BigBenis
@BigBenis@lemmy.world
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 1 week ago:
Assuming this isn’t satire… It really depends on where you’re going. Assuming you’ll be in a big city, I’d say it’s pretty comparable to London. Don’t go walking along vacant streets at night, or during the day if the area gives you bad vibes. Avoid confrontation with anyone looking to start some shit. In big crowds I like to keep my wallet and phone in a front or otherwise harder-to-access pocket.
All that being said, most tourist areas are quite safe.
- Comment on sad 1 week ago:
What do you expect in this economy? Groceries aren’t the only things being hit by inflation.
- Comment on Today has been a learning experience. 2 weeks ago:
I see a brown smudge with some letters under it, I don’t know what it says though.
- Comment on Haters will say it’s fake 2 weeks ago:
You can certainly harbor contempt for the American people who choose such a morally bankrupt coalition while also recognizing that the oppositional movement has repetitively failed to inspire its own voter base to turn out.
The fact remains that the Dems have thrice now run on a platform of unity and forsaken the will of the Left in an attempt to appeal to those who would happily annihilate the Left in pursuit of its own goals.
- Comment on Today has been a learning experience. 2 weeks ago:
I did it. Now what?
- Comment on Haters will say it’s fake 2 weeks ago:
And yet his hubris disrupted the democratic process and progressives were once again told to fall in line and back a candidate who campaigned on appealing to the center-right.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave 4 weeks ago:
I’ve spent most of my career working at small companies and they’ve all had fantastic work/life balance policies while also not skimping out on compensation packages. I guess you’ve just got to know how to pick 'em ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Having no tolerance for being treated like a machine rather than a human also helps.
- Comment on Potatoes can do no wrong 5 weeks ago:
What about their “eaten and digested” form?
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 1 month ago:
An index that either tracks the top 500 companies or the total market. Look up a 3-fund portfolio if you want to go a little deeper.
- Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. 1 month ago:
Obligatory fuck Nintendo!
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 2 months ago:
THE RAPTURE WILL HAPP^EN
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Whether or not a cat can thrive on a vegan diet is irrelevant to me as I don’t own a cat nor do I advise people on how to feed their cats. However, I do have a bias (as we all do) that tells me there is likely more nuance (which you did allude to in your original reply) than the general absolutist sentiment against the idea.
That bias is informed by half-a-lifetime of experience maintaining a loosely plant-based diet myself and witnessing first-hand the fierce compulsion people have to push their uneducated opinions at the mere mention of a plant-based diet. In my experience, there are few other things that can so reliably stir people into a vitriolic frenzy than the suggestion of a plant-based diet.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Frankly, you may as well be pulling all that out of your ass since the information you just provided is as good as useless without any reliable sources backing it up (and don’t bother providing any, I’m not here to educate myself on cat diet requirements).
I’m just calling out the hypocrisy in this whole controversy. People do a quick Google search, read “obligate carnivore” in the title of some document and act as if they’ve got a college degree on the topic.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Who knew that so many Lemmy users were experts in the science of dietary nutrition?
- Comment on little hopper 2 months ago:
The aliens lent them a magnifying glass
- Comment on 8 Minutes 3 months ago:
The sun could be gone but its influence would remain. Kinda like getting out of a pool and looking back to see the waves on the surface that you caused.
- Comment on The food delivery bubble is bursting — and maybe that's not a bad thing 3 months ago:
About a year ago I made a rule for myself that if I wanted takeout, I’d go and get it myself unless I was physically incapable of doing that (drunk, high, etc). It means I don’t get takeout quite as often but I do still get it a couple times a week and even still my eating out expenses have reduced by more than 50%. Also, many delivery app prices are higher even if you’re opting to pick it up yourself. I often save a significant amount by just calling the restaurant rather than making the order through one of the delivery apps.
- Comment on Why do we put up with this crap? 3 months ago:
I think you run into the same problem with airports though. Regional airports in smaller cities are often prohibitively expensive to fly in and out of. When I fly home, I fly to the nearest major metropolitan area and then drive two and a half hours to my destination rather than pay hundreds more to fly to my hometown’s regional airport. That doesn’t sound much different from the problem you’re describing with a high speed rail network.
The cost of high speed rail travel will come down with increased utilization since the scale of cost for adding extra seats is a lot flatter than it is on for air travel. Travel times by land are always going to be longer than by air but there’s plenty of room to optimize the systems we currently have.
Beyond that, convenience and sustainability are diametrically opposed and if we want to continue to live in symbiosis with our environment then we’re going to have to make some sacrifices to the convenience we now take for granted and that is directly harming our environment.
- Comment on Why do we put up with this crap? 3 months ago:
That’s fair, and please note that I mentioned air travel has its place in intercontinental travel in my previous comment. The whole point I’m trying to make is that domestic flights between areas that could support high speed land travel infrastructure are wasteful.
- Comment on Why do we put up with this crap? 3 months ago:
Also trains in the US suck. Much slower, and almost comparable in price to air travel.
It doesn’t have to be that way, many other countries have solved those issues. But because we’ve leaned so heavily on air travel to get us to places only a few hours away by land there hasn’t been any incentive to innovate or invest in other forms of long-distance mass transit.
- Comment on Why do we put up with this crap? 3 months ago:
Are you saying a high speed train to your destination wouldn’t also solve that problem? It would likely end up being cheaper to travel via rail considering the lower costs of maintenance and fuel, meaning further accessibility than we have today with our dependence on air travel.
- Comment on Why do we put up with this crap? 3 months ago:
I’m not so sure that is a positive. Airplanes are huge emission drivers and our dependence on the convenience of air travel has caused us to cease investment and innovation in other more efficient and environmentally friendly methods of travel.
No doubt there’d be a lot more support for high speed rails if airplanes weren’t as accessible. IMO airplanes should only really be used for intercontinental travel.
- Comment on Why do we put up with this crap? 3 months ago:
Airliner ticket prices used to be regulated. So when all airlines had to charge the same price, they had to find other ways to be competitive in order to bring in customers. Deregulation in the 70s brought ticket costs down but that means ticket cost is now the primary point of competition between airlines and amenities now come at a steep premium.
- Comment on Texts from Dad 3 months ago:
ED is a bitch
- Comment on Good point 3 months ago:
I think that’s an unfair assessment based on negative stereotypes and only really serves to legitimatize the behavior you’re referring to.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution? 4 months ago:
They also cause fires, severely injure and kill people, trigger people with PTSD, frighten animals and disrupt local wildlife.
- Comment on I need to wake up early 5 months ago:
Use a Hitachi Magic Wand and an outlet timer.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 7 months ago:
Three months and one week still seems like a clean quarter to me.
Alternatively, if we really want to stick to the three-month quarter then we could call the extra week of each quarter an off-week or save it all for the 13th month of the year since nothing really gets done during that time anyway.
- Comment on launch him anyway 8 months ago:
Not to mention the fusion reaction triggered by a FTL foot connecting with said child’s backside would annihilate both parent and child immediately.
- Comment on Amsterdam testing system that can remotely slow e-bikes down 8 months ago:
Very pro bike but only bike. Pretty much any other modality device is banned from public bike paths.