chiliedogg

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too late⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
We don’t have any F-350s in my household…

We have 2 F-150s, a Nissan NV200 Cargo van, an RV built off an E-450, and a Ford C-Max plug in hybrid.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too late⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah - I sold zero augers, and ended up calling a location in Minnesota land they were sold out, so we transferred them along with some rifles some of their customers had ordered from our used gun department that had to go through their store for the background check.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too late⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
A few years ago my local Home Depot was clearancing out Haloween stuff to make room for Christmas stuff the last week of September.

I also used to work for a large destination outdoors retail chain. They held their big sales events at the same time nationwide whether or not it made sense regionally. I was in Texas, and we had a big flannel sales event for the clothing department in August when it was 110 degrees outside.

I ran the marine electronics department, and in 2018 they sent me 3 dozen ice augers for a sale. When I bitched to corporate they said Texas people vacation up North, and didn’t answer when I asked how many people they’d seen pack a 30-pound gas motor and 3-ft drill bit in their carry-on.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
That’s the beauty of AI. It can look everywhere without requiring additional manpower.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Velma can't math.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah. Those guys all work on Futurama.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Picked by slaves.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
They shouldn’t be. My internet comes from a WISP antenna network connected to Fiberlight.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
My internet isn’t great (about 15 megabit), and HBO has really bad compression artifacts and buffers really often, whereas Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Disney, etc all do just fine.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
My biggest issue with them is their shit streaming quality.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If I had a car that had suddenly stopped working due to a careless update, I’d want it to be bricked so I could make the manufacturer pay for a different fucking car.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think we also need to be careful about what we consider low-quality clones of other work.

Reproduction of research is extremely important. It isn’t glamorous, but it’s how we verify shit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, but also make it clear why you are leaving. And as dirty as it feels, don’t tell them their actions are irredeemable and they’ve lost you for life.

If you tell them you’ll never come back no matter what, then they no longer have to care about your opinion. You’re essentially telling them that they should start catering more-heavily to the fascists now that the only potential customers don’t mind them bending the knee.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
States and cities try to criminalize recording police all the time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They don’t want the leaves covering up the unnaturally green grass, and if they clog up the storm system that’s someone downhill’s problem.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I work in municipal government, and I have very strong feeling about leaf blowers.

All these assholes blowing all the great fertilizing trulimmings and dirt off their lawn and into the street to clog up the storm drains.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
When the butchers at a single Walmart store in Texas formed a union, Walmart retaliated by firing every butcher nationwide and switching to only pre-packed meats for all stores.

They’ll put themselves through a lot to make sure the peons don’t get too uppity.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For when arguments go off the bottom of The Debate Pyramid⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Mods - please ban this
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Back when it was under the price of 2 games a year it was a pretty good deal. Thinking of buying the next Halo and Forza? Get gamepass and save money, and have the opportunity to try a bunch of other stuff you wouldn’t have played.

There’s amazing games like Hades and Slay the Spire that I wouldn’t have been interested enough in to purchase that are now among my favorites because Gamepass let me try them.

Honestly, I think the better route would be to keep it cheap but not include new releases. Let people access the back catalog affordably with games that aren’t brining in much new revenue anyway. People will discover games and genres they otherwise would not have played, which will create new markets and boost ssales of new releases.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's official: EA is going private.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The franchise basically created the microtransaction.

As much flak as Oblivion got for horse armor, the Sims did it first.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JFC, who did this?!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The changed ending for the film is a fucking masterpiece. Even King says it, and he’s famously bitchy about filmmakers changing his storylines.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've been playing 'Ruby's Rebalanced HALO: CE' mod and it is fantastic.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
343 is remastering Halo 1 again?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
But they don’t have the fucking power. They’re letting Trump do whatever he wants, and eroding their own authority in the process.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking to get my first 3d printer, any suggestions?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
As much hate as they get for their recent Apple-like behavior, Bambu is kinda the king of “it just works” right now. An A1 or A1 mini offer spectacular performance for the price for people who want to just start printing stuff.

If you want something enclosed for printing more advanced materials, however, there is more competition on the pricing front.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox consoles are getting a price bump. Again.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Their console strategy is squarely aimed at Gamepass, which is a good deal for many gamers even with Steam. My ROG Ally has both Xbox and Steam games on it, and I probably do split time between them 50/50.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox consoles are getting a price bump. Again.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My series S shit the bed literally yesterday.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many hands long do they get?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The English measure weights in stone.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Patch Due Out Today, PC Performance 'Our Top Priority,' Gearbox Says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Something I’ve kinda come to accept about Gearbox is that Pitchford is an ass and sometimes they farm out products when they shouldn’t (ACM bring the biggest example), but most of the devs actually working on the games really do care about the product and want it to be good.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The multi-player maybe. But they’ve consistently delivered excellent single-player experiences with their flagship titles. GTA 3, VC, SA, IV, and V were all amazing. RDR1 was spectacular, and RDR2 may be the most impressive game I’ve ever played.

At this point, I trust Tockstar to deliver a good single-player game. I don’t really expect much in the way of the quality DLC we got with GTAIV and RDR, but I think the base game will easily be enough for me to justify a purchase.

I’m still gonna wait and see, of course. They’re not getting a pre-order out of me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨arriving⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I just live in Texas. That’s all it takes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Let’s say you design a revolutionary widget of some kind, but don’t have the means to to produce it at scale. How do you get it to market? You parter with a larger company. For a share of the proceeds, you have them produce the item. Without a patent, when you go to the manufacturer and show them the design, they can just start making it themselves and tell you to beat sand.

Also, patents require competitive companies to alter a product design in order to sell it. If everyone could just copy the same product, there would be further incentive to monopolize the means of production to produce the single product at a larger scale, since the only differentiation between products would be the price. Patents allow competition through limited-term protection of their innovations.

Is the patent system abused by large companies? Absolutely. But removing patents won’t make them.good actors. It’ll just remove any limitations on their theft.