Lemming421 @ Lemming421 @lemmy.world

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Met Liz Truss.

Immediately dies.

Says it all really.

Unless there was something at launch that’s gone now, I can’t think of any. One totally optional cosmetic DLC and a couple of pre-order bonuses that don’t affect the story at all, but when I played it last month, I didn’t feel there was anything missing.

Or, and hear me out, not fucking that. Just give me the next year and let me import the character.

Or a brand new story in a different time period with a brand new character.

Want a different coloured hat, or a new type of mount? By all means, have cosmetic paid DLC.

But the all-in-one single player story was the good bit. Don’t fuck that up for the sequel.

Next step - the temporal agony buffer, where you can live a full 80 year cycle in less then an hour.

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I laughed harder than I should have at that… 🤣

My bank isn't going to let me replace the credit card authenticator with whatever the Telekom has in mind

And even if they did, I wouldn’t bloody want it to!

The separation and sandboxing of apps is a key security feature, I’m not going to give that up so that my SIM card provider can claim they’ve used AI in an effort to sell more phones…

Christ, what a bunch of nihilists.

What do you think a leftist is?

Any film where the entire cast aren’t straight white men fighting over a prize woman is “radical left” and simply watching it will turn you into a disabled trans lesbian in the name of forced diversity.

Obviously.

What if Alice has told you their preferred pronouns are they/them? Would you still call them ‘her’ in spite of their wishes?

If Geoff is happy with being called ‘he’, then sure, he went to the match.

I think it only sounds clunky because we’re not so used to it. Imagine a child today being brought up knowing “they” is a perfectly normal individual or group pronoun alongside he and she. In ten years, it won’t sound weird to them (hah) at all.

I want to use my main mail address everywhere, even public places.

No you don’t. It’s not quite as simple, but buy your own domain, get an email provider such as Fastmail that will let you use a catch-all, then use a unique address for every site you visit.

Then if one starts receiving spam, you can block that specific address and voila, no more spam. Plus you know what sites have either poor customer detail hygiene or are actively selling your details.

We started doing that literally as the first Covid lockdown hit. We always worked 36 hour weeks, but we just compressed them into four 9-hour days instead of five 7.2-hour days (which isn't quite what these trials were doing, but it's close enough that we're not complaining).

Honestly, it's amazing. It really doesn't feel much longer to be working, and having a three day weekend seems to be making everyone happy.

Bonus for me is that there's a handful of people that want to stick with a five hour day, and so as part of a support team, one of us had to be available on Fridays for them, so I actually get Wednesday off instead. So a two day week, a one day 'weekend', a two day week, then Saturday and Sunday.

It's been great for mental health as well as scheduling holidays or just getting stuff done. Work life balance has never been better.

The only downside is that job hunting is now really hard, as anyone that wants me in an office five days a week can jog on.

Seven for me, and I'm in a village. When I lived in the nearest town, I had almost all of them.

Rather than looking at the "I want" list, I'm looking at the "I don't want" list.

What lunatic DOESN'T want a grocery store, a park or a bus stop within 15 minutes of them?

I think there were six Rachels in my year at school. And apparently if I’d been a girl, that would have been my name too…

Yes, and if none of the above wins, it should trigger another election, and another until candidates are fielded that can actually win the popular vote (50% +1 of the constituency). None of this “the winner only has 37% support” nonsense that we get at the moment.

Ok, internet voting is not secure, so let’s ignore that part for now. (There’s an XKCD that deals with it flippantly and a Tom Scott video that goes into a bit more detail, but with things as they are, electronic voting simply cannot be trusted)

That being said. The simplistic reduction to the general idea is that people are too dumb to know what they’re voting for, but, as with reality, it’s a little bit more complicated than that.

There are far too many issues for people to be able to make informed decisions about everything. That’s one of the reasons we have elected officials in the first place.

Let’s take your example - should we end solitary confinement?

Personally, I don’t know what you have to do to end up in there. Do you shank a guy in the shower? Mouth off at a guard? Don’t know.

Then there’s the efficacy of it. Does it increase the chances that the person put there will get rehabilitated? Dos it increase the chances for everyone else in the prison while that person is not around? Don’t know that either.

Is it ethical? Surprise, I’m not even sure about that.

So should we end it? I’ve no idea.

And that’s something reasonably simple. What about the tricky questions, like the death penalty (I’m against that) or euthanasia (for, but not just in a “let’s off granny before the care home eats all our inheritance” way…)?

No, I like your thinking, but I don’t trust the general population (including myself in that, I have no illusions I’m smarter or more ethical than the average bear) enough for it. Knee-jerk policies after high profile events would lead to bad outcomes, I think.

However, I don't think it's right to force people to have an opinion about something, of which they know nothing about.

Which is why referendums are not great.

Although politicians make laws on things about which they know nothing, so there’s that…

I lost track of Voyager development, how do you like it so far?

Better than the web interface for kbin.social that I’ve been using for the last few months.

It really does feel very Apollo, if that’s a useful reference for you.

I’m not exactly a power user though, so I can’t promise it’s good for everyone. But hey, it’s free. Give it a go, see how you get on with it. You don’t have to keep it if you don’t want to…

I don’t think he dealt with death as he dealt with life.

He gave up the chance of being in effectively heaven to give his life saving a planet and an entire civilisation that would never even know he existed.

Starfleet to the end.

Wait, are you me? That’s my exact experience! But now I’m on lemmy rather than kbin I can use Voyager on my phone, and I’m getting warm and fuzzy Apollo feelings! So maybe I’ll stay…