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- Comment on 10 Careers Once Considered Stable Are Now Seeing Major Layoffs (Latest Data) 1 week ago:
These are so broad, it’s nearly every career field.
But also yes, layoffs everywhere are getting very bad.
- Comment on Luanti (aka Minetest) removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice 1 week ago:
Do you think Minecraft and Roblox get DMCA takedown notices from each other?
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 2 weeks ago:
I can top that.
They are capturing and selling horses off to slaughter, at a severe loss. They spend up to $3,000 to capture wild horses then sell middlemen for $25. Those dudes then sell the houses abroad to slaughter plants for $750.
There’s absolutely no fucking reason to do this. They tried to buy gas chambers for to kill the horses faster.
- Comment on Well that's my vacation ruined 2 weeks ago:
Are you in a cruise ship? That’s what this reminds me of.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 2 weeks ago:
Arguably more striking is the rate of Steam’s growth. “Steam’s catalogue grew faster than its revenue,” the report says, and this has seen those earning extremes widen. A massive 19,714 games were released on Steam in 2024, and 2025 passed even that at 23,107.
Go back just five years and Steam looks very different with 7,427 games released in 2018 – more than even 2019, and the highest on record at the time. 2026 has already doubled that at 15,814 games released, and the year still has several busy months ahead of it.
How many of this are AI garbage? It seems like no coincidence that the number of games corresponds to the increased AI push.
I would love to know how this breaks down with you cut out all the slop products.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 weeks ago:
This is so stupid. This is designed by people who don’t understand 3D printing. This will catch nothing but fake guns that don’t work because they were printed in one solid piece, it won’t catch all the little pieces that you assemble afterwards.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 3 weeks ago:
You are right. I am learning this the hard way. Not that I have any say in my own health insurance anyway.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 3 weeks ago:
No, they made me take the home test in Independence Day. That’s a hard day for my dogs. I didn’t sleep well either.
I scored 1 point over the line for Sleep Apnea.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 3 weeks ago:
I just spent 5grand out of pocket because the doctor made me take a sleep test. They charged insurance nearly 20 grand.
They told me they found nothing and I was fine. I pointed out some flaws in their test but they weren’t interested in my opinion.
I cancelled my follow up appointment bc I can’t afford it, at least until this is paid off.
Also, I am not fine. I am very very tired.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 4 weeks ago:
This. I don’t know how any supports is companies. This man has the attention span of a cocker spaniel on Ketamine.
He just says stupid shit all the time and people are supposed to pretend this it’s a wise business decision.
- Comment on Mass layoffs expected at EA as the now-private publisher reportedly tells its new debt masters that it's going to cut $700 million in annual costs 4 weeks ago:
🤞please sell off BioWare so i can play Mass Effect again.
- Comment on When do we riot? 4 weeks ago:
Idk the animals didn’t deserve our destruction.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Sometimes. But, if you aren’t really into it and no lubricant is used, it does not feel good and can hurt. Men don’t seem to notice. My partner can’t tell the difference until I stop him.
That’s not including things like endometriosis and other health issues that make sex painful for women.
Additionally women experience different levels of pain. Getting the IUD hurt so much I vomited in the parking lot. My doctor told me women who have given birth don’t have as much trouble with it than women who haven’t. They told me to take an ibuprofen before my appointment. That did about as much good as doing nothing at all.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 1 month ago:
You bought a PS5? I still have a PS4 that hasn’t been turned on in 4 years.
Linux gaming is the way.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 month ago:
The problem isn’t with digital. The problem is with digital licenses and rights.
- Comment on Walls within walls 1 month ago:
Yeah, I realized that after I posted but I left it up in case it helped someone read other paywalls articles.
- Comment on Walls within walls 2 months ago:
Use reader mode if your browser or app has that. It works in Voyager on iOS.
Reader mode strips JavaScript out so it works for most articles.
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 2 months ago:
That remind me. I need to clean out my refrigerator tonight.
- Comment on The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week 2 months ago:
Personally, I’m fine with that but that’s why I said I’d be out of a job. The USA designed its cities badly.
- Comment on The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week 2 months ago:
You’re not wrong. I hate my job.
- Comment on How do you keep your shit organized? 2 months ago:
What does this word “organized” mean? Like…you can find things quickly and efficiently? You don’t lose things after you put them down?
That doesn’t sound right. I’m nearly 40 and I’ve never seen such a thing! It’s a myth!
- Comment on The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week 2 months ago:
It’s part this and it’s also part taxes (but mostly narcissism). I work in commercial real estate. Our parent company was being leaned on by the city to get people back in the office.
Cities set up commercial areas and put various tax laws on those places. Suddenly, people are at home spending money close to their homes instead of the commercial districts. It messes up the balance.
Additionally, property owners can be punished if their tenant isn’t operating in the space, even if they are paying rent bc all the related tenants depends on that office. (If no one is in your office, the nearby chipotle doesn’t make money.).
When that happens property owners lose the ability to manage their own rent income and their lender manages their cash directly. Property owners/borrowers do not like this.
Personally, I think we should let those businesses fail and let new businesses form where people actually live. But then I’d be out of a job.
I’ll probably lose my job to AI soon anyway.
- Comment on The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week 2 months ago:
My company forced everyone back saying things like “we will never go back to fully remote work”.
A year later, we went remote and they started downsizing our office.
I suspect our lease was up.
- Comment on The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week 2 months ago:
When you finally get an office instead of a cubicle but now everyone is at home and has an office so you don’t get to brag about it.
- Comment on humans in space 2 months ago:
- Comment on DuckDuckGo’s AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month 2 months ago:
I just heard a commercial for DuckDuckGo on my local NPR station about how you can use it to get away from AI. (͡•_ ͡• )
- Comment on Scan to Verify You're Human 2 months ago:
I have degoogled but YT is the only thing I’m stuck with. The monopoly is too much to overcome.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 2 months ago:
Idk but you better tell me you find one!
I’m tried a lot of the games mentioned in the comment. Many are good, but none of them scratches that Skyrim itch.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 2 months ago:
I don’t get anything done.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I didn’t play GW1 but I tried GW2 and I couldn’t connect with it either. I played a ton of FFXI back in the day and a bit of WoW too but GW2 just didn’t pull me in.
