No, they pretended to get mad so they had an excuse to cut their workforce without having it labeled a layoff.

I eat green olives straight out of the can for lunch sometimes.

It’s wild that we have these weird videos that play out when we sleep and people aren’t more interested in them honestly.

I like hearing about people’s dreams!

“I’m from a third world country”

Trump literally in the username.

Yep checks out lol

I had to explain to a friend recently why

“I’m at Steve’s house”

Was fine but

“I’m in Steve’s house”

Was weird. Like, get out of there before you get arrested.

That seems very strange if it goes on too long. I’d suggest calling another pediatricians office.

Haha oh man it’s weird to see this mentioned so many years later.

I helped organize that protest. Thanks for coming down with us!

Sometimes I ask it for music recommendations.

But mostly I tend to just use it like a fancy thesaurus when I’m low on mental energy.

Sometimes I remind myself silently “just listen”

My fiance is Australian and he introduced me to vegemite. Was a little odd at first but kinda nice in it’s own way, I rapidly grew to love it and eat it regularly now.

Discouraging sales of alternative products is the point, they’d love that name haha

No one was confused. The meat industry just successfully lobbied for these word bans because it makes marketing of alternative products more difficult. They’ve been trying to get similar word bans in many countries for years because they think it will improve their bottom line.

I’m wondering if that’s infrared to support the camera, and you can only see it because she’s also taking a picture with a phone that uses infrared.

I’m now naked in bed, and this would probably get my boyfriend excited.

As a person who cares about the gaming ecosystem, I think it would be really healthy for Microsoft to not have full market dominance.

They’re busy making studio acquisitions which are gradually centralizing the market, which could become very problematic if they start taking anticompetitive approaches to distribution.

More people on Linux means more pressure for software availability on Linux, and if people can just move over relatively easily that prevents Microsoft from going full corpo-digital-prison-hellscape.

And now think about how those same people are our politicians!

I noticed when I fly a lot of airlines include models of the plane you’re on in the in-flight purchase pamphlet. They’re pretty simple, probably fine for a kid - on the off chance you’re flying somewhere for the holidays.

All the activity in every zone I visit really does just feel so great. There’s no better sign a game is alive and healthy. It was totally that which hooked me.

I still play EVE online, having a lot of fun in faction warfare these days.

A video came out on the history of the game recently, just a cool 6 hour deep dive. https://youtu.be/BCSeISYcoyI?si=1sKdXt8oPRUTbzs1

I’ve also gotten into Guild Wars 2 recently and I’m a little addicted. The game just feels great: nice community, events are engaging, so much stuff to do but at the same time not demanding like games can be sometimes.

I moved to Europe from the US. Forgot to cancel my gym membership before I went.

They demanded a handwritten letter, delivered in person by myself to cancel the membership. I wasn’t buying an international flight just for them, so I mailed them a letter and had to threaten to sue to get them to close it. Absolutely disgraceful.