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- Comment on That’s just unrealistic… too few poop breaks. 2 days ago:
Naturally. But we don’t tell our clients that :)
- Comment on That’s just unrealistic… too few poop breaks. 2 days ago:
Kinda, but usually you’re sorta expected to put in your best effort for every billed hour regardless.
Instead of laying things out like this, what you can do is bill more hours (within reason) per hour worked to customers who pay less per hour. Gotta be careful with that though.
- Comment on Who cleans the toilets in Gault's Gulch? 4 days ago:
They do and it seems to be going OK for them, not sure about how it is for the workers. Honduras did allow them to open up a second location that’s manufacturing focused so it seems there’s SOME benefit to the local economy? They have to pay 12% tax to Honduras on the city’s earnings IIRC, but I’m not sure what the city’s own tax rate is. AFAIK, low but not 0.
If you’re a millionaire, you might like it there. It’s like a resort with offices and coworking spaces. Compared to nice locations in the US, it’s actually kinda cheap. Compared to anything in South or Central America it’s very expensive, compared to at least eastern europe, it’s still expensive. If I was a multimillionaire tech bro trying to become a billionaire tech bro with a startup, I’d probably go. Not so much because of the regulations but because it’s a stunning location they managed to plant their colony on.
- Comment on Who cleans the toilets in Gault's Gulch? 4 days ago:
I thought it was because land around the river is more fertile than in the rest of the desert
- Comment on Solar panel costs have plummeted from $6 per watt in 2000 to just 12 cents today 6 days ago:
€0.13/watt here, random store I found online in my country, but it is a legitimate business, I checked that much. Not quite $0.12, but close enough and I didn’t spend much time looking for it.
Though I feel like just a few months ago I couldn’t find anything this cheap.
Either way, for me personally, my geographical location makes it kinda useless in the winter and for some months I’d have nothing to do with the excess I would produce from just a few panels - in the summer, there’s no point selling to the grid during daytime and the nights are too short to make proper use of any stored energy, you’d have fully charged batteries all the time.
Couple of months in spring and fall where things would run into a nice equilibrium though. Unfortunately not enough savings to pay for a battery. Think sodium batteries will change that over the coming years though, so I might go for it eventually.
- Comment on Some men just want to watch the world burn. 6 days ago:
That’s what the 5090 is for. Excellent for running local LLMs.
- Comment on Some men just want to watch the world burn. 6 days ago:
Tbf they could already just search 5090 and likely get relevant results, the number isn’t that popular in other contexts. I opened a new private browsing session and the first two results for just “5090” were nvidia and a local electronics retailer (I used google, it gives you results by country by default)
- Comment on Citizens United was never about helping people 6 days ago:
Supreme court’s decisions are not technically laws, but they’re treated as such as far as I can understand - they set precedent on how some law is to be interpreted and other courts follow it
Roe v Wade was another famous supreme court case that was essentially law, until the court was deemed republican enough to kick an abortion related case at them so they could undo it. Roe v Wade was what protected Americans’ right to get abortions.
- Comment on Time keeps marching forward 1 week ago:
Get one while you still can, they haven’t been going down in price for a long time and may in fact already be going up in price. They’re pretty iconic, but not as many on the roads these days.
- Comment on Time keeps marching forward 1 week ago:
In what world are crossovers (what was likely meant by “the SUV thing”, since everyone’s making those) practical if wagons have more cargo space for the same amount of euros and feel better to drive?
Get an SUV or a wagon if you’re looking at crossovers. SUV if you actually need proper ground clearance, wagon if you need space but drive mostly on roads. Don’t get a crossover, they’re shit. Minivans obviously are the epitome of practicality IF you need 7+ seats or tons of cargo space, or the option to have either.
Audi in particular is known for making wagons of varying price and performance, including in the age pictured in OP. I’ll agree that minus the additional comfort of having an enclosed trunk (less noise) a sedan isn’t “better” than an SUV or a wagon though. But a crossover is the worst of both worlds between SUVs and wagons or hatchbacks.
I have one of these, also 20 years old, it’ll beat pretty much any bullshit crossover in both off-road performance and on-road comfort. While having cargo capacity up the wazoo and towing capacity of nearly 2 metric tons. Of course there are better ones if you only drive on roads, I like having the freedom to go where most SUV drivers don’t dare and most crossover drivers simply can’t. It’s also got more cargo space than the similarly priced Audi Q5 crossover. Loses to the Q7, but that’s a big behemoth with a much bigger price tag, it’s largely the extra width and length that give it more space, not just the extra height from being a crossover.
But you could also have this one, actually the same chassis, just won’t go as tall as my Allroad’s max setting. Has a biturbo V10:
Or if you’re shopping crossovers that don’t try to pretend they’re big SUVs, you could have the A4 Avant, smaller than the A6/RS6 chassis pictured above, but still more trunk space than many crossovers. Can be had with some pretty tiny engines, nearly as small and dinky as your average crossover, with pretty good fuel economy. Or go as big as a 4.2 V8 in older models in the RS4 spec. You’ve got options.
And of course many other manufacturers still offer wagons too. You don’t have to get an expensive (or formerly expensive) one.
And you can even get EV wagons nowadays, no longer are EV buyers stuck with ugly crossovers that have no reason to exist:
- Comment on Languages have rules and follow predictable patterns. French: 1 week ago:
Estonians found a way to communicate without sex, future, articles or prepositions. Oh, sounds like a super easy language to learn with fewer things in it, right? Fuck you, we have 14 cases so we could tell foreigners from native speakers by how they confuse genitive and partitive, two of the most basic cases. And then most cities, towns, villages you’d go to use illative (“into”) to say “I’m going to X”, but some will be allative (“onto”) and there’s no rule for it, so people from other parts of the country might not know it and it’ll sound super weird.
And I still find English to be the weird language. Just look at the different words written as “lead”. Why are they pronounced so differently?! Nothing is pronounced as written.
- Comment on Keep them secret 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Fox News sharing billionaire propaganda 2 weeks ago:
Wait who holds 31-192 billion shares? Do you perhaps mean they hold 31-192 billion dollars IN shares? Amazon has 10.8 billion outstanding shares. Bozo’s at ~8% with his ~880 million. Vanguard comes in second with 630 mill and BlackRock third with 450 mill, both of those are mostly just Americans’ 401ks.
Both Vanguard and BlackRock are mostly passive unless something gets really fucked up. They’ll side with Bozo by default as long as they think that won’t cost their funds billions of dollars in lost growth.
- Comment on Fox News sharing billionaire propaganda 2 weeks ago:
NYC is so dense and populous, there would instantly be space in the market for someone else to offer same/next day delivery for most common items if Amazon decides to start killing off its golden geese like that (being America’s #1 source of shit ordered online is just one of them).
- Comment on Fox News sharing billionaire propaganda 2 weeks ago:
Net worth and salary aren’t comparable numbers. Bozo’s net worth is the amount of money he could have if he could sell off all of his Amazon stock with absolutely zero negative effect on the market price. Which isn’t something he could ever do.
With a salary of $50k your net worth could be $10 or it could be negative or it could be in the millions if you inherited wealth.
It’s hard to tell what Bozo’s actual income is. His salary is only 80k (disgustingly low, because he’d have to pay more tax on that than most other forms of income). Amazon also pays him 1.6 mill a year in travel and security expenses. The entire rest of it is capital gains and that’s wildly dependent on what any particular year’s economy is like. If we have another 2008, he could actually have an income of negative hundreds of billions in one year.
- Comment on Fox News sharing billionaire propaganda 2 weeks ago:
I’m not even American, but even I order tons of stuff (not from Amazon*). Basically anything other than groceries.
Oil, filters, belts for my cars? Twice as expensive in person. Other parts? Not in stock at those stores and still more expensive - it’ll get here by next workday afternoon (sometimes same day), so it’s still faster than online, but I have to visit the store twice or call ahead and in general, mistakes happen more easily when I’m not the one looking at parts catalogues.
Computer parts? The big chain may have some stuff in stock and its prices are fair, but the closest store to me is 70 km away since I no longer live in any of the major cities. The other electronics stores don’t really sell desktop parts and the things they do sell (thumb drives, cables) are overpriced compared to online stores.
Hell, when my kid was young enough to get formula, I ordered that online in bulk to get a discount compared to buying in person.
Usually get most of my shit delivered to a package locker rather than to my door, but I’d guesstimate about ~30-40 orders a year. If I didn’t get free delivery on half of them (online car parts store has free parcel locker delivery starting 50€ cart and free home delivery starting 70€) that would easily be 150€ in delivery costs a year. The question is what kinda math Amazon be using here because they could just claim that Mamdani’s going to 5x the cost of delivery and then even a modest amount of deliveries like mine would balloon to a huge amount of “extra” cost.
* Had to make an exception this year, this was like the 3rd time I’ve ordered from Amazon in my life. Needed two special tools for my car. VW/Audi of course would’ve charged me a grand total for the originals. Local online retailers had one of the knockoffs for just under 100€ but nobody had the other one. Aliexpress showed a month long delivery time from China and prices even slightly higher than Amazon. Amazon got me both tools for 60€ delivered in under a week. Not complex tools whatsoever, but fabricating shit at home is a pain if you don’t have a welder. I should learn to weld.
- Comment on Keep them secret 2 weeks ago:
The fuck kinda dirt you got on your desks? Most modern high-end smartphones have really hard glass. If anything, the screen protectors people put on are much softer and get scratched easier (but are easily replaceable)
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 2 weeks ago:
Tbf yes, that’s what I meant. The legal form of bribery, shouldn’t be.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 2 weeks ago:
The whole thing is set up completely wrong in the US. Campaign ads should be prohibited outside of a few weeks before election day. Two year terms are horrible because it means even more campaigning. Revoke citizens united, give both the house and senate 4 year terms and a few other changes to campaign finance laws in particular, and you could have a reasonable congress.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 2 weeks ago:
Pay them less and the rich people will be an option even more rarely because only people already rich can get in.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 2 weeks ago:
The idea behind a high salary for representatives is that they don’t need to take on extra money from lobbyists to survive. Keep the salaries, but make bribery illegal again and things will get better. Make the salaries low AND get the money out of politics and you’ll only get rich people becoming politicians. Oh and term limits should be a thing.
- Comment on Are they crazy? We don't have money for anything... 2 weeks ago:
Yes social security in the U.S is a specific tax that only goes to social security.
Well, it seems that the US has one of the best systems for retirement in the world then.
It’s silly to blame older generations that had it better for the decline.
The total net worth of all billionaires in the US is actually a bit less than the total value of all 401ks alone, ignoring other forms of retirement and savings funds. When things are done “for the shareholders”, what makes you think that it’s only the billionaires? Retirement by definition benefits from the next generations being held down by low wages to benefit the corporations you’re invested in. Boomers, or at least the selfish ones, have a tendency to vote republican because their interests align with billionaires’ interests.
But both the net worth of billionaires and total value of 401ks pale in comparison to the total net worth of baby boomers in total.
In a few decades it’ll be Gen X and then millennials. As a millennial I hope my generation doesn’t take the same hard right turn once we’re in charge of the economy, but that’s like 30-40 years from now and who knows how jaded millennials will have become by then. Luckily we won’t get as many decades in charge as the boomers have had.
- Comment on Are they crazy? We don't have money for anything... 2 weeks ago:
Does social security really only come from their own payments? The US must be one of the few countries that does it like that then. Usually, current workers finance current retirees, rather than current workers financing future retirees (themselves). There’s an element of “has paid into it”, yes, but it’s quite obviously not the same money sitting in a bank account somewhere. It comes from a future national budget.
Doesn’t matter either way. Much like I don’t expect to retire because there won’t be enough taxpayers 40 years from now in my country, I doubt the US dollar will be worth enough for current young workers to retire on social security without major interest being earned on it. There won’t be enough actual productivity in the economy to support its value.
401k and other similar funds that invest in the stock market are also how old people profit off young people’s work. You know all those comments you see blaming BlackRock or Vanguard for everything wrong with the US economy? Well BlackRock and Vanguard manage all these funds, but they don’t actually own it all, mostly retail investors and different retirement accounts do. You could behead all the billionaires and it’ll improve things, but that’s mostly just idle wealth on paper since there’s like a thousand of them, versus millions of retirees constantly consuming things using money that earned interest by being invested in the economy (i.e profiting off younger people, as that’s just how capitalism works)
Capitalism or communism doesn’t matter in the medium term either, the only way a person can retire is to start living off the backs of others. It’s not an issue when a society is growing, but once it plateaus and eventually starts shrinking, it’s a problem. This could be changed once human labor is no longer necessary to provide everyone’s needs, assuming capitalists don’t get to keep ownership of everything.
Look at the US population pyramid in 1970
vs 1990
vs 2025
Ain’t no gen z going to be retiring at this rate. Or they’ll be the last generation to be able to do so without a major rework of society.
So yes, people are rightfully jealous that they have to pay upkeep on retirees when they themselves will likely never get to retire.
- Comment on What shall I watch next? 2 weeks ago:
Is it? It looks like early AI slop if you look at the movie posters. It should say FROM JOHN HUGHES, but says FROM JOHN MLON, the MJ one look weird too.
Unless of course someone shopped the posters too
- Comment on After a year of struggling and losing my job to AI, my game finally made it to 4000 wishlists! This is how it feels: 2 weeks ago:
There are definitely leaders who think they can just make people use AI and lay off a bunch or suddenly make billions with the same workforce. A friend of mine works at a company where the owner said that he expects productivity go up 3x now that everyone is forced to use AI. Not a joke or a one-off remark either, it’s been the subject of monthly meetings for like a year or more. Don’t think the 3x increase in productivity has materialized yet lol
- Comment on After a year of struggling and losing my job to AI, my game finally made it to 4000 wishlists! This is how it feels: 2 weeks ago:
The demo worked seamlessly when I tried it. Via Proton.
- Comment on After a year of struggling and losing my job to AI, my game finally made it to 4000 wishlists! This is how it feels: 2 weeks ago:
The Milgram Experiment: I can’t believe it’s not murder
- Comment on After a year of struggling and losing my job to AI, my game finally made it to 4000 wishlists! This is how it feels: 2 weeks ago:
Don’t think it matters. They’ll replace manual laborers with AI if need be. It’s just a way to juice the numbers to keep the shareholders happy. “Oh we replaced a bunch of people with AI so we now get more done with less costs”. What happens to productivity for real? Next quarter’s problem.
- Comment on White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin 2 weeks ago:
Trademark lawsuit from SEGA when
- Comment on Disgusted 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t call the US attacking random countries in the Middle East proxy wars either, those are just wars, at least on the US’s part
Could call the current war in Iran a proxy war though, in that the US is a proxy for Israel this time. But then who is Iran a proxy for? Russia? I don’t think Russia is strong enough to wage a proxy war in addition to their war war right now.
