Breve

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need a new Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For cheap plastic “thingies” if you know a friend with a 3D printer they can be of massive help. Even if you don’t have such a friend, there are domestic businesses that will print and ship things for you. Granted they aren’t always as cheap, but easily better for the environment due to being more local.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need a new Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Quitting Amazon to use AliExpress or Temu is like quitting drinking alcohol by switching to heroin instead.

  Environmental issues aside, cheap disposable shit that you have to replace constantly actually costs you way more in the long run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need a new Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is always the problem: Monopolies are popular with consumers because their centralization makes everything easy. The trappings of convenience.

  Buy stuff directly from stores. Every time I’ve looked, the price elsewhere often exactly matches what Amazon charges because their pricing algorithms are constantly price matching anyhow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI conversion from nonprofit to for-profit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, he did try it back in 2017:

  “In late 2017, we and Elon decided the next step for the mission was to create a for-profit entity,” OpenAI said. “Elon wanted majority equity, initial board control, and to be CEO. In the middle of these discussions, he withheld funding. Reid Hoffman bridged the gap to cover salaries and operations.”

  Elmo is just throwing a tantrum because he wanted to be the one to take them private and roll them into Tesla but the rest of the board said no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I go to Canada can I retire there and draw SS from the US? Also can I go to Canada buy a cabin or house with a plot of land and not work? Unless I just needed some walking around money?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even though cannabis is legal to grow for personal use (under certain conditions), it is illegal to sell unless you get a proper license and there are tons of regulations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the twist is 99.9% of Republican voters think they are in the in-group just because the leopards haven’t eaten their faces yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It also strongly encourages people to return their ballots in person likely because the GOP is already set to challenge mail-in ballots as “rigged”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Gorging on Stock Buybacks for Years, Boeing Announces Mass Layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand the actual market reasons that buybacks and layoffs raise a stock price, but it’s always been counter-intuitive to me that shrinking the workforce that actually produces the capital and divesting money that could have been used to grow the company would be seen as positive indicators to investors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon explains the 2nd amendment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I sure hope those 2nd amendment fanatics can afford the naval vessels and foreign military bases they’re going to need to get involved in the South China Sea! 💸

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon explains the 2nd amendment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Military spending in 2023 (in billions of US dollars):

  United States: 916 China: 296 Russia: 109 India: 83.6 People who own a “don’t tread on me flag”: 0

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i will never understand scientific fraud⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Money corrupts absolutely everything: science, politics, people…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to connect with a coworker⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve just had this Chinese dynasty, it is fucking minging! Suck your dad!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes it “Legitimate Interest“?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Advertisers believe they are doing you a favour by using personal information to serve “better” ads that would be more “interesting” to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Falling⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The gravitational force equation actually takes into account the mass of both objects and their distance. The only reason we can throw out a gravitational constant of 9.81m/s^2 for most objects on Earth is because the mass of the Earth is so large that the relative difference in the mass and distance of the other object have to be equally large in order to make any significant change in that value. Technically though, a bowling ball at sea level falls slightly faster than a bowling ball at the top of Everest, as does a bowling ball and feather from the same height. The reason is more accurately that they are experiencing slightly higher or lower gravitational forces, which cause them to accelerate (in conjunction with all the other forces acting on them).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every base is base 10⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The number x when written in base x is always 10 for any value of x.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨near zero⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The infinitesimal has entered the chat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero to hero⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How are those the same? You need to define “religion” and “sport” rigorously first.

  This is really the crux of the argument. There are no absolute authorities on religion, sport, or in the case of the original post, mathematics. We can have definitions by general consensus, but they are rarely universal and thus it’s easy to cherry pick a definition that supports any particular argument with no ability to appeal to authority.

  I have no idea what you’re on about with not golfing being a sport.

  It’s mostly a troll argument, but you can easily trip up people with interchanging the definition of “sport” as a thing (“golf is a sport”) or an activity (“playing golf is a sport”). Then after trying to hammer down the definition more exactly, you can often poke holes in it with more questions like is chess a sport? Is playing Counter Strike a sport? Is competitive crocheting a sport? All of these ambiguities are possible because of the lack of a universal authority in the realm of sports, though some people try to pick an authority such as the Olympics to prove their point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero to hero⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Other fun arguments in the same vein: Is atheism a religion? Is not playing golf a sport? For extra fun, try explaining the answers to both in a non-contradictory way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks AT&T!⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then why can I buy a prepaid SIM with cash and no ID? I do this when travelling because it’s cheaper than international roaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please no⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LIVE AM WHO YOUR I AM TRUTH

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is alcohol measured in percentages?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are medications that measure the active ingredient as a percentage too, like topical creams. I think it’s done to make the relative strength easier to compare when the volume is varied. Labelling a keg of beer or a barrel of wine with the actual volume of alcohol it contains doesn’t make it easy to tell the amount that would be in a single glass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another example of shrink flation... oh, my beer...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mill Street was bought out by Labatt in 2015, which is ultimately owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev, so now Mill Street is technically a Belgian owned brewery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another example of shrink flation... oh, my beer...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mill Street was bought out by Labatt in 2015, which is ultimately owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev, so now Mill Street is technically a Belgian owned brewery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not asking to be rich.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Relevant study: princeton.edu/…/deaton_kahneman_high_income_impro…

  tl;dr: Happiness increases logarithmically with income, leveling off at about $75,000/year (at least in 2010).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oilers' McDavid wants NHL to reverse ban on theme tape including for Pride⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Your comment to keep politics out of hockey is also political, so you should delete it or accept your own hypocrisy.