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[–] scops@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tesla's stock history, for reference. I'm not an economist or finance bro, so I'm not sure how stock splits factor into a graph like this, but for the record, Tesla had a 5:1 split in 2020 and a 3:1 split in 2022.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 30 points 2 months ago

My mom grew up in an area of California with no fireflies. When she was a teenager, she went on a cross-country trip with a friend. In the mountains of North Carolina, they were driving along at night when some bugs hit the windshield of their car. They didn't think much of it... until the bug guts started glowing. Then they screamed.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I have never seen a McDonalds that looks like the top pic. I remember plenty with play spaces, but they weren't visible from outside.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

Very much same. I wish the Burning Shores expansion was a bit longer. It's kinda hard to call it a must-play DLC, but it's got some big stuff in terms of Aloy's character development.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 18 points 2 months ago

And now it's gone, along with the expertise it housed from developing cult hits stretching as far back as MS-DOS games in 1997, through the iconic Shadow of Mordor, F.E.A.R., Condemned, No One Lives Forever, and The Matrix Online.

Fuuuck. That really sunk it home for me. Other than the Matrix, I played and loved all of those games. RIP Monolith.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 81 points 3 months ago (5 children)

The whole point of the Sword of Damocles was that the threat was always looming and Damocles didn't know when it might fall. We know exactly when Microsoft says they are going to drop support. There's a decent chance that they'll push that date back due to slow adoption at least once.

This is more about rats not fleeing the sinking ship until the sea has reached the bow.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 7 points 3 months ago

Sometimes I don't put the cart in the corral...

I take it back into the store because it's closer than the nearest corral. Or I take my bags out before I go into the parking lot and leave the cart in the lobby cart storage.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Jill Bearup, a Youtuber and stage/film combat enthusiast. She echoed some shitty transphobe rhetoric in a blog post years ago and deleted them. Tom asked her about it after others made him aware and he gave a very reserved description of her reply that tells me she still holds views that he doesn't agree with or want to be associated with.

ETA: After donating what he estimated would be the proceeds of that collaboration video to the Trevor Project, he ultimately decided to take the video down altogether.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 4 points 3 months ago

Uh huh. What's the D/s version of "Sappho and her friend"?

[–] scops@reddthat.com 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, don't use the sexy meme template for this change. It's just a dumb dick measuring move. It doesn't deserve that honor.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 54 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I also appreciate the thoughtfulness he showed when he found out someone he had recently collaborated with had made transphobic comments in the past.

You're never going to appease everyone, and I appreciate that he shared the thinking that led him to his decision. I just regret not finding out about the incident until like a week after I ordered her book.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 49 points 3 months ago (5 children)

It's a far cry from this guy's situation, but I think I had five or six bitcoin back when I was mining in the early days. I cashed out when they were maybe $40-50 each towards a new GPU.

Sure, I could go nuts thinking about what I would do with the money now, but if I hadn't sold at that rate, I probably would have sold at $100, or $200, or...

There's no way in hell I would have had the discipline to "hodl" to this point, so I just get on with my life.

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