People buy stuff for the image. Apple has cultivated a certain image with its branding that people are attracted to and buy their products because of it. I’ve heard it described as “People don’t buy what you make but what you are.” The image and brand of the company is often why people buy from them. Apple produces products for cool hip people, not the stuffy old guys in suits! You’re a cool person, right?

Something being expensive is often part of the image. People like to pretend they’re rich and the more expensive all their stuff is the more they can project that image. It can also be self validation. Owning expensive products can someone feel better about their lives.

And if you don’t upgrade you won’t be able to play at all!

If an instance admin stickies a post it’ll show up at the top of all your feeds (unless you sort by “top”).

However, I checked lemm.ee and it doesn’t have any stickied posts, but it does have a month old post stuck at the top of “all”. Comments in the thread are complaining about it. I see lemm.ee is using the newest version of Lemmy (v0.19.10) so maybe it’s a new bug?

Gracias!

Hey Baby, schöner Arschbackenoberschenkelabtrennfalte!

One day humanity would end because the president of Turkmenistan got into an argument with the president of Uzbekistan over where the imaginary line that separates the countries is drawn on maps.

Economics Explained has an interesting video on the topic. After WWII, Japan became the first country in Asia to undergo an industrial revolution and soon became the second largest economy after the US and was by many accounts set to match or even overtake the US. They then suffered an economic collapse due to unchecked growth and speculative markets and decided to never again speculate on the future and just stick to tried and true methods.

Since the 1990s, Japan’s economy has barely changed while other nations have seen huge growth. You’d assume that would mean Japan is now far behind, but they aren’t. They seem to have mastered keeping everything the same for decades without the normal decline that comes with it.

c/PLASTT ?

so that some RAs can feed the homework back through a different AI to handle the grading for them.

Reminds me of this comic

Rust has become a very popular language for hobby projects but hasn’t gained lots of traction in professional development. It’s a joke to say finished Rust programs are like unicorns.

I love how there’s exempt days. You can dress up like a furry once in a while as a treat.

October 30, 2024

If Kojima wrote a story about Sony, their leaders would be Timed Exclusiveman and Thirdparty Accountman.

See also: Nobel Disease.

Because I’m a Gamer! A Gamer! The most oppressed minority on the planet!

But the author’s actual reason is:

Our hobby deserves better from the companies that made their billions on the backs of PC gaming

Which seems about as true as saying Microsoft made their billions on the backs of PC gaming.

Where’s the money, Lemeowski?

You don’t program in Rust because you want to finish a project.

Rushing your decisions is a common red flag in scams. I’d say it’s probably enough of a red flag to stop talking with them. You can try to slow play things and if they continue to hound you then it’s almost certainly a scam. They’re probably going to do something like:

Ask you for money to purchase things you’ll need for your job (MLM/pyramid scheme)

Give you a large cheque, ask you to cash it, give a certain amount of the cash to someone, and keep the rest for yourself (cheque fraud).

I believe it’s Steam Keys can be sold anywhere but they have to be for the same price as buying the game through Steam itself.

The person who wrote in “married sex”. I bet that deviant is probably into hand holding too.