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- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 2 weeks ago:
The border with the ocean probably, humans love to live on the crust of the land
- Comment on You wanted the secret to getting rich? Here it is 4 weeks ago:
The $1m isn’t in cash… You forget that the average house price in London is around $900k, and for Sydney it’s $981k.
That means your pool for your car, furnishings, investments etc. are either minimal, or you have a mortgage, and definitely can’t live passively off $30-40k per year unless you’re living in cheaper than average housing (one would call this “not super wealthy”) and definitely not if you’re supporting a family.
- Comment on You wanted the secret to getting rich? Here it is 4 weeks ago:
Most, sure, but Europe, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and more are still a significant part of the world where $1M puts you firmly in the same “well-off and comfortable, but certainly not rich in the way billionaires are” territory you’d be in the US
Worldwide, I think it’s definitely safe to say most millionaires’ lifestyles are much closer to average than they are to billionaires’ (ie still having to make regular payments for housing, but mortgage rather than rent, and still having to perform most tasks for themselves rather than having PAs to do it for them)
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 4 weeks ago:
Would it though?
If the requirement is “worth paying 50% more for than the average worker” then instead of picking someone worse for cheaper at random then you’re making sure that only jobs where there likely isn’t an adequate supply for due to how bell curves work,
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 4 weeks ago:
The H1-B visa is fundamentally broken though, so you apply for just under 10x as many as you need and end up with the number you want, so it’s not Microsoft’s fault the US Government is actively encouraging importing cheaper, average employees by using a lottery rather than filtering based on “you must earn n% more than the median income in that sector” or a similar metric to avoid reducing wages for Americans and companies using them to cut costs…
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 4 weeks ago:
There’s no need to instantly hate on Christianity without further context. If you’re going to one of the cultish hate-spreading or profit-driven churches, sure, but there are also many community-focused denominations which are good to go to as a place you’ll be welcomed at a low point in your life. I don’t attend any and am not particularly religious, but I imagine if I felt truly alone and had nowhere else to turn that an Episcopal/Methodist/similar church would be quite high on the list of physical places it’d be good to go.
- Comment on Meta Takes Hard Line Against Europe's AI Rules 4 weeks ago:
That’s one interpretation and implementation of free speech. The EU define it as “freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.” which would be very easy to argue includes public authorities altering the legality of receiving and/or imparting information via AI.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 4 weeks ago:
They’re popular because they’re broadly appealing and inoffensive, so for people who are passionate about music they’re likely comparatively boring, whereas people who don’t really care about music aren’t going to go out of their way to support or defend them.
- Comment on Age + BUN = Lasix dose 5 weeks ago:
looks like a zoom + colour change of his left foot (on the right side of the image)?
- Comment on we are creators 1 month ago:
The problem is time.
You’re just considering human spaceflight. Keeping humans alive and more importantly sane for years is very different to sending a probe somewhere, and we’ve been getting better at the latter
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn confirms new ‘socialist alternative’ before next election to fight Starmer 1 month ago:
The Greens also have a terrible name, they’re a left wing party that don’t particularly care about environmental issues. Meanwhile the Lib Dems just stand for whatever the government doesn’t, which changes depending on who’s in power.
- Comment on Why does everyone hate Income tax ? 1 month ago:
Idk about you but if the government took 24% of my money I’d be ecstatic, currently it’s much closer to 55-60%, a too-big percentage of which goes on privatising profit and nationalising losses.
- Comment on Cursed 1 month ago:
there’s a gap on both, just in different places and you can get from one to the other just by sliding. The constraints are elsewhere so wouldn’t allow you to twist.
- Comment on I get scared of a girl who approached me 1 month ago:
So for context, I’m an asexual guy who had one girl in his classes at high school & went to a 75% male university on a course that was 94% male…
Right after graduating I had the same issues you’re describing, just from “new experiences” more than anything, but when you go out into the world and start interacting with people you’ll be fine - it’s somewhat normal especially if you didn’t have a drive to seek out women previously or even just didn’t have the self confidence to
Also though, that sounds like a bit of a weird interaction as an introvert anyway, I don’t think I’d have been super comfortable either way as I’d be expecting to be robbed or scammed or something, but if someone is expressing interest in something you’re passionate about then they very clearly want to hear about it, so just say things about it even if it’s cringe or not perfect
- Comment on :-) 2 months ago:
Infected road rash all up your right arm is so much worse too, and I imagine there’s probably worse things than that once you get into spinal pain
- Comment on Helpful guide 2 months ago:
everyone and their dog has texts come up on their wrist… texts can also be read a lot more discretely than picking up a phone call
That said, some things do warrant a phone call, it’s just very specific situations
- Comment on testing how this site handles videos 2 months ago:
Works fine on eternity
- Comment on Owners of second homes in Wales are having to sell up. That’s no disaster: it’s a godsend 2 months ago:
Why not just tax based on the number of homes, isn’t that a better idea?
If someone owns three £10M mansions, they’re potentially depriving two families of homes but way of scarsity, but frankly if you can afford a £10M mansion is it really an issue, as you’re not being deprived of a home?
If they instead own one £10M mansion and forty £200k flats/terraces, they’re potentially depriving forty families of homes and so should probably be charged twenty times as much to dissuade people from buying up the cheapest homes.
- Comment on I'm down with this 3 months ago:
Tinkering and DIY for days
- Comment on Who should america be more concerned about MS-13 or Russia? 3 months ago:
Threats to the US
A lapdog isn’t a threat except to reputation, even if they’re not on your side. Same reason North Korea isn’t on the list of threats.
- Comment on Notepad autocorrected what I was typing for my foreign language exercise 3 months ago:
That study is for notetaking though, as you copy verbatim when typing but more concisely when writing, making you process the information and not just the words.
When you’re doing something that requires thought anyway, you’re already processing the information so they’re equally good?
- Comment on Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World? 4 months ago:
I’m not convinced on this whole “things happening in Austria” malarkey, it sounds very unlikely
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
On the /s, I somewhat unironically agree woth that more than the case of just obtaining citizenship
- Comment on World travelers 4 months ago:
Yes, but for human related reasons. Humans moved them around a lot in Africa and Asia - moving them from Southeast Asia to India and Madagascar is bound to have an impact on the currents they get caught up in.
- Comment on Fucking hell 5 months ago:
No, 1-12 are influenced by the old base 12 Germanic/Norse system, which is why -teen starts at thirteen, same as in German (11: elf, 12: zwölf, 13: dreizehn, 14: vierzehn & so on)… The -teen for 1x in english is also a carryover from this, being threeten, fourten, fiveten etc. with only numbers over 20 having their orders reversed.
- Comment on You better say "Thank You"! 5 months ago:
Gemini and Copilot are often overly cautious with their guardrails on generating anything violent or misinformation, although super easy to bypass in most cases
- Comment on You better say "Thank You"! 5 months ago:
Images are a lot easier to create “good enough” generations of locally compared to text and video… I imagine the driving force is probably horny people like 99% of other innovations on in internet
- Comment on School is training for prison and wage slavery 5 months ago:
That’s a bit harsh, prison is a way nicer environment than school
- Comment on I left negative feedback on ebay for dropshipping and the seller has messaged me four days in a row asking me to change it 5 months ago:
It’s not evil, you’re providing a service by offering the product in a more familar environment to people, but still it’d be good to be transparent about it rather than pretending you’re the seller
- Comment on gottem 5 months ago:
Libertarian ≠ capitalist… It’s just a diet version of anarchism at its core which husters are trying to rebrand as being purely pro-business.
There’s even Libertarian Socialism