Yes, it’s fake, APAE is the code for Pokemon Pearl, not Platinum, it should be CPUE (as per the front of the cartridge on the sticker). The text looks blurry, the plastic looks odd, the 0J09 is a common pirated code (last four digits on the back).
This is bullshit. Apply spend 30 minutes doing assignments and when you get text saying congratulations they want to interview you think you get an interview....
Even with big companies I’ve never seen one where the applicant had to find a schedule for the interview, instead of the recruiter reaching out out and checking availability. This is odd even for bigger corporations, or maybe times have changed (I haven’t applied for a new job for a while now).
The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that app-based ride-hailing and delivery services like Uber and Lyft can continue treating their drivers as independent contractors rather than employees....
Not surprising. These apps work on an on-demand basis. It's just not feasible to pay somebody an hourly wage when you can't guarantee any work to be available for them to do at any given time. And you could then make the argument of "if they can't afford to pay them like employees, they shouldn't be in business", and I'd like to agree, but ultimately there is a huge demand for this line of business to exist and that isn't going away any time soon, especially as car ownership is decreasing in some areas these days. Most of these apps have yet to ever turn a profitable quarter, as is it, so increasing their cost of business isn't exactly going to result in everybody getting raises.
Also, there's generally a pretty big reason why people take these jobs over a traditional 9-5 in the first place; a large amount of these workers prefer working their own hours and not having to report to a superior. Or due to whatever life circumstances they might be experiencing (mental health issues, homelessness, disability, criminal history, etc) may prevent them from securing a "normal" job. A majority of the people working on these apps would find themselves unable to keep their jobs because they couldn't be available on time for whatever reason they may have. Ultimately, classifying them as employees would hurt a lot of them, and will likely drive them to another gig business (like food delivery or handyman/TaskRabbit, etc) where they'll be exploited the exact same way all over again, but now without any of the stability they had with their previous work.
I'm not saying all this in defense of these apps. But I do work on the corporate side of this industry and talk to the contractors on a daily basis, so I'm pretty familiar with the motives people typically have for signing up to work for these apps. As odd as it may sound, many of these people want to be contractors; they just want a better cut of the payment.
It would be great if there was an alternative that could cut (or at least reduce the need for) the middleman and allow users to be paired with a contractor directly. I'm surprised that there hasn't been any real attempt to make one yet.
This makes sense to a degree, tbh. You cannot guarantee full removal anyways, at least over here a filetted fish still says that there might be the odd leftover bone in there.
It’s like, “yeah it’s 99% and any reasonable person would not assume 100% anyways”.
We aren’t really carving an exception though. The condition of something being free of another substance is always a percentage chance.
My hand sanitizer only kills 99.99% of germs. Should it not be allowed to be called hand sanitizer because it cannot kill all of them? What should it be called? Hand almost-sanitizer? Those germs could get me pretty sick if I lose the cosmic lottery.
There’s always a point in reality where “good enough” is actually good enough.
I’m not actually saying this company has or hasn’t met that standard, I’m not an expert in poultry production techniques, but saying something needs to be 100% perfect to be sold doesn’t make things safer it just means it’d be illegal to debone wings without grinding up the chicken. I dunno the actual odds but it sounds like you’re already more likely to be struck by lightning than this occurring, and I’m still willing to go outside while its raining.
One of the odd symptoms is that it works like reverse COVID, instead of being contagious weeks before you manifest symptoms you remain contagious for weeks after you’ve recovered symptom wise.
My guess is someone was out of sick days and felt better and passed it on to me when an errant particle of spittle from a sneeze they’d thought they’d covered up gave the little bugger the chance to hop ships.
THE SENATE UNANIMOUSLY passed a bipartisan bill to provide recourse to victims of porn deepfakes — or sexually-explicit, non-consensual images created with artificial intelligence....
It seems like the bill is being pitched as protecting women who have fake nudes passed around their school but the text of the bill seems more aimed at the Taylor swift case.
1 The bill only applies where there is an “intent to distribute”
2 The bill talks about damages being calculated based on the profit of the defendant
The bill also states that you can’t label the image as AI generated or rely on the context of publication to avoid running afoul of this law. That seems at odds with the 1st amendment.
FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed during a marathon testimony on Wednesday that investigators still do not know if former President Donald Trump was grazed by a bullet or a piece of shrapnel during his attempted assassination....
For someone as narcissistic as Trump, the fact there isn’t a 5 hour documentary and 600 media posts detailing his time in hospital, the state of his ear, T-shirts with his X-ray and MRi and ultrasound of his ear, and 3d print of the ear as a collectible wall mount etc is what is actually odd about the whole thing.
He’s making money off of two perfect once in a lifetime photo shots though.
Showing free demos as their own line item in the store suggestions feels counterintuitive. As a user, I don’t want this, it just clusters the interface. I want to see the main game and something on it indicating a demo is available.
As for developers, discoverability is something they are always talking (complaining) about. Artificially inflating the sheer number of competing games for visibility seems like an odd choice in that regard.
🔴 Elon Musk says he’s a ‘cultural Christian’ – why some leading thinkers are embracing Christianity
“Musk joins many western conservative thinkers troubled by a rapidly changing world. Some of these thinkers have embraced Christianity to combat these changes. Yet they often struggle to accept Christianity’s central supernatural claims, like Christ’s resurrection.”
The new global study, in partnership with The Upwork Research Institute, interviewed 2,500 global C-suite executives, full-time employees and freelancers. Results show that the optimistic expectations about AI’s impact are not aligning with the reality faced by many employees. The study identifies a disconnect between the high...
AI is stupidly used a lot but this seems odd. For me GitHub copilot has sped up writing code. Hard to say how much but it definitely saves me seconds several times per day. It certainly hasn’t made my workload more…
By the language you used it sounds like you’re involved with the project, so thank you!
If it helps at all I’ve been experiencing this issue for probably 6 months or more. I’ve just gotten into the habit of adding videos to playlists and closing the video after i know it has been paused for a while. If I open it again from the playlist it picks back up where I was.
Also oddly enough if it skips to the end and I let it go to the next video (not in playlist, but whatever it would have played next) then I hit “back” it will (usually? I haven’t tried too many times) pick up where it should have been from when I paused it.
Edit: actually nevermind “we’ve been given fixes” would imply you’re one of us plebs! Thanks for the info anyway lol
I think much of this obscene wealth is kind of “fake.” Like, if I buy a house, and I do nothing to that house, no improvements, nothing, then turn around and sell that house for double what I bought it for, was any new wealth created? I now have more money, and the person I sold the house to now has an asset that is worth double what it once was, but where did all this new wealth come from? The house didn’t change at all.
I mean, let’s say I bought the house for $100,000, I wait a few years and sell it for $300,000, I just made $200,000. Then the person I sold it to sells it after a few more years for $500,000, making him $200,000. Then the person he sold it to sells after a few more years for $700,000, and he makes $200,000. That’s $600,000 thousand dollars generated from one asset. Isn’t that a little odd? It seems like at some point someone is going to buy the house but they’re not going to be able to sell it for more than they bought it for. I just don’t see how assets can just keep going up in value forever.
This is an odd take. There is no inherent advantage to using an unfamiliar ui on linux, there is nothing under the hood that “works better” for any specific desktop environment
The use of bots is not to generate new opinions, it is to make fringe opinions seem more popular than they are. Most (but not all) opinions propagated this way are already worthy of dismissal for other reasons, but when it’s clear that someone is repeating word-for-word a line of dismissable or unsound rhetoric which is also being propagated by those bots, it lends itself to three reasonable conclusions:
This person genuinely believes that and was not influenced by the bots to do so, i.e. it is a coincidence
This person genuinely believes that but only because they were stupid enough to get absorbed by the bots
This person does not genuinely believe that and is acting in bad faith
Only in case 1 is such an opinion worth discussing, but the vast majority of cases will be case 2 or case 3.
That is why it is reasonable to dismiss such opinions despite the possibility that they are genuine, in good faith, and not the product of propaganda. Because the odds that they’re not are vastly greater. Nobody can be certain of anyone’s intentions on the Internet, so rational actors can only play a game of “What is the most likely scenario?”.
Why wouldn’t they pass that in California? California loves monitoring people. Right now it’s mostly with cars (license plate readers, and now digital license plates with tracking built-in), but I really don’t see why they wouldn’t do this. They’re already starting with social media, I would assume porn would come soon after. Yeah, they have something akin to the GDPR, but that’s not at odds with tracking people, it’s just a nod so people don’t notice what they’re up to…
Screw California, they don’t care about privacy at all.
Whilst I did not live in the US, I did live in 4 countries in Europe (having got involved in politics in 2 of them) and from what I’ve seen those GenXers who fought for a better World are not the majority, not even close.
As somebody in that cohort and hence having moved along with it over the years through school and work, the general impression I got over time is one of political apathy and consumerist self indulgence.
(Certainly I was generally the odd one out in having strong political beliefs and it’s funny that even now in the political party I’m involved in, in my local area only a handful of active members are from my generation, whilst most are from the older generation and the second largest group are from the younger generation)
It really wasn’t much of a fighting generation to begin with back at their teenage and young adult years (just compare it to the much more recent Climate movements of the young) and there was a lot of apathy towards the ones amongst them who were (the pinnacle in the US was maybe Occupy Wall Street, which was violently suppressed by Obama - the very same who did the shoving of trillions towards Finance in the first place - and notice how still today so many of my generation think he was a great President).
I agree with you on the outmanouvered point, though that was a lot easier to do because the will was there for a few, not for the many, so when the few got suppressed the many wouldn’t lift a finger and often even agreed that those “making waves” should be stopped.
No, I’ve never seen an article or comment about US politics use those terms. Which is odd for how often they get posted in other places.
And no, your country and politics specifically avoid those terms, since they want a two party system and that’s part of how it works.
It’s republican and democrats, not progressive and conservatives, that’s the “marketing”. Would love some articles from the US that use these terms though.
I knew a dude who worked at Activision Blizzard and his description of his workplace sounded horrid. The weird part was his fawning bright eyed love for the office culture. He viewed it as a perfect dream workplace. I don’t even know it there’s a takeaway from all that. It just always struck me as notably odd
There’s over a million viable alternatives to DNA as carriers of genetic data, so the odds are actually extremely low that something we could classify as saurian in convergent traits
And that’s before you get into even more exotic theorizes forms of life like gas clouds in the interstellar void that appear to form helical patterns when current runs through them, silicon based life in extremophile environments, and possible micro-time lifeforms that can only exist in the interior of different kinds of neutron stars.
Also, the lifeform which got the closest to converging on the great ape body plan, which thus far is the most efficient to be observed for complex use of tools, is actually pre-mezozoic, a Permian proto-mammal labelled Suminia, it even had opposable thumbs, although it is theorized to have primarily moved on all fours, so the thumbs were probably for branch clinging instead of hammer swinging.
Can someone tell me if this game cartridge is authentic? (imgur.com)
I bought this off Ebay but I am not sure if it is authentic or not. Can anyone here tell me or point me towards a resource I can use?
Applied for a job and was asked to do a live interview. But all I get is this. (lemmy.world)
This is bullshit. Apply spend 30 minutes doing assignments and when you get text saying congratulations they want to interview you think you get an interview....
Uber and Lyft drivers remain independent contractors in California Supreme Court ruling (apnews.com)
The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that app-based ride-hailing and delivery services like Uber and Lyft can continue treating their drivers as independent contractors rather than employees....
Boneless chicken wings can have bones, Ohio Supreme Court rules (thehill.com)
Ohio Supreme Court rules boneless chicken wings can have bones
‘Boneless’ chicken wings can have bones, the Ohio Supreme Court says...
Anon feels good (sh.itjust.works)
AOC's Deepfake AI Porn Bill Unanimously Passes the Senate (www.rollingstone.com)
THE SENATE UNANIMOUSLY passed a bipartisan bill to provide recourse to victims of porn deepfakes — or sexually-explicit, non-consensual images created with artificial intelligence....
FBI Is Not Fully Convinced Trump Was Struck by a Bullet (www.thedailybeast.com)
FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed during a marathon testimony on Wednesday that investigators still do not know if former President Donald Trump was grazed by a bullet or a piece of shrapnel during his attempted assassination....
Updates to Free Demos on Steam (steamcommunity.com)
77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds (www.forbes.com)
The new global study, in partnership with The Upwork Research Institute, interviewed 2,500 global C-suite executives, full-time employees and freelancers. Results show that the optimistic expectations about AI’s impact are not aligning with the reality faced by many employees. The study identifies a disconnect between the high...
YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete (www.yahoo.com)
YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.
'Disgusting': Global 1% Captured $42 Trillion in New Wealth Over Past Decade. (www.commondreams.org)
Latest Verge article about their review of Asus ROG Ally X (and this is why gamers are preferring Steam Deck)
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How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet (www.bbc.com)
Gen X is in charge now, and boomers are being shown the door (www.businessinsider.com)
Boomers are having their last dance in charge....
Gen Alpha will elect MrBeast president and there's nothing you can do to stop it (media.tummy.town)
Microsoft’s ‘World of Warcraft’ Gaming Staff Votes to Unionize (www.bloomberg.com)
Windows 7's sample music unironically slapped so hard
What if Dinosaur is the most common form of life, and they sent their DNA here in a galaxy wide seeding operation?