BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on How come hotel check-in time is always 3-4? 3 days ago:
If checkout is 11, you need to be able to clean dozens of rooms before check-in. You can’t have 20 cleaners come in for an hour, so you have 5 cleaners come in for 4 hour shifts instead.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 4 days ago:
It’s just fancy predictive text like while texting on your phone. It guesses what the next word should be for a lot more complex topics.
- Comment on Did Obama Becoming President Make People Hide Their Racism? 5 days ago:
It was more the fact that Trump got elected while being not-so-secretly racist that emboldened them. They saw there would be fewer consequences due to it being more normalized, so they could be more open about it.
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 1 week ago:
This is a very important distinction. Even socialism and communism can use currency to track value.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It literally says you’ll be notified, and can opt out.
- Comment on Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together? 1 week ago:
That’s exactly what will happen.
A lot of new studios will form out of the ashes of these layoffs.
That’s why you often see “from the former developers of X game” or similar in marketing for new games.
- Comment on Astounding absurdity 1 week ago:
I don’t disagree.
- Comment on Astounding absurdity 1 week ago:
Unsarcastically, yes.
Capitalism can be great, if given the correct regulations to improve quality of life for everyone.
- Comment on Astounding absurdity 1 week ago:
Yea, was more of a general take. Thanks.
- Comment on Astounding absurdity 1 week ago:
A lot of people misunderstand economic systems by anthropomorphizing (it means to give them human characteristics) them, giving them the illusion of thought or feeling.
Capitalism doesn’t care at all about humans, it’s not human, it doesn’t think, it doesn’t feel. It has no concept of right or wrong.
Capitalism says “what is most profitable”, do that. If killing someone to make money is the most profitable, it’s supposed to go ahead and do it, and it absolutely DOES already do this on a daily basis.
Now clearly, that’s going to give us some really fucking bad outcomes from a human perspective. So government regulation is how we attempt to prevent corporations from doing these bad things.
If we tell a company: “if you kill people it will cost $X” and $X would reduce their profit below “most profitable” they will stop doing it.
If we want to fix the bad stuff corporations are doing, simply put a larger cost on those things. It’s that simple. Pollution, Safety, Health, whatever… price the negative externalities (economic speak for bad things humans don’t want) properly and the market will sort itself out.
- Comment on What happens to those who are severely disabled while in prison? 1 week ago:
You hear about this in the news all the time for mental illnesses.
leaderpost.com/…/court-finds-regina-man-not-crimi…
Dude tried to get help four times, failed, killed his mom, was found not criminally responsible and “The judge ordered that Raefe be sent to a psychiatric hospital. Such a setting will be his reality for the foreseeable future”
It also happens in terms of people with diminished capacity, but they’re often found unfit to stand trial in the first place. Here’s what happens with that in Canada for example. www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/…/mentally-accused.pdf
- Comment on What happens to those who are severely disabled while in prison? 1 week ago:
A lot of the time, they just suffer without the aid they need.
I varies a lot though, depending on where and what your disability is.
Wheelchairs do exist in prisons. Wheelchair users often use the ground floor cells.
People with guide dogs generally don’t need them in the restricted environment of a prison because they can simply memorize the layout like they would their home. Guide dogs are for more dynamic situations usually.
Serious mental disabilities often end up in mental institutions instead of prisons, they’re often found not criminally responsible for their actions.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 week ago:
It’s not arrogant, people absolutely cast off social norms all the time. That’s how we drive change in our world already.
Remember segregation? We started out of that with people ignoring the rules (on both sides) despite the significant cost.
It’s dead simple to stop eating meat from a social perspective, vegetarians are extremely common these days. To add to that, there’s no social cost at all for simply reducing meat consumption. None of your friends are going to complain about you serving carbonara instead of steak when they come over.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
The pressures are not real, they’re entirely social constructs.
The easiest fix is for the government to just tax carbon emissions, like Canada, and turn turn the cost way up. The market (Corporations) will change very quickly if it’s cheaper not to pollute.
Will it hurt people? Yes. Costs will go up, but pollution will go down. That’s the tradeoff.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
You realize there are people in North America who do not own cars, right?
I made ethical consumption choices by looking at my three largest personal (and family) pollution sources.
First is Home heating/cooling. If you rank pollution sources, this is the single largest for most north American people. Now here I got lucky, my area uses almost 100% hydro electric power, so I switched to using a heat pump from a natural gas furnace. Now I no longer directly burn fossil fuels, and my grid is almost 100% pollution free as well. If I had not lived in this area, I would have chosen to install solar panels to offset my energy use as much as possible, and possibly participated in a green energy purchase program. It costs more, but the whole point is that if this were easy, it would already be done. You need to give something up to reduce your pollution, and in this case that thing you’re giving up is some extra money.
Heat pumps are a no-brainer in this category, Smaller homes pollute less, multi-family homes with shared walls pollute less, homes with better insulation pollute less. There’s choices here for everyone. They just either cost extra money, or give up some of your lifestyle.
2nd most pollution, transportation, I bought an EV a few years ago, which while it does have pollution for production over it’s lifespan will have significantly fewer emissions than an equivalent ICE vehicle. Again, my electricity here is almost 100% green, or could be in almost every area.
I wasn’t willing to go car free because of how far I live outside of a city, and I accept the pollution that results from my choice here. When I lived in the city, I used to have a bus pass AND a car, and I’d frequently leave the car in the driveway to take the bus for many trips.
Transportation can be addressed in so many ways, moving closer to the things you need, mass transit, EVs, etc. Again, Money or Lifestyle costs.
3rd most pollution, food, I cook with significantly less meat than average, we aren’t vegetarian, but we almost never eat beef(which is a massive pollution source even compared to other meats) and our portion size for meat from pork and chicken is more for flavor than nutrition. A single pack of bacon in a lentil/vegetable stew covers 10 dinner servings, compared to a single 5 person breakfast, and I bulk out the protein with the lentils. We eat tofu 4-5 times a month, prepared in various ways, etc. Using less meat actually saves you money, alternative protein sources like beans, tofu(which is beans), and lentils are FAR cheaper. We also buy a lot of our produce from our local area(less transportation pollution) and preferably with less fertilizers (heavy pollution source)
Overall, does it cost more money or reduce your lifestyle to pollute less? Yes. That’s the choice that consumers make. You want to have no pollution AND keep your lifestyle the exact same, but it doesn’t work like that. Pollution makes things cheaper, that’s why companies do it. They wouldn’t bother if it was more expensive. Nobody is sitting in a boardroom going: “Man, this coal costs far more, but we need to fuck the environment a little harder so lets keep using it”
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
You’re thinking about this wrong, you choose your lifestyle.
You simply aren’t willing to give up your lifestyle to avoid emissions. It’s clearly possible to live a less polluting lifestyle, there are billions of people polluting almost nothing compared to Western averages, their lifestyle just doesn’t have as many conveniences as yours.
There are North American people who have chosen to live ultra-simplistic lives who pollute almost nothing as well.
That’s a choice YOU make. It may not feel like you made a choice, but you do so every day by not changing your behaviors.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
The reason why the top polluters in the world are oil and gas companies is because you buy oil and gas directly to drive your car or heat your house, or you buy electricity generated by oil and gas. The metals in your vehicle? Mining companies pollution. The food on your plate? Agricultural companies polluting. Even the shirt on your back burned bunker fuel to get from Bangladesh to your house.
If you think you aren’t directly responsible for corporate pollution, you’re a fucking moron.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
No corporation pollutes except to produce goods or services for human consumption, or for other businesses the provide goods or services for human consumption.
Every gallon of gas burned is to power a vehicle to move you, or the goods you purchase.
Every natural gas line leads to a house, of a business that sells things to houses.
Theres no such thing as a corporation without consumers, we are where the buck is created, and where the buck stops.
- Comment on [Serious] What is project 2025? What kind of risk is involved? 2 weeks ago:
It would be far cheaper for the US to just trade us for the water compared to invading. Invasions are expensive.
- Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute.. 2 weeks ago:
They aren’t part of the justice branch, so their ability to deal with criminal situations is very limited.
- Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute.. 2 weeks ago:
No, you actually can’t. Impeachment is literally the act of removing them from office.
- Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute.. 2 weeks ago:
That introduces all sorts of timeline issues because you can’t impeach someone who isn’t in office anymore. It stands to reason that resigning, or ending your term, shouldn’t immediately prevent prosecution since often these kinds of cases take years to put together even with a congress that wanted to impeach. Hell, the evidence of illegal actions may not have even come out until after they resigned, in which case congress would never have an opportunity to hold them accountable.
- Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute.. 2 weeks ago:
I think the going to jail part is the “right” thing to do. The point is to force the country to make sure nobody else can ever do this, while recognizing that it’s still a bad action that needs to be taken in order to ensure it gets corrected.
- Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute.. 2 weeks ago:
That was brought up as an argument to the supreme court.
I honestly think that’s what should happen though if the court decides on full immunity, Biden should take out Trump and then help Congress change the rules so that he isn’t a king anymore and go to jail.
It would be the single biggest win for democracy possible if the supreme court is stupid enough to end democracy as we know it.
An incredible sacrifice by both men, for the benefit of the country.
- Comment on [Meta] Just deleted a post due to the high level of negativity around here 3 weeks ago:
Some idiot said it was “almost required”
And a bunch of people piled on him for being ridiculous.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Your comment makes it sound like you can’t give it up because your kids use it too much. I didn’t validate anything.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
What a first world take on this, it’s not a requirement at all. Parent your fucking children. My kids watch D+ maybe once or twice a month, my wife and I honestly watch it more frequently than they do because they have shows we like. We could drop it tomorrow if our budget needed to be trimmed.
- Comment on What do you personally use AI for? 3 weeks ago:
I just use Chat-GPT, I also have the capability to write my own formulas, but especially for more complex or repetitive formulas it’s faster.
Here’s one for PowerApps I asked it to extend
Patch(Timesheets, LookUp(Timesheeets, ID=SharePointIntegration.SelectedListItemID), {DataString:Concatenate(TextInput1.Text, “;”,TextInput2.Text, “;”, TextInput3.Text, “;”, TextInput1_1.Text, “;”,TextInput2_1.Text, “;”, TextInput3_1.Text, “;”, TextInput1_2.Text, “;”,TextInput2_2.Text, “;”, TextInput3_2.Text, “;”, TextInput1_3.Text, “;”,TextInput2_3.Text, “;”, TextInput3_3.Text, “;”, TextInput1_4.Text, “;”,TextInput2_4.Text, “;”, TextInput3_4.Text, “;”, TextInput1_5.Text, “;”,TextInput2_5.Text, “;”, TextInput3_5.Text, “;”, TextInput1_6.Text, “;”,TextInput2_6.Text, “;”, TextInput3_6.Text, “;”)}); Refresh(‘Timesheets’);
I just gave it the first bit and two text input fields initially and then asked it to add the remainder for me instead of hitting copy paste and changing the numbers a dozen times.
Probably saved me 5 minutes, but I do this kind of thing fairly regularly so it’s probably saving me a half-hour to an hour per week on formulas alone.
- Comment on What do you personally use AI for? 3 weeks ago:
I use it all the time to write Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerApps formulas. I use it to draft and re-write e-mails. I use it to come up with ideas and brainstorm.
- Comment on US foreign aid package: how is it financed? 3 weeks ago:
You could be right, it really depends on what you assume it’s buying. I was more referring to the direct economic stimulation paying itself off.