@Vanth - eviltoast
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  • If they want another five movies out of the next Bond actor, I’m not sure that’s Pattinson. Craig has been vocal about not liking being stuck with the character for five movies. And Pattinson already has experience being saddled with a less-than-stellar character for movie after movie (Twilight).

    I would be more interested in 007 movies rather than James Bond. Keep the universe, put different characters in the 007 position so we get fresh stories. 27 Bond films seems like plenty, I’m not sure how much more can be said about Bond. I would be more interested to see Pattinson as 007 and free from the Bond baggage.





  • Not familiar with the acronym “EI”

    Employment insurance?

    Idk, if they fired you for screaming and threatening someone, seems like they’d have an argument that you were the toxic one. The company didn’t steal your lunch. Even if you could prove you made every possible effort to report the thief and handle it through official channels, falling back on screams and threats would really detract from any argument, IMO.

    I’m not Canadian though so I can only say I personally wouldn’t intentionally burn bridges like that over leftovers. To answer your original disbelief that anyone could be so passive about accepting lunch thefts, I’ve not had it happen with any frequency that would make me put my employment at risk by acting out.






  • Idk why a ban is necessary. Just remove some of the protections so they can be held liable for things they should be held liable for.

    They’re currently not liable for third-party content (if they have reasonable moderation policies and respond in a timely manner to requests, yada yada). But if they promote it, they are no longer a passive hosting platform; they are actively promoting content so should be held proportionately liable for that content.


  • I know very little about the amateur radio scene and don’t quite understand the impact this would have.

    When I lived in a Western US state, there was some bad weather and a child went missing. The amateur radio community heavily overlapped with first responders and search & rescue types. Completely on their own, they organized and managed a search, mustering hundreds of people efficiently, while keeping local law enforcement in the loop. Law enforcement simply didn’t have the resources and relied on this volunteer hobbyist community for situations like this.

    If public frequencies are turned over to corporations, would that eliminate the ability for such a volunteer effort to spring up? Would they have to pay for frequency access and be subject to whatever limits and censorship some corporation inflicts?





  • RSS reader -> skim headlines -> open the full article from maybe 10% of the headlines -> skim the first paragraph to see how clickbaity the headline was -> read through the full article on maybe 50% of those.

    And this isn’t just global and political news, I follow science, tech, sports, and other niche interest news this way too.

    Some days I just listen to NPR’s Morning Edition podcast snips. Double speed. Skip over any with a title that doesn’t interest me.

    And finally, I discard any completionist feelings. My RSS feed will never be all caught up. My podcast queue will never be empty. That used to bother me but I have some tools to manage my stress over it a bit better now.


  • Yeah. After a mediocre first date where he showed signs of a quick temper. We had no friends in common, no overlap in any social circles. I really did not want to deal with his likely negative response to me telling him I didn’t want to continue talking to him, so I didn’t. His second text after I didn’t respond to his first within ten minutes told me I was correct.





  • A mentor once gave me an exercise to identify my “core values” or goals or motivators. Out of a list of 60, the task was to narrow down over time and conversation to my top 5.

    E.g., I value financial stability. Not to be confused with other values of earning high compensation or achieving lofty corporate positions and recognition.

    It helped me frame for myself that I’m going to work to be comfortable and stable and beyond that, my motivations lie elsewhere, like spending time with friends and working on personal projects. There are people who put greater value on achieving a high salary or earning the c-suite title or having their names on patents; that’s perfectly valid and great for them, it’s not me and that is also ok.

    There are tons of similar exercises online. If it sounds like something that might help you define your perspective on work differently, to narrow it down to you instead of getting overwhelmed with the whole world’s problems, please look into it and good luck.