HobbitFoot

@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen it a lot for over a decade. It is usually small businesses who did it since the cost to manage cash is almost zero. There was a reform bill which said that you couldn’t charge more for credit, but there wasn’t anything about giving a discount for cash.

  I’ve been seeing it more for places with large transactions because the 3% is meaningful for those businesses.

  Large companies don’t do it because credit is preferable for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does one become a entrepreneur?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Any business. All you need to do is identify something that you can sell for more than the cost that it takes you to make the thing you are selling.

  It can be a good or service, it doesn’t matter .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is America in the Wag The Dog territory because in the movie the pres was caught up in some sex stuff and fakes a war. Or am I just reading to much into our dipshit in Orange?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of it may be that. However, part of it seems to be that Trump is happy to look strong while others give the orders and now he’s surrounded by people who realize they can get Trump to agree to whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does one become a entrepreneur?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Start a business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No. They were put there for a reason in order to help me out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shares in trucking and logistics firms plunge after AI freight tool launch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. They likely equate LLM with all AI and a company with software which is more than just a chat bot gets lumped in with everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are we being distracted from?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does it happen when the law arrest a drug kingpin or whatever and they off the cops something like 10mil a piece to let him/her go? Has anyone ever actually taken it? Or is movie trope?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of Mexican cartels also have the silver or lead choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does it happen when the law arrest a drug kingpin or whatever and they off the cops something like 10mil a piece to let him/her go? Has anyone ever actually taken it? Or is movie trope?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean the 1 million in cash and 10 tons of coke?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was Rock 'n' Roll seen as the grooviest shit in the 50s when it's just averagely groovy (ie. unremarkable)?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What other contemporary music was as groovy?

  Most discussions of 50’s rock and roll tend to approach as being significant and revolutionary for its era instead of as a piece of work by itself.

  It is the Seinfeld is unfunny trope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It technically goes back to Roddenberry.

  First, Roddenberry still wrote the Federation as having some faults. A major plot point in Star Trek VI is that Starfleet is attempting a coup of the Federation to keep the cold war going. In early TNG, the Federation is seen as entertaining thing Data’s rights and allows a Federation colony to deteriorate to the level of drug wars.

  Roddenberry had also written a treatment for a post-Federation time where a Federation ship goes into the future and rebuilds the Federation from scratch. That show became Andromeda, but the concept ended up being used in Discovery and Starfleet Academy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it better to follow your parents footsteps and help them with their thriving small bussiness, but you have to deal with toxicity, or trying going your own way and risk homelessness?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Having read a lot of what you’ve recently written, I would work in your parents’ small business and train yourself to take it over.

  You’re struggling with a lot of issues that are preventing you from thriving and part of those issues are made worse by not being economically independent. That you’re pointing out that homelessness is a risk seems to indicate that you don’t have enough savings to pursue your own path to freedom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Starfleet Academy’ Episode 5 Trailer Reveals ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Connection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nog has been more highly regardrd outside of the wall than on it. He was considered to be capable as a captain both in STO and even in DS9 when they had some future episodes.

  I’m just noting the goddamn wall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that Galaxy’s Edge got descoped later in the design process while Eisner made decisions early on in the design process to ensure a cheaper park.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨people with ADHD self-medicate with amphetamine, overly sensitive empaths self-medicate with alcohol, what does people with OCD self-medicate with?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. From what I see, they generally self-medicate with energy drinks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Galaxy’s Edge feels emblematic about the issues of design under Iger versus Eisner.

  Eisner vastly expanded park capacity, but he didn’t just focus on E-ticket attractions. He intentionally built some parts of the parks to entertain but cheaper to add capacity and give people a place to be entertained if they didn’t want to wait in long lines.

  In contrast, most of Iger’s expansions were generally a lot more costly and didn’t have the throughout of previous E-ticket attractions. This ended up pushing Disney into being a more premium experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Starfleet Academy’ Episode 5 Trailer Reveals ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Connection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that promotions were given to other characters off screen, including Admiral Harry Kim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Starfleet Academy’ Episode 5 Trailer Reveals ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Connection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Earth has been known to keep Starbase 1 around for centuries and that space station has nowhere near the historic significance as Deep Space 9 did for Bajor.

  I doubt it would have been kept as the space station serving the Bajoran wormhole, but I could see it kept in the system preserved as a historic ship.

  That is of it didn’t blow up due to the Burn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Starfleet Academy’ Episode 5 Trailer Reveals ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Connection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on if the station survived that long bring operational and if it survived the Burn.

  I doubt that DS9 would be the main station serving the Bajoran wormhole even if it was preserved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Starfleet Academy’ Episode 5 Trailer Reveals ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Connection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That Nog is listed as a lieutenant…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like this is a symbol of the difference between the Eisner and the Iger CEO tenures. Eisner built out a massive expansion of the parks under his leadership, doubling the gates in Anaheim and Orlando while planning international expansion. Iger didn’t, choosing smaller expansions with premium experiences over capacity expansions.

  It is part of the reason that Universal has been able to grow so much, Disney doesn’t have the capacity that it needs to meet high end theme park demand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happend with the the new and old Borg after Picard season 2 and 3?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to watch out about that. Star Trek loves the Klingon like they love the Vulcans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the number of porn video websites now, I don’t think the cost of video hosting is the major issue.

  The bigger issue is likely having to moderate the site. Twitch focused on live streaming as a way to reduce exposure to copyrighted content and TikTok kept videos short enough that it could skate around fair use by not being able to air longer form copyrighted content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Minecraft able to be forced to put restrictions on online servers, but web browsers aren't held accountable for providing access to the web?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is also ability for external filtering.

  It is easy to buy additional software to restrict websites. That equipment doesn’t work for most video games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long does it take for pregnancy to become noticeable?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Big if true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s typical for most construction projects.

  If I’m going to build a building or a bridge, the number of people required to build is far more than the number of people required to maintain.

  It looks like we’re starting to hit the same issue with websites. You need a maintenance staff for websites, but no where near the level of staff required to build the thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible that the rich are so rich that they have created inflation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of.

  Due to historic low taxes for the wealthy, they have been able to use their capital to build on more capital, pushing up the value of assets.

  Rich people hoarding wealth is part of the reason why housing prices are so insane, but it isn’t the reason why groceries cost more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would look at how your peers would see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the first-born child in a family "mature" faster than the later-born children?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Older siblings usually mature faster because they are typically pushed to be responsible for younger siblings in some form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it true that in the US we are a low context culture and In France, they are high context culture? The video I'm going to attach explains the differences.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The NYC area is very low context and high volume. A lot of the rest of the Northeast is the same way.