Yeah ever since it started hosting serious topics I’ve had the impression microblogging encourages ‘gotcha’ behavior and discourages meaningful discussion.
Less so when it first launched and was mostly used to follow what your favorite band was up to or watch your friend live tweet a south park episode.
Latest one in 2023, promise I’m not giving advice from the 80s:)
Again, not sure it’s active where you are but there’s also a job list on idealist.org which lists a lot of canvasing or union type jobs but also some regular ones.
President said newspapers just misinterpreted and misreported.
NPR cites this quote in their ‘halted shipments’ article:
“Pemex makes decisions in the contractual relationship it has with Cuba,” Sheinbaum said in her morning news briefing. “Suspending is a sovereign decision and is taken when necessary.”
When she clarified today she said she was just describing that there are two independent routes oil makes it to cuba, and neither had been halted.
I think she only mentioned sovereignty to re-assert the state’s right to send humanitarian aid regardless
I’ve had 3 full time desk jobs and found 2 of them on craigslist. Not sure where you’re located but perhaps you have something like craigslist? Lots of spam jobs to sift through but unlike job aggregator sites I usually actually got a reply back and felt like my application was going somewhere other than the void.
How to activate?
They’re kind of a live mixing engineer, it’s really hard to coordinate a piece between more than about 6 others without a conductor to give feedback, cues, and tend to the overall sound (tone, dynamics, rhythm).
Just noticed my orchids are spiking this morning! It’s one of my markers that the days are indeed moving and that spring is inching closer.
I don’t think it’s necessarily phobic but I personally find it a bit presumptuous for someone you’re not dating yet to express preferences about how they prefer you to groom.
HAVING the preference doesn’t seem like a problem and doesn’t seem linked to transphobia.
In my perfect world you would learn about their preferences when you were trying a new thing (shaving, haircut, outfit, whatever) and they were like “I find this new thing incredibly attractive.”
I was bored so I looked up these apps for receipt scanning and it looks like it’s a combination of couponing and consumer data broker. Most of them require you to activate promos on the app first, go shopping, then get “cash back” for certain promo items when you take a picture of the receipt.
I’m guessing this is on top of the discounts you can get directly from grocery store apps (which are surely already brokering purchase data).
One or two of the apps don’t require activating offers at all so I guess those ones are JUST data brokering.
Agreed, couch co-op games are doing well in general because they’re an easy hangout activity and only require one console/computer. Couch co-op has been out of vogue amongst the big publishers (I’m sure a fortnite player is more valuable to them) so people are using what’s available. The few by big publishers with nice graphics have been popular as well (split fiction, it takes two).
Agreed. I tried looking for a big monitor instead of a TV last time we were in the market for one and there were shockingly few options.
Not privacy focused but read on if you want my thoughts on Duo vs Busuu. I used Duolingo back in the day but they chased me away with their complete 180 on ads (they used to advertise as no ads ever!). Duolingo was great for learning vocab but terrible for grammar in my opinion (at least eng-> german and eng-> spanish).
After bailing I didn’t use anything for awhile but I picked up Busuu a few years ago shortly after it was purchased by Chegg. They have a premium and an ad supported tier and the ad tier is terrible, it makes you have to close out at the end of each lesson to proceed past an annoying screen trying to get you to upgrade. The premium is advertised at about $70 a year but it comes down to around $50 for good sales. The monthly is a bit pricey ($10 or $12 or something).
Anyways, I really like Busuu for learning grammar. They have a flash card section for vocab that’s excellent as well but the grammar is where I saw huge improvements. The grammar is introduced in the lessons then given a strength that degrades over time until you practice it again. It tells you where your skills are weak so you can focus on a particular grammar element.
I also really like that they include regional differences in word use and regional expressions.
They recently introduced an AI speaking feature but I haven’t opted into it because I’m not comfortable with them processing my voice data. I haven’t read the privacy policy. This means skipping 1-2 lessons each unit which isn’t a big deal to me.
Hope this info is helpful to someone!
Exactly. If we thought the companies would fold in AI thoughtfully as one tool of many for game creators to consider when implementing their vision I doubt people would be negative. As it stands we trust companies to continue doing what they’re doing: forcing workers to incorporate AI into their workflow because they’re rich friends at google/meta/openAI really really need the technology to succeed to make back anything on their investment even though the profit step still reads ??? in their master plan anyway.
Damn, this is how I learned about the shooting at all
Wonder what kickbacks they got for funding it
Roblox wants the future of communication to be via Roblox?
How long has it been on 99.9%? Still a chance you just need to wait for someone to turn on their computer?
If I can’t get an audiobook specifically I usually mark it as a request in the Libby app and hope the library will purchase some licenses. Does your library offer similar services?
To answer your original question though I don’t generally buy stuff I’ve failed to torrent. I intermittently search for it again unless I forget about it though.
Will do:)
I guess that’l have to be good enough, ZoopZeZoop for world dictator!