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I think the deal breaker was Gamestop fighting MS on their decision to allow users to sell their cloud games back for credit.

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I’m not buying another Xbox seeing that Samsung is putting Gamepass on thier TV’s with no extra hardware required except for a controller…

news.xbox.com/…/xbox-cloud-gaming-coming-to-more-…

Nevermind the fact that everyone is doing cross-platform multi-player games. One of the main advantages of console gaming is everyone is running the same hardware. If that’s the future, then I’ll just play on PC.

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The new Samsung TV’s have free sync like PC monitors…

www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00079940/

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To play devil’s advocate “being alive” is the biggest carbon footprint you can have. 🤷🏾‍♂️

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Simmer down outrage junkie! It was just a dark joke, and technically, it is correct.🙃

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No, I was saying their death ironically does help the planet.

PS: for the love of God. Do I have to start marking sarcasm and jokes. 🙄

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no, it’s not even technically correct. You can technically have a carbon negative footprint on the planet

Lol, really?

I’m pretty sure you’re not able to contribute to global warming after death…Unless you’re a fucking necromancer!!!

So the proper Equation would take what they would have contributed if they were alive, and you add that as savings!!!

PS: If you’re a necromancer and you haven’t reanimated the dead environmentalist back to life, you’re just a fucking dick.🤨

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😲Oh no, coprate social media is imploding…anyways.😃

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There still a little of outrage nonsense here, but it’s mostly Tankies and other political nonsense.

Also, if you look at the bigger picture, Reddit is nothing more then a psyop with a bunch of extreme activists trying to steer people to support thier cause.

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Lol, there’s no subtle nuances to anything over there. Take sex work for instance, according to Reddit if you’re in that profession, you’re either trafficked or groomed and that’s it.

It would be absolutely crazy to think that someone would be willing to perform sex acts for six figures and minimal work time. No fucking way🙄

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I told my wife that if she wants to wack off on the internet for cash, that’s fine by me. 🤣

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This saga won’t be over till Boomers are out political post on both sides. Boomer generation are known not to negotiate on any issue, even of it benefits them

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Lol, they think we can’t see throught their “we need to destroy [insert any privacy right] to save the children” bullshit. Never mind the fact it was never about saving kids in the first place.

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This is probably the 154,733,914,724 repost

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I needed less time on social media anyways so it works for me.

I think the rest of the world needs what you need as well. 😉

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We’re like that toxic abusive couple that everyone hates, but we stay together because we have really good economic sex.🤷🏾‍♂️

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Ehh, who cares? It’s just more political nonsense anyways, and the less I see of that shit the better.

U.S. Air Force Selects Fast Microreactor for Nuclear Power Pilot (www.powermag.com)

The Defense of Logistics Agency (DLA), acting on behalf of the Department of Air Force (DAF), on Aug. 31 issued a Notice of Intent to Award (NOITA) that selects the Santa Clara, California–based nuclear technology firm’s Aurora Powerhouse for its Eielson Air Force Base pilot and initiates an acquisition process to...

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Inb4 the irrational environmentalists shitshow

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Let’s not forget about nuclear fusion, which will be way more efficient and have less waste if we can figure it out!!!😉

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But the thing is it actually did work, Netflix has seen a boost in revenue and the companies stock price.

www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/…/ar-AA1fFSlp

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Yup, you’re right…

www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/…/ar-AA1fFSlp

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Cool, but that analogy doesn’t work with how companies are valued.

The only thing that matters to the stock market is growth. It doesn’t matter how you get there (most of the time), as long as you’re posting positive numbers and your outlook looks good.

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Netflix can’t implement three different changes to its business model and then cherry pick one of those changes as the reason for the increased revenue.

Bro it’s not a guessing game they release this information in thier quarterly financial statements…

ir.netflix.net/financials/…/default.aspx

Tackling account sharing between households has been another focus as it undermines our ability to invest to improve Netflix for our paying members and grow our business. In May, we expanded paid sharing to 100+ countries, which account for over 80% of our revenue.

The cancel reaction was low and while we’re still in the early stages of monetization, we’re seeing healthy conversion of borrower households into full paying Netflix memberships as well as the uptake of our extra member feature. We are revenue and paid membership positive vs. prior to the launch of paid sharing across every region in our latest launch

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Not me fam, the less I have to do, the better. Amazon shipments literally save me 2-3 hours a week from not having to go to the store.

Prime membership ftw!!!

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in before, “but I need my enormous vehicle because once every 13 years I haul 3 2x4’s and am too dumb to use a roof rack or rent a truck for the day!”

I win!!!

My enormous eletric vehicle (plug-in Rav4) is powered from my home solar panel system, and I use it to transport my dogs to the park a couple of times a week.

I’m completely guilt free!!!😃

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A small house for 74,000? Lol, you’d need at least double that in the Northeast part of America.

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Firearms.

It was fairly inexpensive before the pandemic. But since it’s been a nightmare of price gouging.

It’s also one of those hobbies where buying one thing leads down a rabbit hole of spending.

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Lol, I’d hate to see the post where your username checks out.😉

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I don’t feel like contributing for free to some portal run by a private company.

100%!!! The only thing I did differently was deleting all my usernames. I’m not contributing to all Reddit’s ad tracking, AI training, privacy invading nonsense.

I still go back to my favorite subs (r/gme_meltdown and r/buttcoin) to read only, but that’s it. Also there’s still tons of active BB boards (not on social media) for all my niche hobbies, soI really don’t have a reason to.

I’m not participating in that dumpster fire ever again. At best I’ll rip content from Reddit to post here on Lemmy.

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Im fascinated by the fact that people are starting to be monogamous with thier porn stars they watch.

I might be the odd one out, but if I’m paying for porn I’m definitely getting the one that’s like Netflix with a whole bunch of different shit on it.

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Lol, I wonder what full-auto looks like🤣

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Lol, do you even need it? The headline speaks volumes.🤣

Almost 1 in 3 Brits between 18 and 34 years old have received unwanted contact from delivery drivers or other workers asking them out on dates or for sex, the UK’s data watchdog has warned.

The survey of over 2,000 British adults carried out for the Information Commissioner’s Office found that, in total, 17% of people have had their personal information used for a romantic or sexual proposition after handing it over to a business.

That figure rises to 33% in London, where such incidents are most common.

“People have the right to order a pizza, or give their email for a receipt, or have shopping delivered, without then being asked for sex or a date a little while later,” said Emily Keaney, a deputy commissioner at the ICO.

“Our research today shows a disturbingly high number of people, particularly young people, are falling prey to these text pests,” she added.

In June, a female Etihad Airways passenger told The Guardian how she felt unsafe after a worker contracted by the airline found her phone number in the company system then sent her unsolicited text messages.

“There may be, amongst some, an outdated notion that to use someone’s personal details given to you in a business context to ask them out is romantic or charming,” Keaney said. “Put quite simply, it is not – it is against the law.”

A growing number of firms, particularly in delivery, transport, or logistics, rely on gig economy or contract workers. These workers are not entitled to the same employment rights as full-time workers, the jobs can be precarious and badly paid, and turnover is often high. One consequence is that sensitive customer information, such as phone numbers and addresses, is accessible to casual workers.

The ICO did not explicitly name any companies, but pointed to “major businesses” operating in food and parcel delivery.

Its survey found that two-thirds of the UK public believe it isn’t morally right to use personal details given for business purposes for romantic or sexual propositions.

The regulator said it’s cracking down on such occurrences, asking victims to come forward, and reaching out to companies to remind them of their data protection responsibilities.

If a company is found not to be following data-protection laws, it can be fined up to £17.5 million ($22.1 million) or 4% of its global turnover

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The problem most people have is their credit, not the mortgage payments. Both my mortgages (I’m not a landlord, but I do airbnb 3 months out of the year) are $1500/month, and most people pay that and more just for rent.

Nevermind the fact that some people are eligible to buy a home, but think they won’t qualify so they dont try. I was in that group with a credit score of 680, which is acceptable for the first time home owners program. I was accepted, and now I own 2 homes.

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Same here. I’m a fiber tech for a cable company, and working 4×10’s are awesome. I only work 2 extra hours, and I barely get more work than I did when I worked 8 hours.

It’s fucking awesome😃

OpenAI now tries to hide that ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted books, including J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (www.businessinsider.com)

OpenAI now tries to hide that ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted books, including J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series::A new research paper laid out ways in which AI developers should try and avoid showing LLMs have been trained on copyrighted material.

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What the article is explaining is cliff notes or snippets of a story. Isn’t that allowed in some respect? People post notes from school books all the time, and those notes show up in Google searches as well.

I totally don’t know if I’m right, but doesn’t copyright infringement involve plagiarism like copying the whole book or writing a similar story that has elements of someone else’s work?

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Ok I get now. I can definitely see both sides of the argument, and it’s not going to be easy to solve.

Copyright law needs to be updated to deal with all the new ways people and companies are using tech to access copyrighted material.

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I’m definitely getting an “opening scene from a Godzilla movie” vibes from this story.

SMITHandWESSON ,
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War is ugly. That’s probably happening on both sides. You try not killing a guy that’s was shooting to kill you.

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That’s after you whip thier ass

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Got any testimony from Ukraine soldiers saying they kill POWs?

If they have half a brain they probably wouldn’t admit to that as it would be self-incriminating.🤣

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I never said it wasn’t, I just said shit like that happens during war.

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Yeah, it totally doesn’t happen. I highly doubt you even served…

newsweek.com/ukrainian-troops-seen-killing-russia…

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You don’t have to worry about that if you have a good job with premium health insurance.

America is a sink or swim country and there’s no life gaurd on duty. If you want socialism/communism, just move to China, Russia, North Korea, or Cuba because that shit ain’t gonna happen here.

Sorry

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I hear you bro, It’s not that I’m not against having some socialist policies, I just don’t trust the people in power to enact them with the interest of the public in mind

I also think the problem with this world is overpopulation. If you have too many people, then some of them become disposable. Look at how corporate media is flipping out now that the birth rate has dropped.

It’s all about having enough people to exploit.

PS: I’m not the one that downvoted you.

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Lol, not yet. Hopefully, Activision isn’t watching this thread because that’s definitely something they’d try.🙃

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I was just looking at that. The only thing I don’t like is that you can’t purchase a yearly sub.

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Lol, I could actually own my bullets!!! Or just a jpg and a receipt. 😉

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Lol 😆

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