Semi-Hemi-Demigod

Yet again I’m asking the Fediverse: What do they think a good economy should look like?

I think the biggest thing in gaming in the next few years will be Godot giving indie devs the ability to cheaply create games without needing to license an engine.

You know what would make a twelve-hour fantasy movie even more fun? No pausing for bathroom breaks!

I’ve worked for a couple startups and you’re absolutely right. If you make a profit you pay taxes on that money, so startups like to spend most of the money they bring in. They also want to show revenue growth, since that’s what investors like to see. You grow revenue by getting more paying customers. And you do that by doing what your customers want.

When you go public, your goal is to increase shareholder value. So you do this by reducing costs and finding ways to wring customers out of revenue. You find ways to nickle and dime customers out of revenue so much you develop an entire branch of law devoted to you suing your customers

So what? It figured out The Answer, big whoop.

Get back to me when it figures out The Question.

Thanks for the additional info!

I thought we figured out that it was removing sulfur from ships’ fuel that caused less cloud coverage over the ocean which warmed it.

The good news is that now that we know the scale of the effect we can do something similar with non-toxic chemicals and help to mitigate climate change.

There is, but since color printers are the ones that were used in counterfeiting most black and white printers don’t do that sort of thing. Plus I don’t know how you’d encode that much information in black and white without making it visible on the paper.

Only color laser printers put those yellow dots on paper. The black and white ones don’t because they can’t: They don’t have yellow toner.

So get a black and white printer and you’ll be fine.

Three day special bridge rebuilding operation

I thought this Thursday felt particularly irrational

The decline continues…

“Okay, one raw ham coming up”

Just call it “paid updates.”

Anyway, I’m really looking forward to the optional co-op mode. It made Raft a whole lot more fun, and adding it to Subnautica would be great.

I don’t have to because I never said I didn’t like the electric, said I don’t like the rest of the car.

Yes and I don’t want that car either.

The only Subaru EV I can find is the Solterra, and it has all the same problems: I don’t like the way it looks, I don’t like the giant touch screen, and I don’t want or need the driver assist features.

Can they just put an EV drivetrain into an 2003 WRX bugeye hatchback for me? And keep the stickshift.

You’re part of what makes the Fediverse great

Here’s a link to the NPR article linked in this post for the lazy

The thing that’s keeping me from buying a new EV - apart from price - isn’t the electric. It’s everything else about the car. I don’t like how they look, I don’t like the giant touch screens, I don’t like the gimmicky features that do nothing but add cost.

Then again, I found out today that I’m a “Harbinger of Failure” so maybe it’s a good thing that I’m not buying an EV.

“What excuse could we use for this cost-cutting measure?”

“Uh, we could just say that people don’t need it anymore.”

“Johnson, get that man a promotion!”