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sullat posted:It was called "Bombardiers" and it was about a bunch of finance guys slowly going insane while having to sell increasingly bizarre financial instruments. 
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Nov 3, 2023 21:12
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euphronius posted:isn’t steam privately owned yes and I think Gabe would have to die before anything like that happened. He’s got deep ocean exploring money.
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Nov 3, 2023 21:17
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anime was right posted:some lovely ones, the nascar video game one, the place that made neverwinter, and like some esports thing off the top of my head Embracer Group ftw
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Nov 3, 2023 21:22
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also I’ve seen Victor Vescovo talk about the five deeps expedition. “I don’t want to talk ill of the dead” then proceeded to poo poo on the Ocean Gate guy for a half hour. tldr was: “if they aren’t classed run”, which is what I told y’all.
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Nov 3, 2023 21:22
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Gunshow Poophole posted:there will be a civilization level crisis when Steam/Valve ends up in the talons of the private equity types
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Nov 3, 2023 21:25
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err posted:it's pretty complicated now, i tried following a guide in this very thread, but i think i am too stupid to set it up usenet was too complicated for my dumb dumb brain but torrents and a VPN are easy enough
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Nov 3, 2023 21:26
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I don't know why you'd need usenet when thepiratebay and 1337x are still going strong
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Nov 3, 2023 21:29
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Bar Ran Dun posted:yes and I think Gabe would have to die before anything like that happened. He’s got deep ocean exploring money. He also throws money at neuroscience ventures
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Nov 3, 2023 21:33
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gently caress COREY PERRY posted:I don't know why you'd need usenet when thepiratebay and 1337x are still going strong https://twitter.com/realCrackWatch/status/1687904388172705793?t=JgMgmxuYD2u-RtxfL7zuaA
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Nov 3, 2023 21:34
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gently caress COREY PERRY posted:I don't know why you'd need usenet when thepiratebay and 1337x are still going strong Legit thought TPB is an industry-controlled honeypot now, and just an easy way to get copyright strikes from your ISP.
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Nov 3, 2023 21:35
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err posted:it's pretty complicated now, i tried following a guide in this very thread, but i think i am too stupid to set it up what gave you trouble? there's a lot of components but it breaks down into a set of services(*arr, overseerr, plex, sabnzbd) and two subscriptions(one to a usenet server and one to a nzb place) the *arr services connect to sabnzbd (or whatever) to coordinate downloads using your usenet server sub - prowlarr configures your indexer (the nzb thing) and nzb client across services - sonarr is tv, radarr is movies overseerr sits on top of that to give you a nicer interface plex sits to the side Pepe Silvia Browne posted:this is gonna be the new "slip the cable guy $100 to give you unlimited channels", bribe your company's IT guy to set up your Plex and Usenet system 
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Nov 3, 2023 21:36
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Interesting read on SEO freaks and what they did to the Internet: https://www.theverge.com/features/23931789/seo-search-engine-optimization-experts-google-results About 10 minutes, IMO worthwhile loving parasites: quote:And most of all, Sullivan is pissed that people think Google results have gone downhill. Because they haven’t, he insisted. If anything, search results have gotten a lot better over time. Anyone who thought search quality was worse needed to take a hard look in the mirror.
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Nov 3, 2023 21:57
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SKULL.GIF posted:Interesting read on SEO freaks and what they did to the Internet: https://www.theverge.com/features/23931789/seo-search-engine-optimization-experts-google-results i did a search for a very basic thing today which was "when did x start using palm oil" with ten different variations and all of the info i got was: - companies who were clearly palm oil lobbyists with a "im a smol bean" website - news articles talking about how palm oil is destroying our environment, but its getting better actually! - a few sites/articles on why palm oil is just bad and literally: - nothing related to the query i asked for it took me digging through like an article 3 pages in to find out companies started using it in the 90s because of trans fats in vegetable shortening... and no other info about the adoption of it by any companies at all or what food replaced stuff with palm oil
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Nov 3, 2023 22:06
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anime was right posted:i did a search for a very basic thing today which was "when did x start using palm oil" with ten different variations and all of the info i got was: Try "palm oil reddit"
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Nov 3, 2023 22:19
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Asada fries from the taco truck are now 14 bucks, up from 13, which was up from 11. No inflation!
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Nov 3, 2023 22:21
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Gunshow Poophole posted:there will be a civilization level crisis when Steam/Valve ends up in the talons of the private equity types I remember when Steam first came about people hated it. You don't own the games, just rent access to them. No physical media. If your internet connection goes down you can't play. Etc. etc.
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Nov 3, 2023 22:30
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Fozzy The Bear posted:I remember when Steam first came about people hated it. You don't own the games, just rent access to them. No physical media. If your internet connection goes down you can't play. Etc. etc. Steam back then was also horribly, notoriously unreliable. A lot of the complaints died down once they achieved near-perpetual uptime.
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Nov 3, 2023 22:32
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ive been on steam since the closed beta and it's pretty much always been fine
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Nov 3, 2023 22:35
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https://twitter.com/gurgavin/status/1720547159496442254
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Nov 3, 2023 22:35
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Bar Ran Dun posted:maersk bought a bunch of CFS locations and could storage facilities and does some transloading and storage / handling. bet these are mostly there. it’s about the only employee heavy thing that do. they’ll automate rather than rehiring when they need to expand again. they also bought an expedite carrier and their facilities to help with their e-commerce strategy. Maersk loving sucks to work with.
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Nov 3, 2023 22:50
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I am starting to wonder if NFTs were a scam this entire time
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Nov 3, 2023 22:51
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a_gelatinous_cube posted:I subscribed to Max to watch The Last of Us and then canceled. I will subscribe again to watch True Detective season 4 and The Last of Us 2 and then cancel again. I imagine this is becoming more and more common as the streaming landscape gets more fractured and expensive, and I don't think there is any way these streaming services will be able to keep up with the churn. How long until they make you call a phone number wait 40 minutes on hold and then harangue you before they let you cancel.
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Nov 3, 2023 22:57
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sonatinas posted:Maersk loving sucks to work with. yep I have seen that. they love that COGAS limitation too when they gently caress up. or better they gently caress up and then charge out the rear end for demurrage.
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Nov 3, 2023 22:59
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:this is gonna be the new "slip the cable guy $100 to give you unlimited channels", bribe your company's IT guy to set up your Plex and Usenet system I have a Plex and I share it with my friends and family and i call it Uninterrupted's Sketchy Streaming Service . I paid some dude on fiver to make some logos and brand artwork for it, and I'll randomly send out emails to everyone being like "Uninterrupted's Sketchy Streaming Service will experience schedule downtime from 12 to 1 am" if I've gotta to maintenance or "we apologize for the degraded service" if I get drunk and accidentally unplug something or send out stupid lil surveys to see what people want me to add. It's goofy as hell but it's like the Germans who play those farm tractor sims or dudes who have model trains in their basement except it also means my friends can stream SVU and the office for free
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Nov 3, 2023 22:59
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Xaris posted:in this case, not likely. Steam is privately owned and afaik does not have Investors and Creditors to push for an IPO. Gaben makes enough money without converting his stake into public stocks and then earning money off speculation. they have an insanely profitable revenue stream without doing an IPO, and there's no reason they'd need to take out Investor Loans to expand or w/e eventually Gabe will be lost in a deep sea submarine accident, his failsons will sell their shares, and enshittification will begin to take hold maybe not today, maybe not five years from now, but it is inevitable
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Nov 3, 2023 23:10
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:One of the only cool things about the HBO Max app was that it had all of the info about major cast and crew kind of integrated into each title and under each movie there would be Related Content where sometimes they would have directors cuts of movies or deleted scenes. it's incredible how hostile HBO has become to its customers under the WBD Zaslav regime the guy must just really, REALLY hate people being entertained and enjoying themselves
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Nov 3, 2023 23:15
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Vox Nihili posted:eventually Gabe will be lost in a deep sea submarine accident, his failsons will sell their shares, and enshittification will begin to take hold the only sub gabe's getting lost in is from jersey mikes
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Nov 3, 2023 23:16
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Vox Nihili posted:it's incredible how hostile HBO has become to its customers under the WBD Zaslav regime Why be nice to the piggies when they just keep coming back for more regardless of how you treat them? Reduce features, raise prices, delete content. Subscriber counts still go up, just look at Netflix.
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Nov 3, 2023 23:19
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anime was right posted:the only sub gabe's getting lost in is from jersey mikes that and the DSV Limiting Factor
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Nov 3, 2023 23:21
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SKULL.GIF posted:Microsoft has begun advertising to me inside Windows itself over the past year and I can't help but trace a direct line between ZIRP and this change. yeah it told me i would love the game deathloop during a presentation the other day.
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Nov 3, 2023 23:21
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https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1720508659090722903
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Nov 3, 2023 23:22
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Vox Nihili posted:eventually Gabe will be lost in a deep sea submarine accident Gabe isn’t using the sub apparently, he’s just paying for the exploration to occur.
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Nov 3, 2023 23:23
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Gabe isn’t using the sub apparently, he’s just paying for the exploration to occur. the mental image is a lot funnier if he is the one piloting it so I'm going to continue to assume it's actually him
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Nov 3, 2023 23:29
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SKULL.GIF posted:Interesting read on SEO freaks and what they did to the Internet: https://www.theverge.com/features/23931789/seo-search-engine-optimization-experts-google-results quote:After all, a lot of folks are unhappy, in 2023, with their ability to find information on the internet, which, for almost everyone, means the quality of Google Search results. I feel like this could use a few more commas.
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Nov 3, 2023 23:36
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quote:Ray reassured me that I was not crazy. Google results today do feel different from how they felt just five or six years ago for two major reasons. The first was Google’s response to the disinformation panic around the 2016 election, which involved questioning the notion that the most reliable information could be chosen by a form of popularity, meaning how many links a site received from other sites. As a result, the algorithm seemed to change its approach to links, especially when it came to news and sites offering legal, financial, or health advice, and instead paid more attention to what Google came to call E-E-A-T: experience, expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness.
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Nov 3, 2023 23:54
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Markets seem happy about something this week - S&P is up 6% this week, 15% for the year
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Nov 3, 2023 23:55
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it's mostly the fed rate stuff also starting to look like there may not be a wider war around what Israel is doing in Gaza but we will see on that one
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Nov 3, 2023 23:59
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Vox Nihili posted:the mental image is a lot funnier if he is the one piloting it so I'm going to continue to assume it's actually him he uses a steam controller to steer
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Nov 4, 2023 00:12
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LuxuryLarva posted:I looked at the stock market today and now I know what war is good for. This is unironically the Biden White House right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzvfY0d7kGg
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Nov 4, 2023 00:16
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You can look at almost any industry right now and see businesses crumbling in slow motion, it’s wild. Liquidity is just bone dry right now. Tumbleweeds. They’ll probably give up and start the pump again but inflation would get substantially worse. Many consumers are already at their limits re: price increases. 2024 is going to be a wild loving year.
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