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I got curious and did the math if $44B was denominated in $100 bills.
That’s 496.85 cubic kilometers of cash. Or a pile of money that covers half of the continental US, stacked 1/4 of the height of Low Earth Orbit.
I honestly don’t think one could physically burn that much cash since May 2022 in real life.
Edit: more mind bogglery!
The earth is ~40,000 km in circumference, so you could stack the bills almost 28m high around the equator (or circle the globe 256,482 times.)
I love revisiting comments like these every 4 years.
Then why are they even still there?
Sunk cost fallacy or misplaced hope are other options outside of Napoleon complex.
And it feels so good! I hated how breaking in to the mobi files wrecked the formatting.
It’s understandable that they wouldn’t know much about other countries’ history. Sad… but I get it. Public education is slipping worldwide.
What’s bothered me about discussion online for the last 10-15ish years (and it gets worse every year) is that people feel the urgent need to opine strongly on shit they don’t understand - and that bluntly pointing that out is somehow frowned upon.
I long for the days when it was kosher for everyone to just tell them to shut the fuck up until they were ashamed enough to delete or recant.
/rant
Anyway… Buongiorno!
Appreciate the correction! I haven’t dealt with Amazon for e-books since I got my first Kobo reader 5-6 years ago, so I’m out of the loop.
Yep. I live in one of the “post salary or GTFO” states, and lead with that. Anyone who can’t respond with a straight answer isn’t worth dealing with and is told why.
I go through them every couple of days and have a text file with canned responses.
Likewise. It has generated several offers for me, but the vast majority of head hunters are playing spray-n-pray with keywords. For every good lead I get, I have to tell 400 people to fuck off.
Oh… you’re a SOX analyst? Want to work in a sock factory? Want to do the laundry for a minor league baseball team? Want to be in a fetish video?
Kobo consistently makes better products overall, but the ability to avoid Amazon (and the nonsense that comes from their proprietary format) is priceless.
We all have bad days. Unfortunately his coincided with the only time you saw him. I don’t think that makes him an asshole. I think it makes him human.
You ever call in sick because you’re not feeling it? Public figures can’t do that because people will call them an asshole.
Netflix is forgetting that a large part of their success was due to being more convenient than piracy.
Oddly, I have noticed that most people I know aren’t interested in taking the minimal risk to sail the seas now that there’s widespread cause.
Back when Netflix was awesome, I knew a LOT more people who were willing to dive in to the technical stuff, risk, and additional effort to strap on an eye patch.
Anyone’s guess on the root cause, but I feel like the amount of people on the interwebs now have absolutely no idea (or interest) how anything works. “Push colorful button to do things” seems to be it.
In a lot of ways, the fascism that Italy invented never left. I had hopes 20-30 years ago, but they have been roundly dashed.
$50 per year to change an icon.
Forgot one, deleteypants.
Please stand by your authoritarian views going forward.
Eh… It has its place (especially if dude is going to set me up like that), and can be ignored if it’s not your cup of tea.
Prurient banter has been a part of online forums since BBS message boards. It’s how most people I know communicate IRL and online: Bullshit, bullshit, nugget of wisdom, picture of cat.
Not everything needs to be THUPER THERIAL, but it can be (and has frequently been) overdone because a lot of people don’t realize that self-censorship is a hammer to be swung heavily.
Appreciate you taking the time to explain. That’s not really the vibe I caught, but I could be projecting.
I, too, am upset at how echo chambery reddit became, and the knee-jerk censorship the mods displayed. I had an account permanently and immediately banned from politics for “hate speech” because I said that DINOs Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin were date rapists for bending the Democratic party over against its will after taking them out to a nice dinner. Over the next few weeks, I was silently banned from about a dozen other subs.
Turns out that the person behind it all was the same “powermod” who threw a colossal tantrum after being banned herself just a couple of weeks ago.
I disagree with you about globally deplatforming “the bad guys,” because I don’t get to choose who they are, and one day - like above - that “bad guy” could end up being you.
Don’t like it, or can’t deal with it? Block them.
The insidious thing about algorithmically served content is that even if you don’t pay attention to it, it will slowly seep in to your mind, altering you slowly and steadily.
You see it/hear it for a microsecond and divert your attention dutifully, but your mind captured it, and processes it continuously. Because that’s what minds do.
So here you are, just scrolling through things. Minding your own business. And you didn’t even register it consciously.
And now you’re forever infected with a thought, concept you would have never arrived at on your own. A vision you would never have seen. A motive that never would’ve occurred.
And no matter what it was, you’re stuck with it forever because some asshole forced it into your head for a couple pennies.
It’s pure evil.
This isn’t a logo. It’s a cry for help from a severely distressed mind.
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