hayes_

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hayes_,

Total… Star Wars? Star total wars?

hayes_,

I didn’t believe you, but was surprised to learn this is actually true.

The goods inside these stores — Doritos, sunglasses, lotto tickets, energy drinks — only account for ~30% of the average gas station’s revenue, yet bring in 70% of the profit.

thehustle.co/why-most-gas-stations-dont-make-mone…

hayes_,

released with an MSRP of ¥29,980 in Japan, US$299.99 in the United States, £279.99 in the United Kingdom, and A$469.95 in Australia; with standardized pricing for the European market varying.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch#:~:text=The….

ajsadauskas, to cars
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The toll road scam: A government-made monopoly you pay for.

Here's a funny-because-it's-true take on Transurban and the poor tax it imposes, from Punter's Politics:

https://youtu.be/FlKBakPAtiw?si=G39_0GcJzSB0SSA8

@fuck_cars

hayes_,

Not disagreeing with your core point but infrastructure is never paid off.

Upkeep on a mile of asphalt is way more than I expected and I live somewhere temperate.

hayes_,

Everyone should have to sand a piece of wood to within spec at least once in their life.

Measure twice; consider a finer grain of sandpaper; sand once.

Repeat 500 times.

hayes_,

It’s exactly a money thing.

Publishers are usually responsible for all the shit people get angry about, but they’re also footing the bill to build the thing years ahead of time.

hayes_,

Have you considered one of the alternative brokers which offer pay as you go liability coverage?

One example: www.withhugo.com

hayes_,

The law does apply to social media posts.

The social media company has to mark sponsored content and give users the means to do so themselves (when the partnership is between the user and a third party rather than the social media company).

Unfortunately it’s hard to prove and profitable to lie.

hayes_,

Brb. Gonna air gap my home real quick instead of updating windows.

Got tracked down for my school reunion

Today I was contacted by someone at work. She graduated school with me and our 20 year reunion was coming up. Why did she contact me at work? It was the only way they were able to track me down. I was included in promotional material by name. She told me I "was the hardest to track down"and I had to smile....

hayes_,

Just fyi:

  • performant == effective
  • performative == related to artistic/dramatic performance

Thank you Lemmy 49ers community

I know it was a painful end to the season, but damn what a ride. I just wanted to give a shout out to all the posters here, you guys rock. I created this sub when Reddit pulled a Reddit, and I wasn’t sure if it would gain any traction. But you all have exceeded my expectations and turned this place into a real community. I’d...

BeAware, to ADHD
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hayes_,

Still counts!

hayes_,

This is a bizarre take but I support you for being a weirdo.

hayes_,

Don’t blame the devs.

It’s the execs and PMs who have other priorities.

hayes_,

It’s okay. I’ve misspelled “peek” as “peak” multiple times in the last week.

English just be like that.

hayes_,

Lot of armchair philosophists disagreeing with you, but you’re right.

Sure, some people make art for art’s sake. But it doesn’t put food on the table. Like it or not, most popular media is created at least in part as a source of income for the creator.

It’s fine to pirate things if you actually can’t/wouldn’t otherwise engage with the media. But at least be honest with yourself and recognize that you’re stealing income from the creator.

hayes_,

Doesn’t it warn you on your laptop from like 20% down?

I always laugh at how early it starts warning me to charge mine.

It’s a goofy design but I agree. It would be cool if I could plug it in to charge while using it but it barely affects me.

The employees secretly using AI at work (www.bbc.com)

Berlin-based business consultant Matt and his colleague were among the first at their workplace to discover ChatGPT, mere weeks after its release. He says the chatbot transformed their workdays overnight. “It was like discovering a video game cheat,” says Matt. “I asked a really technical question from my PhD thesis, and...

hayes_,

It will also contradict itself and make the same mistakes even if you point them out.

Can be useful as a starting point, but you basically need to fact check everything it says.

hayes_,

If you’re still in the zone, I meant to clean my apartment this weekend… but got distracted.

hayes_,

You don’t need to go back.

That game falls firmly into the “formative/great for its time” category.

Your memory of it is better than how you’d react to it today, I assure you.

hayes_, (edited )

Consider the humble “em dash” — some people use it to interject a completely different sentence in the middle of another — the next time you’re trying to avoid parentheses.

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