Nothing says ‘circular economy’ like Microsoft stranding 400 million PCs

This might be a silly question but would this not be a good idea for a start up company that recycle computer parts?

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The case revealed Google continued gathering user data via Firebase, a monitoring database embedded in 97% of top Android apps and 54% of leading iOS apps, even after users disabled data collection

This is why we can’t have nice things.

I searched for my topics of interest and hobbies but barely got any hit.

Oh yeah, it is worth noting that Nebula doesn’t have as many options as in YouTube, I’m afraid. That is the limitation of platform. New content creators do come in to Nebula but not as often as it would be on YouTube.

Personally, I love nebula because it does have the topics I am interested in, which is mainly history, news, video games and politics. There are also long form video essays on variety of topics. I would say that Nebula is more like nerdy because of prevalence of those topics. I haven’t come across Nebula videos that are more niche like, let’s say, woodworking or metalworking etc. I do photography but I think there is only one Nebula content creator that does photography.

What about Nebula? It’s paid subscription but you can pay for once off lifetime subscription for $300, and the content creators even encourage users to opt for the latter. Edit: wording

Lol beat me to it!

If it was about God

The irony of this is that Allah literally means God.

Yeah, I was watching a philosophical documentary series hosted by Morgan Freeman and one of the episodes is on the topic of apocalypse. They did say that throughout history, societies emerge better after turmoil. It is also important to realise that in spite of the word “apocalypse” having a negative connotation, in Greek it means “unraveling”. Basically, an apocalyptic event forces society to rethink their situation and re-evaluate. This is an apt explanation, because in the case of the US, everyone says Trump is the symptom of a rotten system. It is “unraveling” what society really is and forces people to rethink what they truly want and seeing other possibilities.

The idea of phoenix rising is also an optimistic metaphor emerging after chaos. I always say that authoritarian regimes always eventually fall because they become too corrupt and people always getting fed up. But as everyone ITT pointed out, not everyone will survive. I always say that it will get worse before it gets better.

There is a study that showed workers don’t mind commuting so long as the route is full of greenery and nature. That explains a lot because in my hometown, I was happy enough to commute in public transport and people are nice enough that you can chat with them. Then I moved to a bigger city, which is a concrete jungle. I hate the commute. And mind you, the public transport in my home town is about ten to twenty minutes more depending on the traffic, but I didn’t mind for some reason. Then, after moving to a bigger city, travelling only for one hour feels like a long trek.

perfectly attuned to terrabytes of marketing data

My friend works as software dev and he can attest the exact same thing. He has better ideas as a software dev, but marketing and sales people disagree and the management listens to them because all they see are numbers and money. MacNamara fallacy is epidemic in private industry.

Add Michelle Pfeiffer to the list.

I use DuckDuckGo. I use its AI features mainly for stock projections and to search for information on company earnings release. Because when I try to search for earnings schedule by myself, I get conflicting information. DDG AI is actually pretty useful to read troves of webpages and find the relevant information for me in that regard.

Oh my sweet summer child.

I don’t disagree. If they troll, troll them back harder. But the way the mainstream act is that these toxic Gamers^TM opinions have weight, when in reality their toxic views don’t even make a dent to popular opinions and sales of game developers.

Why do we still attention to tiny loud minority of Gamers^TM who whinge about “go woke go broke” and yet these still games sell like hotcakes? Just tell them that if they don’t like the game, then don’t buy the game.

Not entirely surprising if true.

Project 2025 goal is to spread their backwards ideology across the globe. They want to see the world burn.

It depends on what commuy you are in. Others are better and more open minded.

It also depends on the time of the day whether you get upvote or downvote. You could express an opinion and it will get massive upvotes. But post the same opinion on another day and time and it will get downvoted to oblivion. You get different audience depending on the time and day.

Because billionaires fleeing or stop investing after taxing them is mostly a myth. Warren Buffet even argued this. And even if they are serious about fleeing, impose a capital flight tax like Norway did to deter the rich from fleeing with their wealth.

Some people–like tankies and fascists-- don’t deserve respect.

The initial purpose of karma is to serve as user reputation and indicate that the person with tons of downvotes as trolls. It used to be a good system until spez realised the importance of engagement in social media, and then karma became a dopamine-inducing instrument to keep users on the site.

When I was on reddit, some users would tell me my karma or comment is only going down for going against the grain. I hit back that they are the losers for caring about imaginary points. I also hate that if you are logged into new reddit, it would notify you of new upvotes on your comment. I don’t care! I’m not a kid anymore to revel on receiving participation trophies. The new reddit design is clearly for children who don’t know any better and this is why I think reddit will last longer than we would wish it not to be. If I want a dopamine hit, I’d prefer being notified of new responses, or I would look at some of my upvoted comments if I am feeling that shallow.