BilboBargains

@BilboBargains@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?⁩ ⁨⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an argument for using these services in the early stages because they often operate at a loss in the hope that they will secure a monopoly in the future. The trick is to immediately abandon them when they jack the price up. I recently heard that in the food delivery space virtually no one is turning a profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a reason to discount someone’s views, is why. Addicts are still people, worthy of respect and dignity. The real reason to discount RFK is that he’s wrong about most topics pertaining to health and he doesn’t respect the science or evidence that contradict his opinions. The problem is that most of the electorate is scientifically illiterate, the end result being an over privileged dunce like RFK deciding how your health care is organised. Can’t put an insurance premium on that. Good luck guys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long would it take a black Hole to fully absorb a person from event horizon to center of the earth style?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems that way. Physics predicts completely wild outcomes at the extrema, in this case gravity but also for things that are very small. Quantum entanglement is a very curious phenomenon seemingly transferring information over vast distances instantaneously, faster than the speed of light which is impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long would it take a black Hole to fully absorb a person from event horizon to center of the earth style?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As I understand it, the enormous gravitational force causes time and space to become inverted. Instead of velocity being defined as time to displace position, time occurs over displacement. A person on the event horizon would be apparently frozen in place until they eventually faded to nothing. Not sure how that analogy works since light doesn’t escape a black hole but it’s how Brian Cox explained it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Light em up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this true for Germans?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The logical evolution is Carpet Bagger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A majority of Australians support banning pro-Palestine marches⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Boooooooo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨at what point in life it's too late to go back to school?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s difficult to overstate the importance of education. I went back to school at 32 with very little formal education. It was tough but having graduated after ten years I never regretted it. I’m doing a job that I love and have more employment options. Whether or not you go back depends on many factors, especially if it is a serious investment in time and money. I didn’t like my work and that was what motivated me but I had savings and no debt or responsibilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🍺 🍻⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨for a better future for ur children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you listen carefully you can hear them squeak one out occasionally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨for a better future for ur children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not going to beat the mosquito or rotavirus when it comes to environmentally friendly killers. Lethality, prodigious. Carbon footprint, minimal (small amount of flatulence, don’t worry about it). This comment was sponsored by Gnawed VPN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe we could attract it with an OnlyFans subscription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone scientists confirm?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How they bite without the teeth?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OPs has distilled his job title from ‘political agitation meme technician’ to ‘shitposter’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where the fuck am I?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do ostriches have attention deficit disorder?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would a company force you to use a rental car instead of your own for a drive to the office/Christmas party?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most domestic insurance policies do not cover the use of a vehicle on company business and your employer would become implicated in the event of an accident. This necessarily implies that driving to work is not company business which doesn’t make sense to me. Do they think I was out for a drive each morning and just so happened to be in the vicinity of my workplace so I thought why not drop in for a shift? Them’s the rules.

  If you do get into an accident and they ask you ‘what gear were you in at the moment of impact?’ Tell them Gucci sweats and Reebok Classics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was no need to ever improve upon THIS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s about 5-10% more in the UK. The maintenance on a reliable transmission is fairly minimal but any mechanical problems are almost guaranteed to be a nightmare buried under a mountain of metal. I’ve been spared that trauma so far but I remember test driving a used VW Passat which clunked with every shift. Thanks for the test drive, bro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was no need to ever improve upon THIS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This works well and it’s not a hill I’ll defend but automatic control of temperature is better when it’s done well. In the UK we have a culture of driving cars with manual transmission and I’ve never understood it when automatic transmissions exist and are pretty good. People wanna feel like they are in control of stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would I buy this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Short answer: you wouldn’t buy this game, given your valid criticisms.

  This type of extortionate pricing policy speaks to the general user base being nobs, die hard try hards and probably a toxic gaming environment. Having a barrier to entry in any activity prevents total idiots from entering. Consoles have made it easier for people who don’t understand how to operate a PC to play games but that necessarily means those games will be replete with obnoxious people. The advent of smartphones has done that for the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#freepenisman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How big is Penis Man?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK what is your Roman name?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Assius

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who’s gonna make all the technology, music, art, etc, after we’ve finally cured autism? We might have to start re-autisming people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QUACK QUACK QUACK⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent news. Autism finally squared away. We can dedicate our scientists to finding a cure for trumpism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only people this effects is people who don’t know how to operate a torrent client or have a friend that does, e.g the old people that dream up these ineffectual laws. They want to put the genie back in the bottle by making it someone else’s problem and it will fail like the war on drugs has utterly failed.

  Meanwhile, back in reality, developing normal sexual relationships is much more complicated than abstaining from porn. It comes from a cohesive society that values education, healthcare, community and compassion for others. How are we still trying to make abstinence only methods work despite their horrible track record? Our politicial class are mendacious morons from a bygone era.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what peak trolling looks like guise. It has all the elements for a perfect recipe. Bloated and petulant narcissist target, check. Corpulent and obsequious hosts, check. Incredibly damaging and embarrassing open secret that nobody wants to publicly discuss but everyone is dying to find out what’s in the dossier, chef’s kiss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  New number, who did?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news. :)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Daily Zeitgeist podcast also doing some solid reportage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an unusual gift and would make most people incredibly awkward but there’s nothing sinister in the act itself, absent of the context. People gift things like guns and alcohol and I would argue those do more harm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s amazing how lethal cars are and we drive them every day without a care in the world. I never think about the particulate pollution spewing from my brakes or the noxious gases emitted from the exhaust. I don’t consider the pedestrians I will eventually hit if I drive long enough. I never think about anyone dying in my car from heatstroke. I think of my vehicle as the best and only solution to all of my transportation needs because every problem looks like a nail when your only tool is a hammer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The consequences so far have been a warm feeling on hearing the news but I’m starting to doubt that feeling. Shawty, are they playing me like a fiddle?