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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • atkion@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.ml•This is a real threat :(English
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    5 months ago

    My office used to do this, until upper management caught wind and threw an absolute fit over it. Then they paid the building manager to come in and remove the lightswitches so we couldn’t turn the lights off ever again, there’s literally an alarm that goes off if the circuit is broken.

    Yay for having a mild headache every single day!

  • atkion@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.ml•Google “search”English
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    11 months ago

    I use Kagi too - they have a feature I haven’t seen before where you can basically optimize your own SEO. You can uprank or downrank any given website to varying degrees based on how much of that site you want to see in your future search results (I use this a lot for game wikis that have since migrated off of Fandom etc, but the stale Fandom page always shows up first in google search).

    They’re also working on a feature to warn you which articles are paywalled directly from the search result, which I will use the hell out of.

    They also have something they call Lenses, which are essentially search profiles that emphasize certain types of results (programming lens upranks stackoverflow, github, and API docs for instance).

    All in all I’ve been extremely pleased with the quality of the product and the directions they’re exploring in. And being able to easily chat up the devs in discord doesn’t hurt either.

  • atkion@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.ml•everyone fights...English
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    1 year ago

    The slippery slope argument is not always a fallacy. The strength of a slippery slope argument relies on the ability to show that the initial action will actually lead to the predicted outcome. The fallacy comes in when connections are drawn between unrelated concepts - an easy example of this is the argument that legalizing abortion will lead to the legalization of murder. In this case, I think it’s pretty likely that making a certain item legal to steal will pave the way for more items to be legal to steal in the future. After all, who decides which items should fall under that law? I’m sure there will be plenty of people with very strong, differing opinions on the topic.

  • atkion@sh.itjust.worksto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•neither left nor right rule
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    1 year ago

    I can see that, you make a fair point. Centrists are probably the least homogenous group by definition, so they don’t really stand for anything in particular and the label loses meaning.

    However, I do think there is something to be said for using the centrist label to dodge around people trying to pigeonhole you into a specific viewpoint. For example, I’ve had great discussions with someone about UBI and socialized healthcare before, only for them to feel utterly betrayed and revolted by my stance on gun control (as they naturally assumed the rest of my views would align with theirs along their party lines).

    Our political culture is so incredibly hateful and polarized at this point in time that I feel like ‘adopting the role of a D or an R’ for a single discussion is a recipe for disaster. If there’s anything people instinctively hate worse than an enemy, it’s a traitor.

  • atkion@sh.itjust.worksto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•neither left nor right rule
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    1 year ago

    This internet version of centrism that everyone hates on is bizarre to me, for the reasons you say - the “only commit half a genocide” type of centrism. Are there people who really strike a middle ground on every issue on principle?

    I always understood centrism as “I hold enough opinions from both parties that I don’t align with either one”, which honestly fits me pretty well. I still have strong opinions on individual issues though…