Saledovil
@Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 1 day ago:
The break even point would be at a balance of 23.08$. However, if the account balance doesn’t expire, buying your own game to put you over the threshold would be checking the couch cushions for loose change level of desperation.
- Comment on Sorry to be a bother... 1 day ago:
I really like brutalism, especially when contrasted with greenery. A set of brutalist apartment blocks, with ample space between each of them, which contains native flora would be rather beautiful. The space between the blocks could also be used as a communal barbeque place. Or a fitness trail.
- Comment on Anon plays The Sims 1 week ago:
If he’s playing the Sims 4, which the screenshot is off, then how did he manage that? It’s quite easy to lead your sims to success in that game.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 2 weeks ago:
In Germany, shopping carts typically have a deposit system, where you have to insert an Euro into the cart to use it, which you get back when you return it. So that is basically a build in fine for not returning it.
- Comment on Anon checks out politics on reddit 2 weeks ago:
Antifa is a politically diverse group, only defined by being opposed to fascism, as sane people should be. If you were to ask 2 antifascists about how society should be run, you’d likely get 2 different answers. Same as for any group not defined by support for a political ideology.
- Comment on Anon checks out politics on reddit 2 weeks ago:
And antifa can be violent, though it’s not really an organization. Wikipedia describes it as a movement. And given the fact that fascists have ruined every country where they took power, violence against them is wholly justified.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If I met a human who needs constant blood and urine tests, I’d assume said person is ill.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s a little known fact, but if you killed an animal yourself, its meat is vegan.
- Comment on Anon casts a healing spell 4 weeks ago:
Where do the casting costs come from? Are they reagents for the spell?
- Comment on Anon offers a harsh truth 4 weeks ago:
If you steal something, at which point does it truly yours?
- Comment on YouTube now vs then 4 weeks ago:
Money?
- Comment on Anon makes a deal with a demon 5 weeks ago:
What if you’re dealing with a demon who isn’t weak to salt? What if the rules on salt circles require the salt to be on the ground, so a salt ring in orbit does nothing? What if the salt ring doesn’t meet the salt density requirement to ward off demons? What if the demon never leaves earth, instead hanging out at a coffee shop, and thus the demon doesn’t have to cross the salt circle to get to you? What if the demon simply grabs your soul after you die?
- Comment on Go already 5 weeks ago:
0 upvotes 0 down votes at time of writing. I agree with you, though.
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 5 weeks ago:
My hypothesis is that they put the gilts up as collateral so that they could borrow money to invest. So, interest rate goes up, and the value of existing gilts goes down, because why buy a gilt with 1% interest when you can get a new one with 2% interest? Pension funds need to add more collateral to their accounts, because the gilts became less valuable.
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 1 month ago:
Thanks, but how did the pension funds hedge against interest rates in a way that they had to pay up when the interest rate went up?
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 1 month ago:
Thanks. I’ll check it out in the evening.
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 1 month ago:
So, this minibudget included tax cuts, coupled with a massive increase in government spending, which then caused the currency to devalue. Still don’t fully understand how it got this bad, though.
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 1 month ago:
What did she do to make people’s mortgages go up?
- Comment on Picture Unrelated 1 month ago:
You could also just take any conversational LLM, and tell it that it’s playing a psychopathic character.
- Comment on Ah sweet! 1 month ago:
Yeah, same principle.
- Comment on Ah sweet! 1 month ago:
If you’re eating yourself, no. If you have a disease to pass on, you can’t catch the disease, because you already have it.
- Comment on The problem with sleeper ships 1 month ago:
If we assume that the ship, while traveling, always moves towards its destination, but it might be off by up to 1 degree. Then the margin of error for its position would grow until about the midway point in the journey. I have no idea how to calculate this, unfortunately, but I’d image there’d be a lot of space you need to cover if you want to find the ship.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 1 month ago:
Sure, but that’s never really explored beyond a one-liner from a grade school kid.
I think the implications are explored in “Harry Potter and the cursed child”, where causality does get violated.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 1 month ago:
They do use it to meddle, though, its how the plot in “Prisoner of Azkaban” gets resolved. Also I’m pretty sure that Hermione mentions at one point that people have killed their past selves using time turners, which would not constitute a closed loop of causality.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 1 month ago:
The mother’s love protecting Harry caught Voldemort off guard. It’s not like he got to try using the killing curse on Harry several times. Imagine you want to kill a baby, and you have a gun, and literally no reason to conserve ammo. You wouldn’t pull out your knife in the off chance that the baby is bulletproof.
- Comment on Anon is suspicious 2 months ago:
Yes, potentially. What I’m saying is that there’s a culture of censorship on Youtube, which spreads to other websites, even though they don’t have the influence by advertisers. So Youtube’s culture of censorship is causing a culture of self-censorship in other parts of the web.
- Comment on Anon is suspicious 2 months ago:
I guess advertisers are at fault. With most youtubers censoring themselves to avoid getting demonetized, it simply spreads to other aspects of the internet.
- Comment on Anon wants to be a vampire 2 months ago:
Another con is that vampires are even more immortal than they appear. Even if the vampire’s body is completely destroyed, their soul will wander through the universe, unable to affect anything, but still conscious. They can’t even communicate with other vampires in that state. They’ll get to see universe die starting 10 to the power of 16 years from now (end of star formation) until it’s finally dead at 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 120, when universe reaches its final energy state. But at least a new universe will start at 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 56. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future)
- Comment on Casual reminder 2 months ago:
He wasn’t even good for the German economy though, the Nazis produces a large GDP growth through massive military spending, they bankrupted the country well before the war was over, and had they won the war, the German economy would have crashed immediately.
- Comment on Pros / cons of riding a bike? 3 months ago:
Just as fast as a car if you run as fast as a car.