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We should stop saying "The customer is always right" because it's not true

In the grand scheme of things, the customer may have slightly more pull than the cashier ringing up their order, but it’s the CEO and the board of directors that control the narrative. That’s why we’re getting bigger and less fuel efficient vehicles, bigger and more fattening meal portions in restaurants, and bigger less...

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Blackstone’s end goal is to make everyone a renter.

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It’s like how my parents don’t understand streaming: “How do you know what to watch?”

“You just pick something, ma”

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And Deep Rock Galactic

ROCK AND STONE!

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A rhythm game with supply chain management would be bomb. Different rhythms at different parts of the line generate different products, and accuracy can control the purity of the final product. The levels could end up making a whole song, and eventually you can get steam engines and digital things to add different sounds. Ooo, and make the savegames MIDI files.

Guess I'm a six foot tall dwarf. Well, I do have over 1600 hours on Factorio, which is pretty dwarfish

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[Reddit spokesman Tim] Rathschmidt added that Reddit's Moderator Code of Conduct "isn't just about what mods can and cannot do; it's also about protecting our users' right to assemble and discuss topics they're passionate about."

You do not have a right to assemble on a privately owned platform, regardless of what the mods do.

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The replies to their other posts asking for mods are pretty hilarious.

I am glad to see someone knowledgeable is likely to take over /r/canning. People can get sick or die if things are preserved incorrectly.

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I lived in a hundred-year-old row home and I feel your pain. I had to rent a hammer drill to run Ethernet to my office, which was draped along the outside of my house.

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Plex & Sex > Netflix & Chill

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"Someone needs to run against him! Not me, but someone!"

Witness the craven nature of the modern Republican Party

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Why wouldn't he? He's got binders full of women! /s

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Fascism is a lot like a government run by a toddler: Everyone who doesn't like me is bad and I should kill them. Also people who are weird are bad and we should kill them. And that land over there is mine so I'm gonna take it. All the while I'm going to complain about how I'm the real victim.

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I read this in Fire Marshall Bill’s voice and then joined

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And I doubt PA will elect a Republican, especially in a presidential election year.

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I'm glad Boomers will beta test this stuff. By the time I need it you'll get it over the counter with minimal side effects

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With the experimental nature of the drugs they'll have three eyes or something. Maybe be turned back into actual infants.

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People have known it since at least 1999 when Office Space was released. If you're not slacking off at work, especially if you're salaried, you're being exploited even more than usual.

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Broke: Five day work week

Woke: Four day work week

Bespoke: Zero day work week

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Primary stargate is in Colorado so that's where the Goa'uld would strike first

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It's the same reason all the aliens Doctor Who fights are always attacking Britain

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I'm really excited for the potential for truly massive deep space probes, even though my favorite propulsion system is solar-thermal

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"Blockchain engineer" isn't a job.

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What if my favorite OS is Mac, my favorite browser is Firefox, and my favorite app is self hosted?

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It's also a lot easier to multiply and divide recipes if you switch it over to metric. This is particularly useful if you don't have enough of one ingredient and need to reduce the others by that ratio.

Then there's the ability to measure the ingredient directly out of the container, using any scoop you can find, rather than needing multiple sets of measuring spoons.

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Testifying at your own trial is almost always a bad idea, even if it's a social media trial

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The one advantage that Alexa legitimately had over Siri was the ability to set multiple timers. Very handy when doing multiple dishes at a time.

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I have yet to find an official definition of what Web3 means, but to me it just looks like creating scarcity where there isn’t any because reasons.

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At least the ocean will be nice and warm when it floods their houses

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Sounds like a great deal:

Under the tentative agreement, existing full- and part-time UPS union workers will get $2.75 more per hour in 2023, and $7.50 more per hour over the length of the five-year contract. The agreement also includes a provision to increase starting pay for part-time workers, which the union had called the most at risk in the company’s workforce of being exploited. Starting pay for part-time workers will be $21 per hour, it said, up from $16.20 today.

More proof that there is power in a union

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He bought Twitter back when cash was cheap. That alone could be a couple billion in valuation at least.

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As someone who prefers threaded interaction, it’s gonna be hard to stop calling them posts. Maybe that’s what my grandkids will think is old fashioned about me.

“They’s been posts since BBS and they’ll stay posts!”

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Uploaded: 70.92TB
Downloaded: 1.63TB
Ratio: 43.5
Running time: 1518 days

That's a lot of Linux ISOs

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25 years ago the notion that Macs would replace Windows was laughable. Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy and had to recruit users to advocate for them.

But now most of the folks I work with have Macs and the ones who don’t use Linux. The only folks who use Windows are the accountants.

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Another important thing that Macs have is support contracts. You're not going to deploy a thousand Linux machines if the vendor doesn't provide support for it, and a lot of vendors still don't support Linux

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Macs have the advantage of having Unix under the hood while being supported by software vendors.

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MacOS only is used in some Silicon Valley companies, but that’s a bubble. You’d be hard pressed to find it used in the rest of the business world anywhere.

As a support/sales engineer for the last 20 years, the number of Macs I see both my coworkers and my customers using is huge. And this is across lots of different markets: Aerospace, finance, software, content creation, etc.

Macs are cheaper on a TCO basis than Windows machines, with IBM finding they save $273 - $543 per Mac they deploy, and they need less than half the number of support people for Macs compared to Windows.

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I linked to a study upthread that shows IBM saving a few hundred dollars each when deploying Macs vs. Windows. Interestingly, the study also pointed out that employees using Macs did better on performance reviews.

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You wanna fix education? Fund it like the military.

My mom had a tote bag that said "I want to live in a world where schools have all the money they need and the air force needs to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber."

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Elon doesn't pay his hosting bills or rent, you think he's gonna care about something as inane as a license fee?

Deep sea mining - a better alternative? (article in body) (www.economist.com)

I’m immediately sceptical to the idea of ruining even more areas of nature than we already are, but at the same time I recognise that if we want to build feasible green energy and storage, we need rare-earth metals and heavy metals. This might be a good alternative to massive deforestation....

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Nah, we fucked up the oceans, too. Now we want to fuck up the ocean floor.

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Once we grow it in a lab we can control it a lot more. Maybe genetically engineer it to have different properties.

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Y’all dumb motherfuckers ready for a key change?

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Don’t let folks know about Kbin or it’ll start having load issues.

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There were way, way, way more bugs. Yesterday I spent about 12 hours on the highway, and I didn't need to pull over to clean my windshield once. 20-30 years ago my windshield and headlights would be completely plastered after a few hours.

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It's also because of a massive decline in the number of insects in the last 20-30 years

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I was able to reduce that to just SSH by having my Wireguard host on a VPS and connecting out from home. Running SSH on 443 is a neat idea.

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It's more about gaining access from inside a network that doesn't allow outbound on 22. For the web to work it would need 443 so connecting out on 443 might work

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Absolutely. Though putting it on 443, which is regularly port scanned as well, is the opposite of security through obscurity.

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Eating meat is bad, but this won’t be solved by individual action. Putting a cost on every ton of beef, plastic, and carbon created would create market conditions that would reduce the production of these things and hence the consumption

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