Stupid movies, think Will Farrell and movies like Anchorman and Step Brothers.

I thought I was top shit in high school and college, that I was so much smarter than the average person and that my tastes were above the general public. Turns out I was just a douche.

Now I know that humans are not binary, that you can like two things for two different reasons. I can enjoy something serious like The Brutalist or The Whale, and then I can also enjoy something silly like Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (Seriously, you should go watch that, Rachel McAdams is amazing in it). It really simply depends on my mood and my emotions in the moment and what I want to watch.

I’ve also learned that the rating system is broken, because it pits movies that are polar opposites like that in direct competition, and there is no way to compare them. Apples and Oranges. But that’s a separate topic.

Being skeptical is fine, being accusatory with no proof is a jerk move.

Thank you! This is the part I was missing, and felt like I was blindly picking batteries. This feels much safer

I trust Batteries Plus, stupid question though, what do I search for? This is new to me, given that I have my APC model, how do I derive what I need from Batteries Plus?

While I’m all against polluting, that would make a fine artificial reef at the bottom of the lake.

If you haven’t been to Italy, there are quite a few cultural differences to be aware of. One of them is generally you don’t make demands, dinner is an experience that you are there to have and they want to give you their experience. So it’s at least worth calling out that it could be part of the experience they want you to have.

Man, that’s hard. When I go there I try to follow etiquette closely, it’s their custom and I want to follow it, and the woman may have been a bit of a Karen.

However, tap water should be free. Anywhere. Maybe I just hiked a mile to get there. Maybe I’m just thirsty. 7 euro to drink water is simply extortion of your tourists. If that’s etiquette then it’s wrong.

Good move. Nothing kills a passion like working in the industry.

Monkey Paw Twist: We revert to Steam and wood energy

What?? I’m genuinely confused, I got an email that said they were ending it, I’ll try to dig it up

Cloudflare actually stopped their service. If you come up with another let us know

Think of the poor corporations, there are so few places to advertise on!

I mean in a downtown core, where else do you advertise? Billboards? Other walls? Street signs? Busses? Storefronts? Paint on the street itself?

What alternatives did they have? You couldn’t expect them to just put a temporary tarp over it or something, come on, that would have cost slightly more money!

What they’re supposed to be content with just those few thousand options?

What a sad dystopian thing, to decide that a mural that’s brought joy is somehow less important than your temporary ad, and worse than that, that there were so many other places it could have gone that wouldn’t have destroyed a piece of art.

yep, welcome to the horrible conversation. It’s a full on monopoly. They control the venues, the ticketing, the marketing, the selling, everything. Unfortunately as a consumer/concertgoer you have two options: Deal with it or never go. Artists who refuse to use them get blacklisted from them and that means they don’t get the large venues, or the good locations, so that’s about it

That local should be eligible for sainthood, or at least a key to the city

If Walmart is paying more, than it’s time to go work for Walmart. As the other comment said, they’re greedy, and the only way to get around this is to show them that they won’t take it. They lowered the wage because they know the employees won’t do anything about it.

Agree, and I think it’s funny someone downvoted you because that’s always been the case, AI didn’t change that. It’s just now we’re seeing the next evolution and we’ll see who sticks around and who doesn’t.

This is the only sane answer here, and it makes sense because of the sentiment on Lemmy.

There is one constant rule about software engineering. You must be adaptable. The career is ever changing, you need to be okay with that. I think a lot of people right now are finding out that if they dig in their heels they think they’re making a point, but the company doesn’t care, there’s the door. AI is just another change in the career. Adapt, or be left behind.

The job isn’t the same as it was 5 years ago, which also was different than it was 10 years before that, and then 10 years before that. I’ll say this is a large change, but that’s the job.

I think the biggest thing is there’s no room for “I’m a react engineer” anymore. Everyone needs to be everything, and it means learn as much as you can as fast as you can. You must be a “T-shaped” engineer. Wide breadth, with specific deep knowledge that makes you stand out. You can be an expert at react, but should also know how to code in the backend, and how to deploy, how to work with APIs, some basic cloud architecture. If you’re not learning, you’re falling behind.

I empathize with this so much. Online communities can be great, and also so demoralizing. No matter how much you enjoy or do something there is someone else who does it way better, and worse they will look down on you for it. They will foam at the mouth if you aren’t 1000% committed, people will gatekeep and make you feel small for something that should simply bring you joy.

Damn how many girlfriends have you gotten pregnant?

Fairphone has their own with /e/OS