Beautiful. Fuck dog and parent… never had a graph make me well up with tears.

I choose to believe.

How long until the meeting content is condensed into a score that is used on performance reviews?

“Well, Bob, you’re a diligent worker and your output is on par with your peers, but your Teams Meeting Quality Quotient is sub par. Among other things the Facilitator™ has noted a tendency to not use the entire allotted meeting time, and that the actions it automatically identified aren’t being marked complete on the Teams AI Task Board. That looks really bad. It also says your meetings have 12% higher off topic content than your peers citing an increase to 15% correlating with March Madness. Though it is notable that the 60/40 split of male/female voices speaking is above the company mandate of 70/30, so that’s good.”

Your characterization of a rational, well adjusted individual not broadcasting premeditated violence is logical. However, a rational person would not make threats toward an internet stranger by telephone. That disqualifies this individual from rational which is why I would consider them extremely dangerous. After seeing Jan 6 participants get pardoned and a 24/7 feed of “us vs. them” propaganda, rationality as a constraint is off the table. That alone should scare OP. Indeed, should scare us all.

Dangerous logic to assume escalation isn’t likely. If this person gets frustrated enough or gets radicalized enough OP will be first on their list.

ITT: “Probably just a harmless troll”

In any other time in my life I would have agreed. However, the amount of delusion that has infected a great number of our populace means you need to take this seriously. A few more weeks of paranoia and propaganda and this person might just decide it is their holy duty to act.

Others have said arming yourself and increasing home security. That gets you to 50/50 odds in an actual confrontation, imo. Better than nothing.

Also agree with others that the police will be useless until it is time to draw a chalk outline around someone. If you can afford it, it might be time to get a lawyer involved. Rule of law isn’t completely dead at the working level and properly applied pressure from the judiciary might prompt action by authorities. At least it might force some sort of discovery that could enable additional actions.

Good luck.

Don’t you dare suggest FreeCAD.

I have a Hope/Hate relationship with FreeCAD. Sometimes I can get it to do something useful and I get hopeful. Then I try to do something simple and ruin the entire design and have to start from scratch and I curse the developers lineage for all of time. I want it to be great, and it is closer than it has ever been. But it isn’t a replacement for professional design suites.

You’ve convinced me that we need more users given the high number of current posters who like to criticize others with insults reminiscent of a bratty 5th grader. We need to dilute that voice.

That’s a very capitalist take. Remember how good things used to be? That’s how good the Fediverse is now. We don’t want it to grow or die. If it grows, great. If it doesn’t, great. Quality over quantity, imo.

OpenAI marketing > MIT analysis, apparently

Had someone unironically suggest that if Trump takes a third term that it would open the way for Obama to run again.

Anyone citing the old order of rules, laws, and fairness is delusional or under informed.

The temu tacti-gear is a nice touch. Can’t even SS properly.

Shout out to Bosch… I have a 10-year old dishwasher from them and the drain pump stopped working. It was so easy to replace and readily available. I was actually happy to have it break, all told.

A lot of enshitification has happened in the last decade so no idea if their products are still like that, but when the time comes to get a new one I’ll certainly be giving them my first look.

If they had a secret/method/process they’d use it to get rich instead of fleecing people.

the impression I get from the media

I think this is the issue the OP is trying to point out. There are many more silent, responsible gun owners than nuts.

They say every gun enthusiast has their scenario they’re planning for: home invasion, civil war, post apocalypse/disaster, mass shooting event, mugging, etc. When I think about what my scenario might be there isn’t a single one where I don’t end up dead, with or without a weapon. There is no number of weapons or amount of ammunition that would change that for me.

I struggle with that reality when I think about my own relationship with guns, but I can’t help thinking that “prepared” is better than “helpless”, even if the outcome is the same.

And Google doesn’t?

They both value their customers. But in the case of Google, that’s not you.

Time. A regime as dysfunctional as this can’t go on indefinitely… Like, it is physically impossible for it to think far enough ahead for it to be resilient enough to last. Unfortunately, a lot of good people will suffer before then.

Question didn’t say “wife”. Presumably, she’s safe on the shore waiting for you to choose. So, girlfriend or mom?

I love the dramatic dilemma posed by having to decide whether to save the woman you love (girlfriend) and by doing so revealing your affair and destroying your marriage, or living with the fact that you let your girlfriend drown to save he embarrassment of revealing your infidelity. Fun extra spin on the trolley problem.

I think that those who would tolerate the additional “effort” of solving the puzzle of joining Lemmy have already done so. Reddit may drive more people away but unless Lemmy becomes somehow more accessible there won’t be an influx, IMO.

That said, I think it is a good thing. I know I don’t want Lemmy to be a clone of Reddit. I like the smaller communities and the higher quality interactions I get with Lemmy users. The Reddit “circle jerk” meta was fun but got tiresome and felt like it was spiraling to a lowest common denominator.