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@tempest@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 days ago:
I’m pretty sure interest only mortgages already exist in some places.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 week ago:
Eh the Soviets had plenty of their own man made famine (Holodomor, among others)
- Comment on Who dis? 1 week ago:
How long has it been since they restyled that message app? A decade? Feels like longer.
- Comment on The height of sophistication: the 1994 McDonald's manager collection 1 week ago:
As much as America is fat as shit the rest of the world is not far behind unfortunately.
- Comment on The height of sophistication: the 1994 McDonald's manager collection 1 week ago:
I don’t know about your area but mine is nearly all those slow ass Touch kiosks. At best there is one person manning the till.
It would amuse me greatly if they dressed up the kiosks like this though.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 week ago:
For us poors sunscreen is the best value per dollar. Especially men, because women often include it with other cosmetics (even if it’s not that effective and you should be using a straight up sunscreen)
- Comment on What are you ladies doing tonight 2 weeks ago:
My beef with them are three fold.
- They have been around for a decade and the elderly seem to still have screen terror and freeze up and take forever
- There are often fewer of these machines and children plug the hole trying one sip of every flavor
- I’ve thrown out cellphones with faster interfaces than these things and the damn screens get gross after a while if not cleaned constantly
- Comment on Pronouns history 2 weeks ago:
I mean as much as millennials would hate to hear it they will soon be the largest demographic (if they are not all ready) .
Time will tell if they succumb to the same tropes their parents did it is they get a new fun set of undesirable qualities.
- Comment on I'm not saying that I agree with it, but it's understandable. 2 weeks ago:
My guess would be some sort of government service or charity whose funding is state related but is close to a border with another state.
They can probably serve out of state people but are not set up for it.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 3 weeks ago:
Exactly.
Each of those knobs needs an injection mould, each switch behind it a supply chain. Iterating on digital design is far cheaper as well.
It’s far cheaper to use what are effectively 10 year old tablets in the cheaper cars. Since LCDs are being mass manufactured for other things that likely get a nice economy of scale.
- Comment on From the outside looking in 3 weeks ago:
That, and to pull them out during road rage incidents. Also pull them out when you’re scared of a black person. Don’t forget take them to school to get revenge.
They need them for a lot of reasons.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 3 weeks ago:
That’s one of those fun things until you have to clean it.
- Comment on one bright second 4 weeks ago:
For there to be cookies one must assume an eternal cookie banner / pop up telling you this site uses cookies.
- Comment on one bright second 4 weeks ago:
So if all the existing matter came from the big Bang, is it possible to condense it all back into one place?
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 5 weeks ago:
The built a thing by burning investor money to artificially lower the price and sell out high on stock IPOs is still going strong I see.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 1 month ago:
I mean most don’t go to their PhDs because it is effectively training for being an academic. Except there are very few jobs for academics so you’ll be an adjunct professor getting paid poverty wages.
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 1 month ago:
Cardboard is recyclable so long as you don’t print on it and it’s the brown corrugated stuff. Which is a big ask.
Most of it doesn’t get recycled into more boxes though. Think like those cup holders you get at a take out place.
The other thing is trees area renewable resource in theory but we use a lot of fossil fuels to harvest and process then.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 1 month ago:
Same.
The people I’ve noticed complain seem to buy giant drinks and let them sit around for a while.
Never been a fan of flat warm soft drinks myself.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 1 month ago:
Yeah the last time I drank a can of coke it was crazy expensive. Like an entire dollar or some shit.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 1 month ago:
Those are hitting main populations between new York and LA plus the cities in Texas etc.
It roughly follows existing rail links
- Comment on Natural selection at work 1 month ago:
Someone should build a whale MRI to check your hypothesis
- Comment on Natural selection at work 1 month ago:
Can probably only breath while sitting up.
The Ven diagram of pugs I’ve met whose owners tell me they got surgery to assist breathing is almost a circle
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 month ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 month ago:
Can we get a link from The associate press or Reuters and not a British tabloid.
- Comment on No brainer 2 months ago:
I mean that is the best pill. It’s like inheriting a free quarry. I could instantly undercut every other quarry and would not need to maintain any of the crushers or land to provide any type of gravel.
I’m definitely choosing that one for sure.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 months ago:
Tell they to the Intel management engine or secure platform module
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 months ago:
Their livelihood doesn’t hinge on playing the game. That’s just incidental. They depend on interaction with the audience and stopping to read and understand something is dead air.
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 2 months ago:
One of the first things they will teach you in engineering design is to start by simplifying the model. So if you’re trying to figure out something like the surface area is a fish you assume it’s a cylinder then the math is easy. Same thing with assuming the object is in a vacuum. If you do that you ignore wind resistance and it makes the math easier. You can come back later and take the wind resistance into account.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 2 months ago:
You don’t pocket mulch?
- Comment on Florida ounces 3 months ago:
I mean I’m pretty sure the American system is defined using SI units so it’s mostly because of American exceptionalism and a fetish for unit conversion.