Learning to make workplace smalltalk will make work easier and more pleasant. You can learn to deflect away from topics that are super boring to you and you can develop an “I’m super busy” persona for times when you need to focus.

That’s really inspiring

Glad they canceled the program when parents said something.

AFAIK most clients don’t automatically tag posts as any language, so almost everything is lumped under undetermined. When I post from voyager I don’t have an option to select the language.

Some former software like kbin automatically tagged language and added hashtags automatically to make posts discoverable by microblog fedi communities. Maybe mbin or piefed are currently using that capability?

But I think the short answer is that the language feature isn’t very practically useful right now, but might be in the future as features are built out/expanded.

I remember when the new york times participated in the genocide by platforming accusations of rape (and beheadings) against hamas that didn’t even meet their own journalistic standards for sources and verification, but they only let the well documented rape of numerous palestinians be published as opinion pieces.

Things like good public education make society more pleasant to live in for everyone including greedy opportunists and their families.

Same with balancing resource extraction against environmental stability.

What billionaires are doing seems totally illogical and self destructive even from a greed perspective.

Even if we assume they’re thinking they can escape on a space ark it makes no sense to want to live in the cold, harsh, hostile environment of a space instead of on the one planet that we can naturally breathe on that also happens to grow delicious things and stuff.

From no perspectives can this be a smart move, I refuse to believe it!

In Billions too

I was curious which ones they attributed to automation (which is only mentioned 4 times)

However, the analysis suggested that many layoffs are pre-emptive cost-cutting measures aimed at funding AI infrastructure, rather than a direct result of automation replacing jobs at scale.

Word. Threw it in the last sentence. A+ journalism.

At Harvard, the school’s president recently decried “anti-Israeli bias,” which he called“insidious and maybe more corrosive of University life” than antisemitism.

I missed that one.

I dislike youtube but I only watch a handful of specific channels on it and they aren’t on peertube.

I have thought about asking those handful of channels to also create peertube accounts and post there in addition to youtube, but there isn’t much of an audience there yet so it feels like a big ask to get them to help populate someone else’s passion project.

If some kind of integration was possible it might help bridge this gap and bring more users.

Ahoy! Thank you for your service!

How does the “non-invasive track” turn out sounding the most dystopian haha

I just use a spreadsheet currently. No fancy template or anything basically just a monthly expenditures list into a few categories.

I used/liked Goodbudget (an app based simulation of an ‘envelope system’) for a while. I think it was especially helpful for developing budgets across moves if that makes sense. Not sure what their free features look like nowadays but before you could share it between people so your whole household could see how much was available in the “groceries” ‘envelope’ for example and move money from another ‘envelope’ if they needed more.

I think AI is in a similar place as GMOs were 10 years ago. The technology isn’t inherently problematic but the main companies rolling it out seem to be doing so during a banner drop where the banner screams “I’m evil and I intend to burn this place to the ground.” We shouldn’t trust them because they’re practically telling us not to in the same breath they use to promote their products. I would say most of the main models available to the public fall under this boat.

Just like GMOs this doesn’t mean that there’s not some cool AI research being done, for ex. special models run by researchers to improve diagnostics or look for new antibiotics. It remains to be seen whether the cool stuff will have been worth whatever it is we lose.

I grew up somewhere where it didn’t cool down a lot at night and the only solution was to sleep in front of a fan. Sometimes I could get the fan to blow directly into the sheets and sort of balloon them out which was pleasant.

Where I live now it cools at night so I can open the windows at night and close them up during the day. Sometimes I close the curtains too if it will be extreme. I open the windows and create a cross draft when it cools down.

Those ice/fan pseudo a/c setups don’t work well.

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, eh?

I don’t have the specific torrent I used but I was able to torrent and install Rosetta Stone a few years ago including as many language packs as I I cared to install and including the speaking part. The current app version isn’t available outside of subscription afaik. https://archive.org/details/rosetta-stone-windows-mac-os-v-4.5.5-v-3-language-packs-v-3.7.5.2-language-pack-

I know a couple where the guy is quite a lot older and less attractive than the girl and guys will legit regularly confront the girl at the bar or at concerts and stuff being like “why are you with this guy” visibly upset

US midwest — I was taught both versions in school but we focused more on latin american/mexican spanish which more people around us spoke.

Kbin used to do this, I’m assuming it still does but idk how the development is going