Aljernon
@Aljernon@lemmy.today
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 10 hours ago:
I have a friend who is shoes off. I respect his wishes at his home but I’d hate to live like that.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 10 hours ago:
I envy you that you’ve never taken a shit with your sphincter on fire and a tear rolling down your face
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 11 hours ago:
I just did a cursory search online and the only markup I could fine below 30% was cellphones at about 8-10% and groceries at 5-25%. Now, I wouldn’t make a wager on the precise accuracy of a cursory glance but it’s telling that even in a Capitalist society, no ones denying their huge markups. Most sources list the markup on cloths to be 50-400%
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 11 hours ago:
Steam provides more than just a one time exchange of download for money, so I wouldn’t exactly compare it to a store where you walk out the door and your exchange is completed. As a leftists, I think Steam makes too much money and should charge less and pay more but in a capitalist nation i don’t see Epic having a successful case
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 6 days ago:
I haven’t really looked deeply into this issue but what caught my eye was the claim that a 30% fee was excessive. I’m no insider into video game publishing but 30% is the standard retail markup for many things. If you bought a candy bar today, it probably cost the mini mart you bought it from 70% of what they’re charging.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 6 days ago:
I haven’t really looked deeply into this issue but what caught my eye was the claim that a 30% fee was excessive. I’m no insider into video game publishing but 30% is the standard retail markup for many things. If you bought a candy bar today, it probably cost the mini mart you bought it from 70% of what they’re charging.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 6 days ago:
Did they explain why moving to another country ment anything?
- Comment on Bears or no bears? 1 week ago:
That the names translated accurately describes the presence or absence of bears is a coincidence.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 1 week ago:
This. It’s call a Ranch style house for a reason. Because the kind of place they were initially common had tons of land available in the form of pasture.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 1 week ago:
resources allocated to maintenance were used for other things.
C’est la vie
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The only temperature system that isn’t arbitrary would tell you how spreadable butter is. Zero degrees butter is utterly not spreadable while 100 degrees butter is the maximum spreadability it could achieve before melting.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen this posted before. Important points to consider: Imperial Russia had a housing shortage in the cities due to industrialization occurring and the existing housing was often of poor quality. According to one source: “In major cities, a significant portion of housing consisted of barracks, basements, semi-basements, dormitory-style rooms, dugouts, and semi-dugouts.”
Then WW1 hit followed by the civil war and housing construction essentially stopped with some housing destroyed in the war. Then in the interwar period, priority was given to industrial construction in the USSR, resulting in low housing construction volumes, with a significant share consisting of temporary housing. Rapid industrialization and increasing population shifts to cities increasing demand. Then WW2 hit and huge amounts of existing housing were destroyed in the fighting.
So the USSR was in tight spot and did the best they could with limited time and resources which for most Russians ended up being a huge improvement.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 2 weeks ago:
In the US, money laundering accomplishes essentially the same thing.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 3 weeks ago:
A co-op could handle it without much problem.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 3 weeks ago:
A lack of housing is not the problem most places. The problem is that housing shifted from being a place for people to live to a way for people to acquire “passive income”. Hell, the very design of housing changed in a noticeable way: houses shifted from being homes to being feature laden investment vehicles.
- Comment on Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts 3 weeks ago:
Zuckerberg got lucky once, used the talents of others to capitalize on that luck. If he was smart, he would have quickly retired and set about enjoying his wealth but instead he’s wasted small fortunes running Facebook. Got high on his own supply when really he was never especially talented at anything.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 3 weeks ago:
Chemists. I’m to understand some of the instructions are dangerous.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 3 weeks ago:
Yes
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 3 weeks ago:
It has a bad reputation
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 3 weeks ago:
They’re executing people in the street for civil disobedience. A
- Comment on Tankie 4 weeks ago:
You’re living in denial my dude
- Comment on Tankie 4 weeks ago:
Your case would have a better point if Russia wasn’t constantly creating conflicts.
- Comment on Tankie 4 weeks ago:
Ok, fine, Tankies are a variant (ostensibly) of communists that seek to use state violence to coerce and terrorize the working class into unquestioning obedience to the state.
- Comment on Tankie 4 weeks ago:
Anyway you slice it, it seems Tankie was a wrong word to use here, even by Tankies own definition.
- Comment on Tankie 4 weeks ago:
Isolationists would want to stay out of Ukraine to mind our own business, this guy wants to stay out of Ukraine because .ml is notorious for giving modern day Russia a free pass with their Imperial nonsense.
- Comment on Tankie 4 weeks ago:
They don’t care who “wins”, they profit off of the war itself
People kept telling me that the Taliban won the war in Afghanistan but I kept telling them the US Military Industrial complex won.
- Comment on Tankie 4 weeks ago:
Tankies traditionally supported the USSR above all other Warsaw pact countries.
- Comment on Tankie 4 weeks ago:
Tankies seek to use state violence to coerce and terrorize the working class into unquestioning obedience to the state. Sometimes that violence is directed at the working class in other states so it’s hard to argue they oppose war.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 4 weeks ago:
Not quite the same situation but when my grandparents moved in with my parents, they set aside everything in their kitchen into storage and it sat there for 30 years until they died. I save a few things then set most of it out on table with a free sign and 99.99 percent of it got scooped up quick. A fed ex driver told us they were new to the area and almost everything in their kitchen came from our table.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 4 weeks ago:
“I spent a life time making professional and political decisions that robbed the younger generations of the same prosperity I enjoyed and just can’t wrap my head around the fact that they can’t physically fit huge heirloom furniture into their tiny living accommodations”
