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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the explanation. I'm sorry you had a bad experience working with them. Unfortunately, bad management and petty people problems don't go away just because it's open source. :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Could you elaborate on this? I'm still distro shopping and know basically nothing about Mint's development history.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Is the city council under the impression that tourists will arrive, fail to find a tour guide, then just shrug and go home? I agree that tourist congestion has gotten worse in recent years (a friend of mine recently moved, citing this exact reason), but this is going to do exactly nothing to stop it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

It looks like this is the first game made by Weta. That gives me a lot of confidence they will get the right tone for the game. Hopefully this will be like a chill Animal Crossing in Middle Earth.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

When I read "the wife", I read it as this. It feels impersonal, like you are intentionally distancing yourself from your spouse. Like, why would you do that unless you are literally Al Bundy?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Seconding The Expanse. pensive Norwegian vocalization intensifies

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Better yet, hire more before the workload increases so you aren't training newbies during crunch time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thank you for posting this. My introduction to CAD was trying out FreeCAD when I reached the limits of Adobe Illustrator's accuracy. The interface was so obtuse and difficult to work with I just gave up and assumed all CAD programs were like that. I'll give Link Branch a shot!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

You're right of course about this being satire. My fear though is that things like this can fall out of the author's control very quickly, much like Pepe the Frog, and I really don't want gratch to be a catchall dog whistle.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Do you have any examples of this? Because my experience is the opposite. It's the perception that your group is normal, the "default", and tearing down all of these other groups using phrases exactly like the ones in the comic.

[–] [email protected] 131 points 10 months ago (11 children)

The alt-text panel hints at this, but the problem with making up a fake group everyone can hate is that racists and bigots will stretch the definition to include whatever they want.

We've seen it with "antisemitism" being redefined to include any criticism of Israel, and before that "pedophilia" being redefined to include drag queens and parents supporting their trans children. For that reason, hatred like this should not be encouraged, even if it's imaginary.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes I don't even

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