Aqarius
@Aqarius@lemmy.world
- Comment on When a non-binary person uses a computer 1 day ago:
You mean “the other F”.
- Comment on Stay Mad 1 day ago:
No, see, that would mean there are people out there who disagree with me who aren’t either tankies or maga, and that impossible because that would mean… that would… oh no…
- Comment on Pandemics causing death are linked with increases in support for radical political movements, all the way back to the 1918 flu pandemic and the birth of 20th century fascism 3 days ago:
Eh, Eco described it as appealing to the " frustrated middle class", and honestly I can see it.
- Comment on The US population only accounts for 4.2% of the world. 3 days ago:
It was kinda funny when lemmy was just taking in the reddit exodus crowd and people were complaining that their front page was full of German and Polish posts.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 days ago:
When the competition is “you’re not a real person, also you’re Russian”, even that may be enough.
- Comment on Says a lot about society 1 month ago:
Computers - a magazine for the popularisation of informatics and computers -april 1988, 1000 dinars
- microprocessors HD64180
- new deal: build your own team 011
- commercial software: turbo pascal 4.0
- 32-page insert: little pc library - dbase III plus
- Comment on PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all 1 month ago:
Shrimps is bugs
- Comment on Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about 1 month ago:
In development and science, sure. But this is a finished product on the market.
- Comment on we love those power laws 1 month ago:
Really showing your age, there, Dagwood.
- Comment on we love those power laws 1 month ago:
Iron, like actual iron, is weaker than bronze. IIRC, tensile strength is copper<iron<bronze<steel, by roughly x2.
- Comment on we love those power laws 1 month ago:
That, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call “foreshadowing”.
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 2 months ago:
It’s actually Mali, as in, the country.
- Comment on Disco Elysium standalone expansion reportedly cancelled and quarter of staff facing redundancy at ZA/UM 4 months ago:
It’s not very much like Arcanum, though. Arcanum and Planescape are moer or less straight RPGs, Disco Elysium is practically a variant of a point and click adventure.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
The problem isn’t the effect, the problem is you don’t seem to understand what it actually does. The idea is to reduce the price in such a way that a small discount appears larger, increase sales, and make the reduction back in volume. It works, and makes sense, and is done, if and only if you compete on price and trade in volume.
Your title is, at the time of writing: “People live their whole lives watching corporations end prices with 99 yet when they list their own items for sale they choose a whole round number and never question it.” This thread is full of people giving you reasons why they don’t or wouldn’t do that, meaning they clearly do question it, and are deciding against it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Not if the intention is to make it look expensive. Bugatti’s don’t sell fot 499999.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
No, this is proving the use case different: Your logic would put the car at 9995, to present it as cheap. The actual advice is to put it at 12000, higher, to present it as expensive, and then “allow” the buyer to haggle you down.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
You mean 5$ less
- Comment on My life be like 4 months ago:
Placeholder, more like. “Setzen” means, literally “to place”. “ersetzen” is “to place instead of”, and “ersatz” is “the thing that is used instead of”.
- Comment on My life be like 4 months ago:
“Ersatz” in English is basically adopted to mean “make-do replacement”. A swamp cooler is an erzats air conditioner, for example.
- Comment on Former NASA administrator hates Artemis, wants to party like it’s 2008 5 months ago:
Tim Curry’s gonna have an aneurysm.
- Comment on How is Russia not Financially Crippled? 5 months ago:
…NGL that kinda sounds fun
- Comment on OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for “Military and Warfare” 5 months ago:
Doesn’t Israel say they use an AI to pick bombing targets?
- Comment on What is the likely outcome of the presidential immunity argument currently being used in courts? 5 months ago:
How the hell is that allowable as a ruling? “Wouldn’t it be crazy if we made it legal - just kiddin haha - unless…”?
- Comment on when the woke librals 😔😔 5 months ago:
You sound like you find the very idea of reactionary immigrants or anti-nazis preposterous.
- Comment on Today's web is the opposite of what early Internet utopians had in mind. Now the situation is somewhat similar climate change: even committed activists can no longer turn the tide for the better. 5 months ago:
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry’s New Priority: Stability 5 months ago:
It screams “live service”
- Comment on What is the average temperature of earth? 5 months ago:
Karman line?
- Comment on What is the average temperature of earth? 5 months ago:
Volume would mean get the temperature of every m3 of earth and average them out, mass would mean the same, except before averaging you would weight(ahem) them, so a cube of air counts less than a cube of lava.
- Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs 6 months ago:
Frankly I was really excited for the Divinity project they dropped for BG3, precisely because I like the “high middle age/early modern” feel of, eg. Pillars of Eternity that FR kinda lacks.
- Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs 6 months ago:
I agree. DOS2 was, mechanically, a superior game. Porting 5e into videogame format isn’t as clean.