LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on I member when this happened LMBO! 23 hours ago:
Lol 2018 was a good year
- Comment on If the UK government proposed to increase tax by 1% and make trains free would you be in favour? 2 days ago:
Yes. Absolutely. I would happily pay more tax for this. 1% is a very tiny amount.
The trains in this country are shockingly abysmal and they cost an arm and a leg, despite being the absolute basic requirement for a functional modern economy.
As someone only on basic rate of tax and fairly low income struggling to make ends meet, I would still happily pay taxes for this, both in addition and especially instead of the BBC for it to spew far right hatred or endless consultantocracies and other assorted privatized money funnels like what’s become of the NHS (especially GPs), alongside council, DWP and TV loicence enforcement goons with their endless investigations, cutting triple lock, winter fuel allowance and other ways boomers drain the economy.
I think there are better ways though - like taxing the top 1%, much higher carbon/road/infrastructure taxes on car people (only fair because of their increased personal pollution, infrastructure use, space occupation and damage to the environment and people).
Even this 1% tax doesn’t need to be flat, it can be scaled with income brackets, with each step being 2%, as long as the math checks out.
Even moreso - Land value tax, and shifting council tax to property owners instead of tenants/residents and second home tax and property for investment tax, ramping it up to as high as it’ll go to fund property buybacks for councils, then charging rents without profit margins baked in to make trains more affordable.
But if it’s what it takes to get anything done in the current political climate dominated by the far-right, tributes to some random pro-gun grifter influencer being shot in another country flooded with guns and Sir seat warmer in chief as PM cowtowing to the demands of flagashaggers, Farage and his oligarch sponsors and various dodgy American govcorp and MIC-adjacent glowing lobby groups then that would have to be it.
- Comment on Brainrot Tiktoker at the Kirk shooting 2 days ago:
It’s not rational, it’s looking for a chance for something better than wage slavery.
- Comment on Brainrot Tiktoker at the Kirk shooting 2 days ago:
Yes but power isn’t actually something everyone wants. People do however want to put food on the table and not worry about rent.
- Comment on Brainrot Tiktoker at the Kirk shooting 3 days ago:
Stuff like that does happen, but in capitalism it’s incentivized, because fame is a gateway to cash
- Comment on Failure to tackle dependence on food banks in UK driving public discontent 4 days ago:
G7 Economy everyone.
- Comment on Why have energy drinks been banned for under-16s in England? The real question is why it wasn’t done sooner 5 days ago:
Yeah, but with Farage as PM I do wonder how much longer the current devolution arrangement will even last for.
- Comment on Why have energy drinks been banned for under-16s in England? The real question is why it wasn’t done sooner 5 days ago:
sigh
- Comment on Past Frontier 6 days ago:
Ghibli if it was based
- Comment on Day 418 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Thought this was San Andreas from the thumbnail
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 week ago:
Why would I game on shit settings when I can game on good settings for the same/less money?
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 week ago:
Do you not play many games? Good luck playing CP2077 with PT or heck even MSFS2020 at good (read: max) settings on 1440p.
The deck is great but I can’t even run NMS on high settings on it.
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 week ago:
Yes, a 3090 can do Path Tracing, that’s why I’m asking for one. It’s not a artificially high goal - it’s how I play one of my favourite games of all time - CP2077.
Obviously both the 4090 and 5090 can do that too and better, but that’s essentially out of reach for mere mortals, and even if it weren’t it’s not enough of an upgrade to really justify the massive price tag.
Still, If I were to get a new GPU, I wouldn’t want a graphical downgrade, ideally an upgrade, and AMD can’t provide so they’re not a serious option.
- Comment on It can be made quickly and efficiently, even by people without skills or talent 1 week ago:
Grimy? I’m squeaky clean! Not as pure as metal of course but I try.
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Obvious /s
- Comment on Ofcom Refuses to Investigate GB News Over Call to Shoot Disabled Benefit Claimants 1 week ago:
Haven’t heard of those
- Comment on Ofcom Refuses to Investigate GB News Over Call to Shoot Disabled Benefit Claimants 1 week ago:
- Comment on It can be made quickly and efficiently, even by people without skills or talent 1 week ago:
Relatable but when someone shows “art” made by meat bags instead of our lord and saviour the machine
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 1 week ago:
Bleh that was just in the US
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 1 week ago:
Idk about the PS1 as I def had the PS2 by then, but the rest checks out, that was def my life
- Comment on no wonder my insurance premiums keep going up. 1 week ago:
Nah chill out and stop projecting, I definitely believe in CFS, Fibro, ME and ADHD and to some extent the bundle of symptoms that are speculated to occur as a result of post-viral fatigue commonly dubbed “Long Covid”, though I think there isn’t concrete evidence towards that characterization of it - which emerged on Twitter from a hashtag, not from established scientific or medical sources, and as of yet we don’t know for sure if it’s connected to covid.
What I don’t believe is that I don’t think everyone who thinks they have these disorders - actually has them - which is fact, and I’d like to see you try and prove that misdiagnoses, especially unprofessional self-misdiagnoses literally don’t happen.
This is all irrelevant to my original question anyway, you’ve still yet to provide a single explanation for why the study links increased mortality to Covid-19. Are there increasing deaths again? Why? Is it direct? Indirect? Why did they omit this highly important fact?
Key part being 19, because it started in 2019, and ended in the first half of 2020 because we have this thing called a vaccine.
What is it doing in 2025 still?
Is it mortality caused directly by the virus - as in, people are dying from it now, and if so - why would that start happening again? Stronger variant? More vax hesitance? More misinfo? More conspiratorial lunatics like you lot making up disorders to drink horse dewormer for or whatever you rigtoid loons got yourselves into these days instead of organizing to improve their material conditions?
Actually I’m pretty sure I got a good idea for what could be a big factor just based on this conversation and it’s not a stronger new variant.
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 1 week ago:
Bojack Horseman actually came out in the 90s. That’s why in the theme song it talks about running in th 90s. For more movie facts subscribe to my webzone.
- Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement 1 week ago:
No def not, most people I know and myself would be killed under any religious moral system because their entire existence is sin because that’s what’s written, but they’re some of the kindest, most humanist and sane people I’ve met, they just aren’t religious. Often they have individual moral frameworks that are some variation of the marxism-adjacent maximization of happiness/minimization of suffering or nietzchean fulfillment of potential.
I also have no problem calling it sinful either if it’s a useful shorthand tbf, it’s just words after all.
- Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement 1 week ago:
Morally wrong yes, sinful no.
Frankly if someone used a religious framework to justify why something is good/bad it’s safe to say a lot of people will take away from it the exact opposite.
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 week ago:
Ray tracing? No no, I said Path Tracing.
- Comment on no wonder my insurance premiums keep going up. 1 week ago:
I can only say what the pandemic was to me, I’m sorry it seemed worse to you. To me it ended in the summer of 2020 and was primarily characterised by good vibes of the lockdowns due to a lack of cars.
Nonetheless the facts are we now have effective treatment plans and vaccines for prevention. Long covid and all that is still primarily speculation.
So can you answer the question of how the study links mortality to covid? Are all those extra deaths from covid? Are people skipping the vax?
- Comment on no wonder my insurance premiums keep going up. 1 week ago:
But what I couldn’t find in this study is WHY they think this increase in mortality is due to covid.
I am not claiming they are wrong. I am not casting doubt. I am not anyone or in any position to do that.
I am simply missing an explanation, an explanation that I feel should be front and centre, in bold red text, maybe wordart, for how something relatively minor from 5 years ago is causing anything at all 5 years later.
To me, yes it is very unintuitive because the pandemic is grossly outdone by virtually everything that’s happened since.
And yes, maybe I’m very deluded, but if you can’t explain it to an idiot like me who’s trying to understand and genuinely align themselves with truth and knowledge derived via the scientific method, then what hope is there for communicating this stuff to the rest of society to benefit from, when many aren’t so willing, and would happily equate data driven analysis and findings with the subjective opinion of their uncle that he obtained through “doing his own research”?
- Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement 1 week ago:
All the guidance from like, schools, where they’re taught stuff? Hopefully not that it’s “sinful” but the realities of gambling instead.
- Comment on My reaction to learning that KingCobraJFS died a few days ago. 1 week ago:
Who? What?
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 week ago:
And runs the few games it does have pretty poorly, all things considered.
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 week ago:
Maybe I’m misinformed, but can the RX 6800 do Path Tracing in CP2077 at 1440p/~30fps or at least on DLSS Quality?