Earthwormjim91
@Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why Everyone Hates PETA (it's astroturfing) 12 hours ago:
There have been multiple cases. And if you’re talking about the one with the little dog, they literally trespassed onto someone’s property, took the dog from their porch, then killed it before the owner could even find where the dog was taken.
- Comment on Republicans head home for the summer after a string of losses in Congress 3 days ago:
I’ve met my federal representative in person a dozen or so times at her office locally, and been to 6 town halls, both in person and virtual teleconference town halls. My state House rep I have met a ton. He’s extremely active in the community.
- Comment on Republicans head home for the summer after a string of losses in Congress 3 days ago:
Lol yeah that’s the issue. You cannot expect people to put rules on themselves like that if nobody is going to enforce it. It truly does fall to the constituency to be the enforcement by voting them out when they abdicate their responsibilities.
- Comment on Republicans head home for the summer after a string of losses in Congress 3 days ago:
It should be, yes. The good ones are already doing this, but there absolutely should be some requirement to make the lazy ones actually do their job.
And, ideally, we’d have an active and informed constituency that keeps their representatives honest. They should be terrified of being voted out because their constituents keep their feet to the fire.
- Comment on Republicans head home for the summer after a string of losses in Congress 3 days ago:
You’re wrong, but for a different reason.
Being on recess isn’t the issue. They should be on recess and working in their districts more often than they are actually in session in DC. They ideally shouldn’t be in session that much at all. Their primary role is being at home in their district working with their constituents and that’s where the vast majority of work is intended to take place.
Not working while on recess is a completely different issue, and that’s up the constituents to enforce via voting. Plenty of representatives and senators are actively working in their districts when on recess, like they should be. Those that aren’t should be voted out by their constituents. If the constituents keep voting them in, they’re openly saying that’s the representation they want. And that’s on them.
- Comment on Republicans head home for the summer after a string of losses in Congress 3 days ago:
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how Congress works.
Time spent in DC is supposed to be the smallest part of their job. Recess isn’t vacation for them, if they’re doing it right. Recess is when they actually do the job of representation. They’re supposed to be spending time in their districts holding town halls, having open office hours, and working with local groups on issues that need to be brought up when they are in session.
They should be spending more time with their constituents than in DC. Spending time with constituents is the most fundamental job function of a representative.
A lot don’t do that though, and that’s on their idiot constituents for continually voting them in and not holding them accountable.
- Comment on Republicans head home for the summer after a string of losses in Congress 3 days ago:
No. They are required by law to buy their own health insurance from the ACA marketplace.
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 3 days ago:
Yup. Blame Google for that one. They built a trillion dollar empire on collecting data better than anyone else, and using that data to sell extremely targeted ads.
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 3 days ago:
Yeah it wasn’t entirely ads, but that was the major factor along with the transition from print to digital.
Things do still have to get paid for. High quality journalism means paying high prices for journalists. There’s server costs and other overhead. Early on people were still buying the paper. Ads covered being able to put it online for free and people buying the paper paid the real bills.
As print died, that killed the main revenue stream. That meant more ads to keep the online side free and make money. But more ads meant people get more turned off by them and start using ad blockers. That kills that revenue stream, so you introduce a subscription that gives access to everything ad free.
Eventually, you get to where we are. You want it, you pay for it.
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 4 days ago:
Because they had ads to bring in income to pay the bills, which allowed them to give the news for free to the end user.
Then everyone started using ad blockers, killing that revenue stream.
They can’t give things away for free without something else paying the bills. That ends up being the end user with a subscription now.
- Comment on Man or Bear 🥩 1 week ago:
Man, I wish bear was safe medium like this. Unfortunately, that’s pretty much a guaranteed case of trichinosis.
- Comment on Bought a "less than lethal" launcher with pepper balls. Tried loading it. Ball exploded in the mag after I pat it into the launcher. Should have done better. 1 week ago:
Well, no. Even by the most conservatively estimated study, there are a minimum of 60,000 defensive gun uses in the US each year. Up to 2.5 million per year on the high end.
There are around 40,000 deaths from all unintentional falls per year. Of those, 85% are aged 65 and older.
You’re more likely to use a gun in self-defense than you are to trip and die. Especially if you’re not geriatric. So you’re wrong immediately there.
And yes, owning a gun makes it more statistically likely for someone to die by a gun. That’s because nearly 100% of gun suicides were the owner of said gun. Suicide is a leading cause of death in the US. That’s pretty irrelevant to anyone not suicidal.
Like they say, there’s three kids of lies. Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
- Comment on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should run for president 1 week ago:
Rahm Emanuel is a classic Chicago politician. He’ll say whatever he needs to.
He’s been a LONG-time die-hard supporter of Israel.
- Comment on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should run for president 1 week ago:
Riiiight. She works for the organization that she has repeatedly called “racist and bigoted”.
www.trackaipac.com/states/newyork
She’s literally the only current NY Rep or Senator that has taken $0 from pro-Israel PACs.
So, not only are you wrong, but you also couldn’t even be more wrong if you tried.
- Comment on Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas remasters are officially in the works 1 week ago:
Yeah that’s the downside. But also, it’s been almost 20 years since the original. Technology has changed a ton. It does suck that a lot of the old mods won’t be updated, but it brings in opportunity for new mods.
- Comment on Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas remasters are officially in the works 1 week ago:
Nothing is going to stop you from playing the originals with mods though.
Highly doubt any of the original mods would work with the remastered ones though, if they use a different engine. The Oblivion remaster used Unreal Engine 5 to handle all of the visuals, but kept Gamebryo as the base engine for all of the underlying mechanics. Virtually none of the existing mods for the original Oblivion worked with the remaster, but new ones could be created.
I would expect the same thing to happen with FO3 and FNV remasters.
- Comment on hockey team owner selfishly engraves his whole family on the Stanley Cup 3 weeks ago:
They replace rings when they get full.
But each winning team typically gets 52 names to put on.
- Comment on Whoops! 3 weeks ago:
Not as written. But uranyl peroxide is a thing.
There’s UO~4~·4(H~2~O) studtite and UO~4~·2(H~2~O) metastudtite
- Comment on The way this is spelled out really irks me. 2 years ago:
Also to note, Chrysler just keeps the name HEMI. Modern ones aren’t actually hemispherical.
- Comment on 2 years ago:
Oh they’ll still hear it. And they’ll just know him as the office asshole with the annoying af keyboard.
- Comment on stupid smart TVs 2 years ago:
Other than the whole issue of it still trying to connect to devices, or allowing other devices to try to connect to it. Which is what the post is about.
- Comment on stupid smart TVs 2 years ago:
That’s cool and all, but that has literally nothing to do with Bluetooth…
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 2 years ago:
It’s literally on the screen….
It says Roku TV
- Comment on This split sink 2 years ago:
…trough
- Comment on Maybe this isn't proper shopping but $18.50 for four veggie burgers, buns, and danish seems like a lot 2 years ago:
All of that might be another $2 total. Produce is generally dirt cheap.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 years ago:
There’s no such thing as price gouging for unnecessary goods or services.
If you don’t think the good is worth that price, don’t buy it plain and simple. McDonald’s is not a necessity. They’re going to price their product according to what they believe the market will bear.
- Comment on Maybe this isn't proper shopping but $18.50 for four veggie burgers, buns, and danish seems like a lot 2 years ago:
It would be $5 a burger if they waste the other 4 buns in the package. They got 4 patties and 8 buns.
If they get another 4 patties it would be $28 total and about $3.50 per burger and slice of danish. Which is relatively cheap for everything they got. Throw in a head of lettuce, a tomato, and an onion and it might cost an extra $2 total to dress 8 burgers.
- Comment on Maybe this isn't proper shopping but $18.50 for four veggie burgers, buns, and danish seems like a lot 2 years ago:
Fucking where lol. Eggs have gone back to being cheap for like the last year almost. Kroger brand eggs are $1.89 a dozen here in Colorado.
- Comment on Maybe this isn't proper shopping but $18.50 for four veggie burgers, buns, and danish seems like a lot 2 years ago:
That’s relatively cheap…
You’ve got 8 buns there so buying 4 more patties would take the whole thing to $28 for 8 burgers and cutting the danish into 8 slices which is probably the serving size anyway. Or $3.50 per burger and slice of danish.
And you grabbed the most expensive versions of things too.
- Comment on Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space? 2 years ago:
The idea of a firmament is definitely a thing and has been for thousands of years. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmament
I’ve heard about it all my life from mainstream Christian churches too.