isles
@isles@lemmy.world
- Comment on For security reasons 1 week ago:
Ah, the age old “right” vs “effective” argument.
- Comment on Steam is now banned in Vietnam 1 week ago:
Why buy one steam library when you can buy two for twice the price?
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 2 weeks ago:
As long as you can profit from new data, data scarcity will never end.
- Comment on What do companies get out of rewards programs 3 weeks ago:
This is why I always try “Jenny’s Number” for loyalty programs when I can enter an phone number (Local area code +8675309). A Safeway near me used to offer fuel points with grocery purchases up to $1 discount per gallon. I saved a lot of money in gas for a while, then it seemed Safeway got wise and deactivated those numbers.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I mean, if we’re being pedantic, traditional cheese did/does use male goats to make baby goats and get milk. We just generally artificially force pregnancy instead.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I feel weird explaining this, but male goats are not used for cheese.
- Comment on Do we intentionally translate ancient stuff and languages to sound old timey as an artistic choice, or is there some other reason? 4 weeks ago:
Ha, great skit. Last I visited was for a wedding between a Swede and a Dane, they both claimed the other spoke like they had mashed potatoes in their mouth.
- Comment on Do we intentionally translate ancient stuff and languages to sound old timey as an artistic choice, or is there some other reason? 4 weeks ago:
My grandmother took me to her birthplace in Denmark and kept saying she couldn’t speak Danish with the locals, despite having spoken Danish with her family in America semi-regularly. I never thought it was because her vocabulary and accent was stuck in 1940s and she didn’t feel confident speaking that way.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 5 weeks ago:
This may be No Stupid Questions, but there sure are a lot of stupid answers.
- Comment on New Study: A $500 monthly basic income led to significant employment growth, enhanced savings, improved debt management, and better quality of life 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on They're afraid 1 month ago:
Isn’t that essentially just an extension of Aladdin?
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 1 month ago:
This will be interesting for you to learn: You not wanting a thing is not the same as nobody wanting that thing. This applies to all things.
- Comment on Take it from a former banker: the budget is for ordinary people. The mega-rich look on and laugh 2 months ago:
Right after he bragged about being paid millions of dollars to bet against the people.
- Comment on Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more 2 months ago:
relying on private for-profit companies to provide basic transportation services in a city is stupid
While true, it hurts fewer people to build up the alternative before cutting off the current system. I don’t know (and doubt) if Minneapolis is doing that specifically, but Minnesota has been on a progressive tear and I hope they keep going.
- Comment on California’s minimum wage isn’t enough to keep up with workers’ costs of living, new report says 2 months ago:
Perhaps tied to CPI?
- Comment on UAW president Shawn Fain on labor's comeback: "This is what happens when workers get power", says 'billionaires should not exist' 2 months ago:
We used to have class warfare… We still do, but we used to, too.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 3 months ago:
I’m going on a long plane ride, so I have my phone loaded with Zelda Link Between Worlds and some Mario 3d Land for 3DS. I have Titan Quest and Baldurs Gate 2 on my Chromebook. I’m probably going to be tending to kids the entire flight, realistically.
I just started up Spiderman Remastered. I hate the militarized police propaganda, but as an action game, zipping around on webs and aerial combat is entertaining.
- Comment on I'm a California restaurant operator preparing for the $20-an-hour fast-food wage by trimming hours, eliminating employee vacation, and raising menu prices 3 months ago:
Paid time off is not a guaranteed/protected benefit in the US. Even getting paid for the hours you work is lightly protected.
- Comment on Could you stay in the roundabout indefinitely? 3 months ago:
Some laws are reactionary and some are preemptory. Laws are, most simply, a codified agreement on how we live.
- Comment on Why did Pootin threaten the whole world with nuclear weapons, but then stopped doing so? 3 months ago:
you get into a state where militarily no one can do anything (except wage a war in a country that doesn’t have nuclear weapons)
ok, I got it. Give every country nuclear weapons and then there is nowhere to wage war.
- Comment on If Trump and Biden both died today, what would happen? 4 months ago:
the youth don’t vote
We estimate that 50% of young people, ages 18-29, voted in the 2020 presidential election, a remarkable 11-point increase from 2016 (39%) and likely one of the highest rates of youth electoral participation since the voting age was lowered to 18.
45-64 year old voting is in decline, declining from 75% to 71% over time.
- Comment on Are mall Dojos more common these days? Given the vacancies. 4 months ago:
Guessing, but just what it sounds like - a martial arts training gym. Generally, they are low revenue businesses, relegated to subleasing from other athletic gyms (like gynmastics facilities), out of community recreation centers, or in industrial warehouse areas. Sometimes you’ll find them in strip malls, as well.
Theoretically, vacancies put pressure on mall owners to lower rents, perhaps to an affordable level for these dojos. Lowering rent also makes the mall less valuable than a vacancy. And owners don’t like lowering value if they can afford it, because they can leverage existing values.
- Comment on What chemicals and tools do I need to clean my bathroom? 4 months ago:
This guy’s not peeing hard enough
- Comment on CD Projekt Is Not Interested in Being Acquired 4 months ago:
Corporations shouldn’t be able to own other corporations.
- Comment on Dollar Stores: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 5 months ago:
Perhaps, I find the quality at Dollar Tree to be worse than say, Walmart, and sometimes even more expensive. I don’t have any practical use for dollar stores.
- Comment on If cannabis gets rescheduled to III, how can it ever get the state - federal differences resolved when it comes to the recreational market? 5 months ago:
The best way to remove it from the schedule is to dismantle prison slave labor. Financial incentives for imprisoning people will always lead here and are immoral. However, I offer a false solution, because I don’t have a way to implement it.
- Comment on What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in? 6 months ago:
I’m doing all three every day. doom scrolling intensifies
Really, I think you nailed it as far as the three categories of reactions go. Of course, the manifestations will be as varied as humans are.
I’m working towards building intentional community that’s equipped to help it’s members and hopefully neighbors to get through. But that’s because I’m a super-privileged north american who is located in what I consider one of the least-likely-to-be-unlivable spots. Other than the unpleasantness of the collapse of society, I’m just hoping that climate refugees don’t decide to come murder us all for our resources.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 6 months ago:
I had completely forgotten OpenMW existed and now the rest of my year is spoken for.
- Comment on Lords of the Fallen earns Mostly Negative Steam rating as Hexworks share tips for crash and performance bugs 7 months ago:
You might think that fist shaking will make a publisher change. Look at the history of buggy game releases. It’s extensive. Look at all that fist shaking.
Publishers are run by people. People respond to incentives. Business is incentivized to gain dollars.
If, for example, no one gave publishers dollars until trusted reviewers verified no bugs / issues, the publishers would be incentivized to release polished products.
- Comment on Read Xbox chief Phil Spencer’s memo welcoming Activision Blizzard employees to Microsoft 7 months ago:
At what point do we declare that the cyberpunk dystopia is here, because like…