ShittyBeatlesFCPres

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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 161 points 3 months ago (15 children)

Underestimate Swifties at your peril. Live Nation-Ticketmaster has been a loathed monopoly for years and they screwed up one Taylor Swift sale and there were Congressional hearings and a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice joined by 30 states’ Attorneys General.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 7 points 3 months ago

Is there a UK Lawyers group for every place the UK’s colonial legacy has resulted in seemingly endless conflicts or just Israel?

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Anything Elon Musk can track is probably a security risk until he stops being the most divorced person to ever exist.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Laziness is the number one skill anyone innovative should have. Whoever invented the wheel definitely didn’t do it because they liked work. It was because they hated it knew there had to be a better way.

So, what we really need is lazier inventors. Only then will we get lazier robots.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Dude, I love China and its people and have been there several times. I obviously don’t approve of everything but some of the funniest, most kindhearted people on Earth are in China. I’m not sure there’s a place on Earth I’d rather have a meal with some regular citizens.

But just follow The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Taipei can be wrong too. But those laws took like centuries of stupid wars and, ultimately, diplomacy, to establish. Even if you want to change them, it’ll require diplomacy and cooperation, not hosing down some Filipino fishermen.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

This is ancient history and will probably make me sound older than dirt but when Ubuntu first came out, it felt so easy to install and use. I don’t know that any of the innovations were wholly theirs as other distros were trying the same stuff. But it was the first distro I used that really tried to make it all easy and it felt like a complete OS.

Fedora Core was doing the same stuff and now, we have tons of tools but whether you like it today or not, the early Ubuntu releases were like, “Holy shit. I can partition from the Live CD? What is this witchcraft?” Debian obviously was the core project but little niceties were rare on Linux back then. I did want to install multimedia codecs when I was a teen. I did need guidance and documentation.

Not defending Snaps or whatever here but early Ubuntu was user-friendly and made it easy to transition off Windows ME or whatever was dominant and shitty back then.

A separate shoutout to Chrunchbang for customization and minimalism. That was probably the distro that got me hardcore hooked on Linux. I had enough experience at that point to not need hand holding but it was cool out of the box.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 19 points 4 months ago

Whom amongst us hasn’t accepted concert tickets from a conservative German aristocrat?

Also, a technicality but once a country abolishes nobility, the noun becomes “pretender” not “aristocrat.” I know keeping track of titles is complicated but it’s only polite to use the correct terms.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 4 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Another way to help the service industry would be to make medicinal cocaine (and similar) a tax deductible business expense. It’s a more valid business expense than a programmer buying a third monitor.

Or how about banning the practice of making the bartenders/waitresses tip out the bar back or bus boys when they should all just be getting paid a living wage by their employer. That would also be good for tipped employees.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 8 points 4 months ago

I don’t care what his background is, if a guy who looks like Boris Johnson tried to sell me uranium, I’d call security and ask how he got into the building.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe add a spoiler alert next time. Jeez.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 8 points 4 months ago

“Alive” is a strong word for someone with a robotic heart and no soul.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I’ll never forget during COVID when I learned Denmark had more mink than people and had to do a cull and it went very poorly. I assumed Denmark was a pretty normal place and then one day, they were like, “OK, so we have 17 million mink.” Like, what the fuck?

It was like finding out your seemingly most normal friend runs a Pokémon card funded crime syndicate that smuggles mini ponies or something where you’re like, “I’m not mad yet. I’m confused. But I reserve the right to be mad. What were you doing with 17 million mink?”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Danish_mink_cull

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