krakenx

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[–] krakenx@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The searches came to light in a Wisconsin criminal complaint against Edward Abrams-Phillips, who was wanted for bail jumping on domestic violence charges. But the criminal complaint makes clear that beyond the bail jumping and domestic violence charges, police specifically studied Abrams-Phillips’ interstate travel to create the pretext for searching his car for marijuana. The bail jumping charge was dismissed; Abrams-Phillips was found guilty only of weed possession in the case, according to the court records.

So they did have probable cause in this case since they were already tracking him and he wasn't allowed to leave the state.

[–] krakenx@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What do you call a virus that doesn't damage your system? An "app"

[–] krakenx@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

It actually did though. They now include free DVR and on-demand on most packages to compete with streaming. In some cases they include a streaming service with the cable package too.

[–] krakenx@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

They have a monopoly on content. If you want to watch Star Trek, you need Paramount+ for example. If you just want to watch Sci-Fi in general any streaming service would work but if you want to watch a specific show, then you still only have 1, maybe 2 options.

[–] krakenx@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

It's not a trap, it's an intentional choice, and a very profitable one. Imagine you sell a lot of a product but costs make up 90% of revenue. Then you double the price and as a result sell half as much. Your costs stayed roughly the same, maybe went up a little. So now instead of making 10% profit, you are making 40-45% profit per item. Now imagine your sales declined by less than 50% and how much extra profit that would be.

Prior to the pandemic companies would be careful about raising prices. If they raised prices by 5% and lost 10% of sales, that was less profitable than not increasing the price. But the legit supply chain shortages during the pandemic made them realize that a larger subset of customers were willing to pay significantly higher prices than they thought, and they also realized they had less competition than they thought, and now everything costs double and we all just call it inflation, because that's what inflation is. When the price of everything goes up at the same time.

It will continue until either there is nothing left of the upper middle class, or the upper middle class stops paying. The poor and lower middle class are already priced out, and companies do not care.

[–] krakenx@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you forget to cancel, the re-order is at full price. They are betting that you will forget or that you will be willing to pay full price to keep getting it.

[–] krakenx@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

History is intentionally taught wrong I think. Nobody really needs to know the exact date that something happened (outside of a few key events). What actually matters is what timeframe it happened in, what events led up to it, and what the consequences were. The "why" behind the events. History should be taught like his-STORY because it is a story. One of my favorite middle school history teachers taught us history as if it was a story book and the historical figures were characters, which made it interesting to listen to, while also being contiguous.

By teaching history as a disjointed series of dates and events, schools fulfill their obligations to have a class be taught without actually teaching the critical thinking people need to understand current events. How much of this is intentional to cause students to grow into adults who vote against their own interests, or simply a result of paying teachers less than McDonald's workers I do not know.

[–] krakenx@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Once per device you will need to wait 24 hours before installing unauthorized apps. That's all the new restrictions do. It will basically not affect power users at all.

For scammers, the 24 hour waiting period completely breaks their scams. They won't be able to trick people into installing malware if they have to call back to resume the scam the next day. Google said that was their goal and their new solution actually does this without impeding power users.

Google found the balance that we were asking them for, yet people won't stop complaining and even lying about it in posts like this. Maybe that energy is why the users won this time, but either way, take that energy and fight any of the thousands of real fights.

[–] krakenx@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

There are a lot of reports of simple.life being a scam app. Charging people more than they agreed on and not honoring requests to cancel, being auto-subscribed to other 'offers', and the app not providing the info they claim it does. I filled out their questionnaire but did a bit of digging and stopped before giving them any payment. They still have my info though...

[–] krakenx@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I'd argue the opposite. We need more things to be free and standardized. There is no universal way to send a file, store a file, send a text or picture message for example. Email, with a basic design that's over 40 years old has had to fulfill all of that itself, and does so reasonable well, all things considered.

[–] krakenx@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Th gb Mega Man games got colorized DX releases for the gbc, and they look and play great.

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