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Hey, we do it with external HDDs. Mistakes happen.

I hope this works out for you.

Income inequality.

Things are more difficult for lower working class Americans than the equivalent people in some other countries (sometimes, depending on the state/country being compared to, yadda yadda yadda). So while it's a rich country, there are a lot challenges for those who aren't rich.

And when you're seeing your fellow countrymen enjoying all these nice things, you want to have them too. Can't afford them? Don't worry! There are lots of ways to lend you money with interest for you to pay back!

Who's making old games so expensive?

GoG while they are still selling the license you can download it and save it for the future. All games have no DRM.

It makes it sound like you're blaming GOG, lol

the median net wealth in the US is right around that $193k number, but the average is just over $1M, which is pretty amazing.

I'd say that the median is the average in this case. The mean usually works as a mathematical average, but in this example, it's clearly skewed.

The difference isn't between median and average, but between median and mean.

I definitely agree! There are a lot of other factors that should come into play. A corporation is more likely to focus on money. A smaller org would have more leeway to use human judgement.

I don't get the skepticism. If you were deciding between two candidates of equal qualifications, and one asked for $65k, and one asked for $55k, and you chose the $55k one...what would you say to the $65k one?

Garbage like that has no place anywhere.

If app developers can't get money from paid apps, then it makes sense to run ads. Especially if they do offer a paid (ad-free) version.

But if it's a paid app already, like in Steam, it should definitely be ad-free.

Removable battery too, while we're at it! Lol

Things are smaller and more intimate (in that I can recognize more usernames).

I've blocked more users here than on Reddit though. Mostly just users that are annoying/spamming/give me really weird vibes. Actually, I don't think I blocked any users when I was on Reddit.

You can tell that Lemmy houses Reddit refugees...and some of them are refugees because they were completely banned on Reddit, and likely deserving, lol

Nasty fire still sounds better than instant explosion! Haha

No, not sure if I even encountered any on the streets. I do know some Jehovah's Witnesses though (mix of current and former)

Probably, but I'm not familiar enough with all cultures to give examples.

Stopping the explosions seems like a good enough sort of solution to me

I find it harder to understand how both speaker and listener are expected to be counting words and dividing them by such awkward numbers as 17 and 18.

There's a reel of a dad watching a sport game on TV with his infant son. The kid keeps looking at his dad for how to react, and seems to understand what's happening on the TV. When the team scores a point, the kid throws his hands up into the air and cheers, having seen his dad do that behaviour before.

Then he looks to his dad, who's got his hands on his head, saying "NO!". It was the wrong team that scored.

The kid puts his head into his hands, and collapses on the couch in his best imitation of his father.

You have years, perhaps decades, of watching people in your culture do this. So it feels natural for you to do.

Japan hiring old people to do nothing has the right idea ... an idea

That's the thing -- governments have a lot more requirements than corporations. They've also got a whole lot more riding on them, so the stakes are higher.

You have to pay for consultants since you need to get the best talent, but you can't afford (and don't need) them to be on the payroll forever.

You have to pay for auditors because you're under more financial scrutiny.

You have to take things more slowly because you can't make risky decisions and there are layers upon layers of bureaucracy regarding decisions.

So what do we cut out?

Get rid of the consultants? Well, you either hire them (whose salaries you can't afford -- top talent will leave), or you don't bring on consultants at all (which means you can't do the things you need to do). Or you pay your staff for training, which might work, but then those staff might leave and the investment is gone before anything new is built. And it might cost as much as the consultants, plus take longer.

Get rid of the auditors? But we want more financial scrutiny.

Get rid of the bureaucracy? Sure, everyone would love that. Except when the reason for each strip of red tape is revealed when something goes wrong.

Like you said, there are no easy answers. And when these costs have justifications for existing, I think that's when they turn from "waste" to "necessary (yet unfortunate) expenses".

Organizational waste in general seems like an inevitability. Corporations have waste too -- this isn't unique to governments

I pronounce it like doge. You know, like dog but with a long o, since that's normally what happens when you add an e at the end of a word.

Con, cone.

Dog, doge!

Lmao..."status"?

"trauma"???

This is ridiculous