I spoke with several employees of Sweet Baby Inc. to learn what the company actually does and how the misunderstanding of its role in the industry highlights a far broader problem.

You don’t know what Sweet Baby Inc. does, but you assume the people complaining about SBI must be incorrect? Do journalists in any other sector of the market fall all over themselves rushing to defend companies like they do in game development?

Sacrifices have to be made.

All of my encounters with individuals who feel liberal arts are useless and STEM is the way seem to, at their core, feel that way because of earning potential

You were saying a group of people believe that value as a person is determined by their contributions to STEM fields and finance.

Now you’re saying that this group of people believe that value as a person is determined by earnings potential. Those are not the same things.

a person’s intrinsic value and overall value to society is not determined by their contributions to STEM fields and finance

I don’t think anyone who views contributions in STEM fields as the most valuable to society has any respect for finance.

Star Trek TNG Ambient Engine Noise (Idling for 24 hrs)

White noise sounds like radio static.

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php

People listen to it for many reasons.

I don’t think refusing to accept a compromise is a logical fallacy.

debian in opposition to ubuntu gives you a choice at install

That’s nice.

KDE is the default DE for Debian these days?

I need to think about it some.

I don’t think I like this guy.

The only platform not yet supported is the Mac Pro, although there probably isn’t much left to do. No, not the “MacBook Pro”, but the “Mac Pro” – the one that looks like a cheese grater and costs thrice as much.

I’ve always wondered what sort of look they were going for.

mostly used to imagine neofeudalism

what else is it used for?

I don’t understand why people are defending AI companies sucking up all human knowledge by saying “well, yeah, copyrights are too long anyway”.

Would you characterize projects like wikipedia or the internet archive as “sucking up all human knowledge”?

“ofc” doesn’t stand for “of fucking course”

edit this was supposed to have a question mark:

“ofc” doesn’t stand for “of fucking course”?

If you haven’t seen “King of Kong,” you should definitely watch it.

The 2008 crisis was a result of predatory lending practices and mortgage backed securities that were full of subprime mortgages and other toxic assets, and a burst real estate bubble. I don’t think it was a tech bubble like the dotcom bust.

Enron claimed to have some vague new means of lowering costs, acquiring revenue, and making the line go up. It would have been transformative for the power industry if it wasn’t straight-up fraud.

Well, they were gaming the rules in the California energy market. They were doing shit like causing blackouts so they could price gouge.

I seem to remember a lot of people upset about GPL V3 I don’t remember how that was resolved.

You’re welcome.

well, you have to learn to employ different techniques like crop dusting

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crop+dusting