partial_accumen
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- Comment on tiny tot engineering 2 days ago:
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 5 days ago:
Fantasy Football (gridiron) was started upon the NFL game stats. There have been repeated citations of injuries to players, including many CTE cases, and these players frequently come up through the ranks from poverty as a method to earn scholarship education and income. The exploitation occurs because for many players, this may be their best path out of low economic conditions and are coerced to play when injured, and frequently discarded by football when they become injured leaving them with nothing.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 5 days ago:
She absolutely might be, and anon should have a discussion with her to make sure that matches her preferences and desires.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 5 days ago:
None of those are industries build on (modern) slavery and exploitation though.
You haven’t looked very deeply at the American Football industry where Fantasy Football derives its data/basis from then, then I take it.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 6 days ago:
Shared values are certainly important. However, Anon may quickly learn that his importance on spending money on Fantasy Football, Warhammer, or automotive tuning (or whatever his hobby/vice may be) may also quickly get met by his alternate shared-values compatible wife when he finds one that doesn’t want a diamond engagement ring for being wasteful.
If anon is worried about the resale value of a wedding ring after the purchase, I’m not sure if he quite understands the purpose of a wedding ring.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 6 days ago:
Anon hasn’t figured out that what is important to her is what should be important to him on this one. Trying to rationalize with her that the diamond ring she wants from this (potentially) most important event in her life isn’t worth it is a sure fire way to ruin this for her.
- Comment on Order two anyway 6 days ago:
“our fries”.
- Comment on The crab housing market 1 week ago:
desires a system where the larger and stronger crabs should have their pick of the housing market and less powerful (smaller) crabs simply have to take whatever smaller, less desirable housing is left over.
Power and strength have nothing to do with it, they aren’t fighting over who gets the bigger shell, they’re trading.
If there are two crabs each with a need for the large shell, they will fight over it. Power of the winner can absolutely determines the outcome of who gets the shell (or who may die trying).
“In the field, we also occasionally observed 2 or 3 tug-of-war queues radiating out from a single vacant shell, with the largest crabs in each queue struggling to gain controlof the vacant shell. Such tug-of-wars between multiple queues appeared to inhibit vacancy chains as in some cases this situation lasted up to 4h without any crabs moving into the vacant shell. These findings indicate that the formation of hermit crab queues and other linear dominance hierarchies involves more complex social interactions than previously thought(Chaseetal.2002).”
source: Social context of shell acquisition in Coenobita clypeatus hermit crabs.PDF
Smaller doesn’t mean less desirable, [snip] They want a shell that fits there size, not the biggest one.
It doesn’t always, but it can absolutely mean less desirable. If two equal size crabs both have a need for the larger shell, and there is only one larger shell, then shells that are too small are less desirable (undesired?).
otherwise the small crabs would not give up the big shell voluntarily.
Apparently there are circumstances when the smaller crab doesn’t give up voluntarily, and is instead ripped in half by the larger crab.
This system takes into account size as opposed to our current housing system, which is all about power (in the form of wealth). We’d be better off if we considered size as we have a lot of small families in big houses (wealthy empty nesters) and big families in small houses (poorer families just starting off in a small apt) and redistribution those could help both parties.
Your are stating a subjective opinion. Your opinion is certainly valid, but it is not a fact.
The problem is that we are in a “bigger is better” mindset, and that empty nest family doesn’t want to give up their house even though they don’t need it.
Its not nearly as simple as “bigger is better” for that empty nest example. If it were, we’d see empty nesters (which are typically at the height of the lifetime wealth) automatically purchasing even larger houses when the kids leave into adulthood. That isn’t typically what happens. They keep the current home they had when they had children.
- Comment on The crab housing market 1 week ago:
Again, I’m playing devils advocate here to highly a cynical take. This isn’t my position.
The crab that waved the others down doesn’t benefit more than any other crab, it’s just a mutually beneficial redistribution of shells
You’re assuming a perfect distribution of resources equal to the needs of all, but studies show it doesn’t always work out that way and there’s a hierarchy and a struggle for the prime resources in the hermit crab society.
“In the field, we also occasionally observed 2 or 3 tug-of-war queues radiating out from a single vacant shell, with the largest crabs in each queue struggling to gain controlof the vacant shell. Such tug-of-wars between multiple queues appeared to inhibit vacancy chains as in some cases this situation lasted up to 4h without any crabs moving into the vacant shell. These findings indicate that the formation of hermit crab queues and other linear dominance hierarchies involves more complex social interactions than previously thought(Chaseetal.2002).”
source: Social context of shell acquisition in Coenobita clypeatus hermit crabs.PDF
Once again, I don’t have a horse in this race, I’m just participating in the discussion, not advocating policy or reflecting my views on our human society.
- Comment on The crab housing market 1 week ago:
The crab story could just as easily be cynically re-written as an example of capitalism/free-market approach.
- Comment on The crab housing market 1 week ago:
Conclusions are in our own interpretations. Here’s an example of a cynical take of the same situation:
I just learned that if a hermit crab finds a new shell that is too big, it will wait for other hermit crabs
So a less powerful crab cannot take full advantage of the shell, but recognizes its value to larger more powerful crabs. This is also an argument for scalping. If you find an expensive console or GPU which you can’t afford long term, but you know you could carry the debt temporarily, you could buy it yourself then sell it to someone else later who could afford long term and you would personally pocket the profit. It could be argued that thats what the original-large-shell-finding small crab here is doing: scalping.
who need new shells to gather and then they will organize themselves by size and trade shells.
The original smaller crab knows that larger crab will cast off its current shell, which would be substantially better than the shell the smaller crab has, so it can still personally gain from finding the big shell it can’t use, but its accepting a hand-me-down cast off only when the larger more powerful crab gets something better.
and I am pissed that the crabs have a better housing market than we do.
So the poster desires a system where larger and stronger crabs should have their pick of the housing market, and less powerful crabs simply have to take whatever smaller, less desirable housing, is left over.
Again, this is just a different interpretation for the meme. I’m not advocating for a position.
- Comment on Literally every nsfw post: 1 week ago:
You…are aware that in this posting the original image is blurred right? No amount of settings will change that for this joke post @cm0002@sh.itjust.works. Are you trolling me instead?
- Comment on Literally every nsfw post: 1 week ago:
I mean, if you don’t want it blurred in the thumbnail, turn off that option in your Lemmy profile:
- Comment on Drake's lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar diss track Not Like Us is dismissed 1 week ago:
Regarding Lamar’s song, Judge Vargas said: “Even apparent statements of fact may assume the character of statements of opinion… when made in public debate, heated labour dispute, or other circumstances in which an audience may anticipate the use of epithets, fiery rhetoric or hyperbole.”
I really appreciate this opinion coming from a judge. This is modern day debate and storytelling. No one believed it was necessary to start an arson investigation on Eminem with his accomplish Dr Dre when he had the line “With a can full of gas and a hand full of matches.”
- Comment on wish 1 week ago:
Is she the one with the superpower to make things slightly warm? Like heating up a cup of tea?
- Comment on Well fuck me then 2 weeks ago:
Rookie mistake If the can owner turns the can over they’d find a P38 can opener to easily open and enjoy their beverage. /s
- Comment on Not rule 3 weeks ago:
As you get older, something else happens. The people that were present at that cringy moment of yours die off. You may find yourself the only living person witness to the event. It helps. Not as much as it should but it does help.
- Comment on I baked eye ball cookies for Halloween 4 weeks ago:
“eye ball” cookies
- Comment on Trump Says the U.S. Will Institute $100,000 Fee for Skilled Worker Visas 4 weeks ago:
Suddenly American companies are going to start re-embracing “work from home” as long as “home” is your home country. Multinational companies will increase offices in foreign countries and just have their non-US workers work there. I see Canada, Mexico, and a number of countries in Central and South America that operating in the same time zones as the USA benefiting.
- Comment on When real life generates the shitpost 5 weeks ago:
The Free Palestine Movement Seinfield’s referring to is the one with mostly Western students protesting on college campuses, not the Free Palestine Movement located in Lebanon that was involved with armed conflict with Syria too. We have proof of this:
Here’s a quote from this article:
“By saying ‘Free Palestine,’ you’re not admitting what you really think. So it’s actually — compared to the Ku Klux Klan, I’m actually thinking the Klan is actually a little better here, because they can come right out and say, ‘We don’t like Blacks, we don’t like Jews.’ Okay, that’s honest,'" the Chronicle reported Seinfeld said.
The KKK has killed literally thousands of people (mostly black, but some Jews, and whites) source
But apparently according to Jerry here, the KKK gets a pass because “that’s honest”.
Fuck off, Jerry.
- Comment on When real life generates the shitpost 5 weeks ago:
Remind me again how many extrajudicial lynchings the Free Palestine movement has performed vs the KKK.
- Comment on Well, shit. 1 month ago:
Mine was replacing a failed hard drive in array.
- Check array health, see one failed member
- popped out the hot swappable old drive , popped in the new one
- Check array health to make sure the array rebuild is underway
- See array now has TWO failed member, and realize I feel the drive in my hand still spinning down
shit.
- Comment on CBS Abruptly Changes Editing Rules After Attacks From Administration 1 month ago:
“Face the Nation” will now air only interviews that are conducted live, or are prerecorded with no cuts or edits, according to a CBS News spokeswoman, who attributed the change “to audience feedback over the past week.”
“This extra measure means the television audience will see the full, unedited interview on CBS, and we will continue our practice of posting full transcripts and the unedited video online,” the network said. It reserved the right to make edits because of legal or national security concerns.
“When I’m asked a question, I want you to be forced to listen to many minutes of lies and misdirection before I might mention something of substance that I’d prefer you don’t actually pick up on.” /s
CBS news has already been compromised with their capitulation to trump and they are no longer a trusted source for news.
- Comment on Make America Great! 1 month ago:
In the 1950s for white men, America was pretty great. For just about everyone else no one would say it was “great”. So when they say “Make America Great Again” they mean “Make America Suck Again For Everyone But White Men”.
- Comment on Dodged the maga family visitors on 4th July by happy accident, now trapped with them at wife's birthday celebration. 1 month ago:
Though in this case I was granted a reprieve because they couldn’t stay as long as expected.
There must have been some lower income children about to receive needed healthcare or perhaps a nutritious meal that your wife’s relatives had to prevent from happening.
- Comment on Dodged the maga family visitors on 4th July by happy accident, now trapped with them at wife's birthday celebration. 1 month ago:
Pull out a little notebook and write some shit in it, put it back in your pocket, look back at them quickly then continue as if nothing happened.
I like this! If they press you on an explanation for what you’re doing you could say “I have a bet going.” Glance down at the pad, perhaps flip a few pages, moving your pen like you’re counting, then say “It looks like I’m winning!” then smile.
If you don’t mine starting a fight you could even go with “I’m playing MAGA bingo. You could really help me out if you say something predictiably shitty about immigrants or perhaps something laughable about ‘small government’”.
- Comment on Dodged the maga family visitors on 4th July by happy accident, now trapped with them at wife's birthday celebration. 1 month ago:
I’m sorry to hear about your intestinal distress which will make you spend most of the visit in the bathroom with a quick in-person “goodbye” right before jumping in the car.
…or…
which means they get to “accidentally” drop little comments then titter in apology
When they do this just stare right at them, with a blank expression. Keep the stare for about 10 seconds until it starts to get uncomfortable for everyone, and then just say “hmm” while maintaining eye contact.
- Comment on Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees 2 months ago:
If you’re going for a job that doesn’t require one, I would recommend not disclosing you have one for the exact reason you cited. That isn’t a new idea though, I remember being told it decades ago.
- Comment on Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees 2 months ago:
As far as seasonal work goes, I don’t know if he’s applied to any tourist stuff or not
These are certainly location dependent. Regional theme parks (Six Flags, Cedar Point, etc) are always big for hiring for the summer usually 5,000 to 9,000 workers each summer so there’s lots of positions and the job lasts for the summer months. In touristy places theres also lots of jobs at much smaller employers. However, don’t over look small fairs or community events. County fairs will hire general labor to do non-skilled tasks. These will last slightly longer than the length of the even (setup, event, teardown), so perhaps a few weeks or a couple of months. Some like Cedar Point actually have worker housing so even if you don’t live close you can go live in the company dorms for the summer (very cheaply) and earn doing the work.
- Comment on We will all be slaves 2 months ago:
Padme: So the solution is a huge investment in public housing or state subsidised housing, right?
Anakin: …
Padme: right?
