DickFiasco

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[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So everybody remembers learning in school about Hitler's Canadian GF, but you can't actually find any references to her in any of the history books. It's some serious Mandela Effect shit.

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

It's what you played when you didn't have "online". Sure make your hands sore though.

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

i.e. No Tiddy Money

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe this?

Warning: hippies

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 20 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

A quality meme, wasted on someone completely unworthy.

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That crust is thicc...

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

I think --explanation is the command line switch to output a brief summary of a git command.

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 35 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

It's some stupid TikTok meme that allegedly comes from a song by Skrilla.

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Washing machine prices have been going down since at least 1977, which is as far back as I can find data while I'm on mobile. From the US bureau of labor statistics you can see that laundry equipment priced at $500 in 1977 is now priced at $768. And, due to inflation, $500 in 1977 has the same buying power as $2647 today. In other words, washing machines have gone down in price about 70% in the last 50 years.

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

If it was, it seems to have backfired.

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe my example wasn't clear; I don't mean that you would buy a microwave if you already have one, I mean that you will spend your money on something else if you can't afford the washing machine. Some goods are tightly correlated with each other such that if the price of one goes up (e.g. due to tariff), the price of the other will go up as well because it's a partial alternative.

The type of market you’re describing...only happens in small, locally focused markets

This is not true; supply and demand applies in any open market, with the exception of monopolies and collusion which I already pointed out. Yes, WalMart/Home Depot/etc engage in anti-competitive business practices, but they still can't arbitrarily charge whatever they want, which is what it sounds like the Axios article is saying. If they could, then why did they wait for the looming threat of tariffs to raise their prices? Why haven't they been charging exorbitant prices all along?

 

Nothing profound here, just need to vent: I haven't used Facebook for several years now, but I just got my 10 year old son a Meta Quest 2 and had to activate it by linking to my Facebook account. Just two days later I got a warning that the account will be locked because they detected that a child was using the Quest with an adult account (maybe because of the types of games he was playing?). My options are to either make him his own, restricted account (requires a credit card for verification) or prove that I am in-fact an adult (requires photo ID). No fucking way is Facebook getting either my credit card or photo ID. This is some sorry attempt to extort even more personal info from people. I can't understand how so many people tolerate this. How is this company still in business, let alone worth half a trillion dollars? If I had known how bad things have gotten, I would never have bought their VR.

 

It's a tarantula, obviously.

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