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by pickleglitch 3mo ago
I hope they lose and it bankrupts them. I'd like to see Zuckerberg thrown in prison. However, I would like to know what happens that $1.4T? Like, do the states that sued just add it to a slush fund? How would it be used to help mitigat
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by pickleglitch 4mo ago
This is only part of the picture. Part of the reason houses are so much larger today is cultural, but I would argue a larger part is that economies of scale scale make it more profitable to build larger houses, so that's what developer
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by pickleglitch 4mo ago
The median monthly rent for houses and apartments in the U.S. in 1970 was $108, or around $930 in today's dollars. So, in today's dollars, that would be $11,160/year. Median household income in 1970 was $9,870, or $84,714 in
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by pickleglitch 4mo ago
I will surely get down-voted for this, but at this point if you buy a Tesla you get what you fucking deserve.
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by pickleglitch 4mo ago
What's extreme about trying to live your values?
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by pickleglitch 4mo ago
Jellyfin is great, but it is solving a different problem entirely.
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by pickleglitch 4mo ago
I like the laptop idea, I'd go with Linux instead of Windows, and even then I think it would be a challenge to get it working well with a remote. Nvidia Shield is just Android TV, which means handing Google all your data. Of course, Ap
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by pickleglitch 4mo ago
So now the same corporation that owns Fox News is going to own Roku? No thanks. Guess it's finally time to switch to a custom Android TV box or Apple TV. Or roll my own, but I've tried that and found it pretty difficult.
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by pickleglitch 4mo ago
They require your name and address, so they will have a nice database of anyone who dares voice an objection.
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by pickleglitch 4mo ago
What if you wrap them in bacon and deep fry them? Deep-fried bacon petaflops are a Thanksgiving tradition in my house.
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by pickleglitch 4mo ago
Yeah, no. I don't give a fuck about port forwarding to make a remote machine look like it's running on my localhost. I don't want to cede any more of my computing needs to the cloud than I absolutely have to. I like to own my
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by pickleglitch 4mo ago
It's been many years. But today I just wouldn't buy a set that had too many single-use pieces. If I were still Legoing, I would probably just hunt craigslist or facebook marketplace for people selling lots of random bricks.
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by pickleglitch 4mo ago
For me, when I was into legos, the answer would be: take it apart and add the pieces to my larger collection, from which I can build whatever I want.
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by pickleglitch 4mo ago
You can pry localhost from my cold dead hands.
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by pickleglitch 4mo ago
Yeah, it's a better source if you enjoy government propaganda.
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by pickleglitch 4mo ago
In the future, we will all dress like firefighters.
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by pickleglitch 4mo ago
Companies don't control the release of strategic oil reserves. The President does that, and Biden actually did do it during the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At the time, Republicans criticized him for doing it, but if
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by pickleglitch 4mo ago
Yeah, I don't see it. Trump is also pathologically incapable of admitting defeat (see Jan 6) and it will be very difficult for him to claim victory without getting something better than the deal Obama got. There's little to no inc
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by pickleglitch 4mo ago
My understanding is that prices have been kept low by drawing down our strategic oil reserves. We're also somewhat insulated by domestic production, although a lot of that is sold overseas.
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by pickleglitch 5mo ago
> Other startups are focused on trying to scale data collection. Silicon Valley-based Human Archive, for example, hopes to partner with companies like Pronto and have gig workers record their activities using not-so-stylish camera caps.
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by pickleglitch 5mo ago
Who's this "we" exactly? Who's going to host the infrastructure? I don't think it would be so trivial to "just make our own."
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by pickleglitch 5mo ago
This is what my employer is pushing as well. Instead of writing code, their vision is to turn developers into AI agent managers. Even if I manage to hold on to my job, whatever creative fulfillment I once got from it will be gone. It's
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by pickleglitch 5mo ago
Minority report, anyone? Any tips on how to find the nearest black market eyeball sales person?
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by pickleglitch 5mo ago
I don't use any WhatsApp. I also don't use any Meta products. I don't give a fuck who else is on them.
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by pickleglitch 5mo ago
This is why labor laws and unions exist. It's unfortunate that in the US both have diminished under a withering assault from the ruling class over the past several decades.
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by pickleglitch 5mo ago
I rented for somewhere around 20 years before I was finally able to buy a house, and I hated every minute of it. I've had a landlord (in Arizona) tell me that it's normal for an air conditioner to only be able to reduce the temp b
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by pickleglitch 5mo ago
The cost of having to live under the boot of a landlord is immeasurable. The freedom of not having a landlord is priceless.
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by pickleglitch 5mo ago
Or, just produce a cheaper, shittier widget, and pay Google to have their AI tell people your widget is superior anyway. My guess is Google will try to keep their ad costs just low enough to make this second option the most attractive.
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by pickleglitch 5mo ago
Sorry, I don't think making oil companies even wealthier is a good reason. We should be trying to get off of oil, not starting wars to maintain the status quo.
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by pickleglitch 5mo ago
Perhaps "for no good reason" would be a better way of putting it.

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