Death_Equity

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit wants to be a search engine now⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Does not apply, she could make a fencepost disappear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit wants to be a search engine now⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The Bad Dragon Chance XL makes the perfect Mother’s Day gift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨Anal probing doesn't seem that bad⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Alien abduction stories have a survivorship bias.

  2/3 of our planet has a great place to drop test subjects that gave them the answers they wanted outside of fecal samples.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anal probing doesn't seem that bad⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can… Can you sign up for this or?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They got together enough people to mass email, that is all it took.

  Companies tend to multiply received responses to represent the total number of people who were to lazy to complain, so Visa and MasterCard saw 1,000 emails as 10,000,000 in their risk averse actions.

  Now 4chan is pissed and have started their own mass email and phonecall campaign, so we shall see where this goes…

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨How does a guy become his most confident around women?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨What's a knock-off that you prefer to the name-brand?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dr. Thunder 20 years ago. I haven’t had the new version but I heard it is worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not talking about armed security for ICE, it is stuff like mall security patrol as a uniformed officer or uniformed policed security for a highschool football game.

  You wouldn’t be doing guard duty for Alligator Alcatraz, that is handled by on-duty people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t NEED military experience or a college degree to apply.

  During the selection process extra points are awarded for military and degree. So you are at a disadvantage in being selected that trumps excellent test scores if you have neither.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t just sign up to be ICE. They want you to be a LEO with 2 years experience before you apply to ICE. So you have like 4-6 months of training plus 2 years as a cop, plus 13 weeks for ICE training before you can do what you feel you must. They will prefer experienced LEO, so 5+ years of experience.

  Just getting into LEO in most places requires you to have former military experience plus a college degree that is preferably related to law enforcement. If you have no Military experience and no degree, you are at a huge disadvantage in the hiring process regardless of your exam and interview results. Like out of 800 applicants for 5 spots, you wouldn’t be in the top 200.

  Not to mention you could be tried and convicted with prejudice for leaks and you would have to carry out enforcement actions all the same.

  You are better off voting for what you want. Flipping congress blue in the mid-terms would do more to further your beliefs than spending 3 years of your life to just be thrown in prison for longer than this administration is in office.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are not considering the overtime, which is where LEO makes bank.

  There are also off-hours work where you act as armed security. You would want to be deputized with state or county so you can wear those uniforms, for fairly obvious reasons in the current political climate. It doesn’t matter if you are actively undermining ICE, you are still ICE and will be treated as such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those graphics are ass compared to what could be done today. Just look in the leap from Oblivion to the remaster. Morrowind making a jump in graphics would be monumental.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you wanted to nitpick honestly, you would say what is actually going on and the data it is trained on is from the internet and they were discouraging it from being offensive. The internet is a pretty offensive place when people don’t have to censor themselves and speak without inhibitions, like on 4chan or Twitter comments.

  Grok losing the guardrails means it will be distilled internet speech deprived of decency and empathy.

  DeepSeek, now that is a filtered LLM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Morrowind remake should have come before Oblivion. I deeply wish to experience Morrowind again with updated graphics.

  I suspect that it is considerably harder to do because of the engine and requires nearly a full remake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With the release of the TV show, the daily player logins are around 400k with 30k-50k concurrent across all platforms. I suspect a decent number of those are logging in for a half hour or less just to do daily or weekly challenges.

  I have put about 2,700 hours into FO76, a decent amount was AFK to farm events. I have all the best gear and all of the items available in the game that you don’t buy from the shop with an abstraction of real money. I have fully beaten the game until the brahmin was pulp and has become one with the wasteland again, and then I began to dig a deep hole.

  Last paragraph is the TL;DR.

  It is now a Fallout game with a weak story and other people that may or may not be annoying, and the optional PvP is basically first attacker wins unless you are specifically built for PvP. You don’t need to interact with other players and can still put a few hundred hours into the game just playing story stuff. On release, it was a glitchy shit show filled with griefers and no NPCs.

  It has bugs and glitches that aren’t a problem most of the time unless you really want to grind one activity. Sometimes random glitches, crashes, etc. happen more frequently than is understandable, especially after a content release. I swear they don’t actually play test updates and depend on the players to report things.

  The building is kneecapped by a budget constraint that keeps you from taking advantage of the build area. In personal cells called “vaults”, the budget may be exceeded without the budget bar being filled. Most of the build items are in the store shop or are only obtainable during limited time events that you need to RNG grind to get or buy from another player that likely doesn’t know the fair market value. Items available in the store shop cycle randomly, so you may not see an item you want for a year or more. Holiday themed items often show up in the store after the holiday has passed.

  More on the subject of arbitrary budgets, you only have storage for 1200 units of weight off your character. That is, unless you have a FO76 subscription which gives you 2 unlimited storage boxes for scrap materials and ammo, soon another one will be added for chems and healing stuff. That isn’t a problem if you don’t collect weapons, plans, and armor. It is a problem if you do because you won’t be able to keep tons of ammo or stims in storage. I traded uncommon and rare plans for caps because that is the fastest and easiest way to get caps, I had around 700 weight units of plans between two characters(each plan has a weight of 0.25). If you want to keep legendary weapon effects just to have or for selling, they each weight 1 unit. The player joke is that FO76 is an inventory management game with an open world action RPG mini-game, which is true for experienced players.

  Some of it is a tedious grind to get some of the best armor, like hundreds of runs of a 5 minute activity to get enough of a specific currency or dozens to hundreds of runs of a Raid that requires you have a team of 4 and good gear+build that takes about a half hour but can take over an hour(or be impossible to complete) with inexperienced players at lower levels.

  There are 8 different in-game currencies that you can’t buy, not including the game store currency. There is no way to exchange currencies except for 3 that are one-way and one of those currencies can only be used to buy another currency. Treasury Notes > Gold Bullion, Caps > Gold Bullion.

  One of the currencies is only for seasonal content(4 seasons a year) that requires you to do daily and weekly challenges, that currency does not roll over into the next season and some seasonal rewards require a FO76 subscription. The seasonal currency you can technically buy through buying season ranks, a full season cost about $120 if you don’t want to bother with challenges. The daily challenges take a experienced player 10-15 mins to complete, the weeklies take 30-45 mins. The FO76 subscription is really nice for QOL, but I put around 500 hours into the game without one.

  The events are mostly under 5 minutes long and aren’t fun after like the 6th time.

  The big content updates are once a year with smaller content additions between. For instance, they just added fishing and before that they added the ability to become a ghoul. The last big update was in December when they added a 5 stage Raid and the next big one is at the end of the year which is going to be a big map expansion.

  If you are a Fallout fan, Fallout 76 is a Fallout game that is fun enough to play for the quests(60% of Fallout humor compared to FO4) and free content, but it is not a Fallout live service game that will be enjoyable for most Fallout fans for as many hours that you can put into the singleplayer games and you will “miss out” on a lot of items if you aren’t down for the grind or have cash to burn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time travel doesn't work unless you also have teleportation. If you travel to the past/future, Earth will be in a different position in its orbit, and you'll die in space.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the distortion field sort of addresses that.

  The machine would be hidden within the field and invisible and intangible. That of course presents the problem of ending up in a wall and also would likely mean that you would end up in the air if the ground erodes or in the ground if sediment is deposited.

  The alternative is either there is a mysterious bubble that becomes a scientific curiosity or there is the machine with someone frozen inside it that is destroyed by people being people. Both have their own fun little narratives to explore.

  That is all based on the assumption that the machine travels forward in time through localized dilation instead of folding spacetime, which would mean it has two methods to travel depending on it going forwards or backwards in time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone hate Income tax ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your income is taxed in payroll taxes, income taxes(federal and sometimes state), and then you are taxed for buying things. That is bullshit.

  Personal income shouldn’t be taxed unless you make substantially more than the cost of living. Anything over $10m should be taxed at 100% including capital gains and stock awards. If you need more motivation to succeed than $10m a year, you are a lazy parasite.

  Where they need to actually tax is businesses. Tax the businesses based on profit and remove the loopholes that allow for tax avoidance abuse schemes that result in a state single digit tax percentage of profits. I would even go so far as to say that the federal taxes on businesses should only apply in interstate and international businesses and only states should be allowed to tax businesses that operate exclusively within the state’s borders.

  The effects of that tax plan have obvious consequences and they are all beneficial to the people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t need a vaccine to depopulate when heart disease(695k/y), car accidents(40k/y), overdoses(82k/y), abortion(1m/y), and suicide(49k/y) kill far more people than the vaccine could possibly be linked to the COVID vaccines(8k in total).

  Don’t at me for including abortion, I support abortion access and want it to be a free service, but we are talking about depopulation means and abortion is a means to depopulate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If they give you what you want, but harass you enough, you may just stop using an ad blocker to watch the video and might just forget to turn it back once you are done.

  If you had to unlock your bathroom door to enter or exit, you will either put forth effort to correct the problem or you will take the lazy route and just prop the door open.