theneverfox
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- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 1 day ago:
I don’t think so. I think it’s going to fragment a la cyberpunk… It’s beginning already through a mixture of government controls and profiteering. Large enough platforms will still exist everywhere, but I think we’re going to end up with more regional networks
I think youll still be able to route a package across the world, but the age where you could access the same Internet from everywhere is ending
- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 1 day ago:
I meant the Internet doesn’t have a future, it’s already half dead
- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 2 days ago:
What future?
- Comment on It hurts 1 week ago:
People want cheap products in a general sense, they don’t like off shoring, it was hugely disruptive to jobs and the quality nose dives (at least for a time, sometimes permanently). They didn’t ask for or choose it, they’re the low information side of the system
Of course they’re upset at things being tariffed, they don’t want prices going up. They likely have some preference to buy things made locally, or by a country with a reputation
None of this is a choice made by consumers, it’s a generalized set of incentives and pressures created by the market
It’s like planned obsolescence… People hate it, it’s being sold to them
- Comment on It hurts 1 week ago:
The first two are debt related, and the third is off shoring
People didn’t ask for any of that… It was sold to them for profit
- Comment on Why are so many new programming languages being developed? 1 week ago:
Why do new languages come into creation?
Because someone with the understanding and education to write a new language decided the ones they know aren’t cutting it
Paintings are pigment expressed upon a medium. Code is thought expressed through a medium
People create new paints all the time
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 1 week ago:
Microsoft basically took it from Bethesda and cleared out a bunch of their core staff
The IP might not have been transferred, but Bethesda’s product ownership has been revoked. They didn’t even let outside teams touch their offshoot projects (like apps), and now the IP is probably going to be milked
Maybe obsidian will do something interesting with it before it inevitably is reduced to slop
- Comment on How did Voldemort actually die? 1 week ago:
She’s a way better writer than she is a person
She is a pretty shit writer though
- Comment on Will the next president of America have to do a world wide apology tour for this administration? Kind of like celebs do when they get their ass in a sling. 2 weeks ago:
Not really. They call themselves Canadians and call us Americans. For example, they are boycotting “American” xyz
- Comment on 360 3 months ago:
Apartment buildings have multiple circuits that connect to the grid. Sometimes my power partially goes out, so like these outlets work but those don’t, because there’s three circuits and one tends to break first
- Comment on Nier Automata 3 months ago:
No, I shared my experience with the game and then explained why I think it’s also totally valid and relatable why they couldn’t get into it when they played it. Sometimes art is timeless, sometimes it can only be properly experienced in the time it was made for.
Although I guess most art won’t hold up if reading comprehension continues to plummet…
- Comment on Nier Automata 3 months ago:
When the fuck did I say any of that??
I don’t know why you recommend games to people, but I do it so others can find enjoyment. I had a deeply meaningful experience from the game that I like talking about, but I also think it won’t hit the same in 2026. I just don’t think others will have that kind of experience with nier in the current media environment.
It sounds hard to be so insecure in your own tastes that you need external validation
- Comment on Nier Automata 3 months ago:
The game is a true masterpiece, one of the best works of art I’ve ever experienced. The pacing and story were amazing, even the boring and annoying parts are perfectly seasoned with new information so that your interest and investment to the story deepens
It’s a world and a story that flows like music, repeating the same melody over and over with new instruments joining in and swelling with each repetition. It constantly adds new information that recontextualizes the story entirely with masterful timing
I also don’t recommend the game to people. It was perfectly tuned in a way that no longer works, it was made for society a decade ago. Sadly, I don’t think you can get the same experience anymore… We just aren’t the same as we were then
- Comment on So say, someone lives in an English speaking country and wanna see a movie in the threaters but they struggle to understand English, how are they supposed to watch it? 4 months ago:
Have you tried looking for a theater that does Chinese subtitles?
It’s a thing that exists, you might find it in a populated area but it’s not super common.
You could also find a Chinese movie with English subtitles, that’s probably a lot more common
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 4 months ago:
Also, on Reddit I never had anyone follow me around trying to cause reputational damage by spreading false accusations about me.
I’ve experienced it on both, but it was much more toxic and persistent on reddit in my experience
- Comment on it is me, I am the autistic child 4 months ago:
Yep, shockingly rare. So much I can’t explain it to others… They look at me like I’m talking witchcraft lol
- Comment on it is me, I am the autistic child 4 months ago:
It really goes beyond autism too. Babies might not like how they’re being held. Cats might have somewhere they like to be scritched more. Dogs might want to go somewhere they can run
The ability to put yourself in someone else’s situation to contextualize body language is a shockingly rare skill
- Comment on Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public? 4 months ago:
I think modern phones are just too big. I don’t want to hold a tablet up to my face
Personally, I just carry a headset, but if that dies it’s only consideration for others that might stop me from putting it on speaker
- Comment on Whatta my color? 🤩 4 months ago:
There’s purple and color changing eyes too
- Comment on We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI 4 months ago:
Standardization and automated processes will fix that
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 4 months ago:
Ask what proof would change their mind and show them. Then when their mind is not changed, you will understand
- Comment on Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W 5 months ago:
I think they mean microblogging as a format
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Maybe? I’d recommend giving them an orange to peel before shooting unrelated drugs up their nose, but it might work
- Comment on 6 months ago:
It would also have penalties for breaking the contract which could be very high, plus if you tank a major production without good reason your career is probably over
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 6 months ago:
Sure, but the R&D is largely subsidized because it’s a common good. Pharmaceutical companies generally take over when it’s already a pretty safe bet… It could fall through during clinical trials, but they don’t pay for the massive R&D they did traditionally. Sometimes they even just buy the patent
There’s overhead, but the vast majority is just profiteering
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 6 months ago:
Ah. Laws vary by state, mixing and matching manufacturers is illegal in my state, the manufacturer must be on the bottle along with a description. I’m less certain about the expiration date thing, but I believe here they require them all to come back to the same batch in case there’s an issue (including improper storage of the bottle or something)
I’ve been told this is how it works by a pharmacist when they were having trouble filling my rx, and we were talking about controlled substances in particular
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 6 months ago:
What do you do with expired meds, does the pharmacy eat the loss?
Do you mix and match pills with different expiration dates to fill a prescription? From different manufacturers?
I’m genuinely asking. What I described is how things work here, and while our healthcare system is insane, this is one part that makes sense to me
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 6 months ago:
We wait it out. It’s a collapsing empire, a real war would prolong the collapse, they’res plenty of historical precedent
We’re doing our best to speed run it, guys. Maybe make fun of us for healthcare more, it’s a real sore spot
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 6 months ago:
I think you’re misunderstanding what I’m saying.
Yes, the companies need to sell the pills for a certain amount to make a profit, due to infrastructure and overhead. The R&D is a whole complicated thing, let’s just lump it in as overhead and put it aside
The pills themselves cost basically nothing to produce each, a batch will cost money but normally they’re consistently pumping out huge batches
So, most manufacturers have programs to retrieve pills. If you have 4 pills at the end of the roll, they can be reclaimed so patients can get a complete strip, because the pills themselves cost so little. They do the same if you end up with a small number of pills left in the big bottle, you can’t mix batches because of expiration dates and expiration. So you send them back, and they give the pharmacy a credit
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 6 months ago:
The r&d costs come from government grants these days
Yes, a sterile lab is expensive, but like normal business expensive. It’s very achievable to build, drug cartels manage it just fine. Universities and YouTubers have no problem doing it with pretty modest funding
Yes, there’s overhead. But the pills themselves? The materials and production cost is cents. They themselves cost basically nothing
That’s why other countries can afford to sell them for cents - they really are that cheap to make