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- Comment on The first new Shiren The Wanderer game in 14 years is headed to PC 4 hours ago:
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- Comment on The first new Shiren The Wanderer game in 14 years is headed to PC 21 hours ago:
Great games if you’re a fan of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon or masochism
- Comment on Why do different ethnicities/races look different? 2 weeks ago:
I think the impact of wealth and access to nutrition and an environment that does not stunt development plays a major role here as well. A good example of this is height in Europe post-industrial revolution and improvements in medicine:
Most notable being a 20cm increase in the Netherlands in just over 100 years as well as changes in places that industrialised quickly like China:
Not to say that geography plays no role but it’s closer to 10cm gap than a 30cm one.
- Comment on Reddit Undeleted all my posts and comments 2 months ago:
Are you sure it was previously deleted stuff? I thought the same thing had happened to me but it was due to subreddits being private at the time of deletion then later coming out of private (some weeks or months later) preventing those now privated posts/comments from being deleted. I think running another automated tool again should do the trick at this point.
- Comment on best GBA games? I need recommendations 2 months ago:
I’ve curated a list based on my own preferences, couple caveats are that I haven’t played most of them, some stuff like DBZ and Yugioh are whatever if you’re not into those franchises and some stuff has better ports elsewhere and isnt included: pastebin.com/Fv2RtN61
- Comment on What's the best way to measure the size of the government? 3 months ago:
Government spending/revenue as percentage of GDP is the common proxy for government size. That said actual empirical evidence doesn’t lead to clear cut conclusions about the relationship between economic growth/outcomes and government spending. It’s very much dependent on the country, quality of government institutions and components of the expenditure.
Intuitively, you can clearly see that if you had 2 identical countries where 50% of gov spending went to building schools, hospitals and roads in one and paying interest on national debt in the other then you would expect very different outcomes with the same government “size”.
For the US, that metric has been close to 30% for the last several decades with spikes during crises like 2008 and 2020 (changes to money supply or “minting” is a component of government size but usually a temporary one). It’s been relatively stable outside of that since the 1970s. tradingeconomics.com/…/government-spending-to-gdp
Relative to the rest of the world’s rich countries it’s on the lower end:
In my view, it’s highly dependent on the quality of the government institutions and components of spending. People immediately think of inefficiency and bureaucracy when governments are brought up but there is empirical evidence to show that gov spending on things like education and infrastructure are usually “productive” in additional to contributing to factors that may not be properly captured by measures like GDP growth.
In short, people reducing government spending/regulations as inherently bad/controlling are at least not being completely honest because it’s a very complicated discussion.
- Comment on Counter-Strike 2 probably releases next week 1 year ago:
The counter strike twitter has been pulling this shit for a while ever since source 2 rumors started picking up steam so I wouldn’t get my hopes up
- Comment on What does cigarette smoking do for people? 1 year ago:
I could go until the late afternoon without eating with the power of nicotine. I would say it’s about the same as coffee but you can smoke more frequently than you can drink coffee (usually).
- Comment on What does cigarette smoking do for people? 1 year ago:
Nicotine feels great. It’s why I still crave it after giving it up a while back. Everything else involved is horrible but there’s a reason people get hooked to begin with.
- Comment on How is it that we hate the taste of coffe and still drink it? 1 year ago:
I happily drink instant coffee. I even prefer it to something like Starbucks coffee.
- Comment on Is this it? Is there anything more to life, am I missing something? 1 year ago:
That’s why we need to strive toward working less hours in general. Full time hours take up most of your waking hours when you factor in prep time, commute etc
What you do with your free time can make a world of difference of course but the math just doesn’t work out when you get home and have like 4 hours to deal do everything you need to do before you have to go to sleep.
- Comment on Is there a more politically conservative part of the fediverse? 1 year ago:
What’s a political right space look like in your opinion? Because, in my view, self-identified conservatives on the internet tend to be the ones espousing hate and/or conspiracy theories while the more moderate ones don’t use the label or stick to centrist if anything. At the very least, there is an image problem with conservatism online.
- Comment on 2FA Should Be Disabled As It Doesn't Work 1 year ago:
Yeah I know it sucks. I tried some of those too but only KeePassXC worked for me.
- Comment on 2FA Should Be Disabled As It Doesn't Work 1 year ago:
Try using KeePass. It works with that.
