Thanks. I just had the main domain blocked, but I think I needed all of the subdomains as well. From the looks of those worker domains, it may be a cat-mouse game trying to keep them blocked.

I’m unfamiliar with Clubsall. Is it pulling them via federation or fetching via API? Would defederating work? I appear to have already defederated, likely in response to your earlier post, but not sure if that does anything. And that only stops them from pulling content from my instance, not what I posted to any other.

I don’t care so much about the range of political views, just the quantity of them.

Too many people on Lemmy make their political ideology their entire identity, and it’s just freaking exhausting.

Can we not just be people talking to other people about cool stuff? I just get sick of political ideologies masquerading as people.

Oh, nice. I knew Alien: Romulus was getting one, but it seemed like an outlier/gimmick than anything else.

Possibly, haven’t considered that. My main concern is that media releases will no longer target physical media, leaving streaming / perpetual renting as the only option. VCRs were still manufactured after the major brands stopped production, but VHS releases largely went away.

The Alien: Romulus VHS Release notwithstanding lol.

For reference, I’m not trying to change your mind so much as defend my position on the matter.

What if that individual were going through a slump of 2 years and afterwards they would have passed through that life phase and could have been happy and had a positive experience with life again.

To me, that’s a lot of unknowns. And depending on the level of pain, physical and/or emotional, asking me to “stick it out” for a few years is a BIG ask with no guarantee at the end of it, and I would be suffering all the while. Think of it like how some people refuse chemo when diagnosed with cancer. It’s a grueling process with no guarantee at the end. Some opt to not go through that preferring to make the best of the time they have left untreated.

The only one who can really know if it’s worth it is the person. While it’s definitely something that affects more than them (family, friends, etc), those issues, IMO, are “family meeting” issues that should be left to those affected and not the law.

Edit: On a personal note, I think I would much prefer having the option of one last adventure and then a painless, planned ending (everything wrapped up, no burdens for my family, etc) than the thought of wasting away, forgotten, in a nursing home.

Fair. It’s been a minute since I’ve seen that episode, but I do recall it was less Worf adopting him and more of a Klingon “big brother, little brother” program kind of thing. It just slightly irks me that he made such a commitment and it was never mentioned again.

As long as it’s something only the person themselves can authorize, either at the time or ahead of time via end-of-life planning (e.g. it can’t be authorized like other medical procedures via power-of-attorney or a parent making that particular medical decision for a child, etc), I’m all for it.

Basically, “my body, my choice”. No one asked to come into the world, and if they want to leave it painlessly and with dignity, I feel it should be their right to do so.

Oh, and paying through the nose for someone’s cloud service so they can hold our data to ransom while mining it for AI.

That’s what “they” want. lol. Everything seems to be pushing that way for sure.

Though I am a little less pessimistic about spinners fully going away until all-flash datacenters are the norm. I’ve also had some running for close to 10 years, and they’re going strong (I’ve also got much newer ones as well)

I forget the article I posted here months ago, but there’s a new optical format which is in the multi-TB range. Not sure if/when it’ll be commercially available, but maybe that will come about?

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/23/optical_disc_breakthrough/

So mildly infuriating lol. Reminds me of this from Scrubs:

🎵I want my baby back baby back baby back. I want my baby back baby back baby back…🎵

Twice. Remember Jeremy Astor? Yeah, neither does Worf.

And if you’re too hard-hit as an employee, you can always fast to save money.

Welp, we’re one step closer to the “you will own nothing and be happy” future tech companies want for us.

It’s not a bribe unless it’s in an envelope clearly marked “bribe”, silly.

McConnell’s just jealous Trump’s going to do more long-term damage to the US than he did.

Oh no! Anyway…

Thanks for the insight.

I have no experience with larger companies, but a neighbor growing up and a friend’s dad (separate people) both had 1-2 vehicle trucking companies. They were the “drive them till they fall apart” style like you mentioned.

Nancy Mace is a cont…cont…cont…continuing source of inspiration.

I’ve just started blocking. This community is about as dry as a bone right now, but the regular memes really stand out when they do come through.