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- Comment on Subscribe now for more clicks! 2 weeks ago:
You can only click after watching
3511 ads. - Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 4 weeks ago:
I have no science behind this (and am therefore a hypocrite) but I’m giving up on the assumption that people think. I suspect that most people feel and make decisions on those feelings.
Thinking happens later, if at all. - Comment on AI Elections 1 month ago:
Sadly, a lot of Americans couldn’t name the states correctly either.
- Comment on Tiny pp 1 month ago:
General rule amongst those groups: “If you can’t be good, be loud.”
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave 2 months ago:
One Youtube channel suggested it was tax incentives. Cities give tax incentives to large corporate offices in order to bring customers, er… employees to the cities.
Work from home means offices no longer meet qualifications for tax breaks. Ergo CEO freakouts.
Don’t know if it’s true, but it does sound plausible to me.
- Comment on Phew 2 months ago:
It’s likely you won’t find a rock this big when digging a basement, but as we can see here, it’s not something you can safely take for granite.
- Comment on Hellboy: The Crooked Man | How the dwindling of home media has affected a cult comic book franchise 2 months ago:
Why does the Hellboy in the still remind me of Liam Neeson?
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 2 months ago:
My bowels have been questioning a lot lately, so it’s not entirely without precedent.
- Comment on Since cats don't pant like dogs how do they release trapped heat? 2 months ago:
Easy.
The dog on the right is wearing pants. Two covered legs = Pa(ir) + nts = ‘Pants’.
The dog on the left is wearing quants. Four covered legs = Qua(d) + nts = ‘Quants”.
Two different clothing items.
- Comment on Infinity 2 months ago:
The Earth’s orbit is an ellipse, not a circle, and therefore the Earth speeds up or slows down depending on where on its orbit it is at the time
That’s it! Thank you.
- Comment on Infinity 2 months ago:
So can someone who is more familiar with this subject answer, “Are these pictures taken at the same time of day with or without seasonal adjustments to time (Daylight Savings Time, etc.)?”
I understand why the sun would move vertically over the year due to the tilt of the Earth, but what causes the horizontal movement?
- Comment on Infinity 2 months ago:
Wait. Is that one turtle per dimension, one turtle per universe, or one turtle that lives inside each black hole that’s really just a wormhole to another dimension/universe?
- Comment on McDonald's Experience by non McDonald's patron. 4 months ago:
I’ve read that McDonald’s is pushing kiosks so hard because on average people order more when they use them vs cashier or drive-thru.
- Comment on Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO 4 months ago:
This is exactly how she managed to advance so quickly. By being willing to spout this BS on demand.
- Comment on POV 5 months ago:
Just dabbling in general science might help.
Look at that tree. Where does it come from? A bunch of random atoms somehow decided to make a tree. Out of what? If we burn a tree, all we get is a little ash. That ash is the only solid chemicals that the tree pulled out of the ground. What was the rest made of? Where did it come from? Photosynthesis tells is that it came from the air. 90% of every tree is just conjured from air.
We’re surrounded everywhere by crystalized air.
- Comment on E-e-eat the rich? 5 months ago:
Hope they like it unwashed. Ain’t gonna be no showers in WWIII.
- Comment on Top post in the conservative subreddit: Being unable to work at a "woke" company 5 months ago:
Agreed. Want to add that (in my opinion, at least) Lucas’s Episodes I, II & III didn’t do the series any favors either. :-(
- Comment on My mom's doctor be like 5 months ago:
AI has failed so many times it has joined the junkpile of online personalities that are so bad we can no longer tell the difference between their actual errors and those created as sarcasm.
The Dead Sarcasm Cult. - Submitted 5 months ago to [deleted] | 12 comments
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- Comment on Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs? 6 months ago:
Love this feature. Wish they did this on more cars. Hot, sunny days that heat tue cabin are perfect for driving the solar-powered fan that helps cool the cabin.
- Comment on The dream of a quiet life 6 months ago:
I suspect it has something to do with all the neck biting.
- Comment on Private Equity Firm Bought My Employer 6 months ago:
Private equity = Fisher Company = Fish
The company is going to be gutted and filleted.
- Comment on viruses 6 months ago:
That’s how I interpreted @moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ’s “extraalive” phrasing. If you want to know exactly what they meant, I recommend asking them.
- Comment on viruses 6 months ago:
Some have features of both plants and animals, so they’re kinda hard to fit into rigid categories.
- Comment on Big Tech Is Faking AI 7 months ago:
Lest anyone think this is a new scam:
- Comment on Innovation 7 months ago:
The movie industry version of Return To Office.
In order to continue using Netflix, you have to watch 3 movies a week in the theater.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 7 months ago:
I’m going to take a somewhat different tack to describing this.
There are many ways to motivate large groups of people. You’ve likely seen this a lot and not really noticed or paid attention to it. Some examples are tribalism (“Hey! They’re not one of us!”), nationalism (“Those dirty foreign people!”), religion (“Do what I say and go to heaven!”), money (“Do this and I’ll give you something valuable”), etc.
One of the best motivators is fear. (“Do this or I/they will do something you really don’t like”).
Political groups need something to motivate large groups of people. When done well, they appeal to the better sides of humanity. When done by the lazy, the dumb and the craven, they go with the simple one: fear.
That’s what Conservatism has been hammering for a while now. They don’t really have a way to appeal to people’s better sides, primarily because their platform isn’t to make humanity better off. They platform is to make a few people better off to the detriment of everyone else. So they try tribalism (“Those brown people are trying to take your money!”), nationalism (“Those foreigners are taking your jobs!”), religion (“Those non-Christians are trying to install sharia law!”), etc. The most effective one is still fear. So getting their followers scared and angry is the best way to motivate them, get them to stop thinking rationally and build moats that will isolate them from people that might talk them down.
This is used to motivate people to vote in certain ways, as well as motivate them to watch advertisements. In other words: money and power.
- Comment on Voyager 1 7 months ago:
Heh. Years ago during an interview I was explaining how important it is to verify a system before putting it into orbit. If one found problems in orbit, you usually can’t fix it. My interviewer said, “Why not just send up the space shuttle to fix it?”
- Comment on Voyager 1 7 months ago:
all of these new platforms are proprietary, walled off, and in some cases don’t make controlling the data easy if you’re not hosting it
You’ve just discovered their business case. Almost all new business es these days specialize in insinuating themselves into an existing process in order to co-opt it and charge rents.
