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Naked greed has a way of making even the orangest turd seem to sparkle like gold.

Holy shit that’s not even true lmao, I have the one from Serpents Unleashed. Just got too excited to pay close attention lol

Got a version of this, from the hand of the man himself (John Dyer Baizley), hanging on my office wall! Helps that this record fuckin rips.

The high road is gone.

Republicans reshaped their party from the inside via the Tea Party dorks. We’re all worse off for that, but - at this point, the only path forward is for Democrats to do the same, reshape the party by going hard left, vehemently attack the corporate Democrats (almost all of them).

E: typos

Seriously. There’s no reasonable argument that they should have been allowed to continue to exist after that.

I really wish we’d start prosecuting and imprisoning leadership boards for really anything the company does wrong. It’s really amazing the way we let companies just get away with every single thing, I mean how much more predictable could the slide to shittiness be?

thousand acre welfare queens

Holy shit lol

Old comment by now, but you’re a lovely engineer for that and I, for one, appreciate you lol

Right? Most corrupt fuckin cop, there strictly for his own photo op of course, escorting a political-divide-spanning legitimate American folk hero. Seems like a pretty predictable response to me.

Great insight, and really this is emblematic of the idiotic hyper-focus on growth, as much and as quickly as possible. It’s always better for society and broader stakeholders if growth happens organically. Growth should happen to satisfy growing demand, it should not be forced to go as fast as possible because there’s ridiculous money to be made by getting in early and inflating demand.

Every damn thing “investors” get a fuckin whiff of they ruin this way, housing being probably the worst (repeat!) offender. We have to figure out how to disincentivize this behavior. It guarantees toxic trash for industries in their wake and just further enriches the worst among us.

Edit: clarity

I’ve had an antagonistic relationship with a vendor like this, it’s awful. In my case the vendor was supposed to be a fast moving tech startup - the only thing that moved fast there was the revolving door of engineering talent coming and going.

Even worse, my boss had been convinced by their founder that he had all this pull with the company, and since the company was super cool, that made him super cool, and I dunno if you’ve ever tried to criticize something that has made a middle aged nerd feel cool for the first time in his life, but let’s just say it was not a fruitful endeavor.

The number of things I effectively fixed for them via email, the abominations I had to construct to work around the things they refused or failed to fix…bad times.

Listen nerd, that was a lotta words. Nothing that matters takes that many words to say.

You can tell Vitamin A is good cuz it’s the first one. We need to get back to basics in this country. You ever heard of a kid getting too many A’s?

Git yer fiddly science outta my child-rearin!

So you’re saying kids these days are published with a buncha DLC and microtransactions?!

I hope you’ll update us if you chase this down. I like 404 Media and I want to keep liking them, but only if the reporting is good. Hopefully it’s a typical tech journalism mistranslation where they use Tesseract OCR to scrape PDFs and the author just misunderstood, or something like that.

Edit: after looking, I don’t have any issues. Looks like just a raw list from whatever source, I don’t need 404 Media to try to “curate” that or remove elements that seem irrelevant, they can leave that to us.

That would be wild lol. Trump has a storied history of turning on people who expend their usefulness to him, and often viciously. Many of the things that prop Musk up now can switch and work against him.

Thanks for the grace and understanding, I do care about the quality of dialog across Lemmy and I will endeavor to be less prickish in the future (for anyone who is reading).

Yeah, I have to acknowledge that I got needlessly defensive / combative. One of those, the poster just opened by essentially saying “I didn’t read your whole post, but here’s my take…” and that irritated me, but I eventually even tried to end amicably with that person. I was impatient and defensive throughout, though, I can do better, no argument there.

You’re also right that I must have failed to spell out the situation well, that’s 100% on me. And yes, moving away from Newegg is the stated goal of the post I made, that’s not really advice (and I understand this is probably the kind of comment that rubs people the wrong way).

I guess I don’t understand the amount of patience I’m expected to have with people who are not engaging with the point of my post (recommending more careful HDD retailers) but instead questioning whether the post itself has merit. If someone asks “how do I make a casserole” and I respond with “well, you haven’t even proven that a casserole is the right dish to make”, I’m not going to be surprised or offended if that person who asked the question gets irritated with my input.

To me, the username cyberpunk necessarily suggests someone who understands abuse by corporations and our gradually worsening treatment by them, which is relevant to me with this topic. With that said, making a big deal over someone’s username is just such classic Internet cringe, and I apologize, that was silly and unnecessary.

Edit: even just explaining myself and apologizing gets downvotes, it appears I have torched any good will available here.

Apparently it’s indeed a weird post. I’ll buy from the shop provided by several of the commenters who answered the question I asked. Really uninterested in describing to a user named “cyberpunk” of all things, why wanting a minimum of care for my purchases is actually not too much to request, I think every possible thing I might say has been said.