I feel like the audience on lemmy is uniquely primed to see "Doctor Who" vs the general public. Also fuck Trump
LesserAbe
Israel gov is apartheid and fascist. Still, we exist in the world, and someone will be elected president of the United States. A person here can either vote strategically, or they can abstain and potentially help the worst option win.
What little canvassing I've done has been using your own device, and that was where I was volunteering for a cause I believed in. If the canvassers are paid and not ideologically motivated you could imagine tablets walking off.
I don't know whether Gulen was good or bad, but I do remember thinking it was funny when Erdogan was denouncing him after the coup attempt and wouldn't say his name, instead the release said something like "the Turkish people don't take orders from Allentown" like it was a foreign capital.
For reciprocal holidays like Christmas, giving cash maybe gets a little too close to exposing the pointlessness. I give you cash, then you give me cash, what are we doing here? And what if I gave you less than you gave me?
A gift card does indicate I thought a little bit about what the recipient might like, even if I know it would be impractical for me to make a choice on the recipient's behalf, or that my gift wouldn't be sufficient to cover a typical purchase in whole. (Thinking like gaming systems, expensive handbags etc)
All that said, I generally agree, I'm not crazy about gift cards.
Go Netherlands
Uh, oops, I meant to scroll within this app, but instead I've just sent porn to some girl on the bus
Oops, I meant to scroll up but instead I've sent our company's sales figures to our client sitting in this meeting
I just switched to Reaper. This was a couple years ago so maybe it's better now, I don't know.
Lol spending hours and days is correct but for me it was spent on trying to get the signal from your interface to actually reach the program and then figure out why there's so much latency.
Where would we be without kludging stuff
Can they make you do the menial/repetitive tasks? I tried following some of the links in the article but didn't see an answer. I get part of it is cultural and not wanting to be ostracized, but seems like if you can browse the web or read or whatever might not be too bad to stretch things out
Tired metric joke