Eh, no, maybe read what nicotine does to your body and go beyond the negatives?

Why would people even start doing it if it didn’t do anything for them?

In elementary school I was doing a paper on Al Capone and there was the section with his early days which included “like every young boy he liked jerking off.”

Most likely true, though the sources were missing.

This, but unironically.

Additionally, it’s not true at all. Like, when I was a junior dev, everything was new and hard. Now I do stuff much harder than was the hardest I did back then.

Yep. For example during the Soviet occupation here, the Colorado potato beetle got imported here somehow and given it doesn’t have any natural predators, it destroyed potatoes like crazy.

Well, guess what? According to Soviet propaganda it was intentionally done by Americans to destroy our “paradise” and our food.

Everything bad that happened was because the evil imperialists worked against our paradise.

The country being so poor it couldn’t afford enough toilet paper for its citizens? Westerners! All foreign fruit being very scarce and people standing in long lines to get it, while the ones in the back knew they probably aren’t getting any today? Also westerners’ fault. Meat being available only for the few lucky ones who came early, or were friends with the butcher? Yep, this one’s on westerners too.

Propaganda is not the usual over-the-top stories, it’s subtle. Would you today believe if someone told you that Americans have imported the Colorado potato beetle intentionally? And would you, if it was consistent with everything you’ve heard since you were a kid?

You don’t. If it was as simple, no one would smoke. If tobacco didn’t give you something extra, your body wouldn’t crave it.

Perhaps I worded it poorly, but my point was that companies shouldn’t go bankrupt when they make a mistake.

If you keep doing it after you’ve been told, then you’re no longer just making a mistake it’s obviously malicious, but I don’t think then Apple should go bankrupt when they incorrectly implement a new law.

While I personally don’t think it’s accidental, you should be more lenient towards a first offense for any new law (unless you can prove it was intentional, which is incredibly hard).

Various servers using various software that can communicate with each other.

While true, 568m is a significant cost of doing business. Also remember that a punitive action should not make the company go bankrupt, it should make them rethink.

And if they don’t, the fines will go higher, until they do rethink.

Steam is equally shitty, they just have the advantage of not being publicly traded which means they can create long term strategies and execute them successfully.

Doesn’t mean they’re pro consumer.

That must suck, having your life and dreams destroyed like that. Hope he recovers, both physically and, perhaps even more important, mentally.

Somewhere in between that weird guy and jaded outcast.

Eh, being burned out means exactly (most of) that. Especially being rude is a huge sign of being burned out, because you just can’t muster the energy to be positive, because everything about your work pisses you off, including your coworkers, customers, bosses and the work itself.

Wayland replaced a shitty protocol with equally shitty one. So it’s still shit, but different.

That is, if Wayland works for you. If it doesn’t, running X inside Wayland won’t solve much.

Sure is! Especially when Wayland is broken all the time. Last year I had to be on X because Wayland was laggy as fuck and my eyes hurt from the constant flickering.

A year before that it worked flawlessly and now it works too. Can’t wait for the next major update, I just love the thrill of not knowing whether my PC will work well or not.

Modern or not, X just works. Wayland is broken all the time.

I don’t think hospitals do count, being burned out could be an official requirement for the job and you wouldn’t notice a difference.

This is anecdotal, but male teachers get a special treatment if the school staff is mostly women.

Yep, this is the reason, the service that facilitates this is called Lemmy Federate.

Explanation: E(a)ster Bunny vs Ether bunny.