There’s a subgenre of furries that are specifically into reptiles and they go by “scalies”

So I guess the opposite of furries could be “skinnies”?

How US-centric is Ground News?

More AI you say? Can do!

Well, only one session left for that to happen. Let’s see, who knows?

Jesus fuck, I didn’t even know about this. That’s an actually dystopian draft, holy shit that’s bad – here’s to hoping that either the final is much saner than what the current draft is, or that it just doesn’t get signed by eg. EU countries, but I’m not exactly feeling hopeful

Ah surprising that Poland’s still got copyright laws that relaxed, I thought they’d been more or less harmonized in the whole EU. Finland’s laws used to be pretty much like what you describe too, but they were changed… uh, fuck, I think 10 – 20 years ago to be stricter and I have a vague memory that they claimed it was to be more in line with how most other countries are in the EU, but it’s very much possible that either the politicians behind this lied, or that I remember wrong

That’d depend on your local copyright laws, but it’s probably illegal.

Getting caught without your friend calling the cops on you is extremely unlikely, at least assuming you don’t do anything fantastically stupid

Javascript bad.

Applause please.

which is something they care deeply about.

They care about quarterly profits. Preventing fuckups of this scale requires long-term effort which is not profitable by itself, it only prevents possible future fuckups, and this is why proper QC etc. aren’t done. Short term profits over everything else.

Well, if the executive leech class wants workers to have bossware, there’s not all that much people can do about it. Can’t just decide to not use it if your employer demands it

Certainly not! Or other industries for that matter. It’s a good thing executives everywhere aren’t just concentrating on squeezing the maximum amount of money out of their companies and funneling it to themselves and their buddies on the board.

Sure, let’s “rightsize” the company by firing 20% of our workforce (but not management!) and raise prices 30%, and demand that the remaining employees maintain productivity at the level it used to be before we fucked things up. Oh and no raises for the plebs, we can’t afford it. Maybe a pizza party? One slice per employee though.

Not sure how this one slipped through.

I’d bet my ass this was caused by terrible practices brought on by suits demanding more “efficient” releases.

“Why do we do so much testing before releases? Have we ever had any problems before? We’re wasting so much time that I might not even be able to buy another yacht this year”

I’d rather be informed with a popup than have to remember to periodically check the settings in case they’ve maybe added dark mode. Tying this to “advertising tactics” is, well, ridiculous – they’re informing users about a new feature they might not otherwise learn about, not selling literally anything

I’ll drink to that.

Learn to cherish it. Call it Bob. Send it to college.

Good on you, but people are much less likely to donate like that when compared to the platform itself supporting monetization somehow

You know why

there’s no monetization after the first two are met and some people do youtube for a job.

The answer that people usually give to this is something like “monetization is evil”, because apparently content creators should all work for free

The same happened with the Finnish equivalent of the AfD, the Finns Party. Under 25’s are now more conservative than Millennials or iirc even Gen X which is pretty fucking wild