Same. If I find myself spacing out at my desk and don’t have anything scheduled, I’ll hop over to the couch and lay down for 15 or 20 minutes. Even if I don’t fully fall asleep, letting myself drift puts me in a much more productive mindset when I go back to my desk.

Though I don’t worry about making up for that time, since I assume everybody else has their own little remote work cheats to get through the day.

It’s oddly gratifying when users consistently live up to the custom red flag tags I’ve assigned them…

Seconding this. Japanese cinema has this style figured out. A great recent example is Perfect Days. It’s a gorgeous slice of life film with a small but excellent cast. The main character is played by Yakusho Koji (a pretty famous Japanese actor) and he barely has any lines. There’s very little dialogue in the whole film, but it tells a tight and coherent story.

Yeah, he’s a bigot. Everything he says, the way he snidely talks about underrepresented groups, the disrespect he shows his own family, all done with a glib goading smile that begs for outrage.

I’m not sure why the author felt the need to sanitize Trump’s antisemitism at the same time as illustrating Vance’s, especially when he pretty much describes them the same way. Vanity driven by fear of turning away supporters vs. political cravenness for fear of losing the base. Don’t see much difference when it comes out as hatred for minorities.

Trump has always struggled to denounce anti-Semitism, whether asked to comment on Kanye West or the tiki-torch carriers in Charlottesville. But that always seemed a product of his vanity; he couldn’t stand to speak ill of acolytes. Vance’s refusal or inability to denounce anti-Semitism is more craven—and therefore more disturbing. He’s clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid.

It’s a summary of multiple articles, and doesn’t explain how it wrote the summary. Breaks the community rules (rule 1) for sure, but also just a very confusing way to post multiple articles at once. Just pick one source, and post that directly.

Edit: I looked into it. It’s slop:

Kagi News reads public RSS feeds of thousands of (community-curated) world-wide news sources and utilizes AI to distill them into one perfect daily briefing.

Those wings are awesome. To echo some other comments, your style has noticeably evolved and gotten really cool. I love this one: the framing, the color scheme, the angles, those badass wings. I can totally still see the unique style that oozes from your other simpler drawings, but with all this extra detail it’s even better.

The average utility bill for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers increased by about 67% over the last five years. (source)

I can vouch. My PG&E bills in 2020 averaged around $70 a month, now they’re regularly over $170. No change in my consumption habits. If I’m mathing correctly, that’s more than a 100% increase for me.

Not Safe For Work is a warning so if you’re browsing at work you know not to click on a link that might embarrass you if people are looking over your shoulder. It’s not about nakedness per se, but is more about what’s acceptable to look at in front of others in a professional setting.

I hope you wanted a serious answer…

I get what you’re saying, and I accept that reality for most of us here who already understand these things. But blaming consumers for corporate surveillance is not a good way to get corporations to stop surveilling consumers.

People, especially young people who are still learning what it means to be a person living in a society, deserve a second chance, and sometimes a third. This whole thing is disgusting, and as the grandchild of holocaust survivors I really struggle to not let these displays of bigotry completely ruin me, but your idea is also pretty upsetting.

People can and do change their beliefs, especially at the age these offenders are. I thought some pretty nasty things in high school that make me look back in shame. But I’m not that person anymore. I grew up, like most humans do. These students deserve to be punished, but that punishment needs to be serious education about why what they did was so awful. Putting them on a blacklist doesn’t help anyone, but it would help their hatred fester.

Heh logs.

You fixed my crappy morning, much appreciated.

Yeah, for real. Let’s hope the Majestic Imperious High Court deigns to grace us with any explanation. They love their emergency docket…

Murdering a murderer for committing murder will never make sense to me.

Good on her for standing her ground. I’m a huge fan of her work and loved seeing her in Star Wars, but nobody should work for less than their worth. She’s not an A-list star, and actors like her may have a huge following, but that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily rich beyond measure. This actually exposes a pretty serious problem in entertainment. People have families and bills, and even being a famous actor doesn’t mean you’re dripping in diamonds—despite most of the general public assuming that’s the case.

Fuck off, war criminal.

He has spent decades deliberately undermining—through murder, rape, and starvation—the possibility of a Palestinian state, and says there can’t be a Palestinian state. Sure, makes sense.

He has also spent decades propping up Hamas so he has a hateable enemy to fight, and says his one goal of this genocide is to eliminate Hamas. Sure, makes sense.

Same. The cat’s cute, but I hope no pregnant people like to buy juice in that neighborhood…

For those who don’t know, toxoplasmosis (a parasite commonly found in cat feces) usually isn’t serious for healthy adults, but for people with weak immune systems it’s no joke, and it can cause miscarriages and birth defects during pregnancy, which is serious as hell.

Yeah she’s my favorite, I love her comedy style. But in general, Roy, Amber, and Michael have excellent chemistry. Highly recommend people check it out if they haven’t seen it.

It’s not a news show, it’s a comedy show on a news network, so this impartiality discussion is just silly.

To me it definitely has gotten much worse, though everyone’s internet experience is radically different. 20 years is too far back, definitely not. But 5 or 10 years? Absolutely.

I don’t have accounts on and completely ignore all social media other than this, and have all my ads blocked everywhere. I don’t use streaming services, so no exposure to ads there either. That all makes my web experience (and I’m sure most other Lemmy folks) arguably way cleaner and content-focused than the vast majority of people who just use the mainstream internet as it is.

And yet it’s pretty difficult to find out basic things, and I think that’s a very recent development. It has always been nontrivial to figure out what’s true and what’s not and sometimes you had to dig a bit. SEO did a great job of poisoning things before LLMs. But now? I feel like 99% of what I find is unconvincing and just bad, and the sheer volume of rehashed bullshit makes it super hard to find something useful, let alone something real and truthful.

Just because he invented the WWW doesn’t mean he’s always right. In fact, he’s already wrong about this. The internet as a whole has gotten noticeably worse over the last few years.

Notably, there is no guarantee that the Obamacare subsidies will be extended — and no commitment from Republican House leaders to even hold a vote at all on the subsidies.

Then what the fuck was the point? That was Democrats one demand. Either finish what you start or don’t start at all, you cowards.