Powderhorn
@Powderhorn@beehaw.org
Editor and tech enthusiast
At some point, I have to admit neither is true. Let’s see …
Wage slave and vandweller.
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- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 6 days ago:
Let me tell you how well this is going over in /r/Austin.
Not well.
- Comment on Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense 6 days ago:
I never got into trading cards or tabletop gaming. My college roommate, on the other hand, when running out of disposable cash, would traipse down to the WotC on The Ave with his Warhammer figurines and enter competitions. He was no longer short on money afterward.
- Comment on Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense 6 days ago:
Marjorie Taylor Greene is involved in this? I mean, voters did gamble on her.
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I disagree. I’m not much of a gambler … never done anything but nickel slots. I put in $5 and generally get about a half-hour of entertainment. If I get above break-even, I cash out and am done. I got a free lunch out of it at a Montana gas station in college.
It’s generally more like $5.15 than $10, but on a road trip, who doesn’t like free food?
I’ve been to Vegas once. Same deal. Put $5 in a nickel slot. This time, I got free booze, so even though I lost all of my $5, I still came out ahead.
I am very much an addictive personality, but for some reason, I never caught the gambling bug. So I’m throwing stones at a glass house while residing in one … in my case, I’m envious of anyone who can have just one or two beers.
If you’re gambling to try to fix your economic situation or recoup prior losses, you’re no longer seeking entertainment. But if you know your limits and stick with them (something I absolutely cannot do with alcohol), I don’t see how spending $30 gambling for a few hours is materially different than going to a movie and buying popcorn. You can’t get a soda included in that $30 these days.
My college roommate is a bit more adventurous. Both of us were there with our fiancees to see Penn & Teller, and he was more of a $25 buy-in blackjack player. He won enough to pay for their entire trip on his last hand before the airport shuttle. And then didn’t do any gambling at the airport.
To say that gambling as a concept is inherently predatory doesn’t square with my experience. But instilling it in kids via video games definitely is.
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- Comment on Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power 1 week ago:
This roughly mirrors my experience in corporate America.
- Comment on Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense 1 week ago:
Flagging @TehPers@beehaw.org on this response, as it applies to both of you. You’re reasonable, longtime, constructive members on Beehaw. Maybe someone’s having a bad day, but it saddens me to see the two of you going at each other. I don’t feel there’s a rift here, just disagreement over wording.
This said, we’re all adults. I’m just more confused than anything, and I’m sure as fuck not going to take a side. This interaction wasn’t Beeing nice.
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 1 week ago:
It’s all fucking deck chairs at this point.
- Comment on Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public? 1 week ago:
You’re making me feel very old. Reality TV was what permanently turned me off of linear programming. I gradually started learning about the Kardashians via memes in comments.
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 1 week ago:
Shhh … the cloud is the only way forward. Heresy!
- Comment on If You’re Going To Defend AI And Whine About Its Critics, You Should Probably Be Honest About Its Actual Harms 1 week ago:
I’ll forgive it this once.
- Comment on Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public? 1 week ago:
Most phone glass is oleophobic at this point and has been for years. So that’s a shit excuse.
- Comment on Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public? 1 week ago:
I can see where you’re coming from on that at least with speakerphone, you know no one is addressing you. When I was at my ex’s last week, she said something from the bedroom, prompting me to loudly say “What?” Her son had just called, and if he’d heard my voice, we’d not have parted ways on good terms.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power 1 week ago:
I’m aware. I was referring to the initial editorial judgment by the pub.
- Comment on Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public? 1 week ago:
It was amusing in Star Trek IV, but that seems quaint now.
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- Comment on Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public? 1 week ago:
I can totally get behind speakerphone in that precise situation.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power 1 week ago:
Given that copy desks were being gutted more than a decade ago just with little things like Grammarly, it absolutely will replace knowledge jobs. It won’t be better, but it will mean more share buybacks.
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- Comment on Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power 1 week ago:
I’d not have put the clickbait “shocking” in the hed, but regardless, we’re running out of things to take off. Masks, gloves … they want us totally naked, and preferably underage.
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- Comment on From Iran to Ukraine, everyone's trying to hack security cameras 1 week ago:
This is a stupid hed. We can go without “From Iran to Ukraine” and get the same point across.
“From X to Y” constructions rarely hold up in proper journalism. So, “everyone” is in a very small geographic region? From Iran to Ukraine necessarily excludes, oh, say, the U.S., Russia, China. Also, anything several miles from the Caucasus.
- Comment on Android: sideloading blocked and open source updates withheld to twice a year 1 week ago:
Is that seriously Janeway on the PADD on the nightstand?
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