isleepinahammock
@isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 2 days ago:
How many people do you know making $60k per year that maintain two homes in cities a thousand miles apart,and frequently travel between them?
- Comment on Doorless showers just make a mess and everything ends up wet 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, if it was built right, that would be the perfect type of bathroom. Imagine a bathroom where all the surfaces are water proof. Then, when it’s time to clean the bathroom, you just hose everything down the floor drain!
- Comment on Solar panels for surveillance but none for affordable power 2 weeks ago:
So is every utility in the country. What’s your point?
- Comment on That's just science 2 weeks ago:
What is the color of a carbon atom?
- Comment on That's just science 2 weeks ago:
“Don’t breathe air, it has sharks in it! BLUE HAS SHARKS IN IT
???
- Comment on That's just science 2 weeks ago:
The same is true for all colors. Tell me the color of a single atom.
Yes, air can be colors other than blue at unusual light conditions, like sunset. But the same is true for any material.
You’re stuck on the urge to explain. You call “the air is blue” incomplete. But all answers are incomplete. When someone asks what color an object is, they mean under ordinary distances and conditions. Air is blue even in an ordinary room. It just takes miles worth of air for its slight blue color to be noticeable.
- Comment on That's just science 2 weeks ago:
They never got the update.
- Comment on That's just science 2 weeks ago:
As is purple rain.
- Comment on That's just science 2 weeks ago:
Deeper, I would simply say that the sky is blue because air is blue. You cite Rayleigh scattering, but you’re just describing how light interacts with air. The only reason any material has any color is because how it interacts with light.
Air is blue. You can explain its blueness just like you can the physics origin of any other object’s color. But ultimately the sky is blue because air is blue.
- Comment on That's just science 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on That's just science 2 weeks ago:
I liked a version of this (I believe) XKCD said once.
A perfectly valid response to the question, “why is the sky blue?” is simply, “because air is blue.”
Yes, you can give a lot of explanation about refractive index and Rayleigh scattering. But all this does is provide details of how light interacts with air. And the same reason anything is the color that it is is due to the way it reflects, transmits, or absorbs light. You’re citing real scientific principles, but you’re ultimately just explaining why air is blue.
- Comment on You must have an internet connected smartphone to eat 3 weeks ago:
[CITATION NEEDED.]
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 3 weeks ago:
I just cover my entire car with flexible screens and cameras. The image from one side of the car is displayed on the images of the other side of the car. Can’t track a car if you can’t even tell a car is there at all! I’m sure this will have absolutely no downsides whatsoever.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 3 weeks ago:
If nothing else, how about just the increased risk of car accidents that comes from more people being sleep-deprived after being woken up in the middle of the night by a warning siren?
- Comment on What do Centrists know about electability? 3 weeks ago:
The main purity test right now in the Republican party is simply whether an elected leader is willing to be completely subservient to Trump.
- Comment on What do Centrists know about electability? 3 weeks ago:
You never heard of a RINO? This is exactly how conservatives have managed to pull the party so far to the right.
- Comment on Supermassive Games announces layoffs, up to 75 positions to be affected 4 weeks ago:
Their name has now been changed to Stellar Mass Games.
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 4 weeks ago:
There’s a question to give a judge an aneurysm. How do age of consent laws work when time machines are involved?
- Comment on What's one cliche "Moral of the story" in media that you hate more than anything else? 5 weeks ago:
They’re correct that this creates cognitive dissonance. The racist, upon meeting a minority member that doesn’t uphold the stereotype, has two contradictory facts in their head:
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All members of a minority group are bad.
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This member of that minority group isn’t bad.
This is cognitive dissonance. Both of these cannot be true at the same time. One of these premises must be wrong.
Hollywood imagines the bigot will treat this like a physicist disproving a theory by finding a counterexample. But bigotry is anyhing but scientific. You can’t reason your way out of a place reason did not lead you to. Instead, they adjust their premises to:
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Most members of a minority group are bad.
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This member of that minority group is one of the few good ones.
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- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 5 weeks ago:
And why do you figure you can’t write a law to accommodate that as well? Some of you guys are looking for so many nits to pick that you think it would be impossible to ever write a law regulating anything whatsoever.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 5 weeks ago:
Is an ex-cop and ex-bastard?
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 5 weeks ago:
I have an idea for a crazier law. It will be legal to steal from self-checkout, as long as what you steal is less than 25% of the total purchase. 😂
- Comment on Are datacenters in space more lucrative than on earth? 5 weeks ago:
It’s an ad hominem. I’m clearly implying that your analysis indicates you lack fundamental knowledge of basic elementary physics and engineering principles.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 5 weeks ago:
Grocery prices are already constrained by the fact that people’s budgets can only stretch so far. If you raise prices faster than people can handle, they just start buying cheaper food options.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 5 weeks ago:
You think that was arbitrary? Do you have any idea how much work stores put in to setting prices? It’s more complex than this, but to illustrate, companies will maximize for total revenue, so quantity sold times price. And they know that whenever they raise the price, even by ten cents, some number of people will not purchase that item. They only raise prices if they predict the decline in sales will be more than offset by the increase in revenue per item.
It may seem arbitrary to you, but it’s anything but. The prices in the store are already at what the company estimates to be the optimum total revenue level.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think this addresses anything I said. Market constraints prevent them from raising prices, not math. I perfectly understand the math you’re describing. You’re failing to understand the economics.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 5 weeks ago:
Why doesn’t your grocery store charge $20 for a gallon of milk then if they can just raise prices as much as they want? Have you never even heard of supply and demand?
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 5 weeks ago:
You do realize that the prices in the store right now are already the maximum the stores can charge, do you not?
Corporations are soulless and greedy. They don’t set their prices by buying from a supplier and increasing them by a fixed percentage. There is no point where a company will go, “well, we could charge more and still have the product sell, but that would be improper.” They already set their prices to the maximum the market will bear. They cannot raise prices further without a net loss of income. They set their prices for the maximum product sales cost and quantity sold.
And why can’t the elderly or disabled use self-checkout? If you’re capable enough to walk through a store and grab items from shelves, you’re capable enough to slide them past a scanner. If they’re shopping with a caretaker, then the caretaker can run the check-out instead. The level of dexterity required to use a self-checkout is the same as needed to grab items from shelves, inspect and bag produce, etc. Sure, some people are too disabled to use a self-checkout, but those folks are also too disabled to shop for themselves at all. That was literally how these systems were designed. The companies didn’t want to have to deal with scores of people who were dexterous enough to shop, but not dexterous enough to run the self-checkout.
- Comment on Are datacenters in space more lucrative than on earth? 5 weeks ago:
Something tells me you are not an engineer…
- Comment on Are datacenters in space more lucrative than on earth? 5 weeks ago:
You’ve been hearing the marketing hype of a Nazi space company CEO trying to prop up his company’s stock price so he can unload his rotten shares.