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- Comment on $1.8 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market yesterday, where did it go? 2 hours ago:
There’s nothing “supposedly” about it. It does represent a part of the ownership. If you own all the pieces of paper then you own the company.
However much you paid for it and how much it’s worth are completely different stories, but the stock is indeed the ownership.
- Comment on $1.8 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market yesterday, where did it go? 12 hours ago:
A stock is a part of a company. You still have have that part.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Can I have some salsa with these?
- Comment on Perks 2 days ago:
I have a similar story from a random grocery store.
After a long drive my daughter had to pee and I asked the staff to borrow the restroom and got guided to the back of the stock. It was occupied so we just stood and waited. They left the door/gate between the store and stock open so we could find our way out afterwards. While waiting, other customers started queueing up, so there’s a line of 5 people, who apparently saw us through the gate and figured that they also urgently needed to use the restroom just then for some reason. Nobody usually does this, so I don’t know what gave.
So after 10 minutes or so the door is finally unlocked and a staff member comes out looking all red headed and surprised to see a whole bunch of people just waiting for her to be finished shitting on company time.
- Comment on I don't know about that life. 3 days ago:
The stance of the skater looks like he’s skating goofy and setting up for a fakie backside 180 heel flip or fakie inward heel. Difficult to tell from a single frame.
Anyway, those tricks could easily end up with him getting credit carded by the board, which would explain the toiletpapir.
- Comment on They say you can't hear images. 3 days ago:
You probably did hear it if you were alive in the 80s.
Outside the tv show, the track was also included in all kinds of compilation albums for synthesizer music which was used in many places.
If you had a Commodore 64 you probably heard it in the cracker intros or demoscene.
- Comment on Do you know any real-life person with the first name “Lucifer”? 5 days ago:
Yeah i wonder why anyone would associate him with the devil. No clue at all.
He had some nice board graphics.
- Comment on adult 1 week ago:
Red, swollen and tasteless.
- Comment on Do you fear for children's future with social media growing even more? 2 weeks ago:
Current old people grew up with the technology of their time: cars and television. Yet they’re the worst drivers and watch televised propaganda all day long.
If we want to save the children from social media, we first need to accept that it’s a problem for everybody, not just kids, since we also can’t handle it safely by ourselves and especially not when we get older.
Social Media is somewhat like the discovery of birth control pills. At first it opened for some freedom, but Social Media is now in the AIDS phase. I don’t think it is possible to make a fool proof legal restriction for neither kids or old people, but we can teach and encourage a cultural change for safe practices.
- Comment on Do you fear for children's future with social media growing even more? 2 weeks ago:
Why is it always about protecting the kids from technology?
I’m way more concerned about the future of the elderly having technology than the children.
Old people out of touch with technology are dangerous. In 20 years that’ll be you and me and we are going to lose touch and we are going to do dangerous shit. How do we stop ourselves from doing that?
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 2 weeks ago:
Denmark made the military service mandatory for women too this year.
I don’t know of any legal differences at this point.
There’s still plenty of differences but not from a legal perspective.
Like, maternity leave is longer than paternity leave, but that’s not due to gender, but rather who is pregnant. For instance if a lesbian couple has a child, only one of them can have maternity leave, while the co-parent gets the equivalent to paternity leave.
Also, men aren’t screened for breast cancer and vice versa for prostate check-ups. I don’t think that’s done on a legal basis though, it’s just a healthcare service aimed at different demographics. Anyone can request a prostate check or mammography and get it if the doctor finds it necessary.
Changing rooms at public swimming facilities are separated by gender, but they often also have a third room which is for families with small children, people with handicaps or anyone else who don’t want to or can’t use the public showers.
- Comment on Be careful what you wish for 2 weeks ago:
The guy changed too. It looks like the slop engine put a touch of Mr. Beast on his face.
- Comment on Very helpful. 10/10 🎉 2 weeks ago:
And in Japanese you add the o in the middle: Sand-o-wich
- Comment on Anon joins girl's night 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes people just fuck regardless of what the friend zone rules say.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Maybe there are as many different Linux users as there are Photoshop alternatives.
At least 2-3…I mean, some day, there will be as many Linux users.
- Comment on Lawful evil 3 weeks ago:
Tipping in percent. Seems almost too metric. How many quarters to the foot gallon is that?
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 3 weeks ago:
This only seems magical because you forgot your infantile experiences in doing just those things.
I bet you know what it would feel like to bite into a wooden desk.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 3 weeks ago:
Is this related to the cravings for certain food?
- Comment on The cheap ones leave the best residue 3 weeks ago:
It’s no wonder everyone’s getting new cars here.
Electricity is about a quarter of that for the same mileage.
Using the current prices and my own mileage, it would take 5 years to finance a new car only by the savings on fuel.
- Comment on Me_IRL 3 weeks ago:
It can be difficult to just stop a stupid habit like that.
My solution was to go on a skiing holiday. Wearing gloves for a week and being away from my ordinary routine definitely helped.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp has mental breakdown in front of reporters 3 weeks ago:
So this guy just woke up that morning and decided to boss around people on the street.
- Comment on You never know! 3 weeks ago:
It’s easier to take off a scuba suit if you don’t need it, than to put one on if you need it but don’t have one.
- Comment on Too many people don't understand this when parking 4 weeks ago:
The “just a minute”-people park everywhere, not limited to handicap spaces.
I’ve seen people put on the hazard lights in the middle of a street to get their take away food. I get that sometimes people can be in a hurry and it being almost an emergency for them, but it seems like something that becomes a bad habit.
My neighbour’s landlord throws his car anywhere effectively blocking the dead end road every single time he is there, and he’s not in a hurry. I think he even likes the interaction with people asking him to move his shit. He’s a friendly fellow who likes to talk, but he’s also a selfish asshole, who apparently enjoys having other people being dependent on him to solve the issue that he created.
I once had a job interview in one of his companies, and I could tell that his entitlement oozed through the entire organization.
He doesn’t park badly because he’s a bad driver. He’s a bad person and that makes him bad at parking.
- Comment on They say, "You'll have to wait". It's a bullshit argument against Universal Healthcare. 4 weeks ago:
The waiting time has little to do with the payment and much more to do with having enough doctors.
Where I live, the universal healthcare has a guarantee for treatment within a time dependent on the illness. If the public healthcare fails to offer the treatment within that time and if you can find treatment in the private sector, the government will still pay for it.
Both the private and public hospitals are paid a fixed price by the government by the patient, so it doesn’t matter for the government (and taxes) who they have to pay.
The difference is that private hospitals can make a profit by keeping their costs lower than the fixed price, while public hospitals just need to balance. There are some overhead costs in the public hospitals, that are not necessarily present in the private sector, so it’s not impossible for private hospitals to make a profit without cutting down on the service. They probably still do cut as much as they can get away with, but overall they have to deliver the same safety standards and follow the same regulations. The government audits both.
Anyway, waiting time is an issue, but not because of how it’s paid.
- Comment on Homesteading 4 weeks ago:
It’s a toilet. Fungi are growing from the connection to the sewer.
- Comment on Sick day 5 weeks ago:
It’s neither kitchen or living room.
The washer is on the “mud room” or “gross kitchen”, which has a doorless wall opening to the combined kitchen/dining area. This layout was common in early 90s suburban family homes and still today.
I don’t really like the layout, but I’ll admit that it’s practical.
- Comment on bruh 5 weeks ago:
It will be difficult for someone else to do, because Trump also didn’t actually do anything himself to become the representative of the idiots. Remembering how surprised he was to win in 2016, it only happened because the idiots didn’t want to vote for a woman. He basically tripped and fell into the role.
It’s difficult to tell if the MAGA crowd will silently retreat to not voting again, or if they’ll agree on some random celebrity again, but I don’t think anyone can put themselves in that kind of position of representing people who hates having a representative at all.
- Comment on Pain 5 weeks ago:
Favorite number is 8520 which is the postcode for a city where I uses to do telephone support. I hated the job but the number is easy to type on a numerical keyboard, so it always made me happy when someone from there called.
I don’t have a favorite color, but I do have a preference for certain palettes.
Historical anecdote. I hope you like trains. The movie Doctor Zhivago was filmed during the Cold War, and since the setting is in Russia, it was impossible for Hollywood to do on location. Most of it was filmed in Spain and Portugal, but not all of the train scenes could be. See, the train track in Russia has a different (smaller) gauge than in Europe, with the exception of Finland who adopted the russian gauge for geographical reasons. Another hurdle though was that nobody had the Russian trains either, so they had to build them from scratch using old construction drawings from before the Cold War, where Finnish factories had produced some trains for Russia. So the Finnish factory rebooted in the mid 1960s to build a train train from the 1900s, just for this movie. You will not find this info on wikipedia, which only mentions the Spanish trains.
- Comment on The crazy bastards, they've finally done it 5 weeks ago:
I always feel like somebody’s watching me. And I have no privacy.
- Comment on Anon's class fails expectations 5 weeks ago:
It has been remade several times, but the original is the best.
It’s only 40 minutes and available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D55LkspO5ZU
