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- Comment on Send...help... 2 weeks ago:
413 is amateur hour.
- Comment on Why doesn't Lemmy have a system like Reddit's Karma? 2 weeks ago:
There’s no real value to any of it.
Attach free beer to point levels and watch this thing explode.
- Comment on Trump’s Crowds Are Dwindling as His Campaign Winds Down | The former president likes to talk about the attendance at his rallies, but empty seats and early exits have grown more common. 2 weeks ago:
Fair point.
- Comment on Trump’s Crowds Are Dwindling as His Campaign Winds Down | The former president likes to talk about the attendance at his rallies, but empty seats and early exits have grown more common. 2 weeks ago:
People who have already early voted may not care so much about going to a rally. Just speculating. Still, not sure crowd size at this stage correlates to any meaningful outcome.
- Comment on Trump’s Crowds Are Dwindling as His Campaign Winds Down | The former president likes to talk about the attendance at his rallies, but empty seats and early exits have grown more common. 2 weeks ago:
How is crowd size at a rally a relevant data point for anything?
- Comment on Bank of America will (stop|continue to) Accept $1 bills 2 weeks ago:
Losing the all-important male stripper customer base.
Obligatory: Image
- Comment on Too spicy for me but thank you 😊 2 weeks ago:
Old family recipe. Gently sprinkle 2 Tsp of turmeric on top. You won’t taste the rubber.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 2 weeks ago:
Please stop by the office and pick up your combo Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 2 weeks ago:
Because light-blue weighs less than blue.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 2 weeks ago:
Depends on the color of the feather and the ball.
There’s a simple explanation.
- Comment on What is stopping the vice president from ever murdering the president? 2 weeks ago:
There should be a Shakespeare play with that plot.
- Comment on How Hollywood Shot Actors with Arrows before CGI 3 weeks ago:
Pretty cool that he reverse-engineered it and 3D printed the fixtures. Wonder if Adam Savage has any original SFX rigs.
- Comment on I just need to keep it steady 3 weeks ago:
The cassette player in my old car had a cover that was also a display panel. It folded out, then you put the tape in and flipped the cover back so it locked, then you could play.
Got one of these adapters to plug in an iPod. Stuck it in, then went to close the panel. The wire got in the way so it couldn’t lock. No way to jam it without damaging the cable.
No return policy back then. It sat in the dashboard until the car died many years later.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 3 weeks ago:
And the one time the rocket goes kablooey on its way up, everyone down the flight path will get a shower of used hypodermic needles, disposable vapes, and old appliances.
- Comment on Woman admits hurling McDonald's milkshake over Nigel Farage 4 weeks ago:
“She states she did not regret her actions.”
- Comment on How do I get my clothes to smell like I just bought them at the store? 5 weeks ago:
Plastic, nitrogen (or some inert gas, if packaged), and formaldehyde.
Yum!
- Comment on This is not going anywhere! 5 weeks ago:
Wonder if they had to tie the knot three times to get it right?
- Comment on "Dogma" Re-Release Plans In The Works 1 month ago:
It’s amazing what CGI makeup can do nowadays.
- Comment on Deaths outstrip births in UK for first time in nearly 50 years 1 month ago:
The common benchmark ‘replacement’ ratio of birth to death is 2.1.
Once a country falls below that, they’re on a slow multi-generational train ride to extinction. There will be multiple stops along the way, where small towns get hollowed out (youngsters move to the cities), and the social safety net for the elderly goes away (not enough money coming in from fewer young, money-earning people).
Next stop is where there aren’t enough caregivers for the growing elderly population. After that, you start going down the dark alleys of Senecide, where the elderly are left out in the forest or ignored to die.
None of this is new. Japan and South Korea have been dealing with it for the past 20 years.
Only solution is immigration from high-baby to low-baby regions. But if the culture is closed and xenophobic, they’ll put barriers up to slow the flow. Second class citizen status. Sectioned-off neighborhoods. Laws to prohibit inter-racial marriage. That sort of thing. After a few years, those immigrants will trend somewhere safe and financially viable where they will get proper respect.
There will be partial stops, of course, where local nationalists will make angry noises about purity and poisoning bloods of the country, etc and win local elections (hi, USA, Germany, Italy, France, and Netherlands!)
But the hard, long-term reality is: a safe, peaceful life is expensive and the cultural norms putting women down just don’t fly any more. The kids are just not making enough babies, and taking away reproductive rights just makes people angry and less likely to reproduce.
This is true for more than 50% of the countries in the world, including US, Britain, and Canada. And the trendlines are pointing down.
I spent 1.5 years working on this stuff in my last job. There are tons of reports out there from WHO, IMF, and the UN, all backing all this using terms like ‘Demographic Time Bomb.’
tldr: We’re screwed if we don’t find a way to assimilate and encourage immigration and reduce the cost of raising kids.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
- Comment on Column | No time to read? Google’s new AI will turn anything into a podcast 1 month ago:
Guarantee someone’s going to generate a bubbly podcast of Mein Kampf or Project 2025.
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 1 month ago:
There was an appliance where the wifi chip was at the end of the power cable, embedded inside the plug. From the outside, you couldn’t really tell. It was there so radiation inside the box couldn’t affect the wireless signal as much.
I can imagine some genius thinking it’s a good idea to run a server from inside a cable or a connected home appliance.
- Comment on OpenAI Is A Bad Business 1 month ago:
Ed is getting good at lobbing these darts at hype bubbles.
The thing that this writeup ignores is that the object isn’t to show short-term revenue, but to put all competitors out of business, be the last one standing, and create a monopoly. Either that or get bought out so the investors can move on to the next thing. But at $150B valuation, only MSFT or Nvidia can afford to buy them outright.
Google, Meta, and Amazon burned through cash for years, but they eventually outran all competition and then monetized the users who had nowhere else to go.
- Comment on Official 10th anniversary poster for "John Wick", re-releasing in theaters November 3 and 6 1 month ago:
I just watched JW4 on Bluray. Big fan of 1 & 2. Thought 3 was silly. 4 was just out and out cartoonish.
Everyone starts wearing the magic impregnable suit, so all you do is duck behind the jacket flap and bullets don’t do anything. Felt the same way about the last Matrix installment where Neo is basically untouchable. At that point, all the fight scenes are just pointless videogame cut-scenes. Doesn’t matter how many bad guys you throw at it.
The first John Wick is still pretty dope because it was the one with the love interest and dog revenge storyline. The rest, meh.
- Comment on Empires fall 1 month ago:
- Comment on New! 1 month ago:
Just finished a bag of those. Now I need to adjust my timing belt.
- Comment on Stay frosty 1 month ago:
Was in a ‘modern’ hotel recently. Hardwood floors, fresh paint, and warm embedded light fixtures.
Went to look for a thermostat. Nope. One of these AC/heater units. It was all analog, twisty knobs, faded labels, easily from the 1970s. Two options: regular, and high.
It was fine, but pretty obvious the remo budget had run out.
- Comment on World's shortest runway - Twin Otter STOL at Saba 1 month ago:
Good headwind. Airplane with decent STOL. No obstacles. Balanced weight.
Brakes. Flaps full. Max throttle. Rudder center. Wait. Release brakes. V1. Vr. V2. Vy.
Bye.
- Comment on Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing? 2 months ago:
I imagine the sequence would be different depending on the amount and range of body hair.
Personally, depends on delta-T to next task.
- Comment on No Unyuns 2 months ago:
The genital folding will continue until
moraleflexibility improves. - Comment on Straightforward. 2 months ago:
They missed speculation, hearsay, and guesstimation.
