Russia invaded Ukraine.

You can fuck right off with that whole “well actually NATO are the real imperialists trying to weaken Russia” bullshit.

One thing I find crazy is that at least half of all monitors today are the same res as CRTs from a quarter century ago. I had a $250 no-name brand CRT that handled 1600x1200 quite beautifully in the 1990s.

Never met her but there’s a chance she might genuinely not have known.

My grandparents and great-grandparents thought a lot of family stuff was worth something but they never actually got it professionally valued. One thing that really stuck out was an ornate silver tea set that looked really nice, was in great condition, was a complete set, hallmarked, turned out to be worth fuck all because nobody actually wants silver tea sets in the 21st century, but they were a big thing a hundred years ago so there’s millions of them out there flooding the market.

There was also a minor hoo-hah over inheritance of the family piano, which then turned out to be a mass-produced budget model that was no longer physically able to be tuned to concert pitch without risk of damage. Turns out budget pianos don’t become antique, they just become old and you have to pay someone to take it away.

I defy OP to link me to a source of someone both:

1. unironically making fun of Superman for having a rock as his weakness, and

2. not already being challenged immediately on their statement within that same source

Weird, the art style doesn’t look like any AI I recognize, and yet everything about it has those classic hallmarks of being slightly weird and nonsensical, like where exactly is this date supposed to be happening? What is that thing on the desk? Is that supposed to be a window? Why does that handle not seem to connect to anything and why is she holding it in front of her in a weirdly unbalanced way like she’s walking a dog? Who shakes hands on a date? And why isn’t there any artist credited?

Block and move on - the user you’re talking to is a troll in the classic sense, i.e. someone whose entire time online is spent being a dick to people for no reason other than they’re unloved at home.

It’s a fucking chatbot. We should be worried when it can’t be persuaded to say mad things.

I’m willing to bet that at least half of these “look at the mad things Grok said” pieces were planted by Elmo’s own media team.

Sure, and the point I’m making is that it’s amusing to see from the perspective of anyone for whom those things are the standard. I didn’t say they said anything, I said they were talking about it as though it was an innovation.

These aren’t ground breaking ideas

My point is that these weren’t Aldi’s ideas to begin with.

At school, topics are divided into Arts, Science and Humanities. The majority of Bachelor’s degrees are titled Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science.

Using the word “Science” colloquially to describe anything that isn’t the Arts or Humanities is entirely consistent.

I love several of their business decisions such as the quarter for a cart, allowing customers to take excess boxes to reduce clean up, and they let their cashiers sit.

I find this comment hilarious since all the things you’ve described are commonplace in all supermarkets across most of Europe, and you’re talking about them like they’re some innovation of Aldi’s.

Yes, and in a saturated market like supermarket retail, “fastest growing” is mathematically guaranteed to be a company without so much penetration.

Also the article is a blatant advertorial for Aldi cooked up as a way of advertising on Reddit/Lemmy without having to pay. Don’t upvote it.

It’s insane, the crazy high PE ratio was predicated on the idea that Tesla would be the only game in town for EVs or self-driving cars worldwide, but now both of those are obviously not happening I can only conclude there’s some sort of sunk cost fallacy at play.

That might have been a good point, a few short years ago.

Ralph Fiennes surely?

GOETH: Make a hinge.

BEAKER: MEEP MEEP MEEP MEEP MEEP!

MATT DAMON

I posted a scathing reply to their post, but then lost confidence in it when it occurred to me they might have been joking, like deliberately getting it wrong to join in the joke OP posted.

Otherwise I have a new piracy idea

New in what sense? It’s literally what they’re already doing.

The problem from a legal standpoint is that the rules on what qualifies as commentary are fuzzy enough that you have to actually go to court for a decision, which nobody likes doing. Even the copyright holders are slightly wary of it, on account of the longer-term implications if they lose and set an unfortunate precedent.

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/reaction-videos-and-copyright-law-best-9687112/

Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc. A YouTube show used viral clips from Jukin Media’s library while adding comedic commentary. The court found that some segments were transformative and fair use, while others were not. The decision emphasized that each clip must be analyzed individually based on its purpose and editing.

Singapore has low taxes and high public spending, due to the government owning significant shares in all the major companies there. Public services are funded from the dividends. There’s the added bonus that the government have people on the Board of Directors to prevent any anti-consumer or anti-competitive corporate shenanigans before they start, rather than having to challenge it in court later on.

The US or UK occasionally buy shares in companies to bail them out, but always flake out a few years later and sell them for a quick pre-election cash injection.

I used to happily pay for the streaming services when they were a reasonable proposition. Then they got greedy.