JasonDJ
@JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
- Comment on What Did William Burrito Mean by This? 1 day ago:
Well, killing billionaires is taxing the rich, just in a roundabout way and with a little bit of class-eugenics sprinkled on top.
At least as long as we have estate taxes. And until some next-of-kin decides to liquidate everything and give to charity.
- Comment on A daunting realization 5 days ago:
Old Deuteronomy.
- Comment on A daunting realization 5 days ago:
I feel like I heard this perspective elsewhere…it may have been The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben. Which I really enjoyed, myself.
- Comment on Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs 6 days ago:
Yeah bro sorry my subway already ran twenty minutes late and I wanna catch this train so I can see my kids before they go to bed.
You keep being a dick.
- Comment on Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs 6 days ago:
The reason to use the escalators is because it’s twice as fast if you walk up them.
If you want to take the escalators to be lazy, that’s fine…stay to the right and out of my way. Same rules as the highway. Not complicated.
- Comment on Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs 1 week ago:
NGL when I commuted on train/subway, my fat ass would take the stairs nearly everytime.
Not because it’s healthier, but because all the other fatasses on the already-too-narrow escalator have absolutely no concept of escalator etiquette, and I got a fucking train to catch because our subway ran 20 minutes late.
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s a scary word.
I get the hate for it, especially around resource use, and it’s overuse everywhere. But it’s still the early days and it’s certainly going to evolve. I imagine if people were as environmentally conscious in the 60s, they’d be up in arms about rooms full of hot glowing tubes doing arithmetic. Eventually, though, they got to be far less resource intensive.
Also the AI response is default behavior in Brave search…and many other searches. For me, Brave has probably been the best of the bunch, but that’s not exactly a high bar.
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 1 week ago:
Are you talking about AI or Republicans, because that could go either way.
And it’s the default behavior in Brave search.
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 1 week ago:
They don’t hallucinate, they just believe everything they read on the internet. They are basically Republicans.
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 1 week ago:
This…checks out.
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 1 week ago:
Have you done a brave search recently? It automatically tries to answer.
It’s actually been surprisingly good for me. Better than Google, at least. But it’s not a choice on his part, it’s default behavior.
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 1 week ago:
Holy shit.
He’s at -41 right now, and you at +22.
He obviously isn’t trusting the AI, he’s asking here to verify it since he couldn’t find any first-hand information to contradict it.
Lemmy is already getting to be more fucking toxic than reddit. JFC.
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 1 week ago:
The legislative holds the power to impeach presidents and judges.
But that’ll only happen if enough Republicans grow a spine.
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 1 week ago:
Whoa now, that’s a bit reactionary.
The reason for the shit show is that it’s all based on good faith. And if a power hungry dictator tries to control the executive…well, the legislative is supposed to keep him in check.
It’s also based on the presumption that the people wouldn’t willingly elect, let alone re-elect, a blatantly corrupt president and Congress that enables them…or at least have few enough bad ones to be able to break party lines and put a stop to it.
Ideally, enough Republicans on Congress would have enough of a spine to actually put country before party and stop this shit. Start impeaching judges and presidents. Don’t let anything else get done.
Nope. They all sold out on their party. Fucking despicable. Not even worth spitting on.
I can’t wait till someone spills the beans on whatever kompromat or bribes or imperius curse has got such a tight grip on the party.
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 1 week ago:
Rare cards are only worth real money because there is a secondary market for them.
As I understand it, the same is true for lootbox drops. The only difference is in how rare an item actually is, but that is also reflected in price, since the resale is entirely market driven.
You could say that Valve rigs the drop rate, but you could say the same thing for Magic. It’s all manufactured shortage.
You could say that Magic items are tangible…but honestly I don’t see how that’s an argument in the modern digital-first era.
I’m not trying to defend lootboxes…not directly, at least. Just trying to understand the hypocrisy in the gaming community comparing these two.
- Comment on Anon discovers a new diet 1 week ago:
Can I have cream with the berries?
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 1 week ago:
I get the hate for lootboxes, but as a casual who hasn’t played PC games in forever…what makes the lootbox mechanic any worse than CCGs?
Couldn’t it be said that MtG and other CCGs have been guilty of the exact same thing since their inception?
- Comment on imagine 2 weeks ago:
I’d say “that’s the point” if this was put out by modern media…both sides are doing this to build engagement and support. That is, writing about something, but hiding the fact that it’s nothing. They take a small fact that on its own is true…but is really quite unimportant to the larger question. They then build up on that one small fact and make it out to be a smoking gun.
They may even leave out completely relevant facts. Like in this article it says “Monsanto pledged to not commercialize the seed,” but doesn’t mention the UN COP8 moratorium on them.
But the other thing is…op posted this from a college website, possibly because they think it’s an academic paper…but it’s not. It’s a summary of case studies in from their CONS200 “Foundations of conservation” program.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You joke but now I’m designing an autonomous miniature dildo inspired by a fish and powered by AI.
- Comment on The first cult is the deepest 2 weeks ago:
Well…yeah. The only difference between a religion and a cult is member count.
- Comment on Anon goes to boot camp 3 weeks ago:
Anon is on 4chan and mentioned mandatory service…so yeah, probably Russia or a former Soviet state.
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 3 weeks ago:
This right here…as bad as Walmart is to communities and local businesses, Amazon is much worse.
There’s only so much selection that can fit inside a Walmart. They aren’t going to carry every book, just the most popular, it’s harm to the local bookstore is limited. As an example.
Walmart killed the general stores and the supermarkets more than anything. And some other markets that had limited time left for other factors, like record stores. But they can’t kill the more specific-needs stores nearly as easily. Those are getting killed by other big-box retailers (who themselves are struggling against Amazon now)
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 3 weeks ago:
Seriously. Through some weird twist of fate, the Walton’s are suddenly looking like the best billionaire retail moguls.
- Comment on My marxist big pharma shill of a “doctor” keeps trying to tell me i have a “testicular torsion” i told him my balls are red from my carnivore diet and are “swollen” because of my lively high t sperm. 3 weeks ago:
How did you get the beans above the frank??
- Comment on Heartthrob with the flying elbow 3 weeks ago:
The snowflakes at night are big and bright. Deep in the heart of Texas.
- Comment on The basics should be affordable. Yes even eggs. 4 weeks ago:
Hasn’t changed?
Dude an eighth of dro when I was in HS (c2003) was like $60.
My local dispo has eights specials everyday for $13 that blow that shit out of the water.
And then 1g pre rolls for $40.
Fuck man, cheap weed is the only thing making this timeline bearable.
- Comment on The basics should be affordable. Yes even eggs. 4 weeks ago:
I got chickens. I got eggs coming out their wazoos. Giving them away to friends and family because we can’t possibly use them fast enough, even in the winter.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
ADL? What’s that? Aryan Defense League?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Well, that’s just poetic.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Can we just go to the old whitehouse.com?