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  • TheFogan@programming.devtoMemes@lemmy.mlCheckmate tankies
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    4 hours ago

    On the whole, while at the start of Covid 19 alchohol sales went up, it overall decreased (most likely due to the lack of social drinking, and bars), Plus marketing etc… “Hey we did our part to help out in this time of need, become a loyal customer”. Would take a lot more analysis to see if it actually made less money, or if they were making less money so it made sense to use their unneeded capacity to sell a normally less profitable item and possibly earn some long term good PR.




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    9 hours ago

    Guessing something similar to the toilet paper aisles during covid.

    Which I gotta say also is one that was funny when basically this was done in the US just before the 2020 election… where they showed the shelves of how the stores currently were, followed by a “this is Biden’s america”.


  • There’s lots, but just like everything, very few people actually can stick with and use them. Probably the thing that I think would be a logical feature in most chat programs, would be if say you put in your timezone into the client somewhere, then when you type a time you put some character before it like *3:30pm - the chat client could determine your timezone, put it in chat as UTC, and each recieving client could automatically convert it to their users timezone (and I suppose some kind of tag to make it so people know it is already translated to their timezone).






  • Agreed that’s trying to preserve the workaround, without fixing the problem.

    Problem is it doesn’t matter, the reality is, demand for jobs, and people who need to survive… isn’t a number guaranteed to match, and between automation, and wages falling so far behind inflation that many households need 2+ incomes just to keep the lights on, an unemployment problem is inevitable.

    If AI actually can cut enough jobs, that the number of jobs available, is less than the number of people who WANT to work, then all we need to do is make it so people don’t HAVE to work.



  • The thing I find somewhat odd of the story, is if the facts are accurate, what’s even the point of the trump arguement. It feels like the article is flooded with basically details not directly related to the shooting. The “relapsed alchoholic that had 2 glasses of wine”, the topic of the arguements (and even the specific things said in them).

    Actual relevant facts of the shooting.

    Dad had an arguement with the daughter.

    Several hours later they had an arguement on guns, Dad brought out gun to show her… then claims he accidentally shot her.

    Point is the arguement doesn’t really hold relevance, Dad either horribly mishandled the firearm, in which case the situations up to it were irrelevant.

    Or dad murdered his daughter in a fit of rage.






  • Yeah I think that’s the question. in short it’s fishing for a way to make it profitable, whole concept is when we pour enough money, servers, research etc… into it, eventually it will start making money faster than we put into it, and so far, that’s not been proven. Que old image of guys digging for diamonds, one walking away just before hitting the diamond jackpot, the other blindly charging towards it.

    and of course just like reality, there’s no actual way to know if there’s even any diamonds… just that we haven’t found them yet.



  • The big concept is that you should own your “copy” of a game. IE I own my car, I can drill a hole in it, I can paint it a different color. I may or may not have to follow certain rules of what modifications I do on it to drive it on streets which is pretty reasonable, but if I want to use it in my backyard I can.

    Now yes that doesn’t mean if say 3D printers were able to perfectly fabricate something like a car, that I could say make a fully functioning form of the car with whatever patented designs etc… the car manufacturer has on it and sell or give them away in bulk.

    I do suppose that’s the one area where digital and physical create some divide. IE digital by definition has to be duplicated to be modified. hell technically it’s duplicated just to be used (as even a physical disk is copied to system memory over the course of playing it).

    IMO I feel like a pretty fair rules set could be drafted for digital property.

    IE a pretty simple digital items bill of rights:

    You have a right to use a digital item on any device you own capable of playing it.

    You have a right to modify it in any way shape or form you are capable of doing.

    Games that either require, or have a significant portion of their gameplay that depends on a remote server, should have a declared date of which the servers are promised to be online till at the time of purchase, if the servers shut down prior to that declared date you should be entitled to a refund. (IE as that date approaches developers can either move that date further forward, or their buyers can be aware that the EOL of the game is not far),

    Modifying your games either to run on any other hardware etc… should be allowed, copying to multiple devices that you own should be allowed, however developers have a right to refuse to allow modified games to connect to their servers.


    I think the key point is, it’s not hard to write a digital property ownership ruleset, that covers almost any thinkable case, and allows a reasonable form of “ownership” of a digital item.


  • It’s so fricking insane though with what’s said to have been done… a masked person with a gun hops into your car, and you bring them to a police station. That’s… consideration beyond any reasonable action… a point of restraint so absurdly wholesome erroring so far on the side of not killing a potential attacker.

    Though realistically of course it’s going to be a greyer area. stand your ground protects you if you KILL a teenager with no without confirmation that they are armed or have any risk to you. But bringing someone who absolutely has the ability to end your life at a moments notice that you can’t identify to the police so everything can be confirmed and sorted out, probably won’t have the same level of protections.