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Alien Surfer
Alien Surfer @ JoeClu @lemmy.world
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  • So for like 600 months. That's 50 years for a decent house. When 50 years roll around, it'll be far more than that so you'll have to keep saving but you'll never get there.

  • I think some news companies are trying to sue him for linking to articles without paying them, which is a strange turn of events given it wasn't too long ago that businesses would paid you to link to their site (that's what Elon says anyway; I'm not in web commerce so I don't know personally how it works.) So, I guess he wants to have people write the news on his site instead?

    I think news companies are going bust?

  • The question I have, are sales of these products down? Do these implementations work to reduce unhealthy consumption? Are hospitals and medical offices seeing less revenue? If they don't actually work, what will?

  • Good points. Thank you.

  • George Castanza is a short, bald man that lives with his parents. He is insecure. To impress women, he often says he's either a marine biologist, an importer/exporter, or an architect. He usually gets caught in a lie. In order to continue to convince someone he'll go into further detail with a bit about his name is Art Vandaley from Vandalay Industries. He even had one of his friends answer the phone as such for some reason, don't remember. Some lie about trying to establish a good reputation for a job or something, or trying to get promoted when working for the Yankees baseball team. Was a long time ago; I watched the originals when they were new (yes I am old). So I probably didn't get all the details exactly right. I'm sure others with better memories than I will correct me. It was the funniest television of its time. Newer generation usually isn't into stuff their parents (or even grandparents) watched, which is understandable.

  • Will we start seeing everything say "Made in Vietnam" now instead of "Made in China?" Vietnam is also a communist country, so why would the US do this?

  • Architect, marine biologist, or importer/exporter? Aren't you glad you chose that username, now that you've heard that joke about 9 billion times by now?

  • Pray for one more second of ecstatic comfort and numbness to the world. Contemplate why the world is the way it is. It's not right.

  • No, this is real. An iPhone to kids is like a social status symbol and potential family wealth indicator. Of course it's absolute bull, but just as adults are, kids are horribly manipulated by marketing and advertising too. Kids have glommed onto phones for conspicuous consumption whereas adults glom onto cars and houses for said signals.

    Of course not all adults or kids do this, but a great deal do. That's where the stupid bumper sticker comes from that says, "He who has the most toys at the end wins!" Very ugly stuff, in my opinion. And if there is a devil, that's where it lives mostly.

  • A lot of wealthy individuals "park" their money in things like real estate and art. For the art, they safely pack it away in warehouses. There's a whole industry that'll do it for you. A lot of them dont even see the art. It's just a wealth parking vehicle.

    Another avenue is starting one or more non-profits and philanthropy organizations for the money.

    And another is a living trust, to avoid probate when you die, to maximize the inheritance for your surviving beneficiaries.

  • Probably an addicted smoker parent with throat cancer to their child.

  • These are my favorites.

    Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

    • A fun-filled discussion of the big, mind-blowing, unanswered questions about the Universe. In each episode, Daniel Whiteson (a Physicist who works at CERN) and Jorge Cham (a popular online cartoonist) discuss some of the simple but profound questions that people have been wondering about for thousands of years, explaining the science in a fun, shorts-wearing and jargon-free way.

    StarTalk Radio

    • Science, pop culture, and comedy collide on StarTalk Radio! Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and Director of New York's Hayden Planetarium, and his comic co-hosts, guest celebrities, and scientific experts explore astronomy, physics, and everything else there is to know about life in the universe. New episodes premiere Tuesdays. Keep Looking Up!

    Unexplainable

    • Unexplainable takes listeners right up to the edge of what we know ... and then keeps right on going. This Vox podcast explores scientific mysteries, unanswered questions, and all the things we learn by diving into the unknown. New episodes every Wednesday.

    Fall of Civilizations Podcast

    • A history podcast looking at the collapse of a different civilization each episode. What did they have in common? Why did they fall? And what did it feel like to watch it happen?

    Literature and History

    • With millions of downloads, hundreds of hours of soundtracked content, and an overall emphasis on the cultural history behind famous works of literature, Literature and History is one of the most popular independent podcasts on its subject. Starting with Sumerian cuneiform in 3,100 BCE, Literature and History moves forward in chronological order through Assyriology, Egyptology, the Old Testament, Ancient Greece and Rome, and the birth of Christianity. The show's current season is on Late Antiquity (or 200-700 CE) and the dawn of the Middle Ages. A typical episode (they average about two hours) features a general introduction to a work of literature, then a full summary of that work that expects no prior knowledge, and finally, an analysis of the cultural, biographical, and historical forces that gave rise to the work in question. Original symphonic and ambient background music is woven throughout each show, and all episodes offer free full, illustrated, footnoted transcriptions as well as quizzes for purposes of review. The show has no advertisements, and its host takes pride in a professional approach that avoids chitchat and ephemera and gets straight to the educational content. You can listen to the episodes in any order, although most listeners begin at the beginning and proceed from there, as the podcast itself is chronologically organized. Doug Metzger finished his Ph.D. in literature in 2011. His chief scholarly interest, following his dissertation work, continues to be 19th-century realism and postbellum American philosophy.
  • Smokers who support the war on drugs.

  • Agreed about INI for simple stuff. Not good for arrays and nested things though. Usually use binary for that type of config (with clear documentation). Most binary config files I use are plain old C structures. I'm not a web person so no need to make the config plain text.

  • Todo.txt plain text file. Use Vim. Date and todo statement. Sometimes more for explanations. I never delete anything in it; just make an X next to todo's I've completed. File goes back many years. I can easily search for something I did a long time ago.

    And then there's MS OneNote for capturing howto's, quick script one-liners, cheat sheets, diagrams, notes on various industry interfaces, etc.

    Then there's SCM for bug, feature, and track tasking.

    And usually notepad paper and pen for meetings, which if there are todo's, go into my electronic todos.txt file.