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- Comment on Caption this. 1 day ago:
Last patent application diagram for a suicide device. Submitted by Subject 7322261, a toad who had gained sentience and super intelligence during gene editing trials concerning FOXo3 and SHANK3.
- Comment on Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong? 4 days ago:
Some of it is that you have to be a legal citizen or have a TIN, so people will use someone’s account to deliver under if they don’t have those.
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 1 week ago:
There are two types of this, those that pay voluntarily and those who are extorted. If you pay protection money to a gang voluntarily, it is like insurance. If your business has a problem, the gang will deal with it. If you are the extorted type, then you may be on your own and you still owe money. They may act on your behalf because of the disrespect of hitting a business they deal with.
Some businesses don’t so much pay protection money as they act as a money laundering node for the gangsters, so if your shop gets hit then their money gets hit and that is personal. These types are usually more affiliated or may be forced to launder.
- Comment on what's the best material for wiping out a cast iron skillet? 1 week ago:
This is what I started doing a few months ago and it works great.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
Proof of concept for device which allows for the transmission of video and audio stimuli to a subject’s brain for marketing purposes during R.E.M. sleep.
- Comment on Developer wants to build 60 apartments and 24 parking spots. New York politician tells him to build less housing and more parking spots 2 weeks ago:
There is a fair amount of street parking and a bus stop right there…
- Comment on Reddit wants to be a search engine now 3 weeks ago:
Google is only better because you can see results that aren’t on reddit.
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 3 weeks ago:
Does not apply, she could make a fencepost disappear.
- Comment on Reddit wants to be a search engine now 3 weeks ago:
They will integrate AI and it will be terrible.
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 3 weeks ago:
The Bad Dragon Chance XL makes the perfect Mother’s Day gift.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think so. If you are certain you don’t want kids now, great. Get the snip and don’t worry about nutting raw and deep(with the consent of your partner).
Worst case you can later get a reversal that has a detrimental effect to fertility the longer that you have had a vasectomy, which means you will just need to try more.
- Comment on Spare a moment for all the children who were never born because their would-be fathers sterilized themselves imitating this show 3 weeks ago:
He was big into NOS and Ketamin.
So we know what to test.
- Comment on Spare a moment for all the children who were never born because their would-be fathers sterilized themselves imitating this show 3 weeks ago:
Steve-O had a sperm count of 51 million, average is 20-30 million. So that calls into question if nut kicks may be a fertility treatment for men.
- Comment on Spare a moment for all the children who were never born because their would-be fathers sterilized themselves imitating this show 3 weeks ago:
Everyone but Steve-O, Wee Man, Preston, and Brandon has kids.
Knoxville has 3, Bam has 1, England has 4, Ehren has 1, and Pontius has 1.
Steve-O had like 2x the average sperm count, but had a vasectomy. He was expecting to find out that he was sterile after all the testicular trauma, but he was hella potent.
- Comment on US education 3 weeks ago:
The theory is that there is biotic petroleum(the oil we know) formed from biomass from millions of years ago and there is abiotic petroleum that constantly forming from carbon sources deep in the Earth.
Depending on what degree of delusion, they either believe that there is more petroleum being produced than we use or there is less being produced than we need and we need to offset the deficit with other forms of energy.
As you can imagine, the believers in limitless abiotic petroleum tend to have some overlap with young Earth creationists and flat-earthers.
- Comment on US education 3 weeks ago:
One of my favorite insane conspiracy theories is that petroleum is constantly produced and is a renewable resource but that fact is hidden from us because it would mean “they” wouldn’t be able to impose carbon taxes and create more profit from other energy sources.
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 4 weeks ago:
Last part of the last paragraph, we agree.
We need wage increases across the board, not importing new workers to fill roles at lower wages because we have plenty of workers that only need higher wages to fill those vacant roles.
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 4 weeks ago:
They are generally paid well over a living wage for a position that a citizen could occupy at a market wage that is even higher. Median tech job income is over $100k, twice the national average.
Hiring a citizen costs more, so profit chasing dictates hiring an immigrant that can be paid less than market rate. Hiring an immigrant under an H1-B not only is cheaper in wages, but also gives the company more power over the employee because they can fire that person and then they get deported for not being sponsored.
Hiring an H1-B at a cheaper rate also suppresses wages for citizens.
Unemployment in tech is like 3%, we don’t need H1-B visa for tech jobs. We don’t even need H1-Bs for the industries with the highest unemployment, they need to increase wages to attract the nearly 7 million unemployed in the US, and there are even more people that are underemployed or have given up because wages are too low across the board.
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 4 weeks ago:
Adding mandated wage requirements would undermine the whole H1-B program, which is great. I don’t think we should allow H1-Bs for jobs that we have adequate domestic supply for and it should be a pain in the dick to get.
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 4 weeks ago:
If CS tried to unionize, they would get replaced with AI and H1-Bs so fast at this point. They should have tried that like 20 years ago when they were in hot demand.
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 4 weeks ago:
Microsoft fired 15,000 people in the last year, and applied for 14,000 H1-B visa.
They are cutting costs and improving productivity by taking advantage of people from other countries who have the threat of deportation hanging over their heads to keep them compliant.
- Comment on Anon does the shopping 4 weeks ago:
She didn’t communicate her needs well enough.
Honestly, the Bee plates showing up is more her fault than his.
- Comment on How does a guy become his most confident around women? 4 weeks ago:
They are just people. Once you understand that, it is no different than talking to a waiter.
Now, flirting with a woman, that is its own skill. You need to be able to treat them as just another person first.
- Comment on Repairing Broken Sofa? 5 weeks ago:
This thread is useless without pictures of the damage. We need to know the construction to have any idea what the best course of action is.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Is that because you lived a life so unremarkable that nobody would want to look at photographs of you, even for historical source material or are you so miserable that you don’t want any photographs of yourself because when you look at them all you can see is the pain in your eyes that only you can see through the lie of a smile you use to protect others from knowing the depths of your despair?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Have you ever looked through a photo album with pictures from your grandparents’ grandparents?
Now imagine your relatives looking through a photo album from your life and being able to hold the same photograph that you held when you put it in the album. Imagine them looking at the back of the photograph and seeing the handwritten note that indicates who is in the photo and the date, maybe with a comment on the photo.
Digital picture frames are decorative e-waste, photo albums are a gift to the future.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
In the time period they were referencing Polaroids were at risk of extinction because only one company was making the film at one plant and only through the complaining of hipsters were you able to have Polaroids at your wedding.
2001 Polaroid went bankrupt. 07-08 cameras and film stopped production.
2010 a hipster group restarted production.
2020 new Polaroid cameras are introduced.
Many younger people only know Polaroids as an icon in a video game or a prop from a music video; they don’t know what they are called.
- Comment on Trump just made It OK to continue paying disabled workers peanuts 5 weeks ago:
Anyone that is legally disabled that can still work, deserves time and a half all the time and their paycheck should not make any difference to their government assistance.
If you have the same job and are upset that they are making more than you, know that all that keeps you from getting a raise is your resolve and willingness to sacrifice.
- Comment on Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report 1 month ago:
Realistically, you could experience all the game content in like 200 hours. Even faster if you know higher level players that can help you, which a lot of higher level players will help you. That is a lot of content without the limitations that purposefully slow progression down like you see in MMOs. Keep in mind that you don’t need the game subscription to play the game and don’t need to spend any money in the game to play and get the endgame content.
It isn’t until you are trying to grind out getting certain things that your playtime skyrockets, but that is true with a real MMO.
On the subject of the community and players helping players, the community is pretty great. I have dragged lower level players through the hardest part of the game and taken them from level 20(you can start the game at level 1 or 20) to over level 100(there is no max level) in an afternoon with no detriment to my enjoyment. I have given newer players thousands of scrap, hundreds of legendary mods, and hundreds of thousands of caps worth of item plans that you can on get with RNG grinds.
I am not exceptional, I am pretty typical for the high level players. Since we have “nothing left” to do in the game and understand the meta, pretty much everything has lost value. We will buy overpriced stuff for sale in player vendors just because we want to get rid of caps and it takes us minutes to go from 1k caps to the 40k cap limit due to the value of the “crap” we have in our stash. Some players can’t hit the cap limit in hundreds of hours of play. It could take you hours to get enough material to make 2k of ammo(that you can burn through in an hour) and we will give you 10k of that ammo or enough materials to make 10k and not even notice the loss because we know how to net gain ammo.
Compared to gacha games and actual MMOs, FO76 is far better in terms of cost in terms of time and money, also the community is very helpful to new players.
- Comment on Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report 1 month ago:
That makes zero business sense. Bethesda would never make money on throwing away thousands or tens of thousands of man-hours on that. They would spend more on a remaster, but they would make money in the end.
The Oblivion remaster sold more in two weeks than Oblivion made in a year. It sold more copies in April alone than the original did in 15 months.