Skyrmir
@Skyrmir@lemmy.world
- Comment on Look, we're famous 1 day ago:
Never had my neighborhood on a cop show, but I have lived near multiple school shootings. Does that count?
- Comment on Drowning in grid scale batteries 2 days ago:
The US produces 200GWh of batteries per year total, and is projected to reach 4-500 in the near future with new construction coming on line, and large portions of that ear marked for grid scale storage. So it’s probably a couple decades to accomplish the whole project, maybe less if we really push.
- Comment on You can do it 👍 6 days ago:
I was gonna say, I can’t afford cocaine, so I don’t think I could handle all that.
- Comment on Does the military do regular STD tests? 1 week ago:
Not often enough, military bases are STD playgrounds.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
The biggest reason is the number of households grew far faster than the number of houses. In constrained areas the number of households tripled, while the number of houses grew 20%. There’s no financial reform that fixes that. In remote areas cheap financing and increasing costs for construction are the largest factors.
There’s no single fix to home prices being insane. It’s going to take multiple reforms, and time for markets to adjust, plus homes to be constructed.
- Comment on Beans 1 week ago:
Never sit on the electric fence.
- Comment on Is there a point to the Straight Of Hormuz? What is the difference between the Iranians having it than the US? What does it mean for the average joe in either country? 1 week ago:
Homuz is an inflation dial for the planet. Squeeze the channel and inflation goes up. Right now it doesn’t seem so bad, because China decided to flex their own oil reserves. That’s the reason the US doesn’t have $5-$6 a gallon gas right now. Until shipping is moving in Hormuz again, China still has the option to make that happen. And they might, depending on how dipshit Donny talks about them.
The only difference between Iran or the US controlling Hormuz, for the average Joe is what crazy bastard gets to hold the inflation dial.
Also there’s a very long delay on some of the affects. Food prices are going to get real sketchy around the world this winter and going into next year.
- Comment on We all told him it would be safer to just take his car rather than using the bus parked in front of the bar 2 weeks ago:
Is it a tiny bus or a huge otter?
- Comment on Ryan Gosling ‘Had The Vision’ For The MCU’s Ghost Rider, Says Kevin Feige 3 weeks ago:
I feel like we need an animated series or something to actually build an audience for another Ghost Rider, before we do yet another remake.
Or you know, maybe something new? That’d be crazy though.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 3 weeks ago:
She defeated the Chairman of the Democratic Conference by taking his seat in an upset victory. She did it by bringing out the populist left, which absolutely terrified establishment Dems, who would rather let the country burn than move an inch to the left.
- Comment on My world has just been shattered 3 weeks ago:
Most of them aren’t even step siblings.
- Comment on Honestly...How She Do It?!? 3 weeks ago:
It’s illegal to touch the manatee. They’re about the least dangerous large animal on the planet, but honestly impressive she could get a hold of one. They don’t move fast often, but they really can jet when they want to.
- Comment on Can anyone confirm? 3 weeks ago:
Another form of generational wealth being locked in for generations? As good a theory as any I can think of.
- Comment on Can anyone confirm? 3 weeks ago:
Same thing with a lot of ‘large’ cities in the US. The city seems absolutely huge, but in reality it’s just a part of the metro area around it. Makes me wonder how New York and LA got so big without being a collection of a dozen smaller towns, even though they both have lots of surrounding suburbs of course.
- Comment on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should run for president 4 weeks ago:
She’d likely lose a primary to Ossoff. Even if she won the primary, she has Hillary levels of hate from the GoP, but doesn’t have the wide range of appeal among the Dems. We can’t assume the GoP will be in disarray after Trump. They have all the billionaires already gaming out the next election, with every bit of AI help they can get. Their turn out is going to be substantial no matter who the nominee is. Meaning whoever the Dems nominate, they have to be able to bring out the whole tent.
The real problem is also that if she goes after the WH in '28 she’s unlikely to win, but would lose her house seat in the process. Making it an overall loss for everyone. She could take the NY Senate seat easily, then have a solid position to take the WH later on.
End of the day, if she’s on the ticket, I’d have no problem voting for her. But I’m also a tiny niche of a demographic. So it wouldn’t mean shit unless she can bring out the moderates as well as the left, and a solid chunk of independents.
- Comment on Gen Z is increasingly turning to trade schools in hopes of future-proofing their careers against A.I. But getting their parents and peers on board can be a challenge. 4 weeks ago:
If a plumber shows up to your house driving a sports car, you can’t afford them.
- Comment on Gen Z is increasingly turning to trade schools in hopes of future-proofing their careers against A.I. But getting their parents and peers on board can be a challenge. 4 weeks ago:
All I know is my coworker had to find a different plumber because the last one showed up in a corvette. And I’m pretty sure my uncle put a general contractors kids through college, and a trip to Hawaii.
- Comment on How to fly from the US to the UK as a duel citizen? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a trick question, dueling is no longer legal in the US.
- Comment on I say this as an ex-coder, but is it possible to ask for a paper ballot instead of using the stupid machines when voting? 4 weeks ago:
One advantage of mail in voting, is that it always uses a paper ballot.
Not having a paper trail, is strongly being pushed by one party.
- Comment on I say this as an ex-coder, but is it possible to ask for a paper ballot instead of using the stupid machines when voting? 4 weeks ago:
Last I knew, it might depend on your individual voting district too. Some places are still implementing over time.
- Comment on what's the deal with Data centers and why do we all of a sudden need massive ones built all over everywhere? 5 weeks ago:
The current model of AI known as LLMs have a direct relationship between how well they work, and how much computational power you can put behind them. More computers = more smarter.
Remember how every major tech company since forever has been sitting on just stupid amounts of cash? All of a sudden, they all had a thing that if they spent more money on, it would get more better. And all of them are betting the one that spends the most, is going to win capitalism.
Meanwhile, China has been sitting back waiting to undercut all of them. Because at the end of the day, the AI war is a production war, and China already won that title years ago.
- Comment on Same-Sex Couple Sues Surrogate After She Refuses To Abort Baby With Cleft Lip 5 weeks ago:
Because it’s not about abortion, the child wasn’t aborted, the law suit wasn’t about the request to abort, it was over the home birth, and most likely the adoptive parents abusing the court to recoup their costs.
It’s a bullshit take, by a slanted propaganda site trying to pump out rage bait.
- Comment on Christian family takes fight to DC embassy after government seizes daughters over 'religious extremism' 5 weeks ago:
Is there an actual credible source for this story? Everywhere I can find anything about it is either a copy of a copy or an editorial about a copy. And no credible news agency in the US or EU seems to have written anything about it at all.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 5 weeks ago:
I just tell them it doesn’t work on my system.
- Comment on Which gun would you use in a shtf scenario if AI went rogue 1 month ago:
A microwave oven emitter and a DIY wave guide.
- Comment on Why do presidents *cough* Trump use the VA? When has a shit reputation in mental facilities and other things? 1 month ago:
To be fair, the right wing war on the VA has made it a spotty resource. Some facilities have outstanding care, some make you wonder if it’s safe to enter.
- Comment on Can someone make sense of this chemical? 2 months ago:
Cyclam?
- Comment on creativity 2 months ago:
Regardless of AI, anything you create will be stolen from yoy by corporations that already control the market.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Our government spends more on healthcare than anyone else as well.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
The US spends more on Healthcare than Europe, or anyone else. We just get worse care for it.