just_another_person
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- Comment on Do wealthy people tend to only date and marry other wealthy people? 17 hours ago:
Yup
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 3 days ago:
Nope
- Comment on What can I do with a (jailbroken) iPad 1? 3 days ago:
Battery is probably worthless, so probably not much. Not even sure what version of iOS it can run. Doesn’t look like PostmarketOS can run on it yet.
You miiiiight be able to get a Linux Kernel booting, but not sure where you can go from there because there will likely be no other hardware support for the touchscreen or media devices: github.com/SoMainline/…/HOWTO.md
- Comment on Finger On The Scale! 5 days ago:
Might want to post it as a video link and not just a text link
- Comment on How do Superheroes or villians get their suits on is there like a magical zipper or something? Or how do they do it? 1 week ago:
They don’t.
They aren’t real.
- Comment on We have heard time and time again Hollywood and the Media are liberal assests. I disagree with that statement. But has it always been so called liberal? When did it start? 2 weeks ago:
Rupert Murdoch to get Fox News viewers in the US in the late 90’s. He started that dumb shit the way you understand it today.
- Comment on British children are 3 times more likely than Dutch children to be obese. A British journalist explains why 2 weeks ago:
No, they cannot, and have not, and I gave you examples and reasons as to why they have not.
You seem to think that arguing on best intentions or whatever is going to wish all those reasons away, and it won’t. You also tried to say I was saying the idea is pointless or whatever, which isn’t even true. Arguing in the blindly optimistic fashion you are while ignoring facts and reason is pointless though.
- Comment on British children are 3 times more likely than Dutch children to be obese. A British journalist explains why 2 weeks ago:
Literally NEVER said any of that 🤣🤣
My first comment was even that these systems are great if they can work where they are.
WITAF is up with people in the comments lately. Wow.
- Comment on British children are 3 times more likely than Dutch children to be obese. A British journalist explains why 2 weeks ago:
Yes, so how in ANY of my comments am I being inaccurate or wrong about anything, because you’ve got the wrong grioe, exactly?
My God.
- Comment on If a US bank only insures your money up to 250k does that mean I have to visit four different back to have a million dollars insured? 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, I should have been more. ABOVE the 250k level is what they aren’t LEGALLY required to cover. Banks that do that and are FDIC insured are doing that on their own.
- Comment on If a US bank only insures your money up to 250k does that mean I have to visit four different back to have a million dollars insured? 2 weeks ago:
Not legally guaranteed though, and it has to be a HUGE bank. Regional banks or Credit Unions will not do this.
- Comment on British children are 3 times more likely than Dutch children to be obese. A British journalist explains why 2 weeks ago:
Okay, well if they aren’t accurate then why do you think people choose cars over walking in these areas?
- Comment on British children are 3 times more likely than Dutch children to be obese. A British journalist explains why 2 weeks ago:
Useful is not the same thing as practical.
The material posted and a ton of the comments are about “WHY DOESNT THE US DO THIS?!?!”.
I’m simply stating why. Different locale, society, and problems. Just because it’s possible in one place doesn’t mean it translates everywhere, which is the naive fallacy of a lot of these comments I’m reading.
- Comment on British children are 3 times more likely than Dutch children to be obese. A British journalist explains why 2 weeks ago:
Great! Glad you can do that.
Your elderly neighbors can’t, and also can’t ride a bike 8 blocks to the nearest grocery store, then lug groceries home.
The terrain in Seattle is just not walkable, is my point.
- Comment on British children are 3 times more likely than Dutch children to be obese. A British journalist explains why 2 weeks ago:
Never even said it wasn’t useful. Not sure where you’re getting that from at all. Original comment was even in support under the right circumstances. Think you missed something.
- Comment on British children are 3 times more likely than Dutch children to be obese. A British journalist explains why 2 weeks ago:
You literally just said “walkable”, and then referred to it as “hikes”. Hiking is not walking 🤣
It’s the difference between somebody with mobility issues walking two blocks, or eight. Neither Seattle or SF even attempt to pretend they are walkable because of the topography.
- Comment on British children are 3 times more likely than Dutch children to be obese. A British journalist explains why 2 weeks ago:
Well, you’re either unaware of, or just ignoring a lot of things that do not fit into your tidy explanation.
Every been the Bay Area in the US? You know what it takes to ride a bike from one side of SF to the other and any direction? What about crossing a bridge to Oakland? What about crossing the GGB to get to literally any other city on the other side?
Also,.most major US cities were not built for walking, only East Coast earlier cities. Let me ramble off a bunch that discount your point: Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle, San Diego, Denver, Philadelphia, and even Washington DC.
Your immediate response is going to be something like “Well they WERE originally…”, but that doesn’t matter. Maybe 100+ years ago, but that’s not where we live. We live in the reality of now, and that reality is that none of the cities are AS accessible by walking or bike as they are with cars. If not Topography, then the general logistics of where jobs vs living spaces are located.
People don’t have the luxury of choosing where they get to live in the US anymore in proximity and convenience of their commute to work. Just not the reality of things. No argument you might have will beat the consumer logic of finding the most ideal place to live first, and worrying about the commute second. Likely to be by car.
- Comment on British children are 3 times more likely than Dutch children to be obese. A British journalist explains why 2 weeks ago:
You seem to think I’m somehow making a statement AGAINST ped infrastructure,.and I’m clearly not. Just saying the ability to have it be useful requires a lot of stuff the US just doesn’t have. The US was too focused on Suburban sprawl for way too long to suddenly just make this a viable alternative to cars. That’s the issue.
- Comment on British children are 3 times more likely than Dutch children to be obese. A British journalist explains why 2 weeks ago:
Yes it has been solved in other countries…with 1/5 the land mass of the US. That’s the problem as I mentioned.
Every major US city aside from LA has both local and long distance train networks, and they are heavily utilized. These cities were not planned around walking or rail though. Most US cities didn’t even hit what constitutes as “Urban” density until after the advent of the car,.so everything is built around cars. Reclaiming land to focus on ped or rail after the fact is in quite difficult.
Case in point, the California high speed rail project which has blown Billions of dollars over more than a decade and has yet to manifest anything usable. That’s just one state, and only serving a handful of cities. Doing this in a national scale as Japan has done is just not going to happen when Air Travel is faster.
- Comment on British children are 3 times more likely than Dutch children to be obese. A British journalist explains why 2 weeks ago:
The density in a specific location isn’t the issue, it’s the space BETWEEN all other locations. Too much sprawl to begin with requires extensive work of a long period of time to even be able to do something this.
Also helps that the cities this works for were built for walking a long time before cities in the US had even developed a unique urban footprint. East Coast cities established in the 1500-1700’s would be the closest in design to European cities.
- Comment on British children are 3 times more likely than Dutch children to be obese. A British journalist explains why 2 weeks ago:
Works great if you have smaller spaces, able bodied people, and the infrastructure in place to support it.
- Comment on Everyone's Trying To Get Their Money Out 2 weeks ago:
I’m just speaking from the economics of your points here, but people put their money in crypto because they think it’s safe. It’s simply not true by and large.
They certainly put it in precious metals and commodities that are not tied to any specific market or nation. That’s why Gold and Silver just had historic market performance, but there are no large market shifts towards crypto or speculative financial assets for anything other than a bet.
Before you start in with the “crypto isn’t speculation” stuff…it is. It has no inherent value, is not tied to real world goods or services, and has no political benefit. This is why institutions, including nation-states start wars over commodities, not crypto. If markets crash, a government can use its gold reserves to pay for things. If interest rates rise, they can use commodities as leverage to counteract negative impacts.
Crypto has absolutely no use except for people who want to collect crypto. If a World War breaks out, crypto will be useless. You can’t pay for grain to feed your people your Pokemon cards, and you can’t buy raw goods for your production sectors with crypto. It’s just not a thing.
- Comment on Everyone's Trying To Get Their Money Out 2 weeks ago:
I mean…it’s already happening and provable, so…
What does crypto have anything to do with it? 🤣
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- Comment on Is there any good laptop cleaners so I can set it to max settings and get rid of bloware that are free? 2 weeks ago:
This one seems pretty active: github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat
- Comment on Am I messed up being in my 30ish believe in Superheroes actually exsist? And we just don't hear about them? I just like to think that their is a person or persons out there.....q 2 weeks ago:
Don’t you think they would have done something obvious by now?
- Comment on How to run most Windows apps on Linux, and why it won't really help 2 weeks ago:
God damn. That’s a 2m video stretched WAY the fuck out. He’s constantly repeating the same couple points over and over and over. Not even phrasing it differently even.
- Comment on Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie? 2 weeks ago:
Nope
- Comment on Does anyone else get their news from The 700 Club? 2 weeks ago:
Did your account get hacked, buddy?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Rooting means you’re disabling or bypassing the hardware encryption signing for modules that are built for the device you’re on. If things aren’t signed, and something checks to ensure that they ARE signed, you’ll run into problems.