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The movie WarGames was more accurate in this context.

That's quite the mental leap for a statistically one-off event.

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This is why large meta-forums (reddit) are doomed to fail.

So anyone wearing the "I voted" sticker cannot get a discount on their coffee? Which is what happens on election day quite often.

How many people really believe in these (conspiracy) theories? Are we sure there's no conflation with the loudest online with what people really think?

Shein was supposed to take the sting out of clothes shopping

One of my favorite things to do while I was on staff there was to peruse the library after hours and stroll around to the different labs and meeting rooms. Most of the time it was quiet but (usually towards the end of the semester) there would be the buzz of finishing projects and meeting deadlines. I wasn't the only one to do this - certain faculty would do the same and often get snagged by students or former students. It really was a learning experience for all. I don't think this is a good move - as the author states it will suck the curiosity out of the room by proxy.

It's a tool of the lazy.

> enshittifies

Can we stop using that terrible term?

I get what you're trying to say: I too have very strong feelings about Vercel, it's lock in, it's operating model, and some underlying technical decisions they've made. But individually those are points that (if the company is listening) Vercel will address or go out of business.

There's no nuance in that way of thinking. Market forces will determine whether or not the company will succeed. But it's the obligation of the decision makers in your company to decide whether or not the problems that Vercel has are worth the risks and to what degree. There may be a tipping point - an enshittification point - at which the risks are no longer tenable. The way the term is commonly used doesn't make that clear - you've basically declared that the company will go south. Maybe it will, or maybe they'll listen to their customers.

As libertarian as my proclivities tend to be I cannot disagree with this move.

Waffle House is so good.

I don't know that I agree with this, but it is rather poetically written.

The authoritarianisms that came from both left and right wing sources during that time continue to baffle me. Very dangerous precedents were set during that time.

The Holy Bible

It's the entire basis for the western world.

There are dev/IT jobs in just about every sector.

`Enshittification` has become a blunt tool for any topic upon which people dislike or disagree. We have to stop using it and become more nuanced in these types of discussions.

I personally haven't been through this but my brother has (he works in wholesale). When he signed on it was a family run business but then a PE firm came in and bought a >50% stake in it. He complains about the amount of financial squeezing that goes on - that there is no money for training, 401ks have been shuffled around and the amount contributed is about half of what it was when he started, commissions that were previously available to anyone who could sell/upsell are now are only available to select sales leads, etc. The management has shuffled around with the buyout so a lot of the relationships they had were disrupted and replaced with professional managers that barely understand the business and only care about P&L statements.

Makes me thankful for the company I work for.

Agreed - surprised gorm or something a little more mature wasn't used.

No mention of Payback yet - great movie.

Underlying study: https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpendo.000...

> It's almost like the poor lifestyle choice they made was living in a rural area

> I have no idea why people choose to live like that.

Many, if not most, times it's not a choice. Limited skills, limited education, limited drive, and limited exposure leads you to stick around where you are because you don't know any better.

> and not keeping a garden

I'll give you this. It was a thing, a big thing, when I was younger. It makes me think people have honestly gotten lazier - there seems to be no drive or desire to do so.

Here's an anecdote: where I live the closest gym is 19 miles away. The closest park that has walking trails is a little over 12 miles away. Walking/running/cycling on the county roads is not wise. There is a seasonal farmer's market in the closest city to us (~15 miles away), but it's only open one day a week for 4 hours. The closest "healthy" grocery store (like Sprouts, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's) is 32.9 miles away (just had to look this up). For the local grocery stores, the organic, health options are rather minimal compared to the rest of the store's footprint, if they even exist at all. Organic produce doesn't exactly fit Dollar General's target market. Delivery doesn't always come through: there are some parts of my county that do not even get Amazon deliveries. Delivery from other providers can tend towards cost prohibitive. Most of my neighbors are blue collar (trades, construction), so even if they wanted better health and food options they're not about to drive to get it after spending a good part of the day on the road traveling to/from work sites when there's a Walmart nearby with super cheap unhealthy food.

How much does the increase in casual sexual encounters have to do with this?

In enterprise, products last longer than in the consumer space. So YMMV.

Then every downstream/subsequent engineer is going to hate your guts.

> How much of this is simply a lack of healthcare availability in rural areas

Speaking as someone who lives in a rural area - this ain't it. The lifestyle choices are the biggest problem. Availability is just addressing the problem at the end of the problem.

The removal of Chevron deference isn't the harbinger of doom everyone thinks it is: this standard is only 40 years old.

Is this cloud repatriation?