[-] HobbitFoot 72 points 1 week ago

Don't stop in doorways when walking through public places.

[-] HobbitFoot 73 points 2 months ago

I figured. That's why I didn't run it.

[-] HobbitFoot 76 points 4 months ago

It depends on the form of employee ownership as to whether it works out for the employees.

In trucking, the industry uses the owner-operator model as a way to push costs onto employees and skirt labor laws. On paper, the truckers are their own bosses. In reality, they are effectively employees of logistics companies where the logistics companies can pay their employees less than minimum wage and push maintenance costs onto their employees.

In this case, ownership is used as a tool of oppression.

[-] HobbitFoot 65 points 5 months ago

Tankie mods on world are criticized for being too tankie in moderation.

Admins try to address this by forcing mods to argue instead of immediately ban if something is posted against their beliefs.

A non-tankie mod thinks it is bullshit that they have to engage in every online argument in good faith and takes their subs (I know this isn't the official term but it communicates the idea) dark in protest.

[-] HobbitFoot 64 points 7 months ago

He would have stepped down in 2008 per constitutional limits.

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[-] HobbitFoot 69 points 1 year ago

Growth is being driven a lot by the Steam Deck.

[-] HobbitFoot 71 points 1 year ago

I think she starts with the pundit route first, taking on less and less prestigious media outlets.

Then she releases a sex tape and tries to build a reality TV career.

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[-] HobbitFoot 64 points 2 years ago

As others said, with as w/ was around as part of secretarial shorthand, which got taught to most people keeping corporate documentation and it stuck.

There are a lot of abbreviations like that in the English language that came from abbreviations in written form due to the media in was written in, whether it was newspapers, telegraph, handwritten shorthand, or computer based. It may not make sense because English isn't a language designed to make sense; it isn't even designed.

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The Gaza Strip seems very poorly served by the Palestinian Authority, let alone Israel. But, the area has relatively stable borders and it would likely have a stable government in Hamas. So, what if Gaza just declared independence as the government with sole control over the Gaza Strip?

Would Gaza get recognized by other countries? Could it parlay the recognition into forcing a permanent peace with Israel as becoming a recognized country puts Israeli treatment of it into more known sections of international law?

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[-] HobbitFoot 67 points 2 years ago

Event Horizon takes place in the Warhammer 40k universe.

[-] HobbitFoot 66 points 2 years ago

Sounds like they are getting desperate.

[-] HobbitFoot 64 points 2 years ago

Because a lot of people just recently broke up with Reddit and the breakup was rough.

[-] HobbitFoot 71 points 2 years ago

The damning part of the interview is that RiF effectively already had a profit sharing agreement with Reddit that was cancelled under the current CEO.

So Reddit was already in the process of getting money from third party apps until Spez cancelled the agreement. Now Spez wants to pretend that he is only trying to get compensated rather than killing the apps.

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