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Just your typical internet guy with questionable humor

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I live where the govt gives absurdly large subsidies to bus companies (~500 million dollars per year) and the service as a whole still sucks balls. During peak hours, it’s not uncommon for a bus to not stop because you literally wouldn’t manage to get in.

One thing to keep in mind is that there are many companies that are little more than state parasites, companies that wouldn’t survive against real competition, yet all the blame or any misgivings ends up on the “evil big gubmint” just because.

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Hi, Academi (formerly Blackwater) rep here, would you like to further privatize your war endeavors?

The argument against private armies has less to do with efficiency and more to do with dealing with coups from wannabe tyrants. If even “loyal to the state” armies can have internal schisms and take over the government, what can someone expect from an army whose sole reason to exist is “money”?

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Moist Jesus

I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."

They could have easily crammed the Steam Deck full of stuff to make it hard to use for piracy - locking down everything, making it usable only to play games you legitimately own, force you to go through who knows what hoops in order to play games on it. That’s what Nintendo or Apple or most other companies do....

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For any game with online components, the “ideal” way to combat piracy or cheating is with leaving as much stuff on the server side as possible, not unlike an MMO. Anything left to client side validation will be hacked.

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“Yes, chief, I’ll need 72h to manually review all 72h of footage and cannot do any other activities in the meantime.”

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Just yesterday, I was helping this manager set up a new system of ticket line (the kind where you get a ticket number and wait for it to be called in a panel). He complained that they didn’t have a proper printer just for these tickets, so he made the tickets in excel and printed them. To the right of the number, someone would mark the service, from a list of 6.

“Why not use a single letter prefix and print different piles of passwords? (A01, A02, A03; B01, B02, etc)”

That’ll use too much paper. We’ll also need more tickets than before

“That will use less paper, you can print 2 tickets using the same space. Also, the amount of tickets always depends on the number of people that show up, but you’ll have a better idea of which service is being needed each day”

Mr manager didn’t like the idea and moved on to another problem.

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Maintaining social order, especially in the form of violent repression against demonstrations, indirectly protects the rich’s properties, so all in a day’s work.

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With the cost of cheese around here, I’d gladly pay 1 dollar for that (even in my local currency, that’s a great deal)

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If your boss is a man, it’s easy to explain that logically: possibility for multiple women.

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Anarchism can only exist when there’s a single individual not interacting with any other person, period. Every human interaction immediately breaks any sort of anarchism, there will always be some agreed upon behavior, whether implicit or explicit, violently enforced or not.

I suppose most ancaps are actually minarchists, or “minimal state” proponents, because capitalism fails terribly without laws and some way to enforce them. Without a state (even as small as a group’s leadership), “ownership” doesn’t exist, whoever’s stronger owns the thing. You blink, you lose. You die, it’s first dibs. Fell for a scam? Too bad, you should’ve been smarter. Got captured and sold into slave labor? Too bad, you should’ve seen that coming. Someone stole your stuff? Too bad, you should’ve secured it better.

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C’mon, guys, it’s not that ba-

https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/18cfdad8-dc0a-4396-9be0-57b25a74db90.png

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Insistanting, reguardless, reguarding, better then, differnet

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All I know about GIS is that there’s a plugin for Postgres called postGIS and it uses spatial coordinates.

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And as if that wasn’t bad enough, they all insist on speaking french.

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Here’s my congratulations on this fella reaching the “find out” so soon after the “fuck around”

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Do you think he’ll get a Nic Cage or a Travolta face?

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She also lacks whiskers and what looks like a goatee from the male.

Why didn't anyone remind me the dual booting exists?

I was talking to my dad yesterday and he talked about how he dual booted windows and Linux in his college days. I immediately left to download Ubuntu, I feel so dumb for forgetting it’s an option. I literally only use windows so I can play Fortnite with friends. PSA: you can have both Linux and Windows, or you can use a vm in...

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Use Grub2Win (sourceforge.net/projects/grub2win/) whenever Windows manages to break dual booting. It’ll stop fucking up afterwards, as it’ll be installed within one of the windows boot partitions.

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It is, but “a flemish person” would translate to “uma pessoa flamenga” in portuguese. 3 very similar sounding and written words that relate to very different things.

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I vaguely recall them being two other dogs, but my memory’s really fuzzy on that detail.

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I’ll have to watch it later

EDIT: That was it. Goes to show how fuzzy my memory was about the episode. Big thanks!

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I’d like to ask why the fuck I have to stop breathing to swallow liquid/food and risk fucking dying if this goes slightly wrong

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Don’t forget Hasbro trying to pull a retroactive licensing for all D&D stuff. Oh, and sending the Pikertons to harass a person that got set of cards before release by accident

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