Aqarius
@Aqarius@lemmy.world
- Comment on pump up the jamz 2 weeks ago:
Calm down there, Posadas…
- Comment on Heeeeeere's Luce 2 weeks ago:
Luce is light. Lucifer is bringer of light.
- Comment on How to improve your Lemmy experience 2 weeks ago:
…and nothing of value was lost.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
I’m actually shocked
I’m not. Ever since the war, every single closet xenophobe of the west has been taking full advantage of finally having an acceptable group of subhumans to hate. If any of this surprises you, you haven’t been paying attention.
- Comment on End nuclear fusion! 1 month ago:
Yeah, there’s areas where it’s surprisingly hard for laypeople to tell apart “mostly useless” and “saves lives on a daily basis”.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
And they do. My Philips TV didn’t even ask for DNS until hardcoded IPs for Netflix et al. timed out. And when it did, it asked Google, not my router.
- Comment on Never ask 1 month ago:
Nah, see, some people would like to return to the time when saying “terrorist” would get people foaming at the mouth and approve whatever the military wants.
- Comment on Palestinian girl killed by Israeli sniper in West Bank was looking out the window, father says 2 months ago:
“I don’t approve of political jokes; I’ve seen too many in office.”
- Comment on Discussions are like a game of telephone; you're converting idea into language and expecting the recipient to flawlessly translate it back into an idea. 2 months ago:
Welcome to post-structuralism, enjoy the ennui. And the cognac.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
Nah, CoD2 switched to health regen and dumped the health bar before them. It was partially to adapt to the console gameplay pioneered by, IIRC, Bungee with Halo.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
Also true.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
Sure, but then you’re trusting the server not to just lie about the totals.
- Comment on “Mastodon for Harris” is a Success Story for Fediverse Activism 3 months ago:
“Mr. President, we cannot alOow a tankie gap!!!”
- Comment on US urges citizens to leave Lebanon on 'any available ticket' 3 months ago:
The calculus is that triggering a war will oblige the US to back them, and Gaza (and Bibi’s prosecution) will be overshadowed and forgotten.
- Comment on Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it 4 months ago:
It’s just th enclosure continuing in the non-physical space.
- Comment on When a non-binary person uses a computer 4 months ago:
You mean “the other F”.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months 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 4 months 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. 4 months 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 months 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 5 months 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 6 months ago:
Shrimps is bugs
- Comment on Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about 6 months ago:
In development and science, sure. But this is a finished product on the market.
- Comment on we love those power laws 6 months ago:
Really showing your age, there, Dagwood.
- Comment on we love those power laws 6 months 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 6 months ago:
That, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call “foreshadowing”.
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 7 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 8 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] 9 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] 9 months ago:
Not if the intention is to make it look expensive. Bugatti’s don’t sell fot 499999.