AT: a shrimp resembling Gabriel, the Judge of Hell, from the indie game/bisexual light generator "Ultrakill"
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Pretty much yeah
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Lotteries are no different than stepping on people. They have to buy into the process, but the amounts allocated from lotteries for education or other grants is outpaced by what is given up in prizes. And many lotteries engage in games and mechanisms to keep people in the feedback loop of pouring money in. It's a tax on the stupid and the poor.
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I firmly believe greed comes from two thought processes: A sense of fear, or a desire for authority. I don't know if wealth will make you a monster, but it will certainly show what you really are.
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Great, they're gonna serve ads while we take a fucking phone call next
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First step to becoming a billionaire: start with 1 trillion
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Him and Rev can go fuck themselves and die
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Agile has poisoned software development to the point where it's fine to ship shit products that can be fixed post-release, which of course gives stakeholders and execs the reasons to tie performance and bonuses to shipping, as opposed to routine stable operations.
I don't know if going back to Waterfall is the right fix, but something has to change. Shipping crap is the new normal. If programmers organize to fight for better wages and conditions, we absolutely must fight to hold management responsible for code quality. Get us additional hours for unit and behavioral testing, assessing and tackling technical debt, and so on.
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Hey I can relate. I miss the office too. I was far more productive there and the cooperation and mental space was better there too. But this is a new world we live in, and if you want me to drive to an office, you had better be ready to pay me a fair salary for it.
Oh, you won't? Guess I'll go elsewhere.
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Its there, you have to find it.
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We're getting awfully close to another World War given ongoing affairs in Ukraine and the Middle East...
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I'm sure his impact will be felt in the setting probably as you describe, but people getting bent out of shape because its a woman are chuds and losers; it was never his story to begin with.
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He has all the time in the world to be on X as opposed to running his other companies straight into the ground. He's basically a lolcow at this point, and he has the pull and capital to drive the world into ruin.
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A 700 dollar console with no games.
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Based and godotpilled
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...its several hundred years into the future of course Jin's story is forgotten
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Which has been crashed and burned to a fraction of its value.
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How to become a billionaire: Start with 54 billion
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/balatro/id6502453075 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playstack.balatro.android It appears Google Play is having some kind of payment gateway issue at the moment, so count yr blessins.
AT: A doorhanger that says "Hi! Someone is in your home now!" And in two fill in the blank sections below: "It is: Too Late" "To: Escape"
Alternative title: Unity gives up ---- Do you see yourself going back to Unity after they changed streams? I do not.
AT: A poster for the Kaohsiung Metro advising older passengers, those with luggage, children, Frieren, and expecting mothers to use the Elevator
My original, editorialized title: **Ars Technica Sells Out** ---- Linking to this because I know people here read Ars Technica, and I totally didn't become a subscriber three days before this was announced. Nope. No sir.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/elon-musk-declares-it-is-war-on-ad-industry-as-x-sues-over-illegal-boycott/ ---- Alt text: A fake tweet in which Elon Musk laments how he's running out of money to run X/Twitter because he's a very litigious man. The actual text follows: Data $4,000,000 Rent $680,000 Lawsuits $500,000,000 Labor $2,400,000 Candles $3,600 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my website is dying