Mog_fanatic

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[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 36 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

This is exactly what will happen. Same thing with Albertsons and Kroger too.

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Lol if I had a dollar for every time I've heard about the next CoD killer

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

I work in this space. There's a wide variety of reasons, a company being dumb and greedy is definitely among them but typically just a tiny part of the equation. The biggest thing is certified vendors. The military/government is incredibly strict with who they'll contract with. Which means the supply is incredibly limited on many things, which in turn means that companies will ratchet up prices a crazy amount in part to deal with the goofy standards that the government requires on their goods but also because they know the demand far outweighs the supply.

There is also the burden of time. The US government drags their feet an INSANE amount on projects. It scales with size as well. The larger the project the slower things move almost every time. It very frequently gets to a point where they need stuff done right now because they waited too long and will pay pretty much any price to do it.

There is also the fact that the military is operating with a budget chalk full of "fuck you money." In short, money is immaterial. Half the time they don't even look at the price, whatever it costs doesn't matter, just get it done and get it done right.

My company marks up shit an insane amount and I know for a fact pretty much every other certified vendor is as well. I dunno about 8k% (lol) markup but honestly that doesn't shock me. The prices I've seen are jaw dropping. And they pretty much never get negotiated or rejected.

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This makes no logical sense lol. OP says he's going to commit suicide, his comment gets upvotes, therefore his comment is sarcasm?? Right or wrong this is just an awful way to decide. How others react to something isn't indicative of that thing's original intent... That should be pretty obvious.

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

¿Porque no los dos?

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Dude literally told advertisers to go fuck themselves and is now like "well wait, I didn't mean it like that" lmao

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have this problem or it will play for like 3 seconds and then buffer for a bit, play 3 seconds, buffer, repeat for infinity. No matter what I do I have one of these issues with Firefox and any adblocker and it's super annoying.

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Just think how annoying it would be if like the best players in the world were only good because they were literally Olympic sprinters and just ran literal circles around you in a fight lol

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

I have personally done a blind taste test just for fun with several different types of fish that my family caught and the two of us that were doing it both couldn't tell for shit what was frozen and what wasn't. Anecdotal for sure but I thought for sure I'd be able to tell easily.

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Yeah screw those people being able to be happy and move to an area that doesn't bend them over almost definitely worse than you. What assholes! They should have to stay in the downtown centers and pay $15 million to live in an old phone booth with a sink.

This has the same energy of people being pissed off with student loan forgiveness or something. "If I had to deal with it, so should you! I can't be happy so you can't either blah blah"

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