UnspecificGravity
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- Comment on Doesn't add up 3 hours ago:
Just like with everything, the US economic system creates a bunch of rent-seeking middle men who need to get paid to deliver any service that the public needs. The more necessary the service the bigger the piece they get, we call these “insurance companies” and their job is to take money out of every public service and they are effective because they can get the government to create a system that makes the mandatory in order to conduct business.
- Comment on Martians Stay Mad _💪_ 5 days ago:
Interesting thought:
I wonder if humans evolved on a planet with a shitty little moon like this, what would it have done to our views of the heavens? This moon is clearly just an object. It looks like what it is, a rock in space. No one is going to look like this and thing that the heavens contain magic and wonders and gods, they would look at this and thing it contains rocks.
- Comment on Martians Stay Mad _💪_ 5 days ago:
What a shitty moon.
- Comment on She's just defending her country 2 weeks ago:
Kinda just ignoring the things she has said, aren’t you?
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 2 weeks ago:
His stated platform is literally more sane than Nigels. Like, he is objectively the better candidate and that is just assessing him based on his character.
- Comment on Why is gun violence lower in Switzerland than in the US? 2 weeks ago:
“Most armed country in Europe” is still a pretty different category from the level of gun ownership in the US and they have CONSIDERABLY higher standards for background checking and permits than the US.
- Comment on You 'member? 🟣 3 weeks ago:
Taking tax money and giving it to rich people.
- Comment on Palantir Gets Massive UK Tax Breaks on Profits Made From Public Money 5 weeks ago:
Makes sense. If you are going to give them all your tax dollars anyways it seems silly to make them pay taxes on it, they are basically just paying themselves anyways.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 5 weeks ago:
I think it depends on how much time and effort you are willing to put into sourcing and building everything and how important the form factor is. Lots of guys build pretty capable livingroom computers out of old Small Form Factor business computers, but once you have it all together its not a LOT cheaper than this.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 5 weeks ago:
Something like the Small Form Factor Optiplex computers fits nicely into any old home entertainment or stereo setup, but I suppose we already have about a thousand machines that will fit that slot and people that wanted to do that probably already did.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 5 weeks ago:
You could probably build a comparable machine for $800 or so today, but from that perspective you are paying a couple hundred bucks for the form factor and the convenience of not having to source all the parts.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 5 weeks ago:
Or people that just don’t want to bother with building another machine to put downstairs in the livingroom or whatever. There are a lot of middle aged people who have been PC gaming for decades, are perfectly happy to build their primary gaming machine, and have hundreds of games in their library, and the means to consider the couple hundred dollar price difference between $1000 and whatever they could spend to build a machine to be worth the convenience of not having to do it.
- Comment on It's like salting a slug 1 month ago:
George today would be EXACTLY the kind of guy to fall into this sort of manosphere bullshit.
- Comment on Title 1 month ago:
If you get a big pile of money you have to pay taxes on it immediately and then you only get interest on what is left over after you got tax. If get a big pile of gold you don’t pay taxes until you sell it, and in the meantime you benefit from any increase in value since then.
- Comment on Title 1 month ago:
Another critical difference:
If you got a million dollars in cash you were obliged to pay taxes upon receipt, and if you did not do so and you try to deposit it, you are going to get flagged for a tax audit and subject to criminal charges.
If you got a million dollars in GOLD you don’t pay taxes until you sell it. So you can sit on it for years and then sell it and deposit it and you only pay taxes at that moment and have not broken the law in doing so.
Money is income, Gold is just gold until you turn it into money.
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 1 month ago:
It also can be pretty hard to find music you will actually like. Every streaming and sales service is more interested in promoting content based on who paid them off or based on what is cheap for them to stream. It seems like there are not a lot of resources geared specifically with connecting you to music that you are likely to enjoy.
I usually troll through new albums each month and just listen to a bunch of stuff until I find something I like.
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 2 months ago:
Certainly, of course all the old stuff is good because that is the stuff that you already curated into your personal preferences. There was a LOT of shit from pretty much any era, its just that the younger version of you already pawed through all that shit. Listening to new music means having to paw through a lot of crap, which is always harder than just listening to stuff you already like.
- Comment on that's some fucking aerodynamics bro 2 months ago:
No, but your mom is.
- Comment on The house always wins 2 months ago:
Given that “the bank” owns every asset in the board and only pays out a piddly $200 every turn, normal play should pretty much never result in them running out of money.
- Comment on You gotta try #19 2 months ago:
1 should just be a pig.
- Comment on Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar??? 3 months ago:
Right, but they are churches in Germany.
- Comment on Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar??? 3 months ago:
Almost all of which were built before the reformation.
Ulm Minster, Cologne Cathedral, Speyerer Dom, the Berlin Cathedral, all originally Catholic.
England is a better example since their brand of Protestantism really favored big works to rival the Catholics.
- Comment on A long-ass way to write 'not parmesan'. 3 months ago:
Yeah, that is probably something that can’t legally be called “Parmesan”.
Like it could be basically anything. The only thing we know for sure is that it is NOT Parmesan, because if it was it would say so.
- Comment on Gee willikers, hey Craig! 3 months ago:
Some philologist is currently writing a thesis on the development of emoji “accents” on social media.
- Comment on It's called fashion, sweaty, look it up 3 months ago:
Are you suggesting that my definition of a population of orca as “hillbillies” is not an evidence based scientific opinion?
- Comment on It's called fashion, sweaty, look it up 3 months ago:
Right, which is why they are backwards hillbillies.
- Comment on It's called fashion, sweaty, look it up 3 months ago:
Except that we are talking a group of animals within a species.
Other, genetically identical, Orcas literally swim into the same habitat as Southern Residents and eat all the other shit in puget sound while the resident orcas sit there and starve in the same environment.
- Comment on It's called fashion, sweaty, look it up 3 months ago:
Given that they are facing extinction because they are starving to death while surrounded by food? They haven’t had a surviving calf in a decade because they are malnourished. Yeah, it is.
The Salmon hats are probably them expressing displeasure and mourning in their starvation since it is the same behavior that they use when they express mourning for a dead calf:
- Comment on It's called fashion, sweaty, look it up 3 months ago:
Southern Residents (puget sound orcas) are the toothless moron hillbillies of the Orca community. They starve in a weird little place that is FULL of food that they are too stupid and backwards to eat.
- Comment on Wake up sheeple 3 months ago:
It’s true. They also issue a pistol as part of the kit and as far I know still so, but it is apparently optional and most cosmonauts choose to leave it behind.
Space gun control is a thing: https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-i-stop-cosmonauts-carrying-guns