Absolutely not surprised. I’ve had multiple friends that worked Geek Squad. All of them have admitted to snooping at least once and most have said their coworkers did it constantly.

Don’t take your computer to Geek Squad, folks. They’re all untrained highschoolers following a script anyways

Seriously, just let us make our own “channels”. I want to shuffle through different shows for my background audio, not just 1.

Whichever streaming service gets that and some decent content will have my full attention

Best nation in the world baby!

Oh THATS why it’s called Gentoo!

I knew it was a penguin and I knew about the distro, but I never put the two together

Exactly. And while we shouldn’t swoop to their level at all, we need some kind of marketing to counteract all their bullshit

It’s not religion, but it is strict adherence to an ideology and refusing to acknowledge facts that contradict the ideology or make it inconvenient

Us leftists need to step tf up and hire some marketing people or something. People seem to be getting fed up with spineless liberals promising a lot and delivering nothing of substance. Conservatives keep promising them easy solutions, while leftists require you to read 10,000 pages of theory to understand the basics.

While you can’t bundle leftist ideology into the political equivalent of a get rich quick scheme like conservatives, there has to be a better way to market our concepts

Man, I miss Disney Infinity. The toy requirement was stupid, but the building was a ton of fun

It’s definitely marketing for AT&T

Several likely knew it would kill them and took the quick death. I know I would… I don’t care if it would take several minutes or 10 seconds to kill me, fuck that I ain’t burning alive.

The shirtwaist factory incident definitely needs to be taught from like third grade onwards as an example of why unionization and labor laws are in fact necessary in a capitalist society.

The jury acquitted the two men of first- and second-degree manslaughter, but they were found liable of wrongful death during a subsequent civil suit in 1913 in which plaintiffs were awarded compensation in the amount of $75 per deceased victim. The insurance company paid Blanck and Harris about $60,000 more than the reported losses, or about $400 per casualty.

Jesus fucking Christ not only did they get off, they ended up making money off the whole thing. It really feels like not much has changed in 112 years

Agreed to a point. I think the ideal system would be to locally store voice chats. If you report someone on your team for being toxic, then they’re sent over for review but made anonymous (like “Blue Player 1” and “Red Player 3” instead of “xXxGunKiller69xXx” and “Purple Dream Flute”). If whatever system used to review the chats (preferably humans, but it’ll probably be AI) determines that there was an actionable offense, the match identifier is pulled up and then and only then individual player names get seen so actions can be taken, otherwise it’s fully deleted.

That’s about the best system I can think of to balance privacy with the banning of toxic players. You could use this same system for text interactions as well. While I would love for 100% of my data in mp games to be private, it isn’t possible to do that and not be surrounded by toxic assholes 24/7 afaik. And I’m personally fine giving up a bit of privacy if it means not being surrounded by assholes every match.

Now, the big issue is that gaming companies just want to record everything you say to sell it off for data collection, but that’s more to do with the fact that capitalism encourages companies to have 0 ethics

Find yourself a right wing gun community and make a comment asking if POC and trans people should have guns too. Guarantee you’ll have several fashy but jobs saying yes no

Edit: don’t Lemmy while tired, kids

I can’t figure out who does more scare tactic advertising - conservative politicians or VPN companies. I swear all of them want you to believe that Russia and China are watching you personally

The visualization is also horrible. Why the hell aren’t the dots aligned with the words?

Thanks for the reminder to cancel my audible!

What? Microsoft added Linux on top of Windows not long ago with the WSL. I severely doubt they’d discontinue proton or Linux and Mac support

They’ve also made Minecraft Dungeons and Minecraft Legends. Both of which were meh successes.

But honestly when you’ve got a cash cow eternity game like Minecraft, why TF would you need to make anything else?

Good.

I was being incredibly generous

13 employees per day? What the hell well maintained, well staffed McDonald’s are you going to? Most of them run on skeleton crews of less than 7 now.

Swedes are from Sweden.

Swiss are from Switzerland

And the Swiss are the ones that claimed neutrality while happily helping the Nazis