This is why I’ve just never liked super hero universes.
In isolation, it’s passable, fun even, and I’ve enjoyed some marvel stuff.
When they actually try to do world building, it’s just so, so bad.
This is my opinion, apologies to those who generally like the Marvel universe, but I just can’t stand it. (Based on the handful of films I’ve seen or heard about).
It’s an apple inspired UI thing. Luckily, the built-in android date selector isn’t stupid anymore.
A banking app I use (on Android) put in a bespoke date/time selector with scroll wheels, with no option to type.
It’s like they went out of their way to make using their app a pain in the ass.
This is apparently too hard for some people
My biggest pet peeve is doctors referring to medication by brand name instead of active ingredient.
Should be illegal, in my view.
I’m a little shit and whenever “most dominant brand name for paracetamol”* and “most dominant brand name for Ibuprofen”* are mentioned by a doctor, I play dumb and ask if that’s paracetamol/Ibuprofen.
They’re literally advertising for companies who’s product is 5x more expensive for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
*I refuse to give them free advertising
Recommend PowerToys if you’re forced to use windows at work, it has heaps of neat stuff including find my cursor.
It makes windows 11 somewhat more bearable
Some dude I met who was previously working in Germany told me he came to Australia because tax was too high in Germany. He told me confidently that it was 40-something percent, flat tax when you earn over a certain amount. I queried if that was the top tax bracket and he told me no. I was shocked at high the marginal tax rate was based on that.
Turns out, despite being a highly specialised metal machinist, he doesn’t know shit, and Germany has tax brackets like everywhere else…
People are astoundingly uninformed.
Voyager works fine for me (Android stock)
TIL modern medicine isn’t feasible because you couldn’t do it in 1859
If your software runs on windows or MacOS, this point is such bull, sorry.
Do you monitor what software people have installed accessing their banking needs on those platforms?
There are currently 5 parties vying for position here
I know you’re not disagreeing, but I find it absolutely hilarious (in a bad way) that UK political parties will put out flyers of who is most likely to win, as a way to convince people to vote for them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDLxgEquxA0
All while having rejected bringing in preferential voting at a referendum, not even that long ago.
As an Australian, may I say, you royally fucked up on that one. We have issues in our electoral system too, (mostly around lower house electorates being single-member, and not say 3-member to more accurately represent the electorate), but thank Christ we have preferential voting.
This is why I hate coins. Good luck keeping them neatly sorted in your wallet.
Notes only gang~~~ (sorry coin collectors)
Just gonna take a moment to hate on UK bank notes being different sizes in both dimensions, though. Wtf is that?
(From Australia)
Which is extremely annoying
News title grammar is stupid and I’m rather annoyed at the journalists continuing its use.
Use an “&” ffs…
Can we stop it with journalists’ insane use of commas in place of “and”?
If space is so precious, use an ampersand (&) for Christ’s sake.
Reading this sentence normally, it could seem like allies ARE joining the mission.
Just seems to me you are redefining the middle class into the working class and are focusing on making the distinction be based on belonging to some arbitrary class. I don’t even think the psychopaths we are referring to really care about belonging to anything if they can get ahead.
Indeed, it’s only a categorisation, though I’m certainly not the first to say if you primarily work for your money, you’re working class. What class the billionaires feel they belong to is irrelevant, I agree.
You can mobilize people, but if you are excluding people that could be included or trying to address what’s actually an arbitrary definition, don’t forget, there are psychopaths interested in taking you for a ride.
I do not know what you mean by this. If you feel excluded by me then that’s not my intention at all.
The meme is literally about people are traditionally labelled different classes fighting against themselves.
The whole point of this comic is to point out the absurdity of working class people with different incomes fighting each other, when there are people extracting extreme levels of wealth.
Yes, people’s definition of working class may differ, but the message of the comic is the same regardless. It’s pointing out how silly it is to fight at the kiddie tables.
And if successful, then becomes the system, including the legal system, and then the same flaws appear.
There’s always going to be problems in society, but this type of argument is unconvincing, considering how much, and how frequently society has changed over the last 2000 years - practically in the blink of an eye in the scope of human existence. The same problems aren’t guaranteed to appear under a new system. The various forms of society throughout history have definitely had different problems.
The revolutions that have been most successful kept in mind the laws and legislation that needed to be changed or enforced
I’m just saying that the fundamental key here is mobilisation of the people, who are the ultimate arbiters of the law. The law is fundamentally democratic in origin and only exists because we collectively believe in it.
There have been numerous movements in the past that were illegal at the time, but are obviously moral in retrospect (the civil rights movement in the US comes to mind).
“Just work within the system” as a blanket statement is not a serious argument to be making when the system is massively rigged in favour of wealth. (Apologies if this isn’t exactly what you were arguing just seemed that way)
No one’s suggesting you abolish rules/laws entirely and start completely from scratch. Well, no one I take seriously anyway.
Me every day at work.
It’s even worse working in the company’s network drive.
But damn, it often takes ages for a right click to appear in the goddamned downloads folder (which is in its default C drive location…)
I feel you pain friend.
To me this attitude is the equivalent of telling a comedian to “stick to comedy” when they make jokes about politics, or how “woke” sci-fi is when they make commentary on society.
These things are intertwined, to a large degree.