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jettrscga ,

But what if they're riding a horse and the horse does something silly? What then?

jettrscga ,

I just dual booted Linux Mint yesterday when I was reminded of the Win 10 end of service date, and hope to keep with it as my main system.

Linux has come a long way with compatibility since I last tried it ~10 years ago. The fact that Steam games ran perfectly without an evening of configuring settings blew my mind.

jettrscga ,

Both people would have to be aware of their left-handedness. But if they have that knowledge, they're probably past a handshake greeting.

jettrscga ,

There's a video at the bottom of the article. https://youtu.be/ISgHpUDeLBw

jettrscga ,

They urgently need to stare and meow in your direction before doing whatever else they damn well please.

jettrscga ,

It do be like that sometimes.

jettrscga ,

Honestly I'm more disappointed that this isn't the first time on Lemmy that I've seen someone delete a post and then try to make a big scene about how they didn't like the responses they got and were giving up on a community.

Lemmy has so little content that your complaint post gets to be top of a community for a while, so that's nice.

You're not the main character, people are entitled to opinions, and you don't have to care or take them personally. It's the internet, there will always be someone who complains even if it's entirely unwarranted.

jettrscga ,

This is one of my worries with a growing wealth disparity in the world.

The average person is starting to get priced out of any luxury entertainment because there are wealthy people with unreasonable amounts of money to throw at whatever they feel like.

There will always be rich people who can pay whatever price a company asks for.

jettrscga ,

He'd have to work 3.7 million years of 40 hour work weeks at US minimum wage, $7.25.

Pretty well highlights the insanity of $56 billion.

jettrscga ,

There's a reason everyone needs to be vaccinated.

But I don't expect you to read that because if you wanted to understand reality, you would have already.

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    jettrscga ,

    I want to live on a planet where people don't associate Elon Musk with technology in any way.

    jettrscga ,

    If his shorts always cover half his legs, how many amputations would it take before he has 0 leg?

    jettrscga ,

    DVI had an analog variant as well. I'm obligated to say this because that cable compatibility confused the shit out of me at least once.

    You had to check for pins above and below the wide "dash" shaped pin to know if it supported analog.

    jettrscga ,

    Did he? I missed all this news. Googling now I only see that Simmons said he didn't give permission and didn't want to be involved when they tried, but didn't see him try to shut it down.

    I'm curious to hear if he really wanted it stopped. It's tough to understand his tone in his quote, but it feels slimy that they released the short anyway.

    jettrscga ,

    It's not an accident that people suddenly care so much about US foreign policy when it's convenient to bash Biden before an election. It's a very concerted propaganda effort on social media that you're either intentionally or unintentionally a part of.

    Before the last election Trump tried to extort Ukraine by withholding military aid unless Ukraine helped investigate his political opponent, Biden.

    I don't agree with what's happening in Israel/Palestine either, but I'm more concerned at how often it's being used as this "trump card" to lower Biden to Trump's level. It's still not remotely close.

    jettrscga ,

    The Gaza example was already whataboutism. I only bring up the Trump example to emphasize that we already have historical evidence that he won't handle Ukraine or Gaza any better than Biden has. He only uses those situations to benefit himself.

    I agree that being the lesser of two evils doesn't absolve Biden's part in it, but I hope you reconsider supporting him. As frustrating as it is that neither is perfect, it doesn't help anyone to allow an even worse candidate to win in protest.

    jettrscga ,

    There probably isn't a single politician that I fully agree with.

    There are different levels of disagreement and what I'm pointing out is people trying to use Gaza as a way to fully discredit Biden as a candidate because they have no other scandals to use against him.

    jettrscga ,

    No, I'm more concerned with how the entire world will be impacted by electing Trump again. What's happening in Gaza will continue to happen whether we elect Biden or Trump.

    Trump on Gaza:

    “You’ve got to finish the problem,” Trump said on Fox News on Tuesday when asked about the war. “You had a horrible invasion that took place that would have never happened if I was president.”

    He said on Oct. 11 that a future Trump administration would “fully support Israel defeating, dismantling, and permanently destroying the terrorist group Hamas,”

    That month, his campaign also said that, if elected again, he would bar Gaza residents from entering the U.S. as part of an expanded travel ban.

    Suggesting that the Gaza situation is a dealbreaker for Biden is trying to hold him to a higher standard than anyone holds Trump, and that higher standard by itself tells you who the better candidate is.

    jettrscga ,

    You're implying "li" means quiet and I have no choice but to believe this madness because I can't be bothered to look it up.

    jettrscga ,

    I'm not sure how it's their fault when Texas's attorney general sued them specifically for not complying.

    jettrscga ,

    Agreed. Lemmy seems to be Linux, Star Trek, politics, and a dash of shitpost.

    I can handle all of it except the constant feed of politics. It's a US election year so that probably accounts for a lot of it.

    jettrscga ,

    That's the "tenacity" bit in this comic.

    You won't get lucky and win the lottery unless you buy a ticket. But there's still a huge amount of luck involved once you make the effort.

    jettrscga ,

    The premise of the question is flawed in my opinion. It only needs to be profitable because they put themselves in that situation by going public.

    A social platform run by users should only need to break even. I have no idea why a web forum needs to be on the stock market.

    Now it's another example of Enshittification of the internet.

    jettrscga ,

    Yeah that's fair.

    Merchandising is the only palatable idea I can think of.

    More likely to happen:

    • Twitter's verified user subscription strategy

    • More ad posts with paid-priority (priority hidden from users)

    • Layoffs with AI as miracle cure

    • Selling user data for AI training (check)

    • Paid API access (check)

    But it's really hard to ignore that its function isn't really designed for profit and it's wacky that we have to humor the idea.

    jettrscga ,

    I smell a new "AI insurance" industry! Get a nice new middle man in there to insure your company if your AI makes a mistake.

    jettrscga ,

    Unrelated to this claim, but I've also noticed really rapid price adjustments of a few cents on products.

    It seems like Amazon raises prices frequently based on what's in carts and how many page clicks it gets.

    A $6 item changed from $5.95 to $6.05 to $5.98 in a span of an hour.

    jettrscga ,

    Exactly, that's what I did. Removed it from my cart and waited an hour and suddenly it was a little cheaper.

    I have no doubt there are bots monitoring to get every cent out of each transaction, knowing that people probably won't care about small changes.

    jettrscga , (edited )

    It's a Cast Away (2000) reference. Tom >!Hanks!< (Hanks) is stranded on an island and paints a >!volleyball!< (volleyball) that he >!names!< (names) Wilson to be his friend since he's isolated for so >!long!< (long).

    Edit: I said Bruce Willis and almost made it an action movie.

    Edit: added spoiler tags on some words per request. I wasn't sure which were spoilers.

    Edit: spoilers were bugged on someone's client so I wrote the spoilers next to the spoilers. Please understand.

    jettrscga ,

    My bad. Would've been awesome though.

    This summer: Bruce Willis is busting off this island.

    jettrscga ,

    Fixed it!

    jettrscga ,

    Yup, that's probably the correct way to read it.

    Those were the tags that Sync for Lemmy used, but looks like the browser version expects a different spoiler tag. Very strange.

    Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu... (www.theverge.com)

    Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu...::Parisians have voted to increase parking charges for out-of-town SUV drivers as part of the city’s efforts to address road...

    jettrscga ,

    I don't think some millionaire earned a 2x chance to kill a pedestrian by being able to pay. I'm not a fan of fees that only apply rules to poor people.

    But outright bans are harder to get passed, so fees are better than nothing.

    jettrscga ,

    It's not really clear whether the variance scales linearly with weight. We only know 1 data point. It could be bracketed for different weight groups.

    jettrscga ,

    Paraplegics can give compliments too. Damn.

    jettrscga ,

    Well sure Batman can beat the trolley problem with prep time.

    jettrscga ,

    This sounds like a slippery slope of optimism that I will not partake in.

    Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off (www.ign.com)

    Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off::An executive at Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft has said gamers will need to get “comfortable” not owning their games before video game subscriptions truly take off.

    jettrscga ,

    I don't find it hard to believe that the cost of making AAA games no longer matches the standard game price nowadays, because the typical $60 price hasn't changed in at least 20 years. Publishers have used a lot of alternatives to recoup that like launch day DLC, deluxe editions, and microtransactions.

    I honestly don't mind deluxe editions with cosmetics for that reason, if someone wants to pay $100 for some extra outfits that's probably the ideal scenario for everyone.

    But I agree that Ubisoft's insane DRM practices and subscriptions aren't the right solution to that problem.

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