BakerBagel
@BakerBagel@midwest.social
- Comment on Back in my day... 14 hours ago:
Plus you could keep the phone in you pocket while you texted in class, meaning the teacher couldn’t see you
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 1 day ago:
If daddy croaks now we will see how much is actually David’s doing vs Larry
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 day ago:
Except it didn’t matter if Blockbuster’s headquarters had a power outage since tour physical VHS from them worked fine where ever you were. Pretty much every major web service uses AWS, so if AWS goes down, so does the Internet.
- Comment on May or may not be based on some comments I've read 1 day ago:
Some of the smaller instances really struggle to load self hosted images during busy periods.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 3 days ago:
The author works for business inside. He’s 100 % on board with all the heinous shit tech companies are doing
- Comment on When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible? 1 week ago:
Pretty sure the Catholic Church was collecting money from across Europe to build oppulent fortresses and cathedrals way earlier than the 50 years ago
- Comment on Poor salmon 2 weeks ago:
Still involves the fish dying
- Comment on Simpler times? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, i have worked at restaurants. Server staff are always consentually harassing each other
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 2 weeks ago:
It hasn’t been able to thus far, same as every other “free” social media site other than Facebook. The problem is the sheer scale of the data that these sites have to main makes their overhead costs insane. To make profit from those ad spaces would require those ads to be too expensive to justify to the companies. It would be like trying to operate the New Orleans Superdome purely on ad space. The rate would be way too high to justify to potential customers.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 2 weeks ago:
I am looking at it froma purely financial standpoint. The inky thing Reddit really produces is semi-anonymous data that is tied to an email address. The quality of that data is iffy at best, while they have massive expenses just to keep the site operating. They can charge for their API calls, but they will never be able to use that to generate actual profit since no one will ever pay for it at that price point.
Something like Reddit or twitter are useful if they are owned by powerful individuals or corporations that wish to influence the public. It is worthless as a strictly financial vehicle because it produces no profit and has assets that are not not equal to the cost of maintain them. You would only buy stock in reddit in the hopes that some billionaire thinks they can do a better job running it than Elon Musk did with twitter. Otherwise reddit stock is just a volatile place to park your cash in the hope that you can sell it for more later.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 2 weeks ago:
I agree. But propaganda tools typically aren’t publicly traded because they are a venture that requires a lot of expenses but being it little cash value, which is the entire point of the stock market.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 2 weeks ago:
How is that any different than what i initially said?
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 2 weeks ago:
Which will only actually ever benefit anyone that owns massive amounts of the stock. Reddit has few tangible assets other than their data, which is of questionable value at best. It’s basically like owning stock in a piblic library
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t ask about their other shares. I asked how Reddit’s soft power is able to actually benefit shareholders. I understand how it benefits Spez and those who make the actual decisions at reddit, but if I own 400 shares of Reddit, how do i actually benefit since Reddit will never pay a dividend since it will never actually be profitable
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 2 weeks ago:
I understand that Reddit has value to an individual or small board that can control what is posted to reddit. What i am saying is that Reddit’s value is entirely in soft power and has no actual path to profitablity. If i am Condé Nast then i can benefit from owning reddit. But Reddit will never pay a dividend, so buying stock in the company is worthless unless you are convinced that some idiot will pay more for it down the road.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 2 weeks ago:
I understand how stocks work. Reddit stock is just a legitimizes greater fool scam as no one will ever get a dividend or see any return in their investment short of managing to sell the stock for more than they bought it. Reddit is absolutely worthless in an strictly economic sense. It’s value is soley in societial and political ways
- Comment on Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors 2 weeks ago:
Because modern western business is about cashing out the business to squeeze out a couple extra bucks each quarter. They aren’t interested in making a product, just cutting costs, raising prices, and issuing stock buybacks
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 2 weeks ago:
Ok, so how does a shareholder benefit from that? My company that pays people to stomp on kittens at my kitten stomping factory has value in that in gives people jobs and controls the feral cat population, but it creates no profit for the shareholders.
- Comment on Giving good Hedera 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but the bird calls, insect chirps, and croaking frogs are all trying to doink
- Comment on I've been playing 'Ruby's Rebalanced HALO: CE' mod and it is fantastic. 3 weeks ago:
Is he doing anything about the swarms of Jackal snipers in Halo 2?i loved Halo 2, but you can tell Bungie got lazy in the campaign by just putting a bunch of snipers on god mode.
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 4 weeks ago:
Erections are almost an entirely cardiovascular response. Blood flows in and it has a difficult time coming out until the penis is chock full of blood and stiff as a board.
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 4 weeks ago:
Oxygen is corrosive as fuck. That’s why people are so obsessed with anti-oxidants. It’s important to cellular respiration because it is do damn volatile, but our bodies have to do a lot to keep it contained and safe.
- Comment on Doot doot 4 weeks ago:
Dolphins don’t have noses, and their tracheas are completely separated from their mouths.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 4 weeks ago:
Look at this guy with his sick leave and ability to stay home and rest when he’s sick!
- Comment on xkcd #3142: -Style Pizza 5 weeks ago:
Actually, provel was engineered to be the perfect cheese for pizza. It stays melty after it cools which keeps the pizza stay gooey even when the pizza is cold. Pepperoni, onions, sausage, and green peppers is the perfect way to eat it.
- Comment on Clock logic 5 weeks ago:
You don’t need the am or pm 90% of the time because obviously a lunch date is happening sometime around noon, not midnight. A lunar eclipse or meteor shower isn’t visible while the sun is up, or a midnight snack isn’t happening in the middle of the day. Obviously if you are talking trains and flights, you need AM and PM. But people who are used to 12 hour time don’t want to figure out when 16:00 is, so they don’t.
- Comment on Clock logic 5 weeks ago:
Why are the 60 minutes in an hour but 24 hours in a day? What functional difference is there between tne 12 and 24 hour clock? Are you showing up to your friend’s dinner party at 6am because you weren’t sure what time they wanted to start dinner? Are you unsure if your picnic is supposed to be right after midday or the middle of the night? Maybe your friend wanted to meet up for coffee and a bagel when you normally go to bed instead of right before you head off for lunch
- Comment on OpenAI reportedly on the hook for $300B Oracle Cloud bill 5 weeks ago:
If you don’t force your employees to use it, people will start to ask why you are spending so much on something no one at the company asked for or uses. Once you realize that businesses are all about self interest and quarterly profits, it makes much more sense.
- Comment on Too soon? 5 weeks ago:
I am so glad that i live in the timeline where Charlie Kirk was the sole victim of a school shooting. I’m glad he could die defending the Second Amendment
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 1 month ago:
They became anti-immigrant once they had kids and saw other people arriving to the boat. My sister in law’s family are refugees from El Salvador. Now they are all raging Trumpers, despite half of them not being naturalized yet.