Mog_fanatic

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO to Worker Pay Ratios for S&P 500 Companies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The CEO pay is hilariously misrepresented as well. The Airbnb CEO might not get a huge salary compared to some of the others but he gets monstrous pay packages. He got $120 million in bonuses and stocks alone a few years ago.

  Same goes for all CEOs. They typically wrap an ass ton of their “income” into bonuses and stocks options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome’s New War: Killing Ad Blockers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a time not too long ago where I would have just assumed a move this clearly douchey and against your customers’ desires would lead to nothing but a complete evacuation of those customers, but I’ve seen this movie play out enough times to know that somehow, someway, this will work out just fine for them. People will complain, swallow it whole, keep on using it, and finally just forget about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WooLooigi⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From the title I thought we were looking at an age of empires Luigi crossover. I’m kinda disappointed now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands is no longer the biggest box office flop of the year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I never go to theaters. I hadn’t heard anything about the crow but borderlands was pretty much unavoidable. I saw ads for that thing absolutely everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mile high club⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All I can think about anytime I see this picture now is the fact that the crazy geoguessr guy was able to find that exact tree on Google maps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just blame shrinkflation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The big piece looks like someone cut out a circle from the middle and then tried to put it back and it’s bothering me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Galaxy S10 til the wheels come off⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the problem, it’s a solution to a problem nobody had. Never once have I heard someone say “well it’s a solid phone but God I just wish it didn’t have that pesky 3.5mm headphone jack!” It’s just another feature stripped from the phone to clearly get you to buy more shit. I don’t want yet another damn thing I have to charge. I dont want to deal with keeping track of two tiny ass earbuds and if I lose one I gotta get a whole new pair. I don’t want to deal with the fact that now if I want to listen to wired I have to buy more shit like an adapter and if I lose those headphones, now I gotta buy another one of those along with new headphones. And I hate that if I do go wireless and lose them or they break, I can’t fall back on wired because it’s not even an option unless I happen to also have the adapter.

  It’s just another in a long line of clear middle fingers to consumers and it’s annoying. Does it like ruin the phone and the experience of a phone? Of course not. Is it a completely pointless pain in the ass with the obvious and sole purpose of funneling consumers into buying a cycle of products they almost definitely need and don’t already have? Absolutely. And for that I say they can eat a big bag of crap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Convicted on All Counts to Become America’s First Felon President⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And now it’s time to play everyone’s game when it comes to the rich and powerful dealing with legal problems - “Will It Actually Matter At All?” - It’s a decent game but kinda boring because it usually only ends one way…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Making healthier choices⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t seen a moat in at least the last 100 years

  This is a you problem pal. I personally have a moat defense system installed around my home and also around each individual room within the home with draw bridges for isolation in case of emergency. Safety is just common sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what I’ve done since but I was inexperienced and naive the first couple states I lived lol. But they are relentless! Every single time I go they typically ask for email or phone so it’s happened where I’ll remember not to give it for most of the time but will randomly slip one day after donating cause I’m a moron. I’ve also had several places that somehow got my number and I swear I’ve never given it to them. I have no clue how they obtained it. Probably from my email or something. The place I’m currently at I have given a fake number and email so far and it seems to be working but they do ask to send confirmation emails for appointments which causes some issues so I’ve just been going when my wife goes and seeing if I can get in then or just make an appointment in person. I’m sure they’ll pry it out of me at some point 😄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve lived around and have donated to blood banks in every city I’ve lived in pretty much. The amount of calls I get asking for me to donate is absolutely insane. They don’t stop no matter what I do. I’m getting calls from places in states I haven’t lived in for like a decade.

  I’m pretty sure if I ever went missing or got kidnapped at this point, the blood banks would track me down and beg me to donate way before my family or the police.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biden Wipes Out Another $7.4 Billion in Student Loan Debt⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I do. I’m not gonna lie about it. It would be prettttty sweet if I could have the depressingly gross amount of money I dumped into paying off my loans. But I also have no problem whatsoever with this move. I’m all for it. This whole “things sucked for me so it must suck for you too” thing I’ve seen too much of recently is exhausting as hell.

  We can improve. It may not be super fair or feel great to those who already got screwed over by things in the past but that certainly doesn’t mean we can’t fix things so future people aren’t screwed in the same way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Historical fun fact⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The real grandmasters were the old guys we made along the way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CFCs⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but I’m pretty sure that’s just cause the sun is upside down over there or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there are worse hills to die on⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The end reads like a bad Amazon review or something and it cracks me up.

  Absolute dogshit isotope and its synthetic siblings are just the same but worse

  1/5 stars

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube: 5 ads the norm now?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is wild haha I wonder if it was just someone trying to piss off the studios by popping that in there for free or something? I guess that way it’s guaranteed to never have ads for anyone, ad blocker or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please check you kids' Halloween candy, everyone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah i read mostly sci fi books so around like 300-400 pages all text and i’d say the average e-book for them is like 150-200kb’s so if it were books like that you’d be looking at stuffing like 300,000 books on there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal approved by UK regulators⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not quite how this works tho. Microsoft doesn’t make games. Sony doesn’t make games. The only exception is Nintendo but even they outsource a ton of devopment to studios like 1-up studios, monolith soft, retro studios etc. These companies just make a console that plays games and then they try to buy rights to good games or studios so they can make their games exclusive to that console to bolster sales. Sure, sony and microsoft could pour tons and tons and tons of money into creating their own studios i guess that make their own branded games but they have decided to focus on hardware sales instead. This is especially true for microsoft where the xbox is just a small part of the business where the PC market is their focus.

  From a business standpoint, it makes 10000% more sense to just try and acquire other businesses that do the work under you and you just publish their games. Which is why nintendo, sony, and microsoft all try to do it so much. I mean Sony alone has bought 14 development studios since last year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal approved by UK regulators⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This whole thing has confused the ever loving balls out of me. Xbox and Microsoft having been getting MURDERED over the last few years and ridiculed by pretty much everyone for one reason and one reason only, they have no games. Why get an Xbox? PlayStation and Nintendo have all the good exclusives. Xbox has nothing.

  Now, Microsoft goes out and buys up some IP’s and studios that have games they can make exclusive if they want (even tho they’ve said over and over they won’t for the ones that currently aren’t console exclusives but we’ll see on that one). So, for the first time in pretty much forever they’ll have the opportunity for console exclusives other than Halo and now everyone is complaining that they’ll make the games console exclusives. It’s like the biggest damned if you do, damned if you don’t for them lol.

  “Fuck Xbox they don’t have any good exclusives.”

  Microsoft goes out and gets good exclusives

  “Fuck Xbox they’re making the good games exclusive.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s “make the scene end” but I’m not positive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Danny Masterson Is Sentenced to 30 Years to Life in Prison for Two Rapes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m certainly no expert and a self admitted dumbass but I always assumed it was something along the lines of these people get rich and famous, get used to being able to get whatever they want, anytime they want it. Everyone around them tells them they’re the shit. Girls (or guys) are falling all over them. But then they find the one thing they want but can’t have… And then they kinda just have to have it cause they get everything they want, why would this be any different. So they take it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Throw some good books my way! I’m always on the lookout

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT's Top 25⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I always forget just how good curry is and my opinion of him with regards to the all time greats will fade. Then I’ll watch him play late one random night when he is absolutely cooking and I’m reminded that he, is in fact, insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I would guess this varies a ton from place to place as you are legally not obligated to do this in many states. In my situation for example, you have to use vacation for sick days. It’s all one bucket of time. If you’re very lucky your manager may not count a sick day against your paid time off but technically it should count as the same. So if you get sick for 2 days, you usually have to use 2 days of your vacation/paid time off time for the year.

  Also in my current place. Your vacation does not roll over. It gets paid out at the end of the year. So if you somehow don’t use the time you’re given they will just pay you as tho you worked all those hours. This is to discourage those from saving their time for like a month long vacation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Exaaaactly. I get 2 weeks vacation/PTO/sick days all year. That’s 10 days. I need to reserve at least 5 of those for potebtial sick days (either for me or to take care of the family or whatever), go to doctor appointments, take care in to mechanic, stay home for air conditioner to be worked on or whatever. That kind of stuff. Then I use at least 2 or 3 over the year for holidays like thanksgiving, Easter, or Christmas so I can take care of the parents and family members that are in town.

  So that leaves me with about 2-3 days all year for an actual vacation… If I go anywhere overseas I’m using pretty much 2 full days for travel there (travel there, travel back). So if I try to max it out I can realistically go on a legitimate vacation overseas for maaaaybe 1 or 2 days. Like a weekend trip to Italy or something. Nice 👍. it sucks so much. I am so jealous of people that go to like London for 2 weeks or a week long cruise or something. Only once in my life have I gone anywhere for a week or longer on vacation during my work career. The only way I could do it was to go on unpaid leave during that time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one really understands our struggle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My last land lord raised rent by 2.5x after the first year. When we moved out he kept the full security deposit because “the inside of the oven was dirty”

  Your mileage may vary

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one really understands our struggle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How the heck did you find not one but two 200k houses for 30k? Or are you saying you bought them for 30k and now they’re worth 200k? Either way holy balls I wish I could do either of those lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I booked a hotel online the other day and was asked if I want to leave a tip… A tip for what? I didn’t even interact with a human. Just clicked a few buttons on a website. Am I tipping the web developer?? Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DON'T⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Revolver Ocelot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dude Uses Rice to Show How Much a Billion Dollars Is, Then How Rich Jeff Bezos Is | NowThis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I love illustrations like this cause at a certain point numbers just don’t work for most people. Like yeah everybody knows $3 million is a lot money. But the average person doesn’t realize just how gigantic that number actually is in reference to the average person. You bump that up to $150 billion for someone like bezos and it’s literally an inconceivably big number. It all just falls under the category of “a lot” until you see stuff like this.