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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It’s all about getting over the hump, once you’re set and don’t worry about floods or droughts there’s just no challenge to overcome or objective to attain. Becomes a sandbox really long before you get to the end of tech.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Who needs a maintenance window or to test updates? Just roll the dice constantly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 567 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I haven’t tried 4 yet. I’ve never really been obsessed and the groups I used to play through the originals with are long gone in terms of availability to play together and push through. Maybe it’s just my demographic and the realities of being an adult setting in. I’ll pick it up eventually though, probably in some kind of crazy deal once all the DLC is done and included like I did with 3.

I still miss the rare gun grinds for BL2 and the amazing builds. Peak borderlands for me for sure. Didn’t touch the spinoff(s) or most of the DLCs over the years simply because the only way to get my friend circles on board is playing around release time when hype is strong.

Next up is Nioh 3 though, with a satisfactory play through ongoing. So many amazing games nowadays. Borderlands pioneered a lot of combined systems that exist in these games. Satisfactory has it’s own roulette with hard drives. Nioh is absolutely going hard with the looter… martial arts…action and super abilities from the yokai side. Nothing but love for the BL franchise. I still remember them handing out the psycho class at pax east, back when giveaways actually happened for the masses at expos.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Keep on moving those goalposts. Now you’re claiming I think the US is innocent or a good country. lol

They don’t do a fraction of what they should do. There’s way too many ignorant fucks in this country letting countless wealthy assholes do whatever they want. It’s disgusting.

I think the poorest in the US, the ones working shitty retail jobs, have it much better than they possibly realize. Don’t get me started on the vast excesses of wealth afforded to the middle class or anybody making more than median.

Odds are you have some serious privilege too, just because you’re on here with the rest of us.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yep. Food assistance for everyone. My parent was on it when I was young. My wife’s family has been on it at times after losing a house to a natural disaster and their workplace closing from going out of business.

It’s nice to have social programs that prop up the vulnerable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I basically refuse to pay more than $50 for a game.

The outer wilds had some good press but by the time I was interested it was given away for free. Guessing that’ll be the case here too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 567 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Pre-sequel was always tough for me to play through. Just never clicked like past or future titles did.

Was easy to push through borderlands 3. 2 was amazing system upgrades and a ton of fun. 1 was the first of its kind so incredibly addicting.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You’re just a moron and your word vomit reads like it’s written by AI.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t see people pushing much beyond 40 hours in professional environments. I work in IT and have been exposed to many industries through consulting and long term contracts. Admittedly i’m close to an urban center with fairly high cost of living but that’s where the good jobs are usually. Rural areas / closer to FPL and you start having struggles, but there’s still SNAP and Medicaid.

I also know someone who has a full time office job making ~130k TC and they also have an almost full time side gig of being a waitress who also does the schedule and hiring (so waitress manager) and she schedules herself for the busy nights, but especially friday/saturday and sports nights. Her top tipping nights can be 1k+, but this is in fairly hcol area. She put three of her kids through college doing this because she can hustle. She sure didn’t start out with this though, like most of us didn’t.

There’s shitty jobs all over, but if we’re talking anything near median wage (66k in the US) the problems you are talking about largely go away. It’s not hard to find a job to coast at though if that’s your goal… but if you’re working retail or are wait staff and making nothing on your shifts, you should find a better place to work at. Criminal records are usually the only real thing preventing this, otherwise it’s usually a preference or choice. There’s opportunity if you pursue it, but not if you disqualify yourself or limit yourself for personal reasons.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
lol, what? You have to maintain filters, but if maintained properly it isn’t going to be causing all kinds of colds. If you’re immunocompromised and it’s an unmaintained system then perhaps. Filtering the air should be a net positive.

Most of the colds I get are september to may, aligning with kids going to school and parents bringing in their illnesses to work and social meetups (in US this is thanksgiving, christmas - i’m sure these things depend on the place.)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You’re a tool and you’re holding up a strawman argument, and you’ve even changed your own story now.

You started out with:

This comment is so frustrating 😅

Which I am sure it is for you. It doesn’t really say anything negative or concrete about china, AT ALL. It makes no claims about china. And you even acknowledge it… but try to stir up some shit without actually finding anything to stir up. It’s like you’re just a propagandist trying to say america bad, which they are for a myriad of reasons, but it’s not because people can’t be admitted to hospitals or they are dying from overwork - which is what I replied to originally.

😅 one of the only concrete statements you make about Chinese policy is “i cant imagine them handing out free food to anybody”. Literally political criticism based on vibes.

I didn’t make a “concrete statement” about anything. And you conveniently omitted the first part of the sentence that literally said "I don’t know the food situation in china" didn’t you? Because you’re holding up the imaginary argument of “china doesn’t have even a single food bank” as your strawman argument, and you had no clue either way, because you had to google it, idiot.

China’s median wage is close to 6k/year. Chile and Uruguay is close to 12k/year. The dominican republic is ~7400/year, and they absolutely do not have any kind of real food assistance program outside of the smallest scope. Chile does have something a lot more substantial, but they make wayyyy more. Given that china is poorer in terms of median wage than any of these, that’s going to be the case for a lot of workers away from wealthy median areas.

The fact that China is even on the Global Hunger Index site shows that hunger is still a challenge. They are near the top of the chart with many of the latin american countries i’ve listed. Globally hunger has been much less of a problem in the past 10 years than ever before, only in truly troubled countries do you find horrific levels, like in Haiti or Somalia - and nobody is saying china is anything like those in the overwhelming majority of the country. Not having food banks is way less than mass food insecurity… it’s the missing gap between healthy income levels and

China does have a dibao system for an extremely area by area “basic income” where they give people a pittance per month that can partially subsidize what they have, but there’s no real federal style food assistance beyond that. China spends more money on food than any other category in rural areas by a huge margin, and you don’t need to take my word for it. You can check the PRC’s own statistics instead of “googling it” like an ignorant moron.
- Overall Median income is ~41k yuan or ~5,900. About 1.4 billion people in total.
- Urban Median income is ~54k yuan or ~$7,800. This is about 952 million people.
- Rural Median Income is only ~23k yuan or ~$3,300 or so. This is about 452 million people.
That rural amount is despairingly low and since it’s median half of the people in rural areas make less…this is unbelievably below poverty level in so many countries around the world. Food insecurity must be a major challenge in rural areas since with that kind of income food costs become tantamount to all others.

The statistics I linked from the CCCP also call out rural spending on “food, tobacco and liquor” because clearly food is in the same category as getting lung cancer sticks and fucking your body up with booze (priorities right) and that comes out to 6226 yuan, or just shy of $900 a year. When ~32% of your income is going to just food, smokes and booze, losing a job puts you in dire straits. In poorer rural areas the “basic income” from dibao is only 200($28) to 300($43) yuan a month, and you still need to have clothes, a place to live, etc. 3600 yuan ($519/year) - I think everyone knows this isn’t going to be nearly enough.

There’s no way food banks originating from extremely wealthy urban areas ten years ago are suddenly reaching the majority of Chinese. It’s not even a state sponsored thing (yay communism, helping the people!) I still have substantial doubt as to how much food assistance there is even in many urban areas, because I know how tough food tends to be when money is tight in countries that are generally poor (but not troubled like Haiti.) Food assistance programs can only subsidize a small portion, as we see with SNAP in the US. Wait.. snap is the american government food assistance program? Who are the communists again?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The sheeet of power⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
If you can’t hear a very clear loud squeaky fart sound, you need to turn up the volume and tune out the extremely loud person talking with your brain.

It’s there. Right when the blonde looks down at him.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
“Wealthy” white american here, child of a single parent. Third generation in the US. I went to work with said parent or family and was offloaded to childcare at YMCA or relatives or often just hanging out at the pizza place where said parent worked. I made a lot of pizza boxes over the years. I also got a lot of free pizza.

I rode the bus to school because it was cheap throughout childhood until basically high school when I could walk from my house. There were periods I walked to and from school though, even as young as 7 years old. I was most often one of the poorest families in an incredibly wealthy town. A town I can’t possibly afford to buy a home in today despite having a great job.

I didn’t have hot water in one of the houses I grew up in for over a decade. Never had to boil water though thankfully but one of the neighboring towns had a catastrophe ruining their water supply. Before I was born, my family lived in that town. We had an AC by the time I was a teenager but was instructed to never put it below ~78f with low fan speed or so. I’m totally fine today without AC and just fans… but once I got a good career I swapped to whatever AC temp I wanted, it’s the luxury I always wanted.

Modern QOL in the US is absolutely insane compared to 40 years ago, even with current difficult economy challenges.

When I travel I see conditions way worse than what we had then for most humans, but i’m not traveling to wealthy nations typically. I also don’t bother with shitty expensive resorts. Give me Lima any day (oh my god the food, best in the world imo.)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Regarding AC

Well, not unheard of, but the way you over there use it is. Slight correction - yes. Turning it full on to have temperature 10 Celsius degrees lower than on the outside - no.

I said half of the world, which is completely accurate. It is completely unheard of for a huge swath of humanity. The energy costs are INSANE to run a heat pump in 2026 prices outside of the wealthy elite globally. Let’s arbitrarily say top 10% or so of earners, which is something between 35k and 47k… hardly a princely sum in the US, given that the US median is something like 62k.

There are places in latin america that have air conditioning, obviously. It’s exceptionally uncommon based on my firsthand experience though outside of tourist areas like hotels and high end restaurants. There are wealthy areas in nearly every country on earth that are exceptions to the rule.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You’re welcome to provide any information, instead of complaining and providing absolutely nothing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Nowhere near the same.

Labor protection laws are basically shit and have largely been eroding since FDR almost a hundred years ago, but we don’t have the 996 mentality here by a long shot.

Food pantries are everywhere. It’s not like latin america where starvation is much of an issue almost everywhere if you don’t have a job. No idea how the food situation is in China, but I can’t imagine them handing out free food to anybody.

ERs accept everyone, but all they can do is basic treatment of acute conditions. In civilized states like Massachusetts they have state sponsored health insurance like MassHealth which covers costs which is partially paid for by medicaid for the poorest people of any age.

Medical debt is incredibly hard to collect on too. Pretty much is the last kind of debt you should ever consider paying if your choice is between paying your mortgage, paying the tax man, or paying medical. Education debt is far worse and impossible to escape short of death though.

The healthcare situation is fucked in the US, but it’s mostly due to insurance companies, lack of regulation for pharma and medical devices, and wages overall.

In terms of jobs, it’s very rare in the US to see companies who want to see workers there over 40 hours a week in the shittiest of jobs which are typically paid hourly and eligible for overtime. In the blue collar world you make bank and they incentivize extra overtime with extra pay on top of overtime rate in the busy seasons depending on trade. In the white collar world it is rare to see anyone working much over 45 hours outside of a handful of toxic roles and upper leadership positions / highly compensated roles like management consulting.

Americans just don’t understand how good they have it, despite all the awful flaws thanks to billionaires owning politics. Yeah, it can definitely be better and we should ask for better… but when you start looking at the rest of the world, the overwhelming majority can’t comprehend our quality of life. Air conditioning? practically unheard of for more than half the world mostly living much closer to the equator where heat is literally killing people.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I'll believe it when I see it': Windows 11 users are cynical about Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I wouldn’t call it good and bad. I’d say every other release they have a horrific one to scare people and then they have a bad but better than the other one release.

The data harvesting is just getting to be too much though. That’s in every release.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I think a good non-tech comparison is moderna. They made a shitload of cash from covid vaccines being state subsidized and then once the initial backlog of orders cleared they reduced to next to no cash flow. They’re still better off than they were before (and nvidia will be too, there will always be some demand… but not years of backorders.)

I’d say they will end up around 2-4x their original revenue, in ~5 years.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Once I upgraded to a 4k tv I started pulling 4K HDR versions. It can be hard to know how good the quality will be between 5GB, 10GB, 25GB and 50GB movies, because there are many substandard releases out there. Especially true with older content.

Newer stuff can make a difference, but let’s be realistic. It costs nothing to just download a few versions and see. :)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
They would be insane to prop up OpenAI beyond at cost hardware or cuda integration support / tooling.

The steam is running out on funding. It was a one time event, like crypto.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System Redundancy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I have a multi wan SMB router. 945mbit throughput. $60 new.

TPLink omada or Ubiquiti tier stuff is all you really need for small business.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Shitrate 4k and 1080p are all you get on streaming platforms. Hard to get good quality bitrates outside of I guess bluray and piracy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Amazon Photos syncing, if I had to guess. It was marketed a free unlimited backup for amazon prime users.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Corn?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
There’s nothing that says game developers can’t allow add-ons to be installed from third party stores. Already works that way with games like Gratuitous Space Battles. I’ve bought the expansions on third party stores and simply put the zips or whatever in the relevant game folder.

I don’t know if something has changed since that game, but I don’t see addons sold by 3rd parties as a popular avenue for consumers simply because you have to then manually manage it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Thanks brexit
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey Micro$haft, how's it going?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Micro$lop code is peak slop.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it like living in 2?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I th*nk something broke for you. Usually it only messes with a single letter for us.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it like living in 2?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Or Spa*n.

Why can’t we use the letter * here?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solargene, a space colony-builder where you can expand on the planets and moons of the solar system (including space stations), with complex, modular building mechanics (with support for Z levels) released on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s like rimworld but implemented in the most janky incomprehensible way possible.

Last I checked you had to manually assign people to bathrooms and each one only took like two or three people. Stuff like that is found in basically every aspect.