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- Comment on Correct 13 hours ago:
For some reason, I think the funniest part of this is the two downvotes
- Comment on Reckless Ben's Newest Work 2 days ago:
I searched “bricks minifigs” (to cover both “Brick & Minifigs” and “Bricks and Minifigs”) to see if anyone on Lemmy was talking about this. I got no results from that, but I found this post by searching “Reckless Ben”.
Just in case anyone is interested in more, here’s Bricks & Minifigs’ blog post about the matter, and Reckless Ben’s reaction to the Bricks & Minifigs blog post.
The whole thing is kinda mind-blowing (even the fact that a Star Wars Lego collection could be worth $200k). It gets much worse in part 2, which is currently paywalled, but I think it’ll get published for free after some time.
Anyway, hopefully this makes the post more searchable :)
- Comment on Reckless Ben's Newest Work 2 days ago:
It gets wayyyy worse in part two.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 3 days ago:
Ah that sucks. Honestly, with their sales volume, it would have been worth it to raise my prices on the other platforms to comply with Amazon… Which sucks.
Good to know though. I’ve been somewhat considering getting back into it if/when AI kills my current career.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 5 days ago:
Having different prices for different marketplaces? No, I think that was fine back then (almost ~10 years ago), but not sure about now. And if it wasn’t I guess I just didn’t get caught 🙂. My prices were highest on Amazon, lower on eBay, and lowest on my site. Amazon had the highest sales volume by far though.
You couldn’t directly advertise your website to Amazon customers though, if that’s what you mean. Some sellers had other ways… I think I remember some sellers including a small card in their packages that would say something like “Register your purchase at https://… to extend your return period” (or activate a warranty, receive a coupon code for another purchase, etc.). Or maybe it would ask them to send an email instead of going to a URL (Amazon sellers can’t see their customers’ email addresses). Something like that.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 5 days ago:
When I was an Amazon seller, I loved when people did this, and my website prices were always lower. Amazon takes such a large chunk from each sale.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I’m kinda happy that this is possible in Linux now. I remember when even the “easy” distros were still not user friendly enough for mass adoption
- Comment on "Angel" 1 week ago:
We have to be a bit more careful in the US
- Comment on I didn't realize it was so bad 1 week ago:
🤔 I wonder if/when threads like these ever get trimmed out of datasets. Like, is your Bristol 7 now permanent AI knowledge?
- Comment on I didn't realize it was so bad 1 week ago:
That’s a hyperparameter that can be adjusted for consistency
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 2 weeks ago:
It has always blown my mind how some people can get through childhood having almost no knowledge of basic tools.
- Comment on Ew why are you like that 2 weeks ago:
lol gross
- Comment on We're so back 2 weeks ago:
Humans were consuming so much horse paste that there was a shortage?! That’s wild.
I guess I never really knew why so many people associate ivermectin with horses. I would not have guessed that 😆
- Comment on Wonder why? 4 weeks ago:
🤔 I wonder what they did to the people who offered the bribes
- Comment on Confirms to Marxist theories regarding the proletariat. 1 month ago:
Maybe it’s both. I would guess that men’s feet would get tipped more than no feet, but less than women’s feet.
- Comment on School of hard knocks 1 month ago:
When I had to hire people, I was much more interested in seeing a portfolio than a degree.
It depends on what the job is though. I definitely want my doctor to have a degree
- Comment on Free resources 1 month ago:
Not in a troy ounce though
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Why?
- Comment on The incredible transformation 1 month ago:
So you would have preferred her to refrain from helping the boy because of their differences in skin color? Isn’t that… wildly racist? Wanting the child to suffer more just because of race? Because it might resemble some cinematic/literary trope?
I suppose this is a decent reminder to limit my social media consumption. This is gross.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 1 month ago:
Do you really think that people who have the skills to repair the water treatment plant are going to just deal with sewage backing up into their home because they don’t want to do the work?
In their own city’s infrastructure? No, probably not. But that doesn’t quite clear things up, so I’ll throw out some numbers as an example:
- Let’s say, on average, ~100 pumps need repair/maintenance at any given time.
- Only 50 people have the skills to fix those industrial pumps[^1].
Do an average of 50 cities have sewage backing up at any given time? How do you fill that gap?
Also, do you have an example of a society that functions like this today? Maybe I’m just stuck thinking inside a box because the society I’m most familiar with is not like that. If so, an example might be helpful.
[^1]: Obviously only a VERY small fraction of those 50 would be willing to travel to whatever town needs the repair, learn the schematics of their pump model, then swim through their excrement to blindly fix it. But probably easier to just focus on a simpler set of numbers.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 1 month ago:
Maybe many would, but also, many would not.
In a society in which everyone can choose whatever career they want, all for the same “pay”/outcome/whatever it’s called in a moneyless society, I would bet that most people would choose not to do these things.
When the demand for such tasks outweighs the number of people who are both willing and skilled to do those jobs, what can be done to meet the demand?
Btw, I’m not asking rhetorically - I’m genuinely curious. If there isn’t enough people to serve such an important job for society, what can be done?
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 1 month ago:
Some people have to dress up in a special suit and swim through raw sewage to repair a big pump - and they have to do it blindly because the sewage is opaque.
Some people have an even dirtier job: They have to clean off that guy’s shitty suit before he can take it off. They might have to do it multiple times if he needs to come out to take another look at schematics.
They do it because it pays very well. It pays very well because nobody wants to do it.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 1 month ago:
It depends on the person. I’ve known people who are much more motivated by money. Some of them ended up in prison, some are doing quite well, and some are still trying.
Honestly, I sometimes wish I were more money-motivated. I’m very lucky that my passion happens to earn a good salary (for now), but I gave up my business for it.
- Comment on Witness 1 month ago:
Does that matter to them? I assumed not, but I don’t really know what they think about rocket launches, so maybe I shouldn’t assume
- Comment on Witness 1 month ago:
I assume they’re aware that rockets get launched on a regular basis
- Comment on Why don;t most of us Americans only need like one foreign language to pass high school? Why not make it mandatory for like 3 or 4 languages?Would that not give us the upper hand when traveling? 1 month ago:
I think this is one of the reasons why people from English-speaking countries are less motivated to learn other languages; English is almost everywhere, to varying degrees.
It’s sort of a gift and a curse. I enjoy learning languages, but there’s no practical need for me to, so I’m bad at it 🙈
- Comment on Why don;t most of us Americans only need like one foreign language to pass high school? Why not make it mandatory for like 3 or 4 languages?Would that not give us the upper hand when traveling? 1 month ago:
Yep. I imagine Spanish is much more useful in Texas than in Alaska
- Comment on Why don;t most of us Americans only need like one foreign language to pass high school? Why not make it mandatory for like 3 or 4 languages?Would that not give us the upper hand when traveling? 1 month ago:
There are language exchange sites and apps for that. Lots of people learn languages just as a fun hobby, and there are many resources out there for it
- Comment on Why don;t most of us Americans only need like one foreign language to pass high school? Why not make it mandatory for like 3 or 4 languages?Would that not give us the upper hand when traveling? 1 month ago:
Fun fact: You can learn without school. There’s sooo much information outside of school walls, and it’s easier to access now than ever in the history of humanity.
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 1 month ago:
It’s useful for sending money internationally in situations that would be otherwise difficult