ImplyingImplications @ ImplyingImplications @lemmy.ca

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A guy at my work got promoted to manager and celebrated by tattooing the company logo onto his chest. Pretty much everyone had to hold back laughing when he showed it off.

The industry is completely different now. The original was made in the 80s when programmers were hard to find and it took 10 of them 2 years and a million dollars to make. Then physical cartridges needed to be made and distributed that only ran on specialized hardware that also needed to be made and distributed. It selling for the equivalent of $180 could be justified since it was niche technology. There's a reason Biggie Smalls brags about owning a Super Nintendo and a Sega Genesis in a rap song. That shit was expensive even in 1994.

Today, someone can make Super Mario Bros 3 in a month after watching some game dev tutorials on YouTube, upload the .exe to Steam, and sell limitless copies to anyone who owns a computer. Selling it for $180 would be ridiculous. There's no reason tech today should cost the exact same as it did in the 80s.

Kojima putting a game about purgatory into purgatory. Bravo! He's done it again!

Yup. Trump also removed the requirement limiting the amount of water a toilet can use to flush and no manufacturers cared. They already changed their designs and factories to produce efficient models. Why would they change it all just to make stuff that's worse?

This seems like a version of the Liar paradox. Assume "this statement is false" is true. Is the statement true or false?

There are a bunch of ways to break the paradox, but they all require using a system that doesn't allow it to exist. For example, a system where truth is a percentage so a statement being 50% true is allowed.

For this question, one way to break the paradox would be to say that multiple choice answers must all be unique and repeated answers are ignored. Using that rule, this question only has the answers a) 25%, b) 60%, and c) 50%, and none of them are correct. There's a 0% chance of getting the correct answer.

I make higher than the median salary working at a factory. I left a job that required a college degree and professional licence that payed less than what I do now. Higher education requirements doesn't always mean higher pay. You might just need to find a unionized factory. The lowest wage at my workplace is $25/hr (CAD). Local minimum wage is $17.20/hr and median wage is $21.83/hr.

Career pro-tip: Lie on your resume!

Honestly, I think they could run literally anybody and they'll eventually win government. Canadians will only allow the Liberals to win so many times before deciding it's someone else's turn.

A major part of being an MBA is coming up with words for stuff everyone already knows.

My work has "gemba walks" which is where managers leave their office and ask employees if there are any issues that need to be addressed. They also practice "5S" which is where they make sure the tools workers need to do their job are located near where the job is done. Might as well practice "kawaya" or the idea that employees are provided areas to relieve themselves instead of pissing in bottles.

I don't think much would change. Prosecutors already weed out sympathetic jurors during selection and a non-sympathetic jury wouldn't nullify even if they knew they could.

Microsoft not being able to market a video calling app during global lockdowns should be a case study for business students.

and then I sign it "Movie Guy"

is Movie Guy your pseudonym?

no it's just a name I use instead of my real name

I love Home Movies

Sorry, I should clarify I was making fun of them.

Longest recorded sniper kills

U.S. appears twice in the top 10 at #8 and #9.

I donate monthly to Fedecan. If Fedecan wants to give some of that to the Lemmy devs, then go right ahead, but I'm not giving my money to them.

The ethics violation is definitely bad, but their results are also concerning. They claim their AI accounts were 6 times more likely to persuade people into changing their minds compared to a real life person. AI has become an overpowered tool in the hands of propagandists.

Love how the youtube comments on the interview are a split between 1 year old comments saying he totally owned the journalist by being a big strongman and comments from a few days ago asking how that worked out for him.

I honestly want to know what the game plan is for the 100 men. Like do you plan on knocking out the 400 pound animal with a spin kick to the head or what?

Hilarious that a bunch of Albertans that hate Ottawa politicians are about to vote in an Ottawa politician.

I'm a former mortician. The pope's body will be displayed in an open casket for a very long time so it practically needs to be pickled. That level of preservation comes at the cost of the body becoming as stiff as a peice of furniture and the skin having a greyish tone.