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- Comment on At 1% 19 hours ago:
The micro is probably charge only, no data. So no signal.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 21 hours ago:
Like Tiananmen square, the regime stopped using local troops in an attempt to flex their authority and instead brought in outside military with no attachment to the area so they would have less trouble being ordered to fire on civilians.
These gravy seals from the South are gonna be the tattered flag and trump sticker on a truck types that sit around the desk at the guard base wishing they could punch a liberal.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 4 days ago:
Because they run out of “create” and they’re slaves to the quarterly report.
A new company that makes/sells a widget that is desirable will grow naturally from the demand for the product. It has to get bigger to manage the demand. They go public to get more money to grow more quickly. Those public investors expect a return on their stock investment purchase.
Now competitors show up. Competition is bad for our big startup (despite being a supposed tenant of the free market that allowed our company to grow quickly in the first place) that is now a major power in the widget industry. You can only make the widget so many ways, can’t really improve it, and the market is becoming saturated. So what happens next? WidgetCo’s stock is flat! Investors are mad! The CEO is in trouble! Now we do acquisitions and enshittification. Buy the competitors and adjacent product makers. Now there’s “growth” again even though nothing new is made, in fact the product gets worse and nobody gets hired as they want attrition to get rid of redundant employees. The hope is that the widget is so engrained in society that it can’t be done without. Now do unbundling. Subscriptions. Sunsetting. Modify the product so that new versions must be bought due to batteries or servers no longer supporting previous versions. If you can’t make new things, make the customer buy new versions of the same old things.
Gotta keep pushing that quarterly report line up to keep the investors happy and the CEO bonuses coming.
- Comment on No excuses 5 days ago:
No problem if you’re not in a hurry at all. Stay right, yield to faster traffic, and everyone’s gonna get along fine.
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 5 days ago:
Probably the slice encompassing a large number of countries in Africa as well as most of western Europe. Huge number of people and industries contained in that slice.
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 1 week ago:
Christ, couldn’t they start with something like Sinclair or Google instead?
- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 1 week ago:
Plenty of racism in those forums playing out the “black on black” crime trope except it’s African on African crime, their fault for the slave trade, etc.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 1 week ago:
Could be just a bad habit as you say. Boredom. Might be worth checking to see of some kids have any other issues that might put them on an au/dhd spectrum. One of ours habitually destroyed pencils and erasers no matter what we did. Found out later It was anxiety and stress from undiagnosed neurospicyness.
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 1 week ago:
Our kid’s high school did the art compilation book. Hard cover was $150. Softcover $45. About 35 pages or so.
- Comment on Jeebuz Rode A Velocirapture 2 weeks ago:
Coelacanth are still around, so kinda…
- Comment on EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes? 2 weeks ago:
I dunno about the tax laws here. Seems anything purchased in game with fake game money that stays in game shouldn’t be subject to a sales tax. Buying game currency with real currency? Sure. Buying real things by selling in-game accounts or items for real money? Fine.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, what? I pointed out the absurdity of trying to say what the food is of the region when, particularly in the US, everyone is an immigrant. So your response is everyone eats Paleolithic foods now? Your idea is to take my “absurd” question and double down on it? Why not have a reasonable discussion?
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
Everyone in the Americas are immigrants other than Natives, all our food is from someone else’s culture, borrowed and mixed. So what’s the answer? You’re only allowed Native American food? Where’s the timeline cutoff for what constitutes foods in these regions?
- Comment on Anon knows suffering 2 weeks ago:
Money doesn’t buy happiness but it sure gets rid of a lot of stress over bills.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 2 weeks ago:
One number away from the correct one.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 2 weeks ago:
Dumb? I just bought an IDE PCI card and a 2.5” floppy USB adapter. I have a bunch of old 52x dvd/Bluray drives, some are IDE. Thought about buying one, but the internal 5.25 are well over $100!? Shocking, they used to be $35. Nobody needs them anymore. I only bought the 2.5” adapter to avoid throwing away the drive, I don’t know where my 1.44mb floppies are. So now I have an old PC with IDE optical drives and a 2.5” floppy.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
Because most everyone is an immigrant? Where do you draw the line and call something native or not? Otherwise we’re eating nothing but succotash and whatever else the First People had. Is anyone saying you can’t have a hamburger in Thailand?
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
Agreed. However - my exposure to Asian foods has been mostly those foods popular in western culture like sashimi, restaurant Thai or Chinese, etc. There’a a lot of if that I haven’t been exposed to or eaten, and even though I think I’d probably like a lot of the new stuff, there’s plenty I think I could never get used to like still-kinda-living food on my plate, nattō, etc. So I opted for the biggest slice of multicultural food I could get.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
G.
Love Mexican and south American food, Creole, Southern, Cuban…plus the US has stolen foods from around the world, so I guess I get to keep pretty much eating whatever.
- Comment on The inner fire of my hatred COULD melt steam beams 2 weeks ago:
Shitty way to force people to change their password. Only thing worse than this is using your email login and getting an error, requesting a new password and getting an error that the account does not exist, then trying to make a new account and being told that the account is already in use.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 2 weeks ago:
When you’re crying about the 10th Teams Meeting that week you can blame the onions.
- Comment on It's depressing, man 2 weeks ago:
Emotional intelligence?
I think you mean skepticism and critical thought. You mention both, but emotional intelligence isn’t what you’re after. Emotional intelligence is a skill that could be manipulated to get past someone’s skepticism. Emotion, “feels”, get in the way of critical thought.
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 2 weeks ago:
I think the difference is that you’re conflating heat and light. Solar panels use photons to create electricity, not converting infrared heat to energy. So the heating really isn’t a factor in the energy created.
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Myst V: End of Ages 2 weeks ago:
Got excited when it came out, started playing, and same story. Just couldn’t force myself to finish.
- Comment on Come back to this post in 2030's 2 weeks ago:
When I lived in the NE US in the ‘00s it would snow so much the airports would shut down for a day. Piles of snow would last well into spring. Last time I was there it snowed maybe a total of a foot for the entire winter for a couple years running. All those winter scenes in film, or even Currier and Ives prints from the turn of the last century are the only context that it used to actually snow and stay covered for months at a time.
- Comment on suspicion 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure that’s just old insulation. Ripping the wallboard off would have torn open the nest and we’d be seeing a lot of angry or dead insects in this image.
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 3 weeks ago:
They rationalize their way out of everything. The bible is infallible except when they don’t like what it says.
- Comment on at least no more trolley problems 3 weeks ago:
/Kidsarefuckingstupid
- Comment on 600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet 3 weeks ago:
Now go find the Epstein Files and whatever other underhanded BS our elected officials are up to and release that.
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 3 weeks ago:
Democrat here. Didn’t want to burn it all down. Hoped there would be adults in the room to reel trump in like last time. Nope. He’s wrecking everything and I’m not sure it’s possible to put it all back together again even if it’s possible to put dems in charge.