wagesj45

wagesj45, 3 days ago

Just recommended the audio book to my library. Thanks.

wagesj45, 6 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

figured better to not bother than to “um, akchually” this one

gonna get the internet police sicked on you for sure.

wagesj45, 6 days ago

Very disappointing. This is a politics group, not a news group. Politics is entirely about opinion and views on how to operate society. This is exactly the place for someone to post content that aligns with their political, moral, and philosophical views, even if that doesn't align with your own. There is no such thing as a neutral observer in politics, and trying to force it just biases this group toward what the moderators view as "neutral" through their own biases. While bad faith posting (spam, etc) is a concern, it needs to be clearly defined and distinguished from simply expressing strong political opinions. Silencing voices for perceived bias undermines the purpose of political discussion.

wagesj45, 6 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

"Both good and bad news about Biden is out there. I prefer to share the bad news. But you know that already." (Emphasis mine)

I cannot see how that is an admission of bad faith (or dishonest as the mod said in the original post) in any fair interpretation. Unless you are defining "bad faith" as "something I disagree with" or "something that hurts my argument".

wagesj45, 7 days ago

Life is like this because its easier on the developers than having to deal with the deluge angry customers losing all their shit to scammers because they use the same 5 character password for every site on the internet.

wagesj45, 8 days ago

Not even completely removing Windows from your life will help. Anyone you interact with through email or instant message or social media will have screen-scraped copies of the entire interaction. And that would be bad enough if only a single person gets hacked and has their Recall data hijacked. There will be huge databases available that people will be able to freely cross reference. They'll still be able to build a quite extensive profile on you just through all of your interactions that get scraped from others.

wagesj45, 9 days ago

If borrowers are unable to afford a down payment, that almost certainly means they have very little financial flexibility.

Possibly. It might also deplete their only source of financial flexibility, too.

wagesj45, 10 days ago

Oh yeah. I can remember back in the day it could take quite a bit to compile and start these things, especially if you were running at higher resolution and detail values.

wagesj45, 10 days ago

Plenty of non-white people here that aren't immigrants that are having children.

wagesj45, 13 days ago

Just because an idea is old, doesn't mean its a bad idea. And we do have mechanisms for modifying the constitution. We just don't do it often because it requires a lot of agreement.

wagesj45, 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

Where is everyone calling you a Russian shill now, @return2ozma? LOL

edit: My point is that people only give @return2ozma shit when he post's anything mildly critical of Biden, but not when he posts anything else. Wasn't calling him a Russian shill.

wagesj45, 15 days ago

I'm actually really surprised they admitted it.

There's nothing "wrong" with things like this happening, per se. All new tech has growing pains and failures. But for North Korea to actually admit failure in anything is surprising to me. I would have expected them to keep their failures quiet or to blame them on external adversaries.

wagesj45, 19 days ago

Most moral real estate developers in the world.

wagesj45, 20 days ago

It seems that the only purpose these executives have is to siphon money straight up the organization to themselves. Do they provide any use to these studios other than that?

wagesj45, 22 days ago

Unironically the library. Then just use something like Audiobookshelf to organize your collection.

wagesj45, 22 days ago

I don't think that Libby itself is. There's DRM and while there is probably a way to strip it, I don't think that is easy and/or publicly shared. But Overdrive, which is Libby's predecessor, allows for DRM free MP3 downloads. But they've been trying to sunset Overdrive for a long time. The Windows desktop program needed to download the MP3 files is no longer linked on their site, for example (but is still downloadable if you know the exact link). I'm honestly not sure why it even still works unless it's to comply with some ancient contract they have with a library somewhere.

wagesj45, 22 days ago

Probably his own indifference. He clearly has no morals, and he'll be surrounded by even more comically evil villains, but I suspect they'll have a problem getting him to care about their pet evil plans. If it isn't making him money or jerking off his ego, he seems to have, traditionally at least, not cared.

wagesj45, 22 days ago

Who did we think was going to ensure we drink the verification can?

wagesj45, 23 days ago

Literally the meme where he's asking if he might be wrong, but decides that no, the it's everyone else that is wrong.

wagesj45, 29 days ago

I wish we were, through taxes. Though we'd probably just pay Boeing forty-eleventy billion dollars to never complete the project.

wagesj45, 1 month ago

I'm still salty that we never got a proper sequel to the original Prey.

wagesj45, 1 month ago

Nice app, you have there. Would be a shame if something were to happen to it.

wagesj45, 1 month ago

If I'm being honest, I can handle an ad in my pause menu as long as it doesn't interfere with the rest of operating the device. If I can unpause and reach the closed captioning or audio menu, fine, whatever. What really gets my goat is pre-roll and mid-roll ads. Can't stand them.

wagesj45, 1 month ago

No I get it. I don't like them, but I can live with it if I have to. Luckily my local library has enough DVDs to fill my Jellyfin server. :3

wagesj45, 1 month ago

It's rage bait. It just a polarizing content meant to rile up the masses and make us argue and bicker. It takes some societal grievances and amplifies them needlessly.