HobbitFoot

@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts??⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of companies are like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve done it before in the USA. My guess is that they want to push their non-English offerings, which is something they’ve only focused on recently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I LIKE CORN!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ORDER CORN

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Except that spammers can curate that set of posts and comments similar to legit users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Semiconductor industry could short out as copper runs dry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Recycling copper is already cheaper than mining a lot of cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is also a lot more driving in the USA, even in a decent transit area like Chicago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When does Trump finally start taking accountability?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but it is a question of whether his base will believe him or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The same way people can learn to dance while reading a book.

• What is the Staten Island of Paris?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millionaire homeowners sued the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, arguing a 10 square mile town whose new zoning plan to increase density had no plan to expand the roads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The City of Charlottesville has a master plan which includes infrastructure upgrades and expanding their business network.

  charlottesville.gov/…/Transit-Strategic-Plan-TSP

  It sounds like the people suing don’t want to ride the bus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because you need a justification for the higher price. Without the update cycle, flagship phones would likely need to be cheaper to sell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone hate Income tax ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of working and middle class people don’t understand how tax brackets work and a lot of upper class people don’t have a financial incentive to correct the working and middle class.

  Also, a lot of upper class people have shifted their income from wages to capital gains, which has a lower effective tax rate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Xbox should be running a division that looks very similar to Steam. Hell, I have an alt history in my head where Microsoft pushes streaming forward by years using the Xbox for leverage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The USA has never had an event to make Americans from shame for the country. It isn’t like the USA hasn’t done shameful acts, but there hasn’t been a reconging of what the country has done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who discovered/"invented" fire?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, where do you thing Bob got it from?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How differently would have information technology developed if most of the world were under authoritarian regimes instead of liberal democracies? Would encryption have been more restricted?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If a networked system of computers existed, it would probably look a more like Minitel and be very tightly controlled. I would expect that all computer communication would be available to be reviewed by various government agencies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can it take months to get over being laid off?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people said depression, but instead I want to focus on something else.

  For your new job, you talked about how the work is similar, but how do you feel about your new job? Do you have a similar friend network of coworkers? How is your boss compared to your last one? Is the company culture the same or different. I ask because there are a lot of intangibles to a job that may not seem obvious, and the new job may not be as tuned for you as the last one.

  Regarding fatigue and lack of desire currently, did you feel these feelings when you were unemployed? Were you working on a limited amount of energy before going to work? Were there cases where you would feel this loss of energy while out of work and looking for a job?

  You are focusing on being unemployed, but the issue may be the new job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Recently, I’ve been playing a lot of Brotato. However, there is no story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corruption fetishists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One has less squishy noises than the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people used to be miserable in families and relationships. Now they can be miserable alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can an American go to Europe just for cheaper healthcare?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but the best deals are likely in Eastern Europe. Also, if you do this, you will need to pay cash. However, it might be cheaper/easier than in the USA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that wealth inequality in the USA has an age component.

  Boomers are far wealthier than previous generations at their equivalent age as a percentage of national wealth. They are also incredibly sensitive to taxes as their retirement depends on managing wealth.

  In contrast, Gen X and millennials are poorer than Boomers at their equivalent age and mainly contribute to the economy with their labor.

  It isn’t a perfect divide, but there is a wealth divide that represents itself somewhat as a generational divide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soon you will be dealing with this at your supermarket check out shaming you to "donate"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And honestly, the cashier doesn’t deserve hearing the rest of it unless they ask why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is U2 considered "grunge?"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they are nonsense, but they better fit the work rather than the artist. Artists shift genres all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is U2 considered "grunge?"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Michael Jackson is disco.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is U2 considered "grunge?"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh. I’d give them Alternative Rock. The thing that would likely classify them as pop is that they were so famous for a part of their career.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ask for the comparison in excess deaths comparison of vaccinated versus unvaccinated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. I’d argue the dot com bust was worse due to the quantity of websites that died because they didn’t actually have a business model.

  What we’re seeing is a tech industry where all the tech is on the right side of the S curve and trying one last stab at a technology that may be on the left side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But it isn’t about creating quality results. It is about creating good enough results where the cost of failure in AI over humans is lower than the cost of humans over AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This has been Silicon Valley’s MO for generations.