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  • I don’t know if you’ve been to a American strip club.

    Rules often tend to be more like ‘guidelines’, that don’t actually exist as long as you appear to be following them, appear to understand the concept of plausible deniability, and/or are throwing around enough money to make people look the other way.

    Pay the cover, play it cool, don’t ask stupid questions, don’t get caught?

    I can absolutely see this happening.


  • Grok, undress her, render this entire scene as if she had no clothes… or was only wearing cellophane, whatever.

    … Its still wild to me that people will do something like that, when you can literally just go to a strip club and look, or look at the vast, uncountable amount of erotica or porn that people freely post of themselves.

    … Oh dear god.

    Somebody is going to wear these things into a strip club and sell it like a fucking virtu in cyberpunk 77.











  • ‘There is a form of socially acceptable discrimination against a subset of people based around a fundamental intrinsic element of those people that they are totally incapable of changing.’

    ‘Chin up, be strong, don’t let the bastards get you down!’

    Oh so … not a situation where we maybe need or could benefit from a serious society-wide discussion of this problem, the solution to this form of bigotry is uh… its a personal responsibility.

    Got it.


  • I mean, its econ/business lingo.

    Its not an argument, its just a description of what is happening.

    Weak demand pretty much means ‘less people are buying this thing’.

    Its a pretty well known phenomenon that if you raise prices too high, or all your customers become broke in some other way, have their purchasing power diminished… that’s referred to as ‘demand destruction’.

    You could also destroy demand if you maybe worsen the quality of the thing you’re selling, but keep the price the same or even raise it.

    (cough AAA video games cough)

    But, but… I will give you that this kind of phrasing does sound, to the average person, as if it is grammatically obscuring what’s going on, or shifting the blame to consumers.

    A lot of business/econ lingo is subtly insidious in that way.


  • They are less expensive.

    EDIT:

    Sorry, I misread the parent comment.

    You would use them for literally anything you typically or potentially could use a phone for.

    If you are not playing video games on your phone… there is basically no common reason to have a top spec brand new phone.

    What do I want my phone to do?

    Make calls, send messages, run a web browser, check emails, take a picture or video every once in a while, act as a notepad, check a weather forecast, have some map explorer, use some entirely 2D proprietary apps for things like… groceries or hailing a ride or checking my bank balance.

    Pretty sure that right there is about 80% of people’s phone use case.

    You do not need top spec hardware to do any of that.

    You have the gaming thing to do the gaming stuff.





  • I was an executive level data analyst for an international logistics middle man company, based in Seattle.

    Yes, correct, you cannot infact outsource that just as easily, it is, as I said, an entirely different animal, with many different kinds of problems and costs, and potential problems and potential costs.

    An enormous amount of logistics ultimately comes down to who knows, who, who introduces who to who, and who has what kind of reputation, with who.

    You either pay a firm like the one I worked for a considerable premium in order to have them manage every single step of the process, every single link in the chain… or you try to do all that on your own, maybe hire a few new expert people to figure out how to do that.

    I am arguing as if Valve is not a logistics company.

    You are arguing as if you do not know anything about logistics at all.