Small markets are notorious for gouging the fuck out of the sellers. Want a booth at a farmers market or a makers market? Well you should expect to spend between $50-200 for the luxury to sell your own goods.

Don’t forget that most of these aren’t audited and you’ll be selling handmade goods next to someone else who is selling garbage from alibaba. Or you’ll be selling homegrown produce next to someone selling boxes of produce he bought from someone else.

Most of these markets are simply not profitable to farmers or makers. The buyers are few and they end up buying the cheaper shit after balking at the prices of anything made with care.

transfinite hocuspocus bullshit is what it is

Didn’t over half the real users leave? Feels like it’s basically a handful of nazis, many nazi bots, and a few media people for businesses.

Maybe this shitslurry of a deal will stain the platform with enough GOP stink that even the most brainrotted kids will leave it behind for less foul smelling alternatives

Han solo frozen in carbonite

No that’s not true. There are rational numbers in between the integers and all integers are rational. Therefore the mapping from integers to rational numbers is injective and thus there are more rational numbers than integers.

There are more rational numbers than natural numbers.
Prove this by noting that every natural number is rational but not every rational number is natural.

There are more real numbers than rational numbers. Prove this by noting that every rational number is real but not every real number is rational.

Checkmate meme.

Is the killswitch in settings? Because I had to set browser.ml.enable to false in about:config since there was nothing related to it in settings

I’m doing my part by buying used xbox games on ebay. I was going to get a ps5 but… nah fuck that.

We pay more for healthcare than you do, per capita. It’s not that we don’t have free healthcare - it’s A) that the oligarchs have figured out how to build a money siphoning machine out of our healthcare system and B) that they can use it to enforce social classes.

He won’t negotiate because this isn’t a normal government shutdown over budgetary issues. This is the end of the federal government. This is how it dies. It literally just runs out of money while terrorizing people so that even the most liberal libs learn to hate the federal government and accept the new dictatorship of their redstate masters.

That’s a problem with high heat and non-stick surfaces. Rice cookers are much, much lower heat.

I think the biggest difference between this bubble and the ones that pop are whether the valuations were built by debt. In this case - no. So when their products turn out to be less useful than they claim, it will devaluate. But the debt issued to build the bubble wont go through a sudden correction that is amplified and causes an even bigger collapse like in 2008 or the dotcom bubble.

I really love roguelikes and I’m mad that their version is unsupported and basically unplayable right now

edit: The Pit. I want to play that on my steamdeck so badly.

My headcanon is that it is in the 40k universe

Do you have to ride a world sized turtle to traverse it?

I prefer the STL in Card’s Ender’s Game series. They asymptotically approach the speed of light so the passengers only have several weeks pass when travelling to far flung locations but the universe around them experiences a normal passage of time which may be tens of years. This has really big implications on the plots in several stories.

They do have an ansible communications system that does allow instantaneous communication over astronomical distances.

Look at it this way - how does a business make its money?

• Google makes nearly 100% of its revenue from ad sales that are juiced by collecting every detail they can about as many people as possible.
• Amazon makes most of its money off of AWS because physical logistics are extremely expensive but they commit endless amounts of federal crimes by ripping off consumers and sellers to subsidize their total market takeover of physical goods. Oh and they make money by selling ad spots to their sellers that are juiced by stealing as much information about its users as possible.
• Apple makes most of its money on the app store subscriptions to apps it didnt write - like if you subscribe to spotify through the app they take a cut. It makes the rest of its money by selling devices that tend to have higher build quality than competitors. A very small sliver of its income comes from advertisements. Not even 1% and it is publicly declared as non-targetted advertising. They dont really have a financial interest in collecting your data.

That’s the difference. They’re all shit companies from multiple angles. But at least Apple doesn’t actively disrespect you with unwanted advertising targetted to you by spying on you. They disrespect you by removing headphone jacks and making silicon valley executives behave like steve jobs who was notoriously a horrible person.

Well, kindle e-ink e-readers are different from kindle lcd ipad knockoffs. The ereaders do have a subsidized tier that is cheaper by like $30 and shows ads on the lock screen. The ipad knockoffs are trash that arent worth looking at in the first place so I dont even know if they show ads but I bet they do. Dont buy either.

That’s from the ancient banking system designed in the 1940s that is still lurching around. The protection on a check isn’t cryptographic - it relies on the issuing bank to confirm the authenticity by examining heuristics on the paper check like paper type, ink and font used, check number, issuing address and the person’s signature. It used to be that you would deposit a check at your bank and then it would be mailed to the issuing bank to be cleared for transfer. You wouldn’t just deposit it and get your money instantly, it would take up to 10 days.

Honestly it is bewildering to me that they haven’t changed the system to issue cryptographically secure deposit-only numbers and unique withdrawal numbers that at least verify the authenticity of the check itself.