ultranaut

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In the before times when we still had the rule of law, mandatory voting would almost certainly require an amendment to the constitution or else the Supreme Court would block it. Under current precedents the government generally can’t compel political speech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure, it was very diverse but the amount and type of diversity changes depending on where in the city you are and when it is. I went to a market where just about everyone was I believe from North African or Arab backgrounds, white folks were a minority. I also spent some time in a bar where we were some of the only white people. Most places though white folks were the majority. I’m sure there’s racism but the only bigotry I definitely noticed among Parisians was against the Roma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, white American who is unable to speak French. Which reminds me, Parisians are a lot less white than in the movies. At least the places I went and the people I met.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Federal Lab That Tracked Rising S.T.I.s Has Been Shuttered | The United States can no longer keep tabs on drug-resistant gonorrhea, among other infections, scientists said.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump said they were his personal Vietnam, he doesn’t want any flashbacks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Paris. I’ve always heard bad things about Parisians but they were cool. The only rude people I encountered were tourists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If a person would be “in the right” it doesn’t matter how or why they are a person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My grandma passed away and my aunt sent me a selfie of her, my uncle, and my deceased grandma in the hospital bed, is it normal that I'm put off by this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Grief makes people do weird things and pictures can be misleading. That said, this is creepy as fuck and you should trust your gut if you ever feel unsafe around her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a historical event, person or time period you'd like to see made into a series?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The failed Narvaez expedition to North America in the early 1500s. Out of hundreds only a handful of survivors made it to land. Then they went on an incredible multi year adventure across the continent where they ended up befriending all kinds of people and becoming sort of shaman diplomats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a TV show that was one of your favourites, but just went on for far too long?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Weeds. It’s been so long since I watched it but I remember it reached a point where it should have ended but instead it became unwatchable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a TV show that was one of your favourites, but just went on for far too long?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely X-Files. Then they tried to bring it back and it was somehow even worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The trick is to stop as soon as you start to feel nausea. If you keep doing that your body starts to adapt to VR and eventually you won’t get nausea except in really extreme experiences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshittification⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the driving forces behind this phenomena is that business types value having that reoccurring revenue on the books more than “normal” revenue. If you have two companies with identical revenue but one of them gets it from customers locked in on a subscription, that company will be valued significantly higher. If you’re an exec or a big investor who owns a lot of stock in a company then you’re effectively incentivized to push the company towards that subscription based reoccurring revenue model because it will boost the stock price and make you richer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your top 10 series of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In random order:

  Poirot

  TNG

  BSG

  Morse/Lewis/Endeavor

  Rockford Files

  Nature

  Nova

  A French Village

  Midsomer Murders

  Shetland

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a variety of steps necessary before building begins. Things like getting utilities run to the property, getting permits, etc. If you’re the property owner who has those things ready to go a developer is likely going to choose you over others who still need that prep work done. You can also probably just agree to a smaller cut of the final product. If you’re willing to give up some value and make it more profitable for the developer they will prefer you over someone they will make less money from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Jury Nullification a Thing, But You Can’t Talk About It in Court?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All 12 only have to agree on guilt. Just one is enough to prevent a guilty verdict. Although unless all 12 vote not guilty the prosecution can potentially still run a new trial with a fresh jury.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone recommend me a wireless headset?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought the Arctis 5 back in 2020 and its been solid. I’ve used it for meetings basically every work day since then and it is still going strong, never had any issues. I agree about the audio quality not being the greatest, its fine for voices but not good for music.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much of my body language should signal I'm actually a Ninja?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Less than 1%

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I realistically get out of the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One potential avenue is getting a job teaching English in another country. I’ve known a few people who did that for a year or two after college and enjoyed the experience. I think the pay is not great, and you’re stuck in a classroom teaching a lot of the time, but it’s a relatively straightforward path out of the country and into a life somewhere else, and with a company involved to expedite the process because they want to make money from you working ASAP.

  Getting your BS in CS can potentially help you as well, depending on the country you want to move to. Not an expert but when I was looking into this awhile back I found various countries will give preferential treatment based off things like education and skills. Being a college educated SWE or whatever can make you more appealing to immigration authorities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it worth investing if I can only contribute $50 a month?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  S&P is like 23% this year, chasing Pelosi has apparently underperformed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it worth investing if I can only contribute $50 a month?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. If you can afford it, dumping that money into an ETF like VT, VTI, or VOO every month for the next 10 years is very likely to result in you turning a profit. Start with a Roth IRA and don’t bother with a standard brokerage account until you’re able to max out the contribution limit. If you want to do anything more complicated than buy big low cost ETFs study up first and go slow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a contestant on Jeopardy! gave the correct response "Alexandre Dumas" but pronounced the surname as "dumb ass", would the response be accepted?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  W. E. B. DuBois

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spy cops scandal: ‘creepy’ officer formed sexual relationship with teen in 1990s⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its crazy the cops thought sending undercovers to have sex with activists was a good idea in the first place, let alone fucking a teenager. Its rape by deception at the very least, and prima facie unethical. Anyone and everyone responsible belongs in prison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you forgive someone that poisoned your dog when they only offer bad faith apology ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No forgiveness, I would feel obligated to destroy that person and piss on their grave. Forgiveness is earned, you don’t owe it to anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It will likely end up on PC eventually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Would You Rank Quentin Tarantino's Films?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pulp Fiction Jackie Brown Hateful 8 Reservoir Dogs Inglorious Basterds

  The rest I wouldn’t rank, I think I’ve at least tried to watch them all but got bored and/or didn’t really enjoy it and/or was too drunk or not drunk enough. Kill Bill and Once Upon… I’ve tried to get through multi times now before giving up. Death Proof I haven’t seen in years but I remember it being boring after just watching Planet Terror.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are examples of things that would get you banned on reddit, but is okay on most major instances of Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never been banned from Reddit but I was threatened with a ban by a Reddit admin when I reported a right wing troll group who was obviously using sockpuppets to harass people and spread racist bullshit in some local sub. The admin message said I was abusing the moderation system by reporting them and if I didn’t stop I would be banned from Reddit. I was never banned but all of the sockpuppet accounts I reported were banned by the antievil operations team along with one of the mods in that sub.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to fix one's eyesight? What are working methods? What is to be cautious about?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it can be possible even without eye surgery.

  When I was poor I would only wear one contact at a time to make them last longer. I would alternative eyes, and would either take it out or switch to glasses when I was reading or looking at a screen for any extended amount of time. My eyesight improved after a few years, not to the point of being cured but my prescription got weaker. I don’t know if there’s actual causation, and the optometrist just said “hmm, interesting” when I brought it up, but it does seem like that is what improved my vision.

  Also, I know someone with a rare vision issue who had to see a vision therapist to do eye exercises and whatever they did was helpful for them. That’s a more specific situation though than your typical eyesight problems where corrective lenses can be used because I think it involved how their brain processes visual input.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they are the same person they may have two jackets that are very similar but slightly different and two different backpacks. Someone on top of opsec or paranoid having lots of easily changeable looks would make sense. Although ideally you would want different colored jackets. It could also be that the camera quality isn’t good enough for the details in the jacket to show up and they only have two backpacks. It does really look like the two pictures on the right could be someone different with a similar jacket to the two pictures on the left though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did Yoon lift martial law if he had the support of the military high command?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Infighting in the military is a significant escalation on the path towards a civil war. The chance for the coup to have any appearance of legitimacy was lost very quickly so it was either take that risk or back down. Ideally for a coup to succeed you have these details sorted and a plan in place to seize control before you start the coup, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here so backing down was the only realistic choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The **Most open** Operating System"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Their official marketing is to call Windows 11 “the most secure version of Windows ever” or something along those lines. They definitely use “the most secure” in their marketing, but I think they do it in a way where it is only in reference to previous consumer versions of Windows if you actually parse out what is being said.