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Of course it is.

> Is it wildly uneducated to not know any of the games you mentioned? I didn’t realize education covered less known video games?

Yes. It is "wildly uneducated" to have, and express, strong opinions about ANY field of endeavour where you are unfamiliar with large parts of that field.

> If you did subscribe to a newsletter and no longer want to receive it (which is the majority of these cases), then the unsubscribe action is the logical thing to do.

Not the second time :-)

> Gmail added a popup asking the user if they want to unsubscribe when flagging a newsletter with the appropriate unsubscribe headers

Unfortunately close to 100% of the spam I'm flagging causes this popup now :-/

I'm getting a dozen spam a day now on my Gmail account ... I think they're losing the battle.

My clients have been experiencing this forever; the logs SAY "temporarily rate limited due to IP reputation." but really the emails are never going to get delivered. I have to get MailChimp or Mailgun to rotate the IPs.

It looks like all it takes is one person to mark your email as spam, even by accident. Note that these are mailing lists which they signed up for in MailChimp case OR transactional emails in the Mailgun case.

It's only hotmail/outlook that we constantly have this issue with, Google etc. are all fine.

But street crime is often a symptom of the "much broader and insidious effects of corporate crime": social systems stripped of resources by politicians to provide grants to baseball stadiums, police patrols in quiet wealthy streets but abandoning poorer quarters, tax incentives to companies that then pay their employees so little they are a burden on the food security systems, mental health care priced out of reach for the poor so they end up homeless and violent.

You can list these connected problems all day.

Yeah, it's perfectly reasonable device that I often use. I love the circle reasoning being displayed:

  "this sounds like AI"
  "professional writers use this technique"
  "they can't be a professional writer, they're using AI"

> That would still be a strange use case for what gets called an "API key".

The problem that you, and many people are having in this thread, is that you are typing "API key" but, in your head, you're thinking "private API key". API keys can be secret or public, and many services have matching pairs of secret and public keys (Stripe, Chargify, etc. etc. etc.)

There should be an alternative version of Poe's Law where the view being parodied is so common, so ludicrous and associated with bad faith actors that it wraps back around to the person deserves all the ridicule and an assumption that they are a bad actor.

Like, we get to assume it's a Motte and Bailey or Schrödinger’s Joke.

People also starved to death if there was a late frost or potato blight.

When I was a kid we had an half acre potato patch a quarter acre vegetable garden. It was a fuck ton of work. It was only possible to keep up because my brother and I did most of the weeding, watering and assorted up keep during our summer "holidays"

I wouldn't wish a subsistence farming lifestyle on anyone.

> Has anyone else considered that producing code faster isn't necessarily a good thing?

This has been an relentless goal of the industry for my entire 40 year career.

> At a point you're more work for your self/organization because unless you get everything perfect the first time you're creating more work than you're resolving.

Nothing is correct the first time (or rarely). Accelerating the loop of build, test, re-evaluate is a good thing.

> Businesses tend to like the idea of growth more than cost cutting after all.

I would offer as counter to this view: massive layoffs across the early adopters of AI, the tech giants.

I recently did a contract at medium sized business with a large retail and online business that had a CFO and several accountants / bookkeepers. You're describing a situation where that CFO only needs two or three accountants and bookkeepers to run the business and would lay off two or three people.

It IS about headcount in a lot of cases.

Where did I say there were only downsides? There are definitely upsides to this business model, I'm just refuting the idea that because there are for profit motives the downsides go away.

I hate when people mistreat the people that provide services to them: doesn't matter if it's a volunteer, underpaid waitress or well paid computer programmer. The mistreatment doesn't become "ok" because the person being mistreated is paid.

> Running a successful OSS project is often a thankless job. Thanks for doing it. But this isn’t that.

No, even if you are being paid, it's a thankless, painful job to deal with demanding, entitled free users. It's worse if you are not being paid, but I'm not sure why you are asserting dealing with bullshit is just peachy if you are being paid.

> > Working for free is not fun. Having a paid offering with a free community version is not fun. Ultimately, dealing with people who don't pay for your product is not fun.

> Completely different situations. None of the MinIO team worked for free. MinIO is a COSS company (commercial open source software).

MinIO is dealing with two out of the three issues, and the company is partially providing work for free, how is that "completely different"?

The failure mode of clever is “asshole.” ― John Scalzi

Actually, it's a human like response. You see these threads all the the time.

The AI has been trained on the best AND the worst of FOSS contributions.

The later, "−6°C and +2°C relative to" is relative to the mean of 14.

Why would you be worried about being drafted during a war AFTER the war?

Understandable, but you wrote all of that and you still haven't even named the newspaper.

It's going to be sunny this morning, but also -14 and also I'm too far north for adequate Vitamin D synthesis in winter. But thanks for the advice.

Can you provide a link to the newspaper article at least while whining about the downvotes?

This is nonsense advice for pretty much anybody that is shovelling snow right now.

/s is the sarcasm tag.

Are you sure? Lots of people are telling me that batteries only last 4-5 years tops and solar panels usually burn out before 10 years /s

I particularly love when they are telling me that my 11 year old Prius' batteries will only last 5 years before they are junk.

When I went to London, I went to the British Museum, the Wallace Collection, the Tate, the Tower of London, ...

You can also say "reading comic books is not education".

> It's interesting that overall spending doesn't decrease that much in the end

Only after discontinuation. GLP-1s should be considered chronic medication for most people.

It's actually true that American's eat mostly processed food ... (Canadian's are not much better at just under 50%)

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ultra-processed-food-consum...

https://nutri.it.com/who-eats-the-most-processed-food-a-glob...

I think you are misreading the comment you are replying to:

> Your comparison of your friends in Germany vs "insanity" in the US doesn't feel relevant

It's incredibly relevant, why are GLP-1s less needed in Germany vs. US (and other countries like Canada)? This is the insanity they are talking about, not the users of the medication.