SpaceCowboy

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ONE OF US⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Spoliers: Dr. Metropolis is revealed to be a villain that was working against the heroes the whole time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshittification⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The problem with the subscription model is that it doesn’t incentivize making improvements. If I buy a piece of software, I’m not going to buy the new version unless they make significant improvements. With a subscription model I have to continue paying for it even if they make no improvements to the software.

The customers just keep asking for new things. Does a meal planning app need to be a subscription service? Probably not. But anything that keeps on adding new features costs a lot of money. Software engineers aren’t cheap.

This is a problem of poor sales and marketing. The sales people should simply charge the customer for the changes that are asked for. Of course neither the sales people nor the customer understand the cost (they think it’s just pushing one button). Sales people tend to have too much influence in a company (like they bring in the money, not the product, and developers are a cost) and they’ll say yes to anything the customer asks for even if the customer may not even care all that much. But hey if this company is offering free software development services, why not take advantage of it?

A service model might make sense in some cases, but oftentimes it does not. Most definitely not in the consumer market, but we see that everywhere now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What TV cancellation are you most upset by?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, that’s probably the big one for me, with Jericho being a close second.

I generally don’t like alien invasion plot lines because in most of them there doesn’t seem to be a reason for the aliens to invade Earth. But with Colony there seemed to be a reason for the invasion, it just wasn’t quite revealed. To conscript humans to be soldiers to fight against some other alien race… I guess? They really left us hanging there.

Jericho would’ve been worse, but at least they made a mini-series to explain things and give an ending. Well and open-ended kind of ending, but we can kind of imagine how the rest of the story would go. With Colony, we didn’t get that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wriggle wriggle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I think that’s just how Australians refer to Canberra.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wriggle wriggle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Oi it looks like a budgie slipped out if it’s smuggler.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scarlett Johansson Wants Marvel Fans to Let Black Widow Go: ‘Let Her Have Her Hero Moment’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Altered Carbon enters the chat.

The show where the whole point was the character was in a different body and how weird that is?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is smarter than a genius⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah computers were doubling in speed every 18 months back then. And there were competing products oftentimes years before Apple put out their version. Apple primarily put a lot of polish onto the technological innovations that were happening at the time.

Don’t get me wrong polish is really important. Apple didn’t invent the MP3 player or the smartphone. But the MP3 players before the iPod were really fiddley and janky. BlackBerries had a downright primitive look and feel next to an iPhone.

Also marketing… a lot of people didn’t know MP3 players existed until they saw advertisements for the iPod.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nicole got a new outfit!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
How dare you say that my soulmate is “your girlfriend”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's why it's called science fiction duh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Eh… a lot of people were protesting “Frankenfood” when the human genome project was going on.

People have always been idiots about science, just that the idiots are more organized and more vocal now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, and property taxes result in more low density housing, as that increases the amount of tax revenue per person. High density housing means less revenue per person but the costs of services per person is still about the same. Sure theoretically, public transit is cheaper per person with high density housing, but realistically it isn’t because nobody gives a shit about public transit in the suburbs.

Of course there’s more costs overall because more suburbs mean governments are pressured to spend insane amounts of money on building and expanding highways. But it’s usually a different level of government that builds the highways, so doesn’t factor in the decisions to create more low density housing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This fucking bot is still out there messaging⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Still like you more than Putin.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨no ragrets⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah it doesn’t even make sense. Nitroglycerin was used in mining before dynamite was invented. Usually they’d just have some minority (Chinese most commonly I think) just carry it in. One little bump and boom, that person is dead. So the Invention of dynamite saved a lot of lives.

Also it’s not like he invented gunpowder. A story about Mr. Gatling having deep regrets over his invention I could believe. But a guy inventing something that saved a lot of lives in the mining industry? And remember the invention of dynamite was after the US civil war, so warfare was already extremely bloody at that time without any dynamite involved. And how often is dynamite actually used in warfare as opposed to other kinds of explosives?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨80 years ago, in a galaxy close close⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yup, and he also said he had powers some would consider unnatural… which is a reference to have dark side powers over life and death. Also some rebels mentioned cloning and magic as possible explanations (re-iterating it for people that didn’t get the references) before Poe interrupted them to focus everyone on doing something.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They could certainly be replaced by the LLMs they’ve dumped billions into. A large chunk of middle management too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love the future.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Seems like something the Ninja Turtles would need.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Nah… Netscape Navigator Gold was peak. Netscape Communicator was too bloated and took forever to load. Sure it had an email client, HTML editor, etc. but these should have been separate programs, not all built into a single thing. The original mozilla browser was also this way until ~~Phoenix~~ ~~Firebird~~ Firefox pulled a browser out of the bloated mess.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love the future.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What word describes what you’re doing better than cope? You’re coping with the embarrassment of what your country’s becoming. Which would be fine, but trying to make it be about other countries rather than facing up to it, that just makes you part of the embarrassing state your country is in.

And yeah incumbents losing is a well known thing… here’s a link to the first article on the results from a simple search: abcnews.go.com/538/…/story?id=115972068

Also here in Canada, the Conservative poll numbers are dropping like a rock. The Conservative are now running a ridiculous number of adds to try to claim Carney is the same as Trudeau because they got nothing other than the incumbent disadvantage that’s become the global norm. The US idiocy is serving as a cautionary tale and making people turn away from anything resemblance of it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love the future.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The cope is strong with this one. “There’s other people being dumb too!”

Yup, and the source of this is disinformation from adversaries like Russia, China, and Iran being laundered through US social media companies to made to appear legitimate. Well I guess TikTok isn’t American (yet) so I guess China somehow got into the game of laundering disinformation too.

And the trend is actually incumbents losing power, not necessarily a right wing shift. You see the disinformation can be a blunt tool so it just results in people hating their own governments. The UK had an election where the Conservative party lost… as they were the incumbent.

But nowhere has the government been turned over to greedy businessmen to the degree the US has been. Argentina has their President briefly promoting a memecoin, sure, but he may face a lot of repercussions for doing that. Fun Fact: the Argentinian memecoin was launched by the same people that launched $MELANIA, and no one in the US cares about it nor do they care about the $TRUMP memecoin. It’s open season for grifting Americans, because it’s the gritters that are now in charge of everything in the US.

But go on making excuses for why it’s all ok. I’m sure that will result in fixing the problems in your country.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨80 years ago, in a galaxy close close⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Poe Dameron is my hero… while everyone else was debating how the bad thing happened, he’s the guy that’s just figuring out how to fight against it.

Peeople just didn’t appreciate the genius of JJ Abrams… pretty much every reason why people fall to fascism are in the two Star Wars movies he made. Palpatine obviously represents fascism, yet people whine about Palpatine returning not being explained.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It ain’t the left that’s in power, it’s the right. You’re not on the side of freedom fighters, you’re on the side of oppressors.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's why they tried to get rid of it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Is that why autistic people are trying to convince everyone that Pluto isn’t a planet?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entropy? Never heard of it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Solar and Wind are cheaper than nuclear now. The main problem is it’s not sunny and/or windy every day. A carbon capture system doesn’t need to be running 24/7 though.

If we build way more wind/solar than we use then the excess can dumped into things like this.

Sorry but the economics of nuclear just doesn’t work for everything.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Live Action Masters of the Universe film has started shooting.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The oligarchs profit off of the monetized socialist drivel you see online too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VA cutting 1,000 employees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Politics is at least 90% tribal. Most people vote for who their parents voted for. Those that don’t, vote the way their peers vote. Ideology is just a post-facto rationalization to convince people they’re right for sticking with their respective tribes.

Lies and hypocrisy aren’t a bug, it’s a feature. By showing a willingness to lie and be hypocritical it’s proving one’s loyalty to the tribe. Mocking those that point out the hypocrisy further proves loyalty to the tribe.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'll happen to you!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Then a a month later VGA 2.1B. After that VGA 3.0 Fullspeed and 3.0 Highspeed, to make things “less confusing.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yin and yang⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah back in my smoking days I bought a unique looking lighter so I wouldn’t accidentally steal someone else’s. After a night of drinking, I noticed I somehow had two of them.

Sorry! I tried my best not to steal your lighter, whoever was unfortunate enough to have one that looked like mine.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨im soooo normal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
There was a time when you could chat with people on facebook and google with XMPP. I think when they dropped it the communities using it got disrupted and probably never recovered.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions the KKK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yup. Ideology is religion and religion is ideology. We tend to want to be a part of something bigger, but the people in charge of those bigger things can use it to justify hurting people “for the greater good”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Well the government can break up corporations which results in more competition. They can also enforce standards which also allows more competition. This gives people more options so they can’t just set prices in a monopolistic way.

Unfortunately there’s not much the Canadian government can do about Walmart and Microsoft as they aren’t Canadian companies. And Kamala’s opportunity economy has been cancelled so it doesn’t look there’s going to be any positive change in the US for foreseeable future.

But they could break up Loblaw’s at least.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Well the debate should be over whether the taxes cause things to be expensive or it’s corporate greed causing things to be expensive.

Next time you see one of the ubiquitous Poilievre ads claiming it’s taxes that’s making things unaffordable, think about where the problems actually are.