Horse shit is alright

The economy is in a weird spot where data looks alright (employment and gdp) but the covid economy hit everyone including your friendly neighborhood corporation. Ads are a simple and reliable way to turn up profits in a soft economy and declining global situation and inflation. Since companies have effectively stolen wages for so many years they can’t cope with modest wage spike on their bottom line or really any disruption anywhere in their business they use ads to print money. Maybe as time goes on business will benefit from slowing wage growth and increasing automation we will see ad growth scale back. Regulation would be nice but what are you going to do?

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2021/03/COVID-inequality-and-automation-acemoglu.htm

https://www.atlantafed.org/blogs/macroblog/2024/06/27/are-real-wages-catching-up

Just in the youtube app, like regular youtube experience w/o an adblocker was brutal.

I had a Go a long time ago and I loved it for watching movies but the small sweet spot was an issue. I feel a strong pull towards pancake lenses but I think the cost is still out of reach… a new q3 is approaching 1k after straps and games.

Chronicle could count. But then you’re inviting in things like Brightburn, maybe even Carrie or other super-power adjacent stories? Chronicle makes me sad for some reason. Totally forgot about Guardians. Loved the OST from those movies.

I like that! When I had a Go I found finding experiences difficult, side loading was time consuming and hit or miss quality and streaming (youtube) was riddled with ads. I could see making this work better for me by upgrading my network firewall with a pi-hole and installing jellyfin somewhere and building a VR library.

I had an Oculus Go for a while and despite the average, kind of uncomfortable, kind of blurry experience I was still always struck when I took the headset off how stark reality felt in comparison. I was happy in VR, it something to look forward to. The alternatives are less good…

Maybe I have a soft spot for Ragnarok. I like Thor and Hemsworth and how it went in a totally different direction was refreshing since the previous Thor was meh. I was in the mood for comedy and brighter colours. Plus the intro scene hooked me. Haven’t watched any of these movies for a few years though.

misleading title.

Non-trash post: https://lemmy.world/post/20503624

Zombeavers

I haven’t but this is the second time it’s popped up today so I’ll put it on now.

Return of the Living Dead (1985)

I watched this recently. Actual not-dumb characters is sooo nice. I’d written this off as just yet another Romero style zombie movie but it has it’s own thing going on. I think given how much I liked Tusk (saw it last night) and Dale and Tucker vs. Evil I have a soft spot for R rated horror comedy.

Pontypool pairs well with 30 days of night (and Tusk pairs well with The Substance).

Endgame, ragnarok, one iron man, one of spider-mans. Dr. strange. The raimi trilogy. The animated spider-man movies. Nolan’s batman? Matt Reeve’s Batman? Watchmen too probably.

I think there are some good rewatchable action movies in there. Oh an Loki. Loki was good. Harry Potter sort of stuff, but comic books.

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Wow how do you normally deal with that?

the problem is intermittent but yes that’s basically what I’d do.

I am liking the sound of being admin of the PC. I like that. I only have surface laptops though and am less encouraged by the setup of that. Also… I forgot that I use Sketchup regularly so will need to keep my windows partition.

My boss doesn’t do meetings. Every once in a while he approves my vacation request and I get notified it’s approved. Sounds better than it is, but it is better than pointless daily meetings. Adult daycare crap.

This is lemmy so they’re probably angry Germany isn’t bombing Israel like Iran

I’ve changed some of my habits but it would be ideal if I wasn’t always trying to outfox the computer. It’s a laptop, so for me that means it is on on most of the time and plugged into a dock. I’m a night owl too so I end the day with lots of stuff open and plans to keep going in the morning, I’d rather not shut down. I also struggle with my mood and often little things that seem easy can feel like a lot. I like my IT to be low maintenance.

I’m very sour about it