TrudeauCastroson [he/him]

Does China hate American stuff as much as Americans hate Chinese stuff?

Or is their country still generally on the upswing while the US is in decline so they don’t care that much?

The Titan Submersible was at least a classical feel-good tale of hubris.

This thing is just annoying, who cares.

Most progressive statement by a rapper in 2012, and maybe even now

The induced coma was due to wanting to avoid benzo withdrawal.

Instead of going to rehab and tapering off like he can definitely afford to do, he decided to ignore all medical advice, go cold turkey off benzos, and get into an induced coma in Russia to not have to go through withdrawal.

He’s been on carnivore diet pre-benzos, and idk how much you can specifically attribute to that and the covid. Those are both sprinkles on top rather than being clear causes like the coma.

It’s the picture for the onion article headline "heartbreaking: worst person you know makes a good point’

Respecting IP is when you become a paypig for adobe, Microsoft, and media companies.

Disrespecting IP is when those large companies steal from smaller fish who can’t do shit about it.

In capitalism there’s no winning either way with IP law. AI is allowed to pirate every book/newspaper in existence for training data, but you as a human have to pay hundreds of dollars to read academic papers and gain real knowledge. Or you can freely use an underpriced AI in it’s “capture the market” stage of pricing/use to give me the simulacrum of knowledge.

If I wrote open source code on github, I wouldn’t want Microsoft to use it to train anything, even if I’m okay with other people taking it to make useful open projects.

Couldn’t disagree more with the the ruling, the dissenting opinion is right.

You don’t expect a bone fragment in breast meat, which is what boneless wings typically are. Even the argument that “boneless” is a style of preparation, it doesn’t make sense to expect bones.

The court probably doesn’t want to imply it should be made from a specific (more expensive) cut of meat, but even in the pink-sludge-style nuggets you shouldn’t get a bone either.

I feel bad for the guy who has to pay for his own healthcare now.

last two phones I bought were $250 off of aliexpress.

Before that I got used phones from relatives who upgraded, but that was at the time when a newer model was actually a big improvement generation-to-generation. Then everyone started to use their phone until it became completely useless so I had to buy new.

Aliexpress xiaomi/poco phones used to be better value, the next time I buy I phone I’ll probably get a previous generation or 2 flagship from a mainstream company because waterproofing would be nice.

If you’re a convenience store but pallets of Coca Cola, then they kind-of can. They can just blacklist you from buying Coca Cola in the foreign country.

It’s also different because they’re selling you continuous access one month at a time instead of a physical good you drink and they can’t take away from you. I’ve been to places where service costs are lower for locals than for tourists, and this is told to you outright. Stuff like museums, taxis, etc. It’s a similar idea YouTube has.

Prices are also almost never based on cost, they’re based on what people will pay.

I live in Canada, and cars are more expensive here than in the USA. US dealerships near the border refuse to sell new cars to Canadians, even though it’s legal for everyone as long as you make sure to pay duties on the way back. I’m guessing each brand has some rule against it.

Ultimately VPN users aren’t a protected class so it’s legal to discriminate.

Now that you mention it, I see your point. The Southern cross is probably worse for being a symbol of the explorers who discovered land to be colonized than for the cross itself IMO.

Meanwhile the Nordic countries have sideways crosses because one of them started it since they had a king see a cross or something in a battle, and then they copied each other’s homework. The king didn’t even meet Jesus, he just hallucinated a cross. If you met the guy then at least that’s a story. That’s like putting Elvis on your flag because you saw him in a potato chip.

I’m surprised Arch is that high compared to other distros.

Also interesting that people are actually switching to windows 11, everyone I know is staying on win10 as long as possible because they’re more used to the interface.

Did windows 2000 even have much market penetration for home users?

It was more related to server versions of Windows than home versions, you were supposed to using ME.

I thought he was selling chips that let you do piracy

Either way, he and his descendants should be indentured servants to Nintendo. His lineage must be shamed.

It’s annoying how inconvenient it is to exercise with a phone nowadays. The armbands needed for a phone compared to an old iPod are comically large, and they’re so big they bounce around.

Smart watches aren’t quite what I want, they’re annoying because they’re not quite phones, and you still need a phone hanging around if you’re using Spotify or other apps and control the media using the watch.

An iPhone 4 or even iPhone 5c sized phone would be perfect for me

I can’t tell if this is a joke or not, so I’ll just say I enjoyed reading this because it made me laugh