nickhammes

@nickhammes@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Having one name (at least in common, using hyphenation) is easier for legal reasons too. If you have kids, and one parent doesn’t share a last name with them, you’ll have headaches at school, maybe crossing a border, unless you brought some extra legal documents with, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re making a good choice Mr. Beer Belly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cost cutting has made fast food restaurants worse in ways that aren’t essentially shrinkflation. Restaurants like Taco Bell cutting their beef with cheaper ingredients (though apparently it’s only 12% fillers). Chipotle giving you more of the cheap ingredients like rice, and less of the good stuff like guac. Even slower service and longer lines because they don’t want to pay as much staff during peak hours.

  Smaller (especially privately-held) chains have been able to buck the trend, but cutting quality has been a popular option as of late.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We can’t prove that the world we live in wasn’t created last Thursday, with our memories, the growth rings in trees, and so on created by a (near) omnipotent trickster to deceive us. But science and rationality give us tools for determining what’s worth taking seriously, and sorting out the reasonable, but unconfirmed, claims from the unverifiable hogwash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And even then it’s probably not a hard rule as much as a good heuristic: the older a source is, the more careful you should be citing it as an example of current understanding, especially in a discipline with a lot of ongoing research.

  If somebody did good analysis, but had incomplete data years ago, you can extend it with better data today. Maybe the ways some people in a discipline in the past can shed light on current debates. There are definitely potential reasons to cite older materials that generalize well to many subjects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific Success⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d stage a Research Ethics Committee, to make sure their data collection methods don’t have any unforeseen consequences for people who haven’t consented to them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Failing Manufacturers Are Pushing the Narrative That Consoles Are Dying, Says Ex-Xbox Exec⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dedicated hardware still has benefits, having your phone notifications separate from gaming, if your phone breaks having your console break would suck, and imo a touchscreen will never surpass physical buttons on controllers so you’d still want those.

  I personally hope the future looks more like a steam deck than a gaming phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What animal could you take in a fight?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could you take all the sharks in Missouri?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is $87 worth of shopping. Please feel free to use the space below to critique my purchases⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also pre-grated cheese has anti-caking agents, so it does things like not melt as well. A rotary grater and block of cheese can get you a better experience for a bit less money, and just a bit of work.

  In addition to cheddar, a block of whole milk low moisture mozzarella for making pizza is excellent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Trump and Biden both died today, what would happen?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate that you’re probably right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Trump and Biden both died today, what would happen?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kamala Harris becomes President, VP office is empty until she nominates a replacement and they’re confirmed by a majority vote of both houses of Congress, which likely does not happen.

  DNC needs to figure out how to select a new candidate, likely using a process they’ve created already but never tested.

  RNC already had primaries scheduled, and they’ll remove Trump from ballots where possible, as he’d be ineligible on account of having died, and they continue their primary process. It’s probably between Haley and Desantis in the end, seeing who can pick up more Trump voters. Ramaswami probably becomes a bit more relevant, but still loses.

  The media loses their minds, and the people of the Internet make so many references to Death Note.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hot earth⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Oscar Meyer projection

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only feelings were probably that they thought the productivity loss would be less than the losses in commercial real estate, and now they’ve either minimized the real estate losses, or realized them, and they feel the equation has flipped

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is that Democratic Socialism is not seen favorably by a lot of leftists, as they’re seen as being more loyal to the establishment than to revolution. Too leftist for the American Overton window, but not leftist enough for Lemmygrad types, basically

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 20 CEO pay in the S&P 500 is disgusting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are people taking in millions each year, not for doing the job of running a company, but for owning companies. There’s definitely overlap, but I’m not sure the two are the same list