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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Your analogy doesn’t work at all.

    The answer you’re being asked for needs to be a solution (what can replace capitalism?). The answer in your analogy is an observation (the plane crashed).

    It’s fine to not have answers, but then your position is pretty useless. A societal system is a mandatory component of our lives. You can’t get rid of it without it being replaced with something else. If we don’t replace it, then one will arise naturally.

    To follow your cancer example, it’s like a cancer patient saying they don’t want chemo or radiation because it’s not good enough. When they are asked what they want to do instead they just say “I don’t have answers, I just know these treatments aren’t very good”.

    Winston Churchill is quoted saying

    Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those others that have been tried.

    Pretty much the same applies to capitalism.


  • but being able to decide after the fact that you want a heated steering wheel isn’t one of them.

    No one is bitching about being able to decide that you want a heated steering wheel. You can decide to install it on literally any car brand or model.

    People are bitching about the hardware that they have paid for and they own being locked behind by a software paywall. This would cause a riot with practically any other consumer electronics. Imagine if the fingerprint scanner on your smartphone was an extra $50 to unlock? Or quick charge being an extra $75?

    That would be the most anti-consumer horseshit we’ve seen, and that’s exactly what Tesla is doing.








  • Ah yes, poor people and people living on minimum wage don’t need music. And if they really needed it, they would just skip a meal.

    Indexing and data hosting is worth $11 per month? Music uses very little space and bandwidth. Listening to 3 hours every day for a month ends up being around 10gb of bandwidth. If they were using expensive on-demand AWS bandwidth, that would cost them 50 cents. They aren’t, they have edge caches all over and almost certainly pay less than 10 cents.


  • There is this misconception of “using a lot of ram = bad”, but memory is not like cpu or gpu cycles.

    Unused memory is wasted memory. Chrome will use available memory to improve responsiveness. Primarily the memory use comes from keeping all open tabs in memory, so they are in the same state as you left them.

    When the system runs low on ram, chrome will start discarding old tabs and giving back memory to other processes. Firefox does the same thing.

    Also windows task manager is very inconsistent when it comes to memory usage. Right now it’s telling me chromium is using 1.4gb for 47 tabs. And memory usage is a lot more complicated anyway.