finitebanjo
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- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 day ago:
US 30, DOW Jones, and NASDAQ all peaked a little higher in November-December last year. Crude Oil futures haven’t recovered from their 2022 high. USD to Euro is down since 2018 high and USD to GBP is down since 2016.
But yes if you look at charts going back over a decade there is a clear unbreaking “line goes up” trend.
- Comment on Discord requiring you to add a phone number **after** the creation of your account 1 day ago:
I set up two accounts last week without phone number. A lot of people seem to forget that the web app and email signup still exists, there is no reason to ever download the app.
- Comment on Discord requiring you to add a phone number **after** the creation of your account 1 day ago:
Yikes, hopefully this one stays in beta.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 day ago:
A little while ago the entire market went red. If it’s doing well now then that’s only comparative to everything going on then.
That said, gutting regulations certainly will boost profits short term, if you care more about that than human life and happiness.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 days ago:
No. It’s going to get worse for a while, maybe forever, but it won’t ever collapse until outside forces put boots on the ground. The thing about the USA is that it’s the United States, not singular state, so even if the Federal Entity is in turmoil or even collapses: the USA will continue operating at limited capacity.
The day that the USA is done will be the beginning of the third great war.
- Comment on What Did William Burrito Mean by This? 2 days ago:
The number of billionaires wouldn’t change. Just vote to tax the rich, ffs.
- Comment on What Did William Burrito Mean by This? 2 days ago:
Counterpoint: Before men in suits we had men in blouses which not only did all of that but their war was also legal and the public received no benefits or guaranteed rights. We created men in suits as representatives to redistribute wealth and help each other.
- Comment on Anon works at gamestop 2 days ago:
I know every greentext ever written by anybody for any purpose is fake but:
A person being seen by you as your lesser is not unworthy of your kindness. Be more kind to the people of the land, anons.
- Comment on It tastes like... shitposts. 2 days ago:
Just to be clear, the recent cable vandalism were orchestrated by bad actors from China dragging anchors across them, deliberately.
Not sharks.
- Comment on Basic courtesy 4 days ago:
I return the carts and I don’t litter, but lets not lie about the effects of cart returning on socioeconomic outcomes. That’s bullshit and you know it.
- Comment on Basic courtesy 4 days ago:
You absolutely won’t have the savings passed onto you if the store fires one of the cart managers. That’s the same logic as thinking self checkout makes store prices cheaper. Maybe if every store were locally owned it might work that way, but we’re far from that sort of system.
- Comment on Basic courtesy 4 days ago:
Dang dude that Wojack character went straight to Woah, Jack
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 6 days ago:
It’s kind of interesting to think about it in practice because on one hand the number of ISPs is limited in many areas, taking away the competitive choice, but on the other hand the opportunity to pull this stunt has been around for years in places like the USA and nobody has succeeded so far.
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 6 days ago:
There are girls on instagram but idk how talkative they are.
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 6 days ago:
I must be stupid for not realizing a whitelist ISP implementation, I always imagined it would be more like a blacklist.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 week ago:
It’s a disinformation machine which completely lacks all context. If it’s about 85% accurate to average internet denizens and 15% halucination, then it’s an absolutely atrocious source to learn from. You’re literally lying to yourself, that is what the tool does.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 week ago:
I mostly ask it things I don’t know, though. I’m not exporting my thinking to it.
Exhibit A
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 week ago:
To be honest it’s a shit solution that makes you worse by merely using it.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 week ago:
It was a great answer until the very last sentence. ChatGPT is never a reference for anything ever if you have any fraction of a brain.
- Comment on Magnets 1 week ago:
You made this comment after the edit, which is kind of weird
- Comment on Magnets 1 week ago:
Sorry yeh I had those confused, but regardless of who it was a bullshit made up story.
- Comment on Advice on enjoying your life 1 week ago:
A lot of people would argue that some of these are basics needs not wants.
- Comment on Magnets 1 week ago:
ICP wouldn’t approve of those people.
- Comment on Magnets 1 week ago:
It’s not exactly proof of character but it’s pretty easy to verify that Edison’s patent of DC Electricity was NOT novel or new as a concept but did allow him to create a monopoly and massively enrich himself while also increasing costs on the average person of his time.
This is lended to by the fact that in children’s books and schools in the USA Edison was portrayed as some magical fictional character who tied a key to a kite to invent electricity. Clearly there is a campaign made to make him look like the hero he isn’t.
But it doesn’t stop there, Edison had many patents that almost all built on the works of others going back decades, although I do think that he did more work than he stole on audio recording and transmitting, but he also patented the Telegraph like a hundred times even though the Cook and Wheatstone Electric Telegraph existed over 50 years earlier: a time before Edison was even born.
He was an OK inventor but he was a cutthroat businessman.
- Comment on Do they make a TV device or dongle to connect quickly via a number of types of inputs? 1 week ago:
It’s still in development AFAIK, some devices might support USB with the capabilities of an older HDMI throughput but an HDMI cannot handle both data in and data out.
HDMI data rates go up to 48 Gbps, you can’t match that with most USB.
- Comment on Misleading and false election ads are legal in Australia. We need national truth in political advertising laws 1 week ago:
If anything I’d say UK is worse in that metric in the same timeframe.
- Comment on I hope it doesn't find you 1 week ago:
Whats funny is in the USA the wildlife organizations mainly keep track of population trends via sitings by federal employees, namely *postal workers, which means whoever delivered this letter saw the animal, closed the lid, and wrote down the time and place in a little notebook before moving on.
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 1 week ago:
- Comment on me_irl 1 week ago:
lmao
- Comment on me_irl 1 week ago:
You really think burning down the state buildings will have zero negative effects? That the state doesn’t provide necessary life saving services to the people using money it extracted from industry?
Then you’re an idiot. Burning down a state building kills people whether anybody is inside or not.
