[-] AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 week ago

Without having more detail I can't speak with certainty, but, general principles of inventory management and cash flow discourage having a surplus of stock, as that ties up a significant amount of working capital in the costs of storing and handling it all - you risk not being able to pay your liabilities because you've sunk all your funds into inventory that hasn't yet sold and generated more revenue.

Companies often have longer term contracts with specific prices agreed that can't always be easily changed. Those contacts could quite easily become unprofitable if there are sudden increases to the direct costs of fulfilling them. So, rather than trying to fuck customers, this company is likely trying to stock-up at current market prices to ride-out the first year of tariffs, but in doing so, needs a large injection of working capital to cover the expenditure (hence cancelling bonuses), and also puts itself in a very vulnerable position where cash flow is concerned by tying up that capital in inventory - any further sudden and unexpected costs could lead to the business folding.

[-] AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 months ago

I've had this since my teens. Some days, weeks, even months are harder than others, but no matter what I always feel like an attention-seeking fraud for not being "serious" about suicide, like others who actually try it

I cope through humour, mostly. I affectionately refer to the train station near me as my "get out of jail free card", for when things get too much and I eventually succumb. It' somehow helps to know I'm kidding, but also not kidding. Though I've thought and planned enough to know if I did ever really do it, that's probably not what I'd do.

But yeah. I find all I can do is take each day as it comes.

[-] AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml 28 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I don't get it either.

There's plenty of stories to explore in the world of Arda. Why do studios keep coming back to Gollum? Where are these people who are crying out for more and more Gollum?

Do the Silmarillion you cowards.

[-] AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml 22 points 7 months ago

I see Linux in my future, as I just don't have the cash for a new rig.

I have to be careful though, as it's my family PC, and the rest of my family aren't going to tolerate much of a learning curve. It really needs to just work out of the box.

Considering Zorin OS. Hopefully I can get it on my SSD next to Windows so I can dual-boot for a while to test the water...

[-] AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml 22 points 10 months ago

New cars are ludicrously expensive, especially EVs.

The most I can afford to spend on a car is maybe £14K, and that's under the proviso that about £4K of that is my own money and the rest is a loan to be paid off over about 6 or 7 years.

So yeah, I'm going secondhand ICE with about 50K miles on the clock and praying it doesn't die before the loan is paid off (and preferably longer still so I can save a bit more towards the next one).

I'm all for EVs, but they've got to bring the price down, and they've got to get the batteries to last long enough for the secondhand market to be viable.

[-] AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml 19 points 11 months ago

Disco Elysium is sorrrrta like that, if you squint a bit.

Not focused around being an introvert or different dialogue styles exactly, but you're a mess of a human being and conversations can literally hurt you, as it tracks your mental health as well as physical.

You should try it if you haven't already.

[-] AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago

That's John Startrek, the titular protagonist of Star Trek.

[-] AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

The sad part is that there's a not insignificant number of people out there who would honestly rather embrace the human instrumentality project and never look back.

[-] AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't say I have an actual phobia, but I completely understand people with trypophobia. It makes me very uncomfortable and I find it pretty revolting.

[-] AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

I have a very, very limited understanding of the subject, so take this with a lethal dose of salt, but I'm under the impression that the US healthcare system is an absolute minefield, and not everyone has equal access to it, even via insurance, in the ways you might otherwise typically expect.

[-] AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Methinks the gentleman doth protest too much.

[-] AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

You know I was once convinced Hatsune Miku was the primitive start of a huge shift in the entertainment industry.

No one believed me when I said AI would one day be seriously considered against flesh and blood entertainers.

Well whose laughing now, huh?!

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