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Red_October ,

He was also pro injecting yourself with bleach.

Red_October ,

Around 30 years ago, American Airlines realized that by removing a single olive from every passenger’s salad, they would save what amounts today to about $100,000 annually due to reduced weight. They did that.

Do you think they’re going to remove seats and install a brig, or are they just going to make sure every flight has a half a roll of duct tape?

Red_October ,

That option still exists, and the cost for such a luxury exists too. But you don’t fly First Class, do you? Or do you like so many other people look at the price first and pick the flight the one that costs $20 less than the next cheapest?

Relax, I do it too.

Consumers are a lot more sensitive to price than they are quality. We don’t book the $800 flight when there’s another one for $300, and then we complain about how we’re crammed into narrow seats with our knees packed against the seat in front of us. The airline that can turn a profit on a cheaper seat will fill those seats.

Red_October ,

Hah, tell that to my student loans!

Red_October ,

Democrats said not to, said there’s a virus spreading through raw milk and it could be dangerous. That was all it took. That was the only thing Republicans needed to hear to institutionally embrace Raw Milk.

Democrats should try launching a “Don’t jump off of cliffs onto sharp rocks” campaign. “It’s not safe. The science is clear, gravity is real, and the sharp rocks will hurt or kill you. Just don’t do it. It’s not about restrictions versus freedom, just don’t jump off of cliffs onto sharp rocks.” The next week TPUSA would run an article on how to own the libs at the five highest cliffs in the country.

Red_October ,

The writers expected the 2016 original to end with a loss and a montage of all the wacky adventures up to that point, but when the miniseries got approved for a full 4 year run they had to scrape the bottom of the barrel for ideas. Now the reboot comes around and they’re looking for scraps discarded on the writer’s room floor.

Red_October ,

Honestly you can get a lot done just by wrapping a rubber band or two around your phone, it’ll kinda catch and hold in your pocket and make it more notable if someone tries to pull it out. Works for your wallet too, and all without building a whole ass mousetrap for your pocket.

Red_October ,

Oh good, a sequel. Just what we need.

Red_October ,

How long before Fox “News” denies that there were any racial motivation?

Red_October ,

You underestimate how horny the internet is.

Red_October ,

That’s fine though, SovCits don’t learn anything either. They catch snippets that can be summarized as “one weird trick” and then ask for and don’t receive further information.

Red_October ,

For a moment I thought this was some clever word play so he could later say he was okay with jail and not Prison, but he is absolutely not that clever or precise in his vocabulary.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

Red_October ,

But it’s okay, because now we can get wrong answers faster than ever, and we’ve taken human creativity and joy out of art.

Red_October ,

“How could this badly designed thing work if it wasn’t so badly designed?” Sometimes, if you can’t make a thing work, the solution is to use something else that does. And sometimes the solution is just to make it better, like directing the IR detection beams just to either side of the water stream.

Red_October ,

Well there might be something to the idea that their ability to manipulate culture by controlling social media has dramatically wide implications, but I don’t think I’d really call them Dictators. Facebook and Twitter might be doing a lot to manipulate voters, but also nobody’s going to take me out behind the shed and shoot me for not using either one of them.

Red_October ,

The idea that they might be wrong about that being a thing just never even crosses their mind.

Red_October ,

That makes him a Sad Panda.

Red_October ,

It’s honestly impressive to find out that someone is WORSE than Apple when it comes to repairing and customer rights.

Red_October ,

Apple will tie themselves in knots to make it impossible to repair your tech 3rd party, and maybe even refusing to fix it if it WAS repaired 3rd party before, but I’ve never heard of them also requiring that it be destroyed and your personal information given over.

Red_October ,

At this point we need to treat Police with rules similar to the handling of a firearm. Always assume they can go off, only ever point them at something you’re willing to kill, and be aware of possible collateral damage.

Red_October ,

Our Math teachers tried to warn us, and we didn’t listen.

Red_October ,

Turns out the rest of the world doesn’t stop just because some fucked up shit is happening.

Red_October ,

I thought kickers usually avoided the kind of brain damage that would explain what could only be described as a blatant attempt to get canceled.

Chinese police were allowed into Australia to speak with a woman. They breached protocol and escorted her back to China (www.abc.net.au)

Chinese police hunting international corruption targets were allowed into Australia by the federal police and subsequently escorted a woman back to China for trial, in a major breach of Chinese-Australian police protocols....

Red_October ,

“Escort back to China” sure is a weird way of saying they kidnapped her.

Red_October ,

Can we just skip to producing a vaccine for this now? If they’re that intent on giving it every possible chance to jump to humans, and we obviously can’t stop them, let’s at least try to contain it before we get Pandemic 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Red_October ,

Ed-ward?

Red_October ,

Once again conservative Terrorism wins.

Red_October ,

Hopefully they patent whatever method they use so that nobody else is tempted to make the same stupid mistake.

Red_October ,

Me not exercising doesn’t make you fat.

Red_October ,

They have their freedom, they are free to do whatever they want to filter their own drinking water. They’re free to buy or produce distilled water for all their consumption. They’re free to only ever drink beer. But the drinking water provided as a public good should be maintained for the good of the public, and when the studies are pretty clear that fluoridated water fights tooth decay, then fluoridated water it is.

Red_October ,

You can do whatever you want to your teeth and you’re correct that it doesn’t effect me, but this isn’t a discussion about individual action or inaction. This is about what happens with the public water supply, which effects the entire public. That’s why his comment about “mandated exercise” is wrong. You not brushing your teeth doesn’t effect me, but removing the fluoridation from my water does.

Red_October ,

So if I just occasionally have a beer with dinner does that mean I could also enjoy a bit of light recreational heroine for dessert?

Red_October ,

After Redfall I’m not surprised to see Arkane on the list, they never should have been stuck with that project in the first place but it killed them either way. Seeing Tango Gameworks though, after the absolute banger that was Hi-Fi RUSH, is disappointing. They probably made Bethesda’s biggest hit last year.

Red_October ,

Now someone tells them “No, that’s not how that works at all, you will definitely still need to pay taxes no matter what form you file, and the people who say otherwise are wrong.”

They will not listen, of course, the only answers that will enter their head are the ones they want to hear, that they are correct and are one little bit of paperwork away from never paying taxes again.

Red_October ,

Maybe the Judge will actually do something useful once Trump’s stochastic terrorism actually, inevitably, leads to an act of violence.

But probably not.

Red_October ,

You’re assuming Steam will just completely ignore a situation where players are flat out incapable of playing the game they paid for.

Red_October ,

The harder you push the pedal the more you want your speed to decrease, obviously. But if you push it hard enough then the decrease from your current speed to Zero is no longer enough. So now the engineers need to decide if you’ll speed up first, so the decrease from the new speed to zero is larger, or if it’ll slam you into reverse instead.

Red_October ,

This is your chance to codify Ligma as a serious disease. Don’t mess it up.

Red_October ,

Yes Elmo, I’m sure that will solve your problems. Well done.

Red_October ,

It’s a brave stance to take for the lawyer of the president’s political rival, but I can think of worse ways to get rid of a particularly problematic client.

Red_October ,

No, I’m sorry, that’s not the conclusion the industry paid for, now your kneecaps are forfeit.

Red_October ,

The fact that that article is itself behind a paywall is some weapons grade irony that The Onion wishes it thought of.

Red_October ,

It’ll get canned as soon as Texans realize it’s not called a bullet train because of any involvement with guns.

Red_October ,

So… they can identify when someone in a conversation is a minor. And they can identify when nudes are being sent. But when these two are combined, they figure just blurring the image is the appropriate solution?

Red_October ,

It’s because they are. Apple wants to position itself as a “Luxury Brand” first and foremost, that happens to sell mostly tech stuff. Look at the absurd accessory prices, like this thousand dollar monitor stand. There is no reality in which that piece of shit is actually worth that much, but by offering their stupid shit at those prices, people can be associated with such opulence whenever they buy other Apple products. They just want to be the Gucci of computers, and it shows in how they have only been innovating on ways to extract money for low quality products, and not in the actual technology itself.

Red_October ,

In essence, when the growth rate slows to a certain point, people are dying faster than they’re being replaced, and the trend can only continue unless everyone starts having 10 kids.

Growth is growth. It’s not tracking only births, it’s tracking births against deaths. Population decline is people dying faster than they’re being replaced, but even “very slow growth” would still mean the population is increasing.

Red_October ,

Even on consoles is this even news anymore? It may not be every game that requires it but there’s no way this is now so unusual as to be worth pointing out in an article of it’s own. The time to get pissy about that was, what, 10 years ago?

Red_October ,

Just give in, do it to one spool, and you can move on with your life. Resistance only makes it hurt more.

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