We did get a dead CEO, but that feels weirdly like a much more Shadow thing to do. Maybe Luigi isn’t the guy after all.

All the fucking time. This shit is infuriating.

Yeah, it would have been better if the second panel had been “I’m the UnitedHealthcare CEO!”

Left, right, left, right… What’s confusing?

It’s a weird use of the template; normally the second panel is “I’m the guy who [did this thing]!”, not a specific name. Then the devil puts down his clipboard and escorts him to Extra Hell based on that revelation.

it is literally illegal for a CEO to do the right thing if it will cost shareholders

Source?

Here’s a great article about the nuances of various options.

It’s pretty neat to me that we’ve created this weird language around laugh onomatopoeia.

There’s a very different tone and meaning between “ha”, “hah”, “haha”, “hahah” and “hahaha”, and I think most people can pick up on it with very little exposure without ever actually being told the difference, or even being able to explain the difference in words. I’d be willing to bet that 30 years ago, it would have been far less of a ubiquitous experience.

I used to play a cleric in Everquest. We used to play the ‘purple bar game’.

If you drop to 0 hp, you fall unconscious, but you’re higher than, if I recall correctly, -20, you don’t die. Instead, you bleed for a few hp per second until you reach that threshold (or, more frequently, something hits you). When this happens, your HP bar turns purple.

We used to make it a game to try and time heals so they didn’t land until the tank was unconscious. It resulted in many, many deaths.

doctors not taking anything she says seriously, even when her symptoms are obvious

I’m married to a white woman, and she also experiences this, so this might be a gender discrimination problem, rather than (or in addition to) a racial discrimination problem, sadly.

Banned from jobs that are customer service related forever? No.

This is harder when we shift this to talking about comedians. For a comedian to have a job, people have to want to go to see them specifically. If I go to a show, and have a notably bad experience, I’m probably not going to go see that person / group / whatever again, and if I see videos and read news articles about someone else’s bad experience, that’s also probably enough to make me not want to see them, too.

So, maybe celebrities that get cancelled should have to find a new industry to work in, if what they did is bad enough. At the very least, they need to change their image to the point that they’re appealing to a different audience, if their old audience is no longer interested in seeing their show.

Question for you:

Let’s say the cashier at the local supermarket calls a customer some slurs. Someone records it on their phone. it blows up. Should the supermarket fire them?

Is it possibly your distro? Maybe share what you’re using, and see if others are having different luck with it?

Are you using Steam, or games from another service? I’ve only found 1 or 2 things that didn’t work immediately on Steam, but I have an absolute hell of a time getting anything off Steam to run, it’s like pulling teeth. Especially older Windows games; they’re just a non-starter most of the time.

Depends largely on how good you are at it, whether you’re willing to draw NSFW stuff, and if so, how extreme you’re willing to get with that NSFW stuff. Sad but true.

Personally I find CTRL+SHIFT+V rather uncomfortable to press, not to mention it requires moving your whole hand down the keyboard, whereas CTRL+V doesn’t. A quick rightclick -> Paste Without Formatting is quick enough to do.

Paste Without Formatting exists on the right-click context menu almost everywhere. I don’t consider context menu usage to be annoying (to observe someone using) at all, personally.

Now I can’t stop picturing a nightmare scenario of having to watch someone do their copy/paste purely from the keyboard, but using the menus via that trick, rather than using the hotkeys. Thanks for that.

Select text -> Edit menu -> Copy, click elsewhere -> Edit menu -> Paste 🤮

I really hate that that writer capitalizes every instance of ‘Me’, ‘My’, ‘Mine’, etc… it changes my internal inflection when reading, and really fucks up the flow of the text.

There’s plenty of censorship on Lemmy, but unlike Reddit, the censorship is orchestrated by the individual server, not by a corporation in control of the whole ecosystem. Go post something pro-capitalist on lemmy.ml, or something claiming climate change is a hoax on slrpnk.net, or something anti-trans on lemmy.blahaj.zone and see how fast it gets taken down - you could consider that censorship, but the reason Lemmy is better than Reddit in this regard is that you can go post that same thing on another instance, in a community that supports those views, and it’ll stay up. It’s all up to the administration of the individual instance.

Even if you can’t find an instance / community that will espouse your unique views, you can create your own, and post whatever you like, and everyone who federates with you will be able to see it. That’s how Lemmy is resistant to censorship.

I’m not touching the lemmy.ml question with a ten foot pole, someone else can field that one.