Out of curiosity, how old was that drive?

There was corpo phrasing in that…

It was amount of gold equal to server time assuming all the gold was bought.

But mods would get a shit ton to give out. And towards the end when you got gold you got “coins” as well that could be used to give gold.

Like, say I want to make “Fun Time bucks” a thing. To drive adoption I’m going to give out free fun time bucks to everyone, they spend because it’s free, and people start seeing it as valid.

Reddit was pumping gold so people saw it and hopefully they bought it because they assumed everyone else was buying it. But most of it was “free” gold.

Direct from Seagate wouldn’t be bad, check their store first to see if you can cut out Amazon.

I was talking about random reseller stores. “Manufacturer refurbished” for things you can’t see is almost always a good idea. The manufacturer has their brand name on the line and usually go over common fail points and replace if it looks worn.

Stores/Amazon doing “renewed” means they tried to cover up superficial damage and is completely different. It might look ok on the outside and be complete junk on the inside.

Think of “renewed” as “open box returns” except it might have taken the last user 5 years to return. It’s a much worse gamble.

Probably all the ad tracking shit running in the background.

Not to mention the IPO has them cutting costs everywhere to make them look profitable.

I also wouldn’t put it past them to intentionally slow down people who aren’t logged in.

Depends.

If it’s “buy from Amazon” then you can return it with no issue if shits bad.

If Amazon is just the middleman, than the seller could be scamming and will either fight returns or just close up shop. I wouldn’t buy any used electronic over $200 from a middle man because of that, so this is kind of on the line.

But modern HDDs hold up a lot better than they used to. I tend to “ship of Theseus” PC builds and I’ve got some HDDs probably 15 years old that are still going strong.

I can’t remember the last time I’ve heard anyone say a HDD failed. Just people remembering what it was like 25 years ago. We don’t think of innovation with old tech like HDDs, but there’s been a lot of improvements to the parts that used to fail regularly.

Exos x18 are enterprise drives that came out last than 5 years ago, I can’t imagine they were replaced because they’re all bad, just companies upgrading to newer tech. So should be fine and last you well over a decade.

Someone who is…

Christians are different for the reason I already mentioned…

Christian’s are the exception because they “took it back” like over a thousand years ago when they became the majority, it’s perfectly fine for them to prefer that. But it doesn’t effect any other group.

I know you said you’re legitimately trying to understand.

But I’m not spending anymore time helping.

People absolutely use the term Jews, it’s even in regular ass news headlines

Show me one headline with “the Jews” that isn’t extremely far right or full on nazis

illegal immigrant is a normal and widely used term…?

It was. But lots of things people used to say is not acceptable today. That’s literally the definition of progress: shit gets better…

And “The Jews” is shorter than saying “people who are Jewish”…

But we don’t just say that do we?

Are you legitimately having trouble understanding?

Nobody is saying that being a human is illegal, or that they are innately illegal.

The headline:

Illegal foreigners

But in case you’re honestly trying to learn:

Use an adjective to describe a person. Don’t use a noun to label to them.

Christian’s are the exception because they “took it back” like over a thousand years ago when they became the majority, it’s perfectly fine for them to prefer that. But it doesn’t effect any other group.

And it’s not just religions, literally every group in every conversation;

Use adjectives.

Not nouns.

But you realize that’s not what’s in the headline, right?

Like, if you’re trying to actually learn I’m down to clarify, but it feels like you just want to argue the line as close to dehumanizing these people as you can…

I always just ate it too.

Way lower sugar, lots of fiber, it’s probably the best part of a pineapple for you.

If you’re expecting normal pineapple it’s going to suck, but if you know what you’re getting into they can be good.

Every once and a while I’ll give it to the dog if it’s too hard. As a bonus pineapple has bromaline naturally, you can buy it as a powdered supplement to put on their food, and for whatever reason it stops making poop taste delicious. They don’t notice it the fast time, but the second go around they’re not interested.

At one point I had to put it on a kittens food because the dog wouldn’t stop raiding the litter box.

Edit:

Obviously look into if dogs should/can eat it first before feeding your dog a pineapple core. I think it’s cool but you should never just do something from social media before verifying.

What’s wrong with “people who immigrated illegally”?

People aren’t illegal

They can illegally be places they shouldn’t, but they’re two completely different things and even tho this is likely due to translation it’s always good to point out

Why would he be invited anywhere serious?

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/25/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news#un-cease-fire-resolution-gaza-israel

Took like two seconds to find an example of Israel not stopping one of their genocides when the UNSC told them to stop…

Charlie Brown has commented that this time he is 100% confident Lucy won’t yank the football away for the millionth straight time…

The lawmakers pointed out that only an arms embargo to Israel — as has been ordered by international and domestic law — can result in the de-escalation of tensions that the Biden administration has claimed that it supports.

It’s fucking insane that Dem leadership is acting the same with Biden that Republicans did with trump.

He is and he’s been saying it for half a century…

But to truly believe Israel is the good guys working towards peace in 2024 is completely illogical and in direct opposition to every piece of intelligence that isn’t coming from Israel.

And he does seem to truly believe it, I don’t think he’s just lying to everyone. It’s no different than an elderly relative going hard trump, he’s being taken advantage of by a foreign government.

It’s not an excuse, and it’s definitely not a reason to let him keep doing this shit, but it’s important to understand why people do horrible shit like support a genocide.

Just write him off as a horrible monster and it’s hard to prevent it from happening again. That’s a big part of why we’re still fighting fascists all over the planet. It’s not enough to say they’re monsters, we need to understand the why so we can stop it from happening again

Biden is literally being taken advantage of by Israel at this point due to his age, or he’s flat out lying to everyone about what he thinks is happening.

Like, his continually denial of reality at this point doesn’t have any other explanation

He believes it and age isn’t just why he couldn’t be the candidate, it’s why he shouldn’t be president right now.

Or he knows that when people criticize him, people and the media will label them trump supporters for having standards higher than “not trump”. Which I’ll never understand but still happens online often.

Either way, Biden is faciliting a genocide.

Rightwing media could report the sky is blue, doesn’t mean everything in their article is true

That’s how most propaganda works, it’s not outright lies it’s reporting a true thing that’s been completely wrapped in bullshit.

I just don’t ever see the point of driving traffic to their site, like you just showed, it wasn’t the only option. Just the one you picked first.