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- Comment on Why don;t more presidents put stuff to a national referendum like Clinton did a couple times? A person would get time off work to vote, show what americans actually want and so on. 19 hours ago:
There is no national referendum in the US. Whoever told you there is has misinformed you.
Also, you think Americans get time off work to vote? Lol. Lmao, even. Americans don’t get time off to vote. ~40% of Americans didn’t vote at all in the last presidential election, and that has the largest turnout. And you think they’re going to take time off work for a (non-existent) referendum vote?
One of the biggest reasons that America’s politics skews right is because the rich and retired are the ones who have time to reliably vote, and America’s rich and retired demographics both skew conservative. Democrats have much higher numbers when you look at the raw numbers, but democrats also largely don’t vote because they’re poor working class people who can’t afford time off (or can’t set their own schedule to ensure they have time).
If a minimum wage cashier works an 8 hour shift on Election Day, you think they’re going to drive all the way across town (because conservatives
closed“consolidated” all the polling locations in liberal areas) and spend 4 hours in line to vote after their shift? No, they’re going home to crash, because they’ve been on their feet all day and they’re exhausted. - Comment on ‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel 1 day ago:
That is $375M to a single person. This wasn’t a class action. This was a precedent-setting case that opens the floodgates for future lawsuits. Until now, actually getting courts to agree with plaintiffs has been impossible. But since courts use precedent, this allows future plaintiffs to refer to it when filing their own lawsuits.
- Comment on My friend is 31 and is constantly breaking out in acne. She also gets very irritated/argumentative before her period. Is this normal for her age? 2 days ago:
+1 for the anti-dandruff shampoo trick. I keep a bottle in the cabinet for when I work outside in the summer. It’s the only thing that prevents massive breakouts (all over my chest and shoulders) after I sweat a lot. Use it like a face/body wash, and let it sit for an extra minute or two (however long the bottle says) before you rinse. For particularly bad/stubborn spots, I use it like an overnight spot treatment. Dab it on directly and let it dry before bed, then rinse off in the morning.
It will only make a difference if the acne is actually fungal. But if it is, your friend will likely see a world of difference.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 5 days ago:
This was basically the concept behind Cost Plus Drugs. Mark Cuban realized he could sell generic drugs at a basic 15% markup and $10 pharmacy+shipping, and drastically undercut the competition. Their drug prices literally list the breakdown of manufacturing cost, 15% markup, $5 pharmacy labor, and the $5 shipping on each page.
He has been blunt that the business isn’t really about lowering drug prices. That is certainly a bonus, but he’s not doing it to be magnanimous. He simply realized that the markup on drug prices was so mind-bogglingly absurd (oftentimes over 2500% markup) that he could undercut the market by thousands of dollars and still make a tidy 15% profit.
Patient drug prices in the US are insane, and he is simply exploiting that fact to undercut everyone else on the market.
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 6 days ago:
Fair warning, Bowflex dumbbells are under an active recall. You should check and see which model you have.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 6 days ago:
Yeah, Japan was actually surprised when American game devs started using X for confirm. They never even anticipated that it would happen, because the X/O symbolism is so heavily engrained in their society that it was glaringly obvious to them that O was confirm. Their original intent was always to use the Nintendo layout for confirm/cancel, but then western devs misunderstood the buttons and swapped them.
To them, an O is like a checkmark or thumbs up emoji. Imagine if an American console maker developed a console with a thumbs up button, and Asian devs started using the thumbs up button as Cancel. You’d probably be pretty fucking confused too.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 6 days ago:
Out of curiosity, how does it compare to EmuDeck? I haven’t personally used RetroDeck, so I was wondering if it had anything that would make me switch from EmuDeck.
- Comment on A communist and an anarchist walk into a bar.. 1 week ago:
It is extremely heavily moderated in favor of communism, so it is a very big echo chamber. Everything seems very calm and respectable as long as you don’t dig too deep, because any dissenting opinions quickly get removed. So there isn’t a whole lot of argument that happens among .ml users. But checking the mod logs tells a very different story.
Also, it’s the only instance that the lead Lemmy dev uses, so anyone who wants to stay up to date on lemmy’s development is forced to federate with .ml. There have also been some controversies about the dev putting dev donations towards running the instance, which ruffled a lot of feathers from people who want to support the dev but not the instance.
- Comment on This fuckass ad keeps popping up while I'm trying to study Norwegian 1 week ago:
It’s funny seeing the massive divide between Lemmy and Reddit on Brave. On Reddit, Brave is continuously praised as the go-to browser because they ran a massive astroturfed campaign and got a bunch of redditors to switch. But on Lemmy (where they never ran that astroturfing) Brave is pretty widely hated.
You can always tell when someone is a recent Reddit refugee, because they’ll mention Brave and immediately get shouted down. And sure enough, the person’s account is only like a day old.
- Comment on This fuckass ad keeps popping up while I'm trying to study Norwegian 1 week ago:
Ghostery was involved in some weird info-selling controversy, weren’t they?
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
Some of us are old enough to remember when your games would sound different depending on which sound card you had installed.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Guessing you’re German? It is used in place of the Palestinian flag, because it has the same colors. Since Germany is terrified of being labeled antisemitic, (and Israel immediately jumps to “you’re an antisemite” whenever anyone disagrees with them,) the German government has their tongue all the way up Israel’s asshole. So the German government labeled it antisemitic, (and started trying to propagandize their population to believe so as well, by equating it with Nazis) because they don’t want any Germans making headlines by using the emoji to support Palestine.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Number 1 🏥 2 weeks ago:
My wife has epilepsy. She has a medical alert bracelet for it. If she has a seizure in public, she doesn’t need an ambulance ride unless she hurts herself or is actively seizing for more than 5 minutes. But that won’t stop some well-intentioned bystander from saddling her with a $5000 ambulance bill while she’s unconscious. Because a seizure leaves you confused and disoriented for ~45-60 minutes afterwards.
So even if her seizure only lasts 2-3 minutes, she’ll be out of it for a while afterwards. And EMTs can 100% use her disorientation to justify throwing her in the back of the truck, even though she doesn’t need it and the hospital won’t do anything for her. But that won’t stop them from billing for the ambulance ride anyways.
- Comment on Reporting an absence 2 weeks ago:
Nope, it’s unfortunately not that easy in the US. Not only can police use your property for this… They aren’t liable for any damage they cause while doing so.
Lech v. City of Greenwood Village is a relevant national case. Basically, police demolished a neighbor’s house while executing a warrant, and then refused to reimburse the neighbor. There is a Takings clause of the 5th amendment, that says the government can claim eminent domain and take private property, but they must provide just compensation for the property that was taken… The homeowner tried to argue that the demolition fell under the Takings clause, and therefore he was entitled to just compensation. The Supreme Court ruled that the police had no obligation to reimburse, as long as the damage occurred due to official police power. The SCOTUS essentially ruled that official police powers (like executing warrants, chasing suspects during an attempted arrest, or standing standoffs) do not invoke the Takings clause. Even if the powers were not directed at the person whose property was taken. So cops have carte blanche to use your shit as long as they can justify the use as part of executing an official police power.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 2 weeks ago:
Being trans only bars you from service if you’re actively undergoing treatment (like HRT), so no it isn’t as “simple” as you make it sound.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 2 weeks ago:
Fragging. It often isn’t done with literal grenades.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, people don’t realize that Project 100k was a thing during the last draft.
You think your autism is going to get you out of the draft? Have you ever met a marine? They’re all on the fucking spectrum. And if your autism is too noticeable, they’ll fast-track you straight to the front lines.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 2 weeks ago:
What are you, a cop? Anyone who is actually planning to dodge shouldn’t be posting their ideas publicly.
- Comment on Put the shoes on 2 weeks ago:
Reminds me of what an EMT once told me. She mentioned that every EMT inevitably learns two very important questions to ask whenever you encounter someone who is naked in public:
- Do you know you’re naked?
- Do you want to be naked?
Those two questions will shed a lot of light on the current situation, and will let you gauge how the next 15 minutes is going to go.
- Comment on Meirl 2 weeks ago:
This saved my mom just the other day. She sat for an extra second at a green, and the car behind her whipped around to pass her. That car almost got t-boned by the fucking bus that ran the red light. If she had gone as soon as the light turned green, she would have been directly in front of the bus. But she noticed the bus wasn’t slowing down at all, so she waited.
- Comment on Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album? 2 weeks ago:
It was a lymph node disorder, commonly caused by tuberculosis.
- Comment on What's your favorite band? (Of frequency that is) 3 weeks ago:
Depends on what I’m doing with it.
If it’s a vocal input, I’m probably boosting the 2k-5k a little, because that’s where lots of the vocal clarity and intelligibility comes from. A small boost somewhere in that range (exactly where varies slightly from one vocalist to the next) usually keeps the audience from straining to hear. Unless it’s a true bass singer, they’re getting a high pass filter, probably around 160Hz-180Hz. Anything below that will just be mud for anyone except a bass. Lastly, most people sound a little less harsh with a small shelf cut around the 8-10k range. Not a lot, you just want to take some of the harsh squeakiness out of things. Maybe a de-esser too, but that’s a different topic.
And if it’s an instrument, I’ll probably consider cutting a little bit out of that same 2k-5k range if it’s stepping on the vocals. Too much noise in that same range will make the vocals sound muddy, because they’re getting steamrolled by the instruments.
Basically everything on the drums (except the kick, and maybe the floor tom) gets some sort of high pass filter. Especially the cymbals. I don’t need to hear kick drum in my ride cymbals. And inversely, basically everything over ~2k gets rolled off of the kick, because I don’t need to hear the cymbals sizzling in my kick mic.
A stringed instrument like a violin or cello will EQ very similarly to a singer in the same range. In terms of instrument voicing, instruments played with a bow sound the most like a human voice, so I guess it makes sense that they would EQ the same. But it also means that strings will tend to overwhelm vocals if they’re in the same range. For example, a bari-bass singer will compete with the cello for the same auditory space. So you’ll want to be careful that you don’t accidentally make both of them sound too much alike. Otherwise you’ll run into the same trap of having them both occupy the same auditory space, and they’ll make each other sound muddy.
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 3 weeks ago:
I mean, there are certain games where the online community actually breathes a lot of life into a game. Lots of open-ended games have fantastic online communities. For instance, Factorio’s online community is largely focused on sharing factory blueprints, finding better ways to optimize your setups, and modding.
In fact, the biggest “controversy” surrounding Factorio is that the company’s founder is a bigot. The official Reddit sub actively turned against him. The mods even started deleting his inflammatory posts and comments for breaking the rules, which is a nice piece of irony. Imagine creating a game and then having the entire fanbase turn against you when you start blowing dog whistles.
- Comment on Contractual trap on remote working job offer 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m in a similar situation. The way my organization works, each department gets assigned an HR rep, and is forced to go through that single rep for anything. And our rep is… Pretty awful?
She’ll randomly close job postings without notifying hiring managers, meaning they’re stuck waiting for applications that will never arrive. She’ll leave job postings open even after they have been filled, meaning managers continue to get bogged down by applicants who have no chance of getting hired. She’ll “forget” to forward PII to hiring managers for weeks, so they can’t reach out to applicants to schedule interviews. And she’ll literally deny doing all of this, even when proof (like screenshots of the job postings page) is provided.
The US Army’s “Simple Sabotage” handbook states that if you can’t overtly sabotage the enemy via things like bombs, you can try to covertly sabotage the enemy by getting a position in middle management and embodying the term “middle manglement”. Just be as useless as possible, all the time, to ensure projects get delayed.
We’re convinced that’s actually what she’s doing to us, simply because she hates our department. We’re an arts department in an otherwise non-artsy organization. Like three quarters of our department’s staff is openly trans, and we’re in the Deep South where that tends to be frowned upon; we used to joke that the one cishet white male part-timer was the diversity hire. She openly refuses to let our trans staff use preferred names on company-provided things (like email addresses and name tags) and her excuse is that IT requires legal names on everything like email addresses… Despite the fact that there is someone in HR who uses a preferred name for her email address.
We’re trying to get the organization to let us go around her or reassign us to a different HR rep, but gathering evidence is a sort of catch-22. How do you gather evidence against her when she’s the sole gatekeeper for basically everything that hiring managers would need to prove that she’s not doing her job? We’ve had a few applicants reach out directly to basically be like “hey uhh what the hell is going on” and those are the only real chances that hiring managers have had to bypass the HR rep.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII - now on GOG 4 weeks ago:
Yup, they did the same with the FFX/X-2 port a while ago, and the PC version is now considered the definitive version because the QoL stuff is so nice.
- Comment on Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI: 4 weeks ago:
He always looks like someone is slowly but steadily sliding hardboiled eggs into his asshole, and he’s lowkey enjoying it but is trying not to react.
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 5 weeks ago:
It’d be nice to be able to walk down a street without making other people uncomfortable because men in general are less assholish than bears.
A part of it is large numbers bias. Very few people encounter bears, so very few people experience bear attacks. Even if every bear was predisposed to attacking people, there would still be very few bear attacks. But virtually everyone encounters men on a near daily basis. So even if the likelihood of an attack is extremely low on a case-by-case basis, the overall number of incidents is much higher simply because there are more cases of people encountering men.
That’s why the go-to response to “it’s not every man” essentially boils down to “sure, it’s not every man. But it’s enough of them…”
- Comment on Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black? 5 weeks ago:
Sure, for printing. But printing isn’t the only form of subtractive color. Plenty of natural pigments exist. Those can be quantified with CMY or RGB values and then reproduced elsewhere, even though the natural pigment itself isn’t directly targeting those three wavelengths.
- Comment on Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black? 5 weeks ago:
I mean, you’re almost there, but then you lost the plot. I’m a professional lighting technician, and also happen to have a little bit of experience with paint.
Light is additive color, and RGB is commonly used because your eyes have three different cones that detect colors. You have a red cone, a green cone, and a blue cone. So lights will tend to use the RGB color space because it allows the light to directly stimulate those three cones. If I shine RGB light at a white object, it will combine to reflect as white (meaning the object appears to be white) because the full spectrum is being reflected off of the object.
But the actual colors used don’t really matter, as long as they add up to the full spectrum of light. I could use CMY light instead, and achieve the same basic effect. Again, if the full spectrum is hitting the object, the full spectrum has the potential to be reflected. And that potential is additive color… We add color to the system to achieve the color we want.
Pigment (or really anything that absorbs/blocks light) is subtractive color. CMY(K) is commonly used in printing, but you could just as easily use RGB pigments instead. All that matters is that they’re selectively absorbing light, instead of reflecting it. If a pigment selectively reflects cyan light, (and absorbs all other wavelengths), it will appear as cyan when you hit it with white light. That absorption/blocking is subtractive color. We start with the full spectrum, and remove wavelengths to achieve the desired color.
But the absorption isn’t actually what matters. What matters is that the light is selectively being reflected off of the object. Let’s say I have a pane of glass, which is coated with a special reflective material. This material will allow cyan light to pass through, while all other light gets reflected off.
Now two things will happen if I shine white light at this glass: First, the glass itself will appear to shine red. That’s because when you selectively remove cyan light from the spectrum, it tints red. Since the cyan light is passing through the glass (instead of being reflected) we are effectively subtracting it from the glass’ reflection. So the glass appears red due to the subtractive color.
Second, the light on the other side of the glass will appear to be cyan. Because the cyan light is selectively allowed to pass through that filter. This cyan light could be used for additive color mixing, and could be combined with beams of other spectrums (like magenta and yellow) to form white light.
Now with this above system, we have the potential for both additive and subtractive color mixing, purely due to the properties of how the light interacts with the reflective material. Again, the specific color space isn’t what determines additive or subtractive, it is how the light is interacting in the system. And nearly every natural system will be using both. You’ll have additive color illuminating the room you’re in, then subtractive color selectively absorbing wavelengths to make different objects appear different colors.
