God, this is so infuriatingly true. A few months ago I searched for info on types of spiders in my province, because I wanted to learn more about my many housemates. All of the top links were SEO blog spam that were clearly duplicate pages rebranded for different keywords (something that Google's algorithm used to penalize but apparently no longer gives a shit about). I know this because, no, black widows are not fucking native to Manitoba, Canada.
Not to mention that goddamn annoying way of writing that SEO blog spam uses where they are so obviously reaching for long tail keywords. My job used to involve some of this stuff back when the search engines pretended to care about good content - when you were at least nominally rewarded with page rank for content that read like it was written by a person with a soul. Now it's just a wasteland of mechanical prose. There's still good stuff being said out there, but good like finding it with a search engine.
I know you want to be the next Steve Jobs, and this requires you to get on stages and talk about your innovative prowess, but none of this will allow you to pull off a turtle neck, and even if it did, you would need to replace your sweaters with fullplate to survive my onslaught.
Yup, but politicians are always trying to play the game. They probably have some internal metric causing them to believe that making a show of looking into this might win them a few voters while retaining their base. Maybe they're right, but I still don't like it. Either way they'll have my vote as they're the only non-Conservative party with even a remote possibility of winning my riding. (Plus I've sworn off the Liberals for a good while after their broken promise on electoral reform.)
Yeah, I'm sure I'll eventually get over my disappointment at what the showrunners did to the original and will be in the right headspace to watch other GoT content, but not yet. I still can't believe what they did to that formerly-beloved show. 😉
Anyway, I just saw your other comment. I'll subscribe right away and will start the new season this week a so as to contribute to the discussion. Thanks for doing that!
I get this. I don't even actively seek that stuff out, but in the interest of staying somewhat informed I follow a lot of news/politics communities here. Negative news obviously sells (in the form of receiving clicks) so a fair majority of my feed is made up of depressing info. I only read one or two actual articles a day, but the summary and/or comments are usually enough to bum me out.
Thankfully the rest of my feed is shitposts, memes, and cute animal pics so it keeps me from actively wanting to die.
Well if you do start one for The Boys I'll prioritize watching the new season asap so I can contribute to the discussions. It looks like it's already started last week, actually.
As for HotD, I can't help ya there. After the last couple seasons of GoT I lost interest in that world. A shame, as I loved it while they still had books to follow.
It's really not possible unless Lemmy gets a much larger community, but the thing I miss most about Reddit are episode discussions for TV shows. For almost any show, I could be pretty confident that I'd be able to find a post-watch episode discussion. Those are great for seeing how people felt about the episode or to learn things I may have overlooked.
I actually very recently tried it. I'm sure it's great but something about the UI or maybe general paradigm switch versus apps like Notion really confused me. It looks great though, so I'm sure I'll give it another go sometime when I have a bit more time to really learn it. Nonetheless, I appreciate the recommendation!
I love that even after millennia of human society and culture, I still regularly run into comments that make me think, "Yeah, that's the first time anyone has ever said that."
The legislation doesn't specify how websites should verify a user's age, but options include establishing a digital ID system or services that can estimate an individual's age based on a visual scan of their face.
Yeah, that's a greeeeat idea. People will obviously be totally on board with their computer taking their picture while they're gearing up to do that.
Regardless, all laws like this do are sell VPN subscriptions or push people to the real shady sites. As a consistent NDP voter (not that my vote matters in my Conservative riding) I sincerely hope they're making a show of reviewing this bill before dismissing it. We saw what happens when the NDP tries to move right of the Liberals under Mulcair - it's a bad move.
Oh, I didn't realize it was Make Insane Proclamations Day. In that case, I could become the richest person in the world if everyone else would just give me $1000.
Using the hotline won't get you fired, but somehow - for totally unrelated reasons - after using it you'll end up on a PIP with untenable goals, and that will get you fired.
Yeah, having to split your gear up between two workplaces gets exhausting. For a long time I was a self-employed contractor primarily working for one company and I'd never have the right tool or part where I needed it. I now work full-time for that company and most of the gear stays in one place and is a lot more manageable. Plus, I set up a co-management agreement with an IT company that is literally our upstairs neighbor so if there's a hardware problem that needs to be fixed in a hurry on a day I'm working from home I can just escalate the ticket to them instead of driving into the office.
But yeah, there's absolutely no one size fits all approach to every workplace or specific job. I've been pushing for more flexibility there at my office for other roles because of that.
God, this is so infuriatingly true. A few months ago I searched for info on types of spiders in my province, because I wanted to learn more about my many housemates. All of the top links were SEO blog spam that were clearly duplicate pages rebranded for different keywords (something that Google's algorithm used to penalize but apparently no longer gives a shit about). I know this because, no, black widows are not fucking native to Manitoba, Canada.
Not to mention that goddamn annoying way of writing that SEO blog spam uses where they are so obviously reaching for long tail keywords. My job used to involve some of this stuff back when the search engines pretended to care about good content - when you were at least nominally rewarded with page rank for content that read like it was written by a person with a soul. Now it's just a wasteland of mechanical prose. There's still good stuff being said out there, but good like finding it with a search engine.