I vote that we choose a mascot animal and use that, like Athens did with their tetradrachma for centuries.
I vote that we choose a mascot animal and use that, like Athens did with their tetradrachma for centuries.
Single-sourced, mine-to-table artisanal coins. How hipster!
What’s the value-add over just buying a SFF PC?
LPT1 LPT2 LPT3 LPT4 LPT5 LPT6 LPT7 LPT8 LPT9
Why does Microsoft hate Life Pro Top listicles?
There are a lot of ways I’d refer to her before “Former Langley MP candidate”.
You made me curious too — seems it ended in 2013. https://www.wired.com/2013/10/apple-ends-paid-oses/
The puck mouse was horrendous, though. My hand still hurts ~25 years later.
I remember buying Mac OS upgrades. Time for the retirement home, I guess…
Conservatism is fundamentally tied to a lack of empathy for people beyond one’s immediate circle, and creativity in large part is fueled by the ability to imagine other people’s experiences, i.e., empathy. It’s likely why there are so few conservative artists, and when they do exist, they tend to focus on literal/realistic or derivative art.
Every year or so I fire up a VM, install a window manager on it, realize I have no idea WTF I’m doing, and nuke the VM and go back to my regular KDE desktop.
That is brilliantly simple. Certainly better than using collector limpets.
An ironic Freudian slip coming from the Conservatives. I’m sure they’d just love to see MiGs and Sukhois over Ottawa, restoring the “traditional values” of homophobia and wife-beating.
That’s true, but what you describe is pretty much the end state of big-box retail. Amazon is essentially the same, if we exclude AWS. It’s all a race to the bottom. The solution, as always, is to buy direct from smaller producers if possible.
I dislike that you’ve put me in the position of defending Walmart, but don’t you find it rather misleading to imply that they made 163 billion dollars in profit when the real number is less than 10% of that?
Yes, but there are many more expenses associated with running their business beyond simply COGS. Their net income last year was 11B, which is pretty average for a company that size.
Not really — it’s because nearly everything they sell is highly fungible, and they compete on price. Nobody is willing to pay a premium to shop at Walmart. Twenty years ago you’d have been correct, but they’ve pretty much saturated the market at this point. They’re trying to find profitability in automation rather than adding tons of new stores.
Slim profit margins my ass. Walmarts gross profit for the twelve months ending July 31, 2024 was $163.786B,
Not to sound flippant, but do you know what gross profit means? They aren’t pocketing all of that. Walmart’s net profit margin is 2.66%, which is minuscule. They make up for that by having enormous volume.
Seriously, was blackface such a rampant thing in the aughts? It seems like everyone was doing it, but I wasn’t aware of it at the time.