For those in the US: Learn how to file your own taxes. It's really simple for the large majority of people, and usually just consists of copying numbers into boxes off a sheet your employer made for you. After you've done it once, subsequent times you'll probably have it done yourself in less than half an hour.

You can do it for free on a ton of sites unless you make significant income, freetaxusa is typically the most highly recommended one.

Sounds like plant management needs to enforce lock-out tag-out procedure. That's rule 1 of working on heavy machinery, no matter how safe you think it is.

I know storage is cheap, but nearly half a terabyte? I'm already giving any game the side eye if it takes more than 50G of space on a disk, let alone nearly 10x that.

Car dealerships shaking and crying

The original intent was good. You make something, you can legally ensure people can't just copy your work and slap their name on it for profit. People could make creative works without fear of someone else ripping it away from them.

Then Disney just kept bribing politicians to extend it to a ridiculous degree so they wouldn't lose Mickey to public domain until they moved his likeness into their trademark, which lives as long as it's being used actively.

And then you have DMCA, where everyone is guilty until innocent and that whole can of worms, and DRM which is technically illegal to circumvent no matter how much time or what reason. Corporatization and the Internet turned that relatively simple and good ideas into an utter mess.

I think Dwarf Fortress is going to hold the crown for ultimate fantasy world simulator. I don't think ES6 will allow for systematic breeding and killing of mer-children for their valuable bones.

While not my native language, in Japanese, many insulting things to call people are often translated as English curses, but actually are just increasingly disrespectful ways to refer to the listener. The actual translation for them is just "you" but not respectful. This might not be a complete list, but I got most of them at least.

Anata - Polite way of saying "you" but not often used in conversation except between spouses or lovers. It's preferred to use the listener's name instead.

Kimi - Rude in a polite setting, but not explicitly disrespectful, necessarily.

Omae - Now you're on the level of picking a fight, but good friends often use this for each other.

Temee - Extremely disrespectful

Kisama - Extremely disrespectful

Kono yarou - Extremely disrespectful

Dude on the top looks ecstatic because he's gonna see his friends again soon.

Google and Chrome really need to be broken up. Maybe people should start writing (physical) letters to the FTC asking to review Google's recent actions as monopolistic behavior.

It wouldn't be the first time. But showing the interest is the best way to get the ball rolling that we can do.

I have the same experience, but I consider it to be a positive. Lemmy isn't trying to force an algorithm on me and retain my eyeballs. I subscribed to what I want to see, I scroll through new a bit, top day a bit, leave a comment here and there, and I do other things.

Before, I found myself bouncing between Reddit and YouTube, doing usually nothing else fun or productive. Since then, I've been doing more varied things, playing different games, working on programming projects. I find that I'm much more satisfied with how I spend my time.

I do still have a YouTube problem, but a lot of the stuff I watch is related to my interests and good background listening material anyway, so it's not really stopping me from doing other things.

Thanks, I hate it.

Not wanting to answer a question is fine, but doing that by just being pretentious isn't a good way of going about it. Being forthcoming about not really wanting to talk about your music preferences is fine, changing the subject politely is also fine so you don't leave the onus of carrying conversation entirely on the other person.

Acting like your music choices are too out there for anyone else to understand is a good way to not have them relate to you in any way.