Its all marketing bullshit to make people think they’re earning something, or their gaming the system. In reality it’s all carefully planned to extract the most value out of their most loyal customers.

Having traveled there myself, I’m so freaking jealous. It’s absolute insanity that us American’s have the gall to say we’re the “best country on earth” but can’t even move our citizens around efficiently. I’ve heard all of the excuses. It’s too expensive, we’re not close together, we’re too big, americans don’t like taking the train. All horseshit. Other larger countries have done it, others have changed their culture, it’s absolutely stupid that we haven’t done it.

It all boils down to one singular fact in my years of advocacy. Car/oil companies do not want Americans discovering that they are wasting their lives and money behind the wheel of cars, because they have never been as profitable as they are now.

Anything to avoid building reliable clean and functional public transit.

Seriously we already have a futuristic form of transportation that can move you from one end of the city to the other in a reliable way, that does not involve traffic or anything on the surface. It’s called the Subway. You build it once and it’s pretty much good forever.

I have seen so many techbros try to “solve transportation”, and every idea always fails in comparison to building a train line.

Go ahead, you can go use the “futuristic” hyperloop in Vegas right now. You wait 20 minutes to get into a car which takes 20 minutes to get about 6 blocks ahead.

What we choose to say have meanings, even if it wasn’t the intent.

Not about the movie, not about even the person’s criticism as a whole, but the phrasing. “besides making a female Frankenstein’s monster”. Say that it’s called “Frankenstein’s Brother”. The phrasing “…making an alternate male Frankenstein’s monster” is weird. It would sound better that it is “besides making Frankenstein’s brother/uncle/bride”. I get what the commenter was saying, but the wording made it sexist.

We all need to be conscious that how we address woman-led movies because how we talk about them drives if studios make women-led movies. If a male-led blockbuster flops, we don’t say “the male-led movie failed”. We say it was a shit movie and that it failed. If a female-led move flops, we always call out that it was female led. That becomes in the eyes of hollywood “since it was female-led it flopped”. So, I think it’s important to call out that a movie can be perfectly shit regardless of what gender led the film.

Now you’re understanding hollywood!

I also can’t imagine what the plot would be, besides making a female Frankenstein’s monster.

Now replace female with male.

Female has nothing to do with it, and making your argument about the female lead makes the entire take sexist.

We will be equal when we can say that a movie is just bad without also needing to mention that the lead was female.

Non-comparable, apples and oranges. It exists, it’s there, you can generate it to make something quick, but it’s not art. You simply can’t compare something that someone poured their heart into and something that a prompt made

Neat, didn’t know about theirs!

Why did this turn into an us vs them?

Yeah in my area standard time would be better. The summer would be a bit more sane, I think sunset can be as late as 10:30 at the peak of summer, so losing an hour isn’t horrible there

BC/Vancouver just removed it but made it DST year round. My only worry against that is that mornings would be hella dark. For where I live, sunrise in the winter (standard time) is around 7:55AM, meaning that’s crack of dawn first light. Spring forward, so 7:55 becomes 8:55, meaning our first sunlight of the day won’t be until about 9am. Now, our evenings will be a bit longer (sunset is around 4-4:30, so now 5-5:30, but still most people won’t even see sunrise.

Every developer just died thinking about the maintenance

Its always some boomer isn’t it?

Speedtest hasn’t been trustworthy for a while. Okla bought them and immediately started selling to ISPs nodes that they could install (probably just a container or something) that would sit as a “local” speedtest node, so you were testing your connection to the ISP, not testing your actual internet connection. (i.e. giving you the best possible results and what your ISP wanted you to believe).

Fast.com is slightly better in that Netflix spun it up to test your connection to their servers. So it’s independent of ISPs - but then they built high speed optic lines to most ISPs so it’s more like the second-best possible speed.

Accenture will be the same or worse. I don’t trust it for speedtests anymore.

It sounds like the female led movies all start as something interesting, but marketing, legal, and overall corporate overhead is chicken shit and making them lame. You can’t have a complex narrative! You need to make it simple for them! You can’t have gotr, women won’t like it! So they nerf it.

Its the exact opposite of feminism in my book.

They also completely ignore that they had free training for green energy jobs, because they killed off all of that free training so they could keep saying “they’re terking ther jerbs”

I disagree with the other commenter. Your male friend is irrelevant, it comes down to trust, does your boyfriend trust you. I don’t like the opinion of the commenter of “Just dump him”, that’s a very throwaway concept. (Something isn’t perfect? Throw it out of your life. I don’t like that line of thinking)

I think you should communicate with your boyfriend, ask him why he feels that way, and ask why he feels like he can’t trust you. It’s a dialogue you two need to have. It won’t be a fun one, but if you both want the relationship to work you’ll come out stronger. (If he tries to say things like “He’s waiting for his turn”, turn it around, make it about you and him. “But do you trust me”?) You then give him time to learn and adjust to it. Of course if he refused to learn or adjust, and it doesn’t work, then it becomes a more serious decision.

My anecdote, I was your boyfriend for a long time. My SO, now spouse, was hanging out with someone who was clearly interested. To make it worse, I had been cheated on before so it was a massive trigger for me, and I was immediately paranoid (cheating really fucks with your trust). I grew jealous and it became very unhealthy. If my SO took the other commenter’s advice, we wouldn’t have the life we have now. Thank god they didn’t, and instead talked to me, and gave me the ability to learn and grow. I learned to trust her, and worked on myself, and now 15 years later we’re both very happy and have built a life together.

Wow. Alright. Was trying to be fair with you, but alright.

Db0 has their own instance and they are I would say they are moderate with AI usage. They don’t hide it. If you don’t like it, then you should probably join a different instance. That’s the good thing about the fediverse, you don’t have to agree with everything, just switch to a different instance.