[-] Balios@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

New? The messed up thing is we don't even know all the ways "old" diseases fuck us up.

[-] Balios@kbin.social 60 points 1 year ago

Here's the full set of measures recommended:

Workplace safety regulators have recommended a suite of measures including water spraying systems, ventilation and vacuum systems to clear dust, in addition to protective respirators for workers — ones covering the entire face if silica levels in the air are high.

[-] Balios@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

For those on a dangerous path, that have not yet arrived.

[-] Balios@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago

The problem is simple: in a perfect society we wouldn't increase flat prices simply so a landlord can make even more profit. There is no actual, logical reason why the flat should cost 5x as much, only made up ones that basically say "but I wanna!". There's no actual 5x increase in costs for the landlord, they pocket most of that additional rent.
Living space isn't something you should be able to profit this heavily from in a functioning society, as it's a basic necessity to life. It's alright that nicer flats cost more but nowadays we value huge additional profits to landlords higher than basic human rights, provocatively spoken.

[-] Balios@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

If there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis.

[-] Balios@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Fuck off. A lot of people got sick because others were idiots, not because they behaved wrong. Masks are most effective when the sick person wears them, which you can't influence, way too many idiots got out even thought they felt sick and not every place in the world encouraged the use of the really effective FFP2/KN95 Masks. A lot of long-covid sufferers also got sick early on, before we even learned what they best measures would be to protect ourselves and others and before we had the vaccines that reduce the risk of suffering from it.

[-] Balios@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah, morons just get more and more comfortable to openly be morons. A trend that's going on for quite a while.

[-] Balios@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Assuming that only members of the community could possibly be interested in these books is one of the problems we have.

[-] Balios@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago

I was accused some years ago (like... 2012?) of "hacking" an alpha of an online game because I changed some urls to get items or move them between players... I actually documented all of this and sent them plenty of bug reports. It was an alpha, after all and we were specifically asked to report bugs.
They then literally sent me an email and told them that they can see my provider from my IP and will contact them to sue me for hacking...

The game never left their alpha state and soon after closed down completely over some drama where a mod got access to important keys and locked everyone out.

Fun fact: the programmer of that pile of shit then announced that they started working for a huge online game company.

[-] Balios@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

Nah.
Firstly, you no longer can buy coins and awards. Three days ago they posted this:

Starting today, you will no longer be able to purchase new coins, but all awards and existing coins will continue to be available until September 12, 2023.

So currently they can not make any quick bugs with coins and awards as they no longer are buy-able.
Additionally, since all coins/awards expire on that date, there is zero reason to get more. Right now you want to get rid of what you have, not stock up just so Reddit can delete your inventory of coins.

This would be different if they announced some beneficial exchange rate for real money or their new system or kept coins you own available indefinitely (or at least way longer), which indeed would trigger some people to stock up "just in case I want to award someone later on".

This is a clean cut, meant to renew the system by first tearing down the old one completely, without leaving anything in place, and then introducing something entirely new. I don't necessarily agree with their communication and deadlines but I don't think there is anything foul at work here. They just want a new system and follow their current trend of rushing everything.

[-] Balios@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, it actually puts the lives of a few select people over everything and everyone else, under the disguise of "tHe eCoNOmY".

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