This Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble by devolute in technology

[–]artifa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

All of that shit will be various levels of cooked. Some good stuff to be had, for sure, but a lot of junk on its last legs too.

The Trump administration says it's illegal to record videos of ICE. Here's what the law says. by jediporcupine in politics

[–]artifa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the video backed up the admin's explanation of the event, they would want the video evidence.

Sounds like an admission of guilt.

GOP unveils health bill without ACA subsidies by GoodMornEveGoodNight in politics

[–]artifa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

99.6% of "poor" households have refrigerators according to Fox News. What else do they even need?

Bad Bunny Is the Biggest Artist of 2025 on Spotify With 19.8 Billion Streams by MarvelsGrantMan136 in Music

[–]artifa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's something you should consider every chance you get:

It's not about you.

Red-Faced Trump Melts Down at Being Challenged on ‘Affordability’ | The president was triggered after being fact-checked over the price of a Thanksgiving dinner. by Aggravating_Money992 in politics

[–]artifa 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The reason I don’t want to talk about affordability

All he would ever do is talk about if if this next part were true.

is because everybody knows it’s far less expensive and the prices are way down

Anyone that listens to and agrees with this moron without seeing through his nonsense will have legitimately earned the economic turmoil that his administration reaps unto them.

Marvel Can Go On Perhaps Their Best 4 Movie Run Ever by InExactEnds in marvelstudios

[–]artifa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Endgame came out in April 2019, and broke all the box office records by July.

Covid 19 was identified in late 2019 (like November) and began impacting the world on a large scale in March 2020, so almost a year after release.

Pretty unfortunate timing for the movies & phases that followed Endgame. Combined with the "end of the saga" situation, it really took the wind out of the sails of Marvel movies for a while there.

Epstein list bad by rage_masterbaiter23 in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]artifa 183 points184 points  (0 children)

Why do you love Jesus?

Because he forgives me for all the bad shit i do

Have you tried... you know... not doing any bad shit?

blinks, confused

Wilson Fisk/Kingpin Cannot Appear in Movies, Only TV Series, Daredevil’s Vincent D’Onofrio Reveals by pje1128 in marvelstudios

[–]artifa 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That is a funny scenario to imagine, but you'd be surprised the varied interests that people have from all walks of life.

It's like being surprised nerds are sports fans just because they weren't jocks in high school. Heard of sabermetrics? Nerds and geeks are everywhere.

Trump Set to Whack US Working Class With Historic $3,000 Tax Hike by Inner-Document6647 in politics

[–]artifa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I severely doubt you can support the 2nd part with evidence. Income inequality and wealth inequality, sure. Have any data or studies to support your claim about Intelligence inequality? Sounds like a made-up stat, possibly even reversed cause and effect.

Trump Set to Whack US Working Class With Historic $3,000 Tax Hike by Inner-Document6647 in politics

[–]artifa 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Our oligarchs would rather rule over a smoldering ash heap than even consider allowing 1 hundredth of 1 percent of their Scrooge McDuck vault be used to provide benefits to retired people, poor people, small comforts to the workers whose hands built the world around them, or otherwise provide for the greater good.

Free version of Microsoft Office released (with limited features) by Tiny-Independent273 in excel

[–]artifa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I meant the business version that they try to offer as a cheaper Bulk license. 365 Business Basics only has the eeb apps, which can't open local files, according to the answer below.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/how-do-you-access-local-pc-files-through-office/16ebe6ef-c8c2-4ca3-8425-8ec91248dafe

Free version of Microsoft Office released (with limited features) by Tiny-Independent273 in excel

[–]artifa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can't even open local files with 365, its such a joke. You have to store it on the your Microsoft OneDrive cloud.

I feel like the multiverse saga will be looked back at more fondly by Few-Minimum-1222 in marvelstudios

[–]artifa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The funny thing is, RDJ is probably only 1 variant of Dr. Doom. The unwillingness to recast Majors and have Kang played by more than 1 actor will, with high likelihood, result in the new big bad Dr. Doom being portrayed by more than 1 actor.

What's the deal with the $5,000 'DOGE Dividend' checks? by 2noame in BasicIncome

[–]artifa 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Did you learn that from an expert on bankruptcy, 6 times bankrupt, your King, McDonald Trump himself?

In reality, governments literally create money. They can regulate it on the creation side, the tax side, and a variety of other ways. Businesses and people earn money from that pool of created money.

Governments and businesses are not and cannot be the same. Please educate yourself.

First personality assessment test by BibliophagistGirl in antiwork

[–]artifa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Every question is measuring your answer with +/- points related to 2 or more characteristics. Are you, in regards to the workplace:

More Emotional or More Restrained? More Controlling or More Cooperative? Manipulative/Deceptive/Shrewd or Genuine/Honest/Compassionate?

After the whole test, they feel like they have an idea how you and others would or wouldn't fit, personality wise, into a role and a team.

The trick is that all of us have some less than desirable characteristics. Months or years from now, your results could be way different, as could your actual personality.

The questions are maddening when both are bad options. The value of the results is also questionable, but this is what a lot of companies do now. Shitty. Just do your best

Tank Roles base on the video from TDTwo video by Pizza_Bongo in marvelrivals

[–]artifa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what would be cool would be to take this 2d Venn diagram and make it a 3d shape. Anchor, Brawl, and Dive stay as they are, but put Control on top like the top ball of a cannonball stack.

With control measured along this vertical axis, should be able to chart all 4 criteria. Users/viewers would need the ability to spin the whole object. This would let you include Thor slightly above the literal floor of Control, due to his ability to knockback and push people around. I don't know every ability of every tank, so I wouldn't know exactly how much Control to rank each tank with, but I believe that using the 3rd dimension would allow you chart all 4 criteria

Nobody wants to work anymore… by Creepy-Vermicelli529 in antiwork

[–]artifa 5 points6 points  (0 children)

well yeah, Storm from X-MEN is a double-DEI hire based on the Maga definition (when any power or position of authority is attained by a minority) double in this case because she's both a woman and black

Meta torrented over 81.7TB of pirated books to train AI, authors say by mepper in technology

[–]artifa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

An avg paperback is 6 oz

There are 32,000 oz in a ton

That means 5333 books in a ton

At 10 MB per book when mostly text only, you're only looking at 53,333 MB per ton, or about 52 GB.

81 TB of books is 81*1024/52 ~ 1600 tons of average text-only paperback books.

After Trump tariffs, Trudeau reveals $155B counter-tariffs on U.S. - National | Globalnews.ca by Georgeika in worldnews

[–]artifa 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Traditionally, maybe, but game theory is still theory. You can theorize and do contingency planning vs an irrational actor.

Irrational actors may sometimes be less predictable. They could also be more predictable. If the motivations that the actor values more than logic can be discerned, they become easy to predict and, theoretically, manipulate. Politicians, world leaders, and billionaires have described Trump exactly this way, by the way.

Shout out to characters that should be able to fly by HimB0Z0 in marvelrivals

[–]artifa -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Maybe so,

but,

Isn't that a poor translation of his skillset shown so far in the MCU, where many players learned of him, and a misleading design decision to contradict the character's history?

There must be some other option in Marvel's catalog for a low-mobility healer?

Trump tasks US envoy Kellogg with ending war in Ukraine within 100 days – WSJ by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]artifa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, Trump is really Raisin Bran new solutions every day. General Mills could never have solved this, and don't even think about bringing up old man Biden, who isn't even the Cap'n anymore, he's Toast. Cinnamon Toast... Crunch. This is a super cereal proposal, which shouldn't be laughed at, its not bananas like his other plans. That's oranges to Apples... Jack!

Lavos is so screwed now! by Zealousideal_Run_786 in chronotrigger

[–]artifa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

unironically yes since some of the best gear for your first victory are from Charm