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@hexbear.nethttps://www.vice.com/en/article/jg8x77/twitch-streamer-destiny-and-an-economist-debate-capitalism-achieve-nothing
Steven 'Destiny' Bonnell II and Richard Wolff debated economic theories for 90 minutes on Twitch.
The biggest drawback is that you have to rely that the manufacturer is ethical and isn't loading your shit with bloatware/spyware, which, lol. I suppose one benefit is that, theoretically, they can spend more time and resources on designing a laptop instead of licenses for windows, but I remember reading somewhere that Microsoft eats up market share by providing their OS for free for PC manufacturers. Is that still true?
I'm not currently looking for one, but I am curious about them. For my use case, it would be mostly light programming, web browsing, movies and videos, photo editing, and light gaming. Doesn't make sense for me to shell out $1000 for some spyware linux junk when I could just buy some used 2015 windows laptop and install a distro on it
Walked outside to see a fucker trying to jiggle my door and ran off when I confronted him. Shits worth $300 and has different color doors. Who’s chopping this shit up? They gotta be selling it to developing countries where they’re worth more. I suppose that’s why beat up cars are more valuable than high end ones because it’s more affordable overseas
https://www.wired.com/story/covenant-eyes-anti-porn-accountability-monitoring-apps/
Churches are using invasive phone-monitoring tech to discourage “sinful” behavior. Some software is seeing more than congregants realize.
Maybe it’s because I literally do not give a shit about the company or it’s products or customers. I just want money. In fact, I want the opposite kind of imposter syndrome, where I trick the people hiring me into thinking I’m much more qualified than I actually am get paid a shit ton more money. Yes I know C++, Pascal, Assembly, COBOL. Please pay me $500k.
https://krdo.com/news/2022/07/13/colorado-springs-police-officer-pleads-guilty-to-child-abuse/
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Wednesday, an officer with the Colorado Springs Police Department pled guilty to a child abuse charge. According to court documents, this is a misdemeanor. During his court appearance Wednesday, Reed was sentenced to two years of unsupervised probation. He also has to complete 12 anger management classes, a cognitive skills