I also love word, publisher, and visio.

I grudgingly accept outlook.

I despise PowerPoint

As long as the demand exists in the market, the niche will be filled. There’s simply too much money to be made.

As a related example:

Mexico has a cartel problem not because their government is weak, but because the scale of the American drug market means every cartel has an annual income that dwarfs any conceivable taxation revenue. Which means they’re better armed, better staffed, better equipped, and overall a more formidable threat than can be dealt with.

Even fully legalizing drugs in the US might not undercut the cartels at this point because their operations have extended so far into legitimate forms of income at this point. Cartels are an agricultural powerhouse, and are responsibility for the vast majority of avocado production for example.

Bro just use your phone. If it’s android, use AIReader. Free, incredibly configurable, can read every type of book file. Dark mode, adjustable brightness for reading before bed. It gets so dark that I can’t even read the minimum setting in a pitch black room. Best e-reader app I’ve ever found and I’ve been using it for probably 10 years now.

I knew GPUs had gotten bigger but then I built an all new PC, upgrading from a 2080 to a 4090.

Holy shit. That thing is fucking huge, man. I was literally stunned pulling it out of the box. Just set it down and stared at it for awhile trying to process technological progress. It’s like 8 times the size of the GPU I had in 2006.

Full on gladiator combat games is absolutely on my late stage capitalism bingo card. UFC is a baby step on that path.

They tend towards toxic attitudes about work and work/life balance.

The federalist papers very much show they were aware of that threat.

I don’t know that I’d call them idealistic. They were landed nobles who didn’t want to pay the increased taxes levied on them. Which in turn were to pay for the war their government had fought on their behalf to protect them from the native people whose land they had stolen. By exterminating those native people.

This. My phone camera takes ultra high resolution pictures then algorithmically processes them. They look more beautiful and real than reality.

The biggest change when we got new window AC units was how much more quiet they are.

Some asshole had the idea to water a seed and now I have to pay taxes. Fuck that guy.

24hr clock supremacy

When you’re 90% of the market you get away with telling everyone else to suck your dick.

Makes me wish my career wasn’t so fucking niche, for sure

Do acid, it’s cheap as fuck, lasts 12 hours, is generally a great time, and will allow introspection about your life

Nah this is perfect

This is how you get people to start rooting their TVs

My parents live in butt fuck nowhere and are in a fiber co-op paying like $70/month for unlimited 1gbps up/down.

Meanwhile I live in the (extremely left) Capitol City of my state and pay Comcast $165/month for like 175mbps capped at 1TB, with some absurd overage fee like $10/5GB over until I hit $100 over and then it’s “unlimited” but seems throttled.

Whenever I see people bemoaning the system, (which I agree is fucked, overall) I always wonder if they’ve bothered to write/call/harass legislators? Because it’s sometimes surprising how much an angry person can accomplish when they decide to be a problem.

I set up targeted harassment of state legislators on reddit and twitter and managed to get weed legalized after it died in committee in the preceding five years.

Any tips for eliminating the stutter, or increasing the smoothness of the emulation? I’ve got an i7-12700k, 4090, and 64GB of ram and it seems to struggle a bit.