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books , 10 months ago to news in Donald Trump mugshot released after former US president surrenders at Fulton jail over election charges – live

The dude has been in front of a camera for most of his life. I guarantee he practiced this look and studied the lighting and angle of the other 8-9 people’s mugshots he saw. He knew the best angle.

I’m sure his big quandary was whether to smile or not.

books , 10 months ago to technology in Leaked Zoom all-hands: CEO says employees must return to offices because they can't be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom

He’s not wrong, remote meetings do suck for getting to know your coworkers, but that’s not a great reason for rtw

books , 10 months ago to showerthoughts in Since nobody likes calling it X, why don't we call the platform "ex-twitter"? That way it's technically true, and everybody knows what you're talking about.

Yup.

What the fuck is the point of everyone mentions that it was “formerly twitter”.

books , 10 months ago to news in Why a highly mutated coronavirus variant has scientists on alert

Did you read the article? The virologist interviewed basically said that we shouldn’t panic and I’m a month or two we will likely forget about the variant.

books , 10 months ago to memes in Lemmy might, MIGHT have a small bias towards the left

.ml? I always thought it was for Marxist lenninist.

But that could have been tongue in cheek

books , 10 months ago to memes in Today we learnt...

Well. That was definitely something.

books , 10 months ago to technology in Meta updates RTO policy with stricter mandate, saying workers may lose their jobs if they don't show up 3 days a week

Sorry should have been more clear. Facebook is tanking. Obviously meta as an org is fine.

books , 10 months ago to technology in Meta updates RTO policy with stricter mandate, saying workers may lose their jobs if they don't show up 3 days a week

Given how bad this company is tanking, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was deliberately done to cut payroll.

books , 10 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?

I used that service but they jacked the price up so I quit and got Spotify

books , 10 months ago to world in New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn

Sure but I don’t think we are in the pandemic anymore.

Again wear a mask or don’t. I don’t give a shit. I’m personally done with them until rates start to spike again, or for when I travel on an airplane.

books , 10 months ago to news in Entire police department in Minnesota resigns

Yes.

books , 10 months ago to world in New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn

Flu absolutely killed a grip of people when it was new.

It eventually became endemic and what we live with now. More or less what we have with covid. It will rear its ugly head every year as it mutates. Some will get it and have a rough time, some people’s immunity or vaccine will help make it less deadly contagious as it was in 2020.

Life goes on. Wear a mask or don’t, but we are way past the point of putting the genie back in the bottle

books , 10 months ago to news in Entire police department in Minnesota resigns

I mean in fairness, our local McDonald’s is paying 16-18 an hour… So getting 22 to do a job that most people wouldn’t want to do and forces you to deal with people you’d normally try to avoid, doesn’t sound like a hard ask.

books , 11 months ago to showerthoughts in Lemmy is more left leaning because the rights popularity seen on other social media are driven by bots that are not here.

Ah, you mean left left… Not left

books , 11 months ago to showerthoughts in Lemmy is more left leaning because the rights popularity seen on other social media are driven by bots that are not here.

Tbf r/politics was extremely left leaning.