This looks really cool, but it’s way outside my price range.

I’ll have to keep an eye out when I’m hiking

Dang it, this is why I can’t have nice things

They’re coming to get you, Barbara!

I once got to do a tour of a historic fort, and when we visited the magazine the guide told us that garrisoned soldiers were issued wooden button fly trousers. They couldn’t use a zipper because a spark might set off the gunpowder, and also they hadn’t been invented yet.

I’m sure it probably varies geographically, but when the plastic ban came first came into effect for us you’d see a lot of reusable shopping bags that were made from plastic.

I remember reading a study that suggested the typical reusable plastic bag used as much plastic as two-thousand disposable bags. So if you had one of those bags, you’d have to use it once a week for forty years to offset your plastic karma burden.

But anyway, as they say, you should bring your own bag because otherwise they’ll make more disposable bags. It has to be legislated, otherwise corpos are going to corpo and we’ll continue drowning in plastic.

These shopping bag bans don’t go far enough imo. The amount of plastic in packaging, shipping, medicine, fishing, whatever industry you choose - it’s just mind boggling.

Here’s a funny plastic quibble I have: a store near me sells bread which comes in a plastic bag, but the little clip/tag to tie off the bag they recently switched to cardboard. A token gesture, but hey, it’s still nice to see. Now if you want to buy in bulk, you can buy a bag of bread with two bags of bread in it. The outer bag is tied off with a plastic tag.

3 hours of debugging can save you 30 minutes of reading the documentation

I suppose people will always do what they think is easiest

I don’t disagree with the message (we should all eat less meat) but I have a couple of nitpicks with the data / presentation.

In a couple places there’s mention of billions of aquatic animals being on the block. It’s too broad of a descriptor - a billion whales looks different from a billion krill. A whale probably eats a billion krill on its own (note: I have no idea, I just know whales are big and krill are tiny)

Pie charts should almost always include percentage labels because people are in general bad at making visual comparisons within a circle. That may not be overly necessary here where the intended message seems to be that chicken vastly outnumber all combined livestock, but it’s always something to keep in mind.

However, the most egregious issue: the final point says that 5,313 million (5.3B) additional humans could be fed, which is equated to every region/country on earth. So the global population. Which is fairly easily verifiable to be about 8 billion people - which means the quoted figure is only approximately 65% of the global population. This calls into question every other data point in the infographic.

While typing this up, I did give the last point a more charitable read and thought maybe the message was that if everyone switched to vegan diets, we could feed that many more people which means nobody in any nation would have to go hungry. But even if that’s the interpretation, it doesn’t seem to be in line with the other points being made, and it makes me question if I’m interpreting the rest of the graph incorrectly. So even with a charitable view it’s still a confusing point.

Anyway, again, I like the overall message because it’s clear to me that we should strive to eat less meat and this graphic outlines the myriad positive impacts that might have. But the goal is to educate people, and if there’s a whiff of misinformation surrounding something that people feel most passionately about, it calls into question what other things people are misinformed about

I heard a report recently that suggested that Microsoft Recall (the program to take a screenshot of your PC every few seconds to process in AI at huge ecological damage for dubious benefit to the user) is an unlisted dependency for the file explorer.

What that means is if you somehow manage to remove Recall entirely, then you won’t be able to view your files.

And sure, they’ll probably fix that. And they’ll probably also include a “disable AI” checkbox hidden eight levels deep in the control panel to give the user a small sense of control over their own machine - which will turn itself back on with each update because Windows

I don’t think you’ll be able to actually remove AI from Windows. At least, not easily, and not permanently. Your plan to switch to Linux seems like it’ll be less headache in the long run

Fake: anon has a female friend

Gay: anon likes the tip

I’m not sure how I feel about captive trophy hunting. On the one hand, these animals live to die (don’t we all?). On the other, I have to imagine larger healthy trophies are more valuable, so the animals are probably leading a healthy life.

But if you’re the kind of person who has to murder a captive animal in order to possess something to display, then I have to wonder if you missed the point of trophy hunting.

If your organization is such a clusterfuck that you can’t figure out how to open a PDF, then I’m going to consider that a bullet dodged.

I once had my employer perform a wellness check when I was having a mental health episode.

I was working remotely, but my mental health was in the toilet. I had a candid conversation with my supervisor where I told him I needed some time off because I had been feeling suicidal. He was an absolute bro, told me I was doing a good job, and that I earned some time off. He agreed that our conditions and the demands from management were absurd. He tells me to just take some time, and he’ll clear the way with HR.

Well, I’m logging off my computer when I get a call from his boss. He’s asking why I’m suddenly taking some time off. I tell him that I haven’t been feeling well, but he keeps badgering me for a specific reason. I tell him that I’m very vulnerable and don’t want to disclose a reason. That’s between me and my doctor.

Well he keeps pressing and he tells me that, “sharing our vulnerabilities is what fosters trust.” So I’m like fine, you really want to know, this job and your management style are making me suicidal.

Tone immediately shifts. He’s going into full damage control cover-your-ass mode. He tells me that I should consider a different career if I’m not up to the task. I’m already having like the worst day of my life (so far) and I start to have a panic attack.

I tell him you know what, it’s not his business and I’m going to call my doctor. Before I can get on the phone with my doctor, HR is calling me. They tell me they have to get hold of my emergency contact to make sure I’m not currently killing myself. I tell them my emergency contact is out of town (unrelated), so they say they have to call the police. I ask her not to, there’s no risk to myself and things have been taken out of context. HR insists that it’s company policy.

So while I’m hyperventilating because my boss pressed me for more details than I was comfortable sharing about my health, they sent a man with a gun to my house to check on me.

I understand that the company is protecting its liability or whatever. But I really felt that my rights had been violated somehow. The police are not suitable to intervene in a mental health episode. I had a new fear that I wouldn’t be able to calm down when the police arrived and I’d end up shot or something.

TLDR - I know this post is fake, but companies really do feel like they own their employees. A wellness check from your employer is absolutely bullshit, but that won’t stop them from trying.

Haha, I’ve considered it. I’d really like to at least be able to buy pizza for the gang who helped make the game.

I released a game like three years ago and it’s earned $97 in that time.

I feel your pain

So if the average nap is four seconds, the average period of wakefulness is five seconds.

What a life.

I had a D&D character who used a Lucerne Hammer, which I’m seeing is essentially a bec de corbin.

The flail seems fun, I mean who doesn’t like moving parts and swingy things? I hear they were useful for reaching around shields. With my luck, I’d probably kill myself trying to use it.

The caveman in me calls out for rock though. It’s the ultimate finishing move.

Huh, is Everett American? I don’t know why, but I assumed he was English for some reason

Chapters/Indigo radicalized me.

For the uninitiated, this is a chain of bookstores across Canada. I remember them as being one of the first places where people would ask you to donate a dollar at checkout. Their charity was framed as helping put books in schools, a cause that at first glance you can’t really find fault with.

Well, turns out their program only allowed for the purchase of books at full retail price from themselves. So the ‘charity’ was literally buying books at full markup and profits. Supposedly it was also quite difficult for schools to actually qualify as well.

So when they asked you to ‘donate a dollar’ they were really just asking for an extra dollar for themselves.

When the cashier asks me if I’d like to donate a dollar to starving puppies with leukemia I think, “Why don’t you donate a dollar?”

But I don’t say that because I know it’s the cashier’s job to ask and it doesn’t help to rag out some poor wageslave.

I gotchu (.Y.)