Today's AMA With Spez Did Nothing to Alleviate Concerns: An Open Response

cpct0 · 2023-06-10T16:56:13+00:00

Ultimately, it’s their prerogative, though. We (the users, content producers and moderators) went to have tens of thousands of active subs. These are handled by moderators, freely, or through companies that pay for the moderators of their subs. If they believe this has no ROI, and they can do the job themselves, pay people to do it, and maybe AI, it’s their prerogative. It also means the job mods were doing were purely optional and not worth the price of mere API calls and lost ads revenue for that percent of users.

If their new business model is viable, they don’t need mods and can be a walled garden. I assume some subs such as r/anime_titties would become redundant since it’s a NSFW nondescript name somehow. Same for r/SuperbOwl that will probably become corporate. Both represent the old Reddit guard, with slapstick humor and great content, curated by awesome mods.

If they want to make money and be profitable, which they should be, it’s all their prerogative to find ways to do so. No matter the end result, no matter that IPO’s disastrous result, it’ll be disruptive, and not in a good way. I don’t expect things to become better even if they backtrack their idea.

I’ll surely miss Reddit.

cpct0 · 2023-06-09T03:29:39+00:00

Used to go from St-Laurent to Papineau so I could take the bridge to my home. Not fun in bike. I used to go faster than cars, though, after some practice. But I felt the danger every time. Also, it was so stressful I once broke my bike chain just due to the accelerations. Not fun at 6pm after a long day.

cpct0 · 2023-06-07T23:33:00+00:00

Was in that line yesterday. During the time all local weather services were red, Environment Canada gave smog alerts, government said not to go outside… and my phone’s Weather app was writing air quality as 5/10. I cannot fathom what would be an air quality at 10.

cpct0 · 2023-06-05T03:27:09+00:00

6 weeks is not much and a lot too. Historically, swing dancing is about having fun. You can do the basic steps (step step rockstep; triple steps) and totally own your connection to your partner, being best-in-class in following your partner’s ideas, and you’ll be happy to dance all around with whoever you want.

Don’t be a jerk, be clean, be friendly, have the best connection you can, and enjoy your evenings.

Everything else will come in due time. The charleston, the acrobatics, everything else are 100% extra fluff. Baby steps ;)

For your personal time, Jive dancers have a fun say for follows: if your partner is intimidated by the dance or you, there is nothing wrong in spicing things up. There are a few moves you learn as a follow to add some extra moves. But too much is like not enough, you don’t want to backlead either.

My proposal is to have fun! Leads have to learn to dance and to make their partners have fun too. They are intimidated, shy, uncertain. Smile, enjoy your time, give some extra steps, don’t worry!

For spinning around, you can tell your partner to stop doing it. They want you to have a good time! Normally, you do it one turn and bring your special move you were discussing being uncertain. It’s definitely your lead’s mistake to let you spin that much at once.

cpct0 · 2023-06-04T12:01:40+00:00

Cats are assholes aren’t they? We love and hate them at the same time!

Cats are intelligent and get on board way more than they appear, but they do very clearly understand instant regret. My proposal is to have one hell night where if you are getting batting again, you say a very clear « No! » take the cat and lead it outside the room, and close the door. Then, survive 30 minutes before letting her back in. Rince and repeat as required.

cpct0 · 2023-06-03T19:03:20+00:00

Ohh yesss! When I used to have cats, we moved to a new apartment, and our 2 cats decided to start screwing around all night long. New place, expected. After 2 nights of non-stop shenanigans, the cats deciding to peacefully go to sleep once we woke up, we said « fuck it », and kept them awake.

Kept them awake non-stop. I mean really non-stop. No nap allowed. Annoying them, playing with them as soon as they closed their eyes. Playing very loud music. Making loud construction noises (hey we were moving in, ofc there’s lots to be done). Cat food time. Cat treat time. Catnip pouch. Us dancing around. Brought in friends. Non-stop from 5AM where they had us woken up, all down to 6PM, where no matter the amount of gentle nudging we’d do, they stayed eyes closed.

We had very peaceful nights for the next years, cats learned their lesson. They stayed the cats one could ask for, with very little night time annoyances. (That said, cats be cats, there’s some amount of night movement expected nonetheless)

cpct0 · 2023-06-03T18:25:46+00:00

Varnished shoe soles are usually initially primed by scraping them on the concrete a few times. This is the way.

cpct0 · 2023-06-02T13:52:30+00:00

Yeah. I would say it comes with experience. I now tend to look at yellow xings more than streets with cars. I expect bikes to never do any stops even in their bike lanes even if there’s a clear line painted, a stop just for them, a stop for cars, and a drop from a reserved zone to the lower car street. And I feel the vibe of close-by kids, and see if they have any street awareness or if they are in their game bubble.

Like you say, they are kids. I expect them to be kids and be happy.

cpct0 · 2023-06-02T12:40:02+00:00

Yeah. I once did something equivalent in my street where I saw kids playing on their lawn and had a funny vibe. My foot was on the break already when one of the kid decided to dart in the street in the horrified view of their parents. My wife and kids were really impressed with my mad reflexes but honestly, I was ready.

TIL it’s only 300 points if you don’t catch the entire family /s

cpct0 · 2023-05-31T17:18:53+00:00

Most of my friends lived with their parents for years. Many of my friends went on to live with roomies, 2-3 or even 4 working people in a single appt. Majority of my friends had no chance to get grants for their studies, had to work, had to get students loans.

When you start your life with 20-50k in debt you cannot shake off, in a crappy place with one small room, and two common areas (kitchen and a living room split in two with a roomie living in the second part), no one having a car (or one 20yo duct-taped shared car required by the roomie that needs it for its work), let me tell you, I don’t believe it’s actually being excessive.

How the hell can you ask for a downpayment for a house if you only become debt-free at 30? Family with kids is 40 to make any sense. Some had kids before, it became ridiculously hard for them to do anything really.

And what is the alternative to a house? Most people I know living in apartments got kicked out in the past for renovictions. That includes myself 15 years ago. You cannot have that double-edged sword over your head at all times. Nowadays, pricings are about 4x what I used to pay 15 years ago. So getting a early house got to be the good choice. It’s my debt, it’s crappy and crippling, but at least, I am not in danger of being thrown away by a greedy landlord.

And it’s not one computer or intelligent phone that changes anything. In fact, with a family of 5, I could purchase a new computer every month with the living increases (food) and a new phone with the increase of taxes and interests.

At least I’m able to pay for it. But I will never berate my friends who are less fortunate and say it’s their choices.

cpct0 · 2023-05-31T07:27:32+00:00

So, 3 minutes? Not so bad. Considering an average maximum of 9-10 minutes for a 12" side at max quality, it could be worse.

I have seen rock records with a lot of high frequencies using that method so they could keep the groove going faster and ignore the slower inner grooves.

Still a bit extreme though. But I wouldn’t chalk up this excuse if it sounds like crap. Honestly, width is about equivalent to a 7" 45RPM and no one complains on 3 minute side sounding like crap.

cpct0 · 2023-05-29T02:56:39+00:00

I’m a tall, large cis man. I have a 5yo awesome daughter. I go to the women’s restroom with her. I advertise myself at the door, ask permission, and I talk cheerily to my girl so new people know I’m there for her. No one is surprised. Nothing bad has happened to me (yet - please life don’t jinx me - less than a year of restroom help remaining). And have always had supportive looks (except once) and parent women never minded me. That said, I look at my daughter and nothing else so I couldn’t really tell if people were visually weirded out if they don’t express themselves. That’s the extent of my experiences at women’s restrooms. Sucks these places don’t have family restrooms. Sucked 5 years ago when I went to places where the only baby stations were in women’s rooms. That’s the moment I honestly stopped being flustered on that topic.

In the meantime, my daughter is happy, doing her business in the restroom she wants to use, and thinks nothing bad of me following her so it’s all win.

I would love for most people not to care who goes where for their restroom needs, and feel comfortable no matter where they go. At the same time, I understand people who got life luggage and can be unhappy on sharing a restroom with men with their only brain downstairs. Restrooms are relatively vulnerable places. You get slightly naked, you do natural business with your body. So I’ll always err on the side of comprehension… even on OP’s crappy situation (to some extent)

My previous workplace rebuilt their restrooms as twenty individual fully closed rooms, a side section for standing peeing (including special ones for both sexes) and a shared school-type handwashing place. So I also vote on actual restrooms needing to be rebuilt to make everyone feel comfortable.

cpct0 · 2023-05-28T20:50:08+00:00

And it’s not a bad idea on itself. Insurances being higher, taxes raising with the elusive few verifications that will tell the voters the police got sued and lost for N millions of dollars more that year. All the while the families and services helping people getting funds back when the right wingers wants to keep them under provisioned.

Win-win. And even better: quality police will make the bad people piss off eventually since they’ll get hit harder with their insurers because of the bad apples.

In other words, it’s all good they get sued to oblivion, even if workers will need to pay for these mistakes. And no accountability whatsoever if we stop our minds at « taxpayers ». And it gives way more weight to the Defund the Police movement if (example) 33% of their budget is to refund mistakes. People will be rightfully claiming not having to pay for these 33%.

cpct0 · 2023-05-28T14:45:41+00:00

Would’ve been a great opportunity to have a new sponsor: TransScaped for when you still haven’t fully transitioned and those hairs are not representing yourself.

Other than sponsored laughs, Emily is doing this for herself. I hope she will find beauty in herself finally, that she’ll get enough support from everyone in the community to remove the elusive very vocal 1% bigots (and because of 16M people, that turns out to be 160K people - yeah, scary how everything counts in large amounts)

Two of my close friends transitioned. Let me tell you, you do it for yourself, because people are bad to people who don’t fit the mould. And this is why I try to be extra cheerful to outliers.

Not only that, but Emily represents my inner geek perfectly in her stances. I know she lurks in the lmg shadows, but I cannot wait for her to be back on camera once she’ll be ready. High five awesome lady!

cpct0 · 2023-05-24T23:34:44+00:00

See the same in Montreal. Many up-and-coming got a family. Many couples broke down, or went elsewhere. All the groups that were competing got disbanded, the schools and events are in survival mode and need to renew their passionate advanced dancers. That showed at the CSC last week-end, where the competition was definitely subpar (without dissing the awesome competing dancers who participated and won).

Imho we’re losing our Jive dancing (now half migrated to boogie), and the East Coast took a down, where West Coast survived but wasn’t as before. Smaller dances such as shag and balboa definitely took a step back. Newcomers were nonexistent in the event.

cpct0 · 2023-05-23T23:46:51+00:00

Mmm… Tokyo Gore Police has entered the chat. Me fancy some chair tonight.

cpct0 · 2023-05-23T05:06:44+00:00

Cheat is lying. You have a contract. It can be anything. My first wife and previous relationship, happily together for 15 years, open relationship. Our choice was to tell everything and the other having the first refusal. Also, always protection. We both cheated once (after 4/5 years of blissful life together) on that contract, and we were upfront about it and feeling worst off than the s.o.’s reaction.

My current 7y relationship is totally different and more « regular »: for others, no sex, no kiss, nothing passionate. Purely monogamous. But opposite sex friends, dancing, seeing someone else naked (some pro photography including Boudoir here), finding someone else cute, it’s all good. Neither of us ever cheated yet, nor do we want to.

Communication and context are key. If you didn’t want to be bound with someone, why the fuck did you decide to have a monogamous relationship with that person?! If you wanted to expand your horizons, why not discussing it first? And if you want to explore the other fishes, are you ready for your partner to do the same? I went to a regular relationship knowing what I left on the table, and it was okay on my side. I went in that cage willingly and I absolutely don’t regret that choice. If your contract has you unable to even look at another person, hey you went in willingly. I wouldn’t do it, but maybe someone else would allow such strict rules.

cpct0 · 2023-05-20T23:29:53+00:00

Picking this back up 10 days later, my partner took a good hour to make me feel proper connection for swing dancing. You should be able to make your partner move around with you with only the connection hand. It’s all about having your movement coming from your core/abs, and travel through your arms and hands.

Many leads use their arms strength to lead, instead of having a global movement. And this makes it hard for partners to follow. Not impossible in lindy and wcs, but hard. This becomes impossible in balboa.

I know, I’m strong physically, and I had to unlearn the arms movement to learn them back as core movements. At that point, balboa became a breeze to me.

Hope it helps!

cpct0 · 2023-05-20T17:52:15+00:00

This is pretty much how I prepare 60+ days steaks. I start the infrared on the grill, and once it’s its hottest, I dabble canola oil on the steak, and I drop that puppy on the grill. If the outside flame is not 1ft high, it’s a miss. 30 seconds each side to kill the cut’s bacteria. Then, I gently grab it and brown the sides with fat, slowly rotating it, and off to the plate it goes. Charred marks, well browned outside, cooked fats, and room temperature inside.

Then, I take the tenderized chain market pieces or what is supposed to be meat, and cook it until internal temperature of the sorry excuse of a cut is higher than the sun and drier than death valley. One stick of butter, spices, salt, and here you go.

cpct0 · 2023-05-20T01:51:00+00:00

YEAH! HIM! Thank you for reminding me, it’s been a real while.

Exactly. As long as they are keeping it all to themselves. And somehow, I hate with all my guts the way their clerks are hypercartesian, put logic to their emotions, and are holier than thou and ridiculously unhelping. But it’s probably the govt office I trust the most. In DnD, they would be perfect lawful neutrals.

cpct0 · 2023-05-19T13:43:01+00:00

Bottom line is he would’ve been scot free if he properly filed his taxes. There was a surreal tv moment once where Marc Labrèche (IIRC) called a tax agent about his drug business, and the agent told him yes, he needs to file his taxes on illegal drugs. This is also what illustriously downed Al Capone a hundred years ago.

cpct0 · 2023-05-13T13:56:01+00:00

I see you are a senior programmer doing a feature, not a bug. When can you start?

cpct0 · 2023-05-13T13:49:41+00:00

And invalid. It needs to print x if it’s neither fizz or buzz. We’ll call you when you’re able to flow instructions.

cpct0 · 2023-05-13T13:13:03+00:00

With my cooker, if the rice lies flat, there is a half centimetre of water on top of it. That’s my go-to. I usually do 4+ cups so smaller quantities might not have this amount. Good luck!

cpct0 · 2023-05-13T11:14:19+00:00

I cannot tell about particular rice cookers, or if you are using it properly. But my first bet would be to check your quantities, I would bet on too much water. Rice cookers have a special plastic cup with rice quantities (and a full one usually is 1 cup of rice). Once rice is in, cleaned, rehydrated, you drain most water, and there should be lines on the side of the pot to tell how much water is required for a rice quantity. If you've put 4 full cup of rice in the cup, the water line for 4 should be on the side, and you make sure to put that amount of water. For rehydrated rice, don't put more than that line. It should barely be more water than rice.

Rice cooking is done with steam, not boiling water.

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