That makes sense. I have been asked to write a program that does a standard spreadsheet function on multiple occasions, so I was just curious. Sometimes people just don’t know the tools at hand, want to offload their work, or think an over complicated workflow is a better workflow. I can see how it was actually useful in your case though.

How big were the CSVs? That sounds like a standard thing most spreadsheet apps can do already, unless the data size made traditional apps unusable.

I don’t think it’s a bait and switch. It’s not going to charge you for the game once it’s no longer free. Plenty of games do discounted releases or have a “free week” once in a while to drum up some attention.

It’s from RT.

Per the Wikipedia article on RT: RT has regularly been described as a major propaganda outlet for the Russian government and its foreign policy. Academics, fact-checkers, and news reporters (including some current and former RT reporters) have identified RT as a purveyor of disinformation and conspiracy theories. UK media regulator Ofcom has repeatedly found RT to have breached its rules on impartiality, including multiple instances in which RT broadcast “materially misleading” content.

In 2012, RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan compared the channel to the Russian Ministry of Defence. Referring to the Russo-Georgian War, she stated that it was “waging an information war, and with the entire Western world”. In September 2017, RT America was ordered to register as a foreign agent with the United States Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

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I don’t necessarily have sympathy for them, but they do say that they have voted for Dems since and that people need to stop watching Fox News. I obviously have no way of guaranteeing they never vote R ever again, but it seems like they learned at least a little. Is it enough? Probably not, but they apparently were willing to lose friends and family over this change. I’m sure there’s still a lot of distance between their politics and mine, but at a certain point we have to allow people to come out and say this. They’re publicly isolating and basically humiliating themselves to show people there’s a way out. I can’t offer that and someone needs to because there needs to be a viable path out of the Fox News pipeline. I’d love if everyone woke up tomorrow with the goal to bring about luxury gay space communism or whatever, but barring that, how do we expect the country to change for the better if we don’t allow people to change for the better? Even if what sparked that change isn’t what or when we would have liked. I’m not saying we have to like or forgive them, but they live here regardless so I’d rather too little too late than never at all.

Them when electing a president:

[ ] literally anyone else

[X] man who “says things off the top of his head and doesn’t think them through”

I guess he really won out with relatability because they also appear to say things off the top of their heads and not think them through.

Fair enough. I took it to mean more “he wouldn’t do it because it would be catastrophic”. I see now it was meant more to draw attention to the issues it would cause.

He literally started a war over nothing. At best it was to distract us from the fact he’s a pedophile rapist. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I don’t think he really cares about our country.

They are pretty expensive, but considering each die has to have Bluetooth capabilities and a way to detect the result so it can transmit it, I’m surprised they’re not more expensive.

Fair point, but Americans score lower than several comparable countries, despite a higher GDP which one would hope would correlate to education. There are several reasons for this, but as an American, I’m just mentioning that it’s not a generational thing as much as a countrywide thing. https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=1

I think it’s nice to realize that people aren’t hardwired to understand math. There’s been no evolutionary selection for an understanding of the distributive property or knowledge of a dot product. Math can be difficult and we need to devote more resources to teaching it. Gen Alpha isn’t inherently less intelligent. Math is just hard and this person is probably seeing American Gen Alphas that have grown up in a society that does not value or invest in education the way it should. I don’t think that’s over generalizing as much as it’s drawing conclusions from available data.

People in general, but Americans specifically, can’t do basic math. Hence the infamous 1/3 pound burger: https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fractions/

I imagine it’s a replacement for a bachelor/bachelorette party.

I had that and a wedding, but no gifts were expected at either. The reason we did that is because a traditional wedding tends to be very planned and formal with not enough time to just hang out. We wanted the traditional wedding pictures and ceremony, but we had family and friends coming in from around the world just for a few days so we had a few events to see people as much as possible. I think it was well received, but again, no gifts were expected. We didn’t post a registry and told people that we just wanted them to make it.

Apparently there’s a legitimate legal reason: https://lemmy.world/comment/23893766

They’d be better off with the cash that they could choose to invest or spend as they please and they would be much better off if companies were not able to extract that amount of wealth in the first place. Then they wouldn’t have to threaten a strike to get compensation. They weren’t just gifted this. The union had to fight for it. Additionally, stock valuations change and they have a vestment period and restrictions on selling. If you read my comment as an indictment on compensating employees and not the system in which they exist then I’m not sure you’re engaging in good faith.

I appreciate your response and openness too. I will also sometimes write full responses just to delete them, so I understand that struggle.

I doubt I have a unique perspective to offer, but if at some point in the future you do have a thought or question about this you’d like to share with me, I’ll be around.

Stock is better than nothing, but the equivalent in cash would be better for sure. They can then invest it how they see fit if so desired and unlike company stock there’s no vesting period or restrictions on selling. I’m glad the employees are getting something, I just think it’s important to realize that this is better for the company than paying cash bonuses and is not really similar to owning the means of production in any meaningful sense.

Lmao. They have to pay for NOT listening.

According to the complaints, this service did not, in fact, listen in on consumers’ conversations or use voice data at all—nor did the service accurately place ads in customers’ desired locations. Instead, the service the companies provided consisted of reselling—at a significant markup—email lists obtained from other data brokers.

Some of my favorite games were early access and I’ve played them the entire time really reveling in new features as they come out. Unfortunately, I think Paralives is going to be too buggy on launch even for me. I’m used to buggy life sims in general and I’ve done alpha testing of games, but from what I’ve seen I might wait for a bit. On the plus side, the dev team seems really dedicated. I’m sure they’ll keep working on it, it might just be years before I personally decide to jump in. I also don’t think a price has been announced. If it’s ~$20 I might go for it regardless because I’m sure I’ll get $20 of enjoyment out of it even with the bugs. I think $40 is likely and it’s not a bad price, but I’ll definitely wait for a few more months of fixes at that price point.

I was responding less to the lefty comment and more to the idea that aligning workers with shareholders is a good thing (“reasonable” per your comment). If you don’t subscribe to left-wing ideas, and sit more in the lib territory (non derogatory in this instance) of the spectrum, I can understand why we would disagree on that.

Generic leftist drivel below:

The profit motive is inherently exploitative of the working class. In my opinion, any attempts to align the working class with the profit motive is just a way for the owning class to dismantle class solidarity. Not to get too into theory, but this is where the idea of and disagreements regarding the petite bourgeois often come in. There is a concept of a managerial class who does not necessarily own the means of production, but profits based off of exploitation of the people beneath them. A lot of people consider this its own class, or at the very least class traitors, but what it really is is just working class people who the owning class has convinced to promote the interest of the owning class. If the owning class can divert a large enough portion of the working class into that sector then there is not much hope for change. You often hear about blue collar and white collar workers, but discussions of people who explicitly do not have to work don’t come up as frequently. You’re seeing more people talk about billionaires nowadays though, and if enough white collar workers realize that they are much closer to blue-collar workers than the billionaires I think we would be in a much better place.