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- Comment on Do I have extreme anxiety? 4 days ago:
The poster has a hell of a modlog
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 4 days ago:
What’s the issue with their code of conduct, or having them in general?
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 4 days ago:
Damn, they have Matrix setup.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 4 days ago:
For anyone else wondering:
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- Comment on Are hierarchies inherently bad in all aspects? or are there domains where heirarchies are good to have? 1 week ago:
Much of mathematics, science and computing
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 1 week ago:
Oh, the other Democrat candidates withdrew and no other parties are popular:
ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_election_in_…
I would expect lobbies to play a decent part in this but I’m not sure I’ve seen the mechanics fleshed out.
As a voter in New York, what are the options coming up to the next election that help remove him and impede the far right groups?
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 1 week ago:
What do you mean?
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, great point and a big oversight of mine when I replied. Since I periodically have a single soccer game I want to watch and only really expensive options I should know better. And I’m think one of the things stopping prices dropping there is agreement that basically remove competitors.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 weeks ago:
What irritates me is that the sports associations have decided to charge absurd amounts to squeeze people fore mine to make even more. That should definitely be illegal.
I split out my reply to this part because it’s obvious it will be downvoted heavily in Lemmy
I get the sentiment but how does that effectively work?
Running the economics framing: Prices act to lower consumers willing to pay so if there is a limited resource, like a ticket, then its a way to filter out until you have how much it’s worth.
That’s mostly influenced by how keen fans are, how many fans there are, and how rich they are.
You can use a lottery alone or in conjunction but that usually leads to a black market with expensive tickets too. It seems pretty reasonable to me to have a lottery for some of the tickets to be in a lottery, but it also seems to not work that well practically.
It seems like for a lot of things time is used as a commodity for at least some tickets, like waiting in line overnight or first to load the page. Both don’t really stop rich people, and have their other issues like realistically rewarding luck for if you hit refresh at the right moment without the server dying.
And it seems like some tickets go out to fan groups or individuals that have proven the care about the event like some trivia questions.
Looking at that, I’m just not intelligent enough to know how you really avoid at least a decent number of the tickets being expensive for some of the popular events.
I think this has gotten worse over time and I wonder how much of that is because we can move so much more freely than before. Or if there is another mechanism. Or if I’m just flat wrong here
Either way, I’m not sure how you make that substantially better
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, some of the mechanisms the push the wage higher are pretty reasonable in isolation. I personally would love to see higher taxes on people earning these huge amounts (so CEOs etc) but I think it’s really unlikely to happen or be effective until we have stronger global treaties and I also don’t understand how you really do it with incomes that can be exponential (giving the benefit of the doubt: users / fans) since that somewhat neutralises that starts hitting brackets with a lot of nines.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, so that’s probably about 5-10 million pounds annually today? So they’re earning 10 or so times that amount now but its still very much fuckoff money
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 weeks ago:
🤦♂️ I missed it was per week. I’ll go hide somewhere now
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 weeks ago:
A lot of people from the US seem to be ignoring the rest of the world exists and screaming Reagan (the US president from 1981-1989). I honestly don’t know how accurate that is but its obviously not nuanced and biased by anti-Trump sentiment
I’m not sure how accurate this article is either but it mentions the salary cap for soccer in England being removed in 1960 and that leading to a rapid increase in wages there.
salaryleaks.com/…/average-salary-premier-league-h…
A quick scan of the internet led me to this chart that compares top soccer players to median income in (for some reason) the US
From: www.expensivity.com/soccer-salary-inflation/
Here’s another chart from the same article for how many times a US families income a top international player makes (and like the England article the 60s look to be exponential growth, then noise in the 70s then pretty clear from the 80s):
Timeline of top internal player money proportional to the median US income for a family
A lot of that analysis has space for biases but I’m pretty sure that modern large sports wages predate Reagan
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 weeks ago:
A friend shared this a month or so ago and I haven’t been able to check how accurate it is but apparently its soccer player wages in 1999:
Highest soccer earners in 1999
That was a lot of money at the time, but even adjusting for inflation it really doesn’t seem to be the fuckoff money they get now
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 weeks ago:
I think some of this is related to radio, tv and internet too. Before radio few people could follow a game live so the audience, or at least live emotional audience, is a lot smaller and that’s pretty aligned to profit. Or put another way, if every Messi or Taylor Swift fan gave 50c every year they’d be filthy rich but that was harder to ached before radio with things being more localised.
- Comment on Does life have less value to people in Latin America? 2 weeks ago:
I’m inclined to agree:
ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rate-unodc
They’ve made a clear definition here that agrees with what you’re saying. But in their data, most of Africa is missing
- Comment on Does life have less value to people in Latin America? 2 weeks ago:
Relative?
There is a long list of correlations.
A lot of the “relative” is within the same country and just a given time frame so your interpretation is flawed.
You seem to need simplistic answers and the quote above pretty clearly points out recessions, gang activity (presumably related to drugs), inequality and governance as having some correlation so you could look up rates and compare if you wanted to have an idea of where some things might be different. That would be hugely speculative though
Violence is of course present but not at the same level as in South America.
Are you conflating violence (a broad term) with homicide?
- Comment on Does life have less value to people in Latin America? 2 weeks ago:
Your linked article says this:
macroeconomic instability often fuels spikes in violence: a recession in LAC is associated with a 6 percent increase in homicides the following year, while inflation spikes above 10 percent are linked to a 10 percent rise in homicides the year after. Growing inequality further exacerbates the link between economic stagnation and crime.
sound economic policy plays a preventive role. Stability, low inflation, robust social safety nets, and opportunities that reduce inequality and expand access to education and employment are critical to breaking the cycle of violence and stagnation. Financial authorities are also uniquely positioned to weaken criminal networks by addressing illicit markets, curtailing financial flows, and tackling money laundering—cutting off resources that sustain organized crime.
because the impact of crime extends far beyond direct economic costs, economic policymakers must adopt a broader role by targeting high-risk groups, improving crime monitoring, and enhancing interagency coordination.
In Rosario province, Argentina implemented a comprehensive strategy to combat crime, including territorial control of high-risk neighborhoods by the Federal Police, stricter prison systems for high-profile offenders, and collective prosecution of criminal groups under new legislation like the anti-mafia law. These efforts, alongside progress on a juvenile penal code to deter drug traffickers from recruiting minors, have led to 65% reduction homicides in 11 months. In Honduras, strategic security reforms contributed to a 14% decline in the homicide rate and an 8% increase in public confidence in law enforcement.
- Comment on Does life have less value to people in Latin America? 2 weeks ago:
I get the point you’re making but in the context of the OP the reply didn’t seem too far off. Yours though is getting pretty close to declaring a depression epidemic in Latin America, I presume because your saw red in their reply
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 3 weeks ago:
I think Australian’s usually say “oh”. Signed an Aussie that’s spent enough time abroad to confuse himself on what they actually say
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, I can get behind this gif a lot more
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, his hand coming up in a way that could be “this isn’t what you think” doesn’t help. The description makes the situation sound very different though and there’s not much of an excuse for the armband right now. But yeah, not a fan of the gif now I’ve seen it
- Comment on Why did the proposed *Red Sea–Dead Sea Water Conveyance* project involve pumping water instead of siphoning it? 5 weeks ago:
Really great answer. Thanks
- Comment on Could there be additional forces at super low energies? Could a new fundamental force be discovered anytime soon? + other questions relating to forces 1 month ago:
Wow I wish this was two questions. I’m pretty curious to see if there is anything detailed people have to say about the first paragraph but have little energy to skim through the answers to the second paragraph that seem to be dominating word count
- Comment on Where do you typically leave/read reviews 2 months ago:
4.5-4.6 can be hit-or-miss
How is that not inflated? For my personal ratings, a three is something I’d be happy to eat every day. A five is close to unattainable. It’s basically centered on 2.5 with something like a tapered normal distribution. It’s tedious mapping out so I’m not lowering ratings for good places so I don’t rate anymore.
But getting past me being difficult, you can’t even rate 4.5 can you? Isn’t that information being lost when the way people rate is basically 5 for thumb up and every other number is a thumb down?
You’re right about it being useful to look at relative ratings, I just wouldn’t label that as really accurate.
It’s a separate issue but you brought up categories. I never loved rating in a situation like on Airbnb where one place might be a deliberately expensive penthouse and another might be deliberately a cheap shared room in the wilderness, especially with something like a “cleanliness” rating
- Comment on Where do you typically leave/read reviews 2 months ago:
Agreed Google maps is the best review aggregator (and I wish it wasn’t) but “the star ratings are scarily accurate”? I think you mean “hugely inflated”. Like almost any review system a I’ve seen recently: if you like a place and you give less than a 5 then you’re hurting it.
- Comment on If this has been asked recently just link it no need to be mean, because I am emotionally sensitive right now. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 2 months ago:
Most authoritarian regimes consolidate power through improving the economy and high approval don’t they? The collapse tends to come later after to consolation I thought and I hadn’t seen it argued as a strategic thing. Any chance you can point to something that discusses this more fully?
- Comment on Shark Data Suggests Animals Scale Like Geometric Objects 2 months ago:
I didn’t bother reading it but I presume an attempt at compelling reporting. Mice and elephants have some morphological differences that are influenced by their size differences and these have been used in high school physics for at least decades but I presume longer
- Comment on Magic Mushrooms Evolved Psilocybin Not Once, but Twice 2 months ago:
I’d be curious to see that with dosage. Like maybe they’re just more sensitive to caffeine than originally expected, kind of how humans were way more sensitive to LSD than expected. But also, the effects of LSD in humans seem to plateau unlike alcohol, it would be interesting to see if the caffeine web is the spider falling off a metaphorical cliff
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 2 months ago:
You did well in your answer by the way. I didn’t downvote. My comments are directed at everyone downvoting the person calling out imperial units
