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0110010001100010, 5 days ago

Is the entire far-right comprised of grifters and…for lake of a better term…griftees? I guess a fair few of them are criminals too.

0110010001100010, 7 days ago

AI generated image? It has that feel to me.

0110010001100010, 7 days ago

What I’m getting from this is that companies could have lowered prices at anytime but kept them artificially high to make more money.

Fuck capitalism!

0110010001100010, 8 days ago

Or the GQO calling peaceful protests about Gaza insurrections and exactly the same as Jan 6th. Fascism needs to muddy the waters to drum up as much support as possible. Keep people dumb and angry.

0110010001100010, 8 days ago

Biden is socialist

LMAO

0110010001100010, 9 days ago

Same, it’s glorious. That said, on the other side of the coin during go-live weeks I’ve worked multiple days in a row until midnight or later. So it balances out in the end.

0110010001100010, 8 days ago

I’m in a large company, 350k+, but our team of ~20 has different rules. The head of our team, my bosses boss, gives us a TON of flexibility to take comp time, take random days off and bill to the project (without taking PTO), etc. When my boss brought me on it was touted as a startup within a large company. I won’t say we can do ANYTHING, but outside of go-live weeks we can flex our hours a lot. Hell I cut out by like 2P or 3P every Friday.

0110010001100010, 9 days ago

Seriously, they ALL fucking suck. I honestly kinda miss the old nub thingie that IBM (now Lenovo) had (has?). It took some getting used to but it was so much better than a touch pad.

0110010001100010, 9 days ago

Party of Law and Order y’all. Where is my “turns out that was a lie” meme?

0110010001100010, 9 days ago

How about meatspin? That was a classic!

0110010001100010, 10 days ago

It’s 5P on the east coast, I haven’t been working for the past few hours, lol (though unrelated to this).

0110010001100010, 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

“The cost for the ransom is $500,000. Your total ransom amount will be calculated on the next page. Would you like to upgrade to a special souvenir, limited-edition ransom for an extra $40 million?” the note read.

The group also offered Ticketmaster the opportunity to upgrade their ransom to ‘Refundable’ for just an extra $12 million, which would allow the company to request a refund and then have it later denied.

Bwahahahaha. Get fucked Ticketmaster.

0110010001100010, 10 days ago

lol omg it is!

0110010001100010, 10 days ago

The signs were soon taken down by Emily’s mother out of safety concerns.

My wife pushes back but this right here is the reason I don’t have certain signs/flags on my property. If it was just me, fuck the fascists I would fly so much shit all the time. I just can’t in good conscious put my wife and kids lives in danger because of the rabid right-wing cultists out there. I understand that’s by design and exactly what they want but their safety is far superior to mine.

0110010001100010, 10 days ago

I like the judge with the “WTF is this actually happening?” expression. I do have to give him some kudos, I’m not sure I could have held back from saying something snarky like “are you really this stupid?” That’s probably why I’m not a judge, lol.

0110010001100010, 10 days ago

This is the whole thing that’s ridiculous to me. It’s not the fact that he had sex with her, it’s not even the fact that he paid her to shut the fuck up, it’s the fact that he covered it up and committed fraud. He could have just boasted about it publicly and it’s unlikely anyone would have cared.

0110010001100010, 10 days ago

It is, but the crux of the felony charges stem from the fact that he “committed fraud with the intent to commit or conceal another crime.”

independent.co.uk/…/trump-trial-guilty-verdict-b2…

0110010001100010, 10 days ago

I’ll look forward to my $0.50 check and exactly zero consequences for the higher-ups that I’m sure slashed IT/cybersecurity budgets.

0110010001100010, 10 days ago

heh, you don’t know how true this is. I’ve worked in IT for 2 decades. IT is pretty much always seen as a cost center.

If everything is running smoothly - “what are we paying you for?!”

If everything is on fire - " What are we paying you for!?"

And now with companies getting the tiniest of slaps on the wrists for willful negligence it’s cheaper to cut IT funding, outsource it, whatever.

If the cost of the fine is less than the profits gained by doing “x” then that’s just the cost of doing business. Execs will continue to do this until there are real consequences for the company and them directly.

0110010001100010, 10 days ago

I see your point, but I’m not sure I would argue gaming is an expensive hobby. You can pick up a second-hand console and a handful of games under $500. PC gaming is a different beast (obviously).

To me this number just makes logical sense. A 55 year old could easily have grown up playing video games and leaning into that towards and into retirement seems like a pretty normal next step.

I would fully expect and hope that when I retire in ~25 years I’ll join the ranks of older gamers.

0110010001100010, 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

$70 at release. Unless you need a play a game right now that price can easily drop by half or more if you wait a year for sales. There are almost no games I buy on day-one anymore.

This has the added bonus of them usually being patched to be less buggy with more quality of life improvements.

Also, $70 is still pretty cheap in the grand scheme of hobbies. Google tells me the average price of a movie ticket is $11. So rounded up that’s 1 game = 6.5 movies. If a movie is 2 hours long that’s 13 hours of enjoyment. I can easily sink 50+ hours into an AAA title (hell my wife just put 110 hours into FF VII Rebirth). That doesn’t count replayability.

0110010001100010, 10 days ago

That is correct. Quote from the article:

Florida’s new teaching standards include the same language that scored national blowback last year for requiring middle school students to learn “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

0110010001100010, 11 days ago

Anyone ever actually use this feature?

I didn’t even know it existed…

0110010001100010, 11 days ago

Given he’s a republican it’s equally likely he’s lying and was the one that instructed her to fly them or even did it himself.

0110010001100010, 11 days ago

Just curious, so numbers are the deciding factor for heating, not environmental impact?

This is correct. And given the way the grids interconnect it would be hard if not impossible for me to be able to quantify environmental impact. I would assume even though there is still a lot of coal generation in-use it would still be more environmentally friendly for me to run the heat pump but I just don’t know.

For example if your were wealthy would you choose lowest impact option, or would numbers still dictate your choice?

If money was no object I would absolutely choose the lowest impact option. I would even do a solar install even though it would likely end up being a net-loss for my specific case.