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  • I think they mean profits are 545% of costs. Which would put revenue at 645% of costs.

    Profit margin = (revenue - costs)/revenue = 545/645 = 84.5% profit margin.

    So, yeah, headline is obtuse as hell and profit margins that high are either deliberately lies or grossly exploitative and uncompetitive.

  • I originally skimmed it and processed it as 'Japan Fights Its Largest Wildfire for More than 30 Years', and I had a picture of a wildfire that just kept restarting itself. Something akin to the Centralia mine fire that has been actively burning since 1962...

  • If you have a question, ask it. Don't fish for people's personal info.

  • BidenSoOld and KamalaJustAsBad arguments

    Kamala just as bad arguments exist because Kamala campaigned on being the same as Biden. If she didn't want to be perceived as being the same as him, why did the campaign on being the same as him?

  • Maybe next time Democrats will run a better candidate, rather than losing to Trump....again.

  • Yeah, kids are darn expensive. I'm damn happy my parents decided to have me despite that fact. :)

    To answer OP's question, also doing better than them at the same age. Big part of it was investing early (time-value of money is a massive deal) and keeping the same car forever. My parents have spent quite a bit on cars over the years, it is probably their largest reducible expense. I bought a lightly used crossover a long time ago, and it's got a long life ahead of it.

  • I would put that as apolitical center-left. I would say though, don't get too hung up on labels in general, they aren't very important.

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  • If they aren't getting much traction somewhere, but are spending outsized resources there, it makes sense to redirect the manhours elsewhere.

  • I remember getting really annoyed at the LoL community as anytime you were in that balanced section they just wanted to surrender and get to the 'your team stomps theirs' sooner. Certainly not missing that game, every time one of my friends play it, the annoyance in his voice skyrockets.

  • Do note that SSDs are orders of magnitude slower than RAM (it's why you have both, and not just a giant SSD). You can feel the machine come to a screeching halt the moment swap is used for active tasks.

  • Yeah, it is basically never worth the effort to de-solder and re-solder RAM. It's why people rail so hard on it and why you should pay attention to it's (non-) existence next computer you buy. It hurts you years down the line when what should have been a cheap upgrade is turned into simply binning what you own and buying new.

  • I believe the deal was NATO or nukes. And, with the US shitting all over Ukraine now..........

  • Russia is in their 4th year invading a European country and the US is looking to back out from their support in the defense of Europe. Gotta do what you gotta do.

  • The East is in a poor state because The West illegally annexed it

    Wut? Germany was a singular country until the Soviet Union occupied half of it. Re-uniting the occupied territories with the rest of the country is literally the opposite of an illegal annexation.

  • If someone is feeling locked into the Microsoft ecosystem, empowering them to unshackle themselves from a large part of it is important. It makes the transition later so, so much easier when you don't need to figure out OS-agnostic softwares across the board.

    That said, if you are thinking of ripping the band-aid off all at once, I am 100% on board with it. Just not everyone is ready for it.

  • ‘swap to linux’ o’clock

    On a 100% unrelated note. This reminded me of a Half Life / Eve colab video: Clear Skies. It's hot drop o'clock!

  • You don't even have to for this one. Just use Libre Office, it supports every notable OS. Been using it for years.

  • I'm confused on why people are paying so much money for Monopoly.

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  • Well, they certainly didn't help by running a candidate that got destroyed in the only primary she ran in. I'm hoping they will step up and run some solid candidates next round. It's fucking embarrassing they lost to Trump...twice.