Monkey With A Shell

They claim $100 B in ‘losses’ to this kind of game. Unless they’re actually running red on their books what they really mean is ‘we think we should make at least $100 B more per year’.

I’m sure that the vast majority of that would go directly to the front of house employees they’re pinning this on too, definitely not to the execs and share holders…

As ready as they’ll ever be, which probably isn’t all that ready in absolute terms…

Maybe we should just make it work like we do with foreign nations, the color coding of states makes it functionally work that way anyhow. If your states lack diplomatic relations and and extradition style treaty then no info for you…

So pretty much one of those smart speaker things with a pin on it, for hundreds of $$$ and a subscription to boot? What a great idea…

Some? I was actually under the impression that was the principal use of the state scratch off tickets. Maybe ever bought 1 in my 40+ years, would rather buy a fishing license and tick the box on the tax forms to pay the DNR more directly, but every dime helps.

I’ve never heard of this thing, is it supposed to do what the analyze this picture or ID the song playing features of my phone already could do, or is there something novel I’m missing?

This is the kind of thing why school choice vouchers can’t exist in any good faith context. Private entities wouldn’t be held to the requirements that they answer these kind of nonsense requests, or even if they did, wouldn’t be beholden to the public to consider changes to material that someone objected to.

Any request with a perceived political motivation should be paid in full before any work is started, others may have some leeway in their arrangements but still need to be compensated by the party requesting excessively broad datasets. If you want input into the curriculum, attend a PTA meeting and speak your piece publicly.

Frankly fo my time, best gaming series ever. With a few exceptions each one stands alone as it’s own story, but there are the ever present threads that in some cases turned into almost easter-egg items in a given game. Where are Biggs and Wedge going to show up this time? Can I get my hands on a choccobo? Hey Cid, thanks for the airship…

Not 10 years yet but I’ve done well for about 3 with some simple canvas totes from Amazon

A vote is a vote, but that’s not the solution I spoke of. Rather than trying to push people to disengage or vote 3rd party, neither of which will make any meaningful difference to the situation (even in the million to one chance some 3rd party did get elected, they’re a politician and will do politician things), why not take the situation into your own hands and create the company run by someone who won’t behave like a capitalist?

Create the next Google, but you can be the one who really follows the “don’t be evil” mantra and in the process usurp the throne from the capitalists who have gone wrong. Once that is done you have the ability to simply hand the reigns over to anyone working there and walk away knowing the problem of that particular market is now solved.

The amusing thing about the people who complain that capitalists are the root of all problems, they don’t make an effort to correct it.

Take the situation of this story. If your ideals are pure and would have the popular support of a critical mass of people, there is absolutely not one thing preventing the establishment of a company, chartered as a public good corporation, and ran as a non-profit entity to provide these kind of material goods for people at cost, or if someone is willing to subsidise the production even less so if you like. You could even get the seed money from a crowd sourced campaign, or so called ‘angel investors’ no strings attached, no ownership stakes to distribute.

There are some use cases other than web page compatibility. One for me is in dealing with firewall and proxy policy, if the agent is a browser and comes in on specified explicit ports then force authentication, things of that nature.

Oh come on, you think some would do that? Go in the internet and tell lies?

I mean it is or at least should be a policy on most sites already, it’ll be nice to have some teeth beyond banning their accounts though.

It looks like a whole mastodon instance full of such people. Front page trending tag is ‘fakenews’.

FFS, 7 month old account with 0 comments or posts as it shows to me and a meme about how the parasite class need to be taxed/removed sends you off in a tizzy. You have to build some history before jumping in whole hog to be a believable troll you know?

What the centrist so reviled here dislikes is being told we’re no better than fascists for taking a small or piecemeal win rather than stomping our feet and going home if we don’t get a full Marxist revolution today.

If they’re already giving exclusive access to Google for search and AI training, my bet is it’s all in a bid for ‘please buy us daddy Google’, and let them handle it from there.

It’d be a replay of RBG all over again “we can’t confirm a new justice now, the people need to vote first”.

That’s my go to for my quick scratch pad notes, generally something I only need for a one time deal.

I use the Bit Warden secure note feature for more permanent things.

If it is a more ongoing documentation deal that needs organization I like Bookstack.

All depends on the purpose one uses it for.

Unless it’s something like a ‘unpopular opinion’ community it’s better not to go into places, particularly ones like behaw who tend to be extra cautious about negative commentary, and say X sucks. All that does is beg for a fight and is bound to irritate someone if it becomes a habit.