JohnDClay
@JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Shitposting 2 hours ago:
Thank you, that makes more sense.
- Comment on Shitposting 2 hours ago:
Sure, I’d just only heard lib as an insult by them before.
- Comment on Shitposting 3 hours ago:
I don’t get lib as an insult. Seems like pretty much everyone on Lemmy is on liberal side of center. I’ve seen some hexbear users use it to refer to anyone who isn’t as tankie as they are, but I don’t get it.
- Comment on Is there a theoretical limit to profit? 4 days ago:
Maximum profit would be achieved by charging the most for the least stuff. And minimizing the cost of that bare minimum. You can do that by eliminating competition so that your prices are the only option. You’d end up with something like feudalism.
But it also depends if you target maximum profits as compared to the population, or maximum profits over all. If maximum profits over all, you’d want to grow the work force as much as possible, maybe colonizing other planets or inhospitable regions of earth.
But maximizing the value of those profits to you requires development to get you more value for less resources. Being a king hundreds of years ago still didn’t get you decent plumbing. So you’d want effecent ways to maximize your pleasure for the lowest cost. Some brain computer interface could be useful there, so that you can create full planets more cheaply.
What happens after all of humanity are enslaved as software devs for the god kings personal virtual reality, I couldn’t guess.
- Comment on Happy birthday, peon 6 days ago:
Yeah that’s fine, I try to use all my paid time off to, I just usually take it in larger chunks with family.
- Comment on Meep meeep meep 6 days ago:
I didn’t know if that’s a goth beaker, a post explosion beaker, or possibly both.
- Comment on Happy birthday, peon 6 days ago:
Do people usually stay home for their birthday? I didn’t know of any companies that specifically give you off, so I’d think you’d use PTO.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
But what is taking advantage of them? If someone owns a house outright, isn’t charging any rent charging more than you need to? At that point, they’re not contributing anything. I agree that’s not what most people are talking about, but I don’t see how it’s categorically different.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
But you would be the one getting ownership from the mortgage, so I’d think charging less than the share of the mortgage would be fair. But that ratio depends on your and their particular time value of money, which is hard to pin down. And once you paid off the house, the rent should go to zero?
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
If you rent to house mates, is that stealing? Do you need to have joint ownership with everyone?
- Comment on sampling bias 3 weeks ago:
Which means 0.2% lied
- Comment on Not voting for genocide, explained 4 weeks ago:
Is this advocating voting third party? Because that isn’t how first past the post works, third parties won’t win.
- Comment on Forbidden magic 1 month ago:
With how small feature sizes are on chips, I wonder what sort of easter eggs the designer have hidden in them.
- Comment on Sculptural Skyscraper 1 month ago:
I love organic designs like this. Here’s an interesting irl building that kinda looks similar.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 1 month ago:
Planter doesn’t work very well, they shrivel and rot within a few weeks.
- Comment on Go fuck yourself, Mike 1 month ago:
I’d do it for $800/h
- Comment on Is it cheaper to use a plug-in oil radiator to eat an individual room, or run the central heater to heat an individual room and living room? 1 month ago:
Okay, that’s resistive heating. So it’ll be the same efficiency as a oil heater or any space heater. So heating less space with it will save money.
- Comment on Is it cheaper to use a plug-in oil radiator to eat an individual room, or run the central heater to heat an individual room and living room? 1 month ago:
Most all forms of heating are near 100% efficient, since it’s the waste heat you want. Unless the central heating is using a heat pump instead. Does your central heating use gas heating? If so, using it will probably be cheaper. If it uses resistive heating, the individual unit might be cheaper. But if it uses a heat pump, it might be cheaper to use central again. There are a lot of variables it’s hard to know.
- Comment on Source: Father, H. , Son, H. Spirit, H. (2024). Visions from God 1 month ago:
Source it like this:
- Comment on Being an already decided voter in a swing state is swell 1 month ago:
Here’s a vid on the legality.
While you’re at it, you could also take the cards against humanity one.
- Comment on Subway 2 months ago:
- Comment on Life imitates art? 2 months ago:
There are four lights!
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- Comment on Square! 2 months ago:
- Comment on Generational Trauma 3 months ago:
I think years of careful human interaction is pretty high quality. Imagine if a baby could only ever hear people arguing in the other room or reading Wikipedia entries.
- Comment on Slapping Chicken 3 months ago:
That’s assuming an isentropic chicken though. You need even more slaps to make up for the heat loss to the environment.
- Comment on Inaccuracies 3 months ago:
Here’s a podcast from the show writers on the compromises and consolidations they needed to do for the mini series.
- Comment on Coming up with new names is hard 3 months ago:
But if it’s a French place, they’ll pronounce it wrong.
- Comment on Veggitale facts 3 months ago:
- Comment on if you're not going to let me do this microsoft then let me turn off auto restart all together. 3 months ago:
Because Microsoft is updating to add ads to the 10 start menu is one reason. Security probably outweighs that, but it’s super annoying.
