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BandageBandolier 4 points ago +4 / -0

There is a lot of redundancy in safety checks for flights. Both in personnel performance and mechanical maintenance. Right now we're seeing a big uptick in "minor" incidents (non-critical mechanical issues appearing, ATC near-misses/instruction error, piloting that strains the aircraft triggering repair checks), but fatal incidents are still extremely rare.

Incompetency is shaving deeper into that redundancy than it used to, but we haven't yet met the critical mass where errors frequently align enough to put lives in danger.

I've had to fly a few times recently myself and my only negative experience so far has been what seemed like a higher than used to be number of delays waiting for a runway, maybe indicating a few more minor unexpected things had gone wrong at the airport that day.

I did manage to stick with Airbuses though. Because fuck Boeing anyway, even if most of their planes still just about function they've still probably killed at least two innocent Americans on the ground.

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BandageBandolier 14 points ago +14 / -0

Also I'm noticing a lack of "diversity" in this video, so I can only assume this is a racist hate ritual /s.

To be fair I don't know a single black or Latino woman who needed any help expressing her rage.

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BandageBandolier 2 points ago +3 / -1

Not even, they're charging you to stand by and not protect you from them. They're only there to protect the brownshirts from retaliation.

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BandageBandolier 10 points ago +10 / -0

Good idea, instead of spending millions, why don't AIPAC just vote for candidates? Oh, right, foreign nationals can't vote...

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BandageBandolier 7 points ago +8 / -1

Almost forgot about that gremlin. Just checked and he's still pumping out clickbait YouTube videos pretty much daily, most of the time for like 20 views.

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BandageBandolier 10 points ago +10 / -0

Important takeaway here, for anyone given to whistleblowing or talking off the record. The only way they could have known is if they were snooping on her professional emails.

Even if you think the journalist you're talking to is ok, after vetting so strenuous I can't even imagine it. If they don't take their communication security extremely seriously you should presume you're talking to their corporate Stasi agent too.

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BandageBandolier 4 points ago +4 / -0

The unsolved murder rate can be upwards of 30% in a big city and it's generally rising, and that's not even accounting for relative competency and how uncooperative the locals may be. Just saying the odds may not be untenable in the right context.

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BandageBandolier 8 points ago +9 / -1

Also tapeworm in the brain is just an extremely unlikely and as far as I can imagine, uncontrollable, outcome of eating undercooked meat. Assassin's generally use tools that have better than 1/10000 chance of working.

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BandageBandolier 9 points ago +9 / -0

Demon school is a tactical RPG set in a school full of demons you can recruit

Calling it now, Disgaea 3 did it better. One look at the character art and I am fully unenthused.

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BandageBandolier 24 points ago +24 / -0

If you have any experience with diversity hires, it should be the default expectation that they will all be on board with helping their own cheat further.

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BandageBandolier 4 points ago +4 / -0

When you can't create an argument that's too airtight to critique you learn to create an argument that's too long to be worth correcting instead.

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BandageBandolier 14 points ago +14 / -0

They might actually just be trying to stem the refund tide. The game has already sold crazy well, they probably have more to lose from existing purchases than new ones.

All the refunds past the guaranteed grace period are at valve's discretion. They were refusing at least some refunds at the start of the shitstorm, maybe by undoing the announcement they're hoping to not lose any more of their banked sales by not giving valve good reason to approve any more refunds.

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BandageBandolier 17 points ago +17 / -0

Some of Arrowheads own staff were initially on twitter basically just saying 'sucks to suck, you won't be missed'.

They changed their tune as the backlash grew but they've showed their true colours and can't hide them now, they were on board with this.

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BandageBandolier 10 points ago +11 / -1

By hustle I mean keep an eye out for sales on goods they need or purchases they intend to make, save money by making stuff from ingredients instead of buying ready made, or little remote work jobs with no obligatory hours (the AI LLM answer checking stuff still pays $22+/hr for anyone with just decent written comprehension skills, until that collapses)

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BandageBandolier 40 points ago +40 / -0

tank it so hard that Steam won't even cover for you like they normally do when a game gets "review bombed".

I think steam is probably more than happy to let any publisher get curbstomped for trying to cram their third party logins or launchers down customers throats.

They might cover for other shitty business practices with "off-topic review" bullshit, but Valve likes the loyalty being the biggest userbase launcher brings, they're not gonna help anyone usurp that even a little.

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BandageBandolier 13 points ago +13 / -0

holy fuck was that a lot of words in the article

It waffles and repeats itself so hard you can just only read every third sentence and still get 90% of the story. Some of us have shit to do journo lady.

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BandageBandolier 17 points ago +17 / -0

Because single dads are

One - obviously all committed to their children's wellbeing, since you typically have to actively fight for them to become a single dad, instead of defaulting into single motherhood

Two - not afflicted with retarded girlbossitis, and go out of their way to find someone to help raise their kids instead of throwing them in shitty daycare to chase his dreams. Even if it's help from family instead of romamtic partners it's better than nothing.

And three - just because it's an impossible job alone, doesn't mean your average man can't still do a better partial success than average women.

And bear in mind it's only better, lots of kids of single dads are still way more fucked up than ones from complete families.

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BandageBandolier 9 points ago +11 / -2

I mean there's a reason kids of single moms almost always turn out worthless. It's a job that truly can't be done right by one person, even absent all other responsibilities.

If your trad playbook is husband just earns all the money and wife just does all the kid stuff, you're gonna have shitty kids and a resentful relationship.

If the husband helps play with and look after the kids, and the wife learns to look after money properly and hustles a little in her free time whilst the husband helps with kids, you're going to get better results.

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BandageBandolier 5 points ago +5 / -0

It'd honestly work fine if they just dropped the pretense that that work is worth more pay. Having someone to babysit administrative tasks and balance workloads within a team is helpful, just don't pretend it isn't a job a million other midwits could easily do and price according to supply instead of a strict hierarchy=pay scale.

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BandageBandolier 66 points ago +66 / -0

Many Steam players play on PC exclusively and avoid console ports like the plague, they haven't been exposed to Sony's bullshit until it came to them.

Normies only notice what's in their own backyard, what's new?

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BandageBandolier 15 points ago +15 / -0

My brother, if that anime avatar watching autistic videos on Gameboy engineering doesn't have a dick, it's almost certainly only because of surgical intervention.

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