This makes me think of Love Island. Season 7 is my favorite so far, because it’s by far the most wholesome season, and it’s nice to see people resolving conflicts in a calm, mature, healthy manner.

It’s widely regarded by the overall Love Island fandom as the worst season though, because there’s not enough drama. Because people love watching things that make them unhappy I guess.

This also makes me think of The Great British Baking Show. It’s a competition show, sure, so people get eliminated which is sad. But all the contestants are nice to one another, the judges are honest but not mean, it’s just an all around wholesome time. Contrast that to all the other cooking competition shows out there, which are mostly adrenaline-fueled nightmares where everyone’s mean to everyone else. I just don’t get it man

During my computer engineering degree I was required to take enough math credits to earn a mathematics minor, and I learned the physics of transistors at a quantum level as part of the core curriculum. Do you think I can call myself an engineer, or should I limit it to just - what was the wording you used - oh yeah, syntax ape?

Social deduction games have never appealed to me and Among Us is possibly my least favorite iteration of any of them. I doubt people would even be talking about it if it didn’t hit big as a streamer game.

Most of the frontend apps let you browse things unauthenticated as far as I know. You can’t post/comment/vote without being signed up though, of course. You can also visit an instance’s url directly in the browser to look at things unauthenticated. So for your home instance, you’d just go to “https://lemmy.world/” in your browser. For my home instance, you’d go to “https://sh.itjust.works/” in a browser. Etc for the various other instances out there.

What?

No it isn’t. I know cub gucci never replied to me. PsychadelicGoat is definitely the one strawmanning and insulting me.

Yet you’re the one that keeps doing the thing you say you aren’t doing. Hmmm

So are you saying you’d be ok with your personal property being searched without a warrant on the suspicion that you might own child porn?

The Aztek may be ugly, but at least it’s functional and practical, at least for the purpose it’s built for.

Ok cool, but you’re doing it again

Does that make the Midwest the tiara that gem is set into?

Except that’s exactly what you did

Not really, all you did was strawman me then started insulting me

Then what are you arguing about

Enjoy it all you want, but stop buying the content. That’s a choice you can easily make. You can’t easily make the choice to stop buying petroleum products.

Ugh, this same old tired comparison.

Most oil products have little to no practical alternatives. There are plenty of alternatives to the Harry Potter franchise. And no, the story is not good. If you think it’s good, I implore you to explore other children’s fiction, because you’re obviously missing out.

So much of agile “process” gets so close to the point while still missing it, it’s infuriating. Absolutely 100% agree that story points are mostly meaningless, but story pointing shouldn’t be the point of backlog refinement. The point should be to discuss upcoming work, clarify things, ask questions, make sure everyone’s on the same page, moving in the same direction, and making sure all the work is accounted for. Story points can be a nice punctuation to all that discussion and planning effort, but for the most part it’s nothing more than a contrivance to satisfy management’s boner for tracking useless metrics.

I want sex work to be legal and sex workers to enjoy the same standards and protections of any other worker. Forming a parasocial relationship with a fake digital entity should be way more harmful than paying for a sex worker’s services.

I… Yeah, I just said pretty much the same thing lol

Sure, that’s a very, very robust way of doing things. And I’m not trying to say what you’re describing is wrong either. I’m just saying that some places don’t have the knowledge/ability to set things up that way, so they play fast and loose with prod access. Couple that with giving LLMs free reign over the computer with those prod settings, and you end up in situations like in the original post.

It’s not unrealistic, is all I’m trying to claim. It’s a failure on several levels, but it’s not unrealistic.