I disagree, other than a few notable counter examples most times folks are only successful when they build reliable business relationships. Most relationships will dissolve if one party is playing games.

On average it’s more effective to follow “The No Assholes Rule”. There’s plenty of studies (referenced in the book Good To Great) that indicate that humble business leaders produce build more stable and long term profitable companies.

Lying manipulators can sometimes get ahead but just as often they get found out and blackballed.

I think it might be like a game theory type situation where if everyone is honest, then the first liar might get ahead a lot (although I suspect in that situation they’d immediately be shunned by all honest folk if found out). If everyone is a liar then honest folk have nothing to hide and probably will just be really defensive in their dealings.

Make butter and freeze it

I came here to post this

Hey this looks like my Dwarf Fortress entrance (when I use tile mods)

Ah that makes sense. Do you like the taste better?

It’s surprising to me it’s more expensive to make at home with the same ingredients. Are you making the beans from dry, and shredding the cheese?

I used my old standby QMK and just wrote the config with cursor/vim.

Here’s a cool picture of my soldering job, I didn’t test it until the end, and it all worked first try!

I’m playing through Another Crabs Treasure and this post gives me flashbacks

walk this way hobbles up stairs, looks back

the doctor hobbles along the same way

I must say though, that movie kind of creeped me out as a kid. I really didn’t like the blind man just trying to be nice but everything going wrong.

“the poor dopamine seeker, I fear his long-standing obsessions have affected him”

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As these companies become larger and larger, they start behaving more and more like Soviet central planners.

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. We’ve become a centralized economy through weak monopoly enforcement.

Combine that with everyone $500k poorer because the billionaires acquired it. A recipe for depressed, anxious, angry, feed-addicted rats in a cage.

makes me think of

a sleep paralysis demon looking spooky in the shadows at the end of the bed, in the style of an old Renaissance painting, like a Raphael portrait, a person frozen in the bed looking terrifed and unable to move eyes wide

Make love not war

🎵 nothing at all, nothing at all

Good points. So roughly 10% chance of needing to get glasses or surgery again, which gets higher the worse your vision is to start.

There’s a lot of folks in the comments who are pretty cavalier about the safety, yet the CEO who produces Lasik machines refuses to get the procedure and just wears glasses.

Obviously there’s a lot of folks happy with it.

However, many people end up needing glasses within ten years. “Relating to the legal requirements in Germany, sufficient visual acuity was found in 76.7 % of the LASIK group, in 73.9 % of the Ortho-K users and in 85.7 % of the reference group (72.7 % in the adult group, 100 % in the juvenile group).” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23508754/

“Nearly 5% of subjects were dissatisfied with their vision after Lasik… eyes feeling irritated (50%), glare (43%), halos (41%), and [trouble] seeing in dim light (35.2%).” Source: Mamalis N. Laser vision correction among physicians: “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2014 Mar;40(3):343-4.

“Lasik Suicide” is a real thing, most of the folks who have been affected don’t take the time to say much about the excruciating pain, they just commit suicide.

https://www.lasikcomplications.com/suicide.htm

Definitely think very carefully, your eyes are something you can’t fix if you get this surgery. For some people enough nerves are damaged to cause persistent pain that doesn’t go away.

I almost got the surgery a few years ago, if it worked 100% of the time I would have taken the risk. But vision is so important that I didn’t want to take the risk. Several of my family members did get it and still have dry eyes and halos ten years later, and two now need glasses again anyway.

“I’m not brainwashed, my worldview just happens to perfectly align with conservative news! Anyway, so that’s why we have to kill or deport everyone who disagrees.” <- a real thing I’ve been told