Yeah but what the hell was Christian Bale doing with his voice? I could barely understand that he was saying Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Everyone ignore this guy, I have a way to get that same PDF for free. Just send me $50 and I’ll tell you how.

Unfortunately, the reason why gas didn’t triple in price is because China started burning more coal instead of gas.

Prostitution?

Yeah back when you could still get a dumb TV, the smart TVs were cheaper. The only way that makes sense is if they’re selling data to subsidize the cost of the TV.

Yeah, but I should also offset the $5,500 by 11 years of (higher than normal) inflation, and also get more accurate numbers for the amount of money spent on gas ($25 seems a little low, doesn’t it?).

I think it’s fair to say that a used EV has a lower TCO than a used ICE car.

Sure there’s more upfront cost and we have to consider the boots theory but if you can afford to buy a used EV, it’s safe to say that it’s cheaper in the long run.

That’s essentially what this report is saying the Egyptian intelligence chief told Netanyahu, isn’t it? Hamas is planning “something unusual, a terrifying operation.”

I suspect that Hamas and Hezbollah are currently planning to do something horrible some day in the future.

Next time they do something horrible, you can say there was some guy on the internet that knew about it ahead of time.

Kinda what espionage is all about isn’t it?

How much money do you reckon you spent on gas in the last 11 years?

$25 per week over 11 years works out to be $14,300.

Isn’t it interesting there’s not a peep mentioning that Biden was promoting unions across the country, now this is only happening in one city in the country? I’m sure Julie Su is doing good work as “Deputy Mayor of New York City for Economic Justice” but I think she was making a bigger difference when she was… what was her previous job again? Oh right, United States Secretary of Labor.

It’s cool to have a municipal government doing this, but wasn’t it nicer to have the Federal government doing this?

Sad people don’t notice someone’s work until it’s gotten the socialist seal of approval.

Great, most of us will have to drive Ladas while party officials will all be driving Mercedes Benz.

Only an idiot would sign that deal!

That’s someone else’s problem. They only care about making money this quarter

Same as if all of civilization collapses because of climate change caused by global warming. It’s someone else’s problem, they’re just making money for themselves right now. Consequences are for the government that only suckers pay taxes into.

What is it you think I forgot? No one’s forgetting how there’s people spending a lot of time trying to convince everyone that anything that recognizes the existence of Jews should be labelled “zionists” and be a target of hatred.

I also haven’t forgotten then general pattern of posts on “Lemmy Shitpost”. One day Gal Gadot is the target of your two minutes hate, next day it’s this guy I never even heard of before.

Also I haven’t forgotten that this isn’t the first time in history people have acted this way. Not everything is about comforting you by making you feel like no one notices this pattern of behaviour.

It’s inaccurate and therefore stupid to maintain.

All 2 dimensional projections of a 3 dimensional object are inaccurate. This a bicycle shed kind of issue. “I like this map because it makes my country look bigger durrrrr.”

Look at the UN flag. It’s not Mercator, but it portrays Australia as being about twice as wide as Canada. That’s not accurate (Canada is about 1000 km wider than Australia), so does the UN flag need to change?

I’m from Canada and I don’t think it needs to change because I know that maps are flat and the world is not flat. If you’re worried about accuracy, you have to ban all flat maps and only allow globes.

The UN doing this doesn’t mean they’re not focusing much more intensely on other issues and anyone claiming that is a fucking moron.

People that don’t understand the concept of political capital and opportunity costs are morons.

The US being the only one opposing this makes the US the only one pushing some dumbass conspiracy theory.

Voting against it is kinda dumb, countries should’ve done as Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Estonia, etc. and just abstained because this is dumb shit that’s worth anyone’s time when there’s real problems in the world.

This is just the UN version of the Trump renaming Gulfs and Lakes.

On Youtube you can just click on subscriptions and it only shows content from channels you’re subscribed to. If you make some effort to curate the channels you’re subscribed to, there will be some pretty good content there.

To me, this should be the default page with the recommendation algorithm being an “explore” option to find some other channels to subscribe to.

The big problem with social media is you have millions of people competing with each other to grab attention. If the goal were instead to convince people to subscribe to their channel, people might actually put some effort into creating better content instead of trying to be the first to get out their hot take on whatever is going on. If they adjusted their interface to start up on the subscription feed, and have an explore feed which show maybe ten channels that have had a lot of subscriptions recently, it would probably solve a lot of problems with shit shit tier troll content dominating social media.

Yeah kinda. But I’d say it’s about removing people’s ability to make purchasing decisions in general more than about piracy specifically.

When you can decide whether or not you want to purchase the newest version of MS Office, you might decide that your current version works fine, there’s no new features in the new version you need. So that means companies selling software licenses need to always be putting resources into improving the software to entice people to pay for newer versions.

If the software is all being run from a data center, you have to pay a subscription to be able to use the software and access your data. They no longer need to make any improvements to the software since they have reliable revenue from just maintaining the computers the software runs on.

It’s techno-feudalism. In feudalism, the lord owns the land and the peasants work the land, try to make a living and then need to pay taxes to the lord. It’s a similar dynamic with data centers. The tech lords own the computers, and they allow the peasants to do work on those computers. Businesses try to make some money on the computers owned by the tech lords, but everyone is required to pay a tax to the lord that owns the computers.

There is a weird narrative where people pretend like there’s some conspiracy to make countries near the equator appear smaller on maps.

The reality is the Mercator projection was made for navigation purposes. The world is round and there is no projection of a globe on a 2D surface that will ever be accurate. No one is trying to kick people down by choosing one projection over the other because none of them are going to be accurate. All maps are made with the general assumption that people understand the world is actually round and they should account for that. This kind of debate edges on flat earth kinds of silliness where people are being deliberately ignorant about how maps work in favour of dumb conspiracy theories.

Sure it’s probably not worth opposing, but it’s also a bunch of silliness that isn’t worth proposing either. It is a sign the UN is disconnected from the actual problems of the world when they’re worried about fucking map projections. Is it going to be international law that we can’t use the Mercator maps for navigation, which is what they’re designed for? Does the UN even understand that for some people a map isn’t just a decoration to be put on a wall, but something that has a purpose?

Yeah I know there’s some really deranged people on the internet.

It’s a bizarre thing when people think that proving the existence of a narrative is the same thing as something being true.

Apparently there’s a synagogue in it so some people are upset by that. You’ll of course claim that Zionism is not the same as antisemitism, while also spending a lot of time reading a lot of articles that tell you to hate a video game because it shows a synagogue in it.