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There will be outbreaks of other corona viruses in the future. I wonder if this medicine will be effective against them or at least will be a baseline from which adjustments can be more quickly made to be effective against a different corona virus. This is one of the most positive news stories I’ve seen today.

Impossible to ignore, you say? Hold my beer.

~ US politicians

Do Vegas casinos own a sizeable stake in online gaming? If so, it would be interesting to see what part of those increasing profits are due to us poors spending on online gaming increasing while we never set foot in Vegas.

AI architect prompt: design me a mosque in the style of a fast-food restaurant.

From the inspiration photo cited in the article to the actual, what a miss.

They weren’t already?

I see this as OPs post title being inaccurate. I don’t see a glaring problem with the Jezebel article itself. You seem to have a problem with the article but damned if you aren’t being cagey about it.

Edit: jeebus, you aren’t even the one I originally replied to, just had to jump in with your LMGTFY. Nice.

Top 4 hits for me are reddit threads, fifth is the Jezebel article OP linked. Again, I would love to believe you if you were only to link good sources like you called out OP for.

Could you, like, maybe post some of them instead of leaving your own statement unsourced?

At my university (US), one of my calculus professors with a 150+ student lecture hall would repeatedly open his lecture with a slide showing his church and an invitation for students to join him there on Sunday. Absolutely inappropriate to proselytize a captive audience under his power to pass/fail them. There has to be some accountability for universities to stop this, but not to harass a person wearing a cross necklace or a koppel or a hijab. Shame this is legislated at such a high level instead of people just being professional and not a*holes.

JFC, what a psycho.

Kudos to PM Takaichi for keeping composure. Her eyes bugged out a bit but mine would have popped straight out of my head.

I did tier 1, 2, and eventually some 3 support back in the day for a software company. I liked how they handled it.

Customer called in, reached a live person doing intake. The intake person noted their question and callback number, helping to scope the problem if needed, and entered a ticket into the queue. The intake person gave the caller an expected wait time for a support tech to call back, pointed them to online written help documentation, and ended the call. Then push the ticket to tier 1, 2, 3, or “urgent, need to call NOW” queues. Depending on tier and call volume and time of day, they’d get a callback from a tech anywhere from immediately to the next morning.

Support techs like myself were coached to help over the phone, but also to point out the written materials and encourage their use. I would commonly say, “sure, that’s a problem we can fix, go ahead and go to screen x, click on button y, etc. By the way, you’re not the only one who had had this question, we even have an entry on this in our support documentation. Let me show you where you it’s at so you can get to the fix even faster than a phone call next time”.

Having the intake person take numbers, then techs call back later saved customers from having to wait on hold for lengths of time. We had very few cases of irate customers stuck waiting.

My shittiest experiences are the companies that don’t do any intake and make all tiers of calls wait on hold in the same queue. Luck of the draw if the tech you end up with is a tier 1 still in training pants or a tier 3 pissed to be walking a customer thru updating their password for the millionth tim.

I just wish I could find an RSS feed of it.

Bone spur recovery treatments and whose daddy is more alpha.

You’re putting words in my mouth. I didn’t say “instant” and I didn’t state the general definitiveness off a single comment you are trying to box me in with. “What’s a chud?” “This guy is an example of a chud”. It’s no deeper than that.

We’re not on reddit here, we don’t have to turn this into a place that wallows down conversations with that sort of crap.

Pedantic Esquire points out the prompt didn’t say the chud themselves has to be the one uttering the phrase. A phrase stated by someone else about the chud still reveals the subject’s chud-ness.

Someone asked in another community what comes to mind when someone is a “chud”…

https://lemmy.world/post/43866445

He later said he was sorry his choice of language had “offended some people.”

Back to 2nd grade with you, sir, when we learn a good apology takes accountability for one’s actions, not blaming others for their honest reactions to your racism.

“art should not be political”

I’m excited to hear an extraterrestrial alien has come to visit, because surely this is not a human being who has lived even one day of the human experience. Too bad the alien is cool with genocide.

Yeah, this is a super common theme from queer people in small rural and/or religious communities. Online may be the only interaction they have for information and support.

My condolences. Where is this “competition breeds excellence” outcome that capitalism promised me?