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I missed your comment before mine, but this tracks with my experience. Thinking about it I did a stealth fists playthrough, with stealth being all about avoiding combat where possible... I thought I was just bad at the game, but maybe it was my inner reviewer telling me combat is not a fun way to play the game 😂

I dunno, I finished it which is rare enough for me nowadays. I didn't speed through the story like I did with Diablo 4, either; I found it compelling when I could immerse myself in the game world. Then again I play on PC, so I may have fewer bugs to contend with than console players?

Obesity is much easier to see than differences in brain topology, and obese is something a person can become. Nobody "becomes" autistic.

Friend, is there any truth to the rumours of a lawsuit from current and former mods against Reddit, for back pay? I'm pretty convinced there's a case there, and your story is a prime example. One argument from Reddit might be that you and the community were the primary beneficiaries of your volunteer labour, but for Reddit to take your mod powers unilaterally sure makes them look like an employer rather than a maintainer of a public forum.

In the US, there are no circumstances under which a private for-profit company can legally accept volunteer labour like that. Further strengthening your case would be how much Facebook pays for moderation of their platform. Reddit built an entire business on the backs of people like you, and your stake in that should be recognised and compensated.

If it helps: most likely the vessel imploded, and that is so quick they wouldn't even have had time to process what was happening. By the time any pain signal would get to the brain, there's no brain left to receive it. So... probably the best way to go, IMO.

An apology would be nice, but I'll take walking away in a huff! Beats having to argue (politely) with someone you're not allowed to ignore, anyway.

Nuke it and pray to whatever spirits motivate them that they didn't manage to install a rootkit... I'd be praying to rum, myself.

How's the battery life? My favourite thing about the Pebble was that it lasted a full week between charges, which I always attributed to the e-paper screen.

Graphene user here. I rooted my devices and flashed cousin ROMs for years, but stopped because I got tired of the compromises. A couple of months ago I took the plunge while upgrading and got a pixel 7a (so it's got the longest support) to put Graphene on. I have found it to be, basically, Android. Googless at first, but you can add Goog to taste. Play Services runs sandboxed, if you want to run it.

Most apps work just fine, but in my setup Google Wallet does not. I can't remember exactly why but I think it's related to Play Services. Banking and "pay me" apps like Venmo seen to work fine though!

Are these spiders on some kind of drugs? Not throwing shade like I could spin a better web or anything, I don't even have spinnerets; they just look like webs built while the spider was tripping balls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_psychoactive_drugs_on_animals

Maybe on caffeine looking at the shape, perhaps there was a discarded energy drink can nearby?

Please cite the case(s) where someone lost a case like this because the courts distinguished between "intern" and "volunteer". The law does not care about labels, it cares about substance. According to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), a volunteer is defined as an individual who performs hours of service for a public agency for civic, charitable, or humanitarian reasons, without promise, expectation or receipt of compensation for services rendered.

However, the FLSA makes a clear distinction between work performed for public service, religious or humanitarian objectives and work performed for a private entity or for-profit organization. It states that "employees may not volunteer services to for-profit private sector employers." If a volunteer is performing work that is integral to a for-profit company's business activities, it can be argued that they are functioning as an employee and should be compensated accordingly. If a volunteer is performing work that is similar to work performed by paid employees, is working for a significant amount of time, or is under the direct control of the company, these factors could potentially support a claim that the volunteer is actually an employee.

If former Reddit moderators can convince the court that they were:

• Acting as employees of the company,
• performing labour valuable to the company, and
• that the company was the primary beneficiary of their labour

then the court might well find that they were effectively employees and are owed back wages. Since Reddit themselves have admitted how important active, experienced moderators are to the platform's overall usability, it's going to be very difficult for the company to argue that moderation services aren't worth paying for, and they'll have to find an entire other crop of people willing to moderate the site for no pay if they lose the current mods. It could take years for the case to even be heard, and if Reddit starts paying for moderation for any reason in that time, it's going to look very bad for their case because that is a practical admission that moderation is a job that the company needs to have performed and thus should be paid.

The fact that Reddit is a for-profit corporation is a big fucking deal in this case. There are effectively no circumstances under which volunteer labour is allowed for private, for-profit companies in the US, so this is not nearly as clear-cut as so many people seem to think.