halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on Damn straight! 4 hours ago:
And the union would have more justification for negotiating a new even higher wage then they currently have.
- Comment on How to Stop the Affluent from Rigging the Housing Market 17 hours ago:
Second part is limiting companies to just a handful of single family homes. Applying to all related parent companies and subsidiaries. Only exception for homes used by employees more than 50% of the year. To accommodate businesses that pay for housing as part of compensation, long term travel, relocation assistance, etc.
- Comment on How to Stop the Affluent from Rigging the Housing Market 23 hours ago:
One fix that works everywhere would be increasing property taxes on any housing that isn’t occupied for more than 50% of the year. This is primarily aimed at landlords setting insane prices and allowing places to sit vacant for years at a time.
Place isn’t renting out at your price? It’s overpriced. Regardless of what you want to believe.
Taxes increase for every 6 months it’s unoccupied. Force the market pricing back down to what the market can actually bear. Invest the increased taxes into public housing and infrastructure.
Hell, do the same for commercial real estate. Deflate the real estate bubble slowly instead of waiting for it to explode like we always do historically.
- Comment on GTA 6 Developers Announce Rockstar Games Union 1 day ago:
GTA Online has made more than $5 Billion from shark cards alone. Printing money for them is a massive understatement.
- Comment on ‘Hundreds of job applications’: young people on their struggle to find work 2 days ago:
They already know who they want in the position. Leaving it open is just to give some coverage that they considered other candidates even when they have no intention to do so.
- Comment on It's only illegal if you don't film it 2 days ago:
Doesn’t appear so… But It’s a meme not a trope, and there is a knowyourmeme page.
- Comment on Samsung faces strike from nearly 48,000 union workers 1 week ago:
“But the union will take $50 from every paycheck! That’s money I need!”
- Comment on DNAddy 2 weeks ago:
Pervitin was an early form of methamphetamine, in large use by the Nazi military. Kept soldiers awake and alert and minimized appetite to stretch rations. Research around it and similar things helped further addiction and psychological distress.
Elektroboot was the first electric submarine able to stay submerged for large lengths of time without needing to vent things like diesel exhaust. Even being able to charge while submerged.
The Intramedullary Rod, an essential part of modern orthopedic surgery to heal broken bones.
The Horton Ho 229 was an early attempt at stealth and flying wing aircraft. While never fully produced, the development led to further research after resulting in modern stealth aircraft and overall aircraft efficiency, and by extension detection and tracking.
The Enigma Machine was a marvel of cryptographic security. Pretty sure this stands on its own.
Messerschmitt Me 262 was the first mass produced fighter jet. Much of even modern jet propulsion technology stemmed from this research.
3D Films were used to enhance their propaganda well before Hollywood considered it.
The Z4 Computer was one of the earliest commercial digital computers.
Of course the V2 rocket. And by extension every Project Paperclip scientist brought back to the US to develop space technology at NASA, up to and including the Saturn V rocket and Apollo missions.
The jerrycan, for fuel transport. Literally named after the British slang for German soldiers. So useful the Allies adopted it during the war.
Chloroquine, an anti-Malaria drug developed by the Nazis, initially toxic but further refined after the war.
Night vision technology also had massive developments made by their military scientists.
- Comment on 4 layers is minimum 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure it’s stealing that’s a primary concern. It’s probably more that single ply doesn’t clog very often, even when using a ton of paper. It’s easier to flush, especially in a commercial type environment with high pressure flushing toilets. Which means less need for EVS to clean up issues, either intentional or not.
- Comment on DNAddy 2 weeks ago:
Yup. Many Nazi scientists only cared about the research. A lot of medical and physics breakthroughs last century directly resulted from those experiments.
- Comment on dont do it 5 weeks ago:
Basically, but man traps are not usually airtight or even have a pressure differential. Usually just a room that can only be opened externally and only one exit can be opened at a time.
- Comment on When will gas stations start selling rotisserie chicken? 5 weeks ago:
Nothing prevents US businesses from doing the same. Just greed (in the interest of squeezing every penny of shareholder value) by instead stocking as little as possible that can go bad quickly. Which means minimal fresh foods. So shareholders get a couple extra pennies in exchange for the entire business being seen as a piece of shit with crappy products.
Other businesses do just fine with fresh food, look at something like QT for a direct example. They even have made to order products, not just product delivered daily.
- Comment on When will gas stations start selling rotisserie chicken? 5 weeks ago:
If only whoever runs 7-11 internationally would take over the US stuff to bring that state side.
- Comment on Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys 5 weeks ago:
I’m interested in joining this Torment Nexus. It sounds like a great opportunity and a perfect match for my extensive skill set. Where can I apply?
- Comment on NASA scientists says astronauts should not masturbate in space 1 month ago:
The chances of a solar particle hitting your RAM and causing a bit to flip are tremendously unlikely as well, but there’s hardware made to prevent that from happening (I realize ECC does more than that).
- Comment on I guess it's better than XP 1 month ago:
I mean, by definition, an ATM cannot be airgapped. It needs a network connection of some sort to verify your account info.
And that doesn’t even take into account the various banking networks allowing you to use ATMs from other banks.
- Comment on silly costume dance 1 month ago:
in order to do that we need to give them enough senators for constitutional amendments.
It’s a bit more complicated than that. Senators only affect 1/4th of the process.
To propose amendments, two-thirds of both houses of Congress can vote to propose an amendment, or two-thirds of the state legislatures can ask Congress to call a national convention to propose amendments.
To ratify those amendments, three-fourths of the state legislatures must approve them, or ratifying conventions in three-fourths of the states must approve them.
- Comment on The Struggle 1 month ago:
With fizzy drinks I found it very easy to shift towards flavored seltzers instead of it’s the fizz specifically. And if it’s sodas… Zero sugar soda tastes 99% the same as regular due to the mix of multiple sweeteners. Totally different from diet sodas which usually just use one or two, usually aspartame which also has a strong aftertaste.
If possible for chocolate, higher quality products often will hit that craving better than the cheap candy bar type stuff with 5x the amount of sugar.
- Comment on Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid? 1 month ago:
It also seems that the more specific a person’s education gets, it replaces general knowledge and thinking. For many it seems their entire thought process changes to focus on that specific thing, to the detriment of anything else. Doctorates seem to be less capable of working outside their specific focused niche compared to those with lower degrees. They’ve spent so much time focusing that they can’t unfocus very well.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
How the fuck did it spell Worcestershire correct but not the word sauce immediately after it?
Even dumbass autocorrect can do that. Spicy autocorrect can’t?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Often it’s not just a deductible, but increased rates after the claim.
You can also just not provide the video, especially if your system is local. Just like you don’t tell someone that purposely brakes in front of you to cause an accident, that you have a dashcam. You tell the cop after the other person lies to them and gives their fake story.
The insurance company would need to know that you have video in the first place, and then request that specifically. Last I checked they don’t usually give discounts for having video surveillance systems, so there is no reason to let them know it exists.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 2 months ago:
One might say even that is an over explanation.
The origin is a TikTok video about NBA player LaMelo Ball, and a conversation about his height being 6’ 7” and a lyric from the song “Doot Doot” by Skilla with the same numbers playing over that. Everything surrounding any reference to the numbers in general has spiraled from that, originally trying to get into further TikTok edits.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 2 months ago:
Ah yes, an 80 year old definitely has the perspective to understand Gen Z. It’s possible, extremely unlikely, but there are always exceptions, just look at Skyrim Grandma.
Quickest way to tell is to see how they explain a current massive meme like 6-7. If it’s some overly complicated explanation, they clearly have no fucking idea what they’re talking about, degree or not. A degree just means you’re more educated in one specific thing, the higher that degree, the more specific that knowledge. Often that means anything unrelated to that specialization end up lacking. Some of the most educated people I know are the absolute dumbest as soon as it leaves their very specific knowledgebase.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 2 months ago:
Separate computers may be due to necessity. For example, one of the systems they need may have a provided computer to handle it that is managed and supported by that vendor on a separated network for security.
- Comment on How many cases from the TV series Unsolved Mysteries remain unsolved in 2026? 2 months ago:
There is a Fandom wiki that seems to have categories for both cases that are unsolved, and ones unresolved (partially solved but still have unresolved questions). As of posting, there are 670 unsolved and 248 unresolved cases listed across all seasons.
- Comment on its full, no air 2 months ago:
Probable. People are quite dumb. Anyone that works with the public can attest to that.
- Comment on Air Canada Express flight AC8646 CRJ-900 at LaGuardia crash footage 2 months ago:
ATC gave clearance, and then immediately realized and told them to stop like 10 times.
That being said, any vehicle crossing the runway is required to verify physical clearance before crossing active runways for this exact reason.
A landing plane is bright as fuck, even after they’re on the ground. Those landing lights are like little suns because of what they need to illuminate for the aircraft at a distance.
That driver clearly didn’t even attempt to check the runway before heading out.
- Comment on Interview: Rod Roddenberry Has “High Hopes” For What’s Next For Star Trek, Says New Paramount “Gets It” 2 months ago:
That doesn’t necessarily mean anything. The owners care more about the news type aspects of these purchases, not the entertainment side.
Look at all the vocal MAGA Trek “fans” that seem to completely ignore the history of the franchise when trying to say it’s gone Woke and similar shit. Just because the owners are fascists that doesn’t mean the showrunners will be forced to avoid tackling topics indirectly. That’s what Trek has always done, sometimes less indirectly than others.
- Comment on Paging SpaceCowboy 2 months ago:
That’s the same excuse as
“The Nazis genocide is so it’s fine if we genocide others”
- Comment on Trump’s High-Profile Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Alaska Has No Takers | No companies bid for the chance to drill in more than 1 million acres of water off Alaska’s Cook Inlet 2 months ago:
It’s almost like the current supply is enough for the demand. Drilling doesn’t help if they aren’t able to refine and sell it.
The US already produces more than we need. This isn’t the 19670s anymore.