sales rep in the next cubicle discussing how best to defraud their customers, etc. I loved that job and my boss fought hard for my ability to stay remote, but they were convinced 100% RTO is the only way to survive the tariffs.

I once had a car stop working while waiting at a stoplight. Light turns green, press gas pedal, nothing. In a panic, I just keyed it off and started it again, and luckily that did the trick. I don’t think I would have had the sense at the time to use hazards if that hadn’t worked.

Crashlands.

+1 for Cradle. His current series “The Last Horizon” is great too, a fun trope filled science-fantasy.

Storm by Tim Minchin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U

Totally agreed.

Unfortunately my first association is the “Glass Walls” ad that was hammered into my brain hundreds of times before I learned to block them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTifP6idBPs

No, Paul, do you think slaughterhouse employees are even more likely to be vegetarian? Good intentions, but so infuriating.

I get the sentiment, though doesn’t it seem unfair to assume all tradition has such grounding? Plus, disrespect is the mechanism for weeding out harmful or redundant traditions. It’s fine.

What really sucks is that it was added somewhat recently with their new pvp mode, which I couldn’t care less about. I paid for the game, and they made it unplayable for me.

I think the people doing the rewrites genuinely believe it will be an improvement, and they could be correct. I get the instinct to “don’t fix what ain’t broken”, but that is what staging is for. There is no need to make sacred cows, and this seems like a perfect opportunity to improve security and integration testing as well.

I don’t hate telemetry, and words do have meanings. I wouldn’t call it a consumer attraction, however, otherwise it would make the most sense to design it as opt-in.

Telemetry isn’t malicious by nature, although it likely is in support of predatory sales practices in this case considering HP’s recent history. When opt-out, I would call it undesirable software designed to send unauthorized data from a consumer perspective.

Maybe there is a better term, but I can’t think of one. Language is flexible though, and most categorizations have defiers.

Fair point, although it feels wrong to refer to malware as a feature.

FYI that sounds like ADHD to me. Not something to act on unless it becomes a problem, but I wish my parents would have recognized it when I was struggling.