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Professor Shark posted:Grocery chain CEO’s should be tarred and feathered and sent out of their respective towns On chips like name brand soda the manufacturer are going to set the prices I think.
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evobatman posted:Microsoft gets the money for Windows when computer makers installs it on the computers, or when businesses buy cloud licenses for their employees. Since MS have already gotten their money long before the end user gets their hands on Windows, they have no reason not to turn Windows into an ad-filled data-sucking hell hole. The few people who build their own computers and actually pay for their own operating system are so few that they don't even register financially, and can go gently caress themselves according to MS. Something I'm curious about...does Microsoft essentially get paid twice for a Windows license if a company just immediately wipes a laptop (that all come with an embedded windows pro license in the BIOS) and installs an Enterprise license? That's what we do at my company, some through Intune enrollment and some still just with Endpoint Manager. I know the manufacturer licenses that Dell, HP, etc... Buy are definitely cheaper than you or I buying a one-time license , but they still have to pay SOMETHING to MS, and so do large corporations that use Enterprise licensing.
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I mean, no matter what, Tom Nook gets paid. When it all comes down to it, computers are an insanely good deal when compared to people cost. Even if your employee “needed” a $3500 MacBook or something, that’s still like $3/day amortized over the life of the machine - it literally costs my employer more for me to come into the office. The “extra” $50 for a Windows license or whatever washes out pretty quickly, and that’s only if the business is operating at a place where they’re big enough for “enterprise” but not so big that they could negotiate no-os or Linux installs.
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Presumably if you will be buying a few thousand laptops then Dell or HP or whoever is going to help you out with license accounting.
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Sentient Data posted:You're not buying food, you're buying a dopamine release from hellworld - snack dealers are drug dealers in the new world Somewhere in the Frito lay sharepoint, there’s a PowerPoint slide showing projected global temperatures and projected sales both rising
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anonumos posted:Digeorno is worse than delivery now... DiGiorno has always been lovely frozen pizza, even when it first came out it was dry crap compared to actual pizza
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I have this unfounded hope that the popularity of junk food and convenience food will keep real food mostly not-terrible and its price at least somewhat anchored to reality. Like, if everyone else keeps buying crap and shoveling it into their gullets, in spite of the obvious price gouging and consumer complaints, I'll still be able to cook a decent meal from actual food, as though this meek activity is somehow beneath the notice of big ag. Eggs and carrots have gotten weird and expensive at times but it's not too hard to pivot to something nutritious and available and reasonably priced, so I can afford to feel smug when I read about complaints of highly priced hamburgers and shrinking portion sizes at fast food chains, or arcane reformulations of pizza crust that was never good in the first place. Last couple years sure feel like I'm in the early stages of a game of dodgeball with the quality and price of produce though.
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Professor Shark posted:I switched to the Goon Recommended Way of making popcorn once chips got dumb expensive I do mine on the stove with coconut oil and some nutritional yeast sprinkled over when it’s popped. Or dump in a tablespoon of sugar just when it’s starting to properly go off, for the sweet and salty vibes. What’s the official Goon Recommended Way?
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doctorfrog posted:I have this unfounded hope that the popularity of junk food and convenience food will keep real food mostly not-terrible and its price at least somewhat anchored to reality. Like, if everyone else keeps buying crap and shoveling it into their gullets, in spite of the obvious price gouging and consumer complaints, I'll still be able to cook a decent meal from actual food, as though this meek activity is somehow beneath the notice of big ag. Vegetables got really expensive here (NZ) this year, and it sucked. Part of it was due to a cyclone hitting and destroying a big part of the northeast of the country - a major fruit growing region - and part of it was the supermarket duopoly price gouging and blaming rising fuel costs while posting record profits. E: oh yeah, and we had an egg shortage due to legislation coming into effect that chickens all have to be raised cage free, and despite the industry having years of notice, it was a total shambles Shithouse Dave fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Oct 16, 2023 |
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I was at the self-checkout at the grocery store (Safeway) today, futzing around getting everything settled in my bags after it was all scanned, and the kiosk popped up a message, something like "improper scan detected" locked up and started blinking. Cashier comes over, scans their badge, and the loving thing starts playing back video some of the items I scanned, highlighting the items it found "suspicious" in green circles. Cashier just ignored it and hit override. It appears that they loaded some sort of algorithm that tries to second guess if the $1.27 of celery I scanned and weighed is ACTUALLY celery, or if I put a celery sticker on a block of cheese or some poo poo. God the future loving sucks.
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Shithouse Dave posted:I do mine on the stove with coconut oil and some nutritional yeast sprinkled over when it’s popped. Or dump in a tablespoon of sugar just when it’s starting to properly go off, for the sweet and salty vibes. What the gently caress
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Biplane posted:What the gently caress That's a perfectly normal way to make popcorn, a little fat and heat in a skillet and bob's your uncle there's popcorn. I grew up with an air popper, and they're like $15 bucks, so I've always used that method, personally. The worst way to do it is eviscerate a bag of microwave popcorn and dump it in a big pot, then bake all the vape-juice-precurser flavorant onto the pot walls, but I got my fiance to stop doing that after a few months.
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Shithouse Dave posted:I do mine on the stove with coconut oil and some nutritional yeast sprinkled over when it’s popped. Or dump in a tablespoon of sugar just when it’s starting to properly go off, for the sweet and salty vibes. Stove, coconut oil, Flavacol
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Stove, sunflower oil. Sometimes melted butter. I recommend tossing your corn with smoked paprika and ground chipotle. Garlic powder's nice too.
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Air pop, a hint of oil and nooch. I could eat it forever
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All the gas stations around here require prepayment now except none of them bother to fix their screens so it’s a huge mess of barely legible text beeping at you
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I stopped commuting by train to my office because, having raised their prices at the start of the year, in May they decided to reduce the trains from 8 carriages to 4 during commuting hours. I sent a formal complaint about how every train was rammed and since they don't send inspectors any more I'm often forced to stand even if I have a reserved seat, and their response was very "lol what're you gonna do about it"
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Adrianics posted:I stopped commuting by train to my office because, having raised their prices at the start of the year, in May they decided to reduce the trains from 8 carriages to 4 during commuting hours. I sent a formal complaint about how every train was rammed and since they don't send inspectors any more I'm often forced to stand even if I have a reserved seat, and their response was very "lol what're you gonna do about it" One day he’ll be wondering how everything got so lovely and asking himself why nobody did anything to stop it; Why he’s getting laid off even though it seems like there’s so much that could be getting done as he’s escorted through the dirty halls of the station out onto the piss drenched mezzanine on his last day of work.
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anatomi posted:Stove, sunflower oil. Sometimes melted butter. I recommend tossing your corn with smoked paprika and ground chipotle. Garlic powder's nice too. Tajin is my powder of choice!
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Internet Old One posted:One day he’ll be wondering how everything got so lovely and asking himself why nobody did anything to stop it; Why he’s getting laid off even though it seems like there’s so much that could be getting done as he’s escorted through the dirty halls of the station out onto the piss drenched mezzanine on his last day of work. I did feel a little bad for them because, as someone who deals with complaints in my line of work, it must be hella embarrassing having nothing to work with and having to respond to complaints about higher prices vs smaller trains with "what're you gonna do, get another train? Oh whoops, the UK's rail system is a rigged monopoly and there are no other trains, so how about you suck my fat one"
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DicktheCat posted:Tajin is my powder of choice!
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Elviscat posted:I was at the self-checkout at the grocery store (Safeway) today, futzing around getting everything settled in my bags after it was all scanned, and the kiosk popped up a message, something like "improper scan detected" locked up and started blinking. Cashier comes over, scans their badge, and the loving thing starts playing back video some of the items I scanned, highlighting the items it found "suspicious" in green circles. Cashier just ignored it and hit override. Just shoplift it’s easier for everyone involved
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Professor Shark posted:All the gas stations around here require prepayment now except none of them bother to fix their screens so it’s a huge mess of barely legible text beeping at you I got gas last week and after I paid but before the pump would start it asked if I wanted to join Mobil rewards and the only options it gave me were "Yes" and "More Info". Luckily I noticed one of the buttons was worn down so I hit that and it turned out to be "No".
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Elviscat posted:I was at the self-checkout at the grocery store (Safeway) today, futzing around getting everything settled in my bags after it was all scanned, and the kiosk popped up a message, something like "improper scan detected" locked up and started blinking. Cashier comes over, scans their badge, and the loving thing starts playing back video some of the items I scanned, highlighting the items it found "suspicious" in green circles. Cashier just ignored it and hit override. Last time I hit code 4011, the terminal froze up until the attendant could come by to verify they're learning
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Adrianics posted:I did feel a little bad for them because, as someone who deals with complaints in my line of work, it must be hella embarrassing having nothing to work with and having to respond to complaints about higher prices vs smaller trains with "what're you gonna do, get another train? Oh whoops, the UK's rail system is a rigged monopoly and there are no other trains, so how about you suck my fat one" Man, that sucks to hear. I've always been jealous of countries where you don't need a car to go everywhere, it's miserable. Sounds like the train company really wants to push people that way, though. Not getting a chair you paid for seems like a non-issue until you remember how many people have invisible disabilities that may not net them an actual handicapped space but make it hell to stand for long times.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Something I'm curious about...does Microsoft essentially get paid twice for a Windows license if a company just immediately wipes a laptop (that all come with an embedded windows pro license in the BIOS) and installs an Enterprise license? It used to be that in order to install an enterprise license you had to buy a computer with a pro license first, and you were not allowed to install an enterprise license on a PC which did not come with a windows license to begin with. We bought laptops in batches of 50, and there was usually about $2k of wiggle room on our already discounted prices. There probably are cases like that now, but MS licensing has evolved into a science with the license tied more to the user than the PC, and can be a full time job.
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I hadn't realized the ads on Youtube were so unhinged. Epoch times "documentary" (yet somehow its presented as a Lifetime Oringinal Movie" about gender conversion. Weird Scottish man ranting about FREE ELECTRICITY that is underground and the power companies totes don't want you to know about. SUPPLEMENTS That weird jacked dude that talks about dieting not working but this time Dr. Drew is here!
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Beastie posted:I hadn't realized the ads on Youtube were so unhinged. I got an ad on youtube that was a 45 minute long episode of some Evander Holyfield or Mike Tyson boxing reality show. A whole rear end episode, played as an ad during an ad break in whatever recipe thing I was trying to watch on someone else's phone. It was the weirdest thing. BigHead fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Oct 16, 2023 |
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Serious_Cyclone posted:Just shoplift it’s easier for everyone involved last I was in the US I went to home depot and as I walked down the isle with screws in it there was a loud BEEP followed by a nearby LCD monitor lighting up and showing me: * A message along the lines of "YOU ARE BEING MONITORED" * A live video of me, on the nearby security cam * A live video of the poor sap monitoring the security footage in the store
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Crow's latest voice actor in MST3K makes him sound like a Rugrat. Latest host is great though. Jonah lost weight and looks creepy now. credburn fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Oct 16, 2023 |
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Hatsune Mike posted:* A message along the lines of "YOU ARE BEING MONITORED" If you didn't immediately pantomime stuffing poo poo in your pockets and gesticulate at the camera I dont know what to tell you.
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credburn posted:Crow's latest voice actor in MST3K makes him sound like a Rugrat. MST3K's pricing model is a great fit for this thread. If I want to watch new episodes, I need to either rent them for $5 an episode (lol), buy them for $8 an episode (lolol), or buy a season pass for $150 (lmao). How is the Gizmoplex, a streaming service with only MST3k, more expensive than most actual streaming services with more than one series?
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Hatsune Mike posted:last I was in the US I went to home depot and as I walked down the isle with screws in it there was a loud BEEP followed by a nearby LCD monitor lighting up and showing me: Lol capital is so dumb
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There's two MST3K paths you can do down in the modern era - Gizmoplex vs Rifftrax Friends, and the main difference is, if you were a Joel fan or a Mike fan. Joel got ousted from his own show by Jim Mallon and didn't get it back until 2015, and that leads to the MST3K revival on Netflix, etc etc. However, by a few accounts of how it all went down, Joel was ousted because allegedly he was being kind of a jerk to the rest of the team and crew about collaborating, although Mallon was absolutely a sleaze and not an easy guy to work with either. Both Mallon and Joel would claim the other was going for a power grab. From the outside, it seems like they both wound each other up about it being 'my show' and the other writers/crew were caught in the middle. Mike, head writer, was more well-liked, more collaborative in nature, and did what Mallon wanted, so he ended up hosting the majority of the show through its cable series run. Long have MST3K debates centered around which host was 'better', but undeniably the show has a different 'feel' depending on who is leading the writer's room/hosting. After MST3K ends, both Joel & Mike created internet versions of the property; Joel created Cinematic Titanic, Mike created Rifftrax. Joel/CT had writers Trace Beaulieu, J. Elvis Weinstein, Frank Conniff and Mary Jo Pehl. Mike/Rifftrax has MST3K writers Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett; so you have it split into two camps that kind of follow their own same vibes from the MST3K era. Rifftrax having the voices of Tom & Crow also helps - it carries a more consistent sound of the original, but the biggest thing IMO is that Rifftrax has the more relaxed and 'kind' vibe of the Mike Nelson era of MST3K. Anyway, what I'm saying is Rifftrax is only $5.99/mo and it's better than anything modern MST3K has spit out because new MST3K just has this whole chip-on-its-shoulder/feels-loving-weird-man thing going on that dates all the way back to the original split. Joel is trying his damndest to make his money back from his property after years of not being in control, and I get it, but yeah that poo poo be crazy, I'm not paying that for access to old episodes, or for access to the new stuff. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Oct 16, 2023 |
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