I’ll pick up a AAA game every few years and only after it’s on steep sale. This method has been working well for me but I’ve also considered myself as having my foot out the door for being a “gaming enthusiast” for 5-8…
It's free speech against the government, so hard to imagine this SCOTUS ruling against her. EDIT: Nvm, just saw the birthright citizenship vote. Some of SCOTUS can't read or are voting in bad faith.
> they haven't missed in a couple of decades Depends on your gaming tastes. I haven't really enjoyed any of the GTAs for longer than 2 hours, while RDR2 I also stopped playing after about 3 hours out of boredom - and…
> This water usage argument against data centers is so specious Conditions for drought have been increasing across the US, including an increase in literal droughts. The ecosystem needs water to survive. We need to give…
> If being in the EU was so great then why don't Norway or Switzerland join? I'm not an economist nor am I an European citizen, but both of those countries have very successful and wealthy economies. It doesn't seem…
> But on the other hand it also feels like a straightforward play for consumer sympathy 100% - just like Apple making such a grandiose show of "privacy". "Privacy" for Apple eventually led to Apple specific and…
> I urge everyone reading to unsubscribe instantaneously from the NYTimes for their business practices. If people stopped buying from unethical businesses it would be practically impossible to function in the modern…
> It's frankly depressing how few places there are to have quality conversations Yeah I used to learn so much across quite a few forums. Most of those communities are dead, dying, filled with bots or filled with people…
Everything you said plus now these out-of-touch and incredibly rich CEOs are shoving it in our faces that they are determined to take away our income while pocketing even more riches.
> You can actually mine the Venusian surface for metals By "surface" do you mean the ground of Venus? The odds of a mining operation happening on the ground of Venus seems like science fiction at best, impossible at…
> I am convinced that their talk of UBI is just handwaving Well, they are sociopaths so that checks out. What I find even more horrible is that they still somehow have an almost religious following, but it's also…
> I think you might be missing a subtle point about Costco It's not a subtle point. Members buy a membership and if they shop there enough recoup the cost of the membership and more. It's their entire business model.
Yeah I never bothered to verify the claim of them being made in the same factory and only heard it from word of mouth from some folks.
> Online communities are definitely dying. I guess I hope that maybe IRL communities have a resurgence in this wake. Would be super fascinating to watch play out. I grew up before the internet so, historically, I know…
I won't engage any further with a strawman argument made in bad faith.
No hate on people who buy that stuff - I like more eccentric style/colors and a specific fit that I've never seen at a Costco (athletic/form fitting vs bulky). Something like pajamas pants I would consider, but…
They used to be better but I stopped buying them after COVID related supply chain problems lowered the quality, at least a few years ago. Dunno if they rebounded. Supposedly they are made in the same factory as Smartwool
Sure but do you recall what LA looked like in the 80's? The gas is more expensive but the unseen cost of that level of pollution is very high. The gov can solve all future gas problems with EV subsidies and…
Sounds great for people and the environment. Too bad its production is now in danger thanks to horrible, ignorant decisions by this administration.
Costco is a store... where coffee, usually gas and most food + home goods are reliable in quality and priced well comparatively. Comparing the price of salmon fillets at Costco to Whole Foods or elsewhere is…
> which seems to be a binary input for diagnosis. Talk to a doctor about any diagnoses.
Apple is so intent on making the Apple Watch a catch-all that it doesn’t necessarily do any specific activity amazingly. After three Apple Watches over many years I finally sold my 10 last year and won’t be buying…
> a GPU which costs as much as a car must read its entire VRAM just to output a word sounds incredibly wasteful Kind of how I feel about Bitcoin at this point. The coins take so incredibly long to mine if you aren't in…
> Incessant nit picking, negativity and doubt casting is my issue. That has unfortunately been very common internet culture since 2020. It was there before the pandemic, but post-pandemic internet never recovered its…
If I was struck by an autonomous vehicle while riding in the bike lane I would sue and sue like I was taking aim at a corporation rather than an individual driver. I -or my partner, assuming I died- would retire very…
I’ll pick up a AAA game every few years and only after it’s on steep sale. This method has been working well for me but I’ve also considered myself as having my foot out the door for being a “gaming enthusiast” for 5-8…
It's free speech against the government, so hard to imagine this SCOTUS ruling against her. EDIT: Nvm, just saw the birthright citizenship vote. Some of SCOTUS can't read or are voting in bad faith.
> they haven't missed in a couple of decades Depends on your gaming tastes. I haven't really enjoyed any of the GTAs for longer than 2 hours, while RDR2 I also stopped playing after about 3 hours out of boredom - and…
> This water usage argument against data centers is so specious Conditions for drought have been increasing across the US, including an increase in literal droughts. The ecosystem needs water to survive. We need to give…
> If being in the EU was so great then why don't Norway or Switzerland join? I'm not an economist nor am I an European citizen, but both of those countries have very successful and wealthy economies. It doesn't seem…
> But on the other hand it also feels like a straightforward play for consumer sympathy 100% - just like Apple making such a grandiose show of "privacy". "Privacy" for Apple eventually led to Apple specific and…
> I urge everyone reading to unsubscribe instantaneously from the NYTimes for their business practices. If people stopped buying from unethical businesses it would be practically impossible to function in the modern…
> It's frankly depressing how few places there are to have quality conversations Yeah I used to learn so much across quite a few forums. Most of those communities are dead, dying, filled with bots or filled with people…
Everything you said plus now these out-of-touch and incredibly rich CEOs are shoving it in our faces that they are determined to take away our income while pocketing even more riches.
> You can actually mine the Venusian surface for metals By "surface" do you mean the ground of Venus? The odds of a mining operation happening on the ground of Venus seems like science fiction at best, impossible at…
> I am convinced that their talk of UBI is just handwaving Well, they are sociopaths so that checks out. What I find even more horrible is that they still somehow have an almost religious following, but it's also…
> I think you might be missing a subtle point about Costco It's not a subtle point. Members buy a membership and if they shop there enough recoup the cost of the membership and more. It's their entire business model.
Yeah I never bothered to verify the claim of them being made in the same factory and only heard it from word of mouth from some folks.
> Online communities are definitely dying. I guess I hope that maybe IRL communities have a resurgence in this wake. Would be super fascinating to watch play out. I grew up before the internet so, historically, I know…
I won't engage any further with a strawman argument made in bad faith.
No hate on people who buy that stuff - I like more eccentric style/colors and a specific fit that I've never seen at a Costco (athletic/form fitting vs bulky). Something like pajamas pants I would consider, but…
They used to be better but I stopped buying them after COVID related supply chain problems lowered the quality, at least a few years ago. Dunno if they rebounded. Supposedly they are made in the same factory as Smartwool
Sure but do you recall what LA looked like in the 80's? The gas is more expensive but the unseen cost of that level of pollution is very high. The gov can solve all future gas problems with EV subsidies and…
Sounds great for people and the environment. Too bad its production is now in danger thanks to horrible, ignorant decisions by this administration.
Costco is a store... where coffee, usually gas and most food + home goods are reliable in quality and priced well comparatively. Comparing the price of salmon fillets at Costco to Whole Foods or elsewhere is…
> which seems to be a binary input for diagnosis. Talk to a doctor about any diagnoses.
Apple is so intent on making the Apple Watch a catch-all that it doesn’t necessarily do any specific activity amazingly. After three Apple Watches over many years I finally sold my 10 last year and won’t be buying…
> a GPU which costs as much as a car must read its entire VRAM just to output a word sounds incredibly wasteful Kind of how I feel about Bitcoin at this point. The coins take so incredibly long to mine if you aren't in…
> Incessant nit picking, negativity and doubt casting is my issue. That has unfortunately been very common internet culture since 2020. It was there before the pandemic, but post-pandemic internet never recovered its…
If I was struck by an autonomous vehicle while riding in the bike lane I would sue and sue like I was taking aim at a corporation rather than an individual driver. I -or my partner, assuming I died- would retire very…