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I am laughing the valuation of Reddit right now on Reuters. 10 billion.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-raise-700-million-over-10-billion-valuation-2021-08-12/

How the fuck to they dream up there numbers.

Last quarter they made 100 million from advertising revenue. Thats a maximum gross income of 400 million a year. Last year the same time they made around 30 million.

If they maintain the 100 million income revenue, that's only 400 million per year. It will take 25 years to generate 10 billion gross income.

In the absence of the horrors of the diseases, people do not understand it's risks.

For a large percentage of people, the fear of things they don't understand, outweigh then knowledge of the horrors of the diseases.

It's why I am in favor of mandated immunizations for minors (no exceptions other than serious medical conditions.).

The only qualification to be a parent is functional gonads. Their brains don't have to be fully functional.

In Mormon culture, moms with more than 5 children receive constant positive reinforcement. Just because they have that many kids they are instantly viewed as "Good Moms". So many narcissistic women have tons of kids due to social expectations.

Then at church and in front of social media they present a perfect image of the happy Mormon family. Hidden underneath the children's clothing and in their minds is written a long history of abuse and neglect.

Traditionally all abuse including sexual abuse has been handled by the untrained clergy and mostly covered up. Recently more has been pushed to the legal system as lawsuits against the church are becoming more common. With the churches hundred's of billions in funds and assets at stake, they are covering up less.

The "less horrible" news is many of those antivaxxers are also unprotected. Quite a few of them will face the consequences of their actions.

Pre-immunuzation measles mainly killed children because most of the adults had been exposed to it before.

The math works out. If a job takes 10 people a year to turn out, then 100 people should be able to get it done in 36.5 days? /s

What do you mean it would take 2 or more years for 100 people because they spend all their time bickering over what needs to be done? And those 10 managers holding 20 hours of meetings every week. Those meetings preparing for the upcoming meeting, about a meeting that was held last year where nothing was decided are important.

Important things I had to learn on my own in adulthood:

How to research and vet sources.

How to cook and clean.

Amoritization of loans (car and home) and agreements.

Rental agreements and the basics of contract law.

Student loans (the interests rate plus accrual of interest while your are in school).

Taxes - federal, state and local taxes. What their rates are and what they pay for etc..

Insurance (Health, Home, Renters, Car etc.)

Utilities - how they are calculated etc.

Credit cards, interest rates, late payment consequences etc.

Retirement Programs (pensions, IRA, 401K etc.). Investments, how they work, etc.

Basic home repair and remodeling (electrical, plumbing, etc.). Basic car care etc.

Pointing out significant flaws that are holding the systems adoption rate back is never popular. Most of them are very techy and don't have a clue what the average user needs. It's a great way to get them all riled up.

I spent a few years as a process flow and bug finder for some programmers building a proprietary internal system. Then I trained non-tech savvy people on how to use the system. One of the most difficult jobs I have ever done. Bridging the gap between the two of them was brutal.

That's not a problem with windows it's a feature. Even the barely tech literate people can use it to bumble their way through to get the job done, eventually.

They don't use it well but they still use it. They also rarely break it anymore.

Those of us who worked with these people with win 98 and XP... Shudder. They ways they screwed up the system was truly remarkable at times.

No it doesn't.

My last attempt was six months ago. Still had a few key programs in a tarball. Dow

Then there's always the random hardware incompatibility. This last attempt it decided to flip the screen upside down on my laptop screen. Fun times...

It's come a long way, but for the average user, it's not anywhere near polished enough.

I have used Linux off and on for almost 20 years.

I install it, see if I can do everything I want.

Get lost in terminal hell.

Give up and uninstall it.

Until I can browse to a webpage, download a program and click on an icon and have it install and work, the OS is shit for the general user. It's not that fucking difficult of a concept.

Make the policy change, see if they can get it to hold up in the courts. AKA normal business practices for corporate America.

I think drones overwhelming advantage is the range and terrain they are effective in. The ability to find and destroy a target that is moving behind cover is a huge advantage.

How many videos have we seen of assaults moving up behind a tree line for cover. Artillery can stop these but hitting a moving target from miles away takes a lot of shells. Air support can take them out but they are vulnerable on today's battlefield. Weapons like the Stugna-P require line-of-sight on the ground so they have to let them get closer.

Those thicker bags, tear easily and usually don't survive longer than the trip home. It's a stupid loophole. They also can't be washed. So if you do reuse them, it's a great way to buildup bacteria and molds.

In reality they are thicker single used bags.

Most people never use all the specs. If all you are doing is browsing the Internet, watching videos, or playing some simple games, you don't need much.

I have purchased unlocked mid-range phones for for a while now. Expensive enough to have decent specs but not so cheap that the build quality suffers. When the teenager is dropping the phone 3-4 times per day, a good case and a good build quality is required. 3 years with that type of abuse is about all you'll get out of it.

I run two phones. For work I get one of the flagship phones. I only pull out my laptop in my office. Most of the time I am using the phone in all weather conditions. I use those specs for thousands of hi-res pictures, data entry etc.. all day long. At the end of 3 years it's toast.

Why 5-6 years, that's about when I start seeing the cascade of little things. Weird transitory bugs when rebooting. Speed issues and compatibility issues with bloated new software etc. After that amount of time, I start to spend way too much time maintaining them.

I could tinker with them and keep them going. Its what I used to do when my kids were small. Install a Linux distro on an old computer, load a bunch of educational games and set the browser homepage to PBSkids.

However I have 5 computers to maintain now and my teenagers need compatible fast systems for college and school. My wife works from home at times and needs something that reliably works.

They always try to hide it as well.

There are a few distinct changes that occur to a teenage boy when they have someone to impress.

They comb their hair and shave. Usually in a ridiculous style but at least it's combed.

They use deodorant.

They change their clothes... Daily.

And the biggest tell, they stop half-assing brushing their teeth.

I have everything on a upgrade list depending on how much we use it and how fast the technology is changing.

Phones: 3 years. Thinking of moving this to 4 or 5 years with the industry's stagnation. Starting to see some companies offering updates for longer times.

Laptops/desktops: 5-6 years.

Wifi/modem/router: 10 years.

I have a hard time finding books to read anymore as well. So many predictable series books without any character depth or significant plot.

Few older ones if you haven't read them yet.

"This Alien Shore" by C.S. Friedman. Make sure you are well caffeinated before reading it. It has a complex plot were details matter. Her "The Madness Season" stands out as well.

"Parafaith War" L.E. Modesitt Jr. If you have any experience with Mormons it will make more sense.

"The Crystal Singer" series by Anne McAffrey. It's a bit dark at times but at least it's a decent story.

It's the same as the violent crime statistics from the FBI. The crime rate pre-1960's was vastly under-reported. During the 70's and 80's cultural acceptance of violent crime declined so more crimes were reported.

An excellent example is pre-1950's spousal and child abusers were rarely if ever reported. Most people considered it a husbands right to beat the shit out of their wife and kids. As acceptance of the behavior decreased, reporting increased.

The most recent one that has seen a huge change is rape. The highest rate of rape are in communities with the lowest reporting. For example, Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, Scientologist, baptist and anabaptist groups have horrendous rape victim shaming cultures.

There is still large sections of the U.S. population that are okay with rape. Say anyone wearing a MAGA hat. However this is changing with the younger generations. Acceptance is declining and serial rapist are beginning to be held accountable.

Just the tip. The area that is less than 15' above sea level.