Yes, Trump being famously data-literate and low on rhetoric, that’s probably why.

Hotdang, nailed it first try!

Problems pointed out by commenters aside, I am under the impression that there is very little oversight about this kind of stuff anymore.

For one thing - unless they’ve changed recently, Amazon “bins” alike products from multiple suppliers, meaning if a bad actor is introducing counterfeits (or just less stringently tested, for more fungible products) - Amazon doesn’t even know who they got them from, by the time that’s discovered.

But for another thing, the absolutely incredible volume of products - how on earth is anyone making sure these random-character-generated “brands” are safe?

I lack much in the way of direct evidence, cuz I’ve got shit to do and this isn’t my life’s focus - but it seems apparent that there cannot possibly be the kind of consumer safety testing that we want going on. And if that’s true, it’s only a matter of time before the smart capitalists realize no one is watching and they can make stuff even cheaper (I think they already have), and then how long before we as a society discover all the harm that’s done as a result?

I’d love to be wrong about this, but like so many tech innovations, I have a feeling we’re going to find out later there were huge harms done before we learned how to rein them in. The speed, volume, and price we’ve grown used to with Amazon seems to preclude consumer safety.

Thanks for the info! So far I’ve been enjoying those same characteristics. I spend my work day arguing with computers, so I have little patience for doing more of it when I’m off (more seriously, I carefully marshall my tech efforts outside of work as a long-term strategy against burnout). I appreciate how “out of the box” gaming (and anything else I’ve tried) works in Bazzite, and the stability has been great too. Though to be fair, def helps that it’s my first experience with Plasma which really makes the “feeling” of the OS pop, in an unfair way lol.

My new measure for intuitiveness of an interface - do half-drunk, clumsy fumblings with a mouse occasionally reveal a slick new feature I wasn’t aware of?

Feel like elaborating? I’ve been running it for a couple weeks and very happy so far. One nice little feature was how I can just scroll on top of the little sun icon in the taskbar and my monitors dim and brighten. But that’s prolly a Plasma thing more than anything else.

Holy shit, this is quite the list.

Hell yeah that’s awesome! I played a lot of GE back in the day, so the muscle memory has got to still be there for me too. Wonder how many hours it’d take to unlock it.

Yeah, I had the weirdest experience going back and trying it recently. Was hard to play. But back then, boy those controls felt so amazing and smooth!

Nothing to be ashamed of my friend, cool little device you’ve got here!

Wish I could forget my friend. My mother got clipped with that, she ain’t been with us for a while and I finished raising her daughter for her.

Fuck “health insurance” companies. Free Luigi Mangi-mothafuckin-one, too!

Yeah I don’t think my comment is right lol.

Auto to me (if A is Auto) sounds like it’d truncate unnecessary digits (4 or 4.0 instead of 4.0000) maybe? Whereas if F is Full then you’d get full precision?

Idk seems logical but not especially useful, probably not a great guess.

I can’t help but see it this way too. And healthcare before some of the ACA’s protections was similar. “Yes, give us those premiums, everything’s looking pretty safe, we’ve got you covered if something happens! Wink wink, nothing does really, so we’ve got you!”

And then the moment that changes, it’s “woah there, too risky for us, are you crazy? We’re gonna lose money! You’re on your own”. And all the 10s of thousands paid when times were good and there was very little likelihood you’d need help are just gone, and fuck you.

I understand insurance companies only make sense if the risk of paying out heavily is small enough. But still, you paid to be covered when the shit gets bad, they should have to taper down over time or return some premiums or something. Not just “welp thanks for all the money, it looks like we’re gonna have to start giving some out soon so we’re just gonna stop here while we’re ahead”. It’s just a legal scam.

Chicken wing yacht delivery service, wow. Dude’s entire life is one grand performance showing how you can be rich and famous and remain a fucking clown.

I left that episode feeling like this is the kinda dude that had his ass wiped for him til he was 9 or 10.

Fair enough, definitely will not disagree with you cuz you sound way more informed. I found him (and I guess his era if I’m being honest) too overtly manufactured and obnoxious to really engage with. I do imagine bro worked his ass off, and yea must have been a confluence of factors, many of them his own personality traits and effort. Maybe what irks me is people regard him as egocentric and cocky when to me he seems the opposite, just extremely fragile and fake because he’s hyper-aware of his own shortcomings (and worse, absolutely correct about them). I guess that describes a fair portion of “egocentric” personalities anyway though, thorny and fragile.

I am normally on board with the idea of “this person made it to the top of a competitive field, he can’t be XYZ” but in this case, idk man. People absolutely become famous in the music industry while having very little to offer beyond the ability to generate hype/buzz. It’s an industry that basically exists to misrepresent people in positive ways for profit, and there’s an almost endless number of levers to pull and buttons to push to make that happen. Talent and success in that world are just not all that well correlated.

Edit: you just said you don’t even know much about him, so thanks for coming to my TED talk and I’ll now go back to being old and grumpy quietly.

To add - his episode of Hot Ones makes it absolutely clear that he’s just a bullshit-ass person, his “musical career” is a symptom more than anything.

You seem to have chosen only a few of the words in my comment to read. Feel free to read the rest, or fuck right off with your ridiculous nonsense, your call. Blocking you regardless so enjoy whatever you choose I guess.