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Simpsonator 42 points 3 years ago

Makes me wonder what morale is like for the employees at Reddit. Working for a CEO that admires Musk's takeover of Twitter would have me running for the door.

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Simpsonator 18 points 3 years ago

I think you're getting down voted for two reasons.

  1. OP's comment didn't state anything factual. It was rude to accuse him of attempting to "propagate incorrect information."

  2. You're lumping together two very different types of spending and it feels like you're making a disingenuous argument. The vast majority of spending you're talking about is Social Security/Medicare which has received near constant increases. Welfare programs on the other hand have been under attack since the 90s. I can say that Social Security, Medicare, and the FAA together make up almost half the budget but it doesn't make a good argument for cutting the FAA.

All that said, I do think you make a good point that there's other programs to look at. Maybe we can cut the military budget while also looking at saving money on Medicare.

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Simpsonator 12 points 3 years ago

Can you give me a source from CNN/MSNBC/NYT where the meat market origin was created to cover up for Fauci? Your entire premise, save the idea that a lab "might" have been the source, is all conspiracy theory and not at all consensus.

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Simpsonator 8 points 3 years ago

I think we can all agree that both companies have terrible management in different ways.

But this dream that MS will just clean house with Act/Blizz management is just that. If MS replaces all of senior management over the next year or two, the studios will grind to a halt. Someone has to make decisions about resource allocations. I'm dubious about the competence of senior management in general but someone has to decide the dev budget, the marketing budget, feature set, etc. And someone has to make decisions midstream when it becomes clear your battle royale game will get lost in a sea of Fortnite clones.

If MS starts firing these guys, they'll see the writing on the wall and go elsewhere on their terms, leaving the company unable to make those decisions. I just can't see MS firing anyone but the top guys.

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Simpsonator 6 points 3 years ago

I don't get the difference between fried egg and over easy if they're fried on both sides. I'm no eggspert (it's father's day so you'll have to excuse the Dad joke) but over easy should have a runny yolk and this one looks pretty cooked.

P.S. Thanks for the picture OP. I've never seen all the ways to cook an egg in one picture.

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Simpsonator 4 points 3 years ago

Z-index is how you set the layering of your web page. If I have elements with Z-index of -1000, 0, and 99999 they will overlay each other in that order with 99999 being on top.

The joke is that he put his div on the highest layer and still doesn't see it.

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Simpsonator 4 points 3 years ago

The possible origins should be discussed. By experts. What kind of discussion are you looking for? I'm not a bioweapons expert. Are you? What possible conclusion can we come to that actual experts might not have considered?

I just see this idea that everyone's viewpoint is equivalently valid everywhere and it drives me crazy. This is a scientific question. Real experts study this stuff their entire lives. The one guy with a Ph.D. in Microbiology has an opinion that's worth more than a million random idiots with a keyboard and internet. Maybe instead of coming to our own conclusions, we listen.

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Simpsonator 3 points 3 years ago

I have a recent Corolla with this feature and really like it. It may not be useful for you if your cell phone has unlimited data. But I'm on a pay as you go plan run through T-Mobile so it's cheaper to pay for the car wifi than data. For $10 a month, I don't have to worry about running up a big bill with streaming and GPS.

The wifi also runs through Verizon so it's nice to have two different ways to call for help if you're stranded between T-Mobile towers.

I expect these issues are mostly my own and it isn't that useful for most. Honestly, I would bet that AT&T or Verizon is paying Toyota to put these into cars so they can sell data plans.

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Simpsonator 3 points 3 years ago

I'm not OP but I have a friend that was pretty miffed about it. He had the same username on several platforms and on Discord he shared the name with a couple people. One of them apparently had priority and now he has to tell people "I'm blah on x, y, and z. And on Discord I'm blah123." It's not the end of the world but just gives him a reason not to share his Discord.

For a platform looking to maintain and grow users, it just seems pretty shortsighted to inconvenience even 5% of users. If the rename had led to some kick ass feature I'm sure people would be fine. There just doesn't seem to be any tangible benefit for existing users.

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Simpsonator 3 points 3 years ago

It's just a hotspot. It's probably no more or less secure than any other hotspot.

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Simpsonator 3 points 3 years ago

I kinda understand this point of view but I don't see how it punishes anyone at Act/Blizz. Bobby Kotick walks away with a literal fortune and I doubt Microsoft fires the management to hire all new people. I'd like to see Act/Blizz shareholders sue the board and Kotick for corporate malfeasance instead and get that money back.

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Simpsonator 3 points 3 years ago

No. We can't talk about whether climate change is real. There's an overwhelming amount of evidence proving it's happening. Where do we draw the line in your world? Do you suffer all the fools who don't believe in gravity too? How about geocentrism? Flat earthers?

There's no line at Covid. I'm saying there should be a line at hard sciences and questions that are verifiable. We can discuss whether gravity exists but it's just wasted breath if neither one of us knows all that much about gravity.

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Simpsonator 3 points 3 years ago

Are you suggesting that Jordan and Egypt don't care about Palestinians because they don't allow Israel to forcibly relocate millions of refugees to their countries? Beyond the fact it's a war crime, it doesn't really improve the situation for anyone but Israel.

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Simpsonator 2 points 3 years ago

Preds fan here. I thought the Preds were making a big mistake trading Weber. He was the backbone of the team and best player by far. If he hadn't fallen apart in Montreal, I think we'd be talking about him in the same breath with MacInnis and Bourque.

But in the end, Weber declined fast and PK was never the difference maker the Preds were looking for. The one thing PK did bring to the Preds was a sense of putting all the chips on the table. The other players responded by mostly having their best career performances all in one year to get them to the cup.

If a few plays had gone differently in those finals, we might be saying how PK got them a cup. It really could have gone either way in that series.

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Simpsonator 2 points 3 years ago

My proposal would be to have more tiers of capital gains that would incentivize long term investments. And raise the rate on short term gains. That would also reduce some insider trading if the pay off was lower short term. But I'm just an armchair economist so there's probably some terrible consequence to this plan I can't see.

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Simpsonator 2 points 3 years ago

I really wanted it to be better. These guys made Witcher 3, one of my favorite games of all time. Cyberpunk just feels bland.

There are NPCs everywhere but none of them have anything worthwhile to say. And the loot system has you constantly picking up guns and then trying to decide if this new gun is 1% better than what you're using. It got really tedious and the story wasn't worth pushing through.

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Simpsonator 2 points 3 years ago

You totally misunderstood what I suggested. Your statement that we can't discuss anything proves it.

There are a myriad of things we can discuss. Politics, religion, whether Kirk or Picard was better. None of these are provably right or wrong. However, if someone was dispensing medical advice or legal advice, I would hope you'd talk to a real expert. This is the same. I'm not qualified to determine what is right in regards to Covid's origin so I listen to the consensus of experts.

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Simpsonator 2 points 3 years ago

Ask it to write an arbitrary sentence in cursive handwriting. If it knows Q and Z, it's definitely a bot.

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Simpsonator 1 point 3 years ago

I agree with the second part of your statement. Egypt could do more. But I'm not understanding what the first part has to do with forced displacement to Egypt. Is that somehow justified by the history?

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Simpsonator 1 point 3 years ago

On point 2, the individual mandate was repealed in 2018. There's no federal penalty for not having insurance.

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