I use Firefox for over a decade now never had any problem with ads and if it occurres it's very easy to sort it out
I wish it was acceptable to call older folks out as lazy if they refuse to learn how to text, email and otherwise use the internet. It’s fine for them to call millennials lazy if they can’t drive a stick shift or balance a checkbook, but if you’re giving me bullshit like “I’m 68 years old, I don’t text and I don’t email” you are just a lazy, stubborn bastard. I’ve met plenty of 90 year olds who are perfectly capable because they aren’t lazy old fucks.
Seriously, of all people they're the ones that have been around since the internet's inception. They've had more time to adapt than anyone.
Seems nobody will ever put sanity and social safety over their feelings. People don't really understand the social contact anymore. They think that's for everyone else.
The dangers of conservatism/fascism.
If not for conservatism, humans would be proactively addressing global heating. Conservatives oppress the innocent and vulnerable in every country where conservatives have power. If not for conservatism, there would be no genocide. Conservatives are the gullible, deadly foot-soldiers of the billionaires.
Conservatism is the single biggest threat to life on earth. Eradicating conservatism would be the single most positive change we could make to preserve life on earth.
Conservatism should be used as a moderator. If Libertarianism is left unchecked it will try to solve all the problems all at once, running out of resources before even achieving a proper solution. Ideally the Parliament should be roughly split into 5ths with each part representing an important area (environmentalist, economist, socialism/communalism, etc.). Then through coalitions, in which conservatism should always be a part of the most relevant problems can be targeted in a moderated sense.
Before calling support, turning your device off and back on again will legitimately resolve 90% of your issues.
If you call the helldesk and the uptime of your device is more than 24 hours and you said you already rebooted it how can we trust anything else you say?
Now, conversely, if you work in support, please ACTUALLY FUCKING LISTEN TO ME when I am telling you I've already done that 17 different ways, along with tons of other troubleshooting and isolating and I'm not a technical moron and I tried every possibility to avoid calling you so can we PLEASE SKIP THE USUAL BULLSHIT SUGGESTIONS?!?!?!?!
I hate it too but they don't because everyone claims they know what they're doing and they've already tried all that stuff.
99% of the time it turns out they haven't and that was the problem.
I don't often need support, but when i do, i try to make it clear that i kinda know the deal and i tried everything in my power to make it work for days, and calling in support isn't my first instinct. But i completely understand why they treat you like a dummy.
That's the difference from a good support tech and a bad one tbh. Bring able to gauge someone's tech literacy and taking in all troubleshooting done before is literally the first thing you should do. So many escalations I've received just has "had user reboot, had them disconnect and reconnect to network. Checked and device has no pending updates, sending to L3." in the notes. Half of the time a reboot really wouldn't do anything, and they really just needed to be added to an AD group (most of my tickets last week). I'm just glad I'm shifting out of support and more into projects.
Because I rebooted it last week and still had the problem last week after rebooting and I was lazy about making a ticket.
The importance of digital privacy and freedom. The way capitalism ruins everything you like.
Worked at a major tech company as a data engineer, constantly warn everybody that major tech company is doing crazy surveillance, nobody cares. Told everybody my job was taking economists and research scientists python models, translating them into production code for data pipelines that would operate on terabytes of streaming data and it would change our recommendation system on the fly to keep you on the page. It was designed by academics to prey on basic human instincts. Tons more sketchy stuff, but I always felt like that was the most predatory. All we need to know was your zip code and gender and we knew how to recommend you stuff you wanted, and then people would voluntarily give us more identifying information.
That the covid pandemic is still going full tilt and still demands a very aggressive worldwide response.
Everybody (over the age of 4--they were born in 2020!) knows it, they just deny it like crazy because they don't have the balls to deal with how unpleasant it is.
Which makes it infinitely more unpleasant because we aren't lifting the weight together. But anybody still denying the pandemic is consciously deciding to do it, and an explanation isn't going to make them un-decide, because it's not a lack of knowledge.
Dude wake up, Covid was the biggest scam in history of humanity!
Influenza typically accounts for 1.5% of deaths at its peak every year. Covid has been hovering around 3%. So it’s currently about the same level as a bad flu season. To me this indicates endemic levels. If there is a strain that suddenly starts killing more people, it will make headlines. I’m not trying to be in denial, this is just where I’m at. I’ve had it, and my immune system is doing what it is supposed to do. I’m not worried about contracting it again, unless the a new deadly strain comes out.
This is where I'm at too. I was literally just talking to my friend about this last night.
We both know of several people who feel very strongly that the pandemic is still in full swing. They won't go out of their house without a mask, they get their groceries delivered, they won't come to any social events for fear of getting sick, and they only work from home. They've basically trapped themselves in their house, out of fear.
In my opinion, which is only an opinion, I think these people have an undiagnosed mental illness. Some sort of excess anxiety that was triggered by the events of lockdown and the early pandemic, and now they are unable to reset back to normal.
I don't mean that in a bad way or a rude way, I'm legitimately concerned for these people and don't know how to help.
For your average Joe, COVID is just a reality we live with. I don't want to get it, but I can't afford to lock myself down, nor do I think it would be healthy for me mentally if I did.
Is it still full tilt?
Looking at CDC graphs of excess deaths, it appears we're back at baseline. That is, assuming I'm reading this correctly which is very much not a sure thing.
That if they vote third party before we can get rid of the first-past-the-post system, they are helping their ideological opposite. And a corollary: if they do it because of the genocide in Gaza and Trump encourages a total wipeout of the Palestinian state like he's telegraphing, the blame for the deaths of those innocent civilians is on them for being self-righteous instead of honest.
Actually two things:
First: Capitalism is bad. It gets so bad it will destroy people the worst way: both mentally and physically. And it will destroy our planet more sooner than later. We need to get rid of „the rich“, switch to a social stable System and actually care about our environment (aka climate) immediately to stop the worst. It is already way too late to stop the catastrophe entirely, but some of us still can survive.
Second: Voting for faschist and racist parties will hurt you badly. They don‘t want what’s best for the common people, they want power.
I wish we fucking lived longer so the people who doomed our planet would be alive when it starts burning. I hate that their selfishness will go completely unpunished, and that they get to die happy and comfortable in their beds after sentencing billions to death.
When you're at a fast food drive thru and they offer to round up for a charity cause, YOU can claim that write-off donation on your taxes, not the restaurant. Of course virtually nobody would do that unless you save your receipts and tally them up next year... but you can!
but then you have to do itemized deductions which takes forever and unless you're mister moneybags or in an unconventional life situation, the standard deduction is almost definitely better. also tax write offs are not free money, you still gave the money to some sketchy "charity" it's just the government doesn't get a slice of that.
Related, I tire of explaining tax deductions are over valued. It's a net loss to you to spend money on something deductable and claim the deduction. If you have $100, the government takes $20 and you get $80. If you give that $100 to charity, you have $0, the government gets $0, and the charity has $100.
Deductions are only good if you value the thing that the money went to.
Looks at Republican party
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