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#1
Off-Topic / Re: Delta Plane flips at Toron...
Last post by Henry - Today at 10:43:56 PM
Well, at least it was north of the border, and nobody died this time.
#2
Off-Topic / Re: Reddit CEO Says Paywalls a...
Last post by Henry - Today at 10:43:17 PM
This is just like the rumor that went around telling us that Facebook was going to charge its users to continue with its service. AFAIK, that was a stupid idea to begin with, and I'm glad it didn't come to pass. Hope the same will be true of this one too.
#3
Off-Topic / Re: Reddit CEO Says Paywalls a...
Last post by jeffandnicole - Today at 10:41:09 PM
Quote from: hotdogPi on Today at 10:23:03 AMScott5114 mentioned 2010 as a turning point. I agree with this. There were significant technological advances up to 2010. After that, not so much. The only differences I see between my first computer, a 2010 MacBook Pro, and my current one (2023) are that my current one has 500 GB of memory instead of 128 GB, and Python runs twice as fast likely due to the switch from Intel to Apple silicon. That's it.

Screen resolution better? 
#4
Off-Topic / Re: Reddit CEO Says Paywalls a...
Last post by JayhawkCO - Today at 10:39:46 PM
Quote from: Scott5114 on Today at 10:37:21 PM
Quote from: thspfc on Today at 09:47:11 PMHowever that still doesn't prove the original point that profit incentives never make a difference for any product.

It might, but it's so hard to come up with a recent example nobody has done so...

Flaming Hot Cheetos increased market share and therefore profitability.
#5
Off-Topic / Re: Reddit CEO Says Paywalls a...
Last post by Scott5114 - Today at 10:37:21 PM
Quote from: thspfc on Today at 09:47:11 PMHowever that still doesn't prove the original point that profit incentives never make a difference for any product.

It might, but it's so hard to come up with a recent example nobody has done so...
#6
Pacific Southwest / Re: California
Last post by Henry - Today at 10:33:51 PM
Quote from: pderocco on Today at 08:33:54 PMGoogle is so polluted with fictional route designations. Where do these fanciful ideas come from? Is there some group of road geeks working at Google that just imposes their fantasies on the map, perhaps hoping that somehow their dreams will come true?
Where else? One that is led by an owl named Fritz.
#7
Mountain West / Re: Interstate 11
Last post by Bobby5280 - Today at 10:31:32 PM
New Urbanism had some good ideas. Unfortunately it seems like every attempt at executing those ideas in city's urban core have failed miserably. That's because only the upper income segment of society can afford to live in any of those trendy, mixed use spaces. There's no room there for people who aren't well off. The condos, town houses, apartments, etc all get bought up by high income earners who already own other homes. That leaves the service industry people who wait tables, cook food and do all sorts of other vital yet shitty paying jobs in those trendy city centers having to commute considerable distances to work their shitty paying jobs.

This is also the same problem with all these damned sprawling areas covered with single family homes. Somebody has to stock the grocery store shelves at the neighborhood grocery store serving those gated "communities." But that worker sure as shit can't afford to live any close distance to the store where he works.

Some of the staffing shortages at restaurants, retailers, etc can be attributed to prospective employees having to commute way too far to work a low wage job like that. More of those jobs are going unfilled. And us assholes have the audacity to bitch that "no one wants to work" if we have to put up with slow service at a restaurant operating with a skeleton crew. Uh, no. We need to brush up on our math.
#8
Traffic Control / Re: Unique, Odd, or Interestin...
Last post by TBKS1 - Today at 10:31:32 PM


this actually bothers me so bad
#9
Off-Topic / Re: New Mexico's Oil Boom
Last post by Max Rockatansky - Today at 10:29:27 PM
I don't know, I'll take hot and dry versus hot and humid any day.  Houston wasn't Miami or Orlando bad in the summer, it wasn't good either.
#10
Sports / Re: Hockey
Last post by 1995hoo - Today at 10:28:39 PM
I had forgotten about this Washington Capitals TV ad from the late 1990s. Nowadays there would be an uproar if they ran something like this.


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