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[-] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Maybe I don't know enough about computer graphics, but in what world would you have/want to display a group of 33 pixels (one computed, 32 inferred)?!

Are we inferring 5 to the left and right and the row above and below in weird 3 x 11 strips?

[-] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

I'm just surprised there isn't a shadow industry of selling blood products fed on people altruistically donating for free (like, as far as I can tell, every country with public healthcare does) with corrupt pseudo-legal marketing ensuring that blood products are not sold for profit (because they sell the bag, not the blood, or they sell the service of delivering blood, or some bullshit like that)

[-] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 days ago

It is with that attitude

[-] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Fun fact! My coworker pays more in rent for his apartment than I do on the mortgage of my house. Most often this is true.

I'm getting a once over by the bank, he's getting done once over by the bank and again by his landlord, and they might not ever be different.

So how is an immigrant supposed to thrive when a foreign investment firm is profiting off them twice?

Subsidize affordable housing, tax wholesale & foreign landlords out of existence. It's simple.

[-] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

If only we had some sort of public entity that could fund housing investments with little to no financial gain, but great gains to public support and well-being that was also in charge of controlling and permitting immigration rates so that the two could be balanced...

[-] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

No. No, that's not it at all.

Immigrants would be better served by unprofitable low income housing, not feeding their meager scraps to pay artificially inflated rent prices to an offshore real estate investment company.

[-] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago

I don't think anyone wants to make a brand new condo and try to full it full of fresh immigrants that other businesses are exploiting to pay less.

They want to develop 1 set of condos they can sell for $300k+ rather than 3 sets for $100k

[-] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Isn't that just "giraffe" with a regional accent?

[-] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe don't charge $145 for a digital product. Maybe charge $50, and sell it to 5x the people. It quite literally costs nothing (okay, pedantically, the tiniest fraction) to sell more units.

I'd play an okay Star Wars game for $50 day 1. Wouldn't you?

And then when it goes on sale, loads of people would pay $20 on a 60% sale price next year. Whose paying $60 at a 60% off sale for a year old okay Star Wars game? No one. Not one soul.

Oh, you can get it cheaper for subscribing to Ubisoft+. Fuck off with that bullshit, do you even hear yourself?

[-] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 114 points 2 weeks ago

"I paid the most money to get the best truck and it can do anything. Ain't no fuckin' sign gonna tell me my truck can't do it!"

[-] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago

Similarly, I plan on double crossing the mafia so Thin Lips Johnny can chop me up and feed me to the pigs. Circle of life.

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