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- Comment on Basic courtesy 3 days ago:
The CEO isn’t paying that salary. It’s a cost of business. A business you’re paying for as a customer. All the customers pay a percentage of a nickel extra for shopping in a store that has a cart returner on the payroll.
I suppose ithe job pays badly and isn’t very interesting. It’s not something I’d waste my life doing. I wouldn’t want my kids to do it either. Actually I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone. Life has much more to offer than pushing carts all day.
So, congratu-fucking-lations, you’ve created a job that nobody ought to do and made everyone pay for keeping a sorry ass kid on poverty wage.
Ok, so you’d argue that by pushing the cart back, then you’re the one doing the same meaningless job for free. Good point, right?
But here’s the catch: Nobody ever needs to return a cart.
There are at least two ways to do this.
One: We can all accept that the cart doesn’t have a home to be returned to and just leave them wherever and pick them up at the same place. This is obviously the chaotic neutral way.
Two: Pack your groceries in bags in the cart after (or while) paying. When you push the cart back towards the car, you walk by the cart corral, pick up your bags and walk to the car while leaving the cart in the corral. It’s fucking magic.
- Comment on It's why they tried to get rid of it 4 days ago:
He’s missing some punctuation, but the point is that the burden of proof ought to be on the people making the claim instead of as it commonly happens, that people state something wild and then spend their time arguing against the proofs against it. The secondary point is that people who do this are already blind to this, so they are basing their arguments on something that only they believe, and strongly believe without proof.
It makes discussion futile, because the people believing in random stuff are asking for evidence against something untrue that is based on something untrue which is based on something untrue. It’s 2 or more steps away from logic.
I don’t know if that made any more sense, so let’s make an allegory with math.
Let’s say a person wrongly believes that 2=3. This belief is unknown for anyone besides themselves. Based on this, they conclude that 2x3=4 and state that openly. So a sane person would argue that 2x3=6. The first person then claimss that 6 is wrong, and the second person will attempt to prove it logically. It does not matter how much proof the sane person provides of the 6 because the first person does not understand that from their belief. The 2=3 belief is never discussed, only the 6.
- Comment on Respectfully. 5 days ago:
Cock.
- Comment on Been thinking about stacking eggs...is this a good price? 1 week ago:
What’s the purpose of the plastic covers?
- Comment on Seems like solid advice 1 week ago:
You’re right about the Nintendo stuff, but could you please not mention grandma’s playbox ever again in posts where the topic is about insinuating filthy vaginas.
- Comment on What's the tallest pyramid we'd be able to build? Can we reach space? 1 week ago:
Oh there are many wild ideas… I don’t know of any other pyramid shaped ones though.
For other shapes, I think The Line in Saudi Arabia is worth a mention, because it’s actually being built. Slave labour and other issues aside, it’s interesting that they attempt to follow through on such an insane plan.
- Comment on What's the tallest pyramid we'd be able to build? Can we reach space? 1 week ago:
This design project might interest you, but do notice that it is not currently possible.
https://en…wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimizu_Mega-City_Pyramid
- Comment on Does Aphantasia exist for senses other than vision? 1 week ago:
There’s amusia, which is “tone-deafness”.
It’s one thing to not sing in tune or not remember a melody correctly, but there are people who can not even hear a difference between two melodies, even if they can tell other sounds apart. I would guess that’s somewhat similar, because I doubt these people have any chance in imagining what a melody sounds like.
- Comment on What is acceptable amount of microplastics you would allow into your brain? 1 week ago:
we could control it if we took it seriously
I doubt that. It’s already too late. It’s literally everywhere.
- Comment on How much of my sleep debt do I need to pay off? 2 weeks ago:
Sleep doesn’t work like a health bar in a video game.
Different stages of sleep have different efficiencies. For instance, passing out drunk doesn’t count as sleep. You body is still active in digestion which can prevent a good sleep, or intoxication can prevent the brain from going into deep sleep.
Sleeping is an activity. Humans are just weird for closing both eyes and both sides of the brain at the same time, but it doesn’t mean that we shut down completely. Most animals do not sleep this way If we could experience partial sleeping like animals, we’d probably understand better what a good sleep is…
- Comment on Marge Sort 2 weeks ago:
You don’t, and they can be.
Watch the animation on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_sort
- Comment on They're coming 2 weeks ago:
You wouldn’t download a Lemmy
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Then it’s pendulum art.
- Comment on How can you explain a smell you've never smelled before? 2 weeks ago:
Wood lice perhaps, but you’d notice if you have a lot of them around.
- Comment on Taking them to Canada. 2 weeks ago:
I used to pack eggs on pallets. We’d throw a sheet of cardboard between every 10 layer to distribute weight. I don’t know the maximum height, because we only stacked them as high as the doorway allowed. About 3 meters from floor.
For a scooter… I suppose he’ll have to pick them up and carry them through a door eventually, which will set the height.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
There’s a duty limit of $200 for a one day trip, unless they’ve changed it. Two day trips are $800.
Everything you buy over the limit should be declared and taxed. If you fail to declare something and get caught you’ll be fined for smugling.
- Comment on What are your favorite games for killing nazis? 2 weeks ago:
I said that Nazis are not political. I don’t care if and I didn’t state whether you are one or not, but you can’t argue that anti-nazi statements should be disallowed for being political, because Nazis are not within a political spectrum.
In set theory, Nazis are simply not in the set that the rule is describing.
- Comment on What are your favorite games for killing nazis? 2 weeks ago:
The Nazi ideologi is a dictatorship. Dictatorships aren’t political. The word political in it’s most basic form means “making decisions in a group”. A dictatorship doesn’t do that. They do participate in democratic politics only because that is the existing system and they want to dismantle that.
“Fight the Nazis” could be a political statement, because it happens within a political system and urges the system to take action politically, but it is not a statement that picks a political side. Both extreme left and extreme right politics should be against Nazis, because Nazis want to destroy all politics, including both sides and everything in between.
So, sure, its a political statement, but it’s not a statement that can upset anyone politically.
The only people who can object against hating Nazis are Nazis themselves.
- Comment on Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them? 2 weeks ago:
It’s only de facto legal until something goes wrong. If a crash occurred and someone was speeding that’d be considered a contributing factor to the crash.
Even if speeding itself wasn’t illegal, there would need to be a definition of what reckless driving is, and speed in comparison to the road is a good measure of that, because it’s directly proportional to the lack of control of the vehicle.
- Comment on I got the money saved in my mansions safe. 3 weeks ago:
The European deposit protection is fixed at €100000 pr. customer instead of a percentage. They are not allowed to use customer savings for their own investment or loan outs. It’s handled completely separately…
Regardless of guarantee, the bank earns a lot more on loans than deposits, so their advisors will always try to push their loan products even when you have money in the bank. They want the customer to be in debt to them. That’s how banks earn money and always have.
The idea that a bank is some kind of piggy bank where they use customer deposits for investment is a bedside story. They loan money to loan out and then take a cut. It’s loans all the way. Banks have bo interest in plain deposit accounts except for being a point of contact to the customer so they can sell loans.
- Comment on I got the money saved in my mansions safe. 3 weeks ago:
Bank advicers usually don’t advice people to it either, because the bank doesn’t make any money on those accounts,.
- Comment on Shut up, haters 3 weeks ago:
I’m not really sure you actually want my browser history on this topic. Anyway, there’s very little research, besides comparing the types of milk.
Wikipedia is probably the most interesting to read, because it explains some reasoning of why it has been practiced historically. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human–animal_breastfeeding
- Comment on Shut up, haters 3 weeks ago:
Apparently it’s not that dangerous. wagwalking.com/sense/can-dogs-drink-breast-milk
The other way around (humans drinking dog milk) is simply impractical because a bitch has 8 tiny nipples with very little milk in them, and they don’t like being milked at all.
- Comment on Anon goes to boot camp 3 weeks ago:
Læffy?
- Comment on Let me just tune up real quick 3 weeks ago:
You’re right. Orchestras often tune to the oboe, because it can’t easily be tuned and usually stays in tune in conditions that would make other instruments go out of tune.
- Comment on Is there any way our of the US political spiral? 4 weeks ago:
Right now, not much can done, but ideas will change over time as the people holding the old ideas eventually die from age.
In my opinion, the current shitshow is actually a sign of old ideas dying. It’ll take time, but I don’t believe the Project 2025 will be successful. It’s happening brutally right now, but it will fail, because it’s being done with only very slim support from the population.
- Comment on In some countries (such as the USA), sending encrypted communications via Amateur Radio is illegal, but how likely will the government actually enforce it, and how severe would the consequences be? 4 weeks ago:
This was used in the war between Russia and Finland in 1941. Without software though.
Russian had placed bombs in a city in Finland and the bombs could be triggered by a combination of frequencies broadcast on radio.
The Finnish engineers figured it out and drove a car around the city broadcasting a song that would trigger the bombs safely.
https://en…wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A4kkij%C3%A4rven_polkka
- Comment on Stuck 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Always a fan of simple instructions on how to do everyday things 4 weeks ago:
Have you tried the grapefruit technique?
- Comment on LPT: always be an asshole so you don't miss great opportunities in life 4 weeks ago:
It would be an interesting experiment to hand out a lot of money to random people and then track how they behave statistically. Everyone has the potential to be an asshole, but it requires a lot of money to prove that one is not.
