Individuals can do that, and they should if they feel like keeping MS.

Organizations are, unfortunately, probably going to remain stagnant and keep paying millions to for things that have free alternatives.

It’s actually really infuriating. When I was in grad school I filed an information request with the college to see how much they paid for access to Office 365 each year. This was in 2021 and they were paying 4 million a year. Meanwhile their grad student employees were all living deeply below the poverty line.

Individual users can make use of free alternatives pretty easily, but I’m not sure they’re actually the target for the price increase here.

Schools, governments, businesses, and other institutions pay wild amounts to MS every year.

Plenty of lawyers, at least some of them talented, will offer to defend him for free.

It could make their career.

He does stupidly well with the ladies. Kavorka for days.

Ibuprofen if I’m at work, but at home I usually take a short nap and have some coffee after, which works better for me.

Pretty sure this is the closest we’ve been to including an actual vampire in this game.

Does Allucard count as a vampire?

Disco Elysium

Vampire Survivors

I just use part of a post-it note.

In academia (my line of work) they’re required to have positions posted and open for a certain amount of time, interview a certain number of applicants, etc.

In theory, it’s for equal opportunity and finding the best person for the job.

In practice, it’s a waste of time, money, and hope.

We are deeply honored to have received your application (which we did not bother to read).

We’re sorry we didn’t hire you, but also never contact us again.

Signed,

Someone in HR who has nothing to do with this process.

Yeah. Nestle is responsible for the deaths of several million infants (that’s not an exaggeration) and owns slaves.

Like, I’m no fan of Nintendo’s stance on a lot of things, but they’re not the Devil.