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- Comment on I can calf raise as much as I can squat, yet I have pretty small calves relative to my thighs/glutes. What's the deal? 2 days ago:
Moving the weight 3-4 inches compared to 12-18 inches…
It takes more effort/power to move it a bigger distance
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 1 week ago:
Sarcasm
- Comment on Fintech founder charged with fraud after 'AI' shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines 2 weeks ago:
Amazon tried this at Whole Foods…
They told investors AI was keeping track of what shopper picked up and charging them when they left, turned out it was just people in India or something individually following every shopper via security cameras. Obviously mistakes were frequent
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 weeks ago:
You can get mad at everyone else or you can start playing to the lowest common denominator.
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- Comment on Simon Pegg Tried To Get Nick Frost Cast As An Iconic Star Trek Character: "I've Pitched It Multiple Times" 2 weeks ago:
My comment could also be read as rationale supporting a version of that character based on serious horror…
But yes, they’re a joke to me. And yes I’d love to see him a tribble monster
- Comment on Simon Pegg Tried To Get Nick Frost Cast As An Iconic Star Trek Character: "I've Pitched It Multiple Times" 2 weeks ago:
Dude has a lot of range…
His new horror movie was really good, and he was legitimately scary.
Into the Badlands was still in his main lane but he did an amazing job in that as well. He’s funny, but he doesn’t have to be comic relief.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Go to a comment you think shows he’s “fake banned” from.
Then go look at it from that instance instead of a 3rd party instance.
Their comments won’t show there, so they won’t get any engagement from people viewing from that instance.
Because they’re making the comments on that 3rd party’s copy, but it doesn’t federate to the main one that they’re banned from
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 2 weeks ago:
HOW does this genocidal state have such an insane stranglehold on our country?
Before AIPAC there was another Israeli organization that donated to politicians.
After years of fighting a committee ruled that it had to register as a foreign agent.
So Israel created AIPAC and then gave Max donations to the people on the committee that decides who has to register as a foreign agent.
Which is why AIPAC has never had to register.
As both parties continually got rid of campaign finance law, AIPAC kept increasing what they gave, and started throwing insane money at anyone critical of Israel in the primary when it’s cheap.
Over decades they’ve bought the only two options and ensured the only two options were peo-Israel over anything else
The worst part …
They’re not the only organization, even foreign country. Doing this to ensure they always win.
Luckily while Ken Martin does have a pro-Israel bias, while running Minnesota he was one of the few state chairs who refused to work against anti-genocide Dems. Which resulted in Minnesota being one of the progressive strongholds despite no one guessing it would shake out that way a decade ago.
So I want to be clear:
The people fucking up the DNC for decades is gone, we need to support the new DNC to keep it out of their hands. The people running the DNC six months ago wants the current DNC to take the fall so they can move back in.
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 2 weeks ago:
Part of why it’s so ridiculous some Americans are legally prohibited from participating in BDS, is people only know if you tell them.
You can just not buy it and never mention why.
And unfortunately, lots of people aren’t even aware it’s illegal:
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 3 weeks ago:
The price was announced first… So it’s not related.
Adjusted for inflation though, and $80 is the normal price it’s been for 40 years.
I just don’t know why people are shocked Nintendo is doing this, they’ve always been one of the first companies to increase prices.
- Comment on Why Trump's tariff chaos actually makes sense (big picture) 3 weeks ago:
The auto summary being in Russian is so funny I almost up voted…
- Comment on What are some ways by which disabled people can discover and volunteer for stem cell treatment? 3 weeks ago:
Direct with researchers.
Usually thru universities but grants are drying up.
Studies by companies sometimes take participants from volunteering, but usually they start with lists from healthcare workers.
So talk to their doctor and make sure they know about desire to volunteer, check “local” universities and hospitals
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 3 weeks ago:
Remember when American tax payers gave billions to telecoms to install fiber in rural America?
It’s actually happened multiple times…
I remember two off the top of my head, but it’s possible there was a couple more
- Comment on As Trump Tariffs Loom, White House Eyes Costly Farmer Bailouts 3 weeks ago:
wealthy landowners
Most farms are corporations, but what few “family farms” are around most definitely aren’t “wealthy landowners”.
And these policies will put them in bankruptcy forcing more sale to the corpo farms
- Comment on Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking 3 weeks ago:
It is, but we stopped teaching it literally decades ago, so what are kids supposed to do?
That was a victim of No Child Left Behind, along with a lot of other important shit.
- Comment on UK: Couple arrested and shut in cell after complaining about daughter's school on WhatsApp. 3 weeks ago:
Link is a little questionable, so I googled the names
independent.co.uk/…/parents-arrest-school-whatsap…
They had been banned from the school already, had been banned from harassing the school online, so they started a WhatsApp group to manipulate other parents into doing the things they legally couldn’t do…
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 4 weeks ago:
And if Y started at zero the graph would accurately show 10%, which is huge on that timeline.
And people wouldn’t be used to it and would react appropriately.
Although I’d argue even then a month is deceptively short term when they’ve lost 50% this quarter
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 4 weeks ago:
I also should have mentioned that any Y axis that doesn’t start at zero is misleading and makes changes look more drastic.
I’m usually on top of that one.
A law requiring y axis start at zero would unironically do a lot to temper our economy. Just because graphs like OP’s would look less scary.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 4 weeks ago:
The same thing it always does…
Bounces around wildly because it’s based on hype not actual value of the company
- Comment on Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"? 5 weeks ago:
If I lived within driving distance of DC or a Tesla factory I would be…
- Comment on Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"? 5 weeks ago:
Protesting a dealership when no one wants to buy one is performative.
Where protests should be happening is factories because even if Musk has to shut down one day, that is expensive, and it’s expensive to start it back up again.
So what’s really effective is protesting factories and not letting workers in.
For a day or two.
Then leaving till it’s started back up for a couple days, and just repeating that. Make them open and close production constantly. Make Tesla workers tires of the bullshit, better yet make Musk fire them so they get severance and unemployment.
So:
Look at the risk/reward of what you want to do/say at a dealership. Nothing you put on a sign is going to change anyone’s minds.
To quote a saying that’s been around for way to long:
You can beat the charges, but you can’t beat the ride
Meaning it doesn’t matter if what you’re doing is illegal, cops can still beat you, take you to jail, and just drop charges 10 minutes before you get to see a judge.
- Comment on Why hasn't video quality improved much over the past ten years? 5 weeks ago:
Diminishing returns.
4k on a 75in and 8k on a 75in isn’t a big difference.
Not to mention most streaming content is 1080 for bandwidth and tvs upscale to 4k. So while there is difference, it’s hard to quantify upscaling, and even if you find a store with displays, they’re being fed native 4k.
If you go to rtings.com or a similar site you can compare specifics and see that there is advancement happening.
It’s just not like back in the day when they could keep doubling resolution.
- Comment on "@ Mentions" circumvent blocks 5 weeks ago:
Awesome, I noticed it a while ago but didn’t want to say it because then the knowledge is out there.
If the update isn’t rolling out for a while, free to delete this to keep a lid on it in the meantime.
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I know that there was slavery and segregation in America based on exactly this in the past but this is over
It is not…
There’s still a lot of racial bias in housing, even by name before the landlord/realtor meets the potential client.
its just not done with the explicit approval of the government, however that is unfortunately likely to change soon.
Even after the civil rights movement, all the Republicans and a lot of the Dems opposed integration. And we’re still paying for it.
- Comment on Why do American leftists support / defend dictatorships? 1 month ago:
Who are so far left they made a lap back to authoritarianism
No, they’re just right wingers lying about what they are.
They didn’t “wrap around” because they went too far left. They’ve always supported right wing authoritian governments.
- Comment on Why do American leftists support / defend dictatorships? 1 month ago:
they label themselves as leftist / communist / socialist
So does China and North Korea bud…
Hell, NK says they’re a democracy too.
People lie, that doesn’t mean you believe them.
And that just raises more questions about why you made a new account for this post
- Comment on Why do American leftists support / defend dictatorships? 1 month ago:
They don’t…
Unless you’re counting neoliberals as “leftists” and if we’re doing that we might as well call trump an LGBTQ person of color because apparently labels don’t mean anything and we can just randomly fucking apply them to anyone.
- Comment on does anyone know the american dad episode where deputy director bullock scrapes his leg? 1 month ago:
Yeah, one of the rare episodes with a lot of Bullock in it.
I dunno if it’s because they can only afford so much of Sir Patrick Stewart’s time, or if he just doesn’t want to do a lot
But I’m still amazed every season he’s still doing the voice.
- Comment on What is the number one reason why we do not have peace on earth like on other planets? 1 month ago:
Are you asking why the USSR didn’t send a missile to blow up the US moon lander on the moon? What purpose would that serve?
Fun fact:
In 1969 the US had a plan to nuke the moon, just to show Russia we can.
An Aussie rapper made a song about it.