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I have seen this play out in a few jobs, to the extent where they would rather hire new managers to find efficiency savings and push the team harder than make those people's lives doing the work easier.

Clean yourself up and find a rich spouse?

Win the lottery?

Insurance fraud?

No? I got nothing.

So many firms with different rules, seemingly a law unto themselves. No way to appeal when they know they are already right.

They should not be able to impose the levels of fines they try to now. They should be spot checked from time to time to ensure they have processes in place to deal with people fairly.

Bowtie for the duck. Not for me though.

Birthdays late December/early January suck.

Everyone is busy, everywhere puts the prices up if you do manage to get people together and then there's the joint Xmas and birthday gifts, ugh.

Anon needs to get out to a all you can eat buffet, eat a good meal go home and sleep it off. Probably won't land them a partner but they'll get to try a bunch of foods and have a conversation starter for when they do meet up with someone.

For us no.

For Joe public yes.

It's all about the numbers, go after a few to scare the masses then give them a safe alternative.

If enshitification comes in to it and it starts to look better to pirate (shows/films disappearing, ads, bloat, needing 15 different subscriptions and so on) then piracy will increase again.

For me Netflix/Disney+/Prime have laid the foundation of no longer relying on Sky's overpriced satellite packages at least so there's a positive.

I can only imagine but doesn't make it less true.

Looks a little like David Mitchell, the British comedian. That's kinda scary in itself.

It's about making it easily available so it's more effort to pirate it. If it's available on a streaming service you already have or you can purchase it for not a lot then most people will take the easy way out and pay.

Came here to say just that. Mr CEO over not thinking this would happen is just detached from the world.

Lonely people aren't lonely by choice a lot of the time, they just can't find a place they fit in. You find out there is a place you can chat with "someone" that understands and that is all it takes.

I think I've settled on a new 4k monitor to replace the pair of aging NEC screens I have.

I can never think of anything, which is worse as my birthday is in December too 😔

I googled it. It's a Nuby Boomerang 64, there is a trigger on each side underneath and a slot for the rumble/memory pack. So yeah, that might actually work better for some games at least.