Blue_Morpho
@Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 3 days ago:
Prebuilt homes, even prebuilt sections, not including trailer homes, are extraordinarily rare in the US.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 3 days ago:
And that’s how we end up with all white/grey houses and cars. Everyone is more concerned about resale value than living.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 3 days ago:
The 1990 looks like 1890. I’d suggest that makes it the timeless decor.
- Comment on Self-hosted fully working ST:TNG voice computer interface 3 days ago:
It’s not different than pirating an mp3.
- Comment on Self-hosted fully working ST:TNG voice computer interface 4 days ago:
Is there a guide on how to duplicate this? I saw a voice to LLM back to voice tutorial a few weeks ago but it was much slower and the developer talked about the fixes needed that you must have implemented!
- Comment on Self-hosted fully working ST:TNG voice computer interface 4 days ago:
Fantastic! I built my own lcars control panel for a wall in my house using Html/JavaScript and always dreamed of finishing it with voice control.
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 6 days ago:
Ads failed and subscriptions failed too so they went out of business. The free news model was tried for many years and failed.
Someone needs to pay the journalists’ salary.
- Comment on Should've just picked a better password 6 days ago:
Ok, I’ll capitalize the first letter and add an exclamation point to the end. Happy?
I bet brute force hash checkers assume the first letter is capitalized because of current password policies.
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 6 days ago:
If it wasn’t ads then what exactly was it? If free with ads was working, it would still be free.
You claim you can leverage that to other sales but it didn’t happen.
NYT is publicly traded. You can see their revenue, costs and everything. They made 2.5B in 1995 and 2.8B in 2025. Factoring inflation they have lost half their revenue. That means half the reporters lost their jobs.
Forcing people to pay like they used to pay for paper is working:
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 1 week ago:
You have conflated “free to the public” and working for free into the argument.
Yes it should be free to the public. But that requires a taxpayer funded journalism.
The workers who are already underpaid should not be required to work for free because their work is important. That’s incredibly regressive.
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 1 week ago:
I’d like to know the reasoning behind people downvoting.
You don’t think the lab worker who tested the eggs should work for free. Why should the reporter work for free?
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 1 week ago:
The NYT is a capitalist business. Why would you expect them to give you news for free when this is a perfect opportunity for them to exploit fear to get more subscribers?
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 1 week ago:
I honestly don’t know what you are arguing about. If someone has $100 it is technically worth more than $100. If they give you that $100 you now have that $100 which is also technically worth more than $100. It’s the same $100 + unspecified future value either way.
If you argue the $8.4 trillion in net worth of Billionaires is worth more than the $8.4 T, then if that $8.4 was taken from them it is also worth more.
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 1 week ago:
So it doesn’t change anything. You get $30k and yes that $30k is worth more because it can generate maybe $3k in investment income for you a year. It’s still only $30k.
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 1 week ago:
The productive capacity of the accumulated capital owned by US billionaires exceeds $31k/person/year.
If that was true then taking all their capital and distributing it would be more than $31k/person/year for each individual receiving their share of the 8.4 Trillion.
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 1 week ago:
Because baseline food and shelter is much more expensive in many cities where 80% of the population lives. That’s why minimum wage is $30k in major cities.
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 1 week ago:
The UBI baseline is supposed to be $12000 per year. The premise is it covers food and shelter.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Oh no, I’m TOO old to recognize a meme for old people.
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 1 week ago:
Minimum wage in many US cities is $15/hr which is $30k/year.
Even at federal minimum wage of $7.50, that means not just taxing Billionaires at 100% but taking everything will give you 2 years of UBI before there is no money.
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 1 week ago:
How do you get UBI without issuing checks from the Treasury. There isn’t enough tax money that can be taken from Billionaires to sustain UBI.
Not just tax, but take every penny of every Billionaire in the US. Net worth of all US billionaires is 8.4 Trillion.
270 million US adults.
= 31k per person. Once.
That’s 31k one time. Then there is no money for next year.
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 1 week ago:
We all hate Musk but isn’t Musk suggesting Universal Basic Income?
- Comment on How come in the trucking industry they are very against carrying a gun? Some area's my sister went into in new york I would have carried an AK-47. No offense NY. 1 week ago:
That’s an insightful comment, no offense.
- Comment on Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC 1 week ago:
For an original Xbox, you’ll need to soft mod the Xbox (you need a game controller to USB adapter cable to connect your PC into your Xbox) Then you can ftp the game files off the dvd drive.
- Comment on Just as Nolan intended 1 week ago:
Did you mean to say “is the dumbest” ?
- Comment on Just as Nolan intended 1 week ago:
You do realize this is a joke? Op posted a tiny screen and I compared it to the tiny monitor that Nolan used during filming to see that it looked the way he intended.
- Comment on Just as Nolan intended 1 week ago:
Here’s a behind the scenes shot.
Notice he’s not looking at the actors but at a tiny tablet that is tied to an inline digital camera attached to the imax film camera so he can see the framing from the point of view of the camera.
- Comment on Why is it a bad thing for a host of SNL to bring in their own or other writers to help write jokes and stuff? Wouldn't it take some of the pressure off the SNL writers? If they all agree on things? 1 week ago:
I agree they would be pissed. Apparently they have to fight to get their sketches aired. If their sketches are never picked they end up fired. I could see a guest pitching ideas to the writers that they then might choose to use in a sketch they write.
- Comment on Just as Nolan intended 1 week ago:
A daily is a print done the same day as shooting for review. Here’s a film editing station that would be used to review dailies.
- Comment on Just as Nolan intended 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but the camera lens captures a different view than your eyes. So directors watch “dailies” . It’s the print of filming done earlier in the day that the director reviews.
- Comment on Just as Nolan intended 2 weeks ago:
And isn’t a tiny screen how Nolan watched the dailies while filming? He certainly didn’t have a 50’ screen in his trailer on the beach in Greece.
You are watching it exactly how Nolan watched it.
