NateNate60
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- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 2 weeks ago:
Now, I’m not one of those “muh free market” morons, but I also think that not every potentially-abusable business practice immediately deserves government regulation against it. By and large it seems that most customers really don’t care that much about this (myself included). The ability for customers to choose where they shop has regulatory power which I think a lot of people fail to recognise. If a behaviour is really repulsive, then customers will just not shop there, which provides a strong negative incentive against the behaviour in question, without any state intervention or enforcement resources required.
An example of this working in practice is the practice of restaurants attempting to introduce tipping in Australia (where it is not customary to tip). Whenever a restaurant frequented by locals tries to force them to tip or makes it awkward to not tip, there is an immediate and strong negative reaction to it from the customers which usually causes the restaurant to give up on the idea.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 2 weeks ago:
They can track what people are buying just as well without needing to know who is buying what. If all they cared about was making sure they are stocking items that are popular with customers, they could just monitor how many of the item were scanned at the checkout counters.
When you give your phone number to the store, it serves two functions:
- The rewards scheme encourages loyalty. Once you have spent hundreds at the store, they give you a minor discount on something small, which saves you only a little bit of money. You only need to decide to patronise this store one time over their competitors for this bribe to be worth it.
- By learning your shopping habits, they can offer you personalised advertisements to encourage you to buy certain products. For example, a grocery store chain which has a location where I live has learned that I always buy a certain brand of cheese, and so occasionally they will try to tempt me with something like a 50 cent discount on that cheese, or they will send me a message saying "Hey do you still want (the cheese brand)? We have it in stock!"
- Some people, when putting things into their basket or shopping cart, will see the large, advertised discounted price and think “this item is reasonably priced”, but then they forget to put their phone number in when checking out and are thus charged the inflated price. The store pockets the difference as customers are unlikely to notice or complain about it. Most people do not closely monitor the price of items as they are being scanned. They only look at the total price at the end before tapping their card.
- Comment on Foot In The Door 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know; if we get found out, we might be on the hook for a lot of value-added tax.
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 3 weeks ago:
What happened to blursedimages?
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 3 weeks ago:
It looks like a one-piece outfit in which case I think women tend to just pull it all upwards when they need to use the toilet
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 3 weeks ago:
Women do not urinate out of their vagina
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 3 weeks ago:
I thought the giveaway here was that the Pokémon is named “Bidet”, but all wild Pokémon are named whatever their species is (“Piplup”), meaning this one is already caught and was given a nickname by its trainer.
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 3 weeks ago:
I think this is rage bait but I think there is a difference between saying “X is weird” and saying “X should be banned”. That’s all I will say on the matter
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 3 weeks ago:
Why have I got the suspicion this is fetish content of some sort
- Comment on Hustle culture 3 weeks ago:
It’s easy to say this when you don’t consider the law an impediment to achieving your goals. That’s why junkies and rich people can always “make it happen”.
- Comment on Best meal ever 1 month ago:
Flour + water = hardtack
Flour + water + yeast = bread
Flour + water + yeast + butter = toast
Flour + water + yeast + butter + sugar = muffin
Flour + water + yeast + butter + sugar + eggs = cake
Flour + water + yeast + butter + sugar + eggs + chocolate = brownie
Flour + water + yeast + butter + sugar + eggs + chocolate + cream = cupcake
- Comment on FAWK BAHD! PUT THAT DART OUT! 1 month ago:
If your boss is a chill guy who can take a joke I’m sure he would laugh the first time but if you did this repeatedly then probably not
- Comment on Definitely spongeworthy 1 month ago:
In terms of their utility as a cleaning tool, sponge daddies are actually quite good at what they do. They’re somewhat more expensive but remarkably worth the money.
- Comment on Go Green 2 months ago:
Pot brownies are popular in the United States, which are baked at 180 degrees Celsius. I think the idea is to protect the components that contain THC, i.e. the crust and sauce.
For that reason, thin-crust pizzas like New York-style pizza are out. They are too thin and would expose the THC to high temperatures. Neapolitan pizza is also out because there is nothing protecting the cannato sauce from the 400-degree wood-fired oven. That leaves thick-crust pan pizzas.
Chicago-style pizza is a possibility despite the fact that the sauce is on top of the cheese, because there is so much of it that it becomes soupy. It might be possible to pour ordinary tomato sauce on top of the cannato sauce to protect it. Conversely, Detroit-style pizza does not have very much sauce at all so it’s out.
I think the best contender is a Pizza Hut-style pan pizza, which has a thick crust and an edge-to-edge layer of cheese on top of it, which I think would do a good job protecting the delicate sauce underneath.
- Comment on Go Green 2 months ago:
THC oil in the dough, cannatoe-based sauce with dried ground weed added as a garnish… might just send you straight to God.
- Comment on Go Green 2 months ago:
I wonder if it is biologically possible to grow a cannabis-tomato hybrid. Like a tomacco, but it’s actually a cannato.
Cannatoes could be used to make pizza into an edible, which might be too much for mere human minds to comprehend.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 months ago:
Food in the kitchen is usually measured in pounds for meat and vegetables (similar to the UK) and grams for most other dry goods. So the recipe would call for 2 pounds of beef but 5 grams of salt. The Costco hit dogs are guaranteed to weigh at least ¼ pound.
The most confusing thing is soda, because it is sold in containers of either 350 mL, 16 oz, or 2 L.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 months ago:
They’re like $12 for a pack of 18 huge ones at Costco
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 months ago:
It tastes similar to Kraft macaroni and cheese (known in Canada as “Kraft Dinner”). So I would guess young, unaged cheddar or Colby cheese. There is also probably a good amount of whey powder, which is a by-product of cheese production.
It’s not fake, just highly processed.
- Comment on Actual footage of real life events 2 months ago:
What Dutch, English, or German speakers think about speakers of the other languages
- Comment on Just in time 2 months ago:
Remember that one of the biggest contributions to women’s liberation was the invention of the washing machine.
- Comment on Just in time 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Sora AI Slop is here 2 months ago:
Woe will be the day when humans can no longer determine whether a video is AI or not, even after careful analysis. I wouldn’t have caught this one either but if given the fact that it is suspected of AI, it isn’t hard to prove it. The timestamp in the top left corner is off. 22-13-43-21 is a nonsensical date and the time jumps from 23:15:07 to 23:15:98 then 23:15:59 then 23:15:54
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 3 months ago:
According to some right-wing spaces (r/conservative on Reddit), there is apparently evidence to suggest that the shooter was an outlier within their otherwise hard-right family.
Is there any evidence to the contrary?
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 3 months ago:
Based on the fact that four times as much was spent on R&D, and almost three times as much was spent on sales and marketing, and even administration spent 50% more, I’m pretty confident that most employees are not working on the product itself.
Your bringing up admin salaries is a perfect example of economies of scale. You can easily mind a 1,000,000-user community with ten or twenty moderators. But 10,000 users still need at least two or three people minding them. Anecdotally, smaller online public groups seem to have more troublemakers per capita, to an extent.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 3 months ago:
15.3 million is the same order of magnitude as 10^7^. I don’t see what the issue is with saying the cost of hosting is “on the order of 10^7^” here, unless you somehow think they are spending US$5 million a year on salaries of people who are directly involved in the provision of the product to the users? That would be US$60 million a year or enough to pay 600 people a six-figure salary, which I guarantee their employees are not all so well-paid.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 3 months ago:
The “cost of revenue” is the figure that I am using. In business, cost of revenue is defined as the costs incurred directly to deliver the product to the customer, which is basically just hosting fees.
Thus I believe 10^7^ USD is correct.
So the difference is about one order of magnitude, which is still not insignificant.
Although, it would not surprise me if Reddit makes up most of that order of magnitude in terms of economy of scale, since at some point you would just rent some warehouses and run your own server farms, or at least negotiate better hosting rates if you’re spending millions on hosting every month.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 3 months ago:
That doesn’t seem right. There are some 37,000 active Lemmy accounts within the past month.
lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats&months=6
It’s well-known that lemmy.world is the biggest instance (or close to it). In addition, there are hundreds of thousands of Mastodon users, of which at least a good few per cent are mastodon.world users.
This would give the Fedihosting Foundation a user count on the order of 10^5 users. And since their hosting cards are on the order of 10^4 EUR, this would mean each user costs on the order of 10^-1^ EUR.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 3 months ago:
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 3 months ago:
Oh, fantastic. I’ll double my monthly donation. Thanks!
