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I'm just this guy, you know?

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Disney is gouging customers with a near doubling of subscription costs. (sh.itjust.works)

Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.Multiple commenters are saying I’m off base about the 75% price increase. My payment less than a year ago was $79.99. Here’s the proof.

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This is rich coming from the company that literally wrote "Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me!"

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It's before 2008, but a bit flip changed a Belgian election.

This is part of the reason I keep my servers in my basement.

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And yet somehow I remember watching the entire thing. Must be a Mengele Effect.

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To be honest I didn't look

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Whoever invented canned asparagus belongs in extra hell

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"Why would having a say in making decisions about your employment be any better than just doing whatever the richest idiot says?"

Do you even hear yourself? They've got you loving the taste of boot polish.

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As evidence I present the Irish Bank Strike:

[A]lmost the entire banking system of Ireland went on strike after an industrial dispute in 1970. The strike lasted nearly six months, yet the economy escaped unscathed.

People used cheques to manage large payments and, while the banks were closed, risk of default on the cheques was shouldered by neighbourhood pubs.

Here's the Bank of England's Ben Norman and Peter Zimmerman:

How did payees manage this risk for such a prolonged period? Notoriously, local publicans were well-placed to judge the creditworthiness of payers. (They had an informed view of whether the liquid resources of would-be payers were stout or ailing!)

For example, John Dempsey, a publican in Balbriggan, near Dublin, was “…holding cheques for thousands of pounds, but I’m not worried. The last bank strike went on for 12 weeks and I didn’t have a single ‘bouncer’. … I deal only with my regulars … I refuse strangers. I suppose I’ve been able to keep a few local factories going.”

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Worker owned cooperatives, worker managed teams, company decisions made democratically.

All other kinds of companies are dictatorships.

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The way I learned agile scrum master was a role that everyone on the team rotated through, not a specific person.

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“I’ve made a machine that does the labor of 10 men!”

“You’re going to still pay the other nine, right?”

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You’re still going to pay the other nine, right?

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I hope for your sake that when the factory workers can't afford to feed their kids and they drag you from your home and try to beat you to death in front of your family they find that argument compelling.

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Maybe the machine also does it with less waste and more consistently, the same reason woodworkers make jigs for complex cuts or identical parts.

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I've seen it, too. When I want fluffy individual grains, I rinse the rice first. If I want sticky rice, I don't rinse it. And it works for all different kinds of rice.

There's going to be powdered starch on the outside of the grains of rice. If you rinsed it and then added something like corn starch to the water you'd end up with sticky rice.

I use Brave to test whether my websites work on Chromium browsers, but their scummy actions lately make me want to find a new Chromium browser to test with. What's the best Chromium based browser?

I already use Firefox for browsing normally, but I have to test on a Chromium based browser too. One soft requirement is that it should be installable with Flatpak on Linux.

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Unless something's changed recently, you can just install the Chromium browser itself. And it looks like it's available as a Flatpak. As a bonus this will eliminate anything extra added by browser manufacturers as a potential problem.

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It does phone home, but with the right DNS settings you can block that. Heck, if you're just going to localhost you can disconnect the machine from the network entirely.

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This is an interesting question as the Pope is technically the head of state of another country

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I’m surprised Oreo hasn’t done a Halloween ad campaign about how people eat their cookies: Hold it under until the bubbles stop, twist its head off, eat it in tiny nibbles.

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Stick a fork in the cream, hold it under until the bubbles stop.

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Flavor

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Please no Christmas memes before Halloween.

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Would still smash

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Even with the mask on.

Or are you saying you wouldn't smash Dame Judi Dench?

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Reminds me of an REM video

They... they just got out and walked!

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This is why hybrid is a dumb idea unless everyone in the meeting is in the office on the same day.

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Bustin makes me feel good

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