Earthwormjim91
@Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 6 hours ago:
Well it’s gay because OP has touched dick more than he’ll ever touch a woman.
Idk about fake though. It tracks pretty much with what I’ve known the average 4channer to be like.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 1 week ago:
Only surprised about OP sharing a more than year old clip today, as if it’s new.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
Why use nearly decade old data though?
That article is 6 years old, and uses data through 2018.
Median household income today is $83k.
And that’s adjusted for ”productivity”. Not exactly a concrete metric.
- Comment on No Spoiler 👁️⃤ 2 weeks ago:
“Most” Americans don’t celebrate the IRA. Most Americans don’t even know what the IRA is other than a retirement account.
The ones that do know generally support the UK in that whole mess. The IRA is literally a designated terrorist group in the US.
- Comment on Anon orders a martini 2 weeks ago:
No, that’s not how it works.
If you have 1.5oz of vodka mixed with 3oz of water 94 6oz of water, it makes no difference. You’re still drinking 1.5oz of vodka.
- Comment on Anon orders a martini 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say most cocktails are shaken.
Most spirit heavy cocktails are stirred.
Anything in the Negroni family will be stirred. Anything in the old fashioned family, martini family, etc. Basically any cocktail that is predominantly just spirits.
You shake when you have mixers like citrus, egg, or dairy.
- Comment on Why Everyone Hates PETA (it's astroturfing) 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 🥩 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 1 month ago:
They replace rings when they get full.
But each winning team typically gets 52 names to put on.
- Comment on Whoops! 1 month 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