Skyrmir
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- Comment on Day 5 of deliberations in Lindsay Clancy trial ends without verdict, jury remains deadlocked 6 hours ago:
I was close but substantially wrong. It was only 1 juror that was holding them up. I had my doubts that a single person would stand up to that much peer pressure.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 3 days ago:
I understand that since you’re working 400 less hours per year, with a months more vacation, and paid parental leave on a job that’s much more difficult to get fired on you might still have complaints.
But seriously, the tiny fractions of a problem that still exist in the Swedish labor market, wouldn’t even make rounding errors in the US. There are always going to be problems, and lots of arguments about how to fix them. Most people in the US, would much rather have Swedish labor market problems to argue about.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 3 days ago:
It was never implemented in the first place. What was intended never happened. Probably for the best honestly. Minimum wage is a poor way to accomplish a living wage, the only advantage it has, is political expediency.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 4 days ago:
It was never sustainable, it was a hack to keep people from demanding unions. There’s plenty of countries with no minimum wage and well paid workers. It takes strong unions and labor protection laws, which is why the fascists will fight it to the death.
- Comment on Jury goes home for the day after Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer asks to remove juror who ‘refuses to listen to the law’ 4 days ago:
They may as well just start planning the retrial now.
- Comment on Day 5 of deliberations in Lindsay Clancy trial ends without verdict, jury remains deadlocked 6 days ago:
I know nothing about this case except a few random headlines, but I’m betting it’s 2 or 3 jurors that have decided to ignore law and facts to just say no for some visceral reason.
- Comment on Was Reagan's second term like Douche In Chief second term? Where it was finally revealed Regan had full alzheimers for the majority of his second? Were there signs the public saw something wrong? 6 days ago:
That’s pretty much always been known. Otherwise we’d know what meds he was on.
- Comment on Was Reagan's second term like Douche In Chief second term? Where it was finally revealed Regan had full alzheimers for the majority of his second? Were there signs the public saw something wrong? 6 days ago:
Not really, there were a lot of people that suspected and rumored, but the press generally didn’t say much about it until Bush was president. The media was more concerned with the economy and Iran-Contra type issues, and didn’t talk about his health a lot. Late night hosts and comedians made jokes about his chin flaps, hair that never moved, and called him an animatronic or puppet. Not a lot about his mental state, other than disdain for his choices, not really health related. After it was publicly acknowledged there was of course a ton of ‘As we all long suspected’ type noises.
- Comment on Why is the world's "oldest profession" still illegal ? Instead of being better managed? 1 week ago:
Because it’s always accompanied by human trafficking and rape. Even in countries where it’s legal, the laws are shaped around an idea of allowing it, while preventing the worst aspects of it. The efficacy of various systems is still under review, as none of them are as effective as anyone would like.
It’s a similar issue with polygamy. No one really cares what a group of consenting adults gets up to, but it always ends up devolving into some ones twelve year old daughter being married off to an old geezer, or a cult leader, or both. So it ends up getting banned.
They’re both non problems that cause problems. And yes, a hundred ways to control the real problems have been tried. No one has really been happy with the results so far, there have just been various levels that local societies have decided to accept.
- Comment on Why is the approach to nudity and sex in films and tv so vastly different between the US and Europe? 1 week ago:
Federal Communications Commission - The US federal organization responsible for approving broadcast content since 1934.
- Comment on Who says romance is dead? 1 week ago:
Isn’t this the same state that had a naked knife wielding guy get in a fight with a naked knife wielding guy?
Nope wait, that was Seattle, my bad whole different state.
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 2 weeks ago:
First set of pills was $483 with insurance. Bought the refill as uninsured, it was $38.
Our insurance industry is so broken it’s really just unfathomable.
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 2 weeks ago:
My wife needs a surgery thats likely to cost 18 to 20 grand without insurance, and I have to do some really careful math to figure out if putting her on my insurance would actually save us anything.
Most likely flying to Mexico for a week to get it done would be cheaper too.
- Comment on Look, we're famous 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 👍 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
Not often enough, military bases are STD playgrounds.
- Comment on Housing prices 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 5 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Most of them aren’t even step siblings.
- Comment on Honestly...How She Do It?!? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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.