[-] jon@lemdro.id 67 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The way politicians and the political system nakedly serves the needs and interests of corporations and the wealthy, and not the average individual.

The way that the price you're quoted invariably gets bumped up by various taxes.

The insane system that is tipping, including the fact that a lot of workers are so underpaid that they rely on tips to get by.

The incessant adverts on TV for medical products, particularly prescription drugs.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 8 points 11 months ago

"Let all brave Prussians follow me!"— Field Marshal Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (6 May 1757), at the Battle of Prague, immediately before being struck by a cannonball.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 12 points 11 months ago

Based on how he's been acting since he became a lord, i would guess that his donations to Labour were simply to secure him the life peerage that Labour duly gave him in 2009, and since then we're seeing his true colours, including reposting a photoshopped photo of Corbyn with Hitler, and mocking the Senegal football team, saying they looked like street-side hawkers. Í think he occasionally bleats some sexist crap on xwitter as well.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 14 points 11 months ago

He was one of the largest donors to the Labour Party, who made him a Lord. A few years later he switched sides to the Conservatives, and had been acting like the archetypal Tory gobshite ever since.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It doesn't. Gravity is caused by mass not spin. The planet's rotation about it's own axis will create a centrifugal effect that offsets gravity, but the effect is negligible for anything rotating as slow as planets.

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Presented by Dan Smith - Senior Developer (Java Platform Group - Oracle) during the JVM Language Summit 2023 (Santa Clara CA).

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[-] jon@lemdro.id 11 points 11 months ago

Not sure those categories are mutually exclusive, in which case a pie chart is illogical, captain

[-] jon@lemdro.id 54 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The author is basing this claim on feedback from FIVE people who have been playing the game. If Bethseda are only expecting a similar number to play it once it's released, then this is a useful metric. Otherwise it's meaningless.

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Presented by Ron Pressler - Architect (Java Platform Group - Oracle) during the JVM Language Summit 2023 (Santa Clara CA).

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"Java 21 is chock-full of great features and if you're coming all the way from 17, there's a plethora of additions to use and get used to, but it's all for naught if you can't actually update. In this #RoadTo21 episode, we discuss all you need to know to update from Java 17 to 21: API changes that may require you to update your code (like the introduction of sequenced collections or bug fixes in Double/Float::toString and IdentityHashMap), ongoing deprecations (threading, security manager, finalization, and more) and changes in networking (like earlier URL validation and HTTP timeouts), encoding (UTF-8 by default and changes in date/time/unit formatting), the runtime (like removed options class loading), and tooling (like new warnings). We'll also go beyond the nitty-gritty details and see the bigger picture of how to best prepare and execute your Java and 3rd party updates by talking about inside.java, release notes, Quality Outreach, and much more."

[-] jon@lemdro.id 13 points 1 year ago

Literally none of those are actually"objective"...

[-] jon@lemdro.id 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I grew up several miles from Pocklington (the home of the business named in the article) and having any industry up there other than pig-farming would have been a welcome change. The British government forced this country into an idiotic referendum on a matter where very few people understood the consequences of the "Leave" decision, and then doubled down on their failed gamble by fucking up the post-Brexit negotiations.

Blaming entrepreneurs, who were simply trying to create a business & employ people, something that this government purports to support, for lacking the foresight to realise how incompetent and self-serving this government is, seems delusional.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This one, every time. Imagine buying a product or service for an agreed price, and then being guilt-tripped into having to pay 20%, or more, on top because the owners don't pay their staff enough salary to survive on. It should be fucking illegal. Pay your staff a proper salary and charge your clients the price you published on your menu/price-list etc. Running a business isn't a god-given right, and if you can't do it without screwing your employees over, then you're not capable of running a business period. You should bugger off and let someone who is capable, and who isn't an empathy vacuum have a go.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If the dude had a big nose, then I wouldn't see the problem, but he didn't.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 9 points 1 year ago

In Trump's dyspeptic liver of a brain "irrefutable" simply means bigly.

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