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Comment Re:Interesting (Score 2) 69

I have one chefs knife that is sharp like a razor. I have a stainless steel bowl I make a sanitation solution in (one or two cap fulls of bleach) and throw in a clean small towel or two. The super sharp knife makes sure onions and the like don't squirt unneeded juice, and I can wipe off the blade between food types.

Kosher was created because people didn't know what germs are, and just knew that if you ate certain foods you were more likely to get sick, but didn't know why. And they didn't know that the problem with wood handles on knives was that bits of stuff could get stuck between the steel and wood allowing contamination. So the rabbis just made up a rule and put it in the book that said, unless it is blessed by a rabbi, you can't eat that food or use that type of cooking tool. And then the rabbis would only bless food that was less likely to make you sick. Now we know about germs and raise animals in ways they won't be contaminated (e.g. trichinosis in pigs is almost unheard of now, and we know about things like 'red tide' and other stuff that contaminate shellfish and crustaceans). So Kosher doesn't mean shit anymore. Only people who think there is a god that watches what you eat believes that nonsense now.

Comment Re:Fuck China (Score 1) 136

So the USA puts by tomorrow, 100% tariffs on Chinese goods. That means Americans' buying power with respect to what they can purchase from China, is halved. For all other countries at 50% it is one third. America can't buy as much. Just like the buying power of third world countries. Anyway, China won't care, there are over six billion people in all the other countries outside of China and the USA. And eventually when the American dollar goes low enough, all those countries will switch to using the Euro as the standard. Then the USA will be the banana republic you MAGA types have always wanted. You're number 85.

Comment Re:Easy, they don't have to be a box office hit (Score 1) 94

Netflix's goals are a little different. Yes, they expect to turn a profit on a film or series, but due to the nature of streaming, the movie itself is never a direct profit center. Under the Netflix model, a movie could have zero views and still be a smashing success if it induces more people to sign up or retain Netflix subscriptions.

Fair enough. But this specific movie is not an example of something that brings in new subscribers. There's nothing niche about it and nothing that targets a specific group of people or especially hobbyists or enthusiasts.

This is just a straight up bad movie, considering the amount of money that went into it.

For example, if Dune or LOTR were flop movies, I would agree with you and say that it still made sense for Netflix to finance those movies because those are cult classics and people will join Netflix just to see them. Or many of your vintage classic movies. Or Clint Eastwood Westerns. There are people who are super passionate about those genres and niches and even fans of those specific movies.

Comment Re:Which workers? (Score 4, Insightful) 47

Seriously, just stop spreading BS. Intel cannot be remotely compared to AOL, and even your fear-mongering of "stock options getting stolen" is largely BS. For the record, Intel switched from stock options a long time ago to RSUs or restricted stock units. Intel has been in existence for decades and has made steady profits for shareholders for decades. Intel's employees have become literal millionaires - and thousands of them. You're comparing this to some BS based on some cherry picked anecdotal data or some skewed comparison with startups.

Intel is not a startup. It has been rock solid for literally decades - spanning the career lifetime of many many employees. People have literally joined Intel fresh out of college and have retired out of Intel and have seen massive wealth creation from stock options they received. Not the paranoid BS you are writing.

Show me ONE example in Intel's 55+ years of history where Intel's lawyers have screwed Intel's employees out of stock options? Otherwise you're just farting in the wind.

Comment Encourage People Never Go More Than 20km From Home (Score -1) 239

And then we can have a different language every 100kms, or accents that are so different we might not understand them. So cool to fragment the world again on the pillar of killing cars. Now we have ICE cars. What will the idiots excuse be for when there are all EVs or H2 cars (shut up EV fucktards, they won't work in the third world there isn't enough electric infrastructure, try actually following what's going on and see the hundreds of billions ongoing into H2 in the third world). I'll guarantee these numbskulls will make up some other stupid reason to fragment society. Modern transportation made the world smaller, and helped educate people by way of learning about people elsewhere whenever they feel like driving. It's almost like the sheep are being led to the slaughter by creating a world where the disconnected people are easier to control.

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