phoneymouse
@phoneymouse@lemmy.world
- Comment on This app requires access to your contacts 6 days ago:
The Japanese have already perfected smart toilets. There is no app, but there are loads of buttons, including for a heated toilet seat and some music or ambient sounds to help you relax and disguise unpleasant noises.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
There is a reason though. It’s because you probably want to put dates in order and when you ask a computer to sort things for you, it will automatically order things correctly when the date follows this format. If you put the month first, then the day, then the year, the default sorting behavior will order things incorrectly chronologically speaking.
- Comment on Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops? 1 week ago:
It’s a good question OP. I think about this too.
- Comment on No one. 2 weeks ago:
What are we gonna do about it?
- Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons? 2 weeks ago:
They did it once, they could do it again.
- Comment on Is there any proof behind the idea that "reddit is filled with bots"? 3 weeks ago:
Why do people bother with bots? People often say “to farm karma.” But Karma is literally worthless.
- Comment on So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence. 4 weeks ago:
Probably needs to do that on the other side
- Comment on Is there any point for current US-based "skilled immigrants" to stay in the US? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah actually, most H1Bs are making more than they could in their home countries and more than most Americans too. Big Tech salaries are upwards of $300k.
Another point to consider is a very large percentage of H1Bs are Indian and a lot of them support Modi. They also support Trump.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 5 weeks ago:
Well, I use Steam a ton and have a Steam Deck. But, Steam dev effort to income ratio is probably ridiculously skewed. The company pretty much prints money. In that way, Steam is a cash grab.
I do question if Steam hadn’t been such a success if Valve might have released HL3 by now.
It has Google vibes to it. Google makes so much money in ad revenue that a lot of their other products just get cancelled.
I do like Valve overall though and am a fan.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 5 weeks ago:
I’m not complaining, just noting that it was very lucrative. Folks are really overreacting with the downvotes. Chill people.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 5 weeks ago:
His cash grab was steam, lol.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 5 weeks ago:
Is assassin’s creed any good? Once a game becomes a franchise with a bajillion releases I just tune it out. Feel the same way about marvel movies. Maybe they’re good, maybe they’re bad, but I’m more annoyed that they’re trying to shove it down my throat, so I tune out.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 5 weeks ago:
Beware the diterpenes
- Comment on Is this what every election is like? 1 month ago:
Certainly, at the presidential level, however I recall Congress having a bunch of “tea party” nut jobs elected that shut down the government over the passage of Obamacare.
- Comment on Is this what every election is like? 1 month ago:
I started paying attention in 2000, even though I didn’t really understand it and couldn’t vote, however my first voting election was 2004 and I remember being disappointed when John Kerry lost to Bush, who had already gotten us involved in two wars that would cost trillions of dollars.
My experience has been that Republican administrations tend to be rife with corruption, cut taxes for rich people and run up the deficit.
Eventually, people get sick of the moral decay and tanking economic prospects and put a democrat back in, who tries to undo all the damage, but is blocked most of the time by Republicans in Congress acting in bad faith.
Then, the right wing media environment drums up a load of fear and actual lies about the economy to get everyone voting for a Republican again.
That’s the cycle, except the Republican media ecosystem gets more extreme over time, and so do the candidates.
- Comment on There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage? 1 month ago:
Just tax an income above $10,000,000 per year at 90%. There really isn’t a need for more than that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You got in at a bad time and probably picked some subpar investments. You likely bought some big tech stocks at the worst possible time, and many of them never recovered because they were way over valued to begin with.
Stick with total market or sp500 fund like VTI or VOO. You’d be up right now if you had.
Also, it sounds like you invested once and then never bought more? The whole point is that you’re buying more every paycheck. You’d be way up if you’d kept investing through 2022 when prices were low.
- Comment on Sushi Glory Hole 1 month ago:
Hey where ya going?
- Comment on Bandai Namco reportedly tries to bore staff into quitting, skirting Japan’s labor laws 2 months ago:
Seems nice at first, but having worked jobs with nothing to do, time passes so slow. It’s painful.
- Comment on What happens when the US runs out of SSNs? 2 months ago:
But people have been born and died, no? I’m sure total used is closer to something like $500-600 million?
- Comment on 33,000 Boeing workers lose health care coverage 2 months ago:
Cobra sucks. “hey you have no income now because you were laid off, want to pay $850/month to continue your health insurance?”
- Comment on 2024 is about 75% done. Let's recommend the best games of 2024, but with a twist: only the ones with no paid DLC! 2 months ago:
It was surprisingly very good.
- Comment on Youtube deletes and strikes Linus Tech Tips video for teaching people how to live without Google. Ft. Louis Rossman 3 months ago:
I know, but Fairphone should address this issue and GrapheneOS guy should work with them on it to bring support to an actual secure and private phone that doesn’t rely on big evil Google.
- Comment on Youtube deletes and strikes Linus Tech Tips video for teaching people how to live without Google. Ft. Louis Rossman 3 months ago:
Can’t they work it out? I don’t want to use Google hardware and I don’t want to use Google software. One provides one fix the other lacks.
- Comment on Youtube deletes and strikes Linus Tech Tips video for teaching people how to live without Google. Ft. Louis Rossman 3 months ago:
I wish it didn’t have to be that way, lol. Can’t we have some quality third party hardware?
- Comment on Californians will vote on a $18 minimum wage. Workers already want $25 and more 4 months ago:
Executive pay would be nice. Make it so the CEO gets paid a maximum of 20x the lowest paid worker. CEO pay goes up? So does company minimum wage.
- Comment on The food delivery bubble is bursting — and maybe that's not a bad thing 4 months ago:
It really is that price too. You go in the app and start adding like $20 worth of food to buy and somehow by the time you’re done tipping it’s $70.
- Comment on Restaurant group in Massachusetts is trying to reject a public vote on paying tipped workers 5 months ago:
I was at a concert recently and the merch vendor was asking for a tip. It’s like, I bought a t-shirt, why am I tipping you? Did you make the t-shirt yourself?
- Comment on Federal judge partially blocks U.S. ban on noncompetes 5 months ago:
This is about the US
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Americans don’t know what’s good for them