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Kobolds with a keyboard.

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How to get a private car

Hello internet users. Someone in my family is looking to buy a car and wanted some recommendations for a private one. They are looking to buy new, and need Android Auto and CarPlay. I know all new cars suck for privacy by default, but I was hoping someone here could offer some insight as to which cars can be made better and what...

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See, you could have just said “Oh, silly me! Thanks!”, and nobody would have thought less of you, but now, everyone thinks you’re a prick.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.

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I think the majority of Americans don’t really see a dilemma there.

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Based on the progress from Win7 to Win8 to Win10 to Win11, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” doesn’t seem to be a prevailing mantra at Microsoft.

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Sure, but you can refactor code without completely changing or removing functional and widely used features. Especially looking at Win11 vs. Win10, it just feels malicious at this point. “How can we shoehorn in more advertising, AI and telemetrics?”

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You wash your towels after a single use? Just so we’re clear, you’re supposed to wash yourself before you use the towel… they shouldn’t be that dirty… right?

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How are you saying it should work? Isn’t it pretty much standard that for a crime to be prosecuted, the victim needs to report it, and cooperate with police as part of their investigation?

(Also, ‘press charges’ does not imply suing someone. Also, citizens don’t press charges; the prosecutor presses charges; the ‘Do you want to press charges?’ question you hear sometimes is really just a shorthand for ‘If we press charges, will you cooperate with our investigation and provide us with the necessary information we need to do that, or would we be wasting our time?’ It’s possible that this works differently in the UK (I’m in the US), but I don’t believe it does. If I’m wrong, I’d be happy to be corrected.)

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You’re replying to someone asking if the victim pressed charges in the specific instance you cite. I’m replying to that. What is the disconnect here?

Yes, I understand that you want there to be certain requirements to use recorded footage. That’s not the issue at hand. You implied that an Indian immigrant shouldn’t have to report (or press charges, specifically) an incident, and implied that it should just… magically be prosecuted, I don’t know… that’s what I’m trying to figure out - how do you expect these hypothetical laws to be enforced, if not through the normal channels? Just because something is illegal doesn’t mean that anyone violating that legality is magically, immediately held to account for it. You’re objecting to the already-in-place process for making that happen, so what’s your desired solution?

Edit: To summarize the entire comment chain:

You, in OP: The law should work this way.

Reply: “In the UK, it basically already does.”

You: “Then how was this perceived violation permitted to exist?”

Reply: “Did the victim report it / press charges?”

You: “They can’t / shouldn’t have to do that for these reasons!”

Me: “So how is this law supposed to be enforced?”

You: “I already said that it should be illegal!”

That last comment, that’s the nonsequitur.

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If you’re unhappy with the moderation on a given community, make your own competing community, with your own moderation policies. If more people feel strongly about it and agree with your views over the original, they can come to your community instead. There is no overarching ‘Lemmy’ to ban you; instances are all separate. That’s the beauty of Lemmy.

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but its just as hard for me to get my shift covered as it is them

However, doing so is in their job description and (presumably) not yours.

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Casual reminder that staffing and scheduling is the manager’s job. If you aren’t a manager, your responsibility should be to tell your manager you can’t come in, and it should end there.

Meta Confirm Charging EU Users For Ad-Free Access to FB and Insta (alternativeto.net)

Meta has officially confirmed its decision to introduce a subscription plan for ad-free access to Instagram and Facebook for users in the European Union, EEA, and Switzerland. This move comes a few weeks after Meta first considered the idea, amidst regulatory pressure from the EU regarding the company’s ad targeting and data...

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This seems like an insane price. I’m generally not opposed to ad-based services offering an optional subscription to remove ads, but holy shit. $13 / mo. for social media? Fuck the hell off.

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2027 headline: “Craft carrying six billionaires lost at sea during voyage to see the wreckage of the submarine that went last year to see the wreckage of the submarine that went to see the wreckage of the submarine that went to see the wreckage of the submarine that went to see the wreckage of the Titanic in 2023.”

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“Be a part of history!”

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I feel like I have a superpower when that happens. Even if I still feel like shit and would obviously rather go back to sleep, it still feels better to wake up naturally than get woken up by the alarm.

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This checks out.

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They should make the next one photo-realistic, just to change things up.

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There’s a live-action TV show?!

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Aladdin (and also Lion King) on Genesis / SNES had some ultra-smooth animation compared to anything we’d seen before!

I was really blown away by Goldeneye on the N64, too. The fact that they got blood on them in the spot you shot them and would grab the wounded spot as they collapsed was immensely impressive at the time.

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I remember playing Twisted Metal on the PS1 and thinking that those graphics would just never be beat. They were so realistic!

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I’d heard this happened but I didn’t believe it until I moved from Maine to Massachusetts and went back to visit for the first time. Got pulled over and ticketed for doing 59 in a 55, on a road I (and everyone else) used to drive 65 on every day. Only difference was the MA plates.

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It doesn’t have to be nationalized, but it doesn’t make any sense for a civilian to be able to unilaterally make decisions like that while under military contract. At the very least, any decision to change or influence the contracted service while the contract is active should require some sort of review and approval. Maybe there’s a good reason it’s the way it is, I’m just a layman, but every time I hear about this it just baffles me why it was even allowable for Elon to make the call he did, or any call for that matter.

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Maybe - just maybe - a private citizen shouldn’t be left in control of contracted military infrastructure at all…

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So strong, being unashamed to proclaim your belief in the dominant religion in the country. So brave.

I wonder if they’d be so willing to advertise this if they were, for instance, in the middle east.

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It kills me how much more of it there’d be, and how much better off we’d be in general, if we weren’t forced to spend so much of our lives working for other people.

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I used to work in CS for a cell phone provider. The most memorable call I had from that experience was a woman who spent over an hour yelling at me because her daughter had ordered a $1200 phone upgrade without permission. She was absolutely sure that it was illegal for us to charge her for that, because her daughter was not authorized to use her card, and because her daughter was under 18.

She didn’t want to return the phone, because she didn’t want her daughter to hate her. She just didn’t want us to charge her for it.

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