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Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development
  • I am sure they were fine machines. I don't think they were profitable for Valve (that is what I meant with "not worked out well"). On the other hand, the Steamdeck might not exist without the Steam Machines, so maybe I am wrong and it did work out well.

  • First hand experience with TSA biometric collection in airport
  • When I last entered the US in 2009 they took my fingerprints and a photo. I assumed it to be mandatory.

    I also had to "please follow me" to a backroom, but I kinda expected this as a muslim. Met some friendly mexican and pakistani people there, so it wasn't that bad. I still decided to refuse all business trips to the US from that day on (and avoided tourist travel there as well), as I just didn't feel safe.

  • Are there any occupations you uniquely oppose the existence of?
  • The "management" should be seen as positions to help the employees to do their work properly, not to rule over them (but helping would necesarily need to include some level of reviewing the work and if really necesary organize disciplinary measures).

    From my personal experience I defintly conclude that a company where the management serves the employees get better results than companies where managment are little wannabee generals.

    (I am also currently middle management and hope I do this right.)

  • The US regime just executed another innocent black man.
  • I basically said that it is not okay, maybe you should have read the second sentence as well. But even with a "sentence of a couple years", guilt has to be profen, not innocence. If there is plausible doubt of guilt, there shouldn't be a guilty sentence.

  • Inspection visits to Tesla employees on sick leave - electrive.com
  • Most employers wouldn't use a investigator. The normal thing would be to get an assesment from the Medizinische Dienst. But only if they can justify their suspicions, not as a general thing for all sick employees.

  • The US regime just executed another innocent black man.
  • Reading about it I am not completly convinced that he is innocent, but I think that there is 100% plausible reason to doubt that he is guilty. This should defintly be enough to stop an execution.

    Edit: Maybe read the whole statement before getting a rage fit? I said he shouldn't have been killed. I am also not moderate and (according to US standards) I am apparently not white as a muslim turkish person.

  • Israel launches airstrikes on Lebanon killing 500 and injuring over 1,600
  • You both have valid points that are most likely both true.

    Reality is more complicated thatn theories. Israel is a US vassal and completly depending on the US. The US needs Israel to assert power in the region. Israeli actors are influencing US politics. US actors have personal interests in Israel. US actors are depending on pro-zionist fundamentalist christian groups. Israeli actors are controlling parts of the US entertainment and news production. Other local players in the region depend on the US and thus support Israel to secure their own power. Racism in the general public is also part of this (some headlines produce more click, than others). And so on and on.

    Imo these are all correct assumptions, but even this doesn't show the whole picture. Reality is too intervowen to completly access it in simple terms.

  • Could Global Warming cause societies to become nocturnal?
  • The thing is also, the models work reasonably well on the global scale, but the local scale is something different. Whoever did work in climate change impacts knows that we still work mostly in darkness and just try to prepare for the worst.

    The climate is no simple thing. Who knows, maybe some weird shit with the ocean will happen and increase the rainfalls over northern africa by 500% and the Sahara becomes a jungle. Probably unlikely, but we don't really know.

  • What's your right place at the right time moment?
  • Came into the living room by happenstance just when my son chocked on some candy unable o breath. I could immediatly to the Heimlich maneuver. Utterly shook my life and I needed months to recover from that (he forgot after 5 minutes).

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