dismalnow

dismalnow, 4 months ago

For the record, that's an incredibly shitty argument.

"LOL GIT GUDER PC"

There's a better solution for legacy hardware on windoze, and you don't know what it is.

Just admit it, or STFU.

dismalnow, 9 months ago

Can't just have a royal rumble. You're going to need to iterate ALL of the flavors into factions if you want a war.

I vote everyone vs Arch (btw)

dismalnow, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I got curious and did the math if $44B was denominated in $100 bills.

That's 496.85 cubic kilometers of cash. Or a pile of money that covers half of the continental US, stacked 1/4 of the height of Low Earth Orbit.

I honestly don't think one could physically burn that much cash since May 2022 in real life.

Edit: more mind bogglery!

The earth is ~40,000 km in circumference, so you could stack the bills almost 28m high around the equator (or circle the globe 256,482 times.)

dismalnow, 9 months ago

This isn't a logo. It's a cry for help from a severely distressed mind.

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dismalnow, 9 months ago

Yeah. The last time I saw such hubris, it had to be shot in the chest as it tried to climb through a window to prevent the certification of the 2020 election.

The government (and the electorate) needs to do many things right to prevent Cheeto or a Cheeto Analogue from sending the US into abject totalitarian misery, and there's not a great deal of evidence that will happen.

dismalnow, 9 months ago

They're getting their fix. He's in the news daily, and coverage of his indictment is ramping up.

dismalnow, 9 months ago

Child soldiers. Neat.

No other combatants are both easier AND harder to shoot. The only modern parallels exist in Congo, and I cannot fathom it on this scale.

Soviet wars of aggression have always created generational scars, but this will be a tragedy that can never be undone.

dismalnow, 9 months ago

Screw extractor kits are dirt cheap $10-$15, and great to keep in your tool box.

I've used mine 10x after I was upset that I bought one for "one screw"

Just drill it, flip the bit, and unscrew it.

dismalnow, 9 months ago

Not really - Since they're cheap, easy to lose, and categorically unnecessary if the screws weren't made out of butter. 😆

dismalnow, 9 months ago

In the article, clear indicators that this was a money laundering exercise are described.

A spokesperson for his publisher, a company cofounded by Donald Trump Jr. and a former campaign staffer named Sergio Gor, said “Our Journey Together” sold more than 500,000 copies. The representative refused to provide documentation to back up that figure, which Forbes was unable to independently verify.

NPD BookScan, an industry data service, tracked 10,200 sales at retailers through January 2023. NPD BookScan doesn’t track purchases directly from a book’s website, though, which appears to have been a major sales avenue for “Our Journey Together.”

Just 2% (10,200) of the quoted sales (500,000 copies) is able to be validated from booksellers.

In 2022, the former president’s joint fundraising committee and political action committee paid Winning Team Publishing, which released the book, $231,000.

So they paid the publisher 4% ($231,000) to receive payment ($5,750,000)?

“Our Journey Together’s” $5.75 million payout dwarfed the other royalty payments Trump reported receiving over the past 18 months. “The Art of the Deal,” published in 1987, brought in somewhere between $100,000 and $1 million, according to the filing, which lists the income of Trump’s older books in broad ranges. Four other books each earned him $5,000 to $15,000, one made $2,500 to $5,000 and 10 earned less than $200.

So he made $5 million more with a book which is totally comprised of content from the public domain than his previous (and trackable) pride and joy?

Oh, and..

Trump also disclosed that Winning Team Publishing paid his wife, Melania, $250,000 in licensing fees. The spokesperson said that payment was for promoting “Our Journey Together.”

Except she didn't promote the book. Like, at all.

dismalnow, 9 months ago

And when the government can effectively prevent massive amounts of benzene from going into the air, they are more than welcome to work on the trace amounts of nicotine.

dismalnow, 9 months ago

It's about ease of enforcement. If you can't enforce a law, it's bullshit lip service.

dismalnow, 9 months ago

One is clearly worse, can be stopped, and isn't bullshit.

The other is whiny bullshit, and your analogy sucks.

dismalnow, 9 months ago

Yeah, that's a lot of words when they could've just said "I don't understand risk, harm reduction, any statistics relavent to the topic, or science."

dismalnow, 9 months ago

As bluntly, and as often as possible to ensure the demarcation is obvious to all.

Hate to turn your putrid argument around on you, but this isn't as trivial as the annoyance of needing a sarcasm flag to avoid Poe's Law, even though the impact of vaping on adult members of society who do not use it is merely an annoyance which causes their knees to jerk.

And your facts are wrong: Tobacco smoke kills half a million people per year. The jury is out on whether or not vaping is quantifiably medically dangerous at all. There is absolutely no data on harm from 2nd hand vaping, so you cannot say (in good faith) that it's causing harm.

Specifics matter in comparisons when the potential outcome is a total ban on a substance that has helped minimize harm for millions, and is mostly harmless in comparison.

In short - gnash your teeth elsewhere, you smug turd. You're wrong.

Is that clear enough?

dismalnow, 9 months ago

fuck, why am I bothering

For the same reason you couldn't stop in the first place, you smug fuck.

Drink bleach.

dismalnow, 9 months ago

To kick it off he could break all the links one night.

dismalnow, 9 months ago

Link to the source this article uses.

dismalnow, 9 months ago

I love revisiting comments like these every 4 years.

dismalnow, 9 months ago

Cocaine dropped in water off coast of Florida could turn Great White into Mötley Crüe.

dismalnow, 9 months ago

The corpos have minimaxed all they can from the adults.

dismalnow, 9 months ago

Are you saying "crassholes" or "assholes"

dismalnow, 9 months ago

Then why are they even still there?

Sunk cost fallacy or misplaced hope are other options outside of Napoleon complex.

dismalnow, 9 months ago

I recognize you're probably not the original commenter, but this is the same flavor of strawman.

App is app. Other app is other app.

In one app, it was possible to send both SMS and encrypted messages. In the other, just SMS.

dismalnow, 9 months ago

Indeed.

It's a very basic trade that it seems few understand. You MUST trade a bit of convenience to increase your security, or mistakes will happen.