IrateAnteater
@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Ken Paxton owns at least 15 properties. His salary is $150,000 1 day ago:
Ran out of patience dodging the login prompt.
Are these 15 properties he bought all at once, or is it just a case of him leveraging one property to buy the next and letting renters pay all the mortgages?
- Comment on Why do women in golf wear those short/skirt things while the men wear pants? 1 day ago:
Because people like things you don’t like.
I’m sure there’s plenty of people who think your preferred pastime is a complete waste too.
- Comment on "You're from where?" 1 week ago:
You’ve gone too far with the unnecessary self censorship. I have no idea what name you are trying to say.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
At that point you are dealing with fetishes, which is an entirely different ball of wax.
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 1 week ago:
Why would it be a separate bit? Most people I know just have a set of these Image
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 1 week ago:
They make hex keys with ball ends to handle that
- Comment on The Woke Veggie Tale Leftists Won't Tell You About This One 2 weeks ago:
Probably, but not as insane as you might first think. We already know the Vikings managed it, and in the Pacific, many islands were populated by people who didn’t have anywhere near the ships that the Mediterranean civilizations had, and yet covered distances just as far as you would have to cross if you were taking the northern route across the Atlantic.
- Comment on The Woke Veggie Tale Leftists Won't Tell You About This One 2 weeks ago:
You know, I was watching a video theorizing that the Odyssey and the Iliad were assembled from a bunch of older stories, and that a couple of those journeys went across the Atlantic. If someone like the ancient Macedonians made it across, the Old Testament stories could also be incorporating information about North America.
- Comment on My student loan is gaining interest while I'm in school but I'm not allowed to start paying it off yet 2 weeks ago:
If you have extra money that you aren’t allowed to put against the principal, you could at least put that money into a GIC that matures once you graduate. Depending on the rates involved, you may even come out ahead doing that.
- Comment on The Vancouver Police 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact: Vancouver is in Canada, and in Canada there’s no such thing as a felony or a misdemeanor.
- Comment on The Vancouver Police 2 weeks ago:
Also the cops handing out traffic tickets, and the cops doing narcotics investigations are different people.
- Comment on Painful to recover from 3 weeks ago:
The weird definition of intelligence they are using (how to succeed in life) does kind of cover that. The definition of what success is, and the millions of ways of achieving it covers just about all variations.
- Comment on Netflix is garbage 4 weeks ago:
In this case, the ads are probably bringing in less per viewer than the service costs, so having non-paying viewers is still a net negative.
Clamping down on this is probably a worse negative in the long run, but investors only care about this quarter.
- Comment on Corn time 5 weeks ago:
I’m 90% sure I’ve seen a corn bone video.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 5 weeks ago:
What people can do and what they actually tend to do are often extremely different things. And when you’re trying to sell a house, the idea is to get as many buyers as possible, so that you can get the most money. Whether it’s interesting or boring doesn’t matter.
- Comment on Pizza Party and Casual Fridays 5 weeks ago:
Good lord, replace the words “middle class” with whatever you want to use to describe “population group that can use one income to support buying a home, having a spouse and 2.1 children, and saving enough to retire at 65”.
The point is the massive increase in top level pay, not whatever term you are using to refer to the rest.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 5 weeks ago:
The after pictures look like a house being staged for sale, which means any colour and details that used to exist would have been removed to give buyers a “blank slate” look to work with. That’s why you keep seeing this same look in house listings, while very few people ever actually live in an interior that looks like that.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 5 weeks ago:
When putting a house up for sale, you don’t paint the house white because of a shitty interior designer, you paint it white so that the buyer can easily paint it what they want. If, for example, you paint the walls red, and the buyer wants white, it’s going to take forever to get the red to stop bleeding through the white. Going from white to another colour however, is very quick and easy.
- Comment on Pizza Party and Casual Fridays 5 weeks ago:
In common usage, the “____ class” terms refer to income/wealth levels, and the social constructs derive from that.
More importantly, the semantics of the comment are completely irrelevant to the actual message being conveyed.
- Comment on Anon is 23 5 weeks ago:
So based on those statistics, I will say that those trades are definitely not “really dangerous”. Tortilla manufacturering is twice as dangerous at 6.2, and hospital workers were up above 10. Going from 0.8 to 1.6 is like going from laying on your couch to walking down the sidewalk.
- Comment on Anon is 23 5 weeks ago:
Define “really hazardous”.
What are the rates of workplace injury for trades compared to the rates of people getting long term health effects caused by sedentary work conditions?
- Comment on Anon is 23 5 weeks ago:
Depends on which trade and location you’re comparing with. Things vary wildly in the trades.
- Comment on Anon is 23 5 weeks ago:
The pay part of that equation is dependent on where you are, and what trade you’re talking about.
Where I am, trades generally get paid more than any office job you’re going to get with just a random bachelors degree. And if you join one of the trade unions, especially one of the higher skilled industrial ones (so like electricians, pipefitters, millwrights, etc, as opposed to general labour or residential construction), your pay will be much higher than entry level office positions, and will likely stay higher than anyone who doesn’t get themselves into an upper management type position.
- Comment on Make it so 1 month ago:
I thought someone redid the math a while back and got the energy requirement down to simply the mass of Jupiter.
- Comment on I'll take it to all 2 place it goes! 1 month ago:
Well then what was the point of even using the train?
- Comment on "We're all in this together" 1 month ago:
And no flying to Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver? I know for a fact he didn’t drive there from the Webequie First Nation.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 2 months ago:
I doubt it. At least for all but the most viral of indie games. Manufacturing physical copies is expensive and would involve minimum order quantity from suppliers.
- Comment on More 2 months ago:
Not going to lie, if you make a cereal with scantily clad women on the box, I’ll probably buy it at least once, just out of curiosity. Definitely taking that through the self checkout though.
- Comment on One can dream 2 months ago:
Sounds kind of like the ideal wedding attitude to me. Light on the symbolism, heavy on the “one last rager to remind ourselves that we’re actually kinda too old to be doing that anymore”.
- Comment on We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here. 2 months ago:
That probably factors into it too. The automakers have always preferred to have strong control over their suppliers, and doubly so after they played themselves with the chip makers during the pandemic. Battery plants take time to bring online, and unfortunately Trump’s bullshit kicked into high gear just as capacity was coming online, giving everyone cold feet.
