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Vanth

@ Vanth @reddthat.com

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  • How do Atheists raise their kids

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  • (Raised Catholic)

    Interesting, raised with the idea of eternal existence was a terror to me. Obviously eternal hell was an awful idea, but even an eternity in heaven too. Thinking of never-ending subservience to a god that rained down horrors and demanded his followers do terrible things, it didn't make me feel any better when I was told my imperfect human brain couldn't comprehend the actions of a "perfect" deity. So getting to heaven meant my mind would have to so fundamentally change to be happy with this god that I would no longer be Me. That was the existential horror to me and it was a great relief to deconstruct in my teens years.

  • Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues

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  • Zuckerberg offered employees access to permanent desks, a symbolic gesture that unintentionally illustrated how expendable many of them had become.

    Ouch, I worked at places like this around the '09 crunch. Fresh out of college and I was absolutely anchorless in my career, unable to find a human manager who knew my name and would recognize me day over day. This sort of shit is going in the pile of counters to "(millennials/Z/Alpha) just don't work as hard or show loyalty to their jobs anymore".

  • AI is making promises your brand never made. Hotels are paying the price

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  • Then they are making the business decision to accept more business thry Expedia, etc, at the cost of being misrepresented and having to deal with the fallout. Their choice.

  • AI is making promises your brand never made. Hotels are paying the price

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  • They contract with Expedia, etc, knowing how those middle-men are representing them.

  • AI is making promises your brand never made. Hotels are paying the price

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  • Hotels contract with Expedia. They can choose not to.

  • AI is making promises your brand never made. Hotels are paying the price

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  • Hotels are paying the price... for using AI tools they know are making inaccurate commitments to customers.

  • prudish people, why do you hate sex?

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  • prudish people

    Wanna try again with an opening that isn't so bad faith?

    Edit: Well, didn't take long to prove my point and double-down. OP laughed at someone's genuine response. OP is getting the "bad faith troll" user tag

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  • My last Spotify wrapped said it was a Hozier song. Hozier is not to my personal taste, I use my scarce free-spotify-account skips when Hozier songs come up. I don't believe for one second they are my most listened to.

    From my Jellyfin music library, most frequent are Air Traffic Controller and Silversun Pickups. I have many of their songs downloaded on my phone so spend a good portion of flights and car trips listening to them.

  • Is it common after a breakup to lose every mutual friend you had?

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  • Is the breakup and ending of friendships related to the rape accusations levied against you that you posted about 20 days ago?

    https://lemmy.ca/comment/23387798

    Burying the lede there a bit if that's the fuller context to your situation.

    Edit: I'm not saying I think you're a rapist. I don't have enough information to formulate an opinion responsibly. I'm pointing out your former friends seem to have that perception, so that might contribute to you feeling like they're all staring a hole into the side of your head.

    I'm going to apply a user tag and stop engaging now. Arguing with me is not where you need to spend your energy, nor I with you.

  • Why do these Castro gay bars have TSA-style face scanners?

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  • I'm tired. I read "Costco gay bars" at first and thought $1.50 hot dogs at a gay bar would be a helluva good business idea.

    Now I'm thinking of some nice man wearing a party shirt with the Kirkland logo all over it.

    Maybe it's just any gay bar that caters to middle age and older. After the days of youthful, wild parties give way to tamer, fiscally responsible nights. Gotta get to bed early enough to wake up for a run to the real Costco before it gets too busy. The kids need a palette of La Croix.

  • How many of you Lems are Reddefugees after being banned?

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  • I didn't get banned. I left after the API change. I was already reducing use naturally, and what time I did still spend there was mostly to mod a very small niche hobby sub.

    Without the mod tools I used before the API changes, plus the influx of MAGA-bots on reddit as a whole, I could longer mod the sub in a way the community asked for and that I was comfortable with. So I resigned, wished the remaining mods well, and went about my way.

    There were other subs trying to go dark and impact reddit's advertising opportunities, and reddit was banning some of the mods doing that sort of thing. I decided even if reddit changed course, I was past the point I could ever come back to it.

  • Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases - Ars Technica

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  • Yeah, billion$ that got bogged down by state level politics, telecomm company resistance, and lack of Democratic party backbone.

    I don't know how much momentum was even left to get DOGE'd.

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    You walk into a restaurant and see this. What’s your first thought?

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  • Ragebait.

    If I ever came across it IRL, I would stop going to that restaurant. This sort of thing doesn't happen without the restaurant management brainwashing their employees into think they don't have to pay them.

  • Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases - Ars Technica

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  • My dad just switched to Starlink. I advised he watch his bill closely because Musk is going to start playing money games any day. He blew me off, confident they would operate like most other cable companies and keep his prices set for 2-3 years even without a specific contract lock. Don't say I didn't warn ya'.

    Also, double fuck you to Musk. My parents are rural and this is far and away the best service they're able to get. Instead of paying around what the others charge plus a little more because they are better, my folks are going to get taken to the cleaners.

  • lasik: wearing glasses with extra steps?

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  • I didn't even get that far. I called one for initial info and found out his "clinic" was a truck and he drove his Lasik machine to different locations thru the week. I asked him how often and how did he check his laser calibration. He said he did it once per month, sending samples in to a calibration lab and then they sent him a report a couple weeks later telling him if the laser was a-okay or if it needed adjustment.

    So drive that truck around everyday, bumping that laser around. At least a months worth of patients will have their eyeballs lasered before he knew about an equipment problem. No thanks.

  • People without college degree, what do you do?

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  • If you're a foreign student and not fully fluent in English, see if you can find some resources at your university to help. I would expect a UK university to have something. If you have a guidance counselor or a student resource center, those would be good places to start asking.

    Taking a long time on homework or missing a deadline due to unclearly written direction in a language you're not fully comfortable with doesn't make you bad at university.

  • lasik: wearing glasses with extra steps?

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  • Lasik corrected my vision enough that I've had ~15 years without glasses, and can expect another 5-10 before I need reading glasses like any other aging human. The lens gets stiffer, the muscles that manipulate the lenses to focus weaken, people start to need glasses while reading to make up for it, Lasik will not stop that from happening.

    So IMO, Lasik at 35+, not worth it. Lasik at 25 or under, maybe.

    I also had astigmatism and went to a doctor who knew enough to use the Lasik process to counter some of it. I still have a little bit but can pass driving tests and go about daily life with no correction. I also play contact sports so not having to wear glasses was a significant mark in the pro column as well.

    I also agree with others about not going to a Lasik salesman doctor. I went to a doctor who was affiliated with a hospital and did other sorts of eye surgeries.

  • Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks

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  • They're probably doing that to protect the identity of any Google workers providing them with information. If they posted the actual meme, Google could possibly trace it back to an employee and fire them.

    Some of the memes they do have in the article, they note they are reconstructions and not the actual memes from Googles internal channels.

    I agree it's long though, they could have just recreated them and skipped the written description.

  • Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks

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  • Best part of the article, hat tip to author Emanuel for how he included the correction request:

    After this story was published Google's spokesperson reached out and asked us to publish a slightly different version of that statement. The new statement no longer stated that "it's critical that we maintain humans in the loop."

  • Did you work as a teenager, if so what was your job?

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  • Corn detasseling, wine grape picking, lawn care, call center for a survey company, data analytics for a different survey company, coffee shop, restaurant host/wait staff, tree trimming, aide at a school for kids with medical needs, tier 1 IT phone support, stocking shelves over night shift in a grocery store.

    That's roughly in order, starting with corn detasseling at age 13 and ending when I went to college. There were a couple others, very short lived that I don't count if I quit before training was complete. And some others highly seasonal, like a Christmas tree farm that hired me to make wreaths for a week straight before christmas a few years in a row.