ramble81
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- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 5 days ago:
This lines up pretty well where I live and I’m in a major metro area (San Antonio). Rent would get you something pretty small though but not impossible. Food, phone and internet are about spot on for what I pay currently. Utilities for a small studio/1br track about there. Transportation is a bit off depending on if you own a car or not.
But regardless, even if the numbers are close, it just drives the point home that much more.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 1 week ago:
Honestly it’s hard for me too. I think I qualify as “upper middle class” (though it feels squarely like middle now) and most people I know are in that strata too. As such it’s hard for me to fathom “my fellow American” as I don’t see it directly. But just knowing that stat gives me serious pause.
And that I think is the biggest barrier for congress critters. They’re so far removed and insulated from it, they just dismiss the facts because “it doesn’t feel right to them”. It’s a level of cognitive dissonance that requires you to willfully put in effort to understand and most just don’t want to.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 1 week ago:
I mean, that’s what a majority usually means. 😂
- Comment on currently busy 😅 1 week ago:
“Not sure you’re gonna want this”
- Comment on It's Burning Man 2026 week... 1 week ago:
This…. Is serious?
- Comment on Good shot 1 week ago:
What was that one phrase. Kill them all and let god sort it out?
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 1 week ago:
Except they just changed the enlistment (and by proxy draft) age to 42.
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 1 week ago:
No, it’s about sending a message that immoral conscription has consequences. If it means sacrificing your own life to send that message, so be it.
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 1 week ago:
Ever see M.A.S.H.?
- Comment on Running Your Own ISP PH II (DN42): Everyone Should Build Their Own Internet(x) 1 week ago:
Vibe coded their own network stack because…. Linux could get compromised?
I kinda understand their premise, but man, talk about the wrong way to approach it.
- Comment on Infuriating day of the week layout 2 weeks ago:
Is it possible the doses for the top 4 days are the same and then the other three are different and it’s easier for the machine to fill them that way so it’s just labeling?
- Comment on One of the lowercase m is actually an r + n, and the other isn't. 2 weeks ago:
Ahem….
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- Comment on Jimmy Neutron confirmed Chad? 2 weeks ago:
Gives new meaning to Jimmy Neutron
- Comment on Anon visits IHOP 2 weeks ago:
For those of us not familiar with the region you’re from: what’s Friendly’s and what’s a “Fribble”?
- Comment on Bet your car doesn't have a special lip balm holder 3 weeks ago:
The penis mightier.
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 3 weeks ago:
Never said it was impossible, but more and more it requires you to further and further isolate yourself to have any meaningful privacy.
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 3 weeks ago:
Some yes. Some no. Most of the the WiFi and BT can, but the car IMEI, usually no unless you yank the fuse/module.
Now even if you disable your car stuff. It can still track those same things for your personal phone. Have an Apple or Google Watch, Bluetooth is enabled. Little things like that, which make it worse because now instead of tracking a car, they’re tracking people/personal devices.
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 3 weeks ago:
Flock also captures WiFi and Bluetooth MAC addresses and IMEI from cell phones. Even if they don’t get a license plate if your car has wireless CarPlay or Android Auto, if you’re connected via Bluetooth, if you have an in car hotspot, or if you have any connected services (remote start, phone app, traffic), they can track you by that.
A license plate is no longer the only identifying piece of information.
- Comment on Felt cute? 4 weeks ago:
Shittles™
- Comment on Jeremy Clarkson shares worrying Diddly Squat update after UK heatwave 4 weeks ago:
That’s something else he brought up. How common farmers are getting pushed out because of mega-corps. It’s worth watching at least the first season as most of those questions are answered
- Comment on Jeremy Clarkson shares worrying Diddly Squat update after UK heatwave 4 weeks ago:
That’s actually his entire point. He is fully cognizant of the fact that he is rich and wants to help be the voice of the common farmer that doesn’t have the resources he does. He said as much in his series.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Seriously? Who did she think would have the power to even do that?
- Comment on Is this sufficiently advanced technology? 1 month ago:
Because I am one of the experts. I’m not going to share exactly who I am, but I’ve been in IT for 30+ years. I’ve worked on everything from development, to infrastructure to hardware design for the Open Compute project and at major cloud companies as an architect. So no, it’s all magic elves if you understand what’s going on and I will never equate it with that.
- Comment on Is this sufficiently advanced technology? 1 month ago:
I don’t want to be pedantic, as I understand what you’re saying, but they way I interpret that is it’s still deterministic, we just don’t know all of the factors that are currently contributing to the outcome. It’s not magical, it’s just lack of full understanding of all variables.
I get how it can be thought of as non-deterministic, but I think the reason why that bothers me is I’ve seen it used as slippery slope territory into “see, so god must exist!”. I think I was just triggered more by the eventuality and not your specific statement.
- Comment on Is this sufficiently advanced technology? 1 month ago:
Nah man. I’ve been a programmer and it’s very much doing exactly what you told it to. The issue is you (general you) did not do a good job of telling it what to do. It’s like speaking to a five year old realizing the instructions you give it are going to be literally executed, loopholes and all.
- Comment on Is this sufficiently advanced technology? 1 month ago:
Normally I laugh at these as they have some merit, but fuck this one. The right end of the curve isn’t some Jedi understanding of things, it’s tech bros that think AI is alive and they want to enslave us.
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 1 month ago:
You know, I’m very much for equality, but in this situation a woman can do exactly that and get loads of dates.
It’s the initial connection that is the highest barrier for men, after that, yeah, kinda need to leave the house to get a partner.
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 1 month ago:
Feeld is there too. Their matching and like system is very much weighted towards paying not-cheap monthly prices.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 1 month ago:
Now what happens if you put it on a treadmill?
- Comment on New Star Trek Movie Gets First Official Details From Writers 1 month ago:
Lower Decks movie please!