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- Comment on What do people who promoted the "FEMA camps" conspiracy theory think about Trump's mass deportation? 2 weeks ago:
You have to keep in mind that hypocrisy is not considered a bad thing to conservatives. It doesn’t matter that they’re hurting people, as long as they’re “hurting the right people.”
Conservative mindset is intently unequal. The ingroup gets all rewards and benefits, the outgroup gets all blame and punishment.
- Comment on In the event you believe a contract killer is in breach of contract, who adjudicates? 5 weeks ago:
You mean supreme court calls it a “presidential act”
- Comment on If you eat nothing but smoothies, do you still poop? 1 month ago:
Imagine trying to squeeze toothpaste out of a tube but it’s almost empty vs almost full.
Your gut is meant to keep things moving along… If it doesn’t, it ain’t good.
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 1 month ago:
X is just a vague term though. It’s also often used as a placeholder for unknown or variable things. So the “formerly Twitter” is going to stick for quite a while.
It’s like naming a product “The Thing”. Anyone who talks about it will always have to clarify what Thing they are talking about basically forever.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 1 month ago:
Rich people want to get richer. Rich people can afford to bribe/wine and dine/trade favors with the select few who actually write the law.
That is all.
- Comment on Is there ever a situation where a doctor can legally refuse to render aid to someone? 1 month ago:
That line is bullshit anyway, otherwise the entire field of surgery wouldn’t exist.
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 2 months ago:
Not remake the entire shuttle, but to simply design a disposable rocket and build a hundred of those, instead of a space plane.
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 2 months ago:
The space shuttle was technically reusable, but not in a way that was beneficial to anyone. The time and cost of refurbishing the shuttle after every launch was so much they may as well have built a brand new disposable rocket for each mission.
- Comment on Why don't we have cool vending machines in the US? 2 months ago:
That looks more like a hot vending machine
- Comment on Why limit immigration? 3 months ago:
Yeah, it pumps GDP numbers up. By having more people to do work.
Not by increasing GDP per capita.
- Comment on Why limit immigration? 3 months ago:
It can suppress wages.
Immigrants often are expected to work for less money. After all, they usually immigrate from an economically worse country, so they don’t expect to land top tier wages.
You keep filling in minimum wage jobs with an endless supply of immigrants, then there is never a worker shortage and never any incentive to raise the bar.
- Comment on Is this normal for girls or just a extreme edge case? (Serious question) 4 months ago:
Well duh. Lemmy is on the internet, and there are no women on the internet.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
It was a fun game, I enjoyed it. Didn’t realize games needed to be accurate treatises on revolutionary political theory to be good.
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 7 months ago:
It also lets them have a US military base in the middle East, where just about every other country hates the US
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 11 months ago:
they’re just caffeine addicts
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 1 year ago:
USAdian
- Comment on How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it? 1 year ago:
The English phrase is “missing the forest for the trees”
Not quite the same as chess blindness. Possibly the opposite. I think, but it basically means: being unable to see the bigger picture because you’re too focused on minor individual details
- Comment on What do you call the next major American holiday which will occur on Monday, October 9th? - Lemmy.world 1 year ago:
celebrate Thanksgiving with Canadians
- Comment on Marvel Visual Effects Workers Unanimously Vote “Yes” to Unionize 1 year ago:
Marvel movies are basically 80% VFX at this point, they definitely deserve a much bigger cut
- Comment on ‘Poolman’ Review: Chris Pine’s Noir-Drenched L.A. Comedy Is a Shrill Misfire 1 year ago:
maybe he mixed him up with Chris Pratt?
- Comment on So why is 3 nm chip better? 1 year ago:
The semiconductor industry has been shrinking chips for basically as long as it has existed. Look up Moore’s Law.
In any case, the smaller the transistor, the more chips you can produce with each batch, they use less power, and run faster. Usually. Sometimes things don’t always go right, but that’s the general trend.
- Comment on Do Multivitamins actually do anything? 1 year ago:
Basically, it could prevent vitamin deficiency. But in developed countries, vitamin deficiency is pretty rare, and many forms take years of constant deficiency to really show up.
Basically, it probably won’t hurt. The research is very vague about it because we generally don’t wait until someone actually gets a vitamin deficiency disease before correcting it. Nor can we deliberately starve someone of a vitamin for years and watch the effects. Any subtle effect is often masked by larger issues like genetics, diet, exercise, etc.
- Comment on Spider-Man: No Way Home Director Confirms What We All Suspected About the Ending 1 year ago:
it often straddles the line between “the narrator is pretending to be a dumb viewer” and “the creator is actually dumb”
- Comment on Spider-Man: No Way Home Director Confirms What We All Suspected About the Ending 1 year ago:
Sadly enough, the “cinema sins” YouTube channel is pretty representative of how dumb and inattentive the average viewer is.
- Comment on Would it make sense for a person in a "privileged class" to move from a red state? 1 year ago:
Norway?
- Comment on People who back into parking spots: Why? 1 year ago:
I think you just need more experience driving. Either one is pretty much equally easy, it just depends on how much space you have to work with and what angle you’re approaching from. For example there’s one parking spot at my workplace that’s basically impossible to get into without backing into it.
- Comment on How does someone with no experience learn to make food? 1 year ago:
keep a fire extinguisher handy though
- Comment on Oppenheimer - Review Thread 1 year ago:
2nd question: how long does the deafness last after the atomic bomb explosion?
- Comment on Do you use the swipe to type feature on your phone? 1 year ago:
swipe for common 3+ letter words, tapping for unusual words and uncommon pronouns, and very short words. I guess I’ve learned what swipe is good at guessing and what it’s bad at.