LovableSidekick
@LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 12 hours ago:
Mainly lack of marketing I think. When I went to England a few years ago they were everywhere. I bought one as soon as I got home.
- Comment on As one does 15 hours ago:
Whenever I ask any designer about anything.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 day ago:
Ahh, backpedaling to “defending creators” - that’s a bold move, Cotton.
- Comment on Bisexual Flowers 2 days ago:
Confused - I like flowers but don’t have a blog.
- Comment on Does the "White Power Ranger" seem like an odd title? 3 days ago:
Yeah it’s like, “You don’t hear it?”
- Comment on 4D Salmon 3 days ago:
Are we talking to the ghost of Douglas Adams?
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 4 days ago:
That’s too bad - I’ve seen posts from scientists, or people who claim to be, saying what I said.
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 4 days ago:
A sandwich is also a social construct. but not every social construct is a sandwich.
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 4 days ago:
Dunno what Sci-Hub is, but most researchers are happy to send you a copy of their paper on request - and this is also legal. Their email address is usually on the abstract.
- Comment on Dolph is prime human 4 days ago:
The Information Age - the age of tailoring information to support our personal anger impulses.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 4 days ago:
Ok let me Sheldon it for you: Yes, deals existed “back in the day” as the saying goes, but fans weren’t aware of or reactive to the business aspects of gaming enough for the deals to be the subject of headlines.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 4 days ago:
So has fire insurance on game company office buildings, but fans never cared about it or boycotted games over it, etc.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 5 days ago:
I long for the era when fans who were asked if they would swallow future exclusivity deals would stare blankly and say, Wat?
- Comment on So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like? 5 days ago:
We’re not good with it and we hope it’s not too late to turn it around. And no, I don’t know how so there’s no point asking me.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 5 days ago:
Right now I’d call my mood more embarrassed than patriotic.
- Comment on Listen here, Little Dicky 5 days ago:
Having studied physics myself I’m sure physicists know what a derivative looks like.
- Comment on Who discovered/"invented" fire? 6 days ago:
It was the Roman ruler, Biggus Dickus.
- Comment on Who discovered/"invented" fire? 6 days ago:
Various individuals no doubt figured it out independently and then others in their tribe learned it from them. At first people probably took burning material from forest fires and brush fires that had been caused by lightning.
- Comment on Does vibe coding sort of work at all? 6 days ago:
Vibe coding is a very ill-defined term. A software dev friend of mine uses ChatGPt every day in his work and claims it saves him a ton of time. I think he mostly does db work and node apps right now.
- Comment on A slow and painful death 6 days ago:
Spike?
- Comment on What do you call your mom (Or moms what do your kids call you) 1 week ago:
Mom
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 1 week ago:
But then aren’t people who do get jobs so they can have healtcare mooching off free healthcare?
- Comment on MrBeast scraps AI YouTube thumbnail generator days after announcing it: 'If creators don't want the tools, no worries' 1 week ago:
In other news the Prime Directive is to protect your clickthru rate.
- Comment on Some worms have bones. 1 week ago:
Reminds me that I miss Mitch Hedberg.
- Comment on Wheee 1 week ago:
I wonder what Newton would have done if he were alive today and tried to figure out furries.
- Comment on Wheee 1 week ago:
To many people back then, a prism turning a sumbeam into a spray of colors must have seemed like actual magic happening right before their eyes.
- Comment on Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be? 1 week ago:
“geriatrics reliving the past glory of the 60’s” ?
I get that saying anything positive about boomers is pretty much against the rules of social media, but for fuck’s sake dude, you’re talking about people who are out there actually trying to do something for the world instead of thumb-typing nihilism into their phones.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 1 week ago:
Hearts
- Comment on Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be? 1 week ago:
Too many people’s idea of activism now is to rant on social media. “I’m raising awareness!”
- Comment on A slightly different experience 1 week ago:
For one thing, the economic boom of the 1950s was an anomaly. It was largely driven by years of enforced saving during WWII. Many consumer goods were either rationed or unavailable, but there was full employment for war production and those jobs paid well. So people were making good money and didn’t have a lot to spend it on. So they bought war bonds or just saved up. A few years after the war ended, when industry had shifted back to producing consumer goods, people had a lot of money to spend. Sales fueled more jobs and higher pay, fueling more sales etc.
By 1960 all the savings had been spent and consumption started to slack off. The business world didn’t want the boom to end, so they started handing out consumer credit like candy. Consumers also didn’t want it to end, so they eagerly bought on credit. Constantly owing money became the norm, and now the average American family carries like $15,000 in credit debt, excluding mortagages.
I think the only way we can achieve a boomer-like lifestyle for everybody will take massive changes in how we run the economy. The current system will just keep shoveling profits into the hands of a very small number of very wealthy people. Automatil will eliminate more and more jobs. But in the theoretical endpoint of that, the economy collapses when there are too few people with incomes who can afford to buy anything. Reforming our economy before it gets to that point will be a matter of survival.