ryathal
@ryathal@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 7 hours ago:
The average cost of a car is wildly skewed by luxury models and the absurd prices of new cars. The market has gotten more expensive, so it is more difficult to find reliable cars in the sub 5k range, but under 10k is possible. It’s possible to save a few hundred bucks a month and get progressively better cars without financing them, because depreciation isn’t significant at the low end of the market.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 10 hours ago:
Pay cash for a car that runs. You aren’t getting a loan without income in the first place.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 12 hours ago:
A car is absolutely doable without financing l. It’s a poverty trap to finance a car. What you can’t do is have a brand new car.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 16 hours ago:
For the vast majority of people the only debt they should ever get is a house.
- Comment on Handheld PC reviews only cover Asus and Lenovo. 4 days ago:
eGPU support doesn’t make much sense for a hand held unless you want something like a switch that can be more powerful docked. You can probably get a rough idea of their performance based on comparing specs to more major brands.
- Comment on Facts 5 days ago:
I’m a fan of Morrowind as a memory. I don’t want to ever play it again, but it was extremely fun as a kid growing up.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 1 week ago:
I think it’s also that there aren’t crazy discounts on anything remotely new. There used to be 1-2 games that made headlines.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 1 week ago:
It’s a mildly amusing board game.
- Comment on Is it really worth starting a lemmy community? 1 week ago:
If there’s a fairly related existing community that has any reasonable activity it’s probably better to just help that one get more activity.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 1 week ago:
My initial thoughts are these sales are somehow getting even less exciting every time. It is clear that games should only be purchased on sale now as prices don’t seem to drop otherwise.
- Comment on How solar panels generate electricity 1 week ago:
Each panel has it’s own little steam turbine inside it in reality.
- Comment on How solar panels generate electricity 1 week ago:
Solar collection like this can also explode birds if they fly through the wrong area as it’s essentially like a magnifying glass and ants.
- Comment on How did far-west era US dealt with "Male loneliness" 1 week ago:
The men doing the actual expedition had bigger problems than getting their dick wet, many of them simply died for various reasons. Civilization also wasn’t that far behind them, once you had a claim secured it was about getting a family.
- Comment on Why do pro athelets get paid millions upon millions of dollars but will be taken off field for something minor? My coach always said walk it off or tough it out. How come its not the same in leagues? 1 week ago:
Most pro athletes are playing through minor injuries. Some play through major injuries. There is a bigger focus on concussions now that might result in players getting pulled out, in pro leagues now though.
For younger kids, it’s highly unlikely they actually have a serious injury. Many complain about minor bumps and bruises. There should still be care for head injuries specifically, but it’s pretty rare for kids to get a major injury that’s not readily apparent.
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 1 week ago:
It does seem like there’s an inverse correlation of general intelligence/common sense and specialized study.
- Comment on MDs please verify. 1 week ago:
This is clearly wrong. It only takes 36 days, since the boy and girl nut alternate their maturity cycles.
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 1 week ago:
You missed what they meant. It means gpt5 is really good at one arbitrary and extremely specific topic. Anything else it’s comparable with a random person on the street.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 weeks ago:
Local appliance dealers likely also have a dude who in a pinch can just carry most appliances where they need to go.
- Comment on Gone too soon 2 weeks ago:
Not really. The first avengers movie helps establish a few characters and plot points, but you don’t necessarily need to see the movie. Winter soldier does have some key elements that the series doesn’t really cover well if you haven’t seen it by the time you get to where it released in the series. There’s obviously build up to the other movies as well, but nothing as impactful from what I remember.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 2 weeks ago:
A reactor isn’t a catalytic converter. They might get some coolant that’s mildly radioactive. The core would probably kill them if they ever managed to open it. There’s not a button to just open it, it’s only designed to be opened with heavy equipment in drydock.
Dirty bombs are more of a boogie man than a real thing. High grade materials are dangerous to be around without shielding and can fairly easily be tracked. It’s just as likely to kill the makers before they can get a bomb together than be used. Lower grade materials require more to be dangerous, which means less spread with the same explosive, and the bomb has to be pretty big. It’s easier to get a backpack full of explosives into somewhere than a van full of radioactive material, and the backpack will have a bigger radius.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 weeks ago:
No I’m only claiming that the government was acting outside it’s role of ensuring a free market. When they do this it leads to distortion and provides a pathway to monopolies. Government has a role to ensure markets stay free by doing things like punishing fraud and enforcing contract law.
What they shouldn’t be doing is providing incentives for specific behaviors, or creating regulatory hurdles that prevent new companies from competing in a market. They also shouldn’t be bailing out companies that are too big to fail or giving them beneficial bankruptcy terms.
It’s not the cars fault for breaking down if you don’t change the oil and add sugar to the gas.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 2 weeks ago:
Reactors aren’t bombs, they don’t just go boom. One of them sinking is far less dangerous than thousands of gallons of fuel in existing tankers. The economics are terribly different than electric cars, it makes no sense to replace a ship with 20 year of life left, but it’s worth considering for a new ship.
There is still the anything nuclear is the boogie man problem.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 2 weeks ago:
For profit companies already run reactors. Putting them on a boat is well understood. Nuclear subs are more about the sub part and military tech than the nuclear part.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 weeks ago:
Blaming capitalism because doing a bad thing led to bad results is like blaming a recipe for being bad when you swap the eggs for cottage cheese. When you let companies make rules, that’s government intervention.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 2 weeks ago:
Cargo ships could be replaced with nuclear. It would also be a significant gain as they are a significant source of pollution beyond CO2.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 weeks ago:
Government regulation also creates and sustains monopolies. Most cable companies have competition prohibited by law. Bail outs allow companies that should fail and be replaced by many smaller companies to instead be more monopolistic.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 weeks ago:
The conditions get created by government distortion of a market. Chicago School discourages government intervention.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 weeks ago:
Nonsense, if companies took the loss from 2008 many banks and PE wouldn’t exist right now. A key part of capitalism is companies failing from bad investments, entropy, or other factors. You need the bust to create the boom.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 weeks ago:
It wasn’t capitalism that that said bail out large companies when they make bad investments. It wasn’t capitalism that said hand out free loans to any company who asks during covid. It’s not capitalism that prohibited community based ISPs.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 weeks ago:
Chicago School generally isn’t in favor of monopolies, and they opposed the to big to fail concept that is a big reason we are in this mess.