Mithaldu

Insightful reply, thank you!

Makes me ponder what other kinds of angles of approach are required to "fix" this problem.

> big watermark on it, so it can't be used to make an acceptable mockup

Wouldn't that make it the perfect mockup material, as in, good enough to preview the finished result, impossible to land in production?

Explaining isn't the crucial part. Everyone who hears it understands "ISPs get to decide which websites you can see with the basic package and more cost upgrades".

The hard part is giving people something useful and worthwhile to do about it.

You agree on the big points, so i don't care to argue on the less big ones.

> you kinda said now

no.

Thanks for agreeing with the parts you didn't mention tho.

The ones you mentioned, we can disagree on them, if only because nothing useful is gonna come from further discussion of them here.

I never said "now".

And the post previous is right. Climate change is the big one. It affects the entire planet.

However the, for a better word, desocialization of the USA is also a big factor both inside the country, and outside of it due to people who associate with or are relatives of americans being affected, or resources that would be used to help improve situations in other countries being tied up with emergencies in-country that would otherwise be handled by funds that are now going to tax breaks.

Then there's also the situation in Yemen which the USA is indirectly responsible for. And there's the situation in Puerto Rico, which is nominally american, but i think if a people don't get to vote, they get to be counted as a different country.

Ah, another "there's both good and bad people on both sides" sentiment.

No.

Quantitative analysis matters.

Also, as to your last sentence: "same goes for *" doesn't have any meaningful substance behind it and its only goal is to drag the discussion out so far as to exhaust the other side into giving up.

Goddammit you people are fucking idiots.

Trump isn't "reprehensible", his actions are literally killing people.

People who agree with Trump either directly condone the deaths of people, or are so ignorant that nothing they could say would be valuable.

Trying to portray it as "opposing political opinions" is a laughable insult to people for whom it's a matter of survival.

> bygones be bygones

It is a crime. Period. As with any crime statutes of limitations should apply, but they should be that. Not "bygones because someone who got lucky feels pity for him".

And you got lucky. As you demonstrate, to him these things are only dim memories. For people who got it bad they're scars they carry for their rest of their life and feel vividly every single day.

In the USA maybe, but german culture in general doesn't track the newest tech as fervently.

Mentioning Fukushima while talking about Germany demonstrates his point that it's hysteria. Fukushima happened on an island that has regular monsoons, is prone to tsunamis and prone to earthquakes.

Germany is fucking boring. The rains here are moderate. One half of its coast line is a barely connected inland see that has almost no flood/ebb. The other half is protected by the UK from strong water movements. And earthquakes here, if they ever happen, are absolutely tiny.

You'd need to multiply your prediction there by maybe 100 to balance out just how much safer germany is as a country compared to japan.

Pretend he wrote instead: "... infected with ... <your_country>ism ..."

Whenever i had to make my idea "more concise" it was because i was explaining something complicated and had to sacrifice nuance. Often this led to people failing to understand the point, resulting in unnecessary back and forth where i then supply the nuance after the fact. More recently it led to simply giving up and not even trying in the first place.

What exactly does it make the back button do that you don't like? It seems to work fine for me.

> It is said that driving is one of the most dangerous activities we do

In the USA cars kill a small city every single year: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Motor_ve... This is roughly on par with gun deaths (which are ~2/3 suicides). Cars, not designed to kill people, kill roughly as many people per year in the USA as things designed to kill people.

And if you want that feeling of freedom, ride a bicycle. Not as "powerful", but it surpasses the "extension of body" feeling in every way possible.

That said, granted, the very layout of how people live in the usa is much different than in other countries. You guys have, compared to most of europe, vastly inflated distances between everything outside of city cores, making cars an evil necessity for society to keep functioning.

He means the circular dark area you see when you zoom out.

The fact that you take someone's honest admission that they have a problem with something, and decide the correct reaction is to point at them and make fun of them, means at the very least that you're severely lacking in empathy.

Yeah, i don't think you know what that word means, my dude. There's literally zero of that on my TL nor was there ever.

Then again, this is probably just a cheap "when did you stop raping?" trolling attempt by a sockpuppet account created 30 minutes ago.

> is cracking me up.

You're literally engaging in Schadenfreude here, specifically in a context where the Schaden is not self-inflicted by the person experiencing it. This means in the country of origin of the word your reaction would be seen as that of an unhealthy mind. So do you think you should be throwing rocks out of your glass house?

> you might have some bigger issues

Of course there's also the bigger question of whether "having bigger issues" invalidates the complaint a person makes, or maybe even the person, as you appear to think happens.

I know he didn't mean killing. I elaborated in a comment above.

I know you did mean firing, but even that wasn't necessary. In germany we actually force companies to at least try and work things out. In order to fire someone you need 3 documented instances of misbehavior followed up improvement attampts, or an actual breach of law.

This gives everyone time to sit down, gain distance, sleep over it and calm down and try again.

Plus, if the feeling of not getting along remains after that, after some calming down it's often easier to work out a mutually acceptable separation. In a similar situation over here, Rick would've gotten a fairer treatment even on separation, other than "fuck you, bye".

The sheer depth of badness this comparison reaches is extremely impressive.

Developers are human. They don't need to be put down.

Yep, i'm on several mailing lists that send me a "confirm you're alive" link once a year. Works just fine.

They are evil though. They harmed someone and instead of making good for it they only protect themselves. There is no "both sides" to this.

Can't register, only shows cryptic:

"Unable to register. Please try again or contact Movies Anywhere Customer Service."

Turns out after digging through the site:

"Eligibility. Only legal residents of the United States, all U.S. territories, and the U.S. associated states of the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau (collectively, the "Territory") are eligible to register for a Movies Anywhere account, provided that the Movies Anywhere Service is subject to availability of Digital Retailers and Movies Anywhere Content in the Territory."

Another incredibly useless waste of time, just like Youtube Red.

If they'd disabled hotword, then the phantom physical touch would still happen, so literally nothing would've been solved.

The question is whether whoever did the work got weekend overtime pay.

I've seen Hamburg, Hannover, Berlin. You have to pay attention REALLY well to spot the handful of homeless there.

> We'll have to agree to disagree. Wanting to murder someone and actually murdering them has an ocean of difference.

If unopposed both lead to the same result.