Pandemanium
@Pandemanium@lemm.ee
- Comment on Trump’s Allies Say They’ll Enforce the Comstock Act. Believe Them. 1 week ago:
Because there’s nothing automatic about our law passing process. How many years is the right amount to strike an old law from the books? You wouldn’t want something like the abolishment of slavery to ever become automatically unenforceable. So now you need someone to decide on a case by case basis which laws should still be on the books… well, that’s what the Supreme Court is for. They don’t reconsider every law, though. It seems to be at their discretion.
- Comment on 'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement 2 weeks ago:
So if I walked into a restaurant that specialized in a certain cuisine (choosing the right one out of hundreds is a skill, right?) and wrote down a list of ingredients, and the restaurant made me a meal with those ingredients according to however the restaurant functions (nobody can see into the kitchen, after all), does this make me a chef?
- Comment on Is this a boondoggle or is it actually useful investment? 2 months ago:
I see your confusion. They could have worded this better, but it’s two grants being split between eight nonprofit financial institutions. My understanding is these entities will lend that money to communities to do ongoing infrastructure projects. The goal is “turning $20 billion of public funds into $150 billion of public and private investment to maximize the impact of public funds.” I don’t know how that part works exactly, but to me that doesn’t sound like a handout. Of course I would hope they would be held responsible for any mismanagement.
As for why they need to create a financial nework to do this: These kinds of projects can take many years and sometimes need ongoing financing. Apparently, when Obama tried to fund something like this, there was a lending bottleneck where I guess banks didn’t want to finance community infrastructure projects or something, so a lot of the funding just sat there until the grants expired. This is supposed to prevent that from happening.
- Comment on Tax time 7 months ago:
Lol I never said ignore it. Just don’t blindly pay without looking into it.
- Comment on Tax time 7 months ago:
Just a PSA, the IRS recently instituted some kind of AI algorithm that is re-flagging a lot of things that have already been resolved… a friend got a bill for $1500 which they had earlier sent a letter of apology for. He doesn’t actually owe anything, it’s just the glitchy algorithm sending the old bill out again.
If you don’t understand why you owe more, don’t just give up and pay it. The IRS can make mistakes too.
- Comment on Youtube Depends on Ads to work 7 months ago:
I’ve tried. Marge’s voice is like nails on a chalkboard. Most of the voice actors are so old they don’t sound like the characters at all anymore. At least they stopped doing the trendy celebrity guest of the week on every episode.
- Comment on Am I strange for not loving Everything Everywhere All At Once? 8 months ago:
I agree. Beef had an Asian cast, and I thought it was way more entertaining and emotionally provocative than EEAAO.
- Comment on Am I strange for not loving Everything Everywhere All At Once? 8 months ago:
But those kinds of plots (as well as the whole multiverse thing) have already been done in lots of shows like Rick and Morty, Futurama, Marvel, etc. I never understood why there was so much hype to begin with - the movie wasn’t groundbreaking at all. It played out basically exactly how I thought it would, except with some incredibly unrealistic parental apology fantasy tacked on.
- Comment on My dog is on an antibiotic for Lyme disease and he will not sleep at night because his stomach is upset 8 months ago:
I don’t know if you are in a place where you can get CBD, but it really seems to help my dog when he has an upset stomach. It’s often the difference between sleeping through the night and getting up every hour so he can go eat grass outside. A lot of pet stores sell it.
- Comment on anyone else? i made this to represent my struggle. 11 months ago:
Doesn’t work for everyone, unfortunately. Lactose might not be the only thing in dairy that people have a reaction to.