HobbitFoot
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- Comment on How do you fight abandonment issues when people keep abandoning you 7 hours ago:
Breaking up with someone doesn’t require a well thought out argument, it can just be a deep feeling that the relationship can’t continue. You also will never get the full mindset of what the other person was thinking when they broke up with you.
And in the end, a breakup doesn’t mean you’re a bad person, but that the two of you may not be a good match. And that is fine.
- Comment on How come most celebs/influencers go broke with in a short amount of time earning a couple million? Why not invest in local stores or offer money for a percentage of said store why not perpetualy money 21 hours ago:
For a lot of people, money isn’t a number but an on/off switch. Self control in choosing to not buy something isn’t developed, so people who come into money start spending extravagantly since they don’t have the economic limitations keeping their spending in check.
There is also social pressure to spend, since that person is likely surrounded by others with the same mindset.
- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 2 days ago:
A good chunk of early undergraduate education was designed as a filter for students. Can students, in a system that doesn’t care if they fail, make it through the system? A lot of the rest of it was leadership training with some technical classes bolted on.
- Comment on If you're fond of restoring 30-year-old PCs, but then you see some old PC parts being obliterated by scrappers just to get small pitiful pinches of gold. 2 days ago:
There can still be value in some old things like maintaining old equipment or preserving old media. The demand may have collapsed, but it didn’t collapse to zero.
- Comment on Why do pot or other drug dealers "lace" their drugs knowing full well it will pretty much kill their customer base and rep? Is this not like a retail store telling customers everyday FUCK YOU and hope 2 days ago:
Pot is rarely laced.
Harder drugs typically have some form of dilution because it is worth it to stretch supply.
The only recent lacing I can think of is fentanyl, which was generally used in pre-existing opioids.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 3 days ago:
Adding to what everyone else said, stores commonly sell loss leaders as a way to get people into the store to sell goods with higher margins. Part of the reason why there are so many food deserts in the USA is because stores like Dollar General will sell higher margin stable goods at a lower cost. This means grocery stores who rely on those profits to sell fresh produce and meat can’t compete, going out of business.
- Comment on Question, Star Trek fans: What makes Captain Kirk a good leader? 3 days ago:
Show era, he’s shown to be a competent captain able to make decent strategic decisions. For instance, in the episode with the cloaking Romulan Bird of Prey, Kirk creates a battle plan which is able to take advantage of deficiencies in his foe’s ship. He’s also seen caring about making sure the crew goes into battle prepared, constantly drilling the crew so they are more responsive when time matters. Kirk is also shown as able to make hard personnel decisions which end up being right in the end. Kirk takes risks and is somewhat aggressive in playing a weak hand, but that is why he was put in command. SNW even has an episode showing that Kirk’s command is better suited to certain situations over Pike.
Movie era, Kirk isn’t as good of a captain. His crew bungle safety so bad it kills his science officer. Kirk’s rash decisions get people killed when dealing with Khan. His crew shows wild incompetence which kills a Klingon Chancellor.
It is interesting how different the character is between the shows and the movies.
- Comment on Does importing goods from abroad alone really void sales tax? 4 days ago:
So there are two different kinds of sales taxes, the value added tax and a retail sales tax.
You’re generally never getting out of paying a value added tax since it is incorporated as part of people and corporations doing business. Dove countries allow for refunds up to a certain amount for tourists, but it is baked into the price.
A retail sales tax is a lot more complicated in enforcement. Selling to a business can mean you don’t have to pay the sales tax. There are also smaller groups that don’t get the attention of local tax officials when selling goods, so they don’t charge the retail sales tax. Most large websites will typically charge the buyer’s local sales tax, but it isn’t uniform for smaller vendors.
Importing to the USA has also gotten more complicated as a lot of the minimums on import duties are gone.
- Comment on when people on here tell me to diversify my posts: 5 days ago:
I need to join a union…
- Comment on What's the weirdest argument you've gotten into with someone? 5 days ago:
Someone stated in a Reddit post that being a hero requires that person to take an action that requires self sacrifice. I replied that, if this was the case, the people who fought back on Flight 93 weren’t heroes because they were talking a selfish action in fighting back.
There were a lot of knee jerk reasons to that.
- Comment on What happens to flies when you let them fly out the window of a car at 75 mph? 5 days ago:
A fly has a low terminal velocity, below 20 mph. This is good for a fly if it is dropped from a skyscraper. However, that isn’t happening here.
In the air, the fly is going to rapidly slow down as it leaves the turbulent wake of the car. While I expect the insect to live, it will likely be stunned as the air hits it. That also assumes there are no other cars on the road for the fly to hit.
- Comment on If a revolution started tomorrow in the US to get rid of Trump, could the majority of society use hit and run tactics successfully? Or what would be the tactics the rebels would use? 1 week ago:
It depends who is fighting back.
- Comment on How much of it is society is collapsing versus the daily on-goings of the ruling class was so obscure that they were easier to ignore? 1 week ago:
We’ve been heading towards a time that a lot of leaders knew would require change and reform but didn’t. This has made the required reform to be more drastic, creating greater resistance.
It seems to be so bad that a lot of elites are just betting on collapse without understanding what they’ll lose.
- Comment on As a Chinese American, if I wanna travel internationally, is it better to just say I'm American, or pretend to be a Chinese National (to hide from Anti-American sentinments)? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I can see that criticism.
Part of the problem is that a lot of Americans aren’t used to being in cities, which becomes an issue when they have to move around an urban environment. A lot of the same issues of not knowing for to be in a city appear in tourists visiting NYC.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Until Reddit sends your account information to your neighbors, it is functionally anonymous to a lot of people, which is what I was getting at in the comparison to Facebook.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It does; it’s called Facebook.
The issue with Reddit over Facebook and smaller forums is that Reddit allows for anonymity while still providing access to a variety of various communities at mostly the discretion of the user. This is very hard to moderate, so Reddit found out a way to get free labor from users. Even then, Reddit has had issues with communities giving it negative press that has caused intervention several times.
And, I don’t think people here appreciate this, but the is over a decade’s worth of work in spam prevention and other tools developed to keep Reddit from being worse. Hell, the fight about API access was because mods were losing some of the tools they had.
So why isn’t anyone trying to copy Reddit like Twitter? No one wants to be responsible for the mess in moderation.
- Comment on Even Silicon Valley Says that AI Is a Bubble 2 weeks ago:
If it weren’t for the bubble, we’d already be in a recession.
- Comment on Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public? 2 weeks ago:
I’m taking about default behavior. 20+ years ago, the default phone call was pushing a piece of technology against an ear an next to your mouth. That hasn’t been the default for a while.
- Comment on Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public? 2 weeks ago:
Probably how children were raised to speak to people over the phone.
Until the iPhone, I can’t think of too many personal phones that could put the call on speaker. So, if families with kids called other family, it was usually a form of one on one calls where people handed the phone off between each other. Nowadays, the default option is to put the call on speaker so everyone can hear everyone else. That set an expectation to where calls are on speaker unless there is a need for privacy.
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 2 weeks ago:
Part of it not said in any of the other answers is that schools are managed at a very local level and get a significant amount of their funding through local taxes. So, you get a lot of towns that don’t have the local tax base to raise revenue or you have a local tax base where the wealthy few would rather pay for private school than the taxes to pay for a better public school.
The problem with organized labor in this case is that the organized labor is generally fighting the government and a lot of states don’t want an effective union network getting built or spreading.
- Comment on What the fuck is going on with Iran and what will happen next? 2 weeks ago:
As for “what will happen next”, the USA seems to want a cease fire and Iran is tired of getting bombed randomly, so Iran is going to close the Strait of Hormuz until it can get a better deal that means something. Israel and the USA don’t seem to want to make that kind of deal.
So Iran is going to start a recession by restricting oil supply for the rest of the world to get the rest of the world to intervene or to get that agreement from the USA and Israel.
This will likely last until November, when the midterm election is supposed to happen. Trump wasn’t popular already. A recession caused by military action is going to get a lot of people pissed. That recession will likely pop the AI bubble, both due to a loss of market liquidity and increased energy prices fueling AI.
- Comment on From Iran to Ukraine, everyone's trying to hack security cameras 2 weeks ago:
“In these two wars, security cameras are being hacked as a way to gain intelligence”
Fixed the headline.
- Comment on ‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. These quotes from Londoners before compulsory education show how bad it was:
- Comment on Imagine Losing Your Job to the Mere Possibility of AI 2 weeks ago:
I think it is the future, but the future is much slower getting here than people think and will likely be more bespoke than dumping the entire written contents of the English language into a computer.
- Comment on Glorious cracked out wall kitten returns with more wisdom for the masses. 2 weeks ago:
This policy is coming in a lot of industries. The idea is that if you need to evacuate or get someone to the hospital, it is faster and less prone to causing an accident.
- Comment on Why are people like my grandpa so against seeing the whole world and learning a different language? 2 weeks ago:
he says “Why can’t you just stay here?” or “Why can’t you visit this country first?”
Just straight up ask him why. He may not have an answer he wants to vocalize, but it puts him in a position where he may have to try internally.
A lot of fear of immigrants comes from the fear of the unknown, which likely corresponds with his fear of you traveling to foreign countries.
- Comment on I just want juice, is that so much to ask? 2 weeks ago:
Some juices aren’t sweet enough on their own, cranberries being a major example. For those juices, some sweetener is added.
If the consumer doesn’t care, it is high fructose corn syrup because it is cheap. If consumers do care, they will claim it is 100% juice and use apple juice as the sweetener since apple juice is relatively cheap and neutral tasting.
- Comment on People who grew up with Vietnam and the Cold War, is Iran going to be the new vietnam or just a semi cool war? 2 weeks ago:
Technically, the US has the stomach for the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.
The problem right now is that the current policy goals for the war don’t match the current use of force occurring. I don’t see Iran capitulating without an invasion and Trump is likely going to need some sort of Congressional authorization or funding to continue the war.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 3 weeks ago:
Why aren’t the old Apollo designs being reused for a moon landing? (by either the Americans or the Chinese)
If you want to address this question, show him some videos about Boeing and Airbus and how they can’t bring back airplane models they stopped production on because of massive supply chain issues. See if your friend is willing to accept that they can’t bring back the 747, for instance.
If this is a problem for aircraft, it is likely also a problem for spacecraft.
- Comment on Star Trek has more to offer or it has to end and stop producing more content? 3 weeks ago:
The closest that I get to watching pure Star Trek content is some videos of Lore Reloaded.
Even then, his content isn’t so much about the current Star Trek but more going into politics and military theory of the Federation.