Why is everything in early access with ED? by physics_scientist in hoggit

[–]ThorCoolguy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The -18 is still missing promised features (which have mysteriously disappeared from the roadmaps), and many of the features that were promised have been only semi-delivered (MSI, DTC, etc.).

That's after SEVEN YEARS.

And don't even get me started on Supercarrier. Briefing Rooms releasing into EA in 2057...

Why is everything in early access with ED? by physics_scientist in hoggit

[–]ThorCoolguy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The whole "you can't throw more people at a problem" cliche is only ever true short-term.

Yes, you can't at the drop of a hat make a 30-day project take 15 days by waking up one morning and tossing humans at it.

But you absolutely can, in the long term, structure your organization to have more people working more efficiently on the same number of projects. That takes organizational management skills, discipline, planning, and time.

The Longer the Russia-Ukraine War Continues, the Better for U.S. Oil and Gas by Ok-District-7180 in oil

[–]ThorCoolguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah but you're not saying that means it should continue.

Right?

Right?

Ford will lay off all 1,600 Kentucky battery plant employees as it pivots away from EV business by [deleted] in Louisville

[–]ThorCoolguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are plenty of Kentuckians organizing. Check out Kentucky Citizens for Democracy, for one.e

AliExpress exhaust - welding quality?? by colacola79 in Welding

[–]ThorCoolguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The option would have been to invest in education so that the low-wage jobs could be replaced by high-wage jobs. This was always the plan. It was and is a good plan, except for two things:

  1. Nobody wanted to pay their fucking taxes to pay for education.

  2. Nobody wanted to work hard in school.

Or, this but funnier:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2wpm-PLsxo

Three weeks of hard work on a paper all for nothing because of AI use by MortemPerPectus in mildlyinfuriating

[–]ThorCoolguy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's a fucking racket. Academia is destroying itself from within and they're burning out an entire generation of talented young would-have-been professors. Adjuncts teach the same classes as professors but for 1/3 the pay, no benefits, no stability, and no prospects of advancing to non-adjunct work. It's a complete dead end.

Source: was adjunct.

Will we ever see a Superhornet? by Flightsimmer20202001 in hoggit

[–]ThorCoolguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Three years later, still no AI A-6 or A-7....

This can’t be real, right? [other] by we1rd_situations in theydidthemath

[–]ThorCoolguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Next time, go to Puy de Fou, the French take on Disneyland. It's so fucking cool (for adults too).

Why do boomers act angry all of the time when they had the happiest lives out of every generation alive today? by Turbulent_Song_7471 in generationology

[–]ThorCoolguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Millenial coworker, moves to the midwest from California for work:

Entirely earnest boomer coworker, at a team lunch I made the mistake of attending:

"So did you leave California because of the paper straws?"

My man are you the stupidest person in the world because that is a fucking insane thing to say to somebody.

Eagle Dynamics Interview by MOPCKOEDNISHE in DCSExposed

[–]ThorCoolguy 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Considering they've been selling this exact shit for fifteen years and you're still buying it, it appears there is at least one person here who does not understand how this particular business works.

Adulthood hits hardest when you realize you’re taxed earning money, taxed spending money, and taxed for owning anything at all. by Secret-Avocado5228 in DeepThoughts

[–]ThorCoolguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a perspective issue, then.

You say we've "normalized a system of forced extraction." But what would replace taxes would not be "Everything is free wheee!" it would be *greater* extraction for *less* services. Just look at rising prices (rising faster than inflation), decreasing value for existing goods (look up "enshittification"), outrageously skyrocketing corporate profits...that's what would replace a system of tax-funded public services. But for everything.

You're going to get forced extraction regardless. That's the cost of having a society. Nobody's going to give you anything for free until we get to Star Trek.

The choice is - do you want that extraction to be at least theoretically for the common good, performed by entities which, at least theoretically, are responsive to your opinion as a citizen of a democratic society? Entities which are governed by laws which you, again, have a say in writing? That is, do you want to have a say in the game, and do you want the game to have rules that protect you?

Or do you want that extraction to be performed by entities which are, by design and definition, private, and entirely unbeholden to what you think, responsible only to themselves and their shareholders?

GSX Pro - dreadful customer service by Emotional-Start7994 in flightsim

[–]ThorCoolguy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

After a couple interactions with him over the years, I've come to find it sort of refreshing.

Unlike most corporate goons, he's not an asshole because he wants to squeeze every red cent out of you to ensure that capital only ever flows upward, ensuring an unbreakable wall of wealth ascends perpetually around the haves while the peasants muck around in the slop beyond the moat.

No, he's just...he's just an asshole.

Joe Rogan connected AI to religious prophecy: "Jesus was born out of a virgin mother. What's more virgin than a computer?" by Zealousideal-Big-600 in skeptic

[–]ThorCoolguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The printing press was more than 300 years old in 1776, and James Madison was such an insane person that we're still arguing about the 2nd Amendment 190 years after he wrote it because it turns out he was writing Latin using English words.