Hamartiogonic

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[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

First, you need to find a place where soup restaurants have some special privileges compared to normal businesses. Then, just start a soup restaurant there and serve cereal and milk instead.

If you can’t find such a place, then maybe you can ask your local politicians to pass a bill like that. Would be nice if soup restaurants had to pay only half the amount of taxes compared to everyone else. Would be good for the owners, and fun for everyone else to see where the resulting legal battles go. Suddenly, you would find lots of companies selling just about anything and everything as soup and claiming they don’t have to pay the usual taxes.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

That’s true. If something doesn’t directly make money, it can still exist because of taxes or another arrangement like that.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz -2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So, the key is to run your business for loss. Wait, that’s called a charity, not a business. How is this thing supposed to work?

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

In the early days of laser development, it was seen as a solution seeking a problem. A few decades later, it actually turned out to be really handy, but it would have been tough to sell this idea to anyone before that. Imagine how hard it is to find funding for research that solves a problem that doesn’t exist.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sounds to me that Meta defines privacy in a very particular way. You’re still going to give all of your data to Meta, but anything outside this transaction is in the realm of privacy where you can have rights and settings.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

I recall watching a defcon speech given by someone who used to make malware. He opened the speech by apologizing and saying that he knows that he will burn in hell.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So, do you think that quantum computing has a much longer way to go?

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

And when Xitter starts posting NFT trash in your name, you can restrict the spread of those posts by spending some Xitter Turds, which you can get from the lootboxes.

Oh and the cooldown timers! After every post, you have to wait 24 hours, but you can cut that wait in half by spending some Xitter Turds again. Let me tell you, it’s going to be unlike any service before it. EA and Ubisoft have so much to learn here.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 5 points 8 months ago

Generally speaking true. However some companies manage to get the hype train going which leads to people buying bad products. As a result, a company can still survive by selling bad headphones or bad water bottles. Bad reviews can balance things a bit, but if their marketing budget is as big as the defense budget of a small country, there’s not much a bad review can do.

Obviously, this doesn’t really apply to small startups with only pennies to spend. Their marketing consists of sending samples to reviewers, and if that gamble backfires, for any reason, things aren’t going to look very good for the company. Maybe the product was bad, and they had it coming. Maybe the product was ok, but the review sample was broken. Who knows.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Add lootboxes and timers.

If you don’t pay to post, there’s a 50% chance of your post getting deleted after anyone sees it. Pay some money to get more favorable odds. Oh, but you don’t but that stuff with money. You gotta use xitter turds first that, and some times you can get those from xitter boxes. In order to buy the lootboxes, you have to spend real money.

If you haven’t bought any lootboxes in a month, xitter will take control of your account and start automatically posting flat earth nazi crypto trash.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Same thing with fusion reactors.

All the current machines out there are for research purposes only. Nobody can currently power an arc furnace of a steel mill using only fusion power. Sure, there’s been some progress with fusion and quantum computing, but it takes a while to get to an actual practical application of the technology.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, there’s garbage too, but I don’t subscribe to any of that. Just watch Linux and electronics tinkering videos instead.

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