Ok. Sometimes I don’t bother trying to tell apart a joke from a real concern. I mean, who knows what a struggling publisher would say. No worries.
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First time I’ve ever seen anyone speaking out for publishers and against lending and borrowing. You’re even ignoring how authors only get less than 10% of sales while publishers get 90% or so.
betanumerus@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Great to see some actual progress over thereEnglish
3·2 months agoThis is the kind of ridiculousness we see from headlines about djt .
betanumerus@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•There was no need to ever improve upon THISEnglish
1·2 months agoName a car without a cpu. Year and model. Removing cpus means you are removing much more than touchcreens.
betanumerus@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•There was no need to ever improve upon THISEnglish
1·2 months agoThe CPU and screen are already in the car for other things. No cost there. And I don’t think you actually know how to make a nob.
betanumerus@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•There was no need to ever improve upon THISEnglish
1·2 months agoThat depends on what badge they put on the hood. They might market a screen as luxury, but the fact is I much prefer dials myself so I’d consider dials to be luxury and I’d actually pay more for dials.
betanumerus@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•There was no need to ever improve upon THISEnglish
1·2 months agoThe screen could well be more expensive than the dial parts, but installation would be cheaper, so we’d need the numbers. The thing about software is that it’s very expensive to make but selling price is as low or high as you need it to be.
betanumerus@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•There was no need to ever improve upon THISEnglish
61·2 months agoThat has 5 moving parts, while a touchscreen has none. It’s much easier and cheaper for the manufacturer to install the touchscreen. But instead of passing the savings to you, they probably keep it or pass it on to investors.
Bamboo straws make you feel like you’re on some exotic, tropical island!
betanumerus@lemmy.cato
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steamEnglish
1·2 months agoI don’t use Android, Google, Linkedin, Indeed, or FB, and I don’t even know what IG is. I didn’t bother to close the accounts. Canada has no credit card yet. I paid for MS software before US GOP went nuts.
betanumerus@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Texas National Guard arriving in ChicagoEnglish
1·2 months agoYou forgot to divide by 8, multiply by 12, subtract 32 and add 9/5.
betanumerus@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Texas National Guard arriving in ChicagoEnglish
4·2 months agoIn the US, it converts to 3 cups, a half-quart and a couple of floz.
betanumerus@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Texas National Guard arriving in ChicagoEnglish
3·2 months agoThe NG has no business being in the public eye and confronting the police at their own job. This is like me popping up at your job in camo with a gun and watching you. Yeah no, not doing anything crazy though.
betanumerus@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Texas National Guard arriving in ChicagoEnglish
7·2 months agoThis is totally djt trying to pit GOP against Democrats, and it’s much MUCH worse than burning the American flag.
betanumerus@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Texas National Guard arriving in ChicagoEnglish
10·2 months agoWhat do Texans do when someone trespasses on their property?
betanumerus@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Texas National Guard arriving in ChicagoEnglish
13·2 months agoThey’re following an illegal order.
The billionaires aren’t the ones teaching you about how the planet works. In fact how rich as person is has nothing to do with it.
If you want to understand how the planet works, learn it from planet experts.
The international community has 0 responsibility in this.
Your fellow Americans did this to you by voting MAGA.
Bring your pain to them.
Clocks are based on sundials. The little hand roughly follows where a shadow would be. The rest is just what people agreed on made the most sense.
Stephen Miller on CNN actually said he considered djt to have limitless power (plenary authority) and then awkwardly froze as if he hadn’t wanted that to slip out. I wouldn’t pass the salt to any of them if they asked politely.