Semi-Hemi-Demigod
@Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
- Comment on The second matchup of the tournament 1 day ago:
Forrest like Gump or Forrest like Nathan Bedford?
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 2 days ago:
The Agricultural Revolution was a trap
- Comment on Seems legit 6 days ago:
Remind me of the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust
- Comment on this picture is 27kb 1 week ago:
I drove a lady home from a party in NYC at like midnight, and I said "Oh, it's only five miles that won't be bad"
It took an hour to get there and back. I wasn't really mad because she was cute and maybe into me but we could have walked that distance in the same amount of time.
- Comment on What is Reddit doing 1 week ago:
They're boosting their sign up numbers by putting porn behind it. I bet it's not even that racy, they just know that humans are motivated by something potentially titillating
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 1 week ago:
Nobody is going to re-certify a plant built on 1960s technology
Yeah, that's why they're re-starting one built on 1970s technology
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn't build a new power plant, but reactivating existing ones makes sense and is cheaper per GW than solar and reactivation has insignificant emissions.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
I don't think nuclear power was killed by NIMBYs, at least not entirely. In the 1970s and 80s the financial world started taking a much more short-term view. Nuclear power plants have such a huge up-front cost that you aren't going to see returns for decades. When the market wants numbers to go up every quarter they're not going to finance something that won't make a profit for 20 years.
- Comment on Oddly specific question 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but that's not the decadence they're talking about. They mean things like "feeling like yourself" and "having good sex."
- Comment on Oddly specific question 2 weeks ago:
Imagine thinking decadence is a bad thing
- Comment on Does enshitification happen because companies are publicly-traded? 3 weeks ago:
I've worked for a couple startups and you're absolutely right. If you make a profit you pay taxes on that money, so startups like to spend most of the money they bring in. They also want to show revenue growth, since that's what investors like to see. You grow revenue by getting more paying customers. And you do that by doing what your customers want.
When you go public, your goal is to increase shareholder value. So you do this by reducing costs and finding ways to wring customers out of revenue. You find ways to nickle and dime customers out of revenue so much you develop an entire branch of law devoted to your lawsuits
- Comment on Union leader endorsing Biden: ‘We’re not gonna waste a lot of time’ on Trump supporters 3 weeks ago:
I lived in prime Trump Country during 2016, and a couple people told me that they admired Bernie because he was honest and also hated billionaires.
Plus I had a few guys on the verge of staging a takeover of the local concrete plant until Der Kommissar pointed out that I was describing a socialist cooperative.
- Comment on Union leader endorsing Biden: ‘We’re not gonna waste a lot of time’ on Trump supporters 3 weeks ago:
Blue collar dudes are surprisingly okay with leftist ideas if you don't use the "bad words." But if the group's too big there will be someone from their Politburo who realizes what you're talking about and starts hurling feces.
- Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 5 weeks ago:
So what? It figured out The Answer, big whoop.
Get back to me when it figures out The Question.
- Comment on acceptable screws 1 month ago:
Robertson (square) is also great, and it's as Canadian as bagged milk
- Comment on California law would give employees the 'right to disconnect' during nonworking hours 1 month ago:
Including adding us to the schedule without saying anything then deducting points for no-show
IANAL but that sounds like a labor law violation
- Comment on Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers 1 month ago:
There is, but since color printers are the ones that were used in counterfeiting most black and white printers don't do that sort of thing. Plus I don't know how you'd encode that much information in black and white without making it visible on the paper.
- Comment on Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers 1 month ago:
Only color laser printers put those yellow dots on paper. The black and white ones don't because they can't: They don't have yellow toner.
So get a black and white printer and you'll be fine.
- Comment on The world has become Applefied. 1 month ago:
Yeah, those folks who work 16 hours and have no cooking knowledge should go out and buy a bunch of pots and pans and knives and a ton of ingredients. They don't need to sleep and have plenty of extra money to waste on ruined food.
What a douchey take.
- Comment on The world has become Applefied. 1 month ago:
Don't forget that generation also saw home economics classes removed from school, so if they don't learn to cook from their parents they just don't learn to cook.
- Comment on 3 days 🤯 1 month ago:
Three day special bridge rebuilding operation
- Comment on I feel old 1 month ago:
Yeah you know me!
Sorry, 42 years old, force of habit.
- Comment on I feel old 1 month ago:
In my age OPP meant something quite a bit different.
- Comment on Have you ever seen coal in real life? 1 month ago:
I used to raise pigs, and I saw bags of coal at the feed store one of the (many) times I was there. Later, I had a small store in town and, as a Christmas gag, I bought one of those bags of coal and some small fabric bags to sell for $5 a pop.
Later I realized that coal can be pretty toxic and I probably shouldn't have been putting it in a bag that was gonna be next to candy in some kids' stocking
- Comment on Low-pitched gurgling noises 1 month ago:
I worked as a dishwasher when I was in high school and you get over this real quick.
Because at least you're not cleaning up shit after someone destroyed the bathroom.
- Comment on Derps of Tiktok 1 month ago:
People have forgotten that the Internet is a repository of information, not just a broadcast medium.
- Comment on Derps of Tiktok 1 month ago:
You're right, I'm really more of a ska guy than a grunge guy. Look forward to checker shoes, cargo shorts, an open button-down over a tank top, and trillbies
- Comment on How's that IP goin'? 1 month ago:
OP shorted it and is trying to wag the dog
- Comment on Homer 1 month ago:
He's not just a quintessential loser. He's a union man.
- Comment on That gourmet luxury blend... 2 months ago:
Is that percentage by weight or by volume?