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3 months agoWindows 10 keeps turning that stupid news feed back on on my taskbar, too.
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I work in finance, and the only time I use office is when my coworkers infrequently send me something locked in an Office document. Plenty of non-technical coworkers are addicted to it, but there’s no need, because it’s awful.
The Office programs are an ancient, bloated mess with an impossibly convoluted UI that to one uses more than a small share of.
The styles in Word and PowerPoint are never consistent: the bullets in lists never really match, fonts change randomly without reason, &c. These are intelligent people who have used this garbage for actual decades, and the WYSIWYG lie just results in a sloppy mess.
Even Microsoft wants everyone to stop using the desktop versions, and rent it from the cloud, which can be done from any OS.
For years, there was progress in moving governments away from implicitly endorsing Microsoft, and toward the simpler (but often still overcomplicated) OpenOffice/LibreOffice formats, and Microsoft engaged in some pretty shady behavior to stop it.
Markdown is better for documents, or maybe HTML, or LaTeX via LyX or something. Databases and legitimate file formats are better for data, with scripts for formulas. There are many simple alternatives around, but the addiction is so automatic and insidious, I can’t tell you how often over twenty years I’ve gotten screenshots pasted into an empty Word document rather than just sending the image.
It’s obviously all performative nonsense at this point.
If moral acts were determined by intent rather than by impact, the road to hell wouldn’t be so thoroughly paved.
As I said earlier, good luck, I wish you well.
And you continue to employ the fallacy fallacy.
I think asking what you personally risk from a Trump vs Biden presidency speaks to whether your insufferable self-righteousness is gambling with other people’s lives at no cost to you.
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Be sure and post the screenshot.
That would be foolish, as I’ve never bet wrong.
It’s a good site to collect the money of delusional right-wing crazies. I collected $500 in 2020.
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No, I’m sorry, that’s dangerously naïve, and a self-serving, solipsistic moral panic. How old are you?
If we used RCV or anything better that winner-take-all, that would be different, or if we had a parliamentary system. But we don’t.
Explain and distinguish both, then. I genuinely don’t see it.
I’m putting your own words in your mouth. I’m sorry you refuse to accept that splitting opponents votes works. Good luck.
16·3 months agoZero is freezing
10 is not
20 is pleasing
30 is hot
40 frying
50 dying
That’s not what you said. Your original “only” indicates that you think that votes + splitting your opponents votes isn’t a strategy.
If splitting votes didn’t matter, there wouldn’t be so much effort put into gerrymandering. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDMAP
Voting is a practical, strategic act, not an ideological one.
How much are you betting on that?
No
Adtech has been controlling the Overton Window too long. That’s what fueled the rise of (actual) fake news, as originally observed coming from Estonia, radicalizing dumb Americans.
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/774-the-ad-money-fuelling-fake-news/
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— Life, the Universe, and Everything
12·4 months agoIt’s actually meditation, isn’t it?
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Ctrl+Insert.It can be more convenient with Dvorak.