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- Comment on Is it weird that I have to resort the idea of "Determinism" to be able to move on? 1 week ago:
Yeah, expanding on this and to use one of OP’s examples: Sure, your brain isn’t an all remembering book, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take active measures to improve on deficiencies. If you are forgetful, take better notes and refer to them when appropriate.
- Comment on Clarifying questions about the Musk salute 1 week ago:
It’s because it doesn’t matter; the circus will move on in a few days. Talking about it only continues the show.
- Comment on How can I determine how much to contribute to charity to reduce US federal taxes? 1 week ago:
If you itemize deductions, whatever you donate will reduce your taxable income by the same amount. So, if you have $50,000 in taxable income and donate $1,000, that will now be $49,000 in taxable income.
The 2024 tax rates for a single (not married filing jointly) individual are as follows:
In this case, that would come completely out of the 22% bracket, ie, your $1,000 in donations will reduce your tax burden by $220.
Keep in mind the standard deduction for a single individual is $14,600. You can take this instead of itemizing deductions as described above, and it works the same as if you had itemized deductions up to that value. If you have deductions less than that value, take the standard deduction; if they are greater, itemize deductions.
- Comment on Is there anything my girlfriend and I have to consider when traveling to America based on our skin differences? 1 week ago:
I’ve lived all over the US. You won’t have any such issues. Enjoy your trip and take some nice photos!
- Comment on Is there anything my girlfriend and I have to consider when traveling to America based on our skin differences? 1 week ago:
I’ve lived all over the place, it’s not going to be an issue anywhere. Some people may have opinions, but they will keep to themselves.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 2 weeks ago:
The Pokemon games all being the same caused me to get bored of them years ago. And now with them suing Palworld for ‘capturing monsters with an object and summoning them in 3d space’, a patent made after Palworld released their trailer, I find the Nintendo brand actively harmful to the state of gaming.
- Comment on Why is Tesla market cap so high ? 2 weeks ago:
If they want to control the company, without outright buying it, yes. It’s the classic way to acomplish a hostile takeover. Thing is, buying half the shares on the market is often more expensive than the current market cap, as mass buying shares sends the price up quickly.
When buying a company outright (ie, your company actually owns the purchased company and both sides agreed to the transfer), then it is common to buy out all the shares at (around) current market value.
- Comment on Why is Tesla market cap so high ? 2 weeks ago:
Unless someone purchases the company. Then it is common to buy out all the shares at (around) the current market price.
- Comment on Notch says he will work on a spiritual successor to Minecraft 3 weeks ago:
The site can be fun sometimes. ;p
- Comment on Notch says he will work on a spiritual successor to Minecraft 3 weeks ago:
Hopefully it will be a banger like the first!
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good 5 weeks ago:
Does Microsoft make Halo? Halo’s developer is owned by Microsoft, just as Xenoblade’s developer is owned by Nintendo.
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good 5 weeks ago:
Xenoblade
The Xenoblade series is made by a developer that is owned by Nintendo. If Nintendo doesn’t want people to rag on their products, they should make them better.
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- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 5 weeks ago:
The longer the cord is the more resistance there is; ie the more electrical load on the circuit. As long as you are pulling less than what the circuit and cord is rated for, there isn’t an issue, you will just be wasting a little extra power from the extra resistance. The plugs can also have a bit of extra resistance.
Two pieces of advice that will make the biggest difference:
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Keep the total length of all extension cables used as short as is reasonable. Don’t use a 20m cable when a 4m cable will do.
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Buy extension cords with higher wire gauges (higher wire thicknesses). A 12 gauge cable (4mm^2^) will provide notably less resistance than a 14 (2.5mm^2^) or 16 gauge cable (1.5mm^2^). The packaging will say what gauge it is. Note, I’m talking about the thickness of the metal itself, not the thickness of the extension cord. I have seen some very, very thick extension cords with absolute trash wires inside.
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- Comment on If investing in the S&P 500 is such a surefire way to make money, then why isn't everyone doing it? 5 weeks ago:
If you got that 30% haircut just before you needed to sell
Yep. They key part is to invest for 20, 30, 40 years, where those consistent 10-20% gains compound and vastly outweigh the occasional 30% losses. Even if you had invested at the worst time in 2007, you are currently up 285%.
- Comment on If investing in the S&P 500 is such a surefire way to make money, then why isn't everyone doing it? 5 weeks ago:
The basic investing advice is put money into index funds every paycheck and don’t sell them for 30 years. Every dollar put in doubles every 8-10 years. Compounding returns are damn strong.
Investing money generates more production and profits, it is very much so not a zero-sum game. There is good reason the average standard of living has increased dramatically over history, and it has increased faster in modern economies with strong monetary availability and movement, something investing directly contributes to.
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 1 month ago:
who the heck even buys gas leaf blowers anymore
Gas blowers are about half the purchase price. And in this ‘first thing I looked up’ match up, are even slightly better speced.
- Comment on How do you voice chat without bothering roommates? 1 month ago:
Since y’all aren’t sharing a room, closing your door and speaking softly is usually sufficient. Make sure you have a mic that rests in front of your mouth, and isn’t setting far away on your desk. That way it can pick you up easily.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 1 month ago:
Exactly, every time I say ‘I’m thinking of putting up a Factorio server, you want in?’, they are significantly less likely to be playing (or paying for) the newest game that has kernel-level access. Why, because we are playing Factorio for the next few weeks together and Factorio is fun.
Factorio isn’t the only game we play, but the point is to reinforce yours. If you are playing fun game x, your friends are more likely to play x instead of something else. Even if they have no care about Kernel-Level access, the fact you do affects their buying (and playing) patterns.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 1 month ago:
First of all, plenty of people would be happy to self-host a game for their friends, if they were still allowed the option.
Exactly! Me and my friends often play on modded Factorio servers that one of us hosts. This is only possible because the developer doesn’t lock things down to only the first-party (official) servers.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 1 month ago:
Why would they listen to your personal complaint if you, singular, are going to buy it anyway? Your voice only matters to a company if it means you won’t buy their product otherwise.
- Comment on Anyone else bounce around from game to game with no clue what to play? 2 months ago:
Agreed, seems OP is getting tired of the live service grind. Subnautica (start with the first) and Hollow Knight are both excellent single player games to try out.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 months ago:
Thank you for the solid points. People are dooming way too hard, simply because their preferred candidate lost this round.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 months ago:
teetering on brink of another civil war
Shit has to get much, much, much worse before people are willing to take up arms against their own family member 'en mass. A civil war isn’t one in which you fight a far away enemy, a civil war is one in which many of your family members and friends are on the opposite side. We are nowhere near a civil war, not even close.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 months ago:
Happened 8 years ago, it wasn’t the end of America then. It won’t be the end of America now.
- Comment on It’s Not Hard For A Billion-Dollar Company To Credit An Artist From Time To Time 2 months ago:
It’s Not Hard For A Billion-Dollar Company To Credit An Artist From Time To Time
The companies who own these games never bother to credit the artist
I guess I’m a bit confused here. Every film I have seen in my entire life credits the artists, and many games do as well.
- Comment on Games to play with my late 40s brothers? 2 months ago:
Some games that make for some fun coop and don’t require a ton of screen time. All of these are at least gold rated on ProtonDB, though I’m not sure about crossplay with consoles on any:
- Sanctum - A shooter and tower defense (Sanctum 2 was also real good)
- Borderlands 1 - Looter shooter with some solid humor (Borderlands 2 was also real good, but goes downhill after that)
- […steampowered.com/…/MechWarrior_5_Mercenaries/](MechWarrior 5) - Who doesn’t want to be a giant mech riddled with guns?
- https://store.steampowered.com/app/550/Left_4_Dead_2/ - Fight together to escape zombies, or in multiplayer servers work together as the zombies to take out other humans
Now, less of a focus on shooters:
- Golf It and Golf With Your Friends - Put-put golf taken to extreme levels
- Magica 2 - Murder enemies together in a top-down wizard game
- BattleBlock Theater](store.steampowered.com/…/BattleBlock_Theater/) - Jump over obstacles and solve puzzles together
- Comment on On a lighter note: Why do people still buy fast food? 2 months ago:
Do note, you can assemble a sub at home in the time it took you to just drive one way.
- Comment on Can you help me find this political infographic? 2 months ago:
That second graph is a doozy. What is driving the two? I’m assuming the Trump plan involves a cut to capital gains tax?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Highly, highly recommend using GOG. Buying is owning. There is no DRM and they even provide offline installers for the games you buy.
But they updated the terms of use and apparently now, stating that buying is not owning
This has always been the case for Steam and every other service that isn’t GOG.
