HobbitFoot
@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
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- Comment on Why is classy and fancy being called "Old Money aesthetic" 2 days ago:
Old money isn’t about money, but class.
- Comment on Is Vladimir Putin a good and professional leader? 4 days ago:
He was an improvement on Yeltsin and he was popular. However, his grasp on power beyond term limits have been a net negative on the country.
- Comment on Apparantly there are some rural places in China that have never seen a white person... So... are there like places in the US I can go where they never seen an Asian person before? 5 days ago:
Not likely. Chinese migrants in the USA went everywhere to start various small businesses. It is the reason why there is that Chinese family running two grocery stores in Sinners. Chinese families would be rare, but they would be everywhere.
Your best bet is the rural Mountain West or Appalachia, but even then you’re likely going to find some Chinese people living there.
- Comment on Let's say hypothetically I wanted to leave the US permanently; 1 week ago:
Australia and New Zealand have a points based immigration system that you can check online. That would be the first place I’d look.
- Comment on How should a news article website financially sustain itself? 1 week ago:
By turning the content into advertising.
- Comment on Do people in real life actually care who dates who and who is in or out of "people's leagues"? 1 week ago:
A lot of people do as a way to judge a person’s rank in society. The attractiveness of a person’s spouse is a common metric for how successful someone is. So, if a highly attractive woman is slumming it with a man who appears to be well below her status, it is confusing for a lot of people.
- Comment on Do we know how much apps would cost if we had to replace as revenue with subscription fees? 1 week ago:
And it is also bundled with an ad-free music service.
- Comment on Do we know how much apps would cost if we had to replace as revenue with subscription fees? 1 week ago:
Linux is subsidized by a consortium of major tech companies supporting a common code base as it is cheaper than relying on one vendor.
Signal is run by a non-profit group which is funded by various grants.
Mastodon is a combination of above, the code being subsidized by a consortium of developers and individual servers funded by various means.
To just say “it is free” ignores the economics of why they are free.
- Comment on Adult costume for Frozen themed children’s party 1 week ago:
But who gets to play Gunter?
- Comment on Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends 1 week ago:
That’s implied in the use of men as a descriptor.
- Comment on Why don’t tech bros wear suits? 1 week ago:
Wearing a suit isn’t the only way to show power.
Tech used to dress up to the same standards as other professions in the 60’s, with their rules for conformity. Some engineers realized that they were too good to need to conform, so they dressed down, daring their bosses to fire them. Given how valuable the good engineers were, they got to keep their jobs even though they didn’t fully conform to the dress code.
It became a statement of power. Meetings would often be decided on the person worst dressed because they were the valuable tech decision maker.
Fast forward to when Facebook is trying to get its IPO and Mark Zuckerberg is going into meetings with financiers dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. The financiers were all wearing suits, but Zuckerberg didn’t need to because they needed him more than he needed them. Zuckerberg didn’t need to dress up for bankers, bankers needed to dress up for him.
The only time Mark Zuckerberg wore a suit as part of his work was when he was testifying in front of Congress. Why? Because Congress had power over him and that power made Mark dress up.
- Comment on Do office going men still wear suits in the US? 1 week ago:
So, a good example of wealthy fashion is Frasier Crane. He’s appeared in three TV shows across the decades. In Cheers and the original Frasier, he is typically wearing a suit. In the reboot, he isn’t. Same character, but the wardrobe changed over time.
- Comment on Do office going men still wear suits in the US? 1 week ago:
I only wear a suit when going to see a client or certain professional events, which hasn’t changed since COVID. Only the CEO commonly wears suits to the office, but that is because they are commonly visiting clients and professional events.
People are still dressing down in the office, though. I started wearing a tie and dress shoes as required in the dress code. We’re at the point now where collared shirts aren’t mandatory.
- Comment on Your opinion is important 1 week ago:
It is important to understand the context of who defined it.
It was mainly defined by queer people in various Latin communities as a self descriptor. LGBT acceptance within the various Spanish speaking communities in general is nowhere near universal, which explains why adoption of Latinx isn’t a thing.
I’d only use the descriptor if I knew that a lot of people there within earshot wanted to use that description.
- Comment on I can SHOW you the WORLD 1 week ago:
- Comment on How do first time movie writers ensure someone along the way won't get ripped off? Like say Jay in the mail room sees your scripts and develops it himself, what recourse is there against mail clerk? 1 week ago:
And, along with this, you have to be able to show that the writer(s) had access to this information while writing the script. To give you an hour long media analysis video to watch, here’s some Lindsay Ellis:
The summary of it was that animators saw The Thief and the Cobbler and might have used some of what they saw as inspiration for some of the character design in Aladdin, but the writer of Aladdin didn’t have access to the movie so Disney could credibly say they didn’t steal the script.
- Comment on Do all wealthy people in LA drive Supercars? 1 week ago:
How rich do you need to be to deal with the legal fallout of getting caught drunkenly street racing?
- Comment on What jobs do people from very upper-class wealthy families get? Or don't they have jobs and live off their families' wealth? 1 week ago:
A lot of them work for various non-profits as a way to support various causes. A majority of charities are run by the families of the wealthy.
A lot of high prestige but low pay organizations will have a lot of wealthy people working there. This includes museums, publishing houses, and other high art media.
You also have those who don’t have jobs exactly, but hobbies. They get into collecting enough of a thing to fill their own gallery. They have causes they contribute to on a part time basis. They may have a local estate where they get to pretend to be farmer.
It isn’t all going into business with Daddy.
- Comment on Why is us rail travel so expensive? 2 weeks ago:
It also doesn’t help when private train companies didn’t want to run passenger service.
- Comment on Why is us rail travel so expensive? 2 weeks ago:
The American rail network was built mainly as private enterprise regulated by public agencies. This worked when rail had an effective monopoly on long distance travel, but fell apart when other modes could compete. When a major railroad (Penn Central) went bankrupt, the federal government relieved all private companies from having to maintain passenger service and the long distance trips went into Amtrak in the 1970’s.
Until Biden, there was little public demand for building out rail transit. The Interstate system built out a decent highway network and air deregulation meant that flights got very cheap.
- Comment on US tech firm Oracle cuts thousands of jobs as it steps up AI spending 2 weeks ago:
Or Oracle will start stealth hiring in other countries like Poland and India to use that staff as their junior devs in a more sink or swim environment.
- Comment on Do "rich" superheroes have to be rich in order for the story to work? 2 weeks ago:
For Tony Stark, being poor makes him more of a Peter Parker equivalent. Also, having a suit of high tech armor likely means he’s sourcing his components from some very wealthy companies anyway. I feel like owning the companies feels a lot more moral than stealing from them.
For Bruce Wayne, being poor makes him more equivalent to the Punisher. By himself, Batman has to be at odds in hiding his secret identity and, to some extent, getting lost in his alter ego. In the Justice League, Batman ends up being de facto leader a lot of times because that is because he is funding the organization and his leadership skills in Wayne Enterprises and up matching well for the Justice League.
- Comment on How does one who doesn’t have a ‘home’ choose their team? 2 weeks ago:
A lot of people cheer for their family’s team even if the town they live in has a different team. So you might not cheer for your team, but you’ll cheer for the team you saw Mom and Dad cheer for when you were a kid.
- Comment on If you give the fae a false name which others would identify you as, can they still use that false name to control you? 2 weeks ago:
It is a homebrew story, so I don’t expect a clean mechanical answer.
- Comment on If you give the fae a false name which others would identify you as, can they still use that false name to control you? 2 weeks ago:
Ok
- Comment on If you give the fae a false name which others would identify you as, can they still use that false name to control you? 2 weeks ago:
I would say my question is more lore than belief related; my question is tied to an RPG campaign that I’m playing.
I find I get better responses if I don’t have a gigantic wall of text explaining the question.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 2 weeks ago:
There is usually some guidance, although the regulations are usually written with more wiggle room than structural standards because of varying site conditions.
However, the hill causing an increase to the speed of the car and that the area has a known pedestrian draw to it would tip the scales more towards installing a stop sign.
- Comment on If you give the fae a false name which others would identify you as, can they still use that false name to control you? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know, my question doesn’t seem that smart to me.
- Comment on If you give the fae a false name which others would identify you as, can they still use that false name to control you? 2 weeks ago:
Great answer. Thanks.
- Comment on Whatever you feel about Bond Films, Do you think it wouldn't be best they just ended it with the last film. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t care if they want to keep retelling his story. There are interesting things that happen when people do that.