It’s not a buff if the end numbers are the same, by definition. It’s a curve adjustment. The beginning is now easier but the middle and end are now harder and the same respectively.

This is a huge nothing-burger. The blessing hasn’t been buffed, its curve has been adjusted. Now, the front half of the blessing is more significant than the latter half, which is in line with the flask system and how its increases are bigger with the first few upgrades than the rest.

All this means to me is that I’ll be using my downloader a lot more often.

I’d argue they’re a close second to Kirkland Signature, personally.

Only thing dangerous in this scenario is the idiot behind wheel and keyboard, I’d say.

Or better yet: just cannibalize the non-moving stock for parts.

I am legit only following this man’s post-trial journey because of the sweet, sweet schadenfreude.

Entertainment: Subjective

Giving hundreds of dollars to someone who makes videos of damaging expensive stuff: “A fool and his money are soon parted.”

Calling something stupid “stupid” isn’t gatekeeping, learn what your words mean.

Uggggggh, I’m going to have to start wearing masks outside again, aren’t I? I saw one of these... things... parked in my neighborhood, and I don’t want to catch whatever disease makes someone stupid enough to seriously consider purchasing one, let alone actually going through with it.

Sounds like Musk building his own personal hell. Everyone being rich like him but with no purpose would rather quickly take away the one thing he really cars about: everyone’s attention. Why would anybody pay him an iota of attention when AI could do literally anything he could come up with better? I almost want this…

And people wonder why I always respond the same way when someone makes a claim that some new expensive thing is super healthy or cures ails: “Got a peer-reviewed blind study to back that up?”

And yet these things all exist in places without a capitalist stock market... not a good argument at all.

They cold both spontaneously combust tomorrow and I would consider it a net plus.

Stockholders and the stock market are already toxic influences on a capitalist economy. Short sellers are a magnitude lower than that. Any loss on their part is good schadenfreude.

-1.1% increase in fucks, even.

Same way removing comment sections increases user engagement, I guess.

Good.

We’re the only gigabit fiber customers in our cul de sac.

Packet-sniffing, generally. Can't tell you how many people roam around with laptops looking to find hotspots with which to torrent stuff. Encryption standards past five years old tend to be exploitable as well.

My PC and network are configured in such a way that I get an alert when a device not on my whitelist connects to my access point. I can immediately block their hardware ID from there. Always fun to hear the cursing from outside.