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- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 2 days ago:
It encourages then to develop that grindset early.
- Comment on Netflix puts AI ads in paid tier: pirate EVERYTHING at this point... 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ 14:55 4 days ago:
The problem with pirating Netflix material is that there’s nothing new worth watching on it anyways.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 1 week ago:
I got a real one. We made money on our wedding because the wedding and receptions were so cheap.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 1 week ago:
I played it for just a couple of hours and I understood why you were saying that. It was either dance around like an idiot or make no progress. I similarly didn’t like it and stopped playing it.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 1 week ago:
Oh come on, we cannot expect this class unconscious wannabe professional vibe coder to have market awareness. A lot of software developers are people who basically won the lottery (got into the right field at the right time) and think they deserved all of it.
He doesn’t understand why people aren’t clamoring to pay him $150k/year when they don’t even have to anymore to provide the illusion to the market that they’re software companies.
That’s right guys, some of this is about impressions and stock prices and always has been. It was the case before chatgpt and friends that you’d have to have a slew of engineers doing stuff to look like a tech company. No longer. Even the tech companies are doing away with lots of people. So now to look like a tech company you have to keep saying AI into a mirror and hope it conjures up a bunch of new investors.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 1 week ago:
The wisest thing I did was save a lot of money in my 30s, and then buy and pay off a place to live. I always knew the 150k a year salary days were likely to end one way or another. Now I at least have a pretty controlled cost of living if I have to take a huge salary hit.
- Comment on Life is unfair to landlords 1 week ago:
Remember to tip your landlord (down a staircase)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Everyone gets a fixed allotment of pencils bro Isn’t capitalism great bro?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Let’s not go that far. This lady got something she deserved. Generally speaking, what someone deserves has little to do with what they get.
- Comment on On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down 2 weeks ago:
Look the CEOs already have the fifth cheapest yacht chef available, what are they supposed to do? Source the caviar themselves?
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
I don’t remember all of the differences, but I think you’re conflating copyright, patent, and trademark here. Software patents should almost be not a thing, but copyright and trademark should still exist.
- Comment on What's your favorite poker hand in Balatro? 3 weeks ago:
Flush
It’s almost always playable
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 3 weeks ago:
Are you calling for people to eat milksteaks boiled over hard?
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- Comment on Paper Planes 3 weeks ago:
Still a great song
- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 3 weeks ago:
Bonus points if it’s a Linux course
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' finera;l 4 weeks ago:
Drowsy Donnie is what many people are calling him
- Comment on Do you understand how many people 350 million is? How did this worm ridden ball sack float to the top? 4 weeks ago:
He’s like a walking uncanny valley.
He’s the uncle in the zombie flick that swore he wasn’t bitten and is starting to turn.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 4 weeks ago:
I agree that they’re athletic, but they simply aren’t competing in an athletic competition while pretending that they are.
I think your comparison to the Globetrotters is on point. In the ballet and other examples, the difference to me is that they’re not pretending to be in a ballet competition while dancing the ballet.
There’s no doubt that what wrestlers do requires skill, and talent (and in most cases athleticism) but it’s “fake” in that what you’re watching isn’t an athletic competition despite its self-constructed thin veneer that it is.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 4 weeks ago:
The outcome of the match is predetermined while the participants pretend that it isn’t. That is why there are constant arguments about whether or not it’s “fake”.
- Comment on Find a circle that is going places 4 weeks ago:
I’m 40+ and I wanna go get drunk in a parking lot with you guys.
- Comment on Do you really have to let everyone know 5 weeks ago:
I feel like most social media is the online version of this.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 5 weeks ago:
Eh, they’re perceived as more “lefty” than most of the stereotypically “patriotic” corporations of the US.
There are a couple of reasons for this: (1) Steve Jobs has/had a “crunchy granola” reputation (despite likely being a crypto fascist) due to likening himself to civil rights leaders and other “woke” people, and (2) they have a large amount of usage by people in the creative arts such as music producers, visual artists, and other people who the right would call “woke” without blinking an eye.
I think it’s all perception, and they are easily just as fascistic as the rest of the corporations. But they try to stay on the good side of a lot of people that care deeply about eroding democratic norms, and the removal of people’s rights – or at least claim to – that produce a lot of the cultural artifacts the right largely hates, but are broadly-speaking massively popular.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 5 weeks ago:
Probably market cap
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 month ago:
Yes they are that lazy. The average office worker also has the attention span of a gnat.
- Comment on Max pulling THIS shit every time I finish watching Last Week Tonight 1 month ago:
Things you may absolutely hate
- Comment on I used to really like that one 1 month ago:
Japan’s sending PlayStations
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 1 month ago:
It’s a fucking lotto. Lucky people always think they’re smarter or more hardworking than others.
- Comment on Do you eat shrimp shells when eating shrimp? 1 month ago:
No it’s gross
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 1 month ago:
Nintendo shop regularly runs deals similar to steam. Usually at around the same times of year. Same with PlayStation. I run games on all three platforms. You have to be kind of a sucker these days to buy a game at full price when it’s first released. But none of what I said makes $80 games reasonably priced.
- Comment on If these mother fuckers are trying to make me pay for Healthcare to talk to fucking ChatGPT I swear to god ChatGPT is going to write me so many scripts for opioids its won't be funny. 1 month ago:
Dude within ten years people in the US will be lucky if they have potable water.
