dashers

179317 pts · August 23, 2014


You're all a bunch of self-righteous vitriolic bastards. Loosen up a little.

I've got no problem with the idea of investing in a company and buying shares in it, getting a cut through dividends, and then when you've had your fill, maybe selling that stock on. But the idea of constantly trying to ride growth of an effectively random number generator just seems nuts - the fact that so much of our imaginary money is based on this is even madder!

10 hours ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Laser cnc, natch /s

10 hours ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Interested in know what the outcome here was

1 day ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No, that can't be right, I remember this event. That would make me... oh

1 day ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You're sounding like trump! "I'm the winner, your perspective is invalid." The hypocrisy on this site is rife.

1 day ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Problem for me is, my skillset lies in enterprise software integration, my local farmer doesn't have much need for that, so I need some mechanism where I can provide that skill to someone who does and translate that effort into a way of getting the things I need.

1 day ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

"any problems, give me a call". I then proceed to turn my work issues phone to silent and pop it in a drawer. It's important to set boundaries.

1 day ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm not a freeloader, I'm happy to pay to perpetual copies of films or entire series of something. Providing it's high quality and I can play it on any of my devices, I'll pay - up to a point. So yes, I buy physical discs and rip them to my media server, and if I can't get hold of it at a reasonable price (or at all), then up goes the flag.

2 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You'll have to excuse my ignorance as I'm not an American. Who funds the loans in the first place? Who is covering the shortfall on that expected return, wouldn't that be the tax payer? And without increasing taxes to cover the defaulted loans, that would result in cuts to public services?

3 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

_this_ country? There's ~200 countries to choose from. Assuming that only one is relevant would be a pretty fascist view on the world.... (/s)

4 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Because mass surveillance is a hot political issue in the US? Given 98% of political posts are about the US, tagging politics makes this site far more enjoyable for the rest of the world.

4 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

idk, if you ask people to tag their political posts, that tends to attract a lot of downvotes and vitriol.

5 days ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 5

Cost of living is horrific, but I'm not sure complain about the cost of having a hand-made iced-coffee being couriered to you being excessive - the whole idea is excessive!

5 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Data protection laws are much more stringent in the UK than the US, but that number is still definitely more than zero. I'm no criminal, but I wear a cap now.

5 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I find American culture a very strange thing.

6 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I'm no bot, but I'm also not here for low effort posts.

6 days ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

My kid has outgrown their shoes, so went to the shop, tried the next size up. Landed up getting the next size down!

6 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

As somebody who works in IT, I feel this is the sort of thing that a developer did without thinking about it. I've got two conflicting requirements: oh wait, they only conflict for different user groups, I'll apply group-specific view, problem solved.

6 days ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 1

This is how money works in most countries. Your money (which itself originally represented something like gold) gets put into a bank account where it basically becomes a token, which you can exchange. You could argue that you can withdraw your money, but you're just getting a physical token, it no longer gets changed back to gold. Of course - why would you want to do something that isn't a currency? Which highlights to me the pointlessness of NFT.

6 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Mmmmm... tasty with added lead flavouring

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

High local contrast and sharpening. You can use it to make photos etc look a bit more crisp, your phone will apply it by default to hide the crappy sensor. But yeah, overdone it looks like this.

1 week ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I'm all for a bit of boob, but it can get a little spammy by OF advertisers.

1 week ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Unfortunately I think I'm about an hour away from three major first strike targets, so I think that's avoiding being wiped out immediately, but well within dying horribly of radiation poisoning.

1 week ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I don't think I'd have a problem with being treated like a dirty slut from time to time...

1 week ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

It's nice to see that anti depressants can stop a GPU from being down too...

1 week ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Couldn't agree more. Let me know how you get on with increasing those taxes.

1 week ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

They are a huge ecological problem, but damaging them will only lead to replacements being built. Instead, look to see if you can reduce your reliance on private car journeys. Unfortunately, it's not feasible for many people, but for others it's a choice that can be made. Lead by example where you can.

1 week ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I'd like to say I'm boycotting the game for this reason, but that would be disingenuous - I'm not buying the game due to the price. When it has been discounted to under £30, we'll talk then.

1 week ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Pretty much every GTA major version was ground breaking. I suspect it'll be a roaring success.

1 week ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 4