UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on When everything is fake and we continue to believe it 1 day ago:
Slight difference. When Trish Stratus Betrayed Chris Jericho, it didn’t cause me to lose health insurance.
- Comment on In the cave 1 day ago:
“I warned you, bro! Didn’t I warn you? Your soul is bound within the confines of perceived reality, dude. The mind is a cage, my guy! You have to free yourselves from the cave and search for meaning beyond the simulacrum of the senses, man!”
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 1 day ago:
PayPal made Valve remove them
You can buy games outside of the Steam store.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 2 days ago:
not an argument for of against anything
Right. It’s a system of economic exchange, not a moral position. There are ways around this system, but they’re time consuming and annoying to accomplish. So the vendors tend to take the path of least resistance when setting their internal policies.
For some reason, people seem to confuse being naive and gullible with being moral and upstanding.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 2 days ago:
I mean, that’s exactly how third party payment systems have always worked. 🙄
I guess you can always try buying your porn game with Bitcoin or something.
- Comment on *Record scratch* freeze frame 2 days ago:
cut to small rodent slapping an alarm clock and burying itself in bedsheets
- Comment on Deserved? Poll inside 2 days ago:
This is about this
You don’t need photoshop to make a shitpost on 4chan.
- Comment on Text-to-speech Youtube voice overs are driving me nuts 3 days ago:
With a few exceptions, I’ve basically given up on YouTube. It’s a Pacific Garbage Patch pile of trash, as wide as it is deep.
The efforts to further automize the slop has only stiffened my resolve to stay the fuck away.
- Comment on Deserved? Poll inside 3 days ago:
Fuck it, you could be a bot programmed to complain about people taking shitposts seriously.
- Comment on Deserved? Poll inside 3 days ago:
A story that practically glows in the dark with “That Happened” particles.
Definitely a real event that really happened and not some sort of weird incel power fantasy. Only thing missing was a bit at the end where everyone clapped.
- Comment on Someone MUST be hiring for this position 3 days ago:
Podcaster
- Comment on Anon is not satisfied 3 days ago:
I would say the biggest problem TA had was simply lag. Once you really get going with the volume of units - especially over a network - the loads on the system can get heavy.
There’s a new iteration of the franchise - Planetary Annihilation - that I’ve been meaning to check out as soon as I have some free time. Good reviews on Steam. Stick it on your list and wait for a sale, if the $30 price point bothers you. But I think it’ll probably look a little nicer and run a little smoother.
- Comment on Anon is not satisfied 3 days ago:
Still feels like shit
- Comment on Anon is not satisfied 3 days ago:
I don’t understand people who WILLINGLY install that shit
The ads are everywhere and the games are often F2P - no barrier to download or install. Excellent for hooking younger kids, especially ones whose parents can’t or won’t give them access to the old fashioned games.
And unlike gambling at a casino, there’s zero chance of you being up money at any point.
Arguably the singular upside. You can coast in a Gacha game without losing a ton of money a lot longer than you’ll last in Vegas.
- Comment on Anon is not satisfied 3 days ago:
It is simultaneously an obnoxious speed bump that slows down my ability to binge when I’ve got free time and a needy attention drain when I’m absorbed in something else.
Truly the worst of both worlds.
- Comment on Every time 5 days ago:
Broadly speaking? For the same reason every other state does. Continental unity opens up trade and travel, exploits economies of scale, and simplifies the legal system for interstate business and for civil rights purposes.
Specifically? Because federal coordination helps manage natural disasters (like wildfires) and centralize big programs life Medicare/SS and secures national defense (which California profits from handsomely).
- Comment on Every time 5 days ago:
There’s no compelling reason why a state a big and wealthy as Texas can’t afford to manage natural disasters on this scale.
Their state leadership simply chooses not to do so. And the state media saturated the airwaves with “Nothing to be done, government would only make things worse” which… given the leadership of the state, isn’t even an unfair critique.
- Comment on Every time 5 days ago:
That’s all
redstates.From California to Mississippi, the anti-tax era got everybody. Now states don’t have domestic revenue to pay for shit, so they have to go through the Feds for everything.
Ironic, in a way, since the core of anti-tax Republicanism was supposed to be about shrinking the size of government. But here we are, beholden to whichever idiot or asshole happens to be running the executive branch at a given moment
- Comment on PAPERS, PLEASE - The Short Film 5 days ago:
Yeltsin was such a drunk idiot
Backed by the US in a coup against the Russian government
- Comment on PAPERS, PLEASE - The Short Film 6 days ago:
Putin wouldn’t be President of Russia if the US and the USSR had been able to settle their differences without a 60 year long series of proxy wars and regime changes. Neither would Trump, for that matter.
You played yourselves.
- Comment on PAPERS, PLEASE - The Short Film 6 days ago:
Doesn’t seem like years of sanctions on Russia, Iran, or North Korea had a sufficient impact to cause any change.
Seems like it made them more insular, more self-sufficient, and more hostile to future diplomatic entreties.
- Comment on Missouri Gov. Kehoe signs bill repealing paid sick leave 1 week ago:
It’s hardly a one-time thing. Kehoe came up through a rich Catholic School, owned an auto dealership, became a bagman within the State Senate, and eventually climbed up to the governor’s mansion by iteratively taking bribes and doing favors over the last 30 years.
Where do you think he raised the $13M war chest to run for governor in the first place? He’ll never stop supporting these reactionaries because he never wants them to stop shoveling money into his pockets. And if he wants to continue climbing? (And every governor secretly has an eye on the White House) He’s going to need those millions to become billions. That means he’s got to prove his loyalty. Go above and beyond. Really stand out as the kind of guy who will shove a few thousand babies into a wood chipper if his bosses demand it of him.
- Comment on PAPERS, PLEASE - The Short Film 1 week ago:
…made in 2018 by a Russian team. Way before the whole Ukraine war thing, you understand
Flipping through a history book on Russian/Ukrainian relations in the 21st century
Closing the book, putting it back on the shelf, whistling, and walking away
More seriously, I’ll never understand folks who hear “So-and-so is from Nationality X, so now I must/must not purchase products from them because of their bloodline.”
- Comment on Missouri Gov. Kehoe signs bill repealing paid sick leave 1 week ago:
A cunt who is getting crazy kickbacks from the Chamber of Commerce.
Business groups lobbied heavily to overturn the measure passed by 58% of voters, arguing it would cost jobs. The bill also repeals annual inflation adjustments for the minimum wage, in effect since 2006.
The action followed a pattern established over the past 15 years where conservative Republicans have used their majorities in the legislature to roll back or repeal measures that became law through initiatives pushed to the ballot by progressive groups.
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In a news release Thursday, Kara Corches, president and CEO of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry, called the mandated paid sick leave a “job killer.”
“Missouri employers value their employees and recognize the importance of offering competitive wages and benefits, but one-size-fits-all mandates threaten growth,” Corches said in the release.
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The action on sick leave is similar to a bill in 2011 weakening provisions of a ballot measure from 2010 called the “Puppy Mill Cruelty and Prevention Act,” that specified appropriate living conditions for breeding operations and including action this year to overturn the abortion rights amendment approved in November.
Incidentally, Missouri’s abysmal animal rights laws had, up until that ballot measure passed, made it the national leader in breeding (and killing of surplus) designer puppies.
- Comment on Financially rewarding and you will always have a job 1 week ago:
Have a friend who was a sort-of perpetual grad student - bouncing from Sweden to Italy to Australia - over about ten years, pursuing a degree in marine biology. Along the way, she contributed thousands of hours of labor to various research teams. Eventually, she got burned out, married a neurologist, and moved to a small house in Queensland. Now she mostly just gardens and raises bunnies, which she is extraordinarily good at thanks to her education.
Was this money wasted or did the universities get exactly what they paid her for? Idk. But it seems a far better way to employ people than what we’ve done with The Pentagon or ICE.
- Comment on Financially rewarding and you will always have a job 1 week ago:
“I graduated high school, got a good job at the Mill, married my high school sweetheart, had five kids, bought a second house with a boat, retired at 60, and went insane reading Facebook memes, and decided to shoot up the Harvest Music Festival in 2017. Why can’t you young people do that?”
- Comment on Financially rewarding and you will always have a job 1 week ago:
My wife graduated law school in 2010, Summa Cum Laude, and just barely got a job at a low rent firm.
Five years later, she’s earning twice the money at a much nicer place for not much more work, because the glut of students from '08-'10 caused grads in '11-'14 to look elsewhere. Suddenly there was a huge supply gap and you could write your own ticket.
Moral of the Story: Get good at something and stick with it. Markets go up, markets go down, but skills pay the bills in the end.
- Comment on Project Diva 1 week ago:
Reminds me of the movie “A Serious Man”
Larry Gopnik: A divorce-what have I done! I haven’t done anything- What have I done!
Judith Gopnik: Larry, don’t be a child. You haven’t “done” anything. I haven’t “done” anything.
Larry Gopnik: Yes! Yes! We haven’t done anything! And I-I’m probably about to get tenure.
Judith Gopnik: Nevertheless, there have been problems. As you know.
- Comment on Anon gets philosophical 1 week ago:
I will answer this question with another question. “If I don’t take the blindfold off and find out who is doing the Lord’s work, do I get this person to do it again?”
- Comment on stock market 1 week ago:
Unless you work in this sector and have detailed knowledge, youd be delusional to believe to be able to answer that question
The decision by Intel to forgo investment in next-generation chip fabrication for over a decade and coast on a spec that capped out at 7nm was something techies and investors had been ringing bells about for a long while. Similarly, the swell in demand for future high performance chips has been ongoing since the pre-COVID days. You can read the briefs on Intel and make an informed guess as to whether they will be able to outperform a company like TMSC, which is hedged in both politically and geographically, but riding the cutting edge of chip fabrication.
The great thing about making investment decisions is that you don’t have to be exactly right every time. You can be marginally right, or even wrong, and still see your portfolio grow. The baseline you’re competing against is the index returns. And - especially with Blue Chips in a heavily monopolized environment - the difference between the index and the individual business isn’t particularly large most of the time.
Also i’d say Palantir isnt as much of a secret tip but rather capitalizing on wanting to live under Fascism.
That’s not investing, that’s wishcasting. If you think betting for or against Palantir is the difference between Liberty and Tyranny, you’ve got bigger problems with your portfolio than diversification.
