FabledAepitaph

@FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course it works out if you throw any numbers in that you want. Minimum hourly wage in the US is 7.25-ish in Alabama and the rest of the decrepit South, to 16-ish in California. I googled minimum wage in China and its roughly 3.40-ish at its highest. At the worst, China is half as expensive, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the disparity between the actual industrial areas of China and Califonia/Colorado for example might be 8x.

  Whats happening here is that the poorly educated South is wanting me to subsidize their lack of marketable job skills by making me pay extra for American goods instead of Chinese goods.

  And don’t forget that the extra money these Americans earn will be partially consumed by the extra cost of living anyways. Not to mention the years or decades of investment it will take to get factories set here anyways, all for low-skill, physically demanding, and mentally unengaging employment.

  Manufacturing should be automated anyways because nobody should have to sit at a conveyor belt all day and toil their lives away assembling dumb trinkets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But they’re not going to increase wages to account for us having to spend 55 dollars on something that used to cost 5. So the end result is just that people end up with less overall. I’m cool with limiting consumerism, but this isn’t the way to do it imo. And it’s not going to make us “richer” as a nation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And we haven’t even addressed the whole reason manufacturing left in the first place. It’s so much cheaper to do it overseas, even accounting for shipping. It will cost America much more to produce items internally–and who is going to buy these extra-expensive items? America is a service economy and most people are working at Walmart or McDonald’s. These people can barely afford the cheap Chinese version, much less the expensive American version.

  So I guess they’re hoping wages will increase more than the extra expensive incurred by making our own items? Not going to happen, not in a million years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Department of Labor to cease and desist all investigative and enforcement activity under rescinded Executive Order 11246⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just stop being racist and an asshole altogether?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Department of Labor to cease and desist all investigative and enforcement activity under rescinded Executive Order 11246⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One person suggests not hiring people based on the color of their skin. Another person argues that this person does not show any signs of racism. What’s even going on anymore?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Department of Labor to cease and desist all investigative and enforcement activity under rescinded Executive Order 11246⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a similar argument the other day somewhere else. People seem to think you can’t be racist against white people, and argue that it’s not racism when they discriminate specifically upon the color of white people’s skin. Lemmy/Reddit/Social Media goes bonkers when you tell them that you can be racist against anybody regardless of skin color, as is the literal definition of racism. And they wonder why nobody takes them seriously on the opposing side of the political spectrum, when people in their own clique think they’re dumb as hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This person may have voted in the latest election. Did you? Hahaha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon buys a TV without researching⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’ll probably go with a projector setup next time. Will probably be my luck that they’ll only be selling smart projectors at that point haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon buys a TV without researching⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I bought my Sony TV from Costco, it let me skip all of the agreements and sign-ups and accounts the day that I bought it. Fast forward a few months later after the return window was over, I turned it on one day and I had to agree to all the different things and it started asking me for an account, if I recall.

  I will never buy another smart TV ever in my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been years, and I still haven’t recovered from the ending of Outer Wilds. I don’t think I ever want to either, haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the difference is that blacksmiths created things that were tangibly useful, that people needed, and that they needed in large quantities quickly and cheaply. The whole point of art is that it does not have real-world usefulness, past the enjoyment of it for the sake of the enjoyment of it.

  For example, people frequently refer to cars as “art”, because they are beautiful, but “beauty” isn’t necessarily the same as “art”. Cars are beautiful because they invoke the principles of art, whatever they may be. The base principles themselves are complex and intangible, and you’d be hard-presses to find a book that explained what art actually is, because it is not well defined.

  Only people can do art, as far as we know. AI can only produce things that resemble art, and they have only been able to do so by copying what real people have done. If real artists stop outputting material, there will never be an original artistic expression created ever again.

  AI may be able to generate clip art and pretty text, but nobody is going to flock to the theaters, or attend auctions to acquire what is basically clip art.

  This is not at all like creating a metal blade, imo. The tech bros just don’t understand art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What about the stock market? Are people with 401ks parasites?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨billions & billions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not an expert, but an enthusiast. The universe can typically be considered homogeneous and isotropic on a large scale (it looks the same in all areas, and also looks similar no matter which direction you happen to be looking) for the sake of understanding and performing physical calculations. The beach may also be considered homogeneous and isototropic, but we know that if we dig down, we’ll find interesting materials, organisms, and even various grades of sand (for context).

  The universe is roughly symmetrical even though there are structures and features of great complexity when you look close enough (such as atoms, you, me, horses, and icebergs). This is probably because the universe originated from a single infinitely dense point where there wasn’t room for much diversity or clumping of matter. As the universe expanded, random quantum fluctuations and coalescence, perhaps due to gravity and the various electrical and atomic forces, is to thank for the formation of elements, stars, and galaxies, over the last 14 billion years (or however old the Universe is supposed to be).

  Anyways. It’s represented as symmetrical because it’s convenient and true on a large scale, but its always more complicated the deeper you look.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not every county, city, or location has this rule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk and Ramaswamy float ending remote work for federal employees and ‘large-scale firings’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I am a little concerned about that too, but I can tell you that it is going to take YEARS of work to gut legislation like that. I am hoping that even with a Republican trifecta, they still won’t be able to agree on and accomplish anything because they all hate eachother.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk and Ramaswamy float ending remote work for federal employees and ‘large-scale firings’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t wait until they fire the employees i need to review my environmental permit submittals and then can never get another project started legally ever again without risking insane amounts of fines four years later when the next administration comes in and hires new people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't tip⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right. I should just not go there at all, watch the business collapse, and see them beg for jobs at the next shitty restaurant. That’s the better option apparently?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tough Shit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shares his dating preferences⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What are the dating apps?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I will continue to never give Nintendo any of my money on account of their litigiousness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She Didn’t Like His Song, So She Tried to Eat Him⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mood

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨By Burning Down Buildings, Insurers Want to Change How They’re Built | Property insurers are trying to force changes in construction standards that they say are necessary to protect against wildfires.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Powerful prediction models” = some guy’s spreadsheet with a few filters set and sorted by “amount paid to insuree” lool

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where in the world is laptop gaming the most popular?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in the US and I have a professional career. I’ve had many jobs where I’d travel around the US for short trips, or just have to work in the mountains for weeks on end, followed by trips back home via. plane or by car.

  Carting a desktop and monitor around is impractical, and asking for trouble, and certainly wouldn’t fit in the carry-on luggage shelf or under an airplane seat. Additionally, gaming laptops generally have way nicer screens for watching Netflix or YouTube or whatever. I have a 17 inch Omen with a 1070 from like six+ years ago and it’s spent most of its life just being a way to use Excel, watch my favorite shows, and more recently, finally do some gaming.

  Now that I’m more settled at home, I’m probably just going to buy a new gaming laptop because they’re so much more flexible than a desktop, and who cares about the most modern, graphically intense games nowadays. There are a few exceptions, but I could stay occupied forever playing games from five years ago, or whatever interesting indie release is coming out tomorrow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of American police saying "Show your hands" after they shot a man?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “We thought he was hiding a knife in his bullet wound.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon notices what they've taken from us⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ditto lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon notices what they've taken from us⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Controversial: it was much easier and safer to text while driving with a physical keyboard. You could type with one hand, hold the steering wheel with the other, all while still looking at the road because you could feel where the buttons were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW owners are Built Wrong, not Different⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I will remember this when I buy my next BMW hahaha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seek relief⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is everybody taking a meme so seriously? Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to tip your gas station⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to an OnCue a few months ago, made myself a fountain drink, and went to the self-checkout to ring myself up. The self-checkout asked me for a tip. I have never been back to that OnCue ever again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows: we noticed that you kept the useless search bar disabled since 2015, so we sent an update that re-enabled it without your permission⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  From my understanding, there’s definitely driver support all the way around. I have a 1070 in my laptop, so it’s old enough that everything is probably about as developed and compatible as it can be. Theres an open source driver available, but most people say to simply stick with the proprietary Nvidia one, which is what I’ve done. The OS/driver manager should pick out the most stable and best tested release version for your system. I would guess all the distros can use the Nvidia drivers just fine, it’s just a matter of getting it installed one way or another, if the distro doesn’t have a driver manager. I’m just the newbie, so, I don’t have a lot of experience.