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[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago

Putin blaming the USA and their "Ukrainian puppets" in 3... 2...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What rules can we add that solve this problem? (I've tried DDG but didn't find any results)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Maybe it's a UK thing but at large public transport terminals we get lines of taxis waiting for "zero wait" business.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

IT pro here with over 40 years XP. I have MFA in some places, not in others. As with everything else in IT, IT DEPENDS.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Help! Help! Here come the Borg!

let's see who gets that reference...

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

"fictional AI CP" isn't a thing. AI is trained on existing data. It does not create new stuff. If you want AI to generate CP then you have to train it on CP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I had eggs for breakfast so probably 1.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

I think it's fair enough. If they accept your spam then they have to accept everyone else's spam too. No it doesn't make any difference that your stuff is free. Reddit subs are usually for discussion not marketing; there are channels to spunk your adverts down and you should use those instead of trying to insert them into discussions. No it doesn't make any difference that your free stuff means you don't have a marketing budget. We all know today's free stuff is tomorrow's subscription stuff, and yeah I can already see you're about to scream at me that you don't ever intend for that to happen. But the simple fact is if your stuff takes off then you're going to have to make more time for it but free stuff isn't going to pay your bills and you're going to have to start raising cash one way or another.

What you should be doing is to continue being a positive contributor, and put your promo stuff on your "about me" page. Anyone who is interested enough in you will look at your profile, see your stuff and maybe then consider engaging with your products.

Forget the 10% ratio, remember the rule NO MARKETING, and then everyone will be your friend again. The 10% rule is not intended to say "you can spam this much and no more", it's to allow people to talk about actual products they like (that others have made) and point to them without those pointers being misconstrued as promotion.

"...votes..." No, the rules are for preventing spam, the voting is to highlight high quality posts over the low quality stuff.

"...billionaires..." What an odd strawman. Business of all sizes from freebie shops like yours up to Microsoft are NOT ALLOWED TO SPAM chatrooms. You're likely to see more stuff about billionaire businesses simply because they're bigger, not because they have some privilege you don't.

I mean come on, there are enough fucking adverts everywhere without discussion groups being full of that shite too. Advertise in advert channels. Chat in chat channels. Don't mix the two. Of course you're proud of the stuff you've made and that's a good thing, but there is a time and a place for promoting it and that place is NOT a discussion group.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I hope he was wearing a sonky

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

OK so next time you've done your work for the day, try going home early. Do let us know how it goes.

You aren't paid by the hour as long as it suits the company. As soon as it suits you, you're damn well going to sit there until 5pm staring at the ceiling if you have to, THEN you can go home.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I had the misfortune to have to share an office with a bunch of sales morons. I can recommend Bose idiot-cancelling headphones. What a bunch of selfish noisy fuckwombles.

 

This relates to the BBC article [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66596790] which states "the UK should pay $24tn (£18.8tn) for its slavery involvement in 14 countries".

The UK abolished slavery in 1833. That's 190 years ago. So nobody alive today has a slave, and nobody alive today was a slave.

Dividing £18tn by the number of UK taxpayers (31.6m) gives £569 each. Why do I, who have never owned a slave, have to give £569 to someone who similarly is not a slave?

When I've paid my £569 is that the end of the matter forever or will it just open the floodgates of other similar claims?

Isn't this just a country that isn't doing too well, looking at the UK doing reasonably well (cost of living crisis excluded of course), and saying "oh there's this historical thing that affects nobody alive today but you still have to give us trillions of Sterling"?

Shouldn't payment of reparations be limited to those who still benefit from the slave trade today, and paid to those who still suffer from it?

(Please don't flame me. This is NSQ. I genuinely don't know why this is something I should have to pay. I agree slavery is terrible and condemn it in all its forms, and we were right to abolish it.)

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