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- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 3 days ago:
So what I’m hearing is that we need to throw 99% of our garbage away at the north pole.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
Causing a complete collapse of society to own the libs.
- Comment on what is the actual name of this type of „logic”? 2 weeks ago:
In addition to the others this is also an association fallacy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
For example, a fallacious arguer may claim that “bears are animals, and bears are dangerous; therefore your dog, which is also an animal, must be dangerous.”
- Comment on What is something that keeps you up at night? 3 weeks ago:
Back pain.
- Comment on Aardwoof 3 weeks ago:
Awww, the leopard-coyote thinks he’s a stegosaurus.
- Comment on you are the democratically elected leader of a liberal democratic country which so far has had a good relationship with the US, how do you and your country survive 4 years of trump? 3 weeks ago:
It’s probably a good thing I’m not a national leader because the first thing I’d do is recall all diplomats and cut off relations. He wants isolationism? Give it to him and let him feel it for real, not just his tough-guy head-canon version of it.
Use whatever human rights violation justifications necessary (shouldn’t be hard) to hit the US in the wallet. Cut off US businesses from customers abroad. Expel military personnel. Pull travel visas. All the tricks America uses against everyone else. Make the people feel the inconvenience of not being a world citizen.
- Comment on Are there specific terms for the different types of monetary inflation? 3 weeks ago:
Your first type (treasury) isn’t typically used as a growth percentage that one would typically think of as ‘inflation’ AFAIK.
That’s a metric more widely referred to as ‘money supply,’ and it has a number of different types even within that (M0, M1, M2, etc), depending on if you’re talking about simple cash, bank deposits, and other liquid assets. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply#Measures_of_mo…
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 4 weeks ago:
The Watchers
It is difficult to describe how exactly it met my expectations. Truly one of the most -whelming viewing experiences.
- Comment on Anon has cold feet 4 weeks ago:
Like with a blanket in bed when you just leave one leg out. You have to cut a hole in the end so you can leave a toe hanging out of your socks
- Comment on Every Age of Empires Game Ranked, From Worst To Best 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t played the remake, but the original AoM is the only RTS I’ve ever played for more than a game or two. Is the Retold version a real upgrade? Worth the cost of buying again?
- Comment on Where do you think elon musk would be if he wasn't born into wealth? 1 month ago:
"Mooom, get me my CHEESY POOFS!
- Comment on Sony shows off conceptual immersive gaming tech that lets you stand in a TV box and sniff The Last of Us 1 month ago:
The Future™
- Comment on Anon visits America 1 month ago:
Wait 'til you see the child size soda.
It’s 512 ounces, or roughly the size of a two-year old child, if the child were liquefied. It’s a real bargain at $1.59.
- Comment on Anon's in trouble 1 month ago:
- Comment on Steam News - Your 2024 Steam Replay is here 2 months ago:
41 games played, top 2 make up >80% of play time. Sounds about right.
- Comment on "You can't have our trash because we don't have a way to charge you for it" 2 months ago:
( •_•)
That guy’s definitely not
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Bringing home the bacon
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- Comment on Anon stops an intruder. 2 months ago:
Australia is on the underside of the earth. “Down Under” isn’t just some funny saying.
The flip over the edge happens near the island from Lost. New Zealand is in a superposition, existing on the top and the bottom, and also neither. That’s why some maps don’t include it at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The American sports convention is to list the visiting team first.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Best - find a new job and quit when the new one is all lined up.
Next - get laid off and collect any severance and unemployment benefits while you search.
Worst - quit with nothing else lined up, struggle while you get back on your feet. - Comment on Reddit morals vs Lemmy morals in the greentext community 2 months ago:
Reddit content is posted by bots and/or upvoted by related bot farms. No human general morality is involved in what gets popular.
- Comment on If a word can have as many meanings as we assign to it. Can was assign every meaning to one word? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Valve has created a Steam Bluesky account 2 months ago:
Nuclear block plus a culture of not feeding the trolls means the only toxic accounts I’ve run across are just a day or two old. Block and move on. The experience can only be as negative as each user lets it be.
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 2 months ago:
One’s “own best interest” can take a lot of different forms. Especially when the number and variety of plausible candidates are finite. Your preferred candidate for a given office will rarely line up perfectly with your own values. There’s a compromise there.
If I vote for my own finances, it may come at the cost of my morals. It I vote for my own moral interest, it may cost me more. If I vote for my own power, it may cost someone else their freedoms. How heavily do I weight my own interests against those of a wider society? Political identities and philosophies are complicated, and can’t necessarily be reduced to a single binary choice that is “best” in every scenario.
- Comment on What's wrong with Bluesky App? 2 months ago:
(not a tech expert, but I’ve been following it for a while, so I hope this is mostly correct)
Bluesky the app is currently the only (major) app running on the ATProtocol. The protocol itself is open source, and it is technically possible to run your own “federated” version (it’s not called that in the ATProto ecosystem, but that’s the rough equivalent in activitypub-speak). The protocol is still being developed, so it’s not as feature-complete as some people are hoping for, but it’s getting there.
techdirt.com/…/some-slightly-biased-thoughts-on-t… for a more professional write-up on the differences, similarities, and criticisms of the major twitter alternatives.
- Comment on If trump appointments someone that doesn't last as long as Anthony Scaramucci do we measure that in fractional moochies or do we abandon the mooch system because it failed us? 2 months ago:
I’m looking forward to a few negative moochies as his picks get dumped even before the confirmation hearings.
- Comment on Anon loves proprietary tech 2 months ago:
Back in the day, Norton actually made some useful tools. They’ve been coasting on that 90s reputation for decades, though. It’s all unnecessary bloatware now.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 2 months ago:
Left of global center? No. Left of USA center? Probably.
news.gallup.com/…/political-ideology-steady-conse…
More Americans identify as conservative than liberal. It’s not something we have to like, and certain policies may be quite different individually, but in order to win nationally, Democrats have to defeat voters’ own self-identification. Obviously it happens, so this isn’t some insurmountable challenge, but the deck is stacked.
- Comment on USA President term limits 3 months ago:
- if he ran as VP for another person, which is constitutionally allowed, he could be elected as VP
This is an interesting, but untested, legal theory. When Al Gore ran in 2000, there were murmurings of whether he should try to get Bill Clinton on the ticket as VP. Ultimately, there was some consensus that this part of 12th Amendment wasn’t superseded by any others: “But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”
It’s a bit of an open question whether that means only those parts of the eligibility requirements in place at the time (35 years old, natural born citizen, etc), or whether new requirements are also included, such as already serving two full terms as President. Clinton/Gore didn’t want to push those boundaries, but Trump certainly could try.
- Comment on USA President term limits 3 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the…
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,” doesn’t say consecutively. It would take a HUUUUGE leap of logic to insert that word where it doesn’t exist. I’m sure someone will make the argument, but by the letter and the intent of the law, Trump is done after this term.
“and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.” If Trump has a heart attack and dies before January 20, 2027, Vance would take over and serve 2+ years as President, meaning he could only be elected once for one four-year term.
The rest of Section 1 just means anyone who was in office at the time is grandfathered into the old rules (no limits).
- Comment on Anon remembers 7th grade 3 months ago:
That’s going to go on your Permanent Record!!
