snooggums

They were probably following this part of the executive order instead of the illegal directive to not follow the law that requires distributing the funds.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

While I’m glad the insurrectionist was brought to justice, the cop should absolutely be investigated and charged if he used excessive force.

This could be two birds with one stone.

It won’t. These people are stupid enough to cheer him on after his first term in office ended with a fucking insurrection. They don’t give two shits about law or anyone else.

“We will make it legal.”

-SCOTUS

Sadly, the civil unrest will be from Republicans who somehow blame everyone else for their dear leader taking a shit on the country, again.

Yeah, it isn’t like eggs are a massive part of my food costs.

The overall increase in food prices have more impact than one specific ingredient.

Anyone who disagrees with me is a moron so I don’t care.

That’s great.

Now do equal opportunities for employment.

Ok cracker.

If that still isn’t enough, then you are sitting in a pitch black room.

Yup, there is zero gap between the sunlit oark that Teams needs to have a decent picture and a pitch black room. Clearly zoom is doing some magic by having a brighter picture even with the default settings, it can’t just be Teams that is the problem.

Brightness settings for Camera… holy shit… Light yourself properly. Ring lights are $30 on amazon, get one and look actually professional when attending your meetings.

Beyond the basic point that other video apps have had brightness settings for decades, saying to spend more money to fix the feature is asinine.

There is plenty of light for zoom, Teams is dark. When I go to a conference I’m not going to lug a fucking ring light around for a random video call in a quiet corner. Instead, they could just put a brightness slider in like a competent company.

It is impressive how hard you are shilling for Teams by excusing a lack of basic functionality.

Cool, cool. Spamming the hell out of users is definitly necessary to let them know it exists islnstead of asking them if they want notifications the first time they start it up.

They should just know there is a setting to turn it iff then, right?

I can’t set my mic to be automatically muted when I join a meeting. I have to choose every time.

I can’t adjust the brightness of my camera exceot for whatever ‘Enhance’ does.

Guess I’ll just keep looking for settings when basic ones don’t exist.

It should be off by default.

Oh yes, the old buttplug award!

To prevent stupid people pinning so many messages that the feature becomes useless.

Because the system settings are usually not what you want, most people don’t leave their headset on all day and only pick it up for calls.

“Teams knows best!”

They are boring because they do the same thing over and over again.

Same old fascist story. Won’t change for the better.

Edit: Well I’m a dumbass who got drunk and mixed up left and right. Oops.

Consider how important they are and if they are actually relevant to the conversation. Or if I feel like I’m dominating the conversation, just let several things go even if they are obviously relevant. If they are that relevant, they will probably pop back into my mind from further conversation. Plus someone else may have had the same thought, and letting them say it first lets them participate with fewer interruptions.

Let’s take a friendly chat about a video game. First off, the conversation that will be had is not that important. It might feel that way, but unless it is the only time it comes up, there will be more opportunities in the future. Going in with this mindset helps a lot.

If something pops into my head while the other person is speaking, and nobody is going to die or be maimed if I say nothing, then it isn’t really that important. If I can’t keep the thought around until they are finished, then it actually wasn’t that important. Maybe it will come up again if it really is that relevant.

Again, this took a loooong time to practice and it still takes effort. I kind of default to not volunteering anything in a group unless I can hold it until a break in the conversation. At my job that involves a lot of technical work this is actually a benefit because people pay more attention to someone who only speak about things they have thought through first. Exceot for brainstorming sessions, then I get to let all the wild ideas fly (while making sure everyone else gets a turn too),

It also implies that actively ignoring opposing viewpoints is a negative thing.

There are plenty of negative and harmful things to exclude that don’t result in an echo chamber. Excluding nazis for example is not being a real echo chamber because there will never be anything new that could be said to keep it from being a hate based ideology.

Good job reading only the first five words of a paragrah.

Edit: Well I’m a dumbass who got drunk and mixed up left and right. Oops.

It only took three decades, getting diagnosed, and taking meds, but I finally figured out how to let most of those thoughts go unsaid!