CombatWombat

@CombatWombat@feddit.online

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would a insanely ridiculously expensive car be able to affect everyone's premiums?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It took me a while to get a sense for what you meant, but I think the answer is yes? If insurance companies saw there was a new risk associated with driving, a new .1% chance you might get in an accident requiring the insurance company to pay out $10 trillion, I think you would see insurance companies raise premiums to offset the new $100 billion liability, and I think it would not only be paid by the owners of the new wildly expensive car, since you have to offset the chance that I am at fault for its destruction as well. I do however wonder how you could construct a $1 trillion car and have it be completely totaled by a $5000 car in an accident – wouldn’t at least a few billion go to reinforcing the chassis?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1.8 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market yesterday, where did it go?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re good words, and I think helpful for readers. I’m glad you wrote them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1.8 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market yesterday, where did it go?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is generally good analysis, but I think you overestimate how different legally a claim on the ongoing usage of a piece of real estate is to an ongoing share of corporate ownership and by extension profits, and underestimating how much speculation distorts real estate markets relative to the stock market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1.8 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market yesterday, where did it go?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not wrong, except the part where the money becomes more real once you sell the stock. All assets are like this – if you lasso an asteroid that contains $45 umptillion of gold, you won’t be able to sell it for $45 umptillion because you’ll crash the gold market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1.8 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market yesterday, where did it go?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think one of the most common misconceptions about the money supply is that there are a fixed amount of dollars at any time, so if there were $6 trillion yesterday, you can expect there to be $6 trillion today. But this isn’t true; the US money supply is specifically designed so that money comes into existence and vanishes out of existence all the time during the day. When you take out a mortgage, the money you get loaned didn’t exist before it was loaned to you, in the same way the $1.8 trillion that was lost in the stock market yesterday simply no longer exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitions that are too lazy to fully explain the word⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The worst part? Every English dictionary defines every word in English! You have to already speak English to get the definition for any word! What are you supposed to do if you don’t know any English words at all?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is behind the current Lemmy meme about 4 being a private key?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aw, thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Magic: The Gathering Machine Go BRRR As It Makes $600 Million In Three Months⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So… Hasbro is going to voluntarily recognize the union because it’s the only part of their business that makes money, right? Right????

  Wizards of the Coast reported $367 million in operating income from the quarter, the majority of which came from Magic: The Gathering. That in turn accounted for over 66 percent of Hasbro’s overall operating income last quarter. That number jumps to roughly 90 percent when you look at the last nine months. Yes, Hasbro owns everything from Hot Wheels and Transformers to Play-Doh and Peppa Pig, but that’s not where the money is coming from anymore.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do both travelers and citizens still have to pay tariffs for brining in stuff physically (not via mail)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You will likely have to pay tariffs if you declare more than $800 worth of goods at customs, as you are required to by law. You declare them based on what you spent to purchase them, not what equivalent goods would cost in the US. Of course, you might also be the kind of person who bought their ps5 in the United States and then took it with them on vacation to do some light gaming in the hotel and is just bringing it back with them at the end of their trip; I couldn’t possibly say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do the major leagues have insurance for their players for life? If they get hurt on the field and it's something that will never go away? Or do they just cut the player and not worry about it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard to give a blanket answer because it varies from league to league. The NWSL does provide health and life insurance to all players under the current CBA and the league does cover injuries that take place on the pitch. Similarly, if a player takes an extended absence for maternity, they continue to draw their salary. Other leagues have other policies, generally determined by what their players’ union has been able to negotiate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was the most suggestive "out of context" public conservation piece you've ever heard?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NOT SEEKING MEDICAL ADVICE. Doctors can prescribe a whole host of "downers" like xanax, methadone, the whole benzo family. Is there any uppers they can prescribe?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doctors can still prescribe cocaine as a topical anesthetic, and ADHD patients regularly get prescriptions for amphetamines. But I thought you were a nurse?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did 9/11 cause a statistically visible "anti-babyboom"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This study out of Duke University discusses some effects on births of 9/11. As best I can tell, the effects are mostly a reduced number of men relative to the number of women, increased prematurity, and reduced weight at birth, mostly attributed to the stress the mothers experienced during pregnancy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the NHL include playoffs from lifetime stats for players?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To allow even comparison across teams that play a different number of games. It’s a very different proposition to get 138 points in 82 games vs 110. In soccer, it’s common to quote statistics as “per 90 minutes” for just this reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t disagree with this sentiment more vehemently

  So that in turn, makes it so the only kind of discussions and talk you see is just softball kinds. You know, like discussing sports teams, the weather and vice versa.

  Dead internet theory is when everyone is a bot run by a political actor who is yelling about politics, or a bot run by a corporation to deliver ads. Real human beings talk about the weather and sports and their garden and their pets and what they’re making for dinner. I feel the most that I’m on the dead internet when everyone is talking about Big Ideas and Current Events and no-one is saying Go Reign or Look At This Cool Leaf I Found.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to the snot I blew onto the grass?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What happens to a snot rocketed?

    Does it dry up
  
    like a raisin in the sun?
  
    Or fester like a sore—
  
    And then run?
  
    Does it stink like rotten meat?
  
    Or crust and sugar over—
  
    like a syrupy sweet?
  
    Maybe it just sags
  
    like a heavy load.
  
  
    <strong>Or does it explode?</strong>
  

  (with apologies to Langston Hughes)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it okay to have more than one account on here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You should have more than one fedi account. For sure a mastodon or misskey, maybe a nodebb or bookwyrm, possibly Pixelfed or Vernissage, if you’re feeling spicy a wanderer or funkwhale – cut loose, try out a few services. If you wanna have multiple lemmy accounts, no-one’s gonna stop you but a lot of people that do run multiple are kinda lame and end up using them as sock puppets and to manipulate voting and stuff so don’t be surprised if folks are skeptical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit repost bots taking over entire communities⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re still here, but! do we have good taste?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what does it mean when someone says their worried about your emotional well beans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good news, I traded our only cow for those well beans because I know how fedi loves beans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a difference between "comfortable space" and a "safespace"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Safe spaces, in my mind, are ones that are free of any language that could be construed as harmful, whereas a comfortable space is one that is free of any language that any member construes as harmful. Like, as a concrete but contrived example, I would expect a policy like: if anyone is uncomfortable, we’ll enforce that everyone says “person experiencing homelessness,” but until then, we understand that that being policed is uncomfortable and you can feel empathy and still say “homeless person,” so we’re allowing that, even if it is strictly speaking a signal of a safer space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Michelin-starred restaurant fined for serving dessert topped with ants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is “ant farmer for Michelin star restaurants” a job that is hiring? It seems like it might actually be pretty fun?

  They estimated the dessert was served to 12,274 customers, using 49,096 ants, for total revenue of about 120m won.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What could the US get rid of to balance the budget and make prices drop very quickly? How is some trash or misspent money on thing we no longer need?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve gotta raise revenues. We’ve tried cutting our way out of this, and it just doesn’t work. Thinking of “how do we reduce government spending” is fundamentally the wrong mentality; we should reduce overall spending by increasing government revenues and expenditures. If we implemented socialized healthcare, as a nation we’d save in excess of $1T even though as a state we’d spend considerably more than we do currently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come on pretty much all websites there is a way to report abuse, but not to report someone making a good comment or an inciteful post and then they get it advertised on the front page?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is… isn’t that upvote button does?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just telling you how I discovered his piece of information. It was a very normal household interaction but with a dash of source amnesia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  thank you. I’m supremely annoyed that I’m reduced to posting to fedi to find good sources for a basic adulting question, but I’m equally grateful when someone comes through for me.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is the piefed.social instance based in?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally speaking, it’s best to avoid using the default instance. The fediverse works best when there are many, smaller instances, instead of one large instance and a few smaller one orbiting it. We should try to avoid the problems we see with the centralization around mastodon.social and lemmy.world happening to piefed as well, if we can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The did a semi live action movie of the Lion King. Why doesn't hollywood do a movie or a couple seasons of Tail Spin?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A live-action Gadget would create an entire generation of furries the likes of which the world has never seen