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Dan Ryan @danryan17.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah agreed with your original principal, but that's like 2% of a monthly cost for the military.

Dan Ryan @danryan17.bsky.social · 1d

The troops aren't getting paid by private donation, the bi-weekly cost of MILPERS for the department is ~$8B.

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Dan Ryan @danryan17.bsky.social · 1d

Then they should deliver fully ready games. Plus people have got bit too many times with big name games only to have them be a complete dumpsterfire for the a few months after release or just completely flop (starfield etc).

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

This point really upsets some folks, but it is true. Folks wonder why there's so much DLC, microtransactions and stuff and the answer is that at a $70 price point, inflation adjusted, games cost 75% of what they did in 2000 when it was typically $50.

Inflation is like that.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

AAA video games should cost $100 on launch. this would still be extremely cheap for the amount of time and enjoyment you get out of them! But an audience of whiny babies has kept them literally at the same price for *two decades* despite both general inflation *and* sector-specific costs rising

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Dan Ryan @danryan17.bsky.social · 1d

fortune.com/2025/09/19/s...

Samsung confirms it will begin showing you advertisements on your $1,800-plus refrigerator’s screen | Fortune

The tech company has a history of customer blowback over inserting ads on the digital displays of home devices.

fortune.com

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Dan Ryan @danryan17.bsky.social · 1d

Did you see the article about Samsung starting to put screen ads in their refrigerators with built-in displays?

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 2d

I want dumb everything. I want the dumbest appliances in the world in my home. I will pay someone to make them dumb. Just sit there and be a bed. That's all I need from you.

Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 3d

Call me a luddite if you like - but I don't want a bed that stops working when Amazon Web Services goes down.
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto

The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

www.dexerto.com

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Dan Ryan @danryan17.bsky.social · 1d

Also LRE equipment and manning

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 1d

We’re going to put the F-35 on the blockchain

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David Alman @davidalman.bsky.social · 1d

“We’re going to do all the same things, but more complicated, but also better, and cheaper”

The defense tech crowd is going to kill people by promising unicorns that will never deliver.

$"What it does is it basically brings the capability of something like an F-35 or a comparable fifth-gen [fighter], puts it in a vertical takeoff and landing package, and then delivers it at a tenth of the cost, life-cycle[-wise] of a fifth-gen. So, breaking the cost curve. It enables us to counter China's fifth and sixth-gen aircraft with something that comes at a fraction of the price."$

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2d

That’s incomplete, he only got 2 of his 3 feet down inbounds

Andrew Siciliano @andrewsiciliano.bsky.social · 2d

Roger Goodell says the NFL is looking into how AI can help officiating in the future.

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Dan Ryan @danryan17.bsky.social · 3d

You can't even buy a single container of THAAD missiles for $75M (8x missiles at $15M/per)

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Dan Ryan @danryan17.bsky.social · 4d

I've been sitting on this meme for like 5 years

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Dan Ryan @danryan17.bsky.social · 4d

Found the risk assessment sheet from the CONOPs

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Dan Ryan @danryan17.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah but not having 100 pop-ups and 60/40 add to actual words ratio is worth it to me. It's actually quite jarring when I forget I have it turned off for some reason and go to a website. It's like oh God what the hell is all this?!

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Dan Ryan @danryan17.bsky.social · 4d

If you have android or windows PC, I'll plug AdGuard. You can get a lifetime license for less than a hundred bucks and it nukes ads on websites. This is my stats since this beginning of the year.

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Dan Ryan @danryan17.bsky.social · 6d

a man wearing a headband is sitting at a table looking at a computer screen .

ALT: a man wearing a headband is sitting at a table looking at a computer screen .

media.tenor.com

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Dan Ryan @danryan17.bsky.social · 6d

My son currently trying to negotiate an issue right now which his stance is "there are no rules"

a man in a red shirt is saying this is no democracy it 's a dictatorship .

ALT: a man in a red shirt is saying this is no democracy it 's a dictatorship .

media.tenor.com

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Dan Ryan @danryan17.bsky.social · 6d

So many conversations lately with people about "they want" and I'm like who is "they", well you know *insert some nebulous group*.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 6d

immigrant grocery store owner who voted for Trump to lower grocery prices and then got wrecked by tariffs. mfer you run a business called "Wong Kai Imports" what the hell did you think was gonna happen

Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 6d

"A beloved family-run grocery store in Florida may have to close its doors after 43 years because of tariffs." www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/ar...

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Dan Ryan @danryan17.bsky.social · 6d

Not gonna help for medals but I did see these the other day

snaprackusa.com/collections/...

Ribbon Attachment Mounting Tools

SnapRack uses strong magnets to allow the user to hand-build their ribbon rack and modify it to fit the number of ribbons they've acquired with ease

snaprackusa.com

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 7d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6d

Great moments in redaction history.

Interview from the Titan submarine investigation. The witness name is blacked out. The first line is "Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

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Dan Ryan @danryan17.bsky.social · 7d

Here in VA state law mandates that every students shall have recess every day, so I would be having a talk with the teacher and school admin.

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Dan Ryan @danryan17.bsky.social · 7d

It's like the classic corporate name change game, every couple of years they "reform" the school add a week, cut a week, shuffle some things around and somehow it always ends up looking about the same as one of the last three "reform" results.

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