They actually call themselves a tech company now. Their machines are guided by satellites and use computer vision to tell apart weeds and sprouts.

I see making meme petitions is the new flavour of the month.

I pirated Paddington 2 the other day then deleted it. If that wasn’t available I would have watched something else. I get what you’re saying, but I also don’t take it that seriously. I mean, I watched Paddington 2. I’m not exactly a movie buff.

To offer another perspective. I personally don’t care. If everyone cared about owning the media they consume then movie theaters and libraries wouldn’t exist. I grew up in the era of VHS and DVDs but I never had a collection because I rented them from Blockbuster. I also rented video games. I chose to pay for temporary access. Even today, when I pirate a movie and have a DRM free file I permanently own, I will delete the file after watching it. I don’t want it.

I get that the streaming/licensing trend sucks for people like yourself who like having a collection of physical media they own, but it honestly doesn’t bother me at all.

I was a funeral director. I talked to a lot of people about death and I can’t recall a single old person who wasn’t alright with dying.

The way some have explained it to me was basically the novelty of life was gone. When you’re young, everything you do is new. You experience things for the first time daily. As you get older, new experiences are far and few in between. Every day becomes a copy of the day before. Weeks pass where it seems nothing has happened, but its only that nothing new has happened. Old people eventually just get bored. Combine that with chronic pain, being unable to do basic things on your own anymore, and all your friends dying before you, and the idea of not waking up tomorrow doesn’t seem that bad.

I once had a boss like this and when he finally said something it was always “it depends”. I often wanted him to give a simple, quick, direct answer but I eventually realized things were more complicated than that. It reminded me of the Tolkien quote: “Go not to the Elves for counsel for they will answer both no and yes.”

It’s adorable that someone world think that the fourth most widely-spoken language on the planet is a secret code that no one in public would possibly have a hope of comprehending

Even if someone doesn’t know a language initially, they aren’t secret codes! Anyone can get a language learning app on their phone and practice it until they know enough to follow a conversation.

Pretty much anything related to statistics and probability. People have gut feelings because our minds are really good at finding patterns, but we’re also really good at making up patterns that don’t exist.

The one people probably have most experience with is the gambler’s fallacy. After losing more than expected, people think they’ll now be more likely to win.

I also like the Monty Hall problem and the birthday problem.

Damn $32.50 a month for the full tier? That puts them way above every other MMO.

I can’t imagine why someone would pirate this video instead of just watching the original…oh

I think it’s the first one. A lie starts small but can quickly grow out of control. It’s from the poem “Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field” which is about a man romantically pursuing a woman by making up lies about her current fiancé and ultimately results in all their lives being changed for the worst.

I’ve never heard of Nostr but Mastodon is a twitter clone and I don’t find that style of website suits discussion well since you subscribe to accounts rather than communities.

My workplace sometimes has a slow day and the bosses will give workers two options: Go home unpaid, or stay at work for your entire shift and get paid. If you stay, you don’t have to do any work, since there is no work to be done. People mostly sit in the cafeteria on their phones for 8 hours.

I asked why we can’t choose to go home and get paid and they said it’s because then we’d be getting paid for nothing…but we’re all sitting in the cafeteria on our phones. We’re not working. We are literally being paid for nothing. Why can’t we go home with pay? What’s the difference?

The difference is that labourers must trade their time for pay. You are selling an hour of your time to the company. That hour doesn’t need to be productive, but you can’t use it freely. It’s the company that makes money by selling a product or service, not its workers. A worker who produces $10,000 of product in an hour is paid for the hour, not for the product. The owner is paid for the product.

I received a framed picture of my parents, from my parents. They said it was because I didn’t have a picture of them hung up in my house.

That’s the joke

Here’s their audit report. 59.8% of their expenses are in executive salaries, a total of $107,793,960 this year. They list internet hosting as 1.7% of their expenses at $3,116,445.

I would ask for a refund.

Canada is attempting to grow its own domestic EV supply chain in order to become the world leader in EV battery production. It is already out competing China thanks to it’s large natural resource supply and developed mining and refining industries.

The general idea is that Canada doesn’t want to be China’s supplier of raw materials and helping them become the world’s supplier of EV batteries when Canada could be that supplier.

Oh good, I thought it was just me! I have an older card and can barely keep 30fps with everything set to low. Good to know even top of the line $1,000+ cards can’t keep 60fps on max settings.

I wonder if they’ll be able to patch that. I remember Starfield had framerate issues on launch but a patch fixed it.

I did contract negotiations for a while. Something that I always remember being told was “you can’t be more excited to sign than the other person”. It’ll lead to you making bad deals. If the other side doesn’t want to sign, neither do you.

My boss always said he preferred no contract over a bad contract. I once suggested that even a contract that pays out a bit is better than nothing. He countered by saying there’s an opportunity cost in fulfilling a contract. We could be too busy fulfilling poor contracts that we have no time to negotiate and accept good ones. In that case, a poor contract could be seen as less valuable than nothing. I’ve had negotiations that lasted less than 15 minutes. I give a standard quote, they’d lowball, I’d say there’s no way, they said they’d leave, I say here’s the door. Done.