Please could you define the threshold for “enough men have”, just so we can use it for other causes of discrimination?

Yes tipping in Canada is weird, agreed. But from the time I lived in Toronto I didn’t feel it was as mad as the US is nowadays.

Thank god we don’t have a law that allows some lines of work to basically be unpaid, which forces tipping.

That’s the thing us Europeans have to remember. People who work for tips actually need tips or they make no money.

It’s an incredibly evil and dumb system. But a foreigner huffing about it while visiting the US isn’t going to change the system. Tip.

Children. Once there’s children you have 0 hours to look after yourself. It requires a Herculean effort for both your partner and you to carve out 30 minutes per person per two days

Fastmail is probably the best alternative, feature wise at least. They’ve got their own draconian mail access laws in Australia, so from a five eyes point of view it’s not a great deal different. No AI reading or training on your mail at least.

Constructed vs evolved.

I think authentication will be huge.

Lots of commercial alternatives are starting to bet on the future (eg https://swear.com/), where something gets fingerprinted and the fingerprint gets signed and put on an authentication block chain (something block chains are actually useful for).

I imagine a future where this gets built into browsers (ie “this picture was verified by NY times, and it went through this editing chain, starting from a canon camera which recorded on this date”) and you can switch over to have unauthenticated assets highlighted.

Well, he’s a great filmmaker and a fantastic actor. I don’t like his personal politics, but I do also tire a bit from having to immediately throw everything through a lens of “do I agree with this person” before I’m willing to engage with anything they do.

My worry isn’t that we will have a rational war. War isn’t rational to begin with.

My worry is that we will have an irrational war. All it takes is a button push to end the world.

100% this is a jump-the-shark moment.

I sort of think what they’re releasing will stay free for a long time. That’s not my concern.

My concern is that since they’ve been acquired by Canva you can tell how Canva is thinking about Affinity; it’s a pure subscription driver towards Canva.

So given this is what Canva wants to do with Affinity, I have no doubt that Affinity will focus on shipping features that drive towards Canva subscriptions. That means other features will atrophy and that the future of affinity is one where you’re increasingly finding it diffficult to use, if you’re aiming to use it as an alternative to Adobe, without a subscription.

So this is subscription software by another name - it just creeping subscription, slowly boiling the frog in hope we won’t all jump out. Make no mistake, the fire has been lit and it won’t be long before the water gets warm.

Enshittification here we come.

Going with the spirit of the question, not the text (I don’t really think we are forced to pay for “extra” things, it’s all choice):

But one area I cannot comprehend is people buying cars on finance only to keep up with others who buy cars on finance.

Triggered much?

People make mistakes too.

Yes. Like people, if you want the nuggets of gold, you need to go dig them out of the turds.

And also if you’re opening a cafe in the morning, and you’re late, you are directly harming the place that employs you. Customers will be waiting yo!

This is fast becoming a legal requirement. UK already; many states in the US, soon all of the EU. Don’t blame Google on this one, they don’t have a choice.

This endless separation into “managers” and “not managers” is so unproductive. Everyone manages something. That’s why you’re employed.

This is actually worse. It’s copy/paste with an AI “correcting” any view that doesn’t conform to Elon’s view.

Vigilant team of right wing AI bots correcting any “libtard bias” as soon as it occurs.

This really solidifies the US’ splitting into two. Now there are two versions of “truth”. It breaks the heart.

I think people, and this paper, misses a few elements.

4K encoded content often has significantly higher bitrate (well, duh, there’s more content) and often higher than the simple increase in pixel density would suggest. So content with heavy moment (flocks of birds, water, crowds etc) still looks better than 1080p, not because of the increase in pixel density, but because of the decrease of compression artefacts.

Second, high dynamic range yo! On a still picture on my TV it’s hard to see difference between 1080p and 4K but it isn’t hard to see the difference between SDR and HDR.

So I still vastly prefer 4K content, but not because of the resolution.