scarabic
@scarabic@lemmy.world
- Comment on If you shop by unit prices, double check the math! 16 minutes ago:
Yep I can see that. I just find it fatuous.
- Comment on If you shop by unit prices, double check the math! 1 hour ago:
“Great value” is like “all natural:” a totally meaningless phrase that signals nothing except that someone’s selling you something.
- Comment on The fact that this is a real image is infuriating 3 hours ago:
I believe Sanders is actually independent and just votes with Democrats because they’re the current only option.
Bingo. Do that.
All your complaints are valid. I hear you and I share the pain. I’ve been putting up with it even longer.
A third party is still not the answer. It has never been, and will never be until the entire system of government and elections is completely different. Under existing conditions it is suicide, and a gift to Republicans.
I know this is hard to accept. I’m sorry. But I’d rather give it to you straight than blow smoke up your ass about organizing a whole new party to win in 4 years.
- Comment on The fact that this is a real image is infuriating 10 hours ago:
I don’t see much relationship between those two quotes. What confusion was that meant to dispel?
- Comment on The fact that this is a real image is infuriating 10 hours ago:
I understand the way you’re feeling. I have been there too. What you should fight for is a new Democratic Party, not a third party that will simply siphon votes from them, helping Republicans. Inagine doing all the work you describe only to realize you’ve been working against yourself the whole time. That’s what would happen.
A new party feels exciting because it’s new and you will have more control over it. But it’s like rushing out to create a “new” road system because of traffic and potholes. I know it’s not exciting but incremental change for the better is a far better use of your energy than thinking you can go out and crate sweeping change by starting a third party.
It’s ultimately just math.
- Comment on Conservative people are the moist toxic and aggressive people for no reason 1 day ago:
Having a work ethic is one thing. But it isn’t inherently satisfying to the ego unless you feel yours is better than others’, and lord it over them. Some people just can’t maintain their motivation without this.
This guy could learn a lot from women. The world is full of women who bust their ASS and never complain or brag or get a single second of recognition.
- Comment on The fact that this is a real image is infuriating 1 day ago:
Third parties aren’t an answer and will only strengthen republicans. The only possible course is to steer the democrats out of the ditch. Unfortunately they have built a masonry bunker down in there and this will take some doing. We need about 20-30 more young people to do what AOC did and we’ll be getting somewhere.
- Comment on The fact that this is a real image is infuriating 1 day ago:
What was the context, in terms of his speech? Did he say something right before this or after it?
- Comment on The cost of college in USA makes no sense anymore 6 days ago:
Yes, let’s not confuse having a degree with getting an education.
- Comment on The cost of college in USA makes no sense anymore 6 days ago:
no employer has ever given me any amount of money for that degree
I don’t see how you can know this. If it helped you, it was as a baseline qualification that helped you get hired at all. Were you expecting some kind of moment where an HR person said, on your first day, “oh hang on a moment, you have a degree - we’ll need to raise your salary for that - terribly sorry for the oversight.”
- Comment on Why is Tesla market cap so high ? 6 days ago:
Established car makers have businesses that are easier to predict. They’ve been operating for a long time and you have a pretty good idea what “doing well” or “doing poorly” would look like for them. A much newer company like Tesla, which is based on emerging technology, does not have so well-understood of a future. There’s a lot more unknown about how big it might become.
Most times, this is seen as big unknowns and risk, therefore investors are wary. But Tesla has had enough real world success to be encouraging, yet is still new enough to enjoy “we don’t know how big this thing will get” speculation. Basically a lot of people think it’s a reasonable bet that Tesla will be huge in the future. Therefore their stock has high demand.
- Comment on Is it ok to clean my humidifier with H2O2? 1 week ago:
Do not put hydrogen peroxide into a cool mist humidifier and then turn it on. These operate by very rapidly vibrating a metal ring submerged in liquid. This physically atomizes whatever liquid is in there. You don’t want to breathe hydrogen peroxide.
You’re supposed to wipe these with vinegar daily and then rinse them and put them back into service.
- Comment on How rare is it for people to live without anger? 1 week ago:
I believe that our media are actively stoking outrage and shock. People have a built-in tendency to pay more attention to danger than opportunity: if you fail to notice some berries on a bush you won’t necessarily die but if you fail to notice a scorpion on the path you may very well die. So people react strongly to negative information. This string reaction registers as “engagement” and media think they must be offering info that people want. In the digital age, engagement can be counted and tracked, which allows you to quickly adapt and do more of whatever creates that engagement. We’ve been experiencing that optimization loop for the last 20 years and it is now at a deafening roar. We don’t have problems in the world, we have existential crises. We don’t have political disagreements, we have mortal enemies. We don’t have at verbal buffoon for a president, we have a fascist dictator murdering rapist psychopath.
This isn’t the only factor but it is significant and it is also new. Yes, there has been sensationalism in the last but it is new to be able to track media consumption like this and adapt on the fly, automatically. It’s taken us to a whole new level.
- Comment on Someone pulled the trashcan into the stall and shat in it! 1 week ago:
Yeah what an egregious generalization from someone vandalizing a bathroom to all Americans. I mean come on.
- Comment on "Family Size" has no meaning anymore 1 week ago:
here frozen family meals in the past would have at least satisfied everyone at the table without any sides
American in his fifties here. No idea what you’re talking about. Family size has only ever meant “larger pack.” It has never meant “complete on its own with nothing accompanying it.”
- Comment on If you save, we will charge you more 1 week ago:
Fuel cost should go down with usage though. And if usage goes down, doesn’t that mean the grid is better equipped to handle it well, and should experience fewer problems as a result?
Some costs should go down. Others are fixed, I agree.
- Comment on Would you do Onlyfans if needed the money? 1 week ago:
I’m also gen-x. Calling it dystopia when a show-yourself-naked website has unreasonable entry requirements for voluntary participation is not a function of age but rather privilege. And I thought I had soft hands and an easy life.
- Comment on Mods here are wankers 1 week ago:
Whining about a mod decision in mildlyinfuriating?
OP, you are mildly infuriating. Delete this post, drink a beer, shoot your frustration into the Kleenex, get 8 hours sleep, go outside and touch grass for fucks sake.
- Comment on Would you do Onlyfans if needed the money? 1 week ago:
Okay. You have a rather low bar for dystopia.
- Comment on Would you do Onlyfans if needed the money? 1 week ago:
I find it hard to believe that all the GenZ ladies there have extensive Facebook accounts.
- Comment on Would you do Onlyfans if needed the money? 1 week ago:
Well, I did think of a reason and it’s not for selling your data. This was in the back of my mind but I didn’t know how to put it into words.
From your perspective, you’re a private individual who wants to display a little ass for coin, all on the up and up. And how dare they ask invasive questions.
But you do have to remember that ANY community driven site has abuse problems all the time, let alone one where sex workers are plying their trade. So in my mind, they are asking for FB so they can say “keep it real - we know who you are.”
On the one hand this is dumb and implies a threat. On other hand their site would immediately fly downhill and get shut down if everything there could be done with total anonymity.
- Comment on Would you do Onlyfans if needed the money? 1 week ago:
I agree I can’t think of any good reason to require Facebook account. But it seems pretty easy to just tell them you never had an account before and create a dummy one. That’s probably what a lot of people have to anyway since no one uses FB anymore.
If it turns you off, I get it. If you want to protect your privacy better, I get that too, though OF doesn’t seem like a vehicle for increasing one’s privacy under any circumstances. The whole “dystopian” thing was a bit much though.
- Comment on Would you do Onlyfans if needed the money? 1 week ago:
Okay you actually spent more words on ID and real identity than socials so that did seem to be an objection.
Privacy is the concern you cited. If so, why would you be worried about Facebook and not be worried about real ID?
I’m just trying to understand this clearly - setting aside hyperbole words like dystopian and questions about what I find normal.
- Comment on Would you do Onlyfans if needed the money? 1 week ago:
You’ve probably provided ID at every job you’ve ever had. This is to establish legal residency and that you are of working age. I know OF is not a 9 to 5 job but money is exchanged and I don’t see why this is so dystopian, especially given the extra sensitivity around age.
- Comment on If you save, we will charge you more 1 week ago:
Yeah I’ve got it, some costs are fixed.
- Comment on If you save, we will charge you more 1 week ago:
True, true. Other costs should track with usage though, like fuel. If they had said “when usage falls, costs don’t fall AS MUCH due to fixed costs” then I would totally get it. The way they phrased it makes it sound like costs going down just isn’t a thing that happens. Maybe that’s me.
- Comment on If you save, we will charge you more 1 week ago:
Gee it seems like they could come up with a simple algorithm to protect low income people who are conserving.
Aaaand why aren’t costs going down as usage goes down?
- Comment on Can enough solar pannels decrease the global temps? 1 week ago:
Yeah I think you’re somewhat repeating what was said above. No one said it was a problem, but the point was that solar panels don’t cool the earth because even if they do convert some sunlight into electricity instead of heat, it will soon become heat anyway when the electricity gets used.
- Comment on Can enough solar pannels decrease the global temps? 1 week ago:
quickly
Quick in geologic time. But this is what fossil fuels are, so it’s an order of magnitude or two different than the time in which generated electricity will be used.
And you’re right, it’s very small. Everything we know is pretty small, even combined. The amount of energy the sun imparts to the Earth every day equals what humanity would use over about 12 years at current levels.
- Comment on Can enough solar pannels decrease the global temps? 1 week ago:
Plants fixing carbon also converts energy to a form that isn’t heat, so I think we should count that along with reflection as a way that solar energy doesn’t become terrestrial heat.