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- Comment on Are the inside parts of toilets universal? 1 day ago:
They make universal flappers now that are actually universal.
And most arms are extendable and can have angle adjusted multiple ways, so basically universal.
If you replace anything else, you might as well change all the internals at once with a set
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 days ago:
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say, but I’m not expecting you clarifying to help
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 days ago:
Years ago they tried to pass a minimum amount of time you had to hold a stock before selling…
It was a fraction of a second and neoliberals and Republicans immediately united to tell everyone how antithetical to America that was.
For some reason, that wasn’t enough to show people that both groups have the same priorities and we can’t fight an oligarchy with fucking oligarchs.
We’ll never win if only a handful of politicians are actually on our side.
But it’s almost impossible to compete against dark money in a primary, and the people running the DNC know that. So they’ll never agree to get dark money out of primaries. It’s the only reason they’re still holding back progressives.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 days ago:
Why that would be huge:
It would incentize the rich to hold stocks long term, this would lead to corporations thinking more than what profits are in 3 months.
Which translates to greater stability for other investors and job security for the people who work there.
But it’s never going to happen as long as
SmaugPelosi and people like her who’s main priority is personal wealth is running the Dem party. Because we all know Republicans will never support it.But if we don’t purge the Dem party of neo liberals, and fast, we’re all fucked. We can’t keep walking down the path of “the rich always get richer” like nothing is wrong.
Wealth is finite. And with taxes and regulations the people who already have a lot will always accumulate more faster than they can spend it.
With them hoarding all that wealth, no one has any.
- Comment on Climate Change Is Losing Its Grip on Our Politics 3 days ago:
In large part thanks to mainstream media like NY Times constantly understating the issue and pretending plastic straws were the only solution.
No Thurston, climate change isn’t the average person’s fault and anything we could do would have a negligible effect at stalling the process.
If we want a snowballs chance in Alaska at fixing this, we need to vote in politicians all over the globe that care about people more than money.
- Comment on In the US, what is stopping people from bribing members of the electoral college? 3 days ago:
Tradition…
It’s another one of those things where we’re not going to codify it because Republicans want it as a pocket ace, and moderates control party policy and they just have a phobia of admitting anything actually needs fixed, let alone fixing it.
But the electors in most states can do what they want
32 states + DC are legally required to vote for the party that nominated them as electors tho.
So some are “locked in”, the rest can pretty much do what they want. I know some states are on an “interstate compact” where once they get enough states it triggers them having to vote for the national popular vote winner.
But I’m not sure what the overlap is with the ones who already have the requirement to vote for the party that appointed them or how that will shake out.
- Comment on Does the increase in early/mail-in voting make exit polls less accurate? 1 week ago:
The craziest part is stats isn’t even complicated.
We could teach it to 6th graders and they’d do fine, same with logic classes.
The point of school isn’t teaching kids to think, it’s teaching them to follow directions, two very different things.
Just look at what we teach them.
- Comment on I keep hearing that the Democratic Party should've paid more attention to the young white American demographic. Does this mean there was a point to the "All lives matter." movement? 1 week ago:
We could have ran a candidate who’s policy positions aligned with the Dem voter base…
Call me crazy, but I think that would have resulted in more Dema voting.
- Comment on Does the increase in early/mail-in voting make exit polls less accurate? 1 week ago:
Yeah, exit polling is literally asking people as they walk out of the polls
This could also just simply boil down to why do we trust polls so much anyways
Statistical analysis is a science.
The problem is it’s not taught in k-12 and most never learn it in college
So people don’t understand it, media represents it however they’ll get the most clicks/views.
The problem with polling isn’t polling, it’s the media’s and viewers’ misinterpreting the results that’s the problem
- Comment on Does the increase in early/mail-in voting make exit polls less accurate? 1 week ago:
Not really.
There’s have to be a population where a large amount not only voted that way, but when they voted that way it was statistically different.
Like, there may very well be something where a population like women voted differently by mail because their husbands watch.
But in my state someone is allowed to “help” so the couple in front of me the man voted, then went to the woman’s booth and “helped” her.
All while outside the cops talked to a screaming red hatter who apparently had to turn his trump shirt inside out and when he did poll workers say the multiple hand guns in his waistband.
Don’t worry tho, the poll workers let him skip the line and vote while the cops showed up and talked to him for 2 minutes before letting him drive off.
So before you think of what shady shit may happen with mail in, you need to realize plenty of shady shit happens day of too.
- Comment on What Trump’s Victory Means for Climate Change | President-elect Donald J. Trump promised to delete climate policy. He could face pushback from Republicans benefiting from a boom in clean energy. 1 week ago:
The fossil fuel company’s want to keep them too…
For at least the past month theyve been lobbying republicans to keep Biden’s climate policy
It simply makes them too much money and doesn’t really effect their pollution.
- Comment on Black Ops 6 devs still looking into unfair spawning system - "yes, we saw ourselves in a Killcam before selecting a Loadout too" 1 week ago:
That’s spawn camping
This is as soon as you join the game spawns a player character that just stands there while you load in and pick your first load out.
The fix is just having it not spawn a model till the player has loaded the level and selects a load out.
What’s bad is they’re tweeting about it instead of just fixing it.
- Comment on Clean Energy Is Booming in the U.S. The Election Could Change That. |Trump has suggested he would dismantle the Inflation Reduction Act, which has reshaped America’s energy landscape. 2 weeks ago:
Yet the law driving this dizzying transformation of America’s energy landscape, the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, is facing a highly uncertain future as next week’s election looms.
The fossil fuel corporations want trump to keep that, because it’s making them literal billions of dollars from US taxpayers.
So I can’t imagine it goes away.
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Like, I don’t know how anyone hasn’t figured it out by 2024…
But this is America, fossil fuel corporations never lose.
- Comment on Why hasn't Kamala Harris's record of keeping nonviolent offenders in prison, despite SCOTUS ruling, while California AG been brought up much this election? 3 weeks ago:
That and it was over a decade ago.
Like, Kamala is by no means perfect. But she’s a hell of a lot better than Biden, obviously better than trump, and literally the only option at this point.
If you want to try and pull her to the left on prison reform, then that could be a good use of time and effort. But complaining about something from over a decade ago doesn’t help anything.
- Comment on Why should we have to continue seeing people's replies when we block them? 3 weeks ago:
The twitter knockoffs always “mention” the person they’re replying to.
I block them because 99% of the post they make they don’t mean to make, and they never seem to understand what’s happening, explaining is just a waste of time.
But as long as they “@ you” you’ll still get new notifications.
If you’re talking about wanting to just get rid of their replies that are still in your inbox without clearing it…
Not sure why, but at least on my instance there’s a green check to acknowledge a notification and it’ll go away
- Comment on Why the Oil and Gas Industry Is So Afraid of Kamala Harris 3 weeks ago:
So much anxiety might seem puzzling given that the Biden years have been very good for U.S. oil and gas producers. Domestic oil production is at record highs. The United States is the world’s top producer and leading exporter of natural gas, and profits of companies such as Exxon Mobil and Chevron have surged, too. Even Mr. Biden’s signature climate legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act, offers the industry generous subsidies, thanks to its tax credits for carbon capture and sequestration and for hydrogen production. The biggest oil and gas producers want Mr. Trump to keep the bill intact if he wins.
Oil and gas lobbyists wanting trump to keep Bidens “signature climate legislation” should tell us all we need to know about how seriously Biden has taken climate change…
And with Kamala passing the tie breaking vote against banning fracking…
I don’t see how she’ll be any different, or why people still act like Biden/Kamala would be good for the environment.
Less damage than the other is still accumulating damage, just at a slower rate.
It’s not even undoing the damage Republicans cause.
- Comment on How Accurate, or Off-Target, Could the Polls Be This Year? 4 weeks ago:
The biggest polling “miss” is 6% and that was one state 16 years ago, but they even included one that was <1%
Standard margin of error is around 3.5% with a 95% confidence, and the vast majority of “misses” were well within that. Depending on survey tho, margins if 5% or even higher do happen. But even if it was 2.5% over the margin of error, polls aren’t perfect representation and sometimes it does happen.
The big problem is what they spend the first part of the article on: national polling
It’s completely useless, it shouldn’t be because we should be using a national popular vote. Until we fix that a national poll means nothing.
I just hate people got obsessed with the whole “polls aren’t real, they’re dirty liars!” When polls showed Biden wasn’t going to be able to get it done.
- Comment on Bandai Namco reportedly tries to bore staff into quitting, skirting Japan’s labor laws 4 weeks ago:
Bandai Namco has reportedly turned to the unspoken Japanese tradition of layoff-by-boredom by stuffing unwanted employees into oidashi beya, or “expulsion rooms.”
Employees banished reassigned to oidashi beya are left to do nothing, or given menial tasks at best.
Ever since I watched Silicon Valley I’ved dreamed of being oidashi beya’d.
Like, you’re just gonna give me zero work and a room to nap in for 8 hours along with a salary?
Fucking sold man. Let me live that Bighead life, dude is a nihilist spirit animal.
- Comment on [Movie detail] In Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) an orthopedic store named “Liefeld’s” is named after Deadpool comic creator Rob Liefeld. Liefeld has been criticized for not being able to draw feet 4 weeks ago:
Bruh. That’s like saying Picasso is bad at faces…
I forget where I saw it, by I watched a documentary about him a couple months ago
Dude can draw realistic people (still not feet tho) it’s just readers weren’t buying comics for realism. They like his off the rail designs and Liefield just kept doubling down on weird and people kept buying it
- Comment on Trump Bobs His Head to Music for 30 Minutes in Odd Town Hall Detour 4 weeks ago:
watched the crowd during “Rich Men North of Richmond” and then, finally, left the stage to shake hands on his way out during one last song.
That’s a pretty good song, and if anything is just a plea for progressive policy…
But conservatives just heard “north of Richmond” and latched onto it as a pro-confederacy song.
On August 25, Anthony released a video statement on YouTube. On the Republican presidential debate, he said: “It was funny seeing my song at the presidential debate, because I wrote that song about those people, you know. … That song is written about the people on that stage—and a lot more, too. Not just them, but definitely them.”[34] He clarified that he does not support President Joe Biden, either.[35]
Anthony said that his song has been “weaponized” by the right and the left: “I see the right trying to characterise me as one of their own. And I see the left trying to discredit me, I guess in retaliation.”[36] He said the people he wrote about in the song have “done everything they can in the last two weeks to make me look like a fool, to spin my words, to try to stick me in a political bucket.” He also addressed those who interpreted the song as “an attack against the poor”, saying that “all of my songs that reference class defend the poor”. He said of “Rich Men”: “30-some million people understood what I was saying, but it only takes a few to try to derail the train, to try to send out false narratives.”[34]
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Another amazing politically conscious song by Talib
It’s just disappointing him and so many other artists like Boots Riley have been saying the same thing for decades. And the people running our country never listen.
There’s no reason Republicans keep winning, except the DNC keeps refusing to give voters what they want.
- Comment on Israel fires at UN peacekeeping HQ for second day, 40 countries condemn attacks 5 weeks ago:
I’m starting to think that since Bibi knows the only thing keeping him in power is him postponing the elections due to the genocides he’s starting…
He’s going to do a full 180 and ally with Russia and Putin who will back his coup in Israel to hold power.
Right now he’s trying to drag America into conflict with the UN. Because he knows even intentionally attacking them isn’t enough to make Biden do anything.
So the longer this goes on, the more distance between US and UN, which Putin always wants.
- Comment on What the HELL is going on here. Two very old white brits rapping with T-Pain... 5 weeks ago:
Pete and Bas, they’ve been doing it for a while now, couple years at least started during Covid.
The story is one of their granddaughters showed them modern UK rap and they got into it. Some people say they used to be proper hardcore organized crime members in top of that.
They do live shows and everything tho, like it is really them doing it
Lately there’s more rumors that their earliest stuff was ghostwritten by another (much younger) duo who just started up with incredibly similar music, Nine and Dex:
- Comment on Paradox respond to the accusation that they fix games with paid DLC - "we try to find a middle ground" 5 weeks ago:
They make a good point about this method keeping a game going a decade, but if ore how this limits people who want to get into the game 5 years in.
Base game might only be $25, but so are the 5 DLCs since.
For someone who plays that game often and buys as they come out. It’s not that bad
But for more casual or new players, they might not want to invest in the base game if they’re not sure about the mods. It feels like you’re paying for half a product.
I think they can easily get away with selling a new game in a series every 2-3 and retain more features.
- Comment on Home Depot Orders Corporate Staff to Take 8-Hour Retail Shifts 5 weeks ago:
It’s 4 days a year, making them see what it’s like is a pretty good idea
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 5 weeks ago:
t’s just bc it’s so big
It’s not the World is big…
It’s just everyone else is so small.
Like in the grand scheme of the fediverse we’re all tiny. But of the “reddit clone” instances it might be bigger than everyone else put together even.
I went over to your instance and checked, and yeah, it’s a reddit clone interface too
The structure makes all of us “like reddit” because reddit has always had a shit ton of different small subs with vastly different vibes. A decade ago there was some sub on Reddit that had the exact same vibe your instance has today. That’s just how big reddit was.
Federation just means no one group of admins can seize control, even if World went to shit tomorrow, everyone would just bounce. I have zero “loyalty” to my instance, if it starts to suck I’m out.
That’s the point of this whole thing.
- Comment on "Dogma" Re-Release Plans In The Works 5 weeks ago:
“The movie has been bought away from the guy that had it for years and whatnot
That’s awesome, I think this is one of the ones Weinstein had the rights to. So no one would do anything with it.
- Comment on Until Dawn's PS5 debut 28% weaker than Sony’s 2024 disaster Concord 5 weeks ago:
The only thing that makes sense in my head as to why Until Dawn is underperforming is the game’s lack of promotion. Aside from a couple of trailers, I have barely seen Sony promote this remaster.
Couldn’t possibly be that people don’t want to keep paying new game prices for remasters…
People live rebuying decade old console exclusives on the next console generation.
- Comment on Is it possible to hide individual posts? 5 weeks ago:
What we really need is a “disable replies” button.
I’ve had big comments take off and with how slow Lemmy moves I’ll keep getting replies days or even a week plus later.
Especially if it’s a post instead of a comment.
- Comment on Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo dies of brain cancer at age 58 1 month ago:
Back in the day everytime we swatted a bounce in beer pong, we screamed Mutombo as loud as possible.
Never really saw him play, but dude was just legendary. I don’t think any other player has reached that level of public fame from mostly defensive play.