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- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 13 hours ago:
He probably did intend to scare insurance company executives. I can see calling it terrorism, even if I think he should get off.
I’ve dealt with back pain, and during the height of my battle with the insurer I absolutely would’ve been tempted to kill the fuckers given the chance.
- Comment on Help 2 days ago:
Gimp is free, but God is the interface terrible.
Lots of free software is great. I love my QGIS and I escape, but Gimp just can’t replace photoshop for me.
- Comment on Anon gets plastered 3 days ago:
The secret to promotion is to be competent but not amazing.
If you’re good enough not to be fired, but not so good you’re indispensable in your current role, your boss will be happy to recommend you for promotion to get you out of their umbrella.
- Comment on Privacy: Breached 4 days ago:
I worked at a place that used customer phone numbers for internal market research in a less-scummy way.
For instance, if the same customers (tracked by their phone number) purchased lots of X and Z, but not Y, we’d market X and Z together.
- Comment on Happy birthday, peon 5 days ago:
I got called in for an inventory audit on my birthday and ended up working from 8am to 2am the following morning.
- Comment on Thief has a new spiritual sequel, built by the Deus Ex and System Shock devs 5 days ago:
I think what he means is multi-player games are typically cheaper than single-player because the devs make 6 maps or whatever and let the players loose.
A full campaign requires a lot more work to keep it interesting for more than a few minutes.
- Comment on Important life choices 5 days ago:
It’s also way, way cheaper to make new plastic than to recycle it. As long as that’s the case, it’ll be a scam.
- Comment on Even the traffic signs are weighing in 1 week ago:
Article I, Section 8 of the New York Constitution explicitly allows for Jury nullification. It says directly that the jury may determine the law in their ruling on the case.
- Comment on Even the traffic signs are weighing in 1 week ago:
Ju4y nullification is absolutely allowed. It’s the entire reason citizen juries exist. Otherwise, it would be better to have judicial panels determine guilt based on strict interpretation of the law.
The last line of defense against unjust laws and a corrupt judicial system is citizen juries who can refuse to convict.
- Comment on The European mind can't comprehend 1 week ago:
That’s a cheap ambulance ride.
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 1 week ago:
Peaceful protests are the opening argument.
We have a second amendment specifically to give the citizens teeth. The idea isn’t to overthrow the military, it’s to make enrollee potential threat.
The more people those in power piss off, the more danger they’ll be in. The way they’ve been treating us, they should all be terrified to step outside.
- Comment on It's true 1 week ago:
I’m saying they’ll just say it’s a copycat and use that to go after our rights.
- Comment on It's true 1 week ago:
I’m torn.
Yes, murder is bad.
But when someone is responsible for thousands of deaths and will continue to willingly kill for money, is taking them out justifiable?
If the CEO had been firing a weapon into a crowd, there’s no question that killing him would have been justified. Is the fact that he killed with memos and board meetings rather than a gun actually relevant?
- Comment on It's true 1 week ago:
You mean a copycat?
Better make 3D printers illegal. It’s the only way to be safe.
- Comment on I'm thinking taffy. 1 week ago:
Yeah. You know all those is movies and stuff where people sink in lava?
Nope. It’s too dense. You’d be so buoyant you’d just stay on top.
- Comment on If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics? 1 week ago:
Not to be confused with Broken Window Theory, which posits that the presence of broken windows, graffiti, and other forms of vandalism creates lawlessness because people see that the laws aren’t enforced. The idea is that greater criminality is encouraged through the lack of action on minor criminal acts.
We need someone to Broken Window geometric postulate.
- Comment on everybody liked that 2 weeks ago:
The prior-authorization denial rate of United tripled under his leadership.
I don’t like vigilante justice, but when “legitimate” paths to justice are denied, this is the inevitable result.
A hungry crowd is an angry mob. Ignore the danger too long, and they’ll eventually feast on the flesh of those who oppress them.
- Comment on everybody liked that 2 weeks ago:
That’s the beauty of it. Millions of people have worse lives because of this asshole, so by having an anonymous killer take him out, we all get to feel a little justice.
- Comment on Just put a spray tan over it 2 weeks ago:
I’d worry about making a mess. What’s the smallest eyedropper they sell?
- Comment on what a moment to live 2 weeks ago:
Of the 3 scenarios, this is the only one that lets me focus my rage on people who deserve it.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
The thing is gaming is a weird industry where the consumer price is essentially fixed tegardless of platform/marketplace outside of sales.
Ideally, games would cost more on Steam to make up for the increased fees. That would create a market where Steam would probably have to lower its fees to be competitive. And if Steam did that, EGS would need to improve the quality of its service to remain competitive.
Or maybe Steam could be a boutique marketplace where the games cost more but the UU is better, while EGS is an unholy mess of a UX, but the games cost less.
But what we have right now is neither. With the customers being shielded from the price differences, the negative effects of Steam are invisible to most people and the market doesn’t properly function.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
Is a better launcher really worth 18% of the gross value of a game?
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
As much as I like using Steam, I’m on Epic’s side here. They sue over anti-competitive practices of other marketplaces that take almost triple the cut that Epic does on game sales.
If I were a developer and one platform took 12% while the other took 30%, I’d push my customers to the 12% option no matter how much better the in-game overlay or whatever was on the other platform. Game studios are closing left and right, and that extra 18% is a big deal when games are struggling to actually profit from the development.
I don’t understand why people are so in love with a Steam monopoly. Steam has a lot of neat features, but the main feature I’m looking for in a game is the game itself, and I’d prefer more of the money to go to the companies making the games.
And maybe if Valve didn’t take home a larger profit from game sales than the developers themselves, they’d go back to being a full-time game studio to make their money.
- Comment on Took me by surprise 2 weeks ago:
I also save up on cheesy jokes for date night.
- Comment on Binary search 2 weeks ago:
It’s not the 10 grand. It’s that a gun was stolen. Someone who walks into a store and steals a gun is the kind of person you want to identify and track down. If we catch them stealing a gun on camera, we can follow them out of the store with the other cameras and grab a plate number from a car.
It happened on another occasion where we saw the gun being stolen in real-time. We were able to track them on camera and call the police with a plate number and have the gun recovered.
We didn’t physically stop them from stealing the gun because that’s the kind of syluspect who will start shooting, and half the customers would pull out their own handguns and “help” by putting more lead into the air.
- Comment on Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot 2 weeks ago:
Agreed. But I was responding to the claim that the remasters suck. With the recent updates, that’s not as accurate unless the music is the most important part of the experience for you.
The improved controls, higher resolution, gameplay tweaks (fucking David Cross RC missions in the original were ludicrous), and restored lighting make a pretty compelling package. If the remasters launched in their current state they’d be considered excellent.
- Comment on Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot 2 weeks ago:
They actually updated the remaster a few weeks ago and it is a huge difference.
Now the only glaring issue is the music, since the originals came out before game studios knew to secure licensed music rights in a way that would allow future re-releases in different formats.
- Comment on Binary search 2 weeks ago:
It was a high-tragfic area of a retail store. Motion alert is useless.
- Comment on Binary search 2 weeks ago:
No.
- Comment on Binary search 2 weeks ago:
I worked at a major outdoors retailer with a “gun library” of high-end firearms.
In one of our quarterly steel audits (where we pull all 10,000 guns put hands on them, verify the serials, etc) we discovered a $10,000 rifle was missing.
The thing is, the case it was in obscured the gun itself from the security cameras. It was behind like 6 other guns in a glass case any customer could item and pull the guns out to look at them (guns themselves were trigger-locked of course).
So we had to have the gun library manager sit there and watch 3 month’s of surveillance video of a specific case that was proclaimed opened 20 times an hour in a highly-trafficked area of the store. Because of all the activity, the video had to be watched in real time, and we were open 13 hours a day.
The manager ended up quitting over the boredom combined with stress.