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- Comment on corporate America just posted record profits this week. The stock market is at all time highs. If your paycheck didn't do the exact same thing, take a wild guess why. Their record margins are literal… 3 days ago:
The inflation numbers you linked are aggregated from DoL releases, which is an agency headed by a member of the executive. You may as well have cited economic data from the silmarillion for all the credibility it added to your argument, from my point of view.
- Comment on corporate America just posted record profits this week. The stock market is at all time highs. If your paycheck didn't do the exact same thing, take a wild guess why. Their record margins are literal… 3 days ago:
The people who told you inflation is only 8% are lying through their teeth. I dont have access to enough data to back that claim with evidence, but anecdotally I track my income and spending to the cent and I can tell you that at least for the set of goods I consistently buy every year inflation is much higher than 8%. My 2025 cost me 15% more than my 2024 did, even after excluding all of the 2025 spends that could be considered lifestyle upgrades to my 2024 financials. I dont know how that compares to my 2026 yet for sure, but its absolutely more than 8% inflation
- Comment on We can't keep tying healthcare to employment 5 weeks ago:
Okay but it was kinda easy for a connect the dots puzzle
- Comment on Feeling Corny 5 weeks ago:
Poor squash, always being left out
- Comment on Survey says... 1 month ago:
One of those infinitely long, perfectly rigid, incompressible, conductive rods I read so much about while I was trying to learn the stuff you need to know before you can start studying black holes
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 1 month ago:
Ok boomer
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 1 month ago:
Pictured: every single commenter who came into this thread to blame the victim because they think $130 on delivery is too decadent. Yall should be ashamed of yourselves.
- Comment on Into the rabbit hole we go! 1 month ago:
Strange take, given the source of the quote
- Comment on Wiley Coyote 1 month ago:
Very true. I’ve benefited from doing that countless times, and I keep final drafts of all of my work in folders organized by publisher title explicitly so that I can pass it forward if anybody ever emails me looking for something ive written that is now behind a paywall
(I deleted my last comment because it ended up more vitriolic than I want on the internet forever, but for anybody reading this afterwards the gist of my deleted comment earlier in the thread was “I do not respect academic publishers")
- Comment on Wiley Coyote 1 month ago:
In case somebody made the meme because they need that paper and couldnt get it, enjoy.
- Comment on Welp 2 months ago:
He actually said that in 2001
- Comment on Into the rabbit hole we go! 2 months ago:
If it makes you feel better, thats also true in every other field of science. All models are wrong, but some are useful
- Comment on Yall are missing out 2 months ago:
Bruh… get a shower head with a hose on it. They cost like 20 bucks and will change your life
- Comment on Geneticist be like 2 months ago:
A warning from the sacred texts for anybody else looking to avoid math by doing biological sciences. Its all math, all the way down. Always has been
- Comment on Mint 2 months ago:
Peppers and tomatoes can do this too. I used to grow tomatoes and habaneros in the same raised garden bed, and the tomatoes always came out with quite the kick
- Comment on Theories on Theories 3 months ago:
All models are wrong, but some are useful
- Comment on Those who know, know 5 months ago:
I guess I was a bit overdue for my annual week of listening to Weightless on repeat. Thanks for the reminder!
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 5 months ago:
Big agree on the ubisoft and assasins creed points. I’m also “playing through the second one” right now, though I’ve been on the Junon area for a month or two now, and I also haven’t opened up the game in a month or two. I just don’t think I’m ever finishing that game, which feels wild to me given the absurd amount of time I’ve spent playing and replaying the ps1 original. I’m just about as much of a simp for that story/those characters as a person can be
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 5 months ago:
I thought ff7re (the second part of the remake) sucked ass compared to ff7r (the first part.) The first one felt like a cool modernization of ff7 that still felt like the same game at its core, but the second one felt like complete focus-grouped buzzword filled nonsense. And the most annoying fucking element ive ever seen in a video game, birds that would constantly fly around your screen squawking and generally just being a nuisance until you went and completed their little meaningless side objective. Even the combat aspect felt like a bad monster hunter clone rather than a final fantasy game
- Comment on beyond science 5 months ago:
What? No, that sounds I’m making is laughter, not crying. Definitely laughing
- Comment on jellyfish go to hell 6 months ago:
BORN TO SWIM OCEAN IS A FUCK 鬼神 Drown Em All 1989 I am trash-island man 410,757,864,530 UNDISCOVERED JELLYFISH
- Comment on Restaurant the not good :( 6 months ago:
Rocket is another word for Arugala, for anybody else who knows that green by the latter name and is confused AF by “rocket salad”
- Comment on Redditors Are Mounting a Resistance Against ICE 6 months ago:
“Even users in r/massivecock, where most of the posts are images of erect penises, railed against ICE in their captions.”
- Comment on Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W 6 months ago:
The politicians go where the people are, not the other way around. It sounds weird but I think a social media platform has to be a good place for folk with low tech literacy to post and chat about cute cat videos before it can ever be politically relevant. I’ve yet to come across a fedi client that I think my mom in her 60s could handle/would find appealing, and I kinda think you need something like that for widespread adoption. If you had a fedi client like that and some incentive to sign up like free lotteries run on the eu server for the first few months to catalyze a critical mass of users, I bet you’d have a fighting chance at breaking away from US social media walled gardens
- Comment on 7 months ago:
Well yeah. I said they were *topologically flat, not *bottomologically flat ;)
- Comment on 7 months ago:
Calculus tells you how curves work. Aqueducts are famous for their ability to be topologically flat. The math checks out
- Comment on I love science 7 months ago:
It’s true. Friends call me Snow Miser, whatever I touch turns to snow in my clutch. Interstellar was still awful though lol. I might have enjoyed it like any other scifi if it wasn’t specifically advertised as a scientifically accurate portrayal of space travel, but that is how it was advertised and accurate it was not
- Comment on I love science 7 months ago:
Im not familiar with kurzegesagt or Rick and Morty hentai but I’m pretty sure that was the expression on my face for most of the runtime of Interstellar
- Comment on if I ever have grandkids that is 7 months ago:
“Most people used the iron lung for a few weeks or months depending on the intensity of the polio attack. However, those with chest muscles permanently paralyzed by the disease need it for their lifetime.”
I am not any kind of medical professional so I can’t personally vouch for it, but here’s where I got the quote
https://www.medicinenet.com/how_long_can_you_live_in_an_iron_lung/article.htm
- Comment on Hydrogen Atoms 7 months ago:
Assuming the probability distribution is gaussian, I’d guess something like 3.5 to 4 times as large. I dont remember if that specific probability density function is gaussian or not, but assuming a distribution is gaussian is usually a safe bet
