I don’t think that’s fair. Plenty of people in this world do not know much about computers or the internet or anything in that area and just need a printer. So they go to their local big box store and there’s the HP printers and they’re a good deal, so they buy them.

Consumers do not get what they deserve when companies treat them like shit just because they don’t have certain knowledge.

What we need to do is find some way to make a giant fusion reactor and put it in the sky and get energy from it that way.

But that’s just a pipe dream…

If the pay is lower than £30,000 a year, I can’t get a family visa for my wife and daughter.

Meanwhile, a recruited told me I should be asking for £50,000 a year.

And if you look at how much rents are even in the outskirts of London, I think you will find that low amount of pay is not going to let you have much of a life.

I was asking for £30,000 a year. I don’t think that’s unreasonable for a professional position.

You think being queer is about having sex, don’t you?

/DELETETHESE

(Actually saw that one once.)

I am saddened by the concept of fans of Caillou that aren’t toddlers.

Forgot to add- Around half of women who have had abortions have had at least one child previously.

https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2007/05/repeat-abortion-repeat-unintended-pregnancy-repeated-and-misguided-government-policies

Good news: their printers never die. You can get a Brother laser printer that’s 10 years old off a site like eBay and it will still be printing just fine in 2050. Mine is so old, it’s USB 1.0.

I’m not surprised at least some of it applies, but I’m not sure what still applies and what doesn’t without looking it all up. But I do understand their general point.

I would note that the reply is 3 years old and many things have changed in the interim, so I think an updated reply would be warranted for a good comparison.

You don’t have to pay for it.

But they don’t like mentioning that part.

Edit: Having used both, the only real disadvantage I can see when it comes to Gimp in a Photoshop vs. Gimp comparison- apart from special cases- is that Gimp (for me anyway) has a higher learning curve. I end up having to look up how to do something more often with Gimp. But not having to pay Adobe a monthly fee makes up for that.

But why no 21-year-old restaurant evaluators?

These “you should have saved for retirement” people really piss me off, especially the “you should have cut out luxuries” assholes. Bitch, I’m like the 62% of the rest of America that lives paycheck-to-paycheck. What luxuries? The occasional chai latte to make my life slightly more bearable? Buying my daughter Taco Bell once in a while to see her smile?

If I have to work for decades and deny myself any comfort for those decades just to have some comfort for the last 10-20 years of my life? Fuck that.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/31/62percent-of-americans-still-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-amid-inflation.html

I’m glad it worked for him, but if someone did that to me, I’d probably get fatter just out of spite.

Federate the Dominion? Are you joking?

And you can share your cat memes with them!

Honestly? I would love to take a 2-day trip to London on an airship. That sounds like a great adventure. You’re not on a ship, so you don’t get seasick, and you’re not on a plane, so there’s plenty of room to move around.

It’s very Dickensian. Everyone is connected to everyone else in some way or other. In a vast galaxy.