As a consultant…

Watching overpaid engineers not understand basic concepts or struggle to do things like check voltage with a multimeter.

Watching horribly sloppy safety procedures.

Interacting with safety auditors who don’t know how their own equipment works and insist on useless safety measures or fail to insist on proper ones.

Being blamed for a problem outside my control even after identifying exactly where the problem is coming from and who they need to call to fix it. (Then having to repeatedly explain this to increasingly higher levels of management who are increasingly detached from the details.)

No not at all. Power posters keep communities alive.

PugJesus and The_Picard_Maneuver have already been named. The former basically single handedly keeping some history communities alive and the latter a lot of meme and Star Trek content.

For specific communities, @BallShapedMan@lemmy.world is a mainstay on !artshare@lemmy.world

@Agent_Karyo@piefed.world posts a lot of gaming content.

@MimicJar@lemmy.world is basically keeping !thesimpsons@lemmy.world in the feed signelhandedly.

Yes.

Stargate SG1 - It’s like Star Trek with machineguns.

FarScape - It’s like Star Trek but the main cast are fugitives, there’s lots of muppets, and watching it makes you feel like you’re on drugs.

The Righteous Gemstones - Danny McBride made comedy farce about a horrible, vain, and stupid megachurch family.

Batman Beyond - Cyberpunk batman with an unparalleled intro sequence.

Jericho - Post apocalyptic show with a conspiracy mystery bent and heavy GWB GWOT flavor.

Kings - A sort of adaption of the story of King David in a modern setting.

IJKL

Made for the thread.

You can make your own community.

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I’ve vomited on 5 continents.

Jack Black was in the movie ‘Waterworld’. It’s before he was a big name, so he isn’t given any special camera treatment as one of the raiders.

The alien queen in ‘Alien: Resurrection’ is the same prop as in ‘Aliens’. A fan had bought and stored the prop for years and loaned it back to the studio for filming.

I don’t think anyone should preorder. It’s a predatory way to suck a full price of the game or even higher than normal price out of customers by using often laughably cheap benefits to drum up FOMO.

For me personally, I rarely have interest in brand new AAA games, which are the most guilty of pre-order sales tactics, so the problem more or less solves itself.

Early Access games can be a different story. I’m more willing to throw money at a small studio or solo project that appears to have some passion behind it. Even so I only spend with the mindset that whatever state the game is in might be all I ever get, so match the price to that expectation. I recently played through Deathtrash. It’s unfinished and is historically slow to get updates, however for the $11 I got it for on sale, it had a lot of content and I felt happy with what I got.

Project Zomboid is another example of a “permanently Early Access” game. It might never get out of Early Access but it has so much content now that $20 is a perfectly acceptable price. The history of devs supporting it and the community around it means support for it is unlikely to simply disappear.

If you think the number of people that use ad blockers is not a fraction of a percent of internet users, you’re in a bubble.

It’s about 30%.

Nowhere near the majority, but also not a “fraction of a percent.”

I once watched a 9/11 truther type program that hand waved away this issue by simply stating the government used “nanothermite”. What is “nanothermite”? It’s thermite but acts in whatever way it needs to when somebody pokes holes in the idea of thermite.

imagine

Not a terribly convincing start to a hypothesis.

I understand, somewhat, this being discouraged at work but I agree that doing it for personal passwords with the notebook at home is fine. I’ve met people opposed to ever writing down passwords and I think it’s just a rote reaction based on work training.

If you have a notebook at home with all your passwords then somebody needs to break into your house to get them, which is pretty good security.

The same ones I type.

You mean the relatively small deposits that are significantly more difficult to mine?

A “family size” bag of Doritos is not sized for a family.

It should be the size of a family.

Fat babies need the most attention.