This is definitely one of the takes of all time.

If you disable a portion of a product after sale, it should be perfectly eligible for a refund by virtue of it being false/misleading advertisement

The trick is that planning is mostly descriptive, not prescriptive. You plan for what will happen, not what you want to happen

I’m not going to comment on whether it was right to be banned, but I will point out that there’s a certain irony in you using AI to write a post in which you say people are complaining about your AI usage

Frankly I think it’s simply that the public doesn’t particularly care to figure it out. As an analogy, people use Windows because that’s just what their computer came with, and therefore saying that Linux is free (as in price) is a meaningless selling point to them. You don’t convince Windows users to switch by saying that Linux is free, you convince them by saying that Linux is more convenient, stable, and less annoying.

In the same way, you don’t convince the public into using Lemmy by arguing about why open protocols are better. You convince people by saying that Lemmy is basically like Reddit but not overrun by bots and spammers

I recognize the original, unmodified meme but I don’t understand what the new (4th) panel is supposed to indicate. Could someone explain please?

Sure, but the overall intent holds true. Not just in professional settings, it’s important to have the skill to reframe a negative comment into a positive one.

This is probably what I would say:

It sounds like you’ve got everything you need for the meeting. Would it still make sense for me to attend?

If that’s the case, then I think I’d be more useful handling some other tasks in the meantime. Please keep me updated on the outcome of the meeting

Funny you bring up eel reproduction. Had to share. https://youtu.be/TzN148WQ2OQ

This is an unnecessarily rude comment that just proves that the parent comment was right in saying that you’re an unpleasant person. I hope you reconsider what behavior you consider to be acceptable

In the book, it’s fairly clear that he did kill everyone but only got away with it because 1) nobody can tell anybody else apart because everyone looks the same and 2) everybody is so self-centered that even if they did know a murder took place, they didn’t bother to report it.

It’s very heavily implied in the book that the landlady covered up Paul Allen’s (and multiple other prostitutes’) murder, presumably to maintain the property value of the apartment. Unfortunately, a lot of the clues don’t translate well into a movie:

1. The apartment only recently became available to rent
2. Bateman notes that the paint on the walls is still fresh, barely dried
3. Bateman notes that there’s a lot of potpourri laid out, as though to cover up a smell
4. Iirc the furniture was also brand new
5. The landlady immediately knew who Bateman was and asked him to leave

The cat clearly isn’t ashamed. He’s doing it to the sign as well

OnlyOffice. Newer and somewhat less features, but the UI is so much better than LibreOffice. I’ve been on a quest to find the best Office alternative and OnlyOffice is what I’ve settled on

Crappy paint memes are an internet-honored tradition

The person being downvoted is the mod of c/conservative. I’m guessing this is a political maneuver to bury his posts/bully him off lemmy

No, that’s exactly it. Framing this story as that they’re reviving extinct animals is misleading at best

They spread and are really really hard to fully kill

Source: I have no idea why my mint is still alive. It’s waterlogged for half the year and neglected the other half

You know how there’s a ton of subreddits on Reddit that do the exact same thing and like literally all them except 1 or 2 are dead?

Yeah, so that’s what’s going on here. Those communities just simply haven’t been around for long enough to completely die out yet. Just go for the top 1 or 2 communities that have the most subscribers and/or most activity

Not just that, but the gun was loaded and cocked, and the safety was off. You’d need to have all of these things before the gun is able to fire. So either this guy was extremely negligent or he was planning on using the gun

Better late than never, I suppose?

While some see this as an academic lifeline, others view it as France capitalizing on a U.S. brain drain under anti-science policies

I don’t necessarily see how these are opposing viewpoints. Both are certainly true

Antimeme, not BHJ. BHJ involves reinterpreting a meme into something that is not relevant to either the intended meme format or the source material. Basically, intentionally missing the point of the meme

For instance, a BHJ here might say something like “I’m sad that I ran out of money right before I finished my Terminator costume”