BigPotato

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BigPotato ,

I'd give for free if they gave it for free. They rip people off for the stuff I freely gave? No, I'll take a few bucks out of their profit, thanks.

Besides, I usually can't donate anyway but I give that shit all the time when I can. Especially when I know where it's being used (for free.)

BigPotato ,

A neighbor runs his own plumbing company. He's got an early 2000s Dodge and formerly an early 2000s Ford.

His main complaint about modern trucks, after the price, is the bed being too high for him to easily load and unload equipment.

BigPotato ,

Right? I thought I went crazy when I got to "I just used Generative Fill!" Like, he didn't just auto adjust the exposure and black levels! C'mon!

BigPotato ,

DOD Imagery guidelines state that only color correction can be applied to "make the image appear the same as it was when it was captured" otherwise it must be labeled "DOD illustration" instead of "DOD Imagery"

BigPotato ,

Honestly, you gotta be a real piece of shit to get a DD normally, think rape or murder... Well, enough rape and murder they don't cover it up.

That or smoke some weed.

Either way, "less than honorable" is the 'easiest' way to get rid of a complete fuck up.

The real monsters have an honorable though.

BigPotato ,

My office phone has a dial tone. It's VOIP but when you pick up the receiver it BOOOOOOOPs... So I think it was last week I heard one...

Hopefully not for the last time...

Linus Tech Tips (LTT) release investigation results on former accusations ( x.com )

There were a series of accusations about our company last August from a former employee. Immediately following these accusations, LMG hired Roper Greyell - a large Vancouver-based law firm specializing in labor and employment law, to conduct a third-party investigation. Their website describes them as “one of the largest...

BigPotato ,

It's entirely possible that literally everything she claimed was false or exaggerated but there's still enough evidence of Linus acting less than decently on the WAN show with regard to his other actions that cast doubt.

The man who took another company's prototype and auctioned it off then claimed that they already had an agreement before contacting them somehow had zero evidence of abuse of power? We should assume that his willingness to abuse his power ends at his businesses doorstep because some of his co-workers are decent people?

BigPotato ,

Should Russia get a black eye and Ukraine be pleased by Chinese assistance, when the Western spigot gets turned off, then China will have an amazing hook on Ukraine. Putin quietly gets told his place, Ukraine has stockpiles of Western gear to sell and China has another part of the Belt and Road.

Of course, the West will try to keep the funds flowing but without "big strong Russian bear" knocking at their door they'll drop them like a new year's resolution.

Now, Ukraine gets to play Belle of the ball courting China and the West and in the end The Rich win. Exactly according to plan.

BigPotato ,

It's down to the material. That looks like full cotton with a hood. So, sweatshirt. Hooded sweatshirt = Hoodie. Denim? Would've been a jacket. Some sort of wind blocking material like polyester or nylon would be a jacket. I might give jacket status to a multilayer cotton jacket with inner liners too.

BigPotato ,

I'd classify a windbreaker as a jacket. All squares are rectangles and what not.

BigPotato ,

That's alright. It doesn't matter in the slightest. If you want to call them whatever it doesn't matter.

BigPotato ,

I've seen three in real life now. It's smaller than a Dodge Durango and looks silly from most angles. Low angle camera shots make it look neat though.

BigPotato ,

When the invasion kicked off, like day 0, SF assets all over the place were ready to bounce and get in there. I know at least one GROM and UK guy who were training their counterparts in case they got told they could support.

But, as others have said, these are more akin to advisors than "behind the lines" active missions. If you don't think everyone has someone backing up the tax dollars they're sending, you're naive at best.

BigPotato ,

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. One in ten isn't bad odds.

BigPotato ,

If you've got a market cap of three trillion and the investors expect three trillion plus one next quarter, can you afford to risk it?

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year ( www.billboard.com )

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

BigPotato ,

I dunno. Spotify stopped billing me for the family plan I was paying for some years ago and at this point I've got five accounts mooching off of them and I'm using powershell to download gigabytes worth of music off of them...

Like, Spotify is evil but at this point I'm a negative number for them every month. I'm gonna keep on going until they decide to shut off the hose.

Oh, but I do go to concerts and buy records.

BigPotato ,

Shoot man, you gotta think about it the other way. Show them a mobile game, show them the prices, then turn around and show them purchasing power.

For instance, Animal Crossing Pocket Camp. Cute, aimed at kids, horrible leaf ticket practices. Broke down the pricing of one set and for the cost of ACNL and a 2DSXL - you've got something like a 0.8% chance of getting the whole set.

So, show that to a kid, do you want a 0.8% chance of having this set or a whole Game and System?

Granted, this was a while back - the price of those two together probably gets you a 2% chance these days.

BigPotato ,

No, you don't need consent to find someone attractive - that's a personal thing.

That said, imagine you're in a fat neckbeards house that smells slightly of wet socks and you find a piece of paper that lists out twenty women he wants to bang. Creepy, right?

Flip the script and you're in an attractive woman's house that smells of sandalwood and you find a list of guys names that she plans to have sex with. That's... Still creepy, right?

In the above listed story, which is probably fake anyway, the woman kept a running tab of people in her life, not celebrities and such, who she would sleep with if they went on a break for any reason. That alone would've been a deal breaker for me and I'd have given her the freedom to go do her list. That's like me saying to my partner "Here's a list of possibles. Make me mad and I'll go seal the deal with them before we make up."

Now, the woman in the story apparently had to sleep with the whole list, ala My Name Is Earl, for them to get back together. The men, obviously, would sleep with her is the implication. For all we know though, this woman propositioned the men and respected any who turned her down and removed them from the list.

I actually don't care about any of this, just needed something to ponder on the toilet.

BigPotato ,

Not the brightest fork in the tool shed, are they?

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