HobbitFoot
@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
Reddit refuge
- Comment on Anon calls in for financial advice 3 hours ago:
Unless you are dying with millions, inheritance tax is nothing.
- Comment on Anon calls in for financial advice 3 hours ago:
The problem is when you spend your last dollar but still are breathing.
- Comment on Have Americans always been this stupid? 5 hours ago:
Long term, Americans have been bad at making idiots feel shame for their idiocy. There is less of a societal push to make people conform to societal pressure. On one end, this leads to great creative freedom for artists. On the other end, it creates the born again movement.
Medium term, LBJ oversaw the collapse of economic leftism as he was trying to include civil rights legislation and the Vietnam War. This lead to the stagnation of American salaries, but it took a while for people to notice that quality of life wasn’t improving for everyone. Also, conservatives realized they could create parallel media in a way to control public sentiment.
Short term, the Great Recession and COVID made it clear that quality of life wasn’t as bulletproof as people thought. As a response, some people want to bring back “the good old days”, not realizing/remembering that the good old days had a lot of bad to it that was covered up.
- Comment on George Clooney: "I'm Not Doing Romantic Films Anymore" 17 hours ago:
Or Clooney’s character in Up In The Air ends up retiring in Florida, making him a very eligible bachelor.
- Comment on We Shouldn’t Have to Work This Hard 23 hours ago:
I feel like there are a few things not noted in the article:
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The relative economic value of labor has dropped significantly as the developing world has developed and the developed world has seen greater labor participation. Efficiency rose, but so did the supply.
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The supply of housing has not not kept up as part of the economy, especially low income housing. The lack of housing supply generally drives wages up in economically productive areas, making it so we have to work longer.
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- Comment on How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals? 1 day ago:
It depends on the systems of alliances and international commitments against a first strike. For instance, the Iran-Iraq War went on for several years and included the deployment of chemical weapons. I’m pretty sure that a nuclear exchange would be tolerated.
- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 2 days ago:
It depends on how the standard was made, with the decisions generally made to fit specific reasons and no overarching standard.
There are also clothes that use more than one number. A lot of mens pants use two numbers; the same with formal mens shirts.
- Comment on Will We See Restrucutred UN in Near Future? 4 days ago:
Only if the wreckage of World War III can do so.
- Comment on Sony, which is making a Helldivers 2 movie, is also making a new Starship Troopers movie, but it's not based on the Starship Troopers movie we already have 1 week ago:
Verhoeven made the choice to make the movie a farce because he realized that making the movie serious would likely be interpreted as saying nice things about Nazis.
- Comment on Are you annoyed by lemmy crossposts? 1 week ago:
No, mainly because they are very different communities that are posting the same article.
- Comment on Why hasn't video quality improved much over the past ten years? 1 week ago:
Yep. There are already systems designed to watch and play back 8k video at home, but it is largely seen as not worth the expense of implementing the system.
- Comment on Nothing against disabled people but how come I can't replace my arm with something augmented that can carry more weight? Also other parts? My disabled bro asked me this and got me thinking 1 week ago:
I don’t think the technology is there yet where artificial would routinely beat physical.
- Comment on Happy Pi Day!! 1 week ago:
That is the mandate for all date structures that I can control.
- Comment on Sony launches new version of the best cheap 4K Blu-ray player that drops the streaming tech – but the price looks odd 1 week ago:
Yeah. Part of me wonders how much of a premium that making a TV dumb would be and if there is a large enough market that would buy into it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Real estate developers aren’t going to be able help you with the lack of information, but there are things you can do to choose a decent site to develop.
- Is your site near transportation?
- Is your site easy to build on with easy connections to utilities?
- What restrictions does your land have to development?
If you’re planning on a 30 year investment, I’d look to see if your region has a long term development plan. If so, buy land near a planned highway or commuter rail. If farm land is not protected, buy farms and offer to charge cheap rent to the current tenants. If a road is built, look into seeing how you can get buses to your site. If rail is built, try to be close to the station.
- Comment on Happy Pi Day!! 1 week ago:
It was a joke.
- Comment on Happy Pi Day!! 1 week ago:
What’s the 22nd month of the year?
- Comment on Dead reddit theory 💀 1 week ago:
It is also the case of asking if an account is a bot account where you can’t tell after a quick glance of their history. There are ways of dealing with spam accounts, but there isn’t a way to deal with bot accounts that aren’t blatant spam.
- Comment on What's wrong with a technocracy? 1 week ago:
You can have a somewhat non-corrupt technocracy still make poor decisions that don’t serve the public’s interest.
For instance, a lot of the mid century highways in the USA was planned, designed, and built by technocrats.
- Comment on Dead reddit theory 💀 1 week ago:
As shit as Reddit is, there isn’t any built in failsafe for Lemmy.
- Comment on YouTube trials DRM on all videos served to TVs (yt-dlp Github issue) 1 week ago:
For YouTube, it isn’t so much destroying good faith rather than preventing a competitor from forming with enough traction to threaten YouTube’s business model.
- Comment on How did you get your job? 2 weeks ago:
He was a good boss, but it is likely that I could have done this at any other company.
- Comment on Anon is smarter than a genius 2 weeks ago:
And then lead the design team that created the implementation of touchscreens that became standard.
- Comment on What is your bath mat situation? 2 weeks ago:
It is a rug I bought from Turkey. It works rather well.
- Comment on How did you get your job? 2 weeks ago:
Boss left the company we both worked at. About nine months later, I hated my new boss and wanted to quit; he offered me a job.
I’ve risen through the ranks since then.
- Comment on David Bowie Criticizes MTV for Not Playing Videos by Black Artists | MTV News 2 weeks ago:
They became commercials for the record over time, but there was a few years in the early 80’s where labels didn’t understand a music video’s value.
- Comment on Anon is smarter than a genius 2 weeks ago:
I’m not saying Jobs was a genius, but he was skilled at leading product design teams that turned cutting edge hardware to practical applications that the market could understand.
And, in general, the market over the past few years has seen little hardware innovation.
- Comment on David Bowie Criticizes MTV for Not Playing Videos by Black Artists | MTV News 2 weeks ago:
Part of the reason that New Wave became big in the early 80’s is because New Wave bands came from more affluent beginnings, so those bands could afford to make music videos at a time when they were relatively rare.
- Comment on Anon is smarter than a genius 2 weeks ago:
Eh, I feel like Jobs was in charge when he could create new products.
Outside of a different Apple Watch launch, I don’t see Jobs really having the ability to create new innovative products.
- Comment on What does “PhD-level” AI mean? OpenAI’s rumored $20,000 agent plan explained. 2 weeks ago:
The funny thing in my field is that real life PhD’s tend to be worse than Masters-level staff because they’ve gone so far into theory that they have problems with practical application.