20*21*12 is more than 50k?

many monarchies are hereditary celebrities rather than hereditary leaders, where the position is kept around for the tourism value and they do not have (or claim to have) any right to rule over people

There is some power, although due to it not having been exercised for a century. Lawyers argue the legal texts are no longer binding.

But they’re ultimately the last entity that should block a party, if they turn full on authoritarian. All democracies need a non political entity, to overlook the democratic process and stop undemocratic moves.

Finland has a president for the same reason, and likewise does several other European nations.

And then we have insanity like Instagram, where the logo opens a separate area

How the hell does the logo ever load anything but the home screen?

~30 ish, moving from software engineering to education. Starting a bachelor on Monday

Hating a minority is a theme showing up in politics, every time a society had a downturn.

Jews were scapegoats, they were generally seen as greedy and thrifty. So when the economy went to shit, the workers blamed an ethnic group associated with being successful business people.

The hate for Muslims went up a lot in the aftermath of the 08 crisis. Although the reasons for problems tends to be greed among the elites, they also tend to control the narrative. And will throw a minority under the bus to save themselves

I’m pretty confident Putin is the number one backer of immortality age reversal research globally.

He does all sorts of things, as is tradition among Russian Tzar’s, to halt his aging. The joke is the anti aging gurus tend to die before turning 70 and it has scared every Russian leader in history when they’ve observed that

Also - is the person that’s sending you a ping or SYN really going to notice your status?

I know for a fact several did, as I’ve had a lot of former hello only people ask about the status through the years

It’s not like the job market is good at the moment.

Just finding a job isnt an easy task currently

The hello is not the issue. But getting a notification before the question is.

Ultimately what happens if there’s a bunch of “helloers” approaching you, you end up muting the messaging app and only check messages every X time. Rather than being available, pros and cons. And there’s definitely an argument to be had, that it’s the superior way of working - But hello only people, just shoot themselves in their foot and get longer time to response

How come you find the latter annoying?

It’s the most effective way to let the entire company aware they should not start their conversation that way with me

I have people I just ignore until there’s two notifications

I honestly think the styling is the main reason it feels AI.

because the sentences are too short, they’re a style I sort of writes at times. Just sort of. LLMs tends to output longer sentences, rather than the two-three words. Then dot. That’s a rare one for LLM

However it’s not an anti AI site, so they might have vibe styled it and probably had a LLM help with some of the wording. However I think a human did vet and rewrite parts of it.

It depends on category of gambling.

For poker there’s usually a standalone price going to the organiser, for betting it’s often at 95% return rates.

Scratch cards tho, those fuckers goes low. Lotteries, 60% is not uncommon, but people like it at the very slight off chance they take the big price.

So it would require a pretty big breakdown of how many plays each category of gambling

1 in 11 games released last year has 0 reviews.

https://steamdb.info/stats/releases/

~21.500 titles released in 2025, we’ve seen more than 16.000 games released this year so it will once again break a new record for titles released in a year.

The platforms also create the new top designers/performers by letting new talents submit for free.

Like live streaming, Twitch have no clue who’s going to become big and who’ll stay at 2 concurrent viewers. But you need to let everyone try, to be able to have the few that rises to the top

Functionally all new apps are “Linux development work”, as modern C# solutions are containerised and hosted on Linux servers.

Microsoft gave up on Windows servers a decade ago when they released .net Core, as it was the sound solution to ensure continual growth of Azure and fighting off Java adoption hosted through AWS/GCP

.net framework is a niche framework now, which just a few legacy platforms run today.

However the reason IT requires Mac and Windows for everyone, is because they can lock those machines down. Like mad down, they don’t want to build software to lock Linux machines down from a central place.

You can just add [toy] to the listing and send them some wood looking like a 64GB DDR5. You just sold them toy rams for their toy PC

Unless Best Buy is owned by Lenovo it doesn’t matter, assuming it was a warranty case. It’s the producer that covers

I’m so happy my grandparents bought their laptops from the local computer store.

They’re marking everything up, pretty wildly, but damn do they offer support.

And they also pushed FOSS on them, through libre office rather than the insane Microsoft office subscriptions the big chains try to push on their customers