Telorand
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- Comment on the only thing that never trickles down is the money 2 weeks ago:
Sure. The point isn’t to detail out a budget or a guide of how to get there (you can’t), it’s to demonstrate that billionaires are thousands of times richer than what most people might consider “rich.” It’s simple on purpose.
Everybody currently has to pay bills, including billionaires, so it’s moot; bogging the example down with unnecessary details needlessly obfuscates the core point.
- Comment on the only thing that never trickles down is the money 2 weeks ago:
If I made $500k USD a year tax-free, it would take me
- 2 years to become a millionaire
- 2000 years to become a billionaire
There’s no way what billionaires contribute to the world is worth 2000 times more than someone making $500k. It is not possible that their “”“labor”“” is that valuable. And most of the billionaires have multiple billions, so their “value” is orders of magnitude more. The system is and has always been broken.
- Comment on Fake Express Packages on npm Spread a Linux Worm 2 weeks ago:
Slop AI article. Would be nice if an actual security researcher(s) looked at this and gave their expert analysis.
- Comment on Amazon Cut 30,000 Jobs But Now It Wants Laid-Off AI Workers Back as It Battles Google and OpenAI for Talent 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on trans hacker girl in tokyo looking for friends (and maybe more) 🎯🎤 4 weeks ago:
Fwiw, I have a friend who livestreams his code work, so you might find an audience there, if that was ever something you’d want to do!
Either way, hope you’re making good money at what you’re doing
- Comment on Citizens United was never about helping people 4 weeks ago:
I agree, but there’s at least a few decent candidates who will be on ballots in November who know how to be entertaining, and they’ll attract the stupid ones who only pay attention to the candidates who make the biggest spectacle.
- Comment on trans hacker girl in tokyo looking for friends (and maybe more) 🎯🎤 5 weeks ago:
you can also watch me hack live if you’re into that lol
You stream?
- Comment on Looking for a US-Based Virtual Assistant 2 months ago:
Not the kind of work reform we’re looking for
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 months ago:
Alternate plan: do away with people’s need to have money to live by dealing with the broken system that puts them in that position.
- Comment on “We’re used to people saying fuck no and doing it anyway” -Michigan governor Gretchen Whitner. Daughter of a health insurance CEO. She is currently selling Michigan out for every penny she can as her… 2 months ago:
Agreed. But the question wasn’t, “What’s the bare minimum a politician should do,” it was, “What has she done that’s progressive?” I listed two examples that I’m familiar with, though I would expect there’s more.
I’m not saying she’s some progressive paragon, but she can have enacted both progressive policies and regressive pro-corporate ones. Generally speaking, people aren’t stereotypes, and anyone who’s presenting that case should immediately raise red flags that they’re either not engaged with what politicians are actually doing or they’ve got an agenda (see other politicians and pundits).
There’s plenty of room to despise establishment Democrats without lying or oversimplifying them down to a single quote.
- Comment on “We’re used to people saying fuck no and doing it anyway” -Michigan governor Gretchen Whitner. Daughter of a health insurance CEO. She is currently selling Michigan out for every penny she can as her… 2 months ago:
She banned conversion therapy in Michigan: michigan.gov/…/whitmer-signs-legislation-to-prote…
She repealed abortion restrictions: web.archive.org/web/…/71657347007/
She may not be the progressive voice we need, but it’s disingenuous to pretend she’s done nothing for regular people.
- Comment on US Layoffs Skyrocket to Highest Level Since Pandemic as Tech Giants Blame AI for 40% of Cuts 3 months ago:
AI is voluntary software. Nobody is forcing them to use it or cut staff.
“AI made me do it” is bullshit.
- Comment on Fashion Souls 2: Onion Edition 3 months ago:
Onion Bubs! Onion Buuuuubs!
- Comment on "Nobody's making games for the retired people" – The growing yet underserved market for grey gamers 4 months ago:
Hell yeah! Full-Throttle is my go-to Lucas point-and-click
- Comment on "Nobody's making games for the retired people" – The growing yet underserved market for grey gamers 4 months ago:
Nice, what are some of your go-to’s?
- Comment on Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' — expert claims action is vindictive and promises further retaliation 4 months ago:
why anyone would trust these companies to pay out
AFAIK, they historically have
why anyone would help them fix their problems at this point
They’re not “helping,” they’re trying to get paid by finding exploits legally, rather than using them illegally. And if someone is particularly good, it can be lucrative work. It’s historically been a mutually beneficial arrangement, so it’s ironic if M$lop thinks they can cut out human researchers (ostensibly swapping them for AI agents) and still maintain a secure codebase.
To me, this is M$lop trying to cut costs from the wrong thing; may they get what they deserve.
- Comment on Is Hades hard to beat? 5 months ago:
Yes. I don’t think I beat Hades until around run 80, possibly higher. You’re not doing anything wrong.
Just keep at it, and like others have said, once you do it that first time, it gets easier. I think the Adamant Rail was my first cleared weapon, but find one that works the way you like and try different combos of boons; think about the effects that might synergize with how the weapon attacks (speedy hits + flat damage, big hits + damage over time, etc.).
- Comment on I'd rather a simple "no thanks" 7 months ago:
This is a boilerplate rejection letter. Companies have been sending rejection letters like this with the same language almost verbatim for decades, long before LLMs existed.
Sorry you got rejected, but be grateful for the closure. Some companies don’t even bother, leaving you wondering how your time invested in a fourth-round interview went.
If it’s a job you actually wanted, reply and ask for some tips on how to improve as a candidate. Otherwise, I don’t really see how this has to do with work reform other than your personal preference of dispensing with superfluous language and getting to the point.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as shops warn it's being stolen to order 7 months ago:
“It was razors, cheese, coffee. Today, these people that are taking stock from convenience stores, from supermarkets, it’s taken to order. So chocolate is primetime now.”
It is not lost on me that the setting of 1984 takes place in a conquered England where chocolate rations are regularly reduced, nor is it lost that people in “Airstrip One,” the new name for England, are constantly trying to acquire necessities and specifically razor blades.
The fact that people are stealing these items in particular is concerning.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
Sounds like you had fun
- Comment on The LCD Steam Deck is no longer being manufactured 9 months ago:
I don’t care to find the source right now, but around the time when the OLED came out, the battery performance was nominally better in third-party tests. It did come down to specifics in what you played (game optimization) and how you set the power profiles, but the extra battery didn’t add much in terms of playtime—maybe an hour extra in real world use cases.
I don’t know if that’s still the case; it could be that Valve has OLED specific improvements by this point, but I suspect that it still would not be a significant enough point for someone to decide upon a model just on battery specs.
- Comment on Cooperative indie darling RV There Yet cruises past 1.3 million sales [Eurogamer] 11 months ago:
I haven’t played this one, specifically because people say there’s no map variety. Same path, same events, same puzzles.
Once they have some procedural generation, then it will go into my rotation with friends.
- Comment on More than 60% of US game players only buy two games or fewer per year, survey finds | VGC 1 year ago:
And I very much appreciate you setting it up! I have even posted a few, though people often post them before I do.
- Comment on More than 60% of US game players only buy two games or fewer per year, survey finds | VGC 1 year ago:
Not even necessarily F2P. Depending on what you have access to, Epic, GOG, Prime/Amazon Games, Steam, Itch, and a few others all release freebies nearly every week. Some of them are even AAA titles.
If you’re not supremely picky about what you play, you can get hundreds of free games over time.
- Comment on Why do people say "as sweet as canned beans"? 1 year ago:
I’ve never heard this expression.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 21st 1 year ago:
Thanks for the rec! I have Castle on the Coast, but it’s been low on my “play later” list. I’ll move it up!
- Comment on Zoom’s CEO agrees with Bill Gates, Jensen Huang, and Jamie Dimon: A 3-day workweek is coming soon thanks to AI 1 year ago:
Exactly. It’ll be a 3-day workweek, and you’ll only get paid for three days of work. They’re not gonna give us the same wages for less work.
- Comment on Which handheld should I get? 1 year ago:
And there’s the whole issue with a certain buffoon who doesn’t understand how tariffs work and is currently trying to speedrun an economic collapse, so who knows if the hardware components will be available in three years.
However, unless there’s a significant change in games that makes the current Gen unable to play games, I think it’s likely going to be a great device in three years time. I know that I have no plans to upgrade mine.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 1 year ago:
I mean, nothing is stopping a whale from contacting Hello Games to get a bespoke spaceship… 😂
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 1 year ago:
No Man’s Sky has almost every feature that Star Citizen will have/has:
- Frigates
- Walkable ships (via the new corvettes)
- Space stations
- Food/cooking
- Quests and lore
- Planet exploration
- Ship to ship dogfights
Like, by the time SC releases, the game’s features will have been done by multiple companies. I expect people actually buying the game, if it’s ever released, will do so for the memes and not because the game has anything innovative to add to gaming.
