BABYMETAL x ‪ElectricCallboy‬
German/Japanese collaborations don’t have to be bad

Afrika Bambaataa Feel The Vibe Dance Mix
A classic I have just discovered

!whatisthisthing@lemmy.world

Very meta - An emotionally charged rant about emotionally charged opinions

Go to your manager first. You need all the allies you can get. Especially if your manager is a good person who wants to support you, they need some time to prepare mentally to push against HR.
Plus typically line managers don’t set the budget, so making a team member permanent will be in their own interest, unlike HR who might be instructed to keep the cost down.

Best thing that happened recently. Wonderful wonderful chaos, when the best plans of authoritarian politicians go awry. And I mean both Chinese and American politicians.

May I suggest a compromise. Apparently that town of 50k has most of the things you miss.

You don’t have to move to a huge city (1+ million). Moving to a small city would still let you keep some of the peace, and likely you could also have a house with a yard although in a denser environment.

I also think I’ve never seen legible text in a dream. This “i know it’s text but can’t really read it” sounds a lot like the issues AI image generators have.

The rise of AI made me rethink many things about consciousness. It seem like our internal image generators and text generators are separate from “us” as in the “core personality”.

I’ve long wondered what makes people listen to jazz. Now we know

Well cultural habits are slow to change. I suspect it would take some 20 years to change the dynamics such than women are always expected to make the first move.

Bumble was well positioned to push for that change, unfortunately earning revenue has a priority, they are are a business after all. Still their gimmick got the ball rolling, we’ll see who picks it up next.

Is this even news any more? Elect a senile old man and he’ll make errors.
Americans voted for 4 more years of that, nottheonion is going to get a lot more material.

This sounds amazing. How does one go about being reborn in the dawn?

Maybe but governments are slow to react. There will be a couple of months of relative freedom. Then we’ll have to find new apps again.

The floodgates between Chinese and Western meme cultures are now open. It will be glorious.

If making good software was their goal they wouldn’t be in the situation where software engineers are replaceable with AI.

the more the merrier

They are removing them for the same reason they introduced them in the first place. Don’t think they honestly believe either way, they just bend with the wind in politics.

• “fine” - really fine
• “fine” - not fine but you don’t have to worry about me
• “fine” - not fine and I’m worried about myself, and you shold be too
• “fine” - please help, I don’t know how to survive until tomorrow

A hard one but I got relatively close in 3 out of 5.

It’s a factor. I’m aware my political opinions are in the minority and unlikely to be implemented. Being able to demonstrate that I tried to do something gives legitimacy to my criticism.

Which one is which that’s the big question