That 1.2 million when spread across a career in which you will work 60 hours a week, but only be paid for 40, doesn't really amount to much. When you consider the toll that such a lifestyle will take on your health, you won't even break even.

A 60 vs 40 hour work week is 1000 unpaid hours every year. Over the course of a 40 year career, that's 40k hours, or about $30/hour. Which means that any blue collar working making $20/hour or more will actually be making more per hour whenever they work overtime.

You mean like these dumpster fires?

The fact that notifications through the Push API do not cause the device to play sound, do not cause the device to vibrate, and appear at the bottom of the list on the lock screen.

I meant active computing.

As long as those robots keep thinking with their tiny sixties electronic brains, they're as close to humanity's living children outside of the solar system.

When they stop thinking, sure, they'll carry data for aeons for someone or something to discover one day maybe, but no differently than a dead body would carry information in a side pocket. It's useful but it's not alive anymore.

I might very well stop thinking before they do. I'm a few years away from retirement and I smoked for 25 years. So it's certainly not impossible.

Who needs Doom when we have Duke Nukem...

Need to be celebrated loudly and publicly - those who are still alive.

The engineers who keep this thing going too.

The Voyager probes are literally part of my life. I've always known them. For me, they're a fixture of the sky like the Sun and the Moon. They're precious little bits of living humanity far out there. If they die, something inside would die too, and I sure hope I kick the bucket before they do.

if he hadn't posted in the Fediverse through fucking Facebook. I would have been more impressed if he had done it directly on Mastodon or Lemmy.

This is sending all the wrong messages. Thanks whoever-runs-Biden's-internet-PR :(

Amazon can suck my balls.

Anybody who thinks this new normal is normal ain't normal in the head.

but I don't brag about it.

Dude... A website that costs nothing makes you the product. That's what they need cookies for: you-the-product aren't allowed to refuse tracking.

But more prosaically, cookies are also used by websites to tracks the state of your sessions. Cookies were literally designed for this genuine, legit purpose, and they're still used for that when they're not used to invade your privacy.

If they want to make Pluto the state's planet, and the Sun the state's official black hole, I don't really care.

What I do care about however is that my tax dollars pay for those bozos to work on idiocies like this instead of on real issues.

I did mention Patrick Stewart didn't I?

Although you never know, I might actually like the theater. Because Patrick Stewart is a superb thespian.

He's not a very good actor. He's not a particularly interesting person. His only claim to fame is having been Captain Kirk - something Patrick Stewart was orders of magnitude better at - and as Shatner himself says, it was only 3 years of his life.

But at least he's not obnoxious.

You should try Lemmy.

He's never made any money in his entire life. He means well, but he's a bit of a hippy, he doesn't like to work much and he has two left hands.

One day he bought an old minivan and told us - my sisters and I - that he'd start a small business delivering groceries to old people in remote villages, and would we like to invest in his company.

Can you guess how much we gave him?

We love our brother, but we'll never see our money back. Been there, done that. So we passed up this investment opportunity.

Well guess what: we ain't big shot Wall Street investors, but Reddit seems just about as adept as my brother at making money - and just about as likely to turn a profit for anybody investing in it.