This is Microsoft Licensing in a nutshell.

I have a tinfoil hat theory that they keep it complicated on purpose to add value to 365 certifications

I work in an office as a network administrator. Largely my day to day is a meeting every morning to go over what everyone is doing for the day, then looking through and responding to all the alerts that came up from all the servers I manage(things like failing backups, unexpected reboots, stopped services, strange login behavior, etc)

Then, if I still have time in the day, I put time towards some of the long term projects I have which largely consists of finding things that can be automated and scripting up solutions to that

I tend to just take the defaults when I'm deploying. I wouldn't get any benefit of having home or tmp on a separate partition, but it's nice that it's an option.

This is the short of it. Tate explains in no uncertain terms that society is to blame for the insecurities they feel, and provides an easy answer on how to fix it that kind of works, because it emulates self-confidence.

I got one a while back and did exactly the same thing. Don't respond, block the number, report as spam.

The infantalization of the internet solely so that advertisers feel comfortable is becoming a problem.

Sometimes people need to talk about heavy topics like suicide or sexual assult in a way that's mostly anonymous. Ads are a whole separate issue, but I don't really feel any different about them based on the content surrounding them. Bounty can still sell paper towels if someone says "fuck" next to the ad.

Every drug dealer I've ever dealt with was just a metalhead in an apartment that got into growing weed as a hobby. Not sure if I ever encountered a "real" dealer, but my interactions with them was just going over to their place, smoking a bowl and watching a movie or playing Mario Kart for a couple hours, then leaving with a bag.

This is probably the best choice. There is basically no failure state, so there is no impetus to act under pressure, which is probably the biggest demotivator if someone is at that stage of learning how to play video games.

Minecraft is pretty mechanically complex if you're at the "need to learn how to move in a video game" stage

I live in a small town and even I had to wait about 15 minutes in line.

Last election, I was the only one there outside of the volunteers and was in and out in about a minute. I want to think this is a good thing and we'll see massive voter turnout

Yeah, that tracks for Canadian politics as a whole.

Conservatives and Liberals haven't really changed their tune and are both running essentially the same platforms they were in the mid-2000s. The NDP is headed by someone who got into politics to really try and change things for the better, and get outplayed every time by the establishment. And the Bloc really only cares about the culture of Quebec, which makes them a non-candidate for anyone far away from Quebec

Lobbyists as they exist now? Definitely.

The original concept for them is an important thing to have in a democratic system. You can't expect politicians to be intimately familiar with the ins and outs of every industry, which leads to ineffective regulation. It makes sense to have a person whose job it is to translate the needs of the industry to the politicians.

The problems come when that person has an incentive and a sizable budget to twist policy to the advantage of shareholders rather than consumers or workers.

I pre-ordered this game because I loved Psychonauts and this game was marketed as a sort of heavy metal themed Zelda game.

I then learned about 2 hours in that its also an RTS, which is a genre I never got along with and set it down never to be played again. Thankfully, when you're a patient gamer, you can't be lied to by advertising.

What, like ET for the Atari? The game that was so bad, it very likely caused the video game crash in North America?

There was slop in the old days too, just like there are good ideas now.

There was a short story I read a while back that also featured that plot point, but I don't remember what it was called.

Only that I found it after reading into inspirations for The Laundry Files by Charles Stross.

Time to restore a whole machine backup to a VM with no network connectivity, and manually pull the command?

I'm not surprised. I'm disappointed, but not surprised

This sucks, but I can understand both sides here.

Canada has strangely high standards when it comes to food regulations. Especially in restaurants. And lowering those could result in an influx of low quality processed foods entering the market.

On the other hand, the reason it's failing to meet the standard is that it has added vitamin B which feels a bit absurd since those additions are allowed in other products here.

I hope this gets resolved in a way that lets this dude keep selling Vegemite at his shop.

on my last thread somebody wrote that unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments

How do I stop having expectations?

This is almost certainly not what they meant. You can't expect someone to read your mind and solve problems you might have.

If management is not meeting your expectations, then the answer is to have a conversation with them about it(ie: make them spoken expectations), not to remove them altogether.