JackbyDev

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billionaire-wealth-covid-pandemic-12-trillion-jeff-bezos-wealth-tax/

Between March 18, 2020, and March 18, 2021, the wealth held by the world's billionaires jumped from $8.04 trillion to $12.39 trillion, according to the IPS' analysis of data from Forbes, Bloomberg and Wealth-X. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, the world's wealthiest person, saw his fortune soar to $178 billion from $113 billion, or 57%, during that time, the study found. All told, the total wealth of the world's billionaire class grew 54% during the pandemic year, IPS reported.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I've never viewed "disappearing" as a euphemism.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Not a Russian bot. Down voted it because GitHub is still a poor choice to host open source on nowadays. It's like someone saying "It's stupid that such and such switched to renewable energy instead of fossil fuels because they believe the world is flat. The world is not flat!" It's really missing the forest for the trees.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago

Moving off of GitHub is still good, even if you believe their reasoning behind their reasons is incorrect.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When that code is used on devices all over the world for many very important tasks, yes.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

Usually they are lying. It means they hate poor people.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is the closest one I could find because it has kids and mentions a black box. There were a ton though. https://youtu.be/dO7cvpVPv2A

The one that stuck out was a career day thing and one kid was bragging about his dad's "black box" that gets free cable! Wow! And the one of the other parents was a police officer! Oh no! 😱

If you just look up "cable theft commercial" in YouTube you'll find a lot. Some are more humorous. For example, this one encourages reporting people who steal cable. https://youtu.be/y3DmyJ9dYrk Specifically that, minor spoiler, are jerks!

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You reminded me of the massive amount of "Dad gets free cable with his little black box" commercials as a kid.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've seen some microwaves that say sensor but then ask how much popcorn you're putting in.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

To be totally honest, a lot of communities aren't big enough yet to really necessitate splitting into niche communities yet. I don't know if gaming/Metroid is an example of one that does or doesn't meet that. It's just an observation.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago

This is a bad idea. They're different communities. Full stop. They have different moderators. They may have different rules. I'm not even convinced communities using the same URL slug on different instances would even imply they're the same topic.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter who made the decision when discussing people wanting to interact.

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