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Edit2: Jesus people, please engage with the actual argument... not some strawman argument I didn't make.

I must be missing something here.

1. Company buys land, designs and builds theme park
2. Company operates theme park.
3. Theme park isn't profitable.
4. Company closes theme park
5. ???
6. Company must give away designs and schematics to theme park rides for free so people can build theme park themselves that might be in direct competition with new theme park company is trying to build???

Edit: I do think that abandonware should be opensourced at some point... but I don't understand this level of entitlement.

We aren't criticizing lonely people. Go take your strawman elsewhere.

Incel/NEET/sigma/Redpill "culture" 100% deserves as much and as frequent derision as fucking possible. The only remotely positive thing these horrendous ideas perpetuate for their target audience is the "grind mindset" (which in itself is horrifying). The only reason the "grind mindset" is helpful in these situations is that it helps people stuck in this world get into the real world.

Where do you think this "lost heat" goes?

Actually there was a steam script that deleted your Linux root drive... that was a real thing.

I could also totally see a botched install script for win95 totally bricking a win98. Install...

Waaaaat? The Texas power grid is price gouging again?!? Who could have foreseen this??? After all that work they put into the power grid after the last time this happened? It's almost like someone should regulate this power grid or something.

I think you misunderstand nominal voltage and fully charged voltage. 3.7v is the nominal voltage for a lipo battery. 4.2v is the standard fully charged voltage. However, phone batteries are rated at 4.3v.

Most phone batteries are rated for 4.3v

Yes.

This is just such an obtuse view. A person should be fairly compensated for their property, regardless of kind.

If you don't believe in property ownership at all... then these positions are fundamentally at odds.

Rent extracted for property should be proportional to the property and the value an individual gains from the use of the property. I think we can agree to that. I also believe that reasonable profit can be expected for reasonable work / value.

To say that economic rent of all kinds is unethical and unproductive doesn't make sense to me.

If one person invests their capital into a house and someone else wants to make use of that property, they should pay rent. How is that transaction unethical? The rent is payment for use of the other persons capital.

There are arguments about housing specifically as a basic right / need that changes the dynamic... but in cases where these needs are exploited for financial gain, it's the exploitation that is unethical, not the basic premise of rent.

To explore the notion that rent should only be proportional to the value that the property produces, and frankly how insane that sounds... it only takes startup costs of the property to consider that those costs should also be included in the computation... again exploitation is the thing that is unethical, not the exchange for use of property fundamentally.

Is this wrong?

I love the dank emojis. Bless the new generation for the new things you bring. Bless you.

This probably won't help you since you live in a small town.

Finding a doctor in the united states sucks. Literally the worst experience I have ever had was transitioning to a PPO insurance policy after being in a combine managed HMO / healthcare group.

People told me for years "oh, that health care provider sucks. You get sub par care and nobody ever knows your name." You know what else I got? Same day doctor visits and same day specialists, literally anytime I wanted or needed anything. I had reasonable medical care at a reasonable schedule for a reasonable price.

When my insurance switched to a PPO, people told me "oh, you will love this doctor! He is so great!" And... every... single... time... it is exactly as you described. "New patients are 6 months out." And when I finally got a primary care doctor, they would recommend specialist who were their friends also in private practices with 6 months waiting lists.

Private practice medical care is an absolute joke. It's another shitty system the boomers saw their parents use successfully that simply doesn't work today.

The solution was to find a high quality medical group in my city. It took me nearly a year to figure it out. Same day doctor visits? Done. Same week specialists? Done. Same system / in network urgent care at the same price as a regular doctors visit? Done.

I don't care which doctor I see, I just need medical care.

I didn't say JavaScript... and I certainly wouldn't choose TS for a personal project because I personally feel that its organization is terrible but I would choose TS over vanilla js for work projects because it does produce better group work and is easier to maintain long term because of the structure imposed on it.

Some people think better with typing information explicitly written out. Some people don't. In my opinion it is a creativity thing. Some people like to make art that is photo realistic, some people like to make abstract art.

I understand both viewpoints. In my free time I vastly prefer late bound, dynamically types languages with robust reflection engineers built into their interpreters. For work, I heavily prefer late bound, strictly typed with reflection optional or minimal.

Different people think differently.

They did though. They really did.

To be fair, the image in the middle is how we should think about Hippos. Murder Bois for sure.

Hey, I marked only one jira with "Works as intended" for only one of the big reports related to it, thank you very much.

I was headed in the wrong direction for weeks

Oh boy. This comic brings back the horror of leftpad being removed from npm and how it felt like half the internet fell apart.

We have been doing some new pair work processes to expand group capabilities (and to train up some juniors) so I am happy to report that I got to share this with two whole people.

Documentation? 🤣😭