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kevinrns , to random
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Take a deep breath.

I shouted for joy when I read this great justice.

"Uber and Lyft to pay $328 million for stealing $ from their drivers"

"Of the incalculable amount of money stolen from drivers by Uber and Lyft through various accounting shenanigans, $328m will be paid back to them..."

" . . in what New York Attorney General Letitia James called the largest wage-theft settlement her office has ever secured."

Applicable EVERYWHERE.

https://boingboing.net/2023/11/05/uber-and-lyft-to-pay-328-million-for-stealing-from-their-drivers.html

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Francystrans , to random Spanish
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Please, I would like this night to be special. I would like to be able to find the help I need to be able to leave this horrible city. I feel like everyone hates me. My family turned their back on me and many people in this place want to hurt me. Please friends help me escape, from this place and be able to start a new life in a safe place. I hope you can save my life. I appreciate what you can do for me💔😭
@mutualaid @vantablack

https://www.paypal.me/FrancysMatheus

https://cash.app/$BlackTransss

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KraftTea , to random
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Another good question to ask, legally speaking...

Did Amazon Prime let content providers know in advance that they were giving Amazon the right to run ads in their content?

How do they feel about this?

@neilhimself , any thoughts about having Good Omens chopped up with ads?! Will any of the revenue make its way back to cast & crew?

neilhimself ,
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@KraftTea I don't know anything about it.

KraftTea OP ,
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@neilhimself I didn't think they would tell their major content creators... even you.

It feels like a kind of unfair jab at both writers and actors, which Amazon will likely blame, in part, on the strike.

It certainly makes me want to cancel my subscription with them, and just watch their content in a different way, when I want to watch it at all... which presumably hurts anything negotiated, such as residuals.

If I wanted to pay for ads, I'd still be on Twitter.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/amazon-prime-video-ads-2024-1235596567/

elonjet , to random
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Landed in Austin, Texas, US. Apx. flt. time 9 h 42 min.

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MisterMadge ,
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@elonjet
~ $1,716 carbon fee (Germany @ $33/ton)

Locusmag , to random
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“Hand’s perceptive and sympathetic portrayals of artists at work in their various specialties… gives A HAUNTING ON THE HILL a depth that goes far beyond its substantial scares and hauntings.” @garykwolfe reviews @Liz_Hand (@elizabethhand.bsky.social) https://locusmag.com/2023/10/gary-k-wolfe-reviews-a-haunting-on-the-hill-by-elizabeth-hand/

TheConversationUS , to random
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We've been on Mastodon for a year now! 🍰

Thank you to all of our followers who have made engaging on this platform so much more rewarding and civil than that other place!

The Conversation exists to inform you, to feed your curiosity and to bring you knowledge to help you understand the world.

If you know folks here who you think would find value in our work, please give this post a boost.

https://theconversation.com/us/who-we-are

🧵 of some of our most popular posts from the past year:

TheConversationUS OP ,
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A post from February:
Charles Henry Turner was a pioneer in entomology - and he couldn't get a job in higher ed, so he taught high school biology.

"Across his distinguished 33-year career, Turner authored 71 papers and was the first African American to have his research published in the prestigious journal Science."

His simple but elegant experiments in public parks revolutionized understanding of bees.

https://theconversation.com/charles-henry-turner-the-little-known-black-high-school-science-teacher-who-revolutionized-the-study-of-insect-behavior-in-the-early-20th-century-184030

@blackmastodon

dgodon ,
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@TheConversationUS @histodons such an important part of that history! Reminds of the similar history of enslaved people resisting

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holyramenempire , to random
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I love this study. It emphasizes how vital written communication is to autistic people. (If your business or service requires a phone call or an in-person interaction, it's not accessible to us.)

Also, it's the kind of research we need more of: not about how to "fix" us, but about what we want, and who we are. There are still people out there who think that we can't even have our own opinions, that we're just parroting what we've been told. There are still people out there who believe autism is a learning disability or a disease!

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13623613211014995

holyramenempire OP ,
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also I forgot to tag and @actuallyautistic to call your attention to this research

joshsusser , to random
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Does telling an allistic person you're ever help improve communication? Over and over, I let people know I'm autistic in hopes it will help, but it never makes things better. It seems like no one wants to do the reading, or to make an effort to even meet me halfway. The main reactions I get when I disclose fall into these categories:

  • Ignore it entirely and just keep on like I'm not autistic.
  • Say I'm nothing like their 10 year old nephew who has .
  • Assume that since we're friends it doesn't matter, because friendship is magic and will enable me to "overcome my autism" with them if I am just motivated enough, and if they aren't special enough for me to do that then I don't really value them as a friend.
  • Give advice on how I can mask better for their comfort and convenience, like I haven't spent my whole life becoming expert on that.
  • Try to be accommodating without taking the time to learn what is helpful and what is just going to make things worse.
  • Infantilize me and treat me like a child or an intellectually disabled person.
  • Give up on me because autistic people are too hard to deal with.
  • No reaction, because most people don't know anything about autism. They don't even understand that I'm doing all the work to bridge the communication gap, or that they could do anything to help, or even cut me some slack when I fail.

I do have a couple allistic friends who accommodate me enough to maintain a decent relationship, but they are rare and special. And we had somehow worked that out before I knew I was even, so telling them still didn't change much.

Has anyone had communication improve by telling someone you're autistic? Or is that just a fantasy?

brainpilgrim ,
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@Falco_77 @BZBrainz @joshsusser @actuallyautistic Which is fine when you're sharing the latest celebrity gossip, but it's not going to do any good in a software conference.

lzvolk ,
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@Falco_77 @BZBrainz @joshsusser @actuallyautistic
Interesting. Made the same observation during my years as an academic, albeit I had to refine those skills early in my career. It's like 'mode switching', where the professional formal mode switches between the informal mode and even the 'autistic' mode (rarely in public).

nirogu , to linux
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Run command as not-root

Hi everyone

At work, I have to run a command in an AWS instance. In that particular instance only exists the root user. The command should not be executed with root privileges (it executes mpirun, which is not recommended to run as sudo or the machine might break), so I was wondering if there is a way to block or disable the sudo privileges while the command is running. As mentioned, the only user existing there is root, so I suppose "sudo -u" is not an option.

Does anyone know how to do it? Thanks in advance!

@linux

ursakhiin ,

It’s not that an Amazon instance can be a docker container. It was more that the behavior you are describing is extremely odd for a full Linux environment but normal for a docker container.

If you created the instance, it isn’t likely a container. But it also sounds like the base image might be poorly set up

elscallr ,
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You’ll thank yourself for it later. Things like this take a little longer up front but putting them off has a way of making you have to work around it again and again until, when you get around to correcting it, it takes far more time to undo the workarounds than it would’ve taken to correct it the first time.

WhyNotZoidberg , to random
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Okay so datamining of models suggest that the details of cims are way overworked with 40 000 polygons or more for details you cannot see in the game (you can't zoom in that far).

The performance of the game is... not good for a lot of players that struggle with framerate dips down to <10 fps on 30-series NVIDIA cards.

I don't know much about gamedev or 3D modelling but this seems like an odd choice.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/17kmzfh/40000_polygons_for_a_single_human_here_more/

moondog548 ,
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@WhyNotZoidberg I tried turning off cim teeth and eyes (lol) in the dev panel, but it didn't make a huge difference. :/

Hmmm... maybe that was just the textures, so the problem is the thousands of polygons are still there? 🤔

HarkMahlberg ,
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@moondog548 Scuttlebutt is that Life By You, Paradox's The Sims clone, is planned to be integrated into Cities Skylines 2, so they outsourced the creation of all the CS2 cim models to another company, Popul8, and they were tasked with making models that would work in both games. My guess is there was a miscommunication between the two companies on providing some LOD models for CS2 so it wouldn't have to try and render all of the "The Sims"-level details. But that's all just "big if true" speculation.

grissallia , to random
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Some time around 2015 or so I had a horrifying experience where I was at work on a really windy day, and a branch was just banging on the wall outside all day.

The constant noise seemed to ratchet up my stress levels all day until I literally shut down. First I lost the ability to speak, then to even walk.

I stumbled out of my office, and the office manager called an ambulance, and I was hospitalised, but nothing was found. The doctors ultimately put it down to some kind of migraine, whereas I assumed it to be some kind of overstimulation thing.

However, it seems to be that since then, if I'm under too much stress, I start stuttering.

It's uncommon, and usually related to work stress, or occasionally emotional stress.

I can still (for the most part) think fluently, but attempting to speak results in a stutter, and I just have to wait it out.

The thing is, it doesn't seem to fit any categorisation I can find. It doesn't seem to fit selective mutism, and everything I can find about stuttering seems to indicate that when it starts it doesn't stop, whereas when the source of stress is removed, I'm usually OK within a few hours, or after a good night's sleep.

It's terribly embarrassing when it happens, but it's usually a sign that I need to relax, like, immediately.

It's never happened during a psychologist appointment.

Until today, when I apparently stepped on an emotional landmine. Towards the end of the session, I started talking about some deeply traumatic memories that unblocked last week... and my heart started pounding, and I started to lose my ability to speak, until nothing would come out except a stammer, unless I made a huge effort, and even then, it's incredibly slow.

I can still type though, so I grabbed my phone and typed out what was happening, and she was able to talk me through some exercises to get me talking (slowly), and safe enough to drive home, but we were over time by that point, so there wasn't time to explain beyond more than a brief "nervous system response to flashback" just WTF happened to me.

I don't understand it. Google isn't helping AT ALL, because nothing fits. I can think the words, but they won't come out when I try to speak, but eventually I'm OK again.

I've always just assumed it was stress-related "autism" thing, but now I don't know. I couldn't seem to find anything that seems to fit the experience, of a temporary stutter in that circumstance and I just want to know if other people have had this experience.

I'm guessing I've spent more than a hundred hours talking to psychologists over the years, and it's just never happened before.

Susan60 ,
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@stufromoz @grissallia Definitely sounds like an @actuallyautistic thing to me.

grissallia OP ,
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@Susan60 @stufromoz @actuallyautistic I'm going to reply to my original post, because my psychologist replied to my email, and you're correct.

elonjet , to random
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Took off from Berlin, Brandenburg, DE. Going to Austin, Texas, US (AUS, Austin Bergstrom International Airport) arriving in ~9h39m.

ThomDenholm ,
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@elonjet
Dude was in Berlin for 5 hours. That's a lot of avgas for a jelly donut.

bullwong ,
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@elonjet Berlin & Brandenburg are mutually exclusive, so "Berlin, Brandenburg, DE" doesn't exist. "Berlin Brandenburg" is the name of the airport, located in the state of Brandenburg, just outside of Berlin.

inquiline , to random
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I HATE to link to that "X" site but! protesters at the Port of Oakland are trying to block a ship set for Israel 👀 🚢

This is what we mean when we say that ports are chokepoints.

🧵: https://x.com/markmisoshnik/status/1720477129694232882?s=20

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