Rent-seeking middlemen. This is the pinnacle of capitalism. Taking revenue while providing nothing is maximum efficiency. You can tell because it raises prices invisibly for everyone.

This is just a baby version of how credit card companies have placed a 1%-5% sales tax on the global economy. You might say “at least the CC companies provide a service”, but that tax get’s added no matter if your using a CC or not.

You younglings won’t understand, but after about age 35, your brain filters out calendar math and you won’t notice the meme is wrong.

Oh come on. The strangeness of this story makes it credible.

Being surprised is an opportunity to examine your assumptions, not cosplay as Q.

If Batman were a realistic Billionaire, he’d buy Wikipedia to “set the record straight”.

Instead of denying the label “terrorist”, we should embrace and normalize it. It was always a rhetorical weapon for the status-quo, and we have the power to take that away.

The people responsible for your anxiety are not offshore, they’re upstairs.

Browsing the comments, and there is another way this is dumb nobody has pointed out yet. Oil and gas are global commodities and Europe’s energy expenditures buoy the oil price identically whether they buy from the US or Saudi Arabia.

Me watching Kash Patel and Donald Trump drive the FBI into the ditch:

Everybody knows that Dr. Dang doesn’t have a magical robe, it’s his Mullet that’s the source of his power.

You should be able to do all that stuff with spreadsheets. Any program you use will be a spreadsheet under the hood anyhow.

Y’all ever notice how much male sexuality is performative for the benefit of other men? I’m not saying that they’re gay, they just seem more motivated by peer approval and status than touching a girl.

I recently saw an interview with a stripper who said that the dudes who wanted attention from the girls used $100 bills and were discrete, while the dudes who tossed 100 $1 bills were more interested in the attention of their buddies.

Why does capitalist reasoning always sound like a prayer to an angry god?

We consulted the oracle and it seems that the dragon is tired of corn. So we’ve hedged our portfolio with wheat and virgins.

It’s a pain in the ass to block all the lemmy users one by one. I’m trying to curate an experience where Lemmy is just about my posts and my comments. Like the gold standard of social media: myspace.

I’ve asked over and over for a “block every account except my own” and people just laugh at me.

Workplace violence has always been a thing in the US. As a phenomena, it predates the era of school shootings. It’s so common that I feel comfortable predicting that this man’s motives were a personal grievance, not class warfare.

Everything that disrupts surveillance is good. People concerned with the “fairness” of tolls and tickets, or that a criminal might benefit are just grown-ass hall-monitors and it’s pathetic.

The ironic part is that the sexist marketing was formulated by non-gamers who had nothing but mocking contempt for players.

The classic ads where dudes would choose to play games rather than touch a beautiful woman was meant to be ironic. Video game players back then were stereotyped as people too young or too pathetic to have access to a woman.

Student loans have dulled price-point as a major consideration for choosing a school. So they compete on other non-academic stuff that tends to raise the tuition like sports, amenities, and prestige.

Is it possible you plugged your monitor into the motherboard video output? (I’ve done this)

This person appears to deserve recognition and respect. It is also a macabre PR stunt to defect criticism for layoffs during what’s essentially an industry party of self congratulations.

Two things can be true.

Summons were Dark Souls’ easy mode. In Elden Ring summons activate normal mode. Not an improvement.

Running a single-player melee build shouldn’t be a challenge mode.