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- Comment on When a tobacco shop opened next door, a Melbourne couple’s dream cafe went up in smoke: ‘It felt like a warzone’ 8 hours ago:
So to address people firebombing legal tobacco shops…
The government is cracking down on illegal shops?
I don’t understand how that’s gonna do anything, if anything it’s going to make the people bombing legal shops in residential neighborhoods think they’re in the right.
Like tobacco is unhealthy, but so blowing up shit where people sleep
- Comment on A one-time 5% wealth tax would bring Silicon Valley’s billionaires’ wealth back to where it was just 31 days ago 5 days ago:
but it does have consistent dots for the X axis, every year.
I’m not sure what you mean by “consistent”…
It’s one a year up to dec 2025, then after that do you notice how the lines goes up and down super fast?
That’s because there’s a shit ton more dots there, even if they’re not large enough to see, any change in slope means there’s a new data point.
but part of the point of the graph is showing how billionaires have almost tripled their wealth since 2022, at the expense of everyone else.
Right…
The person who made it likely just crammed two different graphs (or underlaying datasets) together, and most likely had a chatbot do it for them.
That’s actually why I blocked the “data is beautiful” community here, it was just people who know nothing of statistics jamming two graphs together like that accomplishes anything except making the information harder to read, which making the information easier to read is the literal purpose of graphs.
Most people never take even a single stats class, and just don’t know what the fuck they’re doing
- Comment on A one-time 5% wealth tax would bring Silicon Valley’s billionaires’ wealth back to where it was just 31 days ago 5 days ago:
The Y axis starts at zero at least…
But yeah, not having consistent dots on the X axis fucks it up.
They should have started with Dec 2025 when they had more frequent data and left the rest off.
That’s why it looks so off. Whoever made it was just trying to do too much, but as far as graphs that get posted on social media, sadly this is a pretty good one.
It’s a very low bar
- Comment on What do you think would happen if America voted to redistribute the wealth of oppressive billionaires to the police instead? 5 days ago:
That is certainly a .ml take…
- Comment on AI chatbots could help safely diagnose patients ahead of GP visits, study finds 5 days ago:
Every single study like this needs a control group of “Oregon Trail generation” who actually know how to find information online, getting 15 minutes on WebMD.
I’m guessing they’d get the same results, especially since the AI even pulled out the WebMD classic:
However, one conversation was later rated “somewhat harmful” by a doctors after the chatbot listed a possible cancer diagnosis which caused the patient anxiety.
Because that’s all the chatbot is doing, regurgitating WebMD
- Comment on Nottingham becomes first city to impose balaclava ban to fight ‘intimidating’ use 1 week ago:
Timothy Miller, 76, from Southampton, was charged with concealing his identity after police warned they would use powers to arrest demonstrators wearing face coverings at an anti-immigration protest in Portsmouth at the weekend.
So, sounds like rightwingers are making very poor attempts at trying to get religious face coverings banned, by being dicks while wearing barely recognizable attempts at those face coverings…
- Comment on TSA says officers must stand, chairs banned at airport checkpoints nationwide 2 weeks ago:
Anyone who thinks standing makes you more alert than sitting has never held a job that requires more than 5 minutes of standing still at once…
Or even looked at someone who has to stand still as part of their job duties.
You may look alert, but a huge chunk of your brain is devoted to how much it sucks to have to be standing.
Like, I’ve been a part of government security theater and we had to stand. But we just had metal detector wands, the little room with the one way mirrors next to us had half a dozen dudes with AR15s and body armor, they got chairs because they were the ones that had to be ready.
My only job if anything happened was to fall down so I wouldn’t be hit when the guys on the other side of the glass opened fire.
We were just the bait/distraction
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
What’s with all the new accounts with weird names suddenly spamming clickbaity YouTube videos?
- Comment on A question about taking over moderation 3 weeks ago:
You kind of need to say what it is…
But yeah, if there’s no mods admins have to handle reports, so they tend to give communities to people who volunteer.
I’ve made posts here requesting a community, I’ve mentioned in a report that I could mod since there wasn’t one, and I’ve had admins just reach out and offer, but that was when .world was just starting and a lot of accounts made communities and abandoned them.
Like, just ask. There’s no need to ask if you can ask.
But be prepared that it might be months later when someone reaches out if you still want it.
- Comment on Former shoplifter ran 'steal-to-order' Whatsapp group 3 weeks ago:
The next time you see two women running out the Gap
With arms full of clothes still strapped to the rack
Once they jump in the car, hit the gas and scat
If you have to say something, just stand there and clap
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- Comment on Knife crime hospital admissions fall across county 5 weeks ago:
Despite a longer-term decline, the report said both accounts of knife crime and related hospital admissions had risen in the past year.
- Comment on Mayor says he heard gun shots as he saw a black man running. He jumped in his pickup, chased him down and pointed a shotgun at his chest. Cops came and said it was fireworks behind the library 5 weeks ago:
the democrats
en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_chairs_of_the_Democrat…
“The party” is the DNC, and it’s controlled by the chair for a four year term. If a Dem becomes president, they choose the chair.
So blame the DNC chair, at the time it was DWS, and yeah. She was a giant piece of shit.
But blaming the current “party” for shit from a prior just tells everyone you don’t understand how this works
- Comment on Sam Altman: My AI vision is bigger than solving diseases. A cure for cancer is not enough. 5 weeks ago:
It never will be…
They can’t even pay for their water and electric to run the equipment they couldn’t afford.
There’s no off ramp here, they’re gonna keep pretending it’s worth it because if not the entire house of cards falls down. It’s why they want pensions roped into investing and tied up with the government. They do some day everyones going to realize AI stock is worth a teeny tiny fraction of what they say it is.
Billions of dollars of “wealth” will become thousands overnight, and they want as many people as possible to be hurt by that so a bailout happens.
- Comment on Asylum seekers told rape and harassment illegal in UK in new Home Office booklet 1 month ago:
You’re viewing this as “can I prosecute”…
I’m viewing it as “how do we stop crimes from happening”
- Comment on Asylum seekers told rape and harassment illegal in UK in new Home Office booklet 1 month ago:
I mean, people tend to forget that raping your wife was legal in the UK until 1991
It’s only illegal in NYC, because Rudy Ghoulani wasn’t subtle when he used it as Trump’s legal defense for raping and beating one of his wives after his hair transplant hurt too much…
If either of those asshats were capable of doing anything low key, it wouldn’t have gotten the public attention and legal changes it did.
- Comment on Asylum seekers told rape and harassment illegal in UK in new Home Office booklet 1 month ago:
The Conservatives said any asylum seekers breaking UK law should be deported and Reform said the publication showed the government “knows that they are a menace”.
By that law any law anyone is subject to proves they are a menace…
Like, you tell people the law, so that if they break it they can’t try to claim ignorance as a defense.
In the US military part of every orientation for every group that shows up to a base, is age of consent laws in that state and how the military says it’s 18.
That’s not because the US military thinks everyone is pedos, it’s because a lot of people come from states with shockingly low age of consent laws, and telling everyone that laws vary state to state takes away the “no one told me” excuse which is an even worse look.
Some 18 year old fresh out of Boot who didn’t have anyone blinking eyes at their 16 year old GF 3 months ago, needs to be on the same page that they crossed a threshold into adulthood and will be held to that standard.
Refugees tend to come from places with less civil rights, they need to understand what rights others and themselves have in their new home.
- Comment on Wildfire phone alert was 'entirely appropriate', government says 1 month ago:
I don’t get why it’s “all or nothing”…
They can push silent notifications first, have a “reply Y within 24hrs to prevent further notices”
And accomplish the same thing.
There’s no reason to jump straight to the loud ass “the sky is falling” notifications that override silent mode.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Raise your standards.
I’d love for my standards to be a “normal house” worth over a million dollars…
But my uncle didn’t start a giant media company and name it after genocide a to hand me a platform…
But to be honest I probably would have turned it down and wouldn’t have been interning for him in the first place
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I wish people cared as much about what politicians had to say as nepo twitch streamers who claim to be communist while streaming from a literal West Hollywood mansion…
- Comment on Housing prices 2 months ago:
They realized someday people pay off mortgages. No one’s ever paid so much in rent that they stopped having to pay.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’d be pissed if Lemmy was making it easier to feed our comments to chat it’s,
Autocorrect on “chatbots”…
But when anyone says:
I’d be pissed if
They don’t mean “if I found out” the part that would piss them off, if the “if it was happening” part.
Like:
If I found out you didn’t take the trash out
Would you hear that and think the solution that person wants is for you to hide that you didn’t?
That they would be absolutely fine with it as long as they didn’t catch you?
I’m genuinely asking, and am hopeful to get a real answer about how you seem to have interpreted my comment.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Why would you ask lemmy users how to do something most Lemmy users are pretty vocally against?
I’d be pissed if Lemmy was making it easier to feed our comments to chat it’s, the main reason a lot of us are here is we don’t want scrapped by chatbots.
And you just want to do it for funsies?
- Comment on Theft 2 months ago:
Ken Paxton just keeps doing his best Rafael Cruz impression and running away from anyone who asks him a question…
Talarico signed up for three debates and said he’ll show up even if Paxton doesn’t.
Cruz is slimey, but he’s a legitimate master debater, he can slime his way out of shit most people can’t, and Paxton is just expecting it to work out.
As long as Talarico doesn’t start talking about taking people’s guns, he’s got this in the bag.
- Comment on South Carolina and Nevada Fight to Kick Off Democrats’ 2028 Presidential Calendar 2 months ago:
SC is a stupid decision.
It needs to be the biggest states, or what I’d really really like to see:
The state that voted D for president by the highest margin, and then working down in order.
Let the states who turned out the most set the tone, but run every primary to the end and let every state get a say.
We’ve been in a weird bizzaro land where if state could be counted on, it got ignored, which hurt our turnout, and can make a safe state into an upset state.
We need to be showing Dem voters that the party wants their opinion who to run, that’s the entire point of a primary, and Martin has a proven track record of doing those in Minnesota
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 months ago:
My numbers are made up,
At least we found some common ground
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 months ago:
None of that makes any sort of sense, it just sounds like you heard some “business words” and are saying them without knowing what they mean…
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 months ago:
Why the actual fuck would anyone think admin fees per employee would be percentage of salary?
That makes no sense.
It’s roughly 17k/year, regardless of if you pay $5/hr or 5k/hr.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 months ago:
It adds up…
It adding up is the problem.
Because it means “job creators” who do nothing but posses titles to land and company stocks are syphoning off money.
If they need 3 staff for 21 kids, they’re going to pay as little as they can to keep 3 staff. And charge as much as they can to keep 21 kids.
There’s no correlation between what staffing costs and what prices are charged, why would there be?
Both are just line items, and the person in charge just wants the profit line to have the biggest number.
The larger the company is, the worst that becomes. Or if the company is small, but owned by someone with a dozen other companies.
Expecting salary to match what people pay is toddler logic, sure it would be great if it worked like that, but any adult thinking more than 2 seconds can see why that’s not related in the modern age. Hell, its been decades since the “if we pay workers a living wage a value meal goes up $0.02!”.
Americans literally all said they were fine with that, almost zero companies increased pay, and all of them.increaswd prices anyways
There’s obviously no correlation
- Comment on We Can’t Afford Not To Be Able To Deliver Consequences 2 months ago:
“Terrorism is an insidious descriptor… denoted by the use of extreme police powers, long prison sentences, isolation, medical neglect, and of course overseas bombing campaigns and gun-running” and which has “always been used by the ruling classes to designate threats to the status quo, and in doing so intimidate them into silence.”
Obviously…
That’s why citizens everywhere need to rise up against it together rather than everyone demanding everyone else join their personal crusade.
Making it any deeper than:
Everyone deserves rights, even “terrorists” because the government chooses who is a terrorist
Just makes it easier for the oligarchs to split the movement.
If people don’t unite, the governments will keep picking off demographics one by one.
This isn’t new