Earthwormjim91
@Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 6 days ago:
Well no. That’s a wildly incorrect take.
Birth rates are already decreasing and are below replacement rate in many places already. Fertility rates are at an all time low. They naturally decrease as income and quality of life increases.
The global fertility rate is 2.2 births per woman. Which is just barely above replacement. In most developed nations, that rate is down in the 1.6 range, well below replacement.
Total Human population is excepted to peak within 50 years and then begun naturally declining, but many countries are already there. China has seen several consecutive years of population decline. India is seeing a leveling off of population growth and will soon decline. The US is increasing solely off of immigration. Japan has a decreasing population. Same with Korea. 8 EU countries have seen population declines over the last 20 years.
If you wanted to see population decline in the US specifically, banning immigration would do it and we’d see a decline in the next census.
- Comment on Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. 1 week ago:
Just build dorms for Congress. There are only around 540 of them, including the non-voting members from PR and DC.
You could make a very nice apartment building for Congress for less than we spend on a lot of other shit. Remove all the extra costs for maintaining two residencies. Travel is already an extra stipend. So is food.
- Comment on Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. 1 week ago:
So you set the congressional pay at a high level, and ban all other sources of income. Any securities must be placed in a blind trust for the duration of service.
- Comment on Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. 1 week ago:
$87,500 is the median household income.
Median personal income (income of all persons 15+ with any amount of income) is $46,960.
- Comment on Burger King breakfast sandwich- no scrambled egg? 2 weeks ago:
Colorado. They were doing it 20 years ago when I worked there and they still do it today.
The round egg on the McMuffin is fresh cracked. The folded egg is precooked and frozen.
- Comment on Burger King breakfast sandwich- no scrambled egg? 2 weeks ago:
How do you propose Burger King scramble eggs? They don’t have a griddle back there.
- Comment on Burger King breakfast sandwich- no scrambled egg? 2 weeks ago:
McDonald’s absolutely cracks eggs for the McMuffin.
For the scrambled egg they use liquid egg and cook it on the griddle. And the folded egg comes precooked and just reheated on the griddle.
Burger King doesn’t have griddles so they get it precooked and frozen.
- Comment on Everyone freaked out 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I know. They have to be made pre-1986 and they’re insanely expensive. Finding a fully automatic AR is basically impossible though. Unlike other guns like the MAC-10 which were sold on the civilian market as fully automatics before the ban, AR-15s were never sold to the civilian market in select-fire configuration. All civilian market AR-15s were semi-automatic only and by the time the patent expired on it, there were very few other companies making any AR-platform rifles before the ban in 1986, and those that did (like Bushmaster) only made semi-automatic.
There are some very rare pre-1986 M-16 rifles that made their way down to the open market, but you’re looking at $40,000 up to $70,000 for them. There were all of 6 M-16s available on gunsinternational, and the cheapest one was a pre-ban lower receiver and buttstock for $38,000. The cheapest full rifle was $43,000.
- Comment on Everyone freaked out 3 weeks ago:
Fully automatic? Yeah good luck finding one.
- Comment on Everyone freaked out 3 weeks ago:
Uh there are plenty of purposes for an AR. Hunting, plinking, precision shooting.
- Comment on Anon identifies a trope 3 weeks ago:
The whole point was that the T-800 was a bottom barrel cyborg. They were all modeled after Arnold, but there were thousands of them.
They basically found a junker in the trash and reprogrammed it. He was NOT the same T-800 from The Terminator. He was a completely different robot.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 3 weeks ago:
That’s generally been considered the first step to fully automated trucking, yeah. Autonomous on the highway, then to a hub where a human takes over the last mile type stuff that requires more skill. Or you could even just have regional hubs that then break it down into smaller trucks for local delivery, reducing the need for full size 53’ trucks in town at all.
You need fewer drivers overall, need almost no long haul drivers since drivers would be local to the area and only handle the in town stuff, and don’t have to worry about seat time limits on the highway.
It would also make going full electric on semis easier.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 3 weeks ago:
Highway driving is the easiest to get right though. There are plenty of cars out there already that can handle the highway autonomously just fine.
- Comment on Michelin-starred restaurant fined for serving dessert topped with ants 4 weeks ago:
Kind of arbitrarily stupid lol.
Only 10 insect species are approved as food ingredients in South Korea, including grasshoppers, mealworms and silkworm pupae.
Other places allow ants as an ingredient, just not South Korea, while they allow other insects to be used as food.
- Comment on MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style 4 weeks ago:
There’s still a LOT of stuff that goes on in the background. If you’re talking about basic traffic court, you never need a lawyer for that.
You generally do for criminal court, and there is nothing simple about criminal cases, even if you think they are on the surface. In fact, that’s kind of the point. You think you know more than you do, and you end up screwing up the process and causing more problems.
- Comment on The book I borrowed and was reading became unavailable in the US *while I was reading it* 4 weeks ago:
That’s the original US book version. The UK version is white and yellow.
- Comment on MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style 4 weeks ago:
They want us to hire lawyers and to delay things as much as possible to keep the billable hours high.
It’s more that the average person is an idiot and also knows exactly nothing about how court proceedings work. What paperwork to file, what deadlines they need to meet, what processes need to be followed.
Someone representing themselves is the surefire way to turn a simple case into a clusterfuck when they do things wrong. Missing paperwork means you need to now reschedule hearings, which pushes other cases. Missing deadlines means you fuck yourself over nothing, and a judge doesn’t particularly want to do that, so now they have to move things around to try to help you out.
Judges hate self-representation because every idiot thinks they can do it and fuck everything up.
- Comment on The book I borrowed and was reading became unavailable in the US *while I was reading it* 4 weeks ago:
I am confused what that has to do with this at all??
- Comment on The book I borrowed and was reading became unavailable in the US *while I was reading it* 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m gonna guess it’s based on whatever service you are using losing distribution rights to it, because the book is available in the US pretty much everywhere.
- Comment on The book I borrowed and was reading became unavailable in the US *while I was reading it* 4 weeks ago:
The book is still Mickey7. The movie they released based on it is Mickey 17.
- Comment on Fox News sharing billionaire propaganda 5 weeks ago:
Jeff isn’t saying anything because Jeff hasn’t been the CEO of Amazon in years…
- Comment on Fox News sharing billionaire propaganda 5 weeks ago:
Jeff Bezos hasn’t been in charge of Amazon in like 5 years dude.
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 5 weeks ago:
Saunas in the US are virtually never nude though either.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 5 weeks ago:
Who said anything about making them miserable? That isn’t, and shouldn’t be, the goal. The goal is to remove incentives to be corrupt.
A nice dorm and high quality food provided to them removes some of that.
Locking assets into total market funds removes incentive to inside trade, because you can’t.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure you’ve ever been in a McDonald’s in rural Oklahoma, because that was my entire high school experience working there lol.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 5 weeks ago:
We had two guys with Down syndrome, an active crack head that would run out and smoke crack behind the dumpster during shift, a bunch of teenagers, and an 80 year old. And that was just my shift. McDonald’s literally hires anyone they legally are allowed to.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 5 weeks ago:
My first job was McDonald’s when I was 16. It is about the bottom of the barrel for jobs lol. There’s a reason they hire literally anyone and everyone they can.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 5 weeks ago:
I’m saying I have never ever in my life see anyone pay less than McDonald’s, you illiterate fuck.
McDonald’s is the minimum because people would just work at McDonald’s than anywhere else paying less.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 5 weeks ago:
There you go. Even higher lol.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 5 weeks ago:
Sorry I was actually wrong.
McDonald’s starts at $19.29. Because that’s the minimum wage where I am.
