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  • Is it your opinion that free things can't be criticized? I dont understand the position, especially these days when free often comes with conditions. Not sure if true free exists.

  • Its no different than them declining to answer if asked what their secrets are.

    Do you really think that if someone manages to ask a question in a very specific wording that they would be forced to give a straight answer?

  • Windows hasnt quite felt as risky as it does now, that I can remember at least.

    Luckily my company outsourced the IT security department to India and have since had a handful of breaches and zero remediation efforts. I'm sure this windows stuff is firmly in the "care later" bin.

  • They are trolling you because you didnt realize the first post was sarcastic. Y'all agree.

  • Do you use windows by choice or for work?

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  • They made money off upselling people who thought it would be free. Or another way was to wait to tell them about the charges until you've spent a couple hours on the application. ...or the way they would sell you last years tax information back to you to save you a few hours filling out forms.

    United states of monetization.

  • To your point about causing Republicans not to vote at all, I did see a post recently positing that this election might be different than in the past where voter suppression benefited the Republicans.

    I dont have the source on that at the moment but I thought it was an interesting idea.

  • Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted the "SHAM trial" on X. "You don't see this level of corruption in a banana republic", she wrote, directing people to a Trump fundraiser.

    I don't know I've seen such a direct example of, " I'm saying this so that you will give us money", as this in a while.

    Why are people so happy to be part of a scam? What do they expect their money will do? Is it a metric republicans use to compare to each other? 🤷

  • Well that is a lot to deal with, and I can relate to being optimistic that you will grow to like something. I can respect that you have put in quite the effort towards compromise, which is right even if its not reciprocated.

    I will say that you shouldn't judge all potential relationships from the current one, just the same as you shouldnt judge all potential companion animals from the current one.

    And to be frank, I'm not surprised the dog behaves that way given the environment you described. You must admit that there is far less time to worry about the dogs well being when you and your partner might both be depressed, and despite what you say about souls, dogs have feelings and are extremely empathetic towards humans.

    Its very true that dogs take on the emotional traits of their owners, including negative ones.

  • Maybe if you spent more time getting to know the dog on his terms, and then started training him once he respected you, you would come to realize you are choosing to hate this dog.

    Such a fascinating position you choose to be part of. Does your gf know you hate dogs so much? How did she end up getting a dog knowing this? Why would you date her knowing the dog comes with it? Why wouldn't you talk it out with her and come to some sort of compromise?

  • Doesn't gambling for a living by definition mean you have to play with stakes that matter?

    Honestly if people could only gamble with their own money, I might feel different about it.

  • Everything in your post seems to give reasons for recreational gambling, and I do agree that the stakes are part of the game, and one with no stakes is markedly different. It does seem though that this is all in service of fair play, and to reward those for requiring they pay to prove they are in good faith.

    To me I dont think the potential reward is the point with recreational gambling. You might even give your winnings back in a friendly game were you to find out that the stakes bled out into real life.

    However I dont see how all of this applies to gambling as a profession and as a part of society in larger ways such as stock markets and Crypto currency. What's the supposed benefits of that?

    I would argue that the professional setting is not recreational at all, and in many cases is abusive, with there seeming to be some intent to disguise how abusive it is to the victim.

  • Honestly, for me, young me had no fucking clue how bad tech could be for the world just physically. The massive power draw, the massive water consumption, I'm sure there are nestle level employee and child abuse situations to boot.

    Noone ever talked about the cost of fucking anything. Just blinders all the way until it crashes and we tally the victims and how much money was lost or it cost to fix it.

    The one thing the Crypto bros did was show everyone how absurd this all really could be, and all for less than nothing.

  • Would you advise others that learning through increasingly higher stakes is a good way to practice these skills and apply them to make a living?

    I admit I dont have much issue with gambling as recreation/sport, but I dont know its a benefit to society to treat gambling as a profession.

    Stock brokers gambling with others money is a whole other thing.

  • Is it really so crazy that if you practice gambling you might end up good at gambling? I dont see any difference between playing the stock market and playing cards for money.

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  • Lol! Dang rich kids and their rich kid problems!

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  • Cue someone creating a script to convert the new chapters to the old ones!

  • My assumption is that, since they were always going to be about collecting, processing, and selling data (usually what AI is used for commercially) that they might have what they think is between 500m and 1b in data to sell.

    This might be enough to start a company from or just to assimilate the data into your own company.

    The price tag has to be over estimated though by quite a lot. If we read a story about the company selling for a few million, I dont think it would seem outrageous.