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  • So parents will only be able to afford a couple dolls as opposed to scores and scores of dolls. And those couple of dolls will be slightly more expensive.

    You have the ability to purchase 50 statues for $500 each. But now you can only afford 2 statues, which now cost $600.

    The implication being that you’ll be significantly poorer even if things are only slightly more expensive? Or is this going to be “like the communism” where shelves are empty even though people want to buy dolls?


  • Firefox used to have a “we’re a browser that won’t sell user data” promise. Then they changed their TOS and removed the promise, adding:

    When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox."

    When people reacted to their TOS they said it was an accident, it’s just boilerplate, don’t take it seriously.

    Or in other words: an entity with a team of lawyers claimed ownership of all your data, and then downplayed it, and then has acted good since.

    Personally I stick my head way into the alligators mouth and still use Firefox.












  • mhague@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldNotepad
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    9 days ago

    I wonder, why is ‘literally’ so special?

    Someone steps out into unexpectedly cold weather and says, “It’s freezing out here.” But it’s not below freezing.

    Someone that hasn’t eaten all day takes a bite and says, “I was starving, this is the best burger I’ve ever tasted!” They weren’t really starving, and they probably didn’t just rank every burger they’ve eaten.

    We exaggerate and/or use words incorrectly for the effect so often, people are constantly using words “incorrectly” but then they say, “I’m literally dead right now.” and dictionaries change their definitions and people point out semantics. It’s like literally is figuratively magic.


  • mhague@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldVery warm
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    Would it be like a spectrum with weapons being a cardinal sin, and cotton swabs and morphine a thing you can only do on lent? Would weapon makers be in a lower circle, logistics in the middle, and those on the periphery of the military apparatus go to purgatory?


  • Star Wars is too silly to take seriously. I rather play as clones or the empire because tie fighters sound cool, green lasers > red lasers, clean designs are better than Fallout trash sci fi, etc. It’s not like I’m siding with Cardassia.

    Matrix is surely about love being used to break cycles and the realization that it’s not “the matrix” but “a matrix.” The digital world was a matrix designed to imprison humans. But also the way humans thought was another matrix that had to be escaped. Each is a prison that shapes what humans perceive.

    I’ll tell you what. I’ll balance liking Darth Vader with being on the side of nature in Ferngully. And I’ll throw in praise for Atredes and Picard.