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  1. Comment on The DoorDash problem: How AI browsers are a huge threat to Amazon in ~tech

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    Has any big company under capitalism played a fair game? Its inherently an unfair system designed to be abused as much as possible.

    Has any big company under capitalism played a fair game? Its inherently an unfair system designed to be abused as much as possible.

    10 votes

  2. Comment on A lot at steak: US beef and cattle prices soar to record highs in ~food

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    Probably not, I'm eating mostly chicken thighs and a little ground sausage as my meats now, they're easy to cook and tasty enough. I haven't really been buying beef since covid.

    Probably not, I'm eating mostly chicken thighs and a little ground sausage as my meats now, they're easy to cook and tasty enough. I haven't really been buying beef since covid.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Madison “Peg Leg” Blagden just became the first woman to hike 8,000 miles in a year — and she’s still going in ~hobbies

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    Most of the trail hippies I've known in my life are dirt poor. Usually the story is something like seasonal gig worker ends their apartment lease, sells all their stuff, and then lives out of...

    Most of the trail hippies I've known in my life are dirt poor. Usually the story is something like seasonal gig worker ends their apartment lease, sells all their stuff, and then lives out of their car while hiking the AT or something similar. They usually survive off meager savings and the kindness of others. The backpacking community is really really friendly and generous most of the time so its pretty easy to get food, old gear, and even accommodations while out roaming about. Generally speaking these kinds of people don't think about their long term career much, they live in the moment and experience life. (I'm a little jealous of that mindset)

    There are definitely a portion of them that are trust fund kids with no financial worries just living their best life though, but the article does say this:

    Leading up to her 2024 thru-hike of the CDT, she worked 60-70 hours a week bartending in Philadelphia.

    So I imagine she isn't one of those.

    7 votes

  4. Comment on Madison “Peg Leg” Blagden just became the first woman to hike 8,000 miles in a year — and she’s still going in ~hobbies

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    I'm not sure if I've walked 26 miles this month

    I'm not sure if I've walked 26 miles this month

    3 votes

  5. Comment on A lot at steak: US beef and cattle prices soar to record highs in ~food

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    Hey, I started eating WAY less beef when it became ridiculously expensive, to the point where I pretty much never buy it for home cooking anymore. Maybe it works for some people.

    Hey, I started eating WAY less beef when it became ridiculously expensive, to the point where I pretty much never buy it for home cooking anymore. Maybe it works for some people.

    8 votes

  6. Comment on New ‘Stargate’ TV series ordered at Amazon from ‘Blindspot’ creator Martin Gero in ~tv

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    I watched a lot of reruns of it on my crappy CRT with a bunny ear antenna as a kid, never was a super fan or anything but it definitely seemed like the coolest show on any of the 5 channels we got...

    I watched a lot of reruns of it on my crappy CRT with a bunny ear antenna as a kid, never was a super fan or anything but it definitely seemed like the coolest show on any of the 5 channels we got haha

    4 votes

  7. Comment on How investors 10x each dollar, before they even invest in ~finance

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    Being poor fucking sucks

    Being poor fucking sucks

    3 votes

  8. Comment on ‘Legend of Zelda’ movie first look reveals Link and Zelda in live action in ~movies

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    Just a stupid joke about how Chris Pratt was in like every movie for a while (and how his casting felt out of place in the other Nintendo movie.)

    Just a stupid joke about how Chris Pratt was in like every movie for a while (and how his casting felt out of place in the other Nintendo movie.)

    7 votes

  9. Comment on Hytale is saved! in ~games

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    I also lost my account, couldn't believe that was possible in this day and age. It was a 2010 account too, so that was a lot of history to lose :(

    I also lost my account, couldn't believe that was possible in this day and age. It was a 2010 account too, so that was a lot of history to lose :(

    3 votes

  10. Comment on Hytale is saved! in ~games

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    True, but they also poured literally hundreds of millions of dollars into studio of amateur talent and gave them so many years to produce a product. They got so much more runway than they would...

    What Riot did to Hypixel was the equivalent of Microsoft deciding to indefinitely stall the development of Java Edition and force their devs to work on Bedrock Edition.

    True, but they also poured literally hundreds of millions of dollars into studio of amateur talent and gave them so many years to produce a product. They got so much more runway than they would have independently and are starting this new chapter with a much better foundation because of it. Riot mismanaged Hypixel, (or more likely the management from Hypixel mismanaged themselves because of a lack of experience working on a game of this scale) but it wasn't really the equivalent of what Microsoft has inflicted upon Minecraft.

    Edit: Also, are we sure that Riot was behind the decision to develop a new engine? I couldn't find any concrete source on that information. It seems like it may have been an internal decision from their own leadership, from what I've heard Riot was extremely hands off with Hypixel.

    13 votes

  11. Comment on ‘Legend of Zelda’ movie first look reveals Link and Zelda in live action in ~movies

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    Crazy how much range Chris Pratt has, I didn't even recognize him as Zelda at first

    Crazy how much range Chris Pratt has, I didn't even recognize him as Zelda at first

    21 votes

  12. Comment on China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past eighteen months, analysis finds in ~enviro

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    Its something I think about a lot, it's so weird to me that generating literally free energy from the sky is not considered to be incentive enough on its own. I mean even if you ignore all forms...

    Its something I think about a lot, it's so weird to me that generating literally free energy from the sky is not considered to be incentive enough on its own.

    I mean even if you ignore all forms of climate change and pollution from fossil fuels, things like solar and wind energy just make sense... It's literally free energy.

    Obviously the costs of creating the tools to harness that energy aren't free, but we've already proven that when there is enough willpower; it's possible to make those costs incredibly low, to the point where they're negligible. Solar is by far the cheapest way to generate electricity (and will likely be the cheapest even after storage costs are factored in if we continue to see such massive advances in grid storage technology) of course it's going to be heavily pursued for its economical advantages alone.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on The spy who came in from the WiFi: Beware of radio network surveillance! in ~comp

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    Basically active sonar in pretty much every populated location on earth. Scary stuff

    Basically active sonar in pretty much every populated location on earth. Scary stuff

    1 vote

  14. Comment on Around the world in 80 days ... sustainably in ~talk

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    In what world is a solar powered helium/hydrogen Zeppelin more obtainable than a racing catamaran for the "everyman" 😂

    In what world is a solar powered helium/hydrogen Zeppelin more obtainable than a racing catamaran for the "everyman" 😂

    3 votes

  15. Comment on 11foot8.com: trucks + bridges in ~transport

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    I live in the area and have driven under it completely unexpectedly a few times, always a little brain shock; even when I drive a 5ft tall car haha

    I live in the area and have driven under it completely unexpectedly a few times, always a little brain shock; even when I drive a 5ft tall car haha

    3 votes

  16. Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show in ~tech

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    One is probably a symptom of the other, a spiral of human misery

    One is probably a symptom of the other, a spiral of human misery

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Tilderinos in ~talk

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    Couldn't have picked a better person to invite :)

    Couldn't have picked a better person to invite :)

    7 votes

  18. Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show in ~tech

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    All of those ads are made by AI, reviewed by AI, and moderated by AI. It would be a neverending job moderating slop to do it, and it's by design that they don't bother. I wonder if there will be a...

    All of those ads are made by AI, reviewed by AI, and moderated by AI. It would be a neverending job moderating slop to do it, and it's by design that they don't bother. I wonder if there will be a global advertising industry collapse eventually because of how absolutely terrible ads have gotten.

    12 votes

  19. Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show in ~tech

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    Just seeing the absolute amount of actual slop that is on the platforms that make up the vast majority of internet traffic these days (TikTok, YouTube shorts, Instagram reels, etc) completely...

    Just seeing the absolute amount of actual slop that is on the platforms that make up the vast majority of internet traffic these days (TikTok, YouTube shorts, Instagram reels, etc) completely black-pills me on any sort of optimism for the future of the internet.

    I get a hyper concentrated dose of it from my job, having to see the absolute trash that children are consuming hours and hours and hours of every day, so it's probably not quite as bad as it seems to me, but damn it's depressing.

    I now 100% understand how every previous generation has felt on how "TV will rot your brain" and of course like every previous generation I feel like this is different and has crossed the line. So hopefully I'm wrong just like every previous generation was... (Or were they?)

    23 votes

  20. Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show in ~tech

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    It honestly feels like 90% of the internet is propped up on total crap these days

    It honestly feels like 90% of the internet is propped up on total crap these days

    39 votes