geoffervescent

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[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Funnily enough it did fine at the box office but because it was positioned at the end of Disney's "golden age" and made noticeably less than any other Disney movie of the era, they pivoted away from it to the point where many people assume it's a DreamWorks or Universal animated flick.

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You are extremely charitable my friend but Indonesia is not going to stop being Indonesia for Elon, so yes this is Musk's strategic error. You don't abrubtly change your entire multibillion dollar brand without doing some due diligence on the implications it will have. Or maybe he truly is deranged enough to believe he doesn't need customers in 4th most populous country to run a successful social media site.

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah he apparently started making a statement to the press and only got about 5 words in before freezing and going blank, a classic show of senility.

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Investigators say they later learned the landlord of the building solicited the men following a landlord-tenant dispute.

It's only alleged because that's the journalistic convention to prevent a libel lawsuit from the landlord until a guilty verdict is handed down by a jury. That's just how articles always phrase it.

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The trespassing thugs were, their co-conspirator/boss was not.

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Karen Puzzles is just a bunch of wholesome jigsaw puzzle fans.
  • Townsends for wholesome 18th Century cooking fans.
  • Technology Connections for wholesome ELI5 electronics and engineering.
  • Post 10 for the most wholesome channel focused on unclogging of waterways and culverts you'll ever see. I'm not even joking.
  • acollierastro, someone called Dr. Collier's channel the "Jenny Nicholson of astrophysics" and thats not even wrong, but is it wholesome? I think so... but decide for your self.
[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Great post terrible title.

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Somehow even this position is giving the dude too much credit.

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You either haven't been on the internet long enough to recognize this very common slippery slope, or you do recognize it - and you're rooting for the slope.

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The best de- endorsement will come from people's experience on reddit as the quality of user engagement drops. There are people who genuinely will never give a shit and will stay there, but those are exactly the sort of lazy minds who made up the critical mass of the shallow "hivemind." Id rather we make this a community that encourages independent thought more than bandwagoning.

Don't waste your time engaging them on that platform unless you're a child, douchebag, or troll. If your posts are actually good content, it sends a mixed message that good independent thinking redditors are whethering the shitstorm. Your actions will speak louder than your words, and our collective absence from their platform will speak volumes.

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm currently loving a bunch of games in the factory building genre so can I offer you some Dyson Sphere Program in these trying times?

Imagine factorio but you're in a mecha suit building factories spanning multiple planets eventually multiple stars, to build exponentially more complex resources until you're able to shoot swarms of dyson reflectors and eventually build a rigid sphere in orbit.

Still in Alpha after several years, but exquisitely polished, runs fine on legacy machines, excellent responsive dev team, combat is being added soon.

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As someone with both a college level understanding of German and an understanding of law, it's basically a law creating a special type of lawsuit similar but different from a US class action, that Germany passed into law after the 2015 Volkswagen scandal. It tries to incentivize businesses protecting consumers through actual safeguards by punishing companies when they lack them, rather than a class action that arguably has the effect of pressuring companies to be even more misleading or confusing to deliberately avoid liability. How it does this? Probably gonna have to tap in a legal scholar for that one.

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