Same! I’ve been using the Lifefactory ones for the last few years and just run them through the dishwasher with everything else. No special treatment, and they’ve held up well.

I swapped from Sync to Summit and have been loving it. The dev’s super responsive too, which is a big plus.

I usually take a request for a work sample to mean “an example of something you created” rather than “an example of work you did for a past employer.” The latter could serve as the former—assuming you’re allowed to show it, which it sounds like you’re not in this case—but it’s not the only way to go about it.

You could make a sample or mockup of something similar to what you’ve made previously without including proprietary information. If you need branding guidelines or a set of content to work from to get started (maybe you’re building a website or something), you could search online for publicly available versions of those documents from other companies to demonstrate that you’re able to follow guidelines when requested.

I was sadly not quite imaginative enough to consider radioactive worm eggs, but I do seem to recall Ivan Inkling opening up an ice cream shop at one point and Max E. Mum and his sister Minnie coming in to consider all the different flavor combinations they could buy.

I used to be a teacher, and I kept a list of funny names that I would use for word problems and the like. Just silly stuff like Ivan Inkling, Chris P. Bacon, Millie Peade, etc.

Why do they need to work, though? If AI can replace so many people that there aren’t jobs for them all, wouldn’t that also mean AI is producing enough to sustain those people, jobs or not? At that point, why must society continue to expect everyone to support themselves if society’s developments as a whole make that unnecessary?

OP’s question seemingly indicated that they felt someone who couldn’t earn money was immediately a net negative to society. I don’t believe that’s true now (stay at home parents are a good, but far from only, example), and I can’t see me believing it’s any more true in a future where AI can replace large segments of the workforce.

Ignoring the odd idea that this hypothetical person is somehow completely unemployable regardless of industry or upskilling, why do you assume that that immediately makes them a negative to society? Is a person’s entire value predicated on their ability to earn money?

Any recommended brands/models for the pillow? I’ve never heard of such a thing, but it sounds incredible.

I use a similar question: “What do you like best about working here?” I then follow up that conversation with a second question: “We all know every place has something they could improve on. If you could change one thing about working here, what would it be?”

I’ve gotten some very interesting answers to that second question. And because it’s not phrased as a complete negative - “what would you change” vs. the more common “what do you dislike” - it doesn’t put people on the defensive.

I’ve been using Summit lately and like it so far; the dev is responsive and there are quite a few customization options.

I previously used Sync (now abandoned), Jerboa, and Connect as well. Jerboa didn’t seem quite so customizable, but it was a nice and simple UI.

Same. A friend and I were excited to play together like we did in D3, but we barely managed to finish the campaign. It’s on the shelf for now unless/until we hear the team turned things around.

That might be better, but I’d still worry about people rep farming (for lack of a better term). Any time you give people a score, title, or other personal metric, you run the risk of people posting to influence that metric rather than to post for the sake of contributing content.

It’s possible the good such a system could do would outweigh the bad, but it will definitely always have elements of both.

While karma might help spam/bots in some ways, I feel like it would also lead to karma farming, which I’m personally happy to not have here. Maybe they could instead allow communities to set requirements for minimum time subscribed or minimum interaction (voting, commenting, etc.) before people could post? I’d prefer that be set per-community, though, and not a site-wide mandate.

Similar to that, yeah, although I think the master/slave thing started earlier. (It’s a bit more blatant, tbf.)

I agree that allowlist doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as nicely, but as long as it makes it obvious what the word means, I’ll go with it.

Sync! It’s what I used on Reddit, and having it here made switching platforms so much smoother.

In recent years there’s been a shift from “white/black list” to “allow/block list” in an effort to avoid the stereotypes associated with those terms. I wouldn’t say it’s the new norm yet, but it’s slowly becoming more popular.

The difference is that racists are usually racist due to a moral stance, not because it makes them money; ignoring them means we’ll hear about it less but it won’t actually go away. Clickbait/ragebait, on the other hand, isn’t a moral viewpoint - it’s meant to bring a person money via exposure/engagement, so less engagement leads to less money which leads to less bait because it’s no longer working.

I can see how creators who are solely on Patreon will benefit from the additional features, but I’m curious about how widely they’ll be adopted by those who post on multiple platforms. If you have a YouTube channel and use Patreon for members-only content, for example, using the Patreon chat feature would exclude the non-member portion of your community from those conversations. While this is a good alternative for those who specifically want member-only chat areas, I don’t see it replacing tools like Discord any time soon.

Also, having the member profiles on by default definitely made me pause when I got the email a few weeks ago. I know some people will enjoy that feature, but I personally went in and immediately turned it off.

Pretty sure LinkedIn already called dibs on selling our employment data.

Your comment made me curious enough to go check my /played, and I regret my decision. Over 500 days of play time.