weew

@weew@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the event you believe a contract killer is in breach of contract, who adjudicates?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean supreme court calls it a “presidential act”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you eat nothing but smoothies, do you still poop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That line is bullshit anyway, otherwise the entire field of surgery wouldn’t exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people impressed with SpaceX?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That looks more like a hot vending machine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why limit immigration?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well duh. Lemmy is on the internet, and there are no women on the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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.