Heard someone say this on reddit many years ago after someone was being a wise ass about their English which was obviously second or third language

You speak English because it’s the only language you know; I speak English because it’s the only language you know

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Because it’s not just about money, that’s why you hear about the number of copies sold more than gross revenue, it represents number of interested people that can buy another product at X dollars. Every now and then exec put up big sales, pump the numbers up before the big reports.

That’s also why Nintendo games neeever go on sale.

Just today i got a “Your number has been added to google meets!” with no way to backout or cancel. Not even the double “are you sure” from when you decline windows 11 upgrade. It added it to some random account i’m signed into atm and nobody has hours to go through their convoluted menus to fucking turn it off or erase it.

Thats not counting all the other shit we get like the constant popups for premium or incessant backup harassment.

Time for a new phone (I know graphene but due for a new phone and not buying google).

if you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment

Marcus Aurelius

You yearn for what could have been, and it’s hard to accept what is. If there is really no benefit, you should remove your estimate of them at least partially. You will always miss “having parents”, which isn’t the same as missing “your parents”. Making that distinction might help.

Needs more jpg

Make trumpgret great again

All these stories coming out about big crimes from the rich are awfully well timed. If I wanted a one time pass for something, I’d want to get convicted while there’s an easy to bribe cheeto king at the helm of the US.

This is nothing new, people expect religion not to be part of the “professional” environment. Dunno if VS code applies.

At the office (big corp) they don’t call it the “Christmas Party”, it’s “the holiday party”. They put lights and stuff up but no more Christmas trees/stars etc… not everyone celebrates christmas so that’s fine by me. If Microsoft wants to put a little santa hat on their product that’s fine by me too. If I was using some service based in Mexico and they put a little hat on a product for cinco de mayo i wouldn’t care. Christmas has other implications so it might be different, dunno

Big businesses know, they even ask people like me to add extra measures in place. I like to call it the concorde effect. Youre trying to make a plane that can shove air out of the way faster than it wants to move, and this takes an enormous amount of energy that isn’t worth the time save, or the cost. Even if you have higher airspeed when it works, if your plane doesn’t make it to destination it isn’t “faster”.

We hear a lot about the downsides of AI, except that doesn’t fit the big corpo narrative and people don’t care enough really. If youre just a consumer who has no idea how this really works, the investments companiess make into shoving it everywhere makes it seem like it’s not a problem and it looks like there’s only AI hype and no party poopers.

OP already made that joke.

He lives out in the sticks, I can’t undo 15 years of skipping out on education (he’s 38).

I do argue it in moderation, but I prefer to tackle critical thinking in general, and hope he learns to draw his own conclusions. He recently got over that the earth is not flat and that those conspiracies don’t hold water. He’s even starting to identify content on tiktok that is framed in a certain way.

Maybe we’ll get there one day!

Edit: Tbf he’s a mechanic, and a good one at that, so flat earth was an easy topic. He managed to understand we can’t make oldschool carburators with flat earth physics, and he knows how those work. It’s like if I tried to convince him displacement in an engine isn’t real, just invented by big oil.

Nobody said that. People who aren’t democrats say that, or people excusing their third party vote say that. Youre repeating fox news talking points that are essentially whataboutism.

Genocide is a US warmachine thing no matter the political party. If there was a chance for a change, it sure as shit wasn’t with dony moscow.

Yesterday my buddy who barely works and doesn’t do overtime said: “poivrière said he would reduces taxes on overtime, I want that - why wouldn’t I vote for him?” I don’t blame my buddy, and we avoid discussing politics, but these people are short-sighted and cannot be saved.

And the genocide just worsens, with another soon in Ukraine

This will actually work. Theyre both megalomaniacs with fragile egos, putting him in Trumps shadow making it look like he’s being used by Trump will drive him crazy

Venusforming earth is a lot like terraforming mars, it’s just hard to reach. If 200 years ago we were able to easily reach mars, we would have fucked up that too

You know what the british did in WW2 when the got into german messages? They intentionally put out fake evidence to explain where the information could have been gotten from, to make sure they could use the code breaking machines as long as possible. They still pretended to try to get information in other ways even if not successful to maintain the facade it wasn’t all in the pocket already.

I’m not saying that’s what tiktok is, but I’m not not saying that, and the US sure as shit isn’t going to just admit they got hit like that.

Who has been long-awaiting a Warcraft 3: refunded patch?

Thats just the expats changing the narrative when people started calling them out on it.