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You leave Newbie outta this, he’s a beloved Doctor!

The fuck is XDefiant…

2019 isn’t some ancient far away time though, it’s just a few years ago. If Facebook were doing stuff like this then, think who else is still doing it.

Seeing as I live here, I’ll take the root beer.

Especially if it’s that Australian stuff with the sasparilla in it, Bundaberg, that stuff is AMAZING!

Those bastar… Wait what?

You can make any graph look bad if you control the axis bounds weirdly like this.

Not that I have good things to say about ubisoft, but at a glance one would assume their stock value plummeted to zero, which is not the case.

That’s pretty dang cool, and 12 is my favourite number too :-)

What’s your favourite number?

So basically “Don’t pay a fee to use a product or service”.

I imagine this guy advocates for sneaking onto trains without paying the fare too, and shoplifting, etc. right?

Does he think products and services are magically free just because they’re provided through a computer rather than over a counter, and that business shouldn’t be allowed to charge money for them?

I get that this guy would rather go back to an internet where ad sales can pay for everything, but that’s just not viable for a lot of people now. Heck, many online services today didn’t even exist the way they do now 20 years ago, such as Netflix, and wouldn’t ever have been viable funded by ad sales alone.

Should we just stop innovating and growing as a society, stop offering new goods and services because they’re not viable in an ad sales only marketplace?

Plus, I bet this guy uses an ad blocker too, as most people that talk like this do. If he’s actively fighting the very financial foundation he’s advocating that we should go back to, what’s his end game? How does he see this actually working?

What’s his plan for how we’re should fund all these global businesses and products and so on? Can’t charge money, can’t passively fund free at point of use services using ad and anonymous marketing data… are businesses just supposed to print their own money?

Look, I don’t love how expensive a lot of these products and services are, I totally get why people pirate stuff, and I don’t like how the world wide web itself is becoming more of a small selection of walled garden services vs the millions of cool web pages and forums and such it used to be. That’s a deeper problem outside of this scope granted, but I think this guy longs for those days a little too, and that’s part of why he’s rebelling against modern online businesses.

I’m not saying every company handles charging for their products well, or that they’re affordable (but what is these days), look at Adobe for example. Or look at Unity’s recent crazy ideas.

I’m just saying that simply advocating for a boycott of businesses for having the audacity to charge money for a service that costs money to provide is, well, shortsighted to say the least.

These aren’t local government services paid for and provided free at point of use by our tax pounds like healthcare or the fire brigade, these are businesses - often global - that need to make money to survive (and yes I know a lot of them funnel too much of those profits to those who don’t deserve it rather than their staff, but that’s a whole other problem).

Yes, I long for a post scarcity, money free, star trek style society where everybody works for free just because they’re passionate about what they do and want to create and share cool things, without actually needing to work to survive or thrive. I would LOVE that. But that civilisation doesn’t exist for us yet, and we can’t expect one portion of it - the Internet - to become that all on its own in a vacuum.

Skull and bones emoticons are associated with laughter now? Huh? O.o

It reads to me like they’re very embarrassed for their friend upon finding out they work at that company, a bit like I’d feel bad for a friend that has to work for Jeff Bezos or McDonalds or such.

What’s this got to do with Twix? I love a good Twix…

Fuck me, now I gotta go buy a Twix. And a Lion, do they still make those? God they were the best.

That’s so callmekevin of u

I’m feelin a lil callmekevin 2day I can’t go 2 school mum

Not enough of the mundane has been preserved throughout human history, it continues to be a big problem for historians. Especially when they only have major - likely very coloured or outright lies - official records of events and cultural touchstones to go on.

Why do you think we get so incredibly excited when we uncover something as mundane as the pricing artwork on an ancient Roman food stall? Because that stuff wasn’t preserved, nobody bothered to record such details, so much is lost because nobody thinks their place in history matters enough to bother saving it.

We’ve reached a point in our development where we now have the ability to preserve snapshots of our civilisation in great detail, with extreme ease. We owe it to ourselves and especially to future generations to do so.

This final solution is much better than the previous attempts, 10/10 very cool toaster

Those huge American style lorries are mental at the front. They look cool, but what a wild blind spot.

Check out European lorries (like those in Euro Truck Sim for example), the cab ends at the window. Still a powerful beast but compact, and with fewer blind spots. So much easier to drive.

Still some blind spots though, be careful round em :-D

I dunno, I imagine somewhere in the United Kingdom there’s someone eating someone’s pet, and we’re a nation with a rich history of immigration, so they could well be an immigrant or the child of an immigrant.

Whereas we don’t have many right-wing American government employees hanging about, you know?

A guy comes along and tells us that we should have some self control, patience and a tempered response to difficult situations instead of jumping straight into anger and fury, and your take is that this concept is just privileged sexism?

Weird o.O

Gasp

This would be big news if he were King! Imagine the court intrigue and machinations that would follow!

I dunno, I just read an article about that country’s political debate from last night and it didn’t mention this point, it was mostly discussing how angry that bloke got at the other politician and how overall it seems like it was a bad night for him and a good night for her.

The specifics were a bit overshadowed by the perceived importance of the event and it’s outcome itself, I think.

I’m sure in the coming days some more details will flow out of the USA and we’ll hear some discussion of specifics where they concern us, like their politician’s stances on the war in Europe, I agree. I’ve just not seen it mentioned just yet is all.

But it’s only 7am and I think the debate was in the middle of the night, so I shouldn’t expect much yet haha :-D

All things serve the beam.

What do you mean used to?

That’s still what I use. I have seen people using the wireless ones though, they seem quite popular at the moment.

I’m just not sold on the idea of earphones that have planned obsolescence built in, and require Bluetooth.

My current earphones are fab, I’ve been using them for 10 years now, and they plug in to everything and work with everything.

Why downgrade to something that’ll have a ruined battery after 2 years, doesn’t work with most stuff, and let’s also not forget sometimes doesn’t work at all because the battery might need charging.

My wired earphones have not once refused to work for any reason, period.