[-] jon@lemdro.id 6 points 2 months ago

What, the generic Windows driver wasn't good enough...?

[-] jon@lemdro.id 6 points 2 months ago

Wasn't that obscure, the song had heavy rotation on MTV back in the day.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

In mathematical terms it's perfectly acceptable to talk about the limit of an expression as some value tends towards infinity. E.g.:

limit (1/x)  = 0
x→∞

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit_(mathematics)#Infinity_as_a_limit

[-] jon@lemdro.id 67 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The way politicians and the political system nakedly serves the needs and interests of corporations and the wealthy, and not the average individual.

The way that the price you're quoted invariably gets bumped up by various taxes.

The insane system that is tipping, including the fact that a lot of workers are so underpaid that they rely on tips to get by.

The incessant adverts on TV for medical products, particularly prescription drugs.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It doesn't. Gravity is caused by mass not spin. The planet's rotation about it's own axis will create a centrifugal effect that offsets gravity, but the effect is negligible for anything rotating as slow as planets.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 11 points 10 months ago

Not sure those categories are mutually exclusive, in which case a pie chart is illogical, captain

[-] jon@lemdro.id 54 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The author is basing this claim on feedback from FIVE people who have been playing the game. If Bethseda are only expecting a similar number to play it once it's released, then this is a useful metric. Otherwise it's meaningless.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 13 points 10 months ago

Literally none of those are actually"objective"...

[-] jon@lemdro.id 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I grew up several miles from Pocklington (the home of the business named in the article) and having any industry up there other than pig-farming would have been a welcome change. The British government forced this country into an idiotic referendum on a matter where very few people understood the consequences of the "Leave" decision, and then doubled down on their failed gamble by fucking up the post-Brexit negotiations.

Blaming entrepreneurs, who were simply trying to create a business & employ people, something that this government purports to support, for lacking the foresight to realise how incompetent and self-serving this government is, seems delusional.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This one, every time. Imagine buying a product or service for an agreed price, and then being guilt-tripped into having to pay 20%, or more, on top because the owners don't pay their staff enough salary to survive on. It should be fucking illegal. Pay your staff a proper salary and charge your clients the price you published on your menu/price-list etc. Running a business isn't a god-given right, and if you can't do it without screwing your employees over, then you're not capable of running a business period. You should bugger off and let someone who is capable, and who isn't an empathy vacuum have a go.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If the dude had a big nose, then I wouldn't see the problem, but he didn't.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 9 points 10 months ago

In Trump's dyspeptic liver of a brain "irrefutable" simply means bigly.

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