whats_a_refoogee @ whats_a_refoogee @sh.itjust.works

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But that costs money. Selling people pills and self-help books? That makes money.

I am sorry but this is a ridiculous implication.

The vast majority of prescribed antidepressants (I'm assuming this is what you mean by pills) are old drugs with long expired patents, which makes them quite cheap. The profit margins have to be pretty low due to competition from generic formulation manufacturers. This is an area that actually could use more investment into R&D.

Self-help books are usually written by individual authors or small collaborations. It's profitable but not massive industry. The people profiting from self-help books are not anywhere near to being able to influence people getting homes, job security and work-life balance in either direction.

I will probably get shit for this, since it's a predominantly left leaning space, but until society starts acknowledging men's issues it will keep getting worse.

https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics

In 2021, men died by suicide 3.90x more than women.

In 2021, firearms accounted for 54.64% of all suicide deaths.

This article is an excellent example of what I am talking about. It does not even mention the disparity of suicide rates between the sexes despite it obviously being a huge outlier. Instead, they talk about how guns are the problem, even though a gun is just a method.

Taking away the easy methods to commit suicide might reduce the rate, but it does nothing to address to core issues that make people want to kill themselves in the first place. Instead of 5000 dead people you will have 5000 people who wish they were dead. Mission accomplished.

That means the same thing, moron.

If he agreed that he was denying a genocide, then he would be acknowledging that there is a genocide, which is the opposite of denying it.

Why are you bootlicking? Stop encouraging corporations to milk money from consumers because "it's not as bad as the others".

Russia isn't the USSR but it is heading towards the USSR ways, and it's already there in many aspects. It's not just on a technical definition, a lot of pro-war and nationalist rhetoric is rooted in the old USSR culture.

The USSR wasn't socialist, it was communist. And yes I know, it wasn't real communism because real communism is a utopia.

The quality of writing has been the lowest I've seen my entire life. The number of shows where the plot or characters are broken because the writers literally don't care what they wrote just last episode is astonishing. Some choices are so baffling that they look like deliberate sabotage.

Shows that actually want to tell a story don't seem to have the problem of early cancellation. Severance and Silo, two recent examples of shows with good writing had no trouble being renewed. There is also "From", which isn't particularly well written, but its low budget allowed a very quick renewal.

This is the second time I've seen an article incorrectly call a streaming service a "streamer". Have they been paid off by some PR campaign to attempt to redefine the word?

Yes. Stop covering them unless they actually do something of importance to the public.

I could not care less about what dumb shit Musk said. To me it has no more weight than what a random person on a bus stop says.

Actually here's the benchmark, if it's something that wouldn't be covered if it was said/done by a random man on the street, then don't cover it if it's said/done by musk.

G502 might just be the most overrated mouse on the market. You'd be doing yourself a favor.

You know you fight it? Return it. Say it doesn't work with your system. It's a perfectly valid reason to return a product.

They already can't. They just rely on the assumption that most of the data they collect is correct. Which is generally true, there is more correct than incorrect content on the internet. The inability of the bots to discern incorrect data coupled with their ability to make it sound authoritative is what makes them dangerous.

Yes. End to end encryption between two parties is pretty trivial to implement. Video and audio is no exception.

The rich aren't making spam websites full of bot-generated content. Neither is capitalism, or communism or socialism.

Posing Brave as an alternative to Chrome is ridiculous. It's a crypto scam company that intends to profit from advertising. And they have been caught inserting referrals into url suggestions.

Don't know why you think Edge is better either. Microsoft is no more your friend than Google and they have every intention to collect as much data as possible.

If you want chromium, use a build of un-googled chromium. You don't need to replace one evil with another if you can just rip it out altogether.

Why not install GrapheneOS since you already have a pixel. It's better privacy and security than either a stock pixel or an iPhone.

Going from Google to Apple because of the DRM push from Google doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Apple is at the frontline when it comes to proprietary hardware and software. You won't even be able to use Firefox on an iPhone, you'd be locked into Safari.

All 3rd party browsers on the app store are mandated to just be wrappers around Safari's engine. If Apple decides to adopt the web DRM, you will have no choice but to support it.

Okay, someone gains access to your device and sends themselves the NFT that proves ownership of your house.

What do you do? Do you just accept that since they own the NFT, that means they own the house? Probably not. You'll go through the legal system, because that's still what ultimately decides the ownership. I bet you'll be happy about middle men and "waiting 45 days to close" then.

Just call it Twitter like everyone else lol.

A. It's more convenient and clear. B. It will probably piss off Musk.

To avoid a type conversion that might not be expected. Integer math in Java differs from floating point math.

Math.floor(10.6) / Math.floor(4.6) = 2.5 (double)

If floor returned a long, then

Math.floor(10.6) / Math.floor(4.6) = 2 (long)

If your entire code section is working with doubles, you might not like finding Math.floor() unexpectedly creating a condition for integer division and messing up your calculation. (Have fun debugging this if you're not actively aware of this behavior).

You don't have to use inheritance with Java. In fact, in most cases it's better that you don't. Practically all of the Java standard library doesn't require the use of inheritance, same with most modern libraries.

On the contrary, I think inheritance is a very natural way to think. However, that doesn't translate into readable and easy to maintain code in the vast majority of the cases.

I am not sure what you mean by how it's stored or manipulated on a computer. A garbage collected language like Java manages the memory for you. It doesn't really care if your code is using inheritance or not. And unless you're trying to squeeze the last drops of performance out of your code, the memory layout shouldn't be on your mind.

It doesn't. A double is a 64 bit value while an integer is 32 bit. A long is a 64 bit signed integer which stores more exact integer numbers than a double.