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- Comment on It's rigged 19 hours ago:
Social security has a max payout, so it also has a cap on the taxes you pay into it.
At a surface level, it makes sense, which is why it continues.
Once you look into it even a little bit further, the max payout needs to stay, but the tax cap needs to be removed.
- Comment on Same day shipping 3 days ago:
Every body part has a major artery in it.
Get hit in the armpit, dead.
Get hit in the thigh, dead.
Get hit in the liver, dead.
Break a femur and it nicks the femoral artery, dead.
There certainly are ways to reduce the blood flow to survive a trip to the hospital, but if you don’t get blood back in you soon, you just shut down forever.
- Comment on The land before time 3 days ago:
And health codes didn’t stop them from filling it with all sorts of other stuff, and nobody looked to see that there were 5 sticks of butter and two handfuls of salt in each pizza.
- Comment on The land before time 3 days ago:
There’s a pizza dough spreader machine now. Makes it more consistent.
Smaller places often still throw the dough, but chains usually have the machine so every pizza is the same.
- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 5 days ago:
Bigger fires burn out quicker cause they burn hotter.
But maybe you wouldn’t need as much fire cause bigger animals tend to hold heat better?
Curious what the actual research reasoning would be.
- Comment on Valid point 6 days ago:
It’s not illegal to not have ID.
It is illegal to drive without a license.
Depending on what you’re doing, it’s perfectly fine to leave ID at home (assuming you’re light skinned, but also ID doesn’t save you anyway in some cases)
- Comment on Valid point 6 days ago:
Cash is required to be accepted to clear a debt.
Cash is not required to be accepted to make a purchase.
- Comment on Valid point 6 days ago:
Stores sell more product when they accept credit cards. It makes the purchase a lot more seamless. It also helps them track money and reduces mistakes or theft during a cash transaction.
There is a reason that shops accept credit.
There’s also a reason why a lot of shops are charging an extra % or two if you use credit. And a big reason why a lot of larger purchases like cars and home renovations do NOT accept credit.
- Comment on Pouring one out for the homies 1 week ago:
If you want to use Google instead of Bing, but don’t want AI slop, set your default search engine to this.
google.com/search?udm=14&q=%25s
Along with ublock and Firefox, it gives me ad free, ai free, Google search.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
Except history disproves this over and over.
People get stuck in what they know, but eventually they break out of it, and usually it’s a small thing that takes them over the tipping point.
Thinking that everyone on the planet is dumb except yourself just proves you’re not looking into the facts.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
PC games are pretty much locked down to the original purchaser. Console games could be bought and sold used. Once I was done with a console generation I just sold everything on ebay and made back a bunch of my money (especially since I bought most of it used as well).
PC games are a whole different beast. But now that most console games are locked to an account… there’s really no benefit of them anymore. Just get a PC for your living room and install SteamOS (or similar).
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
It works until it doesn’t. Companies can push prices for a little while, maybe a whole generation, but one day people decide it’s not worth it and it all crashes down suddenly.
Happens over and over again, could be the new era of PC gaming that Valve is pushing will tip them over, could be a new generation of Nintendo games. Could be a new company from China.
Big players do this every time, then the CEO says “nobody could have predicted that the 6th price hike was the end of the brand!”
- Comment on Real advert real company. They make good rifles now. 2 weeks ago:
What??? You mean to tell me that people in <year> have complained about how people in <same year> are violent and worse than previous people?
- Comment on "Take the medicine for one week" is monday-sunday or monday-monday? 2 weeks ago:
If it’s liquid, often they give you way too much, cause it’s hard to measure it out correctly, and they often give you a whole bottle regardless of how many doses you need.
If it’s pills, you usually get the exact amount.
- Comment on Attack on Prime 2 weeks ago:
Most items are tracked here, you can check the price history and see if it’s currently a good deal. You can also set up alerts for when the price drops.
- Comment on How did we reach to having 18 required for voting in elections? 2 weeks ago:
What age would you want to vote? 16? 12? 5?
At some point you’re too young to be able to follow and understand what’s going on.
Yes, it makes sense that someone who is younger will be impacted more by today’s decisions, but you also need to be mature enough to decide.
18 is the compromise age we have mostly collectively decided is the magic number.
- Comment on What is the difference between http and HTTPS ? 4 weeks ago:
You mentioned it, but I want to re-iterate this. The most important part of HTTPS isn’t that it’s hidden from anyone else, it’s that you can prove that data was actually sent by the website you expected, and it wasn’t altered in transit.
With HTTP, someone in-between can change the data, or hijack the whole session and you’ll never know. With HTTPS, anyone in-between must pass along the data (mostly) unaltered (except in very specific situations).
- Comment on The Sprayster | 3D Printed Hose Sprayer Sets Phasers To Suds 4 weeks ago:
If you’re wondering how [Curt] managed to 3D print a functional hose sprayer, the short answer is that he didn’t. Once assembled, the printed parts cleverly attach to the top of a standard sprayer, specifically the model 56516 “Pro Flo” from Orbit.
Boo, would have been neat if he got a working sprayer from only 3d printed parts. But that would be pretty unreasonable due to the pressures and the need for valves.
- Comment on How did we get "bike" from "bicycle"? 5 weeks ago:
It’s cause there were too many Williams, Richards, and Roberts. They shortened to Will, Rick, and Rob. But there were still too many so they started substituting the first letter.
Now you have Bill, Bob, and Dick.
Those got pretty popular just on their own so now they’re just common shortenings.
- Comment on Bright City Lights Might Be Making Your Allergies Worse 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, fuck these researchers. We should stop studying things cause you don’t like reading headlines.
Just pointless papers saying we should be cautious of things. Let’s ignore all that and put up all the lights and point them wherever we want.
Cities don’t have plants anyway, so what’s the harm!?!
- Comment on Title 1 month ago:
Surround the players with your own and starve them out.
- Comment on how much money is there in total? 1 month ago:
No, because they gave that $10 million to someone else first.
The bank became $10,000,000 in debt, then recovered it (with interest) what the bank gets in the end is the interest above the $10,000,000.
An example would be that a bank goes into $10,000,000 debt on paper, recovers $11,000,000 including interest, now bank has $1,000,000 extra due to it’s risk that the person paid their debt.
Assuming the bank is FDIC insured - If that money wasn’t paid back, the bank would have to sell that debt to a collector to get some of it back. If they did their risk calculations correctly than enough people would pay rather than default that they make a sizeable amount of money. If they didn’t, then the federal government takes over the bank, sells it to someone who can afford to handle the debt/credit load, and covers accounts due any lack of funds.
In theory this means that the bank is still required to keep their risk low enough to maintain their FDIC status. In practice it’s a lot more complicated and sometimes (but rarely) banks don’t get punished for risky bets that don’t pay off.
- Comment on Lefty tax 1 month ago:
I love how your defense of over generalizing one group instantly devolved into over generalizing a different group.
- Comment on I've been staring at this shirt for a long time and still have no idea what it means 1 month ago:
Don’t hate on Uranus like that, all we’ve got is Voyager pictures. That one kinda bad picture is cause we haven’t had a decent camera out there ever.
What we really need is a new mission with better cameras to get better pictures.
- Comment on Uno reverse😭 1 month ago:
Most likely someone took the picture in the original post, made a new fake account and replied.
It’s a fairly common joke.
- Comment on References: [1] out of his ass 1 month ago:
A hypothesis is only valid if it has any basis in reality AND a way to falsify it.
You can’t just say “it’s cause god got bored” that’s not valid.
You can say “it’s another dimension leaking, here’s something we can check and if we observe this, then it’s not true.”
Just throwing out random ideas isn’t a hypothesis, it’s fiction.
- Comment on Name one 1 month ago:
Most or All of the detectives on Law and Order.
- Comment on Mother 2 months ago:
Is this an Oviraptor reference?
- Comment on I am not a high drug user. I mean I smoke and drink that's it. But it seems to me that the US president is using uppers midday and keeping him up at night and crashing half thru the day? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Yup 2 months ago:
Thank you for not just posting “it is a thing!” But instead backing it up with sources.
