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People can share differing opinions without immediately being on the reverse side. Avoid looking at things as black and white. You can like both waffles and pancakes, just like you can hate both waffles and pancakes.

been trying to lower my social presence on services as of late, may go inactive randomly as a result.

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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • Not just meth heads. If you live in a really populated area, Walmart is actually super picky.

    Their HR departments are basically brainless. The computer makes all the choices

    when you apply to Walmart you drop into a 3 colored queue, red yellow/orange green

    • green: worked their before no issue
    • yellow/orange: no job experience or left in bad terms not violently or a way that harmed the company
    • red: you stole something or you had massive red flags when they searched you

    They’re heavily pushed towards hiring greens, and if forced to, they’ll hire yellows, and they’re not allowed to hire reds outside of excruciating circumstances.

    I had a friend who had no criminal record whatsoever, but due to someone being disabled and needing care in their household, they had never really held a job into their late 20’s, The Walmart that was closest to her house wouldn’t touch her with a ten-foot pole after repeated attempts, but that was in a massively populated area. However, the one that was in her old town, which was significantly lower population, called first try (but sadly that was an accidental application didn’t notice the town defaulted back)





  • I mean, I know a lot of people don’t like doing it anymore but calling and asking has a fairly decent chance of working if online gives no details.

    Personally I’m unsure how a bank could even force NFC to go through a specific provider, mine has always just issued virtual card numbers whenever I enrolled, And if the bank itself didn’t support the provider automatically, I always called the bank to manually approve getting the virtual number. it’s a little confusing to me that your bank even blocks the ability to in the first place. I would have thought you would have been able to use any mobile wallet that works on Graphene OS. Being said those are limited last I knew

    edit: rereading it. I see what you mean. You mean through your bank’s app as a native solution. Yeah, you’re just gonna have to call the banks for that one. I would assume that customer service would definitely know whether or not it’s through Google Pay or through their own system.




  • I fully understand not wanting them in the library. How I go about it is I have a category that’s called finished, and when I finish a game, I remove them from all categories, except for finished, and then I hide/collapse that category. Alternatively, you can also filter by installed games.

    I have a review for most of the games that I’ve played, but almost none of them actually count towards the game score because Steam has a really stupid way of deciding if a review actually counts or not. basically, for a review to count, you have to own the game or have refunded the game(I’m nit sure if deleting the game counts as refunding). And it must have been purchased directly through Steam. and it has to meet whatever Automated metrics they have in the background to decide whether or not it’s a bot review or not.

    I’ve had fully valid games that I purchased through Steam just not get included in the review system because something I sent in the review triggered some form of abuse system.



  • I think you may be misinterpreting the data set that you posted. The point of that data set wasn’t to find if someone was pro versus anti-AI. It was to find concerns about existing AI structure. Nonetheless, that post shows on a few occasions The majority of the people surveyed were okay with AI as a whole, but were just concerned about how it was functioning and controlled.

    if you would like to look into that data yourself, it even says it right on the front page when it asks about what sectors people believe that AI should be in and only about one third of the people who responded said that it should play no role whatsoever in the topics.

    The best graph for it though in my opinion is the very last page where they asked the question of how many people would use AI at all even a little bit and the majority of them said they would at least a little bit use AI.

    from how I interpreted it, it’s clear at least by that study that the majority of the people are for AI, but they are concerned with how it’s currently being implemented. And there are certain areas that they don’t believe it should be in Such as relationships, health care and creative thinking. (Although these areas still got quite a bit of votes just didn’t hit the 50%)


  • As long as there is a way to opt out, I am for automatic updates. It makes it easier. less hassle on my part, and the everyday person generally wouldn’t update anyway.

    Being said, I do think it should be mandatory that the operating system provider supplies a way to have a rollback if an update fails, and I also think that if an update is done that prevents the actual boot of the system, It should be able to detect that and roll itself back. That honestly is the only thing that I really really liked about Windows is while it forced your updates on you. If the update failed to do something, it would catch it, roll it back, and it would be like nothing happened. It wouldn’t stop it from trying to install that same update again, but it at least wouldn’t leave you with an unbootable system.


  • Personally, I don’t think mobile devices such as cell phones or tablets should be lumped into the same category as personal computers such as laptops and desktops.

    Like, sure, they are technically still computers, but they are treated more as always on assistants.

    Myself, I leave my cell phone, smartwatch and tablet on 24-7. Only restarting when I have an issue, it needs an update, or the battery dies. However, my desktop, game consoles, laptop, and TV’s are turned off as soon as I’m done using them. (Although the TV doesn’t actually turn off because it forces a rest mode.)

    edit: I got OCD on my list orders


  • For clarification, this will likely mean anyone using a VPN won’t be allowed to also use non-google phones. As google will repeatedly request captcha on known VPN endpoints and they are common vectors for malicious programs and bots to use, so it’s almost certainly going to be escalated to the QR code level.

    Honestly I expect a bit of resistance to this change from web operators though. They are not going to like VPN users submitting bug reports saying “they can’t verify/its annoying so fix it”. There are far more users using VPN’s as a standard than there is custom firmware or degoogled devices.





  • Once you graduate they won’t undo it. That paperwork is moreorless Final.

    My grandfather had that happen with his masters degree, they never scheduled him one of the required math courses for his degree(he always went through the advisors office to schedule), and had told him he was all set to apply for graduation, so he did and they just blindly signed off on it. It wasn’t found out till after everything was finalized but they basically said “yea that’s on us, enjoy the degree”


  • I play by challenge and double down/jump in rules.

    Challenge rule: if the person plays a wild and the next player decides to challenge it, the person being challenged shows their hand to the next person in line, and if there was another card that could have been played instead, The person who played the card has to either draw two cards, or if it was a wild draw four, they draw the cards instead. However they were wrong, then they draw the penalty cards (so if it was a draw 4 they draw 6, and a standard wild they draw 2)

    stacking/double down/jump in: If any player has a card that is identical to the current revealed card, they can jump in, and play that card as long as the next player has not started playing their turn. When a player jumps in, the turn order starts as if they had just had a turn, so it would be the next person from their position. If the card was a card that required a player to draw, the effect of the original card is cancelled, unless the player jumping in was the player that would have received the cards, in which case the effect is stacked and given to the next player(so a draw 4 becomes a draw 8), This effect can continuously be stacked as long as someone else doesn’t jump in or the person doesn’t have an identical card to continue stacking.