I hate the hospital for the same reason. Nothing like the mixed smells of chlorhexidine and death in a cancer ward.

But as a human, I can at least rationalize being there on an intellectual level

Most people have money in the SP500 through their 401(k), sadly.

https://www.hhs.gov/

It’s worse: unlike Molotov, Zelensky didn’t even bring the cocktails.

Awesome! I didn’t know. I’m gonna try it now. Thanks!

Oh wow interesting. Thanks!

…for the desktop.

Newpipe and Grayjay are still going strong on Android.

Fixed.

There has been so many of them, to be honest I picked the first one I found 🙂

You’re not that important. Nobody wants to kill you.

A car without an internet connection.

Yeah but look at the chaos necessary to overshadow Ron DeSantis…

I’d rather plug my ears and shout LALALALA when I see DeSantis than watch the orange Dr. Evil and the South African Nr. Two wreck the nation.

I mean someone actually shot at drump so it can’t be that complicated.

• Firstly it wasn’t an RPG. I don’t think you realize how complicated it is to get your hands on a functional RPG. Not to mention, if you want to blow up Musk’s aircraft, you probably want a portable surface-to-air missile like a Stinger. Good luck getting one of those too.
• Secondly the dude missed Trump, so it is a bit complicated. You need some sniper skills he obviously didn’t have, and a lot of preparation - and probably a good dose of luck - to set yourself up for a shot and not get caught.
• Thirdly, the dude was wasted. So anybody thinking about fixing America’s problems that way should feel ready to lay down his life for the cause. People usually talk the talk but rarely walk that kind of walk.

The first thing you can do is not buy anything that makes the tech billionaires more money. All they care about is money: don’t give them any if you can help it.

Well then err on whatever you read being written in a positive tone if the intent is ambiguous. If you’re wrong, the worst thing that can happen to you is that you look overly optimistic. But at least you won’t raise your blood pressure feeling aggression that may not be there.

I mean well incidentally. I don’t want to sound patronizing.

Here’s a little something I learned many decades ago:

When you read something someone has written, always remember that you didn’t hear the person’s voice what they wrote, and you didn’t see their body language. So you’re missing 67% of the information that person meant to convey.

Your brain naturally makes up the missing information: it might assign a male or female voice to the author of the text, and it might imagine them smiling or being angry, or in some other state of mind if the text can have several meaning, like in the case of irony of sarcasm (that isn’t explicitely marked as such with “/s”).

My advice is this: when you think someone is insulting you, re-read the sentence, but imagining the person smiling or laughing while writing it instead: does it work too? Does the sentence work better with the author smiling or being angry in your mind’s eye?

This has helped me immensely online. It might help you too.

It was a joke.

Once you’ve joined Lemmy, you don’t want to go back.

But if you must, here’s the address.

Oh that’s easy: sell it at an outrageous price in upscale North American restaurants as authentic “pain Francais”.

Your name isn’t private information.

What if I don’t want to give it to Microsoft?

Your photo doesn’t have to be included in M365, and isn’t by default in any organization I’ve worked with.

My company mandates that we put our mugs on Teams so “people know who they’re talking to”.

Your personal address also isn’t in your work profile on M365, that’s usually in an HR system somewhere, not kept in Active Directory. Your salary is the same, it’s not stored in your M365 profile, and neither is your sick days. This simply isn’t normal M365 functionality.

When the fucking secretary puts all that stuff in an Excel file, and everybody’s photos - and company photos - in a sharepoint, and the accountant does the payroll in M365, it is.

Microsoft also doesn’t just have access to this information the way you think they do. They can’t just log in with an admin account and check your current status on teams, or read your e-mails, or anything like that.

That’s right: nobody logs in with an admin account: all that data you feed Microsoft is processed automatically.

You don’t really think they take your money and honestly host your data and provides services without raping your and your company’s information every which way do you? Big Data’s entire business model is exploiting other people’s data.

Microsoft’s gig is really clever: they force people who otherwise would never give any information to Microsoft to do so by selling their employers services that are cheaper than on-prem, and in turn, their employers force the employees to share their information with Microsoft on pain of getting the sack.

My identify, my photo, my address are mine. I never wanted to share any of that with Microsoft. Thanks to my employer, I have to.

Likewise, I don’t want to Microsoft to know my salary, or how many sick days I take due to my disability. Thanks to my employer, Microsoft knows all about me, and I don’t want Microsoft to know anything about me.

The work data I produce at work belongs to my employer. If my employer is foolish enough to share it with Microsoft, it’s their problem - although arguably, if that ever jeopardizes my company’s ability to win contracts on the markets it operates in because Microsoft has insider knowledge and undercuts it, and my company does less well as a result, then it becomes my problem. But I’m forced to share my personal data because my employer decided without my consent to share it with Microsoft.