They don’t “work” at all, in the sense that most of us understand that word.

The sixth, here-unnamed candle is “Sesame Seed Bun” for anyone else who can count and was wondering.

What have you done

One of the meanings of ‘bid’ is to attempt to achieve something

e.g. “In a bid to escape, he jumped down the waterfall”

Doesn’t mean money is involved. But I agree it’s a poor choice of phrase for this headline.

And either way, very bad news =(

I’ve done this occasionally with youtube reviews for tech purchases.

Seems illogical, to your point, as the purchase is already made, but I’m no longer looking at the reviews to make a decision.

I’m looking to:

A) Maybe find out some cool feature I didn’t know about, so I can get the most out of it

B) Get HYPE because I’m excited about it!

So not as illogical as it seems :)

It IS a big deal though, that’s the whole point.

You had plans for today. You paid money for a service so you could make those plans happen, and then now your plans are toast. You paid money for nothing.

If you paid for a package holiday and then got denied boarding the plane for some garbage reason like “you’ve exceeded your maximum flight hours for today” (WTF?!l) then you’d be MAD and rightfully so.

Sure, this is just a game. It’s less important. But the principle is identical and your reaction should be to feel cheated and robbed,not just shrug and let EA get away with not giving you the service but still taking your money.

Edit: I see you got in at last. I’m happy for you! :)

“From The Article.”

Yeah, I didn’t know either and had to look it up.

Yep, and conversely someone is a “bus risk” if they are that single critical person.

I work in IT and if you need to call someone when they are off, that’s a huge embarrassment.

Nothing should fall apart because one person on the team isn’t there. Nothing should ever be so critical that their absence is life and death. Never should there be a problem where only one person has the answers.

If you have to call someone when they’re off then you didn’t manage your team and their work properly, and you fucked up, big.

I totally get your perspective on this, and I think your analysis is closer to Garak’s character. He was always very sly and subtle.

But the joke was funny so I’m happy to let it slide.

My interpretation wasn’t that he was going to kill a random person though, it would be more like this:

Words said: I am going to kill someone and it will be totally random

Interpretation: Garak is not going to kill anyone because he’s just a tailor and that was a joke

Reality: Garak maybe is going to kill someone but it won’t be random at all because this is an assassination

DS9 did leave the door open a lot of the time about whether Garak was still involved with the order or not so he does have that genuine air of mysterious uncertainty about him.

I think it does fit with Garak because it’s one of those things that is said very lighthearted in tone and with a smile, very obviously joking

… except with the tiniest of subtle doubts that he might not actually be joking after all

I had to look a second time. My brain just auto-corrected that.

It’s just the one killer actually

Right.

What they really want to say is “We aren’t interested in investigating your personal theft. Things get stolen all the time and we really can’t be bothered. You are not important to us.”

But they can’t say that, so they instead throw out some excuse that puts the onus back on the other person.

A pedantic point from me here, but it’s not ‘jaywalking’ if you have the right of way. It’s only jaywalking if it’s against regulations.

Still endangering yourself to trust drivers to stop at night I agree, right of way or not.

In the US Apple had an early lead with the iPhone and so a lot of people converted from SMS to iMessage.

In the EU the iPhone didn’t have the same adoption, so when WhatsApp came along most people were still communicating with SMS, so it was WhatsApp which captured the market instead.

The people closest to me in my life I have converted to using Signal, but I have family and friends who use WhatsApp, who also have in turn their own family and friends who use it, and so-on down the line.

Ditching WhatsApp myself would mean not being part of those groups, and I can’t convince thirty people at once to all ditch a platform they are perfectly happy with (even if I don’t think they should be happy with it) and has huge lock-in because everyone else in their lives also uses it.

I honestly hope that Meta cram it to the brim with ads, because if it gets shitty enough then maybe the alternatives will look more appetising.

Normal manufacturing efficiencies and cost reduction is surely the biggest reason they are cheaper now but it’s absolutely a factor.

So many companies in so many industries are trying to move from being product companies (make money selling a thing) to being service companies (make money from subscriptions, user data and other monetisation) and I’m doing my damnedest to keep away from any of it.

Exactly this.

Manufacturers are NOT INTERESTED in selling low-cost dumb TVs when they can sell smart TVs and get long-term returns. They are even willing to sell the TVs at cost because they will monetise later with ads and selling your data.

Manufacturers don’t want you to have a dumb TV, they want everyone to go smart - which is part of why business-targetted dumb panels are priced higher - to disincentivise regular end-customers from buying.

Agree. I changed the way that I purchase games by setting myself a rule:

• Buy it only if you are going to play it TODAY

Previously I had a library of games I had never played because I bought them on sale and they just sat there, unplayed, making me feel sad and stressed.

Purchasing only when I want to play now is both less stressful, and less expensive!