Taldan
@Taldan@lemmy.world
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 3 days ago:
1/4th of a second is already more than 2 calories. You’re really underestimating how much oil is used at a time. No one is using less that 1/4th secomd sprays
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 3 days ago:
You can claim it contains 0g of sugar, you cannot claim it contains no sugar. A subtle, but critical difference
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 3 days ago:
Can you point to some comments you feel are from people who don’t know what serving sizes are?
I’m struggling to find even a single comment, and you’re claiming it’s most of them?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I recommend you losten to this This American Life episode: www.thisamericanlife.org/…/tarred-and-feathered
It may give you some perspective
- Comment on No Spoiler 👁️⃤ 2 weeks ago:
Germany with AfD becoming the largest individual party?
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 2 weeks ago:
It literally isn’t racism though. You can disagree with it and think it should be banned, but there is no interpretation that it can realistically be called racism
I lived in Japan for a while. I’ve seen a couple places with a sign like this. In my experience every place like this is perfectly willing to have foreigners that speak Japanese. They simply don’t want to deal with the hassle of a language barrier
I should also note these places were always in touristy areas. If they don’t have a sign like that, they’ll end up with majority English speaking customers, because Japanese customers prefer places without rowdy tourists that can’t speak the local language. I did too. Going out for an after work beer, you want an entirely different atmosphere from tourists getting hammered
- Comment on That's a shit beer! 4 weeks ago:
It would be out of spec. 10-12mm, of head is the spec for a Guinness pour, if I recall correctly
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 5 weeks ago:
Valve has fundamentally different goals from Microsoft and Sony
Microsoft and Sony want to increase profit a couple percentage for the next quarter
Valve wants to be profitable 10, 20, 30 years into the future
Thing is, they have been doing this for over a decade. Publicly traded companies can’t compete long-term, if there’s a well funded provate competitor
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Delta pilots are unionized. Wide body captains are making over $700k/year
I can see why Delta doesn’t want the rest of their employees unionizing. I don’t see why they haven’t
- Comment on history repeats itself once again 2 months ago:
If we wanted an AI opinion, we could ask it ourselves. Don’t share that garbage.
- Comment on New mrbeast video is dark 2 months ago:
$100 million brings you into a different philosophical debate. $100 million is more than enough that you could use the money to save at least a few lives
- Comment on Gold 2 months ago:
It’s more silly to me that they think the price of gold would remain high with such a large addition to supply. Most fundamental economic concept apparently escapes some people
- Comment on Gold 2 months ago:
Gold is an extremely useful metal, WTF are you talking about? Despite its artificially high cost, it still gets regularly used in industrial applications. If it had a more reasonable price, it would be used a ton
- Comment on Rip lol 3 months ago:
Divers frequently go to pressures of 500+ PSI without issues directly from the pressure
Nearly all the issues at that depth are from the physiology of breathing gasses at that pressure
- Comment on Rip lol 3 months ago:
I’m one of those crazy drysuit divers. I’m usually plenty warm on a dive, and seeing a pristine shipwreck at the bottom of the great lakes is pretty awesome
- Comment on Rip lol 3 months ago:
Delta P isn’t a diving term. It’s an occupational safety term
- Comment on thx for the diabeetus 5 months ago:
Corn syrup is better than our other main use for it: Ethanol
Problem is that we have such extreme subsidies that vast swaths of farmers are now entirely reliant on corn subsidies. We make far more corn than we have any use for because of it
No politician wants to be the one to take away the insane corn subsidies because a whole lot of farmers will be upset, and the American public is generally unaware of how wasteful the subsidies are
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 5 months ago:
The psychology of those incels would be fascinating to study
They enjoy insulting and humiliating these women for doing sex work, then they go ahead and pay for it
Granted that’s been the history of sex work for thousands of years, this is just one of the most direct examples of it. Wonder if it boils down to them wanting to project their own shame and guilt on the women
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 5 months ago:
Is that the show where the guy invites on OF models, then insults and humiliates them? Where the models are only going on there because they so many of his listeners then subscribe to their OF?
- Comment on smoooooth 5 months ago:
ACID SHARK VOLCANO
I think you answered your own question… because that sounds so damn cool
- Comment on smoooooth 5 months ago:
Had to look up the place. Looks like the temperature gets a bit over 100F (38C) in some places. Acidity isn’t an issue for the diver, although it could be damaging to their gear. Search results suggest this picture was taken at ~160 feet, which is a reasonable dive for any technical diver
I’ve done a similar dive profile in Yellowstone looking at hydrothermal vents. It’s a reasonable dive for any experienced and qualified diver. I’m guessing they didn’t have a technical diver, with equipment, on hand. It was likely much easier to drop a camera and bait
- Comment on Fun Facts! 5 months ago:
I’d bet on more submarines in the universe. Trillions upon trillions of galaxies in the universe, each having billions of stars. At least a few are going to have submarines to add to the count
- Comment on An oopsie occured 6 months ago:
I actually had this happen once. Dasher got in an accident
The app just showed his car going in circles around the point he crashed
- Comment on "Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in" 6 months ago:
In many cases it’s cheaper to get delivery than to drive
About the only reason I would need a car is getting groceries or food. The median cost of car ownership in the US is over $10,000 per year. I choose to not own a car and instead pay for delivery. I save a ton of money doing it. The time savings is just a bonus
Since you’ve indicated you’re a judgemental dick, you probably won’t take the clear L here, and can’t argue against my circumstances for using delivery, you’ll likely try to attack me, as a person. To get ahead of that: I do leave the house plenty. I just prefer to walk and bike everywhere. Most stores are inconveniently far away, and I’m quite limited as to how much I can carry back with me
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 6 months ago:
can I take your swearing at me and telling me to be silent
He clearly said Sharon. Are you sharon?
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 6 months ago:
They wouldn’t even accept us beginning to get ready to leave until our clock out time, because up to that point we are supposed to be working
Even the US outlawed that. What country do you live in where that’s normal?
In the US if you’re required to do something for work, at work, you’re on the clock. For example, if you have a uniform you’re required to wear, you clock in then out it on
Lots of employers break that law, which is why wage theft is by far the #1 form of theft in the US, but it is the law
Similar thing with responding to work messages outside normal work hours
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 6 months ago:
It’s an initial proof-of-concept. It’ll be developed into more complex games eventually, that’s not really an issue for it
The main issue is that it’s just a facade. It completely lacks the foundation required for a game. It’s a world without hard rules, which is a terrible experience for any user. The game isn’t determining cause and effect from actions. It’s just guessing at what would come next
What’s the point of decorating an in-game house if the next time you go there, the AI forgot what was supposed to be there?
What’s the point of completing quests if the AI forgets what you’ve completed?
What’s the point of getting new gear if AI hallucinates what gear you have?
There is no progress in an AI generated game because everything is made up as it goes. Google would need to fundamentally change their approach to allow for that
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 6 months ago:
30% is the standard retail markup for many things
It most certainly is not standard in retail. Most retail stores have a margin of a couple percentage points. Walmart, for example, is ~3% net margin most years
Unless you’re trying to compare wholesale price to final consumer price. In which case I would say that’s a silly and pointless thing to compare, but even then it’s far smaller than 30% across retail and varies wildly based on the individual item being sold
A 30% cut is only really common in the tech sector where the underlying economics make it feasible
- Comment on Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI' 6 months ago:
The market is going to be flooded with so much slop. It’ll be incredibly difficult for regular game developers to get any sort of budget to compete
We as consumers need to find a way to reward quality games
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 6 months ago:
These blocks look very different as a person on the street. They mostly only look bad from above where you can see all of them together
We have some burtalist apartment buildings in Minneapolis. They’re generally desirable apartments