The problem is that being filmed by someone wearing glasses who may or may not have tampered with the already way too small indicator light is much less obvious than someone pointing a phone or camera at you.

I hate most rainbow crosswalks. Not because they are rainbows, I’m trans, I actually like that part. My issue is they tend to paint the whole sidewalk and not leave any bare pavement, which on my motorcycle in the rain feels like hitting a patch of ice.

Leave some bare strips of pavement across, please!

Canadian citizen warns Republican senator to fuck off.

Problem is the federal government is not in charge of alcohol sales. That is a provincial decision.

A bunch of rich assholes making more money usually makes the soup lines longer these days, not shorter.

and uses our national postal service to deliver the packages.

Unfortunately, that would first require them to start delivering packages. Their track record on that is pretty shit. Like, only succeeding twice in 8 years shit. And it’s not because my place is hard to deliver to. Every other company seems to be able to deliver with no issues except Canada Post.

Truth is, it was never about age. It was about asset accumulation. The more you had to protect, the more right-wing you got, generally speaking. There are obviously exceptions.

They fucked everything for younger generations so hard now though that we AREN’T able to accumulate assets to the degree where that shift happens in large numbers anymore. So we are staying left-wing for the most part. Unfortunately they seem to have realized their error and decided to just brainwash the really young gens with AI slop brainrot instead.

I’m fine with AI use in the back end, nobody really codes without something along the lines of copilot or claude anymore anyway.

Well that’s just straight up untrue. My org did an AI pilot to see if it was something we wanted to invest in and it ended up coming back with reduced productivity among devs (largely due to a massive increase in debugging time because of the slop output from the AI). Our devs write good code, faster, without the AI involved.

It’s mostly in management where we’ve seen productivity increases, because of how many emails they are writing on the average day and for transcription of meetings.

“what about the camera on your laptop?”

My personal laptop does not have a camera, and my work laptop has a physical camera blocker.

Pepper spray is illegal here. Knives aren’t as long as you can sell it as a utility thing. Technically carrying anything for the express purpose of self-defense is illegal here.

I have seen it being enforced in several stores in multiple provinces. If you’ve never worked in purchasing, you’ve probably just not heard about it since it doesn’t typically get mentioned to consumers, it’s a backend thing.

Wizards of the Coast, for example, is quite strict about it.

Part of Epic’s problem is also their leadership pretty publicly showing they hate their potential customers on a regular and ongoing basis. If someone keeps screaming at me to eat shit and die, I’m not going to be particularly motivated to buy anything from them.

As far as GoG, they are actually my preferred storefront. I look at GoG for games before Steam, and am even willing to pay a slight premium to get them on GoG. Their DRM free stuff is a big thing for me. Being able to archive my games has value to me.

So like most stores? What do you think MSRP is? A lot of places will pull their product from stores who undercut pricing outside of occasional sales.

Is it worth the 30% cut they take? Absolutely not. Gamers don’t realize the amount of money valve is making off them.

The same cut that is industry standard and they could ABSOLUTELY jack up by abusing their market position and choose not to? Especially given how much extra infrastructure they supply for that 30% vs literally anyone else?

I have. CP’s response was the absolutely absurd “we do not require couriers to deliver packages provided to them for delivery.” My flabbers were legitimately ghasted at that response, and is when I completely gave up on them ever becoming a legitimate or remotely reliable delivery service.

Honestly, to this very day, I still struggle to wrap my head around the idea of a business that, as a matter of policy, do not require their employees to do the work they hired them to do.

What do you mean “planning” to. They’ve refused to deliver packages for nearly a decade at this point. Oh sure, they’ll say they’ll deliver, but they never do, just a note telling you to go do their job for them. Literally the only delivery company that has this issue with my place.

One time, my dad, fully serious, said to me that homosexuality didn’t exist in nature outside of humans.

Would just be like “Neither does fucking Bud Light dumbass!”

Sounds like it’s time to find a new bank then.

Looks like you’ve got four nazi’s so far who are cowardly even by nazi standards downvoting you.

Also from magazines! I remember an issue of Dragon that had the code for a full game printed in it, and you had to copy the code to your computer by hand and compile it.