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  • Then you’re not understanding what NPR is at all. NPR is a non-profit radio station that provides free access to news, music, and programming over the radio and through TV and internet channels. Whatever NPR makes in revenue is through donations. Of course their budget is separate from their revenue. You have to have a budget at all to produce revenue.

    What this is saying is that NPR spends 100x more than the government will give them to provide a literal free service to the citizens of the USA. NOR is practically self-sufficient while SpaceX is a for profit corporation whose bigger client is the federal government. If either of these organizations are a leech, it’s certainly not NPR. One of them needs the money to survive.


  • Jyek@sh.itjust.worksto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    28 days ago

    That wasn’t even the reason for that change. There just plain wasn’t much room on the GBA SP for a headphone jack. People have modded them in aftermarket but every single one of the possible positions looks like crap and the GBA was never the pinnacle of audio hardware. In fact, the headphone jack made a triumphant return on every handheld Nintendo has released since the GBASP, including the GBA Micro.

    (I am not saying there weren’t good bops on the GBA, most Pokemon tunes are incredible. Just that audio quality was never a priority for design on the GBA.)






  • Jyek@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.worldThe only good billionaire
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    But if everyone had the same amount of money, the interest is suddenly 0 because interest is made off the backs of debt holders. You can’t be a debt holder if you are wealthy enough to live on interest. Interest money always comes from somewhere. It’s inherently the transfer of wealth from one person to another. The idea that you might live stress free solely off of the interest of your wealth is capitalism. Meaning capitalism requires people to be in debt and it requires people to struggle while the wealthy do… passion projects? Sounds like an ideal society…


  • Jyek@sh.itjust.worksto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneincredible find rule
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    I have always felt that feminism has had a marketing problem. I consider myself a feminist and I am for equal rights for all. But the issue with feminism is that it’s easy to point to the word and use it to propagandize a people against it. The word evokes a priority towards women (which I believe it should), but that makes folks feel like there are people out to be against them which is not what the movement is about.

    And then you have the people who claim to be feminist who are really just misandrists who want to see men broght down to achieve equality or who want to see women be valued higher than men. In reality, the way forward should be to lift women up to the level that society holds men. It shouldn’t be a battle of sexes.

    Feminism also (in name only) sorta precludes anyone who isn’t female. So non-binary? Get fucked I guess? I think there really ought to be a better way to market an equality movement than labelling it for women, even if that is the primary target of increasing equality.

    It would be like calling a racial equality movement blackism and then saying you represent all race’s equality. That specifically disregards all races not considered black from a marketing perspective, even if your movement’s actions are positive representation for all races.


  • Jyek@sh.itjust.workstoFediverse memes@feddit.ukIt's not just Linux
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    Well yeah Linux is getting gaming solved through a compatibility layer. I don’t think that is the big push so many people think it is. It doesn’t make developers want to develop for Linux. It makes them feel like someone else will make their game work on Linux without their involvement. If compatibility layers are the solution to Linux adoption, you might as well have used Windows to begin with because you’ll never reach 100% compatibility without running Microsoft’s code.

    What Linux really needs is proper native development but that requires public adoption and I suspect that will never happen as long as people are required to install an OS ever. If Linux isn’t already on the bare metal when the consumer buys the box, 99% of the time, Linux will never run on that box.

    People who install OS’s are an outlier.




  • Jyek@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.worldBeep beep
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    3 seconds when under 65. 5 seconds when it’s raining or I’m moving faster than posted highway speeds. It pisses people off but I’m hauling a ton of steel and plastic around, I’m not going to risk my life and everyone’s around me just because some guy is late for work or can’t be patient and needs to get where he’s going a few seconds before me. People tend to lose the reality of the situation when driving their super fast metal explosion machines.




  • Women are you doing this for me to be a good day to be able to get to the house and get the rest of the day off the day of the day and I will be there in a few minutes to get it done before I leave the house.

    My predictive text doesn’t know what to do with the words “Women are”. Maybe because I don’t like to make declarations about groups of people? Especially when it’s half of the population…

    Or maybe it’s just that gboard sucks at predictive text.



  • Impeachment is not the same as being removed from office. It is the first step to the process however. Impeachment is the bringing of charges against an official in office. Once charges are brought, a trial must be held on the Senate with the Chief Supreme Court Justice presiding. If the trial ends in a conviction, the result is removal from office. However, the Chief Justice for nearly the past 20 years is a staunchly conservative man appointed by the 2nd bush administration in 2005.

    Impeachment was never really a threat to Trump while in office. Just a way for Congress to tell the president that they know the bad shit he’s doing and they don’t like it. As long as the supreme court remains absolutely stacked with conservative appointees, there will never be a removal of office of a favored Republican president.