Kethal

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[–] Kethal -2 points 11 months ago (6 children)

You're wasting your time pointing this out. This guy's entire MO is equivocation.

[–] Kethal 6 points 11 months ago

I'd even settle for a remake that hasn't been some before. I think we've had enough Batman do-overs. How about a remake of Stargate, or Turner and Hootch?

But seriously though, enough with the remakes.

[–] Kethal 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is a confused soul. One of those icons isn't even Explorer.

[–] Kethal 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Although there are measurement techniques that do appropriate pi, that's done mostly because it's interesting. Typically one calculates pi, not measures it. The calculation can't ever be completed but the more you do, the better your approximation. One method is this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_formula_for_%CF%80

That sort of stuff is done a lot. However, you don't need all that many digits before adding more digits doesn't meaningfully affect calculations. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/

[–] Kethal 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

T Mobile has an app called Scam Shield that seems to do a better job than Google. If a call is identified as a scam, your phone won't ring. You can report ones that get through. I installed this a few days ago, and it's much more manageable now. I get something like 20 scam calls a day. This kept 15 or so from ringing.

I have started asking callers various disheartening questions, like "Is this what you planned for in life?", "Does your family laugh at you?", "Do your friends have better jobs than yours?", "Are you an embarrassment to your parents?". Most hang up, but a good number get upset - I imagine because their parents really are embarrassed by them. One person, whom I asked if he was happy with his choices in life, said "I am in hell". My hope with these questions is for them to rethink a life of trying to cheat old people out of money.

[–] Kethal 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lobbyists have even polluted the ingredient label on the back. Now they can list a brand name as an ingredient, then list the ingredients of that. This lets them disguise the most prevalent ingredients if they're also part of the brand.

Water, oil, sugar, xantham gum, Bob's secret spice (enough sugar so that if the label were truthful, sugar would be the second ingredient instead of the third, cinnamon, nutmeg).

[–] Kethal 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Computer monitors seem like one of the few options at this point.

[–] Kethal 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

And you're claiming that people can't expect to use it for free, because they need to pay those costs, which is nonsense. If they have enough to pay a CEO $300k in cash each year in addition to stock options, they are making plenty to cover their operating costs. Thus there's no reason users, who are already brining value to the platform, should pay more in addition to the value they bring. Asking for people to contribute for free and then pay to access what they've built is a crazy business strategy that's bound to fail.

[–] Kethal 0 points 1 year ago

So what, when you turn on your computer it goes straight to the BIOS menu?

[–] Kethal 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If an unvaccinated person enters a room where a person with measles had been an hour previously, there's a 90% chance the unvaccinated person gets infected. It's crazy.

[–] Kethal 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It's not free. Moderators spend their time keeping things sensible and users spend their time creating content, by posting, commenting and voting. Millions of people contribute tiny amounts, giving the community great value. They're the reason the site has any value at all. In comparison, the operating costs, and whatever work the company execs perform, are small compared to the not-at-all free work people in aggregate put into the community.

[–] Kethal 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

He said "ate". This is a term used to mean that someone took the article at face value, without realizing it is satire.

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