HobbitFoot
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- Comment on Why doesn't Daredevil just get 'good' rich people to pay off judges and the anti-vigilante task force police, or get them to make sure Fisk doesn't get into office? 6 days ago:
I don’t think he has the contacts to do that. Daredevil is generally considered a small super hero, he works in Manhattan only and didn’t generally run in the same social circles as the Tony Starks of the world.
It also potentially puts him into a compromising position. What happens if the billionaire wants something to happen that will harm Daredevil’s community?
- Comment on Why do we have alcohol advertisements. We don't allow cigarettes to advertise 2 weeks ago:
A few reasons.
First, the alcohol industry has been a lot more sensitive to being perceived as selling to kids than the tobacco industry was. Because of it, there was never the push to ban advertising and conduct a mass media effort to control teen drinking as there was teen smoking.
Second, people still remember prohibition in the USA and how it was a failure. So, you’ve got a lot of people worried about a slippery slope in comparison to tobacco.
Third, the alcohol industry is far better at lobbying around specific items that would actually prevent consumption. For instance, alcoholic beverages don’t need to show nutritional information. It will bend in a way that keeps access open.
- Comment on Why do we have alcohol advertisements. We don't allow cigarettes to advertise 2 weeks ago:
The law is different in different parts of the world. In some parts of the world, alcohol can only be purchased in specialty stores. In other parts, it can be bought effectively anywhere.
In line with OP’s question, CVS made a big deal about banning the sale of tobacco in all its pharmacies a decade ago, saying it could not sell tobacco products and be a health care provider at the same time. However, in some states, a CVS will have rows of alcohol for sale because it is legal to sell there.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 2 weeks ago:
The US isn’t going to get that trust back that it had before.
- Comment on Why is the US so into Israel? 2 weeks ago:
The Suez Crisis was the last major diplomatic action that the USA took against Israel, with the USA using its ownership of British and French debt to keep the Suez Canal Egyptian. After that, Israel invested a lot help shape the perception of Israel to Americans and invested in several pro-Israeli candidates in both parties through AIPAC and other means. It worked well.
- Comment on Should I tell my dad that his mistake almost cost me a fortune? 2 weeks ago:
What would you do if he wasn’t your dad? What if it was another employee that made a mistake like this?
Even though he is your dad, he is also your employee in this case. If your relationship with him is healthy, this should be something you two can work through in both family and in business.
- Comment on How do I drink more water? 2 weeks ago:
Have you tried various sources of water? I can usually taste the difference between various bottled waters, let alone tap water from different places. Maybe you don’t like the local tap water.
- Comment on Why is classy and fancy being called "Old Money aesthetic" 3 weeks ago:
Old money isn’t about money, but class.
- Comment on Is Vladimir Putin a good and professional leader? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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; 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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"? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
But who gets to play Gunter?
- Comment on Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends 4 weeks ago:
That’s implied in the use of men as a descriptor.
- Comment on Why don’t tech bros wear suits? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 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? 5 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 5 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? 5 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? 5 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.