Khanzarate

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[–] Khanzarate 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Any company can take barter for their services if they wanted to.

They'd have to be pretty dumb to take a normal quarter as barter worth a whole mortgage instead of 0.25$ though.

Generally barter relies on the good being a similar value, whereas sovcit logic tries to force them to take terrible barter through the magical contract system america is beholden to, because obviously an all-encompassing contractual indentured servitude will have easy cheat codes to break out and get paid while you do.

[–] Khanzarate 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Not convinced it's not her.

Tweak the story just a bit and you get Sweeney Todd though, that'd be an interesting take.

[–] Khanzarate 12 points 3 weeks ago

You nailed him.

Shelter cat, never got over it, and I took the photo while he hid and I was opening a can of his food.

Always concerned, disappointed I stopped for a photo, and hungry.

[–] Khanzarate 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There's also Tiny 10 and Tiny 11, which take it even further. They're genuinely small, too, they did good work.

[–] Khanzarate 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you actually read the whole graph, you'll see windows has 2 entries.

[–] Khanzarate 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] Khanzarate 15 points 4 weeks ago

I am OK with shitty companies washing their hands of it by letting it be freeware.

In fact that's my preferred way for them to do it. Way better.

[–] Khanzarate 13 points 1 month ago

Companies collect a bunch of telemetry about everyone they can, that's the basis of their ad revenue. The data is used to identify you, your devices, and your preferences, and is called a digital fingerprint.

They also use this fingerprint to detect people doing things like making an account to avoid a ban.

Your fingerprint, when you made a reddit account at work, will have virtually identical devices attached as anyone else using reddit at work. Lots of people have alt accounts for normal reasons, so Reddit decided yours and someone else's belonged to the same fingerprint, probably since you made the account.

But now they got banned. Maybe even got caught actually using a second account to circumvent it, and reddit is cracking down on the whole digital fingerprint because that's "you".

[–] Khanzarate 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nah but it keeps any drops nearby and also they can't eat the grass under the fence so it regrows easier.

Also prevents them from wandering somewhere else and getting in the way like any other NPC in town.

I do it for the grass thing, although I use non-fence stuff so it doesn't decay. Lightning rods, for instance.

[–] Khanzarate 8 points 1 month ago

At one time, it was justified because news was months old and you could not know the candidates in a reasonable amount of time without traveling to DC and you couldn't afford to do so.

So you elected some local guys you trusted to vote on your behalf, basically.

It's a good reason to make the electoral college, but not a good reason to keep it.

[–] Khanzarate 43 points 1 month ago (4 children)

"Pinghe Teacher Hotel"

[–] Khanzarate 19 points 1 month ago

Yeah but it's not as good as a reading direction.

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