Saledovil
@Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Future we wanted 16 hours ago:
The top picture gives me Jehovas Witnesses vibes.
- Comment on Pizza Party and Casual Fridays 1 day ago:
It’s called middle income. There’s no such thing as a middle class.
- Comment on The most unrealistic part of Odyssey is the journey taking 20 years 1 day ago:
Then why not sink his ship five minutes from his home?
- Comment on The most unrealistic part of Odyssey is the journey taking 20 years 1 day ago:
Which sort of paints Poseidon as incompetent. You’d imagine that the God of the sea would be able to reliably kill people at sea.
- Comment on Man or Bear 🥩 1 week ago:
That looks genuinely delicious. Though, I haven’t have breakfast yet.
- Comment on Video gaming 2 weeks ago:
Moore’s law ended. Stuff done in 15 couldn’t be done in 5. But there’s not much we can do now that we couldn’t do 15.
- Comment on Will the next president of America have to do a world wide apology tour for this administration? Kind of like celebs do when they get their ass in a sling. 3 weeks ago:
Let’s see.
- Economic and strategic oil reserves are declining fast, with seemingly no effort to conserve oil. Thanks to the war with Iran.
- The only reason the US is not in a recession yet is because of AI, which is not profitable, and destined to crash.
- Other nations are slowly divesting from US treasuries, limiting the financial options.
- Infrastructure has been rotting for decades, and it’s starting to break down.
- Climate change has started to produce dangerous heat waves and other extreme weather, further straining infrastructure.
Anyway, that’s what I can think of from the top of my head.
- Comment on They're F*ing trying again 3 weeks ago:
Like what?
- Comment on What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe? 4 weeks ago:
Plot out the sun, obviously.
- Comment on How not to advertise 101! 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but we need to be aware that it would get worse temporarily, and a lot of services we’re used to be being free would no longer be free. For example, Youtube would probably become a paid service.
- Comment on How not to advertise 101! 5 weeks ago:
There’s a theory that targeted ads are severely less effective than assumed amongst advertisers, and that traditional “spray and pray” advertisement is just as effective, but a whole lot cheaper. Essentially, targeted ads frequently target people who are already aware of the product, have already decided to buy it, or have already bought it. So, basically, company’s are overpaying for ads, and if they ever stop, the advertisement based internet is in trouble.
- Comment on I hate obscure tech issues! 1 month ago:
Does he really look like this? Or was this picture just made to make him look soulless?
- Comment on Neo, wake up! 1 month ago:
How is it right-wing? I don’t see it.
- Comment on Anon questions nature 1 month ago:
The way I heard the story is that he allowed it because he thought it was funny.
- Comment on Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising 1 month ago:
Suggestion: Deploy anti satellite 🛰 weapon, and extort other nations by threatening their satellites in order to pay off the national debt. Somebody get Donald Trump on the phone.
I’m only half joking. Kessler syndrome is probably going to happen sooner or later anyway. And I do think it would be possible to convince Trump the scheme is a good idea if you had access to him.
- Comment on GOAT 2 months ago:
Well, he was also accused by the goats.
- Comment on Why illegal children's homes are being paid up to £2m per child by councils 2 months ago:
This is nuts. Couldn’t bear to finish reading the article, but I’m pretty sure it would be cheaper to run proper orphanages than to place children in these homes.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 3 months ago:
The nazis’ economy was a shell game of debt, and they were overextended militarily. Their regime would have fallen even if they had won the war. Secondly, the USSR at first joined forces with the nazis until they were betrayed by them, and after the soviets joined the allies, they received massive aid under the lend-lease act. And even with the aid, they still had to rely on human-wave tactics.
- Comment on Lmao 3 months ago:
Some humans want to travel even when they’re perfectly happy.
- Comment on The Art of Surrender 3 months ago:
The democrats don’t prosecute their political opponents, because that would be weaponizing the justice system. They ignore the fact that using the justice system against people who are doing extremely illegal shit doesn’t constitute an abuse of the justice system. How they are portrayed by their enemies is more important to the Democrats than accomplishing any sort of political objective. It’s the sort of pathetic that is really hard to respect.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 3 months ago:
Thing is, Hitler didn’t make the trains run on time. The Autovahn was already being build when the Nazis took power, which they then took credit for. Germany’s economy was basically a shell game of debt.
- Comment on Annon was too spicy 4 months ago:
In that particular way, yes.
- Comment on Annon was too spicy 4 months ago:
Only /b/ has no rules (There’s actually some rules that are enforced, e.g. no posting illegal content), and that also applies to moderation. As in, a moderator can just ban you for any reason they want.
- Comment on Blessed be the Civ 2 Gandhi 🙏 4 months ago:
1000 years, that’s when the region becomes habitable once again.
- Comment on The three archetypes 4 months ago:
He got into working satellite internet before everyone else
Satellite internet has existed before Starlink. What’s novel about starlink is that the satellites are much closer to earth, which allows for a low ping, but comes at the cost of needing to replace the satellites every few years, as they’ll deorbit by themselves, and needing a whole lot more of them. It only offers an advantage over cheaper alternatives (terrestrial internet or satellite internet in geostationary orbit) when you’re somewhere without proper infrastructure, and those areas tend to not be wealthy. So, the question is, is there enough demand to pay for replacing the entire constellation of satellites every few years?
- Comment on Anon is going to be rich 5 months ago:
Yes, it’s so far fetched that Anon expects the cops to be called.
- Comment on Anon is going to be rich 5 months ago:
Yeah but then if they pass your id and agree to the bribery they’ll give you the 100$? It’s the wrong way around to be bribery.
The bet is that Anon is 24, but if the id says they’re 21, then they’re of drinking age, but still lose the bet, so the clerk gets the money. ID is passed, and money is paid.
- Comment on Anon is going to be rich 5 months ago:
See my reply to Krafty Kactus.
- Comment on Anon is going to be rich 5 months ago:
It could be constructed as an attempt at bribery. You see, when you bribe somebody, you can’t just go up to them, and tell them “Here’s a hundred bucks, look the other way”. Because, what if you’re an undercover cop? You need to offer the money in a way that offers plausible deniability. So, the next step could be to show a poorly counterfeited id that says you’re only 21, with the implied subtext being, “I’m giving you 100$, but in exchange you don’t look too closely at my false id”. Of course, there’s always a risk that the person you’re trying to bribe doesn’t catch on.
- Comment on Anon is going to be rich 5 months ago:
It isn’t sustainable. No clerk will take the bet more than once. Also, the clerk doesn’t have to take the bet to interpret it as bribery and call the cops on you. In addition, there’s the risk of the clerk simply not honoring the bet.