MystikIncarnate
@MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
Some IT guy, IDK.
- Comment on Why is the word "expat" a thing? 1 day ago:
I call any non-native citizen (anyone not born in my country) an import.
Like beer.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 1 day ago:
Oh, I’m specifically saying that the workers do a good job of assembling all the parts to make your coffee.
So I think we’re saying the same thing with different terms.
To be fair, I think your wording is more clear.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 3 days ago:
That fits. Just like Android, Starbucks coffee is well made, by someone who isn’t you.
The quality of the final product is still in question though.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 3 days ago:
IMO, probably Gentoo, but compiled from source.
And the last time you recompiled the kernel was, at most, 3 days ago.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 3 days ago:
Okay, I have a Keurig for convenience but I prefer to make my coffee using a method that isn’t described here.
If you’re wondering, I prefer the French press.
- Comment on But yes. 3 days ago:
Those have been researched and tested for decades and the tech still hasn’t caught on. They just don’t put out enough power to be useful for much more than a clock circuit (not even enough to power a full watch, just keep the time).
I have serious doubts they’re going to suddenly become viable anytime soon.
Any useful energy production from nuclear is basically just making steam to run turbines. Same with coal but you know.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 4 days ago:
That’s certainly a possibility.
I would argue that we’re both right depending on what the widget is.
(Assuming the price is changed to be proportional and appropriate for the product) Something like a grocery item is more prone to my thought, and something that has generational differences, such as a laptop or something, will likely follow your theory more closely.
I think a lot of this will still be tied to price elasticity. If the price is very elastic then the former system would be more likely. Drop the price so you can push more units (and overall, profit goes up), where things that are far less elastic, say, an iPhone, would tend to simply continue to increase like the latter system you describe.
At the end of the day, both are horrid, terrible, and very very common. So I’ll finish by saying: no matter what happens, people are going to be getting massively fucked, and corporations will post record profits yet again.
Fuck corporations.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 5 days ago:
Me? I’m basically driven snow over here. Plenty of people who live here aren’t though. I like those people. They’re different. I like different.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 5 days ago:
Oh, they’ll go down… But it won’t be nearly as much as it went up to cover the tariff.
What I’m thinking is, let’s say a widget is $100, tariffs go in at, say 5%. So it should cost $105, but the price increases to $110. People cry bloody murder, but ultimately they “need” the widget so they buy it. Tariffs go away, yay, the price is dropped, it’s now $107.99
that’s what I’m thinking.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 5 days ago:
Let’s be reasonable here.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 5 days ago:
Won’t work, they yell “fake news” then bury their heads in the sand like they always do.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 5 days ago:
I don’t mean to imply the US should go back to manufacturing their own goods like they had to before global trade was economical.
I hope the point I’m making is that the people like Trump, mostly aggressive capitalists, are significantly in favor of these trends, and adding tariffs to imported goods will harm the businesses that the tariff is intended to protect.
Sales will drop because most goods are simply more price elastic than that. Cost goes up, sales drop, and overall you lose profits. When costs go up, alternative products are supposed to take up the business you lost by raising prices.
Though, to be fair, that price elasticity model is broken. Most product types have been agglutinated into a couple of large companies in an oligopoly, so all brands of that kind of product raise prices to match all the other brands. With no other competition in the market, consumers have the “choice” of paying more for the same thing, or not buying it.
In any case, the entire economy has been so thoroughly fucked by corporations that is just a money printing machine for the ultra rich to get richer.
I’ve depressed myself now. I’m gonna go.
- Comment on Anon meets up with a girl 6 days ago:
I’m betting that this is exactly what happened. That girl, in all probability, has been treated like meat most of her life. There’s a nontrivial chance that she’s a victim of some kind of abuse.
So having a real connection to someone who doesn’t just treat you like meat, and is only interested in what she can do for/to them, is probably very different than the interactions she normally has.
It’s sad, but likely true.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 6 days ago:
I’m not American, but tariffs to fix import issues is pretty stupid.
This is the capitalist dream, export all the production of the goods you use daily to third world countries, who will have shit labor practices like the US used to have when slavery was a thing (and bluntly, for quite a while afterwards), so that the boots-on-the-ground laborers that produce everything are either treated like slaves or literally are slaves, then import the raw material to be manufactured into whatever you’re selling in the US, so you can slap a “made in the USA” sticker on your shit to enhance sales and charge more. Meanwhile “made in the USA” doesn’t and shouldn’t imply that there’s no imported goods going into the manufacturing process to make that thing, just that you took raw materials (from wherever) and made this thing in the USA.
Tariffs unduly harm end consumers, pretty much everything we buy and own is, or has components that are, imported shit.
Most microchips, a large amount of the food we eat, most electronics, pretty much everything you’ll find at a dollar general, etc (the list is very very long)… all imported in whole or in part.
Hell, there was a time that it was more economical to have your raw materials, even if they’re mined/harvested/produced in the USA, shipped overseas for assembly by slave labor, then shipped back for sale to the US public, than to have it assembled inside the US. Much of that is still true. The US neither has the manufacturing capacity, nor the desire to build their own shit. The only time that’s not the economical option is for large cost (and scale, either in size or money) items, like housing or vehicles. Assembly generally happens in the country/landmass where the vehicle will be sold and used. Even a company like Toyota, a Japanese brand, will have assembly plants in the USA for cars sold in the USA, because that’s cheaper than importing hundreds of vehicles. For everything else, it’s generally cheaper to assemble it outside of the country and import the final product.
You think process are high now? Wait until the tariff wars really kick off.
No company is going to accept the costs of tariffs and be okay with that eating their profits, they’re passing that cost into consumers, because we’re the saps that are still going to buy it.
When the tariffs come down, and they will eventually, prices will drop, but not to where they were from before the tariffs. Companies will continue to post record profits, justifying not giving raises because tariffs, and wages will remain stagnant. We’ll earn less, while they rob is for more than they already do.
The worst part is that when the tariffs are lifted, we’ll thank them for lowering the prices by buying more of their shit. We’ll be grateful for the opportunity to pay even more into their profit margins.
Congratulations, you’re experiencing late stage capitalism. The system is working as intended. You are poor, you remain poor, barely able to scratch out a living, while your owners profit more and more off of your hard work, and you get to thank them for that opportunity.
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 6 days ago:
Technically, we don’t need raw sugar for our diet at all. So technically correct?
We also don’t need any sugar substitutes, like HFCS, but you can find that or sugar, in the ingredients list of pretty much all processed foods.
Yay capitalism!
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 6 days ago:
Fact is, HFCS is cheaper. I haven’t checked the entirety of it’s supply chain to figure out why, but it is cheaper.
If sugar was the same cost, they wouldn’t have switched to HFCS in the first place (why mess with your successful product for no gain?). Fact of the matter is that HFCS is saving them money. It might be pennies per bottle, but when you’re moving 10M bottles of soda, those pennies turn into dividends, literally.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 6 days ago:
You mean, so-called shit hole countries?
As a Canadian, I’m curious if we’re considered a “shit hole country” to these fucks.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 6 days ago:
Foreign slave plantations.
… Not that slave plantations anywhere makes it better, but the fact that it’s foreign will mean that not only is the labor mainly performed by slaves, but we’re also paying a premium because it’s imported goods. Double jeopardy.
Yay capitalism!
- Comment on Can't sleep, he's watching 1 week ago:
Fun fact, most LED displays will only display a very specific wavelength of light for each primary color, if you can isolate the specific values of red, green, and blue, that the sphere uses in the LEDs in its displays, and get tint/filters for those wavelength ranges, you can effectively “tint” the windows where the sphere would be nearly impossible to see, while almost everything else would be fairly clear.
Almost all other light is broad spectrum, so even a single color item would reflect a much larger range of wavelengths than what the sphere produces, which may make red/green/blue objects less bright through the window, but they will still be observable, while the sphere is basically just black.
- Comment on True Story 1 week ago:
Dunno what’s wrong with your shit, but it looks fine from here.
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 1 week ago:
The average death age of any empire is 250 years.
Tick tock America. You’re proving that figure to be correct.
- Comment on I wanna pet 1 week ago:
I wanna pet that dog!
- Comment on Curves 2 weeks ago:
I think this is the first time I’ve seen a still picture move this much.
Hot damned.
- Comment on He's a little feisty, but he looked cold 2 weeks ago:
It’ll snuggle you for the rest of your life.
- Comment on Anon plays a guessing game 2 weeks ago:
Auto carrot strikes again
- Comment on Anon plays a guessing game 2 weeks ago:
For anyone scrolling far enough to read this, all of the correct answers for this, follow the same formula. Statement about how you cannot tell leading into a compliment about their looks.
This can be reversed, complimenting they’re looks, and lead into that it is impossible to tell.
Unless she looks like the wicked witch of the west, like one girl I knew. She had surgery at some point, and I only knew her after that happened. I am not exaggerating with that reference.
Bluntly, I couldn’t have cared less. Things didn’t work out for completely unrelated reasons.
- Comment on Anon plays a guessing game 2 weeks ago:
ADHD here, after years of studying behavior from normies in order to emulate/mask, this is easily one of the best answers here.
Sometimes brutal honesty is the answer.
- Comment on Trump cosplaying 3 weeks ago:
Oh, I know it’s all a show.
I know how badly they’re usually contaminated.
Let me lie to myself.
- Comment on Trump cosplaying 3 weeks ago:
I know cross contamination very well.
I trust non-sterile gloves over supposedly “washed” hands, every day of the week.
The number of people that use the toilet without washing, or even rinsing their hands afterwards is insanely high. People are disgusting.
Simply put, I don’t trust fast food gloves to be sterile, never said I did. I just think they’re likely to be cleaner than the unwashed hands inside of them.
Yes, they’re likely cross contaminated, but by the time I’m accepting the risk of having someone else prepare my next meal, i want to reduce the harm they can do to me as much as I can.
Cross contaminated gloves are going to be less harmful than the hands that contaminated them.
- Comment on Trump cosplaying 3 weeks ago:
Have you met people? They’re not sanitary.
