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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Felonies, gotta catch 'em all⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what's wild is that particular group's incredible thought process of "oh yeah, the current guy is just doing a hit job on this other guy because he's running for President. He's sending all these various agencies after him. blah blah blah..."

  And I'm just like. Or you know, simple answer is that guy is doing crime stuff and ought not to be doing crime stuff. To really over simplify the most recent crime stuff. The crime was he wrote the wrong thing on the sheet of paper. You look at the paper, it says it's for lawyer stuff. You look at the receipts shows the money went to hide sex stuff. Lawyer stuff ≠ hide sex stuff. Ta-da!

  And a bit more detail. The whole argument that hiding sex stuff wasn't political money. Literally a letter between crime guy and other person handling political stuff was, we need to hide this sex stuff otherwise that could hurt us in election stuff. Like I get it that there's some folks wanting to believe that President guy is just mad at crime guy and wants to whatever him so that President guy can stay in office. But crime guy literally admitted crime stuff in letters he thought no one else would ever read. Crime guy is not a very smart crime guy.

  I don't like current guy, don't get me wrong. But crime guy is an idiot. I just don't want an idiot back as President. There's just way too many people hitched to an idiot here and willing to go down with the ship. Crime guy is an idiot and he's getting smacked with a lot of the crime shit he's done because he's an idiot. There's not any other way to slice this. Crime guy is just not good at anything and is coasting on mom and dad money still. If anything, that Crime guy is still floating on some money is a testament to Crime guy's book keeper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boston Creme⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I've submitted this before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. As to which protocol of the Geneva Convention this violates, all of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is AI Pornifying Asian Women?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely this. The reason AI defaults female into "female armor mode" is the same reason Excel has January February Maruary. Our spicy autocorrect overlords cannot extrapolate data in a direction that it's training has no knowledge of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'We have no rights.' Frustrated with California wage laws, Moonstone Bistro in Redding cuts lunch service⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If we stopped working, these jobs disappear

  — Che Stedman

  Additional comment:

  If you can make $20/hour at Taco Bell, with no experience, how much money do you think I'm going to have to pay a cook, who actually has experience?

  — Che Stedman

  Well Che. It looks like if you did stop working a Taco Bell will replace you. So your jobs disappear, correct, but it absolutely opens it up for someone else to move in. Also, the reason Taco Bell requires zero experience is because they have sat there for the last umpteen years streamlining their process which came at a non-zero cost.

  Innovate Che. That's the name of the game. Being an entrepreneur means thinking fast on your feet and having to adapt to a landscape that is tilted against you. Yes, the big players have had decades to consolidate their power and create a business world that makes breaking into the Restaurant business near impossible. Join the crowd of Ma and Pa gas stations, grocery stores, computer shops, and so on that the lack of enforcing anti-competitive laws has wrought.

  Don't make it sound like we're terrible because we're undervaluing people's work. I think it's time for us to understand that our work is being undervalued, and that we're being told that we are terrible people because we are not giving enough

  — Che Stedman

  No, Che you seem to be missing the point. The problem is the folks you need to compete with having unfair advantage and you wanted to undervalue peoples' work to play your advantage. What this law is doing is removing that from the play book of ANY company altogether. Seeing how that was your ONLY play in your playbook, you are out of "innovation" that other companies still have three billion more plays to try. Your beef is mostly with the big boys getting unfair advantage.

  But we cannot carve out an except for you because, aforementioned big boys have also abused their position to make the cost of living insane. As opposed to trying to argue your old play maybe… petition your local government to tell fast food chains to leave? So long as there are Taco Bells that can fall back on their parent company Yum Brands, small business and the everyday man will never win.

  That's the really cool thing. In an actual free market, paying that $20/hr doesn't hurt you. Even better, in an actual free market, we don't even need the $20/hr to keep our heads above water.

  We, as business owners, do not feel that we are the ones exploiting people. We pay huge taxes, fees, licenses, inspections, Workman's Comp, insurance, you name it. We do this for the right to work really hard, and to create jobs. Yet...we are being told that WE are the reason why people can't afford their rent

  — Che Stedman

  No Che. You're correct that your don't feel like you are exploiting people. However, paying people less than a living wage is just that. However, you aren't the one setting that cost of living and that's the bigger point here. You're upset that your current game plan is no longer valid, but you're so salty that you don't want to come up with a better game plan. Us small people, we feel this every day. Not having control, watching shadowy conglomerates dictate our day to day lives, and what not. It's so ingrain at this point, I'm having trouble articulating all the ways we're being screwed by large businesses much in the same way I'd have difficulty explaining what breathing actually feels like.

  Che the thing is, that pain, that sting in your heart. You're just now feeling it. I know buddy. Hell someone decided that some generation was killing off diamonds and Applebee's so mutual feels on that having someone tell you that you are the reason for something.

  So I guess best I can tell you Che is that, grab you a pitchfork and join the crowd who want the billionaires of this planet to stop making this world shitty. I mean I don't know really. It just seems like its always going down the shitter every fifteen seconds. I've been on this train going down so long, I couldn't possibly know which direction is up at this point.

  But pay your people a living wage, that's core. Post that, start fighting for lowering that cost. Stop trying to cling to your old playbook of under paying people. You're not looking entrepreneurial. Oh and also.

  Tanya and I, as most other business owners, are tired of hearing how it's our fault people can't afford their lives; tired of being told we need to work harder so other people can have more; tired of being told we should be happy with having less, working more, being liable and responsible for everyone and everything, so other people can have a better life

  — Che Stedman

  Buddy, that's Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and sometimes a Sunday for us. If you're just now getting upset about being told that… I mean, you can come over and I'll give you a cookie. It helps my mood. But definitely not my waistline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, does this drink taste like quaaludes to you?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s just tired from the pudding pop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My hand are normal, and loook⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what the AI wants you to think!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The state of the internet in 2023.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That's just the Web at this point. Like IRC has it's bit of toxic, but there aren't Ads, and the niche stuff is fairly good. Gemini and gopher are seeing a pretty healthy resurgence, but clearly there's just dozens of us. Oh and there's always telnet MUDs out there, those are fun every so often.

  The Internet is a lot more than just the web. Though the web is mostly the internet at this point. I think the upshot though is all this Fediverse stuff looks really promising. But we ought to support our instances otherwise they'll just start adding ads.

  Also as an aside, I'd love for NNTP to make a comeback, but I also understand why it hasn't.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senior Citizen Sex⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, what’s heart breaking is congenital syphilis. A disease that’s passed to an infant at birth. In 2012, it was almost gone from the US.

  In 2021 it has surged by 201% nationally and quadruple digit percentage in some States.

  And given the antibiotic resistance that’s quickly building up, we may never be able to get rid of it now without some new advancement.

  And the vast majority of the surge has been due to people either not being able to have a prenatal screening or not wanting it.

  It is one of the most depressing defeats. Especially considering the damage the disease does to the child brain and heart. It’s just an unspeakable L humanity has had to take on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbes' kiss of death⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Forbes isn't handing out a kiss of death. Forbes is just a publication gushing about the headliners of a rapacious and fraudulent group of people. It's like wondering why a bakery smells like bread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce, also selling Bandcamp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this might have more to do with the beating that Epic took from Apple in court. The 2021 decision of their lawsuit for anti-competitive behavior against Apple was upheld this year. That was not cheap to litigate that.

  I think the Bandcamp sell off is a good indicator of all of this. Epic obtained Bandcamp in March 2022, to explicitly have their IAP system integrated into it. Google shut them down and told them they would start collecting the 30% usual due. Epic filed suit and Google gave them an exception for the time being with the agreement that 10% would be held in escrow until the conclusion of the trail. With many of the arguments in the Apple case similar to Google's case, I'm pretty sure Epic sees the loss coming from a mile away.

  All in all, what I think can be drawn from this. Epic made a big bet on "their store" and that's fading away with mobile devices locking people into a marketplace that is "distinctly not Epic". While putting such a bet wouldn't normally kill a company, Epic sextupled down on it and I think how hard they went for "their marketplace" is what's done them in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  FR. Dude's head looks like something out of the Wii U mii creator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Irrefutable proof of a all loving god⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Irrefutable proof of a all loving god⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You know really at this point, I blame God. Don't blame the ants, blame the person who picked out the location for the picnic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield players pirate the DLSS mod after the developer locks it behind paywall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of this whole thing, I just want to say something about this.

  Some players' reactions to the paywall have been unfavorable; they think that charging for mods is unethical and goes against the spirit of community modification

  Everyone needs to make bread. Someone asking for money from their mod or map or whatever isn’t against any spirit. It’s just a human being asking to make bread. Now some don’t agree with the price tag and that’s fine.

  But we all need to recognize humans asking for some dough for their hard work is in the spirit of existing. Some folk do it for free just for the feelings and we love ‘em for it. But those asking for some cash are no different.

  This world is already full of dog eat dog. Let’s not hate on someone just trying to get through it. You don’t have to pay the ask, but let’s not go making enemies just cause we don’t agree on that number on the price tag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beating a dead horse (bird?)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is a great time to point out that "making money" for 𝕏 is important. But his company 𝕏 has a $44B operating debt that has an insane serviceability. Dude's company could be making $100M a month, that's nearly forty years to make good on just the principal of the loan. No one is giving him that kind of time.

  𝕏 doesn't need to just make money, it needs to act like a money printer on a cocaine fueled binger, just to cover the massive debt he has saddled the company with. Which when you hear him talk about aspirations for 𝕏 it sounds a lot like he wants to make it like China's WeChat. I don't know if the US is a good market for something like WeChat and even if it is, I think someone like Apple would be way better at it.

  But does make sense because Tencent, owners of WeChat, rank in tons of cash on their various holdings. And that's the level Musk really needs to get at to put this debt thing in his rear view. So, Musk better hope that bird he's poking suddenly turns into way more than just a place to post one's daily rants. Like that bird has got to turn into the next Visa/MasterCard at this point.