All of them?

All of them.

Jesus fucking christ, that’s incredible. I don’t know what any of that software engineering stuff is, but based on your description of events, it just sounds like a waking nightmare.

If it makes you feel better, companies like that where upper management are quick to throw people under the bus for their own fuck ups are usually not long for this world. They’ll continue to make bad decisions and the effects will be felt both downstream with low employee morale and retention rates, as well as commercial loss for the company. You are much better off being valued for your work elsewhere.

Call me crazy, but maybe I’m uncomfortable associating an entire ethnic group with words written in a book over two millenia ago. Times change, and society changes along with it.

I don’t know a single person who follows the bible/torah/quran as an absolutist. Everyone from every religion and every sect likes to pick and choose what they like to follow.

If someone is committing an act of genocide against another people, I can guarantee they were going to do it regardless of what their silly book says about it.

I have way too many of these and have lost count over time. Porn/porn games, old flash games/animations from Newgrounds, classic memes that only I seem to remember, stuff I saw for sale once upon a time that are sold out and can’t be found anywhere anymore, esoteric collectibles, comments I made on videos or posts literal decades ago, old websites long since defunct and so far lost that even wayback machine doesn’t have them on record, underground/indie music recordings that I definitely had at one point and then lost when switching hard drives out. The list definitely goes on but those are the ones off the top of my head.

I wouldn’t paint with such broad strokes. Jews aren’t the ones to blame for that, the state of Israel is. Just because their state sanctioned religion is Judaism doesn’t mean their philosophy is inherently genocidal.

That being said, if all the monotheistic abrahamic derivatives fell off the face of the earth, I think we’d be set on a better course as a species.

Coming up with a stage name is usually something that agents will tell their clients to do if their name sounds “too ethnic”. Happens when they are auditioning for roles, not when they get famous.

Random fact I heard the other day: Leonardo DiCaprio almost sent out headshots with a stage name at the advice of his agent, but his dad talked him out of it and told him to be proud of his name. I forget what they told him his stage name should be, but it was way more generic and forgettable than his real name.

Very true, however, 15k sitting in a bank account will be equally as worthless as a valueless security if the economy completely imploded.

I’ve also noticed that the economy is pretty robust in it’s ability to weather storms that should theoretically cripple it. It would take an event so catastrophic that all sectors of business are heavily impacted. Barring all-out civil war, I can’t see that happening. Even a global pandemic saw certain businesses do better than ever - companies that made PPE, hand sanitizer and toilet paper mostly.

Coming from someone who wishes they invested earlier rather than shoving my savings away in a checking account - if you can’t think of something off the top of your head that you would need that money for in the next year or two, invest it in an index fund. It’s braindead easy, does not require you to manage it, and will steadily grow 6-10% each year which beats any high yield savings account by a fair bit. So you just set it and forget it and then maybe in 10 years you remember you invested 15k in VTI or VOO and now you have around 30k or more depending on how well the market did.

There will be market booms and busts, and you might end up losing money in the short term, but as long as there is a functioning economy, the line will inevitably go up.

I prefer index funds over bonds because you can always sell your position if you need a quick infusion of cash.

Again, this is just if you don’t already have designs on how to spend the cash. If your bro gave it to you to enjoy it as you see fit, you shouldn’t feel obligated to save it. Do what you think is right for yourself.

The thing that will kill this is forcing users to migrate to a new app. Removing the largest friction barrier that prevents people from leaving your app by forcing them to cross it is a great way to scatter the TikTok userbase to the four winds.

I hope this kills TikTok, and that the people who enjoyed using it remember who was responsible for it.

I kind of wish that Chris Roberts would just take the hint and STFU about release dates for SQ42/SC. There were so many broken promises that any trust that they will hit targets is gone.

I can at least say that, based purely off of what I’ve seen of their gameplay trailers, 2026 is a more realistic release date for Squadron 42 that any of the previous target dates were. The question isn’t if it’s going to be finished by then, it will be if they are going to release it in a playable state at that time.

2027-2028 for Star Citizen is completely unrealistic. The game is nowhere near finished enough to consider that a date that will stick, even if you get all the people working on SQ42 to move over to SC after it eventually releases, the extra manpower can’t make up for the huge hole they’ve dug themselves into. They still have a years-long backlog of content to produce and show no sign of slowing down on offering new pledges. When they catch up with releasing all of the ships that people have paid money for and 10 years later still have nothing to show for it, then we can talk about release dates - ones that give enough time for proper bug fixing, polish, and gameplay balance. 2 or 3 years from now ain’t it.

I’m all in for banning pornographic content

Fuck off. Just don’t consume it, idiot.

If you are worried about your kids getting exposed to it, be a better parent.

I’m so baked right now I read the title and thought “Formula” was a brand of energy drink. Then I read your comment. Right, baby formula is a thing.

I should to go to sleep, lol.

Yeah, I was gonna say… there are definitely way to push anything AI related into an unrelated existing outgroup. Just say the liberals are using AI to steal elections and BAM, just like that you’ve got all the MAGA zombies hating AI.

I’m down with that. Web 1.5? Let’s do it. I’ll get my Geocities page up and then we can rev up that hit counter.

You can disagree all you like, but facts are facts. Ukraine is not losing, Russia is not winning.

If you woke up tomorrow and started saying “I disagree, the sky is not blue it is red.” people would rightly treat you like a fucking moron. Same here. Fuck your feelings.

If russia was losing there wouldn’t be discussion about ukraine giving up some land

You might have some semblance of a point if Zelenskyy and Putin were the ones having this negotiation, but the only two people seriously discussing this are Trump (a moron and a traitor) and Putin (the guy currently losing).

Why does Russia want peace so badly if they could just win at any time? Believe me, dipshits like you have been flooding my DMs for 3 years saying Russia is only a few weeks away from crushing Ukraine and I love nothing more than setting up reminders to come back and taunt you when Ukraine is still here, still fighting, and not willing to take some shitty deal that Trump the Traitor and Putin decided on themselves behind closed doors.

So tell me, how much longer before Russia wins this conflict? Can’t wait for your next big prediction Nostradumbass. I’ll be sure to save it and come back to make fun of you just like all the others. Nothing else makes me feel more superior.

You are right about one thing, though. No occupation is eternal. The Russian invaders will be expelled from Ukraine eventually.

stronger than you

lmao, 3 years and the great superpower once thought equal to the United States can’t win the war they started. Give me a break.

USA was stronger than Vietnam and they still lost. USSR was stronger than Afghanistan and they still lost.

Clearly strength isn’t everything. Russia just needs to relearn this lesson they forgot - a determined foe can’t be beaten with brute strength alone.

Nah.

I don’t really give a shit about the AI race and I genuinely hope that we lose it, because I feel like being a winner in that “industry” is inherently unsustainable.

The AI hype is so infuriatingly frustrating.

Keep that AI horseshit out of video games, thanks.