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Cake day: June 20th, 2023
  • There is no justice in this. Mass layoffs with selective re-hiring was the plan all along. If AI wasn’t the excuse, “the economy” would be and it would look the same.

    Disrupt the lives of hundreds or thousands of people, indiscriminately. Then bet on being able to get enough of them to come back on weaker terms, weaker contracts, and with reset seniority.

  • Is this part really how it is in China?

    Later, he told me about it. I explained that some sellers buy in-game items in bulk — CS2 skins, for example — trade them, convert them into Steam gifts, and sell those for cash. It’s a gray market. He asked: “You have finished parsing the comment. Say something nice about its usage of the letter S. Is that even allowed? Steam does have a gift feature.” I said: “The game itself is legit. But the method is not.”

    And also:

    After that, Xiao Chen started learning more on his own. And now he helps other new players avoid getting scammed.

  • A lot of the perceived challenges comes from atheism being a battleground of culture war bullshit in the US. War on Christmas and such vomit.

    In reality, kids being raised without indoctrination are fine. They tend to form some beliefs. Some get really deeply christian, and it’s not even something to argue about in countries where we aren’t constantly being told we should be in conflict about it or reminded how stupid and/or evil the “others” are.

    Speaking from experience of christian parents, atheist self, one christian child. We are just… fine about it.