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ChickenLadyLovesLife

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  • The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game.

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  • I originally sold my app on Beyond.com (which was originally software.net). They took 10% which didn't seem too bad. One day they contacted me about giving my app a "freebate" -- basically the app was still $29.95 but buyers could fill out a form and send it in and eventually (like months later) get their $29.95 back. Per their data only about half of buyers ever bothered to do this so it was effectively a 50% off deal. Beyond.com was supposed to give me about $10 per copy sold instead of the normal $27 to cover the freebate and they would make $5 per copy instead of their normal $3.

    I said OK and they featured my app on their front page and sales went up like 100X and I was of course pretty happy. The funny part was that their accounting system was all fucked up and I kept getting $27 per copy sold even though the freebate was still in place. I actually tried contacting them multiple times about this to get the situation corrected and I could never get through to anybody who had any clue about what was going on. Eventually they went bankrupt and shut down and years later I got one of those class-action settlement checks in the mail without any explanation of what it was for. Maybe sales of my app were even better than they were telling me, I dunno. I've never once met a person in the real world who has ever even heard of the app so that doesn't seem very likely.

  • All cats cuddle up with mom after she has surgery

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  • Emdashes are used by real humans who write, too.

    I had actually never heard of emdashes until the whole AI thing and I just used hyphens instead. Now I'm embarrassed by my earlier ignorance and use emdashes -- and people think I'm an AI. I do put spaces on each side of them which I think is incorrect, at least.

  • The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game.

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  • He does like to launch into racist rants, but sometimes you just gotta hold your nose and swallow.

  • BMW Commits to Subscriptions Even After Heated Seat Debacle

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  • Bourgeoisie Meat Wagon

  • BMW Commits to Subscriptions Even After Heated Seat Debacle

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  • BMWs are great cars - as long as you buy ones that are at least 25 years old.

  • BMW Commits to Subscriptions Even After Heated Seat Debacle

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  • School bus transmissions have been like this for over 25 years. They're all built with 6 gears but if you only want 5 gears (which is ironically is all most school districts actually want) they just disable 6th gear. It used to be that there was a little bit of missing hardware (which could be added later for a considerable price) but now it's just disabled in software. In the skoolie community (people like me who buy used buses and convert them to motorhomes) you can get your software-disabled transmission upgraded to a six-speed for a few hundred bucks (dubious legality but who gives a fuck).

  • Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages.

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  • Man, you are letting Mississippi off the hook here. I used to live in Louisiana but spent a lot of time working in Mississippi and I could not say which state is worse. The only good things about either one are the winter weather and the crawfish.

  • Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages.

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  • Definitely cruel but not at all unusual. And as SCOTUS has determined, a punishment has to be both cruel and unusual to be unconstitutional.

  • The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game.

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  • It's wild, I released a shareware music creation app for Windows back in 2000 and it was easy to get people to pay $29.95 for it. I now have a vastly superior iOS version and nobody's willing to pay a dollar for it. It's a very depressing situation for an independent developer.

  • The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game.

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  • I had my sewer line backing up into my basement a couple of months ago. My regular plumber was busy so I had to call in a company that I knew was an overpriced scam ("Dream Team" lol) but I had no choice since I had guests in the house for my father's funeral. They came and of course they couldn't clear the line and said they had to dig up and replace the whole thing. The guy had a special tablet that he showed me the three options and the prices on and it initially showed them all in dollars per month with "zero-interest financing". I was like dude just show me the total cost. The three options were $17K, $22K and $36K total but the monthly payments actually decreased with increasing total price (naturally the payment option didn't show how many total payments you would have to make).

    Fortunately I called my regular plumber and he was so outraged at these motherfuckers that he came out that afternoon and cleared my line for me. Total cost $850.

  • Washington Post tells staff to stay home today for a Zoom call about ‘significant actions’ | CNN Business

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  • Just replace human-generated content with AI slop.

  • Melinda French Gates on Bill Gates in Epstein files - 'Painful times in my marriage'

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  • Not even purely for PR value. One of his foundation's causes is providing free medicines to third-world countries -- to stave off their saying "fuck patents" and producing the drugs for themselves, thereby helping to erode intellectual property rights.

  • Long live the king

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  • I feel the movie was enhanced by the in-house organist.

  • xkcd #3202: Groundhog Day Meaning

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  • I mean, it doesn't have anything to do with the movie Groundhog Day in which the main character relives Groundhog Day over and over again? I don't think anybody used "groundhog day" as a synonym for "personal time loop" before the movie.

  • The news is sugarcoating how revolting the Epstein files are

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  • The other night I listened to the PBS News Hour characterizing grok's AI child pornography as "explicit" and "putting women into bathing suits".

  • Seems effective

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  • I don't know if you're in the US, but here you are required to keep at least 4' of clearance between yourself and a bicyclist when passing them. If you can't pass safely while leaving that much of a cushion, then you don't pass them until you can do it safely and legally. This is even on the CDL test (I'm a school bus driver myself). Safety first, schedule second.

    Personally, I don't pass cyclists unless I can safely go all the way into the other lane. 4' is really not enough space -- at that distance a cyclist could easily still fall under your wheels if they suddenly go down. That being said, for me the most dangerous situation is when cyclists ride on the wrong side of the road, against traffic. This is completely insane behavior but something I'm seeing more and more often where I live and work.

  • My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht!

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  • My aunt died in 2013. At the reception after the funeral, my cousin (her stepson) suggested that we all make a "Harlem Shake" video. He did not say whether or not he wanted my aunt to appear in it. I refrained from explaining to the older members of the family what a Harlem Shake video was.

  • Normal amount

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  • Trash 80

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  • I can't remember the name of it, but there was a toolkit for Objective-C back then that would let nearby devices connect to each other for doing games and stuff like this.