LesserAbe
@LesserAbe@lemmy.world
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 9 hours ago:
Seems all but impossible they’ll switch candidates now. There’s not a mechanism for it. It would have to be something like Biden having a major medical issue or dying.
- Comment on *among us theme plays sussily* 1 day ago:
It might not even speak english
- Comment on *among us theme plays sussily* 1 day ago:
What if it’s an immigrant computer
- Comment on *among us theme plays sussily* 1 day ago:
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- Comment on *among us theme plays sussily* 1 day ago:
Funny enough this reads more like spam from a person where English is their second language than as AI spam
- Comment on When monkeys feel ill! 1 week ago:
Hey I also eat ferns when I’m sick
- Comment on Women in Blue — Official Trailer | Apple TV+ 1 week ago:
I was hoping this was a feature length super cut of women in various blue outfits
- Comment on Deep Space 9 - but it's 30 Rock 1 week ago:
That was good work on the title sequence!
- Comment on We need a larger one. Yes, for the last time. Pleeeeeeeeeease! 1 week ago:
Thanks! I’m personally in favor of doing things for knowledge’s sake. That said, what is the stated practical benefit when some government body is writing a check?
- Comment on What would happen if everyone moved there money from traditional private banks to credit unions/ coop banks 1 week ago:
Funny, I just commented elsewhere that my credit unions have always offered great rates on auto loans. Where are you located? I’m in the states.
I previously had a dealer be like “let me see if my guys can give you a better financing rate” and they did (slightly) than a bank rate I had secured. But since then I’ve financed a few times with a credit union and they’ve never been able to beat the rate.
- Comment on What would happen if everyone moved there money from traditional private banks to credit unions/ coop banks 1 week ago:
In the U.S. most credit unions are regional, if you go to a branch you can withdraw cash easily, or they’ll have agreements with ATM networks where you can withdraw cash for a fee, just like banks do.
In my daily life my credit union is indistinguishable from a bank, with the exception that I’ve had a few auto loans from my credit unions and they’ve always offered a lower interest rate than anything a bank or car dealership can beat. They also gave me a discounted rate because I was buying an electric car.
- Comment on The men vs. bear saga reaches the inevitable conclusion 2 weeks ago:
Do you think any woman who says this would intentionally go up to a bear in the woods? There’s not a need for education about the dangers of wildlife. That’s not the conversation being had, so people who try to talk to a woman about that in this particular context (online meme) are missing the point.
- Comment on The men vs. bear saga reaches the inevitable conclusion 2 weeks ago:
Think the spirit of my comments may not be making it through - I’m not seriously making a statistical argument, was just responding to the other commenter saying let’s get pedantic.
Ultimately, women feel how they feel, and if they say they’d rather be stuck in the woods with a bear than a man, there’s no sense in arguing with them.
What would success there look like, you convince a woman “no, you’re not concerned about the intentions of strange men in the woods”?
If a woman says “I’d rather be stuck in the woods with a bear” we should receive that as information. That’s telling us that many women have serious concerns about their safety with men. And instead of telling them “no you’re wrong for feeling how you feel” a better response could be “sorry you’ve had bad experiences” or even just saying nothing.
- Comment on The men vs. bear saga reaches the inevitable conclusion 2 weeks ago:
Lol, did anyone say we were limiting to a certain type of bear? Is there some specific species you think will really turn the tide statistically?
- Comment on The men vs. bear saga reaches the inevitable conclusion 2 weeks ago:
If we want to get really pedantic we have to look at stats specifically for cases where a woman was in the woods, with no other entity besides a man or a bear. With it conveniently being impossible to compile that information, I’d bet the ratio of assaults per encounter would be higher with the men than the bears.
- Comment on Why do we say, "when I look in the mirror" instead of "when I look in a mirror?" 2 weeks ago:
Yes, that’s what I came here to say
- Comment on Why do teeth don't regenerate? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, if evolution is so great, how come we can’t fly??
- Comment on Saw this and thought it was fake until I googled. It's real. 2 weeks ago:
Lol yeah, this will definitely be a net loss in productivity.
It is lame as a children’s activity, but I could see some novelty in it, it’s sort of like those Mr Rogers segments where they go behind the scenes at a factory.
- Comment on Energy drink can used for scale, yet fruit used as unit of measurement 3 weeks ago:
It’s true, all Americans jointly held the camera to take this picture then sat down together to write the headline
- Comment on Energy drink can used for scale, yet fruit used as unit of measurement 3 weeks ago:
The energy drink just happened to be on the ground where the hail landed
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If there’s one thing I learned from Civ V is you have to get your population numbers up in order to produce more enough settlers
- Comment on I can't understand why it never caught on... 4 weeks ago:
Nathan Fielder had one in The Rehearsal.
- Comment on Can Trump still run for president now that he's a convicted felon? 4 weeks ago:
Airbud
- Comment on Rattlesneks 4 weeks ago:
Rattlesnake setting healthy boundaries
- Comment on GOAT 5 weeks ago:
Nice, I didn’t know the story but that’s great. “No Till” is a good practice.
- Comment on In our post-AI era, is job security strictly mythical? Or How to believe in careers as a concept worth doing? 5 weeks ago:
I think UBI will become a lot more plausible in the future.
That said, as a macro approach to the problem of job security and AI taking jobs, I see serious potential in worker co-ops which own the equipment and processes. As in the past, the problem isn’t that technology is making something more efficient. The problem is a small subset of people benefiting from the technology while others struggle. If we own the business and democratically control decision making then we all can benefit. (And going beyond protecting our jobs we create more long term security and power)
The problem of course is how we get there from here. For myself, my current plan is to grind enough until I’m in a position to start a co-op (or join an existing one) and then focus on growth, bringing more people onboard, and expanding the benefits that the co-op can bring its members.
I value small co-ops like local grocery stores, that said to really move the dial in creating the world we want to see, I think we need to get big, and to be competitive in terms of product as well as pay compared to non-democratic major players. One co-op I’m excited about is Obran, which is a conglomerate that converts private owned businesses to co-ops. I’m also excited about platform co-ops like the drivers cooperative and Artisans cooperative.
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- Comment on a 320 year old elf marries an 80 year old human: Is the elf robbing the cradle, or the grave? 5 weeks ago:
Seems to be the elf is setting themselves up to receive the human’s inheritance money. If they play their cards right they could pull this scam many times
- Comment on Singers Falling Down the Stairs 1 month ago:
Nice. I usually like this person’s videos
- Comment on Just asking questions 1 month ago:
Pedant patrol reporting in: one type of questioning science is science