Honestly, I think it’s cool to see cis people adopt and use “nonconforming” pronouns. I saw a cis man state their pronouns were they/them, and I think that’s awesome that they’re forthcoming with that! I think a lot of cis people think pronoun nonconformity excludes them, but they’re completely wrong! Pronoun nonconformity is literally for anybody. If you are a they/them cis man, that’s fucking awesome! There will be people who will respect you, and it isn’t a world-ending request to be addressed correctly
We are in the era after it caused SO MUCH, and caused so many sites to put in blocks and other restrictions to stop it from scraping everything
If they are forced to wipe their entire dataset then they won’t be able to get even a fraction of it back!
Not only that, but they would be forced to get permission of the owners for everything they use. Which would IMO, actually kill most of the issues with AI and actually make the technology into something actually useful.
sometimes I read a ttrpg and get caught in a loop of “wow there is a lot that’s not working for me in this” + “it’s so much effort to write a ttrpg, let alone publish one, who am I to criticize?”
but i think criticism is fair as long as you’re discerning about it! Like “this isn’t a choice I would make as a designer” vs “this isn’t something I would enjoy running/playing” vs “you definitely should not have written this for ethical reasons” vs “you definitely should not have written this because it mechanically does not do what you want it to do”
When I found out Paramount+ was removing Star Trek: Prodigy I bought all 20 episodes of S1 from Amazon Video since that was the only way for me to watch all 20 at the time. On 6/27, I lost access to episodes 10-20. Amazon has done what they can, which isn’t much.
All 20 were accessible when I paid for all 20. The full season is what I was buying. Now, I only have access to 9 of the episodes.
What is the point of buying digital content if they’re just going to steal it back from you afterwards?! Is this not false advertisement?
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People don’t seem to realize this. Digital purchases are great until the seller no longer has the rights to the media and suddenly its not yours anymore
The use of difficulty ratings (easy/medium/hard) rather than levels of firmness (soft/firm/hard) to describe egg yolk viscosity implies the existence of higher difficulties such as “eggs over-legendary” and perhaps even “eggs over-nightmare”
it’s all fun and games until the safest place for your party to be is inside the terrifying monument to the greatest evil to ever afflict the world :)
(Netherdeep crew has officially entered the Betrayers’ Rise, despite the professional recommendations of nearly everyone in Bazzoxan! I’m sure absolutely nothing will go wrong from here on out!)
I’ve been having a lot of feelings about the downfall of quality lately.
I ordered a pair of Dickies pants because pants are hard and workwear is usually reliable. When they arrived they were the scratchiest, most papery material–I can’t actually call it fabric in good faith–and fit a full three sizes too small. A week later I found the same pair in a thrift store, dated 2017. These are actual pants. They fit, they’re not made of asbestos. They’re only separated by time.
There’s no wood used in interior design unless it’s a custom build. I have a set of wealthy relatives who live in a condo. The downpayment for it was likely more money than I will see in my lifetime. The floors and the cabinets are all still laminate. I know I will never see real wood in a building constructed after 2000. Every “apartment hack” I see online has this very conspicuous, flat appearance because of all the paint and contact paper required to make these builds look personal in any way. The only natural materials are in the furnishings.
I’ve been harping on this for years, but everything is shit, nothing is designed to work, and “growth” and “profit” are just euphemisms for cutting corners until things are unworkable.
August 18, 2023: You can personalize the template message included in the above link, or simply just add your name & email. Seems like it’s US only; please boost if you can’t sign yourself.
“More than 100 days into our strike, as we continue to fight for the sustainability of our profession, events in Washington, D.C. provide an opportunity for writers to shine a light on one of the root causes of the strike: media consolidation.
For decades, the WGA has advocated for stronger antitrust oversight, bringing attention to the ways that mergers and vertical integration in our industry – from AT&T-Time Warner to Warner Bros.-Discovery to Amazon-MGM to Disney-Fox – have consolidated the power of our employers and harmed writers as well as the diversity of content.
In numerous reports and policy filings – including a new report called The New Gatekeepers: How Disney, Amazon and Netflix Will Take Over Media, released yesterday – the WGA has documented the threat to our industry from past and future consolidation and called for more aggressive antitrust enforcement.
Our current strike highlights the urgency of the issue; studios gained power through anti-competitive consolidation and vertical integration and then used that power to push down wages and impose more precarious working conditions for writers while profiting off of their work, and currently – together – refuse to bargain a fair contract for writers to mitigate those harms.
Last month, the FTC and DOJ jointly released proposed revisions to their Merger Guidelines, a policy document designed to guide law enforcement around consolidation. These new Draft Guidelines are part of an effort by these agencies to reinvigorate antitrust enforcement. Compared with prior versions of Merger Guidelines, they give significantly more weight to the ways that mergers can be harmful and, for the first time, explicitly direct agencies and courts to consider how mergers can hurt workers.
The Draft Guidelines have been released for public comment, and the FTC and DOJ want to hear from people who have been affected by consolidation – people like you.”
The FTC and DOJ are accepting comments on their revisions of the Merger Guidelines until September 18.
I’ve said this before but Why do people position “themes and analysis” and “shipping” as mutually exclusive opposites. maybe I find two characters thematically interesting and want them to analytically fuck about it.
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