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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having $270 billion dollars and spending the bulk of your time trying to make more money is like weighing 900 pounds and thinking "ooh, I bet I can get to 1000".⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people on this list have taken their foot off the gas in a major way, and do more of what they want.

  Elon is currently blowing tens of billions of dollars running Twitter into the ground, designs impractical cars because he thinks they look cool, committing light treason, and campaigning for a president who would be detrimental to his business interests.

  While the Zuck is still involved at Meta, he also picked up a ton of other hobbies. A lot of them are objectively cool. He also seems to spend a lot of time with his wife and kids.

  Bezos seems to spend most of his time having sex with his age appropriate mistress on his $500 million yacht.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fruit Loops!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  See I have to believe at least some of this shit was because the leader of that group was a federal informant. This is the kind of thing the FBI agents in Ms Congeniality would think is funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was in college when this happened. Absolutely nobody thought he could win until Florida was called. Trump himself seemed mildly surprised in his victory speech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly this is sort of ridiculous.

  • Biden is a Washington insider now, but that’s because he had a lifetime to make something of himself. He grew up in the middle class
  • I think we can all agree Obama was an outsider without any sort of elaboration
  • Bill Clinton grew up dirt poor in a state that basically only makes the news when something stupid happens.

  All three had to climb the ladder in a huge way, that simply wouldn’t have been possible in a lot of other countries.

  I also feel like Trump embodies the whole “anyone can be president” in his own sort of fucked up way. Trump obviously was born into immense wealth and enjoyed tremendous status, but he was in no way ever considered leadership material by America’s political elite. His election was a complete “wtf” moment and wouldn’t have happened in most countries. In a more rigid system we’d probably have had something like a Hillary Clinton v Jeb Bush election, which strictly speaking would have been better than what we got but also let’s be real we would have all hated it.

  I’m not saying America is some pure meritocracy. Bush was a third generation political dynasty member. His opponents were also pretty well connected. It’s just that he’s only one of several presidents to get elected in the past 30 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Cancels Press Previews of Assassin's Creed Shadows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like a lot of companies that put the most emphasis on making diverse IP make the worst products. I don’t think that the lack of quality is due to diversity. Rather, I think that companies with soulless corporate leadership have a habit of producing mediocre content and attempting to obfuscate said mediocrity by making an otherwise uninspiring game a referendum on the culture war.

  I’m willing to bet that there are developers who can make a game that is more organically diverse and genuinely fun, but that they don’t get an honest shot due to the state of modern gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That explains it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because the teenager who actually runs that account has no idea what 40 looks like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the GOP Stick Together so tightly to hide the fact that a large majority of them are involved in Pedophilia?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Look man at this point saying either party has a monopoly on pedophilia is sort of ridiculous. It’s very obviously a rich/powerful thing, not a left/right thing.

  I don’t see how anyone doesn’t understand that at some point. Diddy’s arrest was less than 24 hours ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Donald Trump was black, would he have made it this far in politics?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but the idea that any random white guy could get away with what Trump gets away with is also laughable. Since 2016 there have been a million and one politicians trying to act Trumpian, and none of them enjoyed the nearly success Trump has.

  For reasons beyond my comprehension, Trump seems to have this larger than life persona that has allowed him to escape scandal after scandal that would doom literally any other politician.

  As a fun sidenote, look up DC Mayor Marion Barry. Dude made Trump look pedestrian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly this reeks of corporate politics. I’m willing to bet at some point in development there was a regime change, and current management pushed this out the door just to clear the board.

  Everything I heard about this came seems to indicate that it isn’t terrible by any means, just mediocre and overpriced in an absolutely oversaturated genre. If management was invested in it, they probably could have spent a ton on marketing, achieved middling numbers, and then used those middling numbers to justify continued development for another few months.

  I’m confident in saying that because there are a handful of shitty live service games being operated at a loss for no real reason other than shutting them down would mean management would have to actually admit they fucked up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many such cases⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like Jquery is unfairly lumped in here.

  While other solutions have eclipsed Jquery, it doesn’t mean it’s in any way bad. Unlike the other products here, it’s still a capable library that solves the tasks it sets out to do. It never became a bloated mess or sold out to the highest bitter.

  That being said I wouldn’t really use it today. It doesn’t play that well with modern tooling, and it is extremely easy to write anti patterns into your code. I would recommend either VanillaJS, a web component library like Svelte, or React depending on what you’re trying to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I just think it’s funny a Senator took time out of his day to be like “we need a lobster emoji”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the constant renaming carousel hurts google more than a lot of people realize. Most people buying streaming devices don’t pay attention to press releases. The Chromecast name has a ton of recognition that now disappeared, and “Google Streamer” is too generic ever to get traction.

  Also the processor sucks. It was used in the fire stick in 2021. 99$ for something that isn’t gonna be some huge improvement over the $50 device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does anyone remember when one of Maine’s US Senators lobbied Unicode to create a lobster emoji?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real Facebook ad that doubles as a god-tier shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always assumed conservatives would be into those safety razors with ten cent blades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning | TechSpot⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Different divisions. This is more akin to when Sony decided to stop making floppy disks. The market is there for now, but it’s just not worth it from a financial perspective.

  The amount of people burning their own blu rays is minimal. Even the type of people who emphasize owning their own content just use a NAS system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nike’s self-lacing Adapt BB sneakers are losing their remote control mobile app⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly if they got the cost down and figured out a better interaction mechanism than an app, I could see it being useful for older or disabled individuals.

  For example, imagine someone is 55. They are still with it, and decently active for this age. However they have arthritis in their hands that makes tasks that require dexterity mildly uncomfortable. These kinds of shoes would be a pretty big boon for them in terms of staying active.

  The issue is that they tried to make it some cool fashion accessory for Gen Z sneaker heads to buy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHERE ARE YOUR COSHH FORMS, MR. FREEZE??⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like “why doesn’t Bruce Wayne improve Gotham” is the comic book equivalent of “why didn’t they use they take the eagles to Mordor”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyperloop One is reportedly shutting down⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would absolutely love for this to be true, but I don’t really have faith in a project that has had so many issues. I think there will end up being more cost overruns, more finger pointing, and more failures. I half expect Brightline to both start and finish their LA to Vegas rail before this project comes to its final conclusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyperloop One is reportedly shutting down⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay but Elon also makes crazy grandiose statements on a daily basis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyperloop One is reportedly shutting down⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To everyone implying that Elon leveraged the concept of hyperloop to kill high speed rail in California:

  California killed high speed rail in California. The project is like 3x over budget with no real end in sight. If Elon dedicated his entire net worth in 2013 to the project it would still be over budget.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch allowing more nudity after disproportionately banning female streamers | Twitch confirmed its policy banning nudity was sexist.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can argue that everyone on Only fans is a pornstar, just that some are softcore pornstars. On the flip side some are prostitutes.

  Twitch IMO is fucked up in a different way. This is a platform that pre-pubescent children frequently use. Allowing for nudity essentially creates a pipeline where kids hit puberty, form parasocial relationships with pornstars, and get unhealthy ideas about women.

  Like in the past there used to be a lot more of a disconnect. Like if you went on pornhub, you were explicitly going to watch porn. The porn videos were well known to be completely over dramatized to the point where it can’t be taken as a realistic depiction of sex. The porn stars were explicitly porn stars. You had no idea about their personality and there was no concept of getting an emotional connection to them. There also was a general acknowledgement, even among the most liberal circles, that sex work was incredibly unhealthy.

  Nowadays all of this shit is not only normalized to an insane degree, but the line between fiction and reality has been blurred to an insane degree.

  Every time this comes up someone says “Oh what’s the harm? PRUDE”. There are some things that are harmful in ways that are difficult to explain, and not at all immediately clear. I feel like our current sex culture is a good example of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch allowing more nudity after disproportionately banning female streamers | Twitch confirmed its policy banning nudity was sexist.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna get downvoted, but this culture where teenagers can form parasocial relationships with what are essentially softcore pornstars and a culture where women can very easily become pornstars isn’t healthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carmakers Push Forward With Plans To Make Basic Features Subscription Services, Despite Widespread Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If this becomes common enough there’s gonna be a whole cottage industry of jailbreaking cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How do they have this many employees and an absolutely trash android app?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Behold The Hyundai Uni Wheel. Transportation May Never Be The Same⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hyundai/Kia owners have, in large numbers, told Kia Group about quality issues their cars have. Their usual response is to gaslight everyone until some government agency sues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Behold The Hyundai Uni Wheel. Transportation May Never Be The Same⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot think of a car company I’d trust less to do this than Hyundai/Kia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Janeway was part of the Amazon strike...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah Janeway would brutally break the strike for Amazon.

  Temporal Prime directive. Bell Riots are in less than a year and humanity is behind schedule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can always count on Garak ...or can you?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Garek is not a hero, and he’s certainly not noble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright so who do you think implements it first: Google Voice or Apple?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FCC can now punish telecom providers for charging customers more for less⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The FCC under Biden has a long term plan to reclassify the internet under Title II, which would allow much stricter and wider ranging regulations.

  They are probably trying to get that pushed through first.