I might not have been a raging, bleeding-heart, anti-capitalist liberal had Trump not gotten elected in November 2016. Until then I might have considered myself apolitical with no strong political ambitions. Seeing the post-election riots/protests opened up the world to me, his election wasn’t a stupid joke but an injustice on all the people Trump essentially campaigned on fucking over.
Another crazy moment was the second time I got high on weed. I was super panicked at first, but when I went to bed, all of a sudden abstract art made sense to me as I had visions and felt a connection to their work even if I didn’t know their name. That high had residual effects the next day and I had felt changed somehow.
If it were me I’d just get an average commute, provide a stipend of gas or transport costs within your city, e.g. 15km distance, or a monthly pass for local area transit. If I’d want to relocate someone I may offer a signing bonus to help with moving and settling costs.
It’s a reasonable expectation that if your job is at a workplace in Toronto, being within city limits is not an unreasonable expectation.
If it’s a one or two sentence reply, then just upvote and move on. If you feel you really got something out of the effort someone took to reply, even just a “Thanks!” comment is fine, but you can elaborate on what you liked, what you learned which really shows appreciation.
Don’t sweat it though, people aren’t expecting anything by default.
NAL, but I think part of it is that Google does update its map regularly (you see the latest edition whenever you access it online)
Where Google arguably failed was, despite having a system to report discrepancies which people used for this collapsed bridge, Google failed to make the routing changes that could be reasonably expected by 5+ years. They could have used some combination of satellite images, user reports, the Google car etc.
Even if you were to compare it to paper media: If you published a new edition twice a year, you had incorrect information, people reported it to you yet you still failed to correct it for 10+ editions and it causes harm to someone, then as a publisher you may be liable.
I can understand your point of view. There are a lot of nice people, but as we grow there are bound to be a few bad takes mixed in, as I have noticed from time to time since I joined in March. Moderation issues are something that still have to be dealt with on multiple levels.
Each kind of have a different mix of users. Lemmy.world really feels the most like Reddit of any Lemmy instance, in both good and somewhat bad ways. Perhaps other instances will give you more the vibe you like?
What happens when a German vists a piracy site:
https://www.der-postillon.com/2023/09/wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh.html
Generally stuff like Steam games I’ll pay for, especially now that I can afford it. I have no qualms with people pirating things if they can’t afford it, like teens, students, between jobs, on social security, people living in a country with an undervalued currency. To me it’s not stealing, it’s expanded access to knowledge, and unlike stealing benefits companies who get much better reach and recommendation than if the price tag (or stupid DRM) stopped them from trying.
When I do pirate something, I often treat it as a demo, like I can play the game to get the feel but no/limited networking features, no updates etc… I don’t like having to pay and refund something if I was just going to try it out. If a friend wants an idea of how a game is like, I give them a copy I bought after removing DRM if I can. Often times they go and buy their own copy because it’s a cool game, when they don’t it probably wasn’t interesting enough to complete.
Sometimes there are just too many middlemen taking a cut here and there that I would rather obtain something in contravention of copyright then provide value back to the creator more directly if I could. Steam, a rare exception for me, justifies their value through their robust update, social, modding, Linux supporting ecosystem.
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