It’s not a specific dollar amount like 10 dollars.

It should be pointed out that if you are young and you took an appropriate amount of risk “investing” in nfts, that’s not a bad thing. You should take some financial risks and failures while young.

If you went into debt or spent your family’s life savings on it, you have a gambling problem.

Maybe. But still incentivizes not renewing the contract. One can hope.

Even if it’s the city that beats the cost, at some point they will decide it’s no longer worth the cost to replace them.

An employee check out lane is not always the best option. I like self check out lanes because it is more efficient for me and the lines will move faster because there can be more machines open.

An employee lane is great when you need assistance, like for elderly or less technically adept people and they should maintain a balance of both. Also agree that they should not charge 10% more to people who use this lane.

A blanket 10% discount should apply to everyone in a store that has self checkout lanes.

As to employees losing jobs because of self checkout, cashier is not a super fulfilling job that needs to exist in abundance. Preferably new jobs open up that offer better opportunities to people than just scanning and bagging things and collecting cash.

We are in agreement. If someone wants to buy a firearm in the US there are many ways they can do so to skirt government oversight.

But it would still good true that if you ban the sale of certain firearms, the number of people that own said type of firearm will go down over time. Simply introducing a barrier of entry is enough to deter at least some people from buying that specific firearm.

That to me is fine. I don’t think we should overspend our resources trying to do this. Just start with the low hanging fruit with the highest roi.

Doesn’t need to be confiscated. Just stop sales and the number goes down over time.

And before you start, you don’t have to stop all sales. We can start with the ones that have potential to kill the most.

And pedantic to boot. 👍

Doomerism at it’s finest

There is a lot of piracy for consoles. It’s just a matter of time.

I’m imagining anti Microsoft things?

Tell me: what is the monthly subscription price of gamepass? What was it a year ago? 2 years ago? How’s their game library?

I must’ve imagined all that fuckery they did to that service. Surely they would never have done anything like that to that digital asset policy you love so much. We can trust them.

I’ll try to make it clearer for you.

Microsoft made a plan. Great. Anybody can ‘make’ a plan and that plan could sound amazing to some people.

You are nostalgizing the ideal parts of their plan without having to see it play out. How would sharing have really worked? Would the disc be tied to your account forever? Would your friend be able to install from it?

And for sake of argument let’s say Microsoft executed on this best plan ever. Fast forward 10 years and they are looking for more profits somewhere. What’s stopping them from changing the terms of their plan? Pretty sure the TOS you click OK to when installing the game says it lets them alter things as they fit.

You are ignoring the fact that these plans were made over a decade ago. You really expect MS to keep their promise when after watching Sony do this?

Ahh yes. I forgot small claims court doesn’t exist and that all restaurants are mega corps.

Sounds like we should raise minimum wage.

I believe you when you say this.

But why is that the customer’s problem? You have legal protection should you wish to pursue it. The fact that you accept the situation shouldn’t mean it’s on everyone else to support it.

I grew up in the US so I’m annoyed by tipping but personally wouldn’t boycott it. But i would also have no issue with those that do. My biggest gripe is this push for 18-20% as a new normal.

If a waiter does not make enough in tips for minimum wage, the businesses is legally required to cover the difference. So let’s stop with the guilt trip. Part of the problem stems from the same servers that oppose doing away with the tip system because they make so much more from it.

It seems like a pretty fair deal for peace. US ceases aggression and helps rebuild. Iran reopens the strait.

Everything else is window dressing. Promises can always be broken by either side, but this would conclusively end things for now.

Is it great solely for US self interest? Maybe not but no one cares.

What you are seeing is lemmygrad.ml. plus hexbear and dbzer0 are silly places and you just shouldn’t go there.

I mean no I don’t believe they’ll do everything but compared to last year AI coding has made leaps and its kind of dumb to imagine technology will not continue to do so.

1 year ago vibe coding was not good enough to make it into code bases.

unless the ai companies can magically solve the poor code quality, the unethical training data, the environmental impacts, the deskilling of developers, and the strong dependency on themselves for your coding, all this in a year, allow me to doubt you.

Im not some full on AI stan, so i share the same concerns you do on ethics and environmental impact. However I dont see how either of those matter in relation to code quality.

Code quality will is basically already good enough to be used mainstream, so I don’t know how you expect it to get worse. But sure feel free to revisit this in a year.

Or people should take it as a slap of reality that AI has gotten good enough to code because actual developers are using it.

Give it another year and this won’t even be a discussion anymore as every programmer will be using assisted coding in some manner.