some_kind_of_guy
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- Comment on hows keto working out for you 1 day ago:
Crayolas in, crayolas out
- Comment on Republican? Democrat? There is a third option: 2 days ago:
I feel like just the graphical style and colors of the poster scream UK (and I’ve never even been there, just pay attention)
- Comment on Does anyone know? 1 week ago:
and by ‘it’, haha, well. let’s justr say. My peanits.
- Comment on They have a right to feel smug 1 week ago:
Your dignity
- Comment on BlueSky has drama so the Fedi-Marketers are waking from their slumber 1 week ago:
I was working phone support a few years back and, when I asked this one lady what her email address was, she got confused. I started running out of ways to ask such a simple question when finally, all exasperated, she said (and I shit you not): “but I don’t have e-mail, I have G-mail!”
So yeah, I get what you’re saying, people’s brains do be rotted these days, sometimes I just forget.
- Comment on BlueSky has drama so the Fedi-Marketers are waking from their slumber 1 week ago:
I’ve never understood this argument. You pick an instance you like, make an account, log in, join the comms that interest you, comment on things, make posts, etc.
This is all very normal internetty type shit that anyone who’s created an account somewhere should be able to do very easily. You don’t need to know anything about federation or how that all works. You don’t need to spin up your own self-hosted instance (but you can if you want).
Am I missing something? It’s really not rocket science here. IMHO, the “fediverse is too hard” sentiment is missing the actually difficult bit, which is getting people away from the ingrained habits formed after years of only using Facebook, Twitter, Reddit et al.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 week ago:
Yeah this pisses me off as well. And TVs now are much bigger and wider, too. Back in the day we’d split screen on whatever we had, which was more often than not an almost-square CRT with not much screen space to begin with!
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 weeks ago:
Same here. Split between 5 people it’s very reasonable. This is the one thing I’m actually afraid to touch when it comes to degoogling
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 weeks ago:
I prefer it poached or grilled, but I’ll accept steamed
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 2 weeks ago:
All cats are communists, obviously. They have no respect for concepts of “ownership” and expect to be housed and fed according to their needs.
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 2 weeks ago:
Can’t really go wrong with b vitamins though… being water soluble you’ll piss out whatever your body won’t absorb, which is the reason for that wonderful neon yellow color.
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 2 weeks ago:
That hotdog’s looking pretty rough by dinner time
- Comment on facebook ai 2 weeks ago:
But the fetus is my favorite part! Tender and juicy, like filet mignon. Religious extremists ruin everything good
- Comment on Hotdog, egg, and pickle bunt aspic 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I’d crush that with the bread toasted and some grainy mustard
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 2 weeks ago:
Apple users are already locked into the whole vertical stack. The friction in that ecosystem comes from trying to use other hardware. If you daily-drive a Mac, you probably also have an iPhone and your biggest screen might be driven by an apple TV. And, oh, you might as well get their accessories and peripherals too so that everything just works. AirPods, mouse, keyboard. All the way through to the software experience. It’s not just inconvenient or risky to install an app from outside of the app store, you may literally think it’s the only way to install software, so the thought never occurs. Every design choice in the ecosystem serves to keep users corralled. The tech stack of an Apple user is a continuous, gapless monolith made of glass and brushed aluminum. It keeps them safe, serves their every need, and has “designed by Apple in California” stamped on the bottom.
Meanwhile, in Redmond, Microsoft roots around desperately in the same bag of dirty tricks they have been for 30+ years for something that will give them a fraction of that cohesiveness, while half their user base doesn’t even know what their browser is called.
- Comment on POV you are rich 2 weeks ago:
That’s not far from how the wealthy actually operate.
They also use life insurance products in unique ways. Normies buy regular term or whole life insurance and pay out the ass in premiums, whoever sold it gets a big cut. The whole focus is on the death benefit for family in case you die, no benefits in life.
Wealthy buy specially designed whole life policies and don’t care about the death benefit. They will max out their contributions and paid-up additions, then just open more policies to dump more money in. They can borrow against their contributions at a low interest rate, say 5%, for as long as they want. At the same time (and this is key) all their contributions are earning a higher interest rate plus dividends (say 6-8%) uninterrupted even if they borrow from it. Compound interest does its thing after a few years.
This is like if you had a savings account at a bank that you have full control over, earning higher interest than anywhere else. You can make a “clone” of your money at any time and use it for as long as you want at a low cost and do whatever with it. Put that cash to work in investments, buy real estate or cars and boats, start a business, pay employees, anything. While you’re doing that, the “original” sum in your savings account is working away earning interest the whole time. As long as the “clone” of your money plus interest makes it back into the account (paying yourself back) you can do it all over again and continue piling it up. An infinite money machine.
If an LLC owns this vessel where all your wealth is, and an LLC formed in, say, Wyoming – a state which allows registrant anonymity – owns that LLC and you have everything under a living trust, now you have governance over it, can create rules for how it operates, draw up contracts governing who can use it and stipulations for that access, avoid it going through court after you die, etc. You’re now shielded from personal liability, no one can figure out who owns the assets underneath that umbrella trust entity. On paper, you own nothing and control everything, you’re nearly impossible to prosecute, you have 0 income that has to be reported to the IRS. You have all the power and control and reap all the upside, while suffering none of the usual downsides written in the social contract the rest of us follow.
It sounds to good to be true, but the wealthy and powerful have been following this playbook for centuries, almost as long as insurance has been a concept. If that doesn’t describe a sovereign citizen, I don’t know what does! The stereotype of the methed up poor white guy who drives around baiting cops and argues baseless logic in court that they got from some other methed up poor white guy they met in some godforsaken chat room that is Totally Not a Honeypot Run by Feds is a red herring imo.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 3 weeks ago:
Speaking as an American, we’d totally fall for it, too
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 3 weeks ago:
Now that’s a bit of a stretch
- Comment on Outsourcing 4 weeks ago:
Ours pays US! Now my wife’s shopping isn’t cutting into MY revenue and now I can really focus on growing my business around the clock
- Comment on Soup season 4 weeks ago:
Don’t forget to add ranch
- Comment on Soup season 4 weeks ago:
ಠ╭╮ಠ
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 4 weeks ago:
created by deleter
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 4 weeks ago:
𝓛𝓪𝓻𝓻𝔂 𝓣𝓮𝓼𝓵𝓮𝓻, 𝓲𝓷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓸𝓻 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓬𝓾𝓽, 𝓬𝓸𝓹𝔂, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓮 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓼, 𝓭𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓪𝓽 74
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 4 weeks ago:
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 4 weeks ago:
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 4 weeks ago:
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 4 weeks ago:
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 4 weeks ago:
1 year = 1 level of jpeg compression
- Comment on Bamboozled! 5 weeks ago:
Wow, you really managed to suck the fun out of it huh
- Comment on ISO 26300 5 weeks ago:
I graduated in 2011, and same. My high school had a pretty janky mix of mostly Dell Inspiron towers, and mostly Windows XP but with a handful of Windows 2000 and ME machines that for some reason (prolly hardware too old) escaped their upgrades. We went through impressively comprehensive MS Office training and even Computer Tech classes (essentially an intro to an intro to computer science where we learned data concepts and built a PC).
A few years later, 90% of those machines had been scrapped, the mandatory courses were all gone and the kids all had cheap crappy Chromebooks. Now any courses are electives and the students are expected to just magically know how to use the software they’re required to use. Consequently, any class involving use of a computer, even if it’s just word processing for English essays and such has the teacher having to show the students how to use the stuff. Otherwise there are problems. It’s a sorry state of affairs and a lot more kids are getting left behind when it comes to tech.