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Yo, if you go into your browser settings and find your download options, most browsers will let you check a box that says "always ask where to save downloads" which let's you A) easily organize your downloads and B) reject suspicious downloads/keeps you from accidentally downloading files.

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Dragons and dungeons 🐲🎲

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Here's something fucked up I just realized: Comet in Moominland was written like 40 years before the fact that asteroids could hit earth and had done so in the past entered the scientific consensus. That happened a lot later than I think a lot of people realize, and is why there were a number of asteroid movies in the 90s. Tove Jansen was well ahead of the curve on that one.

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I know this is petty, but I have two degrees in accounting, so I can't let it pass by unremarked.

I'm not disagreeing with the sentiment of the post, most companies do see you as infinitely and immediately replaceable, but wages aren't liabilities, they are expenses.

When an expense, like a wage, is incurred, it is accounted for at the time, even if it's not paid. When you incur an expense but don't pay it, you add it to the expenses, and then add it to the liabilities to show you haven't paid them yet. When you pay them, you remove them from the liabilities when you part with the cash. Companies see you as an expense, not a liability, and the liability is the intermediate stage between the expense being incurred and paid. More long term liabilities are stuff like debts and mortgages, not short term recurring expenses like wages. This stops companies hiding accrued expenses.

Trade receivables are the same. They go in as an asset when the income is incurred, then are transferred into cash when the cash is paid. This stops companies hiding unrealized income.

The purpose of non current assets like real estate and machinery being capitalised as assets isn't because they create value and require maintenance, it's largely a measure to prevent tax evasion and misleading accounting. If companies could invest in large assets and have them tax deductible, then they could easily use it to never pay taxes. Instead, you put it in your assets, and charge a depreciation expense every year of its useful economic life to spread out the cost to give a more true representation of the value being lost over the life of the asset. Of course you couldn't treat an employee like this for accounting purposes.

The five categories, the five genders of accounting if you will, are assets, liabilities, capital, income, and expenses. Assets, liabilities and capital go on the balance sheet, and income and expenses go on the income statement. They exist to show how much a company makes every year, and how much value it is holding at any given moment. A lot of accounting logic doesn't mirror how you might think things work in intuitive real world logic, but it is primarily for holding businesses accountable to shareholders and governments, and I don't think you can read too much into the underlying ideology based on accounting rules that have developed organically over hundreds of years.

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hey folks if you have an android phone: google shadow installed a "security app".

I had to go and delete it myself this morning.

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I really cannot overemphasize how based it is that the dungeon meshi fanart community has collectively decided that Falin is fat. Truly a historic W for anime girl likers everywhere. We need to set this as a precedent for all future popular anime - if no women in the cast are fat, the artists must pick at least one of those characters and draw them fat with absolutely no explanation or justification provided. This must continue until the people who make anime realize what they're missing out on by not putting this shit in the source material.

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My new keyboard setup is finally complete. It's still taking some time to get used to the ergonomics, but my wrists are thanking me already.

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I still can’t get over what brits call musical notes like bro please I’m trying so hard to take this country seriously

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if sex is no big deal and just a normal thing like having dinner with someone, how do you square that with the belief that children can't consent to sex? Like idk this whole thing of "sex is a normal act like any other and we shouldn't treat it differently" makes me soo uncomfortable because i feel like it's really obviously not in a lot of situations? Otherwise what's the difference between being told by my boss to have lunch with one of our prospective clients being told by my boss to blow one of our prospective clients? :/

let's take your dinner example to its logical conclusion, because you are on to something here, but I don't think quite in the way that you think.

children are forced to eat food that they this really dislike (due to sensory issues, allergies, or just run of the mill unfamiliarity) quite regularly by their caregivers. they are also sometimes denied the right to eat because they didn't behave the way their caretakers liked, and sent to bed hungry, or barred from eating food that they can handle, and instead left to go hungry because they won't eat food they can't handle.

treatment like this causes a lot of food issues and trauma to children. It exacerbates eating disorders and erodes a child's sense of their own body autonomy. It can also cause children to have nutritional issues and a scarcity mentality around food that can be really damaging to them.

similarly, people are forced to share meals with people who they are viscerally uncomfortable around all the time too, often to extreme negative effects. employees are forced to sit down with clients who debase them or harass them. Young people in particular are forced into sharing tables with relatives who have crossed their boundaries, insulted them, abused them, bullied them, and whom they want nothing to do with. people in recovery from eating disorders are surrounded by co-workers, family members, or friends at meal times who speak about calories and weight loss and comment on their own bodies and other people's bodies in incredibly invasive and triggering ways that often make them feel way worse, and make taking care of their own bodies far more difficult.

when a powerful institution wants to exert control over other people, they also often do so using food. prisoners are given almost no control over the kind of food they eat, and are often given very low quality food that is in a disgusting condition, or that violates their own nutritional requirements or religious beliefs. patients in hospitals and in mental institutions are also subjected to such treatment, and people in poverty are expected to eat anything that they are given without complaint. It is an extension of their dehumanization to control and limit the kinds of food they're allowed to access, and how and when they are permitted to eat.

each of these experiences surrounding food can be incredibly violating and harmful. food is quite frequently a tool of control and abuse. yet it is not because there is some magical quality to food or to dinners that make them uniquely fraught with the potential for trauma. these experiences are traumatic because they involve a violation of a person's body autonomy, and a lack of social power.

sex isn't any different from dinner. we just have a series of cultural beliefs surrounding it that make the pressure involving sex something that's both a lot more acknowledged, and mostly encountered in the private realm.

Sex is treated as an almost magical thing, at once both sinister and sacrosanct, and so people are primed to see the potential for harm in it, and it is frequently used as a tool for harming people because it is so loaded, but that doesn't mean there aren't abuses involving every other mundane human activity that we simply are conditioned to ignore because doing so is so normal.

People's body autonomy surrounding food is violated traumatically all the fucking time. unfortunately because we consider dinner to be a neutral activity and sex to be this incredibly fraught and almost magical one, we ignore the massive amounts of coercion, pressure, and violation surrounding food.

your boss shouldn't be able to force you to get dinner with someone. and people are uncomfortable with discussions about body autonomy that neutralize sex, because it forces them to confront how little freedom we actually have in every facet of our lives.

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Windows 7

Windows 7 is the next release of Microsoft Windows, an operating system produced by Microsoft.

Windows 7 is intended to be an incremental upgrade with the goal of being fully compatible with existing device drivers, applications, and hardware

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Being autistic is like screaming through a megaphone “please don’t overwork me, i WILL explode” and everyone responds like haha well. You’ll get used to it over time :)

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the heist crew

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seeing US artists freak out about the tariff stuff is so wild like. what do you mean you had a business that relied on cheap overseas labor, what the fuck, you honestly want me to be scared for you in this situation?

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related to last reblog. the AI panic as it exists on social media right now, decoupled from any real analysis of labour relations, is a mass epidemic of millions of people giving each other moral OCD.

you people discard anything that isn't completely pure; you flame a music artist and spread callouts about them for using an AI generated soundbite as a sample, you boycott a movie for using an AI tool to clean up audio recordings, you disavow an entire scientific field for using AI for statistical modelling, you send death threats to some 15 year old kid for playing with character AI. you have this compulsive need to signpost being "anti AI" every time you are "tricked" into feeling a genuine emotion. you are so afraid of experiencing an emotional response to "morally corrupt" art or technology you think it's gonna turn you into a "morally corrupt" person.

there's no end goal to this behaviour, you're going to keep categorising your feelings into ones that you are "allowed" and "not allowed" to feel; you're going to keep resonating with things that you don't fully morally agree with, you're going to worry yourself sick by fighting the part of yourself that appreciates aspects of it. It's an endless spiral. stop encouraging each other with this behaviour, it's like the pro-ana shit all over again.

just let yourself feel for fucks sake. your emotional response to a shitty little AI voice clip of ben shapiro talking about lolita dresses has no bearing on what you believe is good for the world. and I know you people are trying to suppress your emotional responses the way you comment "this is the only good use of AI" under any popular comedic AI generated video, cuz apparently comedy is the only emotion exempt from moral interrogation for most of you

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It kinda sucks trying to talk about human evolution to someone who isn't familiar with it, and you have to talk about "Homo Erectus" and expect them to keep taking you seriously.

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Once upon a time, there was an app called Google Play Music, where you could easily upload any audio files from any source, store them in your own cloud area, provided for free by Google, and stream or download them to any device, complete with an elegant and easy to use music app UI, similar to iTunes or Spotify, without ever paying a penny. Thanks to the advancement of technology, this is no longer possible.