Skyrmir

@Skyrmir@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US solar industry downplays climate in strategy for Trump era⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Solar makes more power, for less money, than coal, while employing more people locally. There’s just no argument for more fossil fuels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keira Knightley Told ‘Love Actually’ Director on Set That Cue Card Scene Was ‘Creepy’ at 17 Years Old: I Had to ‘Redo It to Fix My Face to Make It’ Less Creepy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And her on screen husband was 25 or 26 at the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas commander - BBC News⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always said there are no good guys in the Israel/Palestine conflict. Just a whole lot of victims and angry people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is never a path for the speaker of the house to become vice president. Either the President and Vice President are dead and he’s president, or he’s still just the speaker.

  As others have pointed out, before or after the electoral count is completed, makes a minor difference. It would be interesting to watch it play out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What has Critical Theory actually achieved?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It has informed legislators that laws they otherwise might support, have racially biased flaws. That’s pretty much the sum total of it’s influence on anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Xhitter policy just dropped⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If he’s using AI scraping, we should set up bots that invent other Trump family members as orangutans. Also label all cat and dog photos as the opposite. All insect pictures labeled as republican or conservative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Withdrawal is going to make people go mad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The US still makes massive amounts of cotton. That all gets exported to other countries before getting turned into garments and things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Withdrawal is going to make people go mad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Coffee, tea, and everything you’re wearing right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard releases today, and players are celebrating the famous ‘Bioware Turn’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m waiting a month to see how public reception goes. Give the public a chance to marinate their response before I try it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There you go little guy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno if you’ve tried, but I’m here to tell ya, cobble stone streets will absolutely stop speeding really quick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinion: Increasing the minimum wage comes at too high a price for workers | CNN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except the people that elect it’s leaders, which would be the employees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinion: Increasing the minimum wage comes at too high a price for workers | CNN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A union is only beholden to the employees rather than management.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinion: Increasing the minimum wage comes at too high a price for workers | CNN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Minimum wage is a crappy way to improve wages. The better option are well regulated trade and labor unions, and mandatory labor representation. But since this is America, we’ve got a minimum wage, and that’s about the best we’re going to get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why no one wants to host the Olympics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop hosting them and set up a permanent Olympic village in Greece with international funding. Standardized facilities and courses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who was in the wrong here?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure it depends on local jurisdiction. In some places the shop owner would be required to call the police to trespass someone. In others, the owner of the property has nearly the physical authority of a home owner in removing people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long would it take to create a Pyramid⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be impossible to build today by any means. Not because of any technological problem. Physically it could be done rather quickly, as others have posited. The problem is that you could never combine the political and economic will to complete it.

  It’s the same reason it would be easier to colonize Mars than to fix climate change. There’s a half dozen robots on Mars that will do whatever you tell them. On Earth, there’s 7 billion assholes who think they have a better idea of what to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the way⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t bother, if they can’t leave a message, you didn’t want to talk to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Received Millions From Foreign Governments as President, Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you noticed the NRA is having money problems ever since they busted the Russian girl they were renting out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Financial stress. Go take a closer look at the crime stats that right wing racists like to hammer the black community with. Then adjust them for poverty rates in the community. All of a sudden the racial divide in violent crime goes away. If anything, poor white men are the most violent, but not by enough to really be significant. The driving factor, by around 10 or 15 to 1, is poverty.

  We’re seeing declining standards of living across the country, while technology is hides the true depths of it. The whole, you can’t be poor if you have a wide screen TV and a refrigerator, is almost true. It’s just enough to make it look like having no bargaining power, being locked into your zip code, buried in debt, and renting everything you own, somehow represents wealth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Those kids are playing in the market the Boomers created and set the rules for, before they were ever born.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As a political block, they’ve had control of our housing market for around 40 years now. The changes they made, and problems they ignored, for those decades have caused the problems we have today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you currently handle Covid infections?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Schools are far too based on attendance, and often legally can only count kids with a butt in their seat at school. Even into college, progress is based more on appearance than ability.

  It leads to crappy teaching, and draconian absence policies.

  To be fair, forcing kids into school drastically cuts down on child abuse. So there is a logic behind it, just taken a bit too far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuck netflix and their fucking clickbait sex thumbnails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re playing on the latent puritanism in US culture. The only reason it’s done is because it pushes peoples buttons and draws interest. The other options are what you see over seas, where either free speech is harshly curtailed, or people get over it, and advertisers stop because it doesn’t cause concerned citizens to lose their shit any more.