chiliedogg

@chiliedogg@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This might blow up in our face⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have advanced degrees in climatology and geographic modeling, so I feel like I’m allowed to say that yes, anthropogenic climate change is a well-researched and understood process AND that you don’t know shit about what expertise other people in this thread have.

  Just because your opinion is uneducated doesn’t mean mine is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Optimisation is a Slow Process⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It would raise some pretty interesting philosophical questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anons discuss PC vs console gaming⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll take my clicky discrete keypresses from my cold, dead hands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anons discuss PC vs console gaming⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The newer Doom games play well on a controller because precision movement matters more than precision aiming, so even on PC I play with a controller.

  Having an analog stick instead of WSAD makes the movement much more fluid, and a double-barreled shotgun, rocket launcher, or chainsaw don’t exactly require pixel-perfect aiming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anons discuss PC vs console gaming⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but they’re really hard to use while kicked back on the couch relaxing.

  And honestly, I no longer enjoy games that require that level of precision and speed. I play games to relax and decompress after a lot of work, and if the game is complex or difficult enough that a cintroller can’t handle it, I’m probably gonna opt for something simpler anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An honor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Black powder weapons aren’t legally firearms, yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An honor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know that, even in the US, you can’t just sell a gun online and ship it to their house, right?

  In fact, someone without a federal firearms dealer’s license can’t transfer a handgun to ANYONE who lives in a different state at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mine was the fact that Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were both born in 1929 😭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember my great-grandma talking about picking cotton in the field one day, and being scared out of her mind when an airplane flew over her head. She’d come to Texas from California on a covered wagon, had never lived in a home with electricity, and hadn’t heard about the flying machine being invented.

  I helped her set up an email account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨aerodynamics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey - I ain’t judging nobody.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Même] Which movie was this for you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Taxi Driver is a movie I can recognize as being a great piece of art that I don’t enjoy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Confirms Backwards Compatibility for Switch Successor!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It took about a year for it to get near-full compatibility with old games since it was emulated on the 360.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Confirms Backwards Compatibility for Switch Successor!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  360 was absolutely backwards compatible with the OG Xbox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Confirms Backwards Compatibility for Switch Successor!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While they’ve shut down online services for some of the older consoles, the backwards compatibility of the Xbox has always been excellent. I was playing Crimson Skies for the OG Xbox on my Series S a few weeks ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Americans win their country back?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He should at least transfer a shitton of military gear to Ukraine in the coming days. None of this passant little stuff either. Top-tier tanks, jets, warships, and more. Enough to absolutely crush the Russian war machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not worried you're worried⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump is gonna triple-down on the Palestinian genocide and pull all support from Ukraine and probably pull out of NATO to let Putin do whatever he wants to Europe.

  He’s also promised violence against Americans who oppose him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automated switchboard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I swear to God swearing makes it work better. I think they may legitimately have swearing filters to gauge customer frustration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calculatable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But sometimes CE is “Clear Everything” and it works exactly the opposite way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The rental aspect isn’t a bubble. Until they start viciously taxing single-family home rental, home prices are going to stay high because they’re not being bought as homes but as assets for rent-seeking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The people fleeing California for Texas aren’t people who love California and its politics.

  They’re mostly Republicans, and they’re making Texas more red AND increasing home prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Single-family rental is also a huge thing now.

  I work in municipal development, and since 2021, 100% of single-family subdivision developments that have approached the city have been for rental-only neighborhoods.

  And they want to put all the homes on a single shared commercial water meter on a single piece of property instead of extending public lines, so they can’t even be converted later without massive infrastructure projects and replatting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  House prices exploded during Covid. Yeah, they dipped for like 2 weeks initially, but then they skyrocketed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying for US citizens and US companies. That’s how they avoid taxes - by registering in anther country.

  Any person or company that does business in the US, even tangentially.

  You’re based out of Panama? Cool. Pay them what they require, then pay the remaining X that a US company would own to either Panama, the US, or some other country you operate within.

  Don’t grant them tax havens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re due.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My solution:

  Your tax burden is your tax burden. If it’s 15% and you run off to a country where it’s 5% to avoid taxes, that’s fine. You can pay them 5%.

  But you’re still on the hook for the remaining 10%.

  If the 5% country tries to act as a tax haven and refuses to enforce the remaining 10%, they get a national embargo until they get in line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She must be unhinged⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And why is a school doing a nativity.

  I’m Christian and have taken part in dozens of nativity, but none at school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amateur Entomologists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can hear that screenshot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have 8 seconds.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have 11 people with clearance and I know them all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have 8 seconds.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, considering the only elevator I take is to a secure area, I’d ask to see your visitor’s badge and inform you civilians aren’t allowed here unescorted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The grand prize⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You divided by 2 instead of 2000 on your pounds/tons conversion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I not be an adorable junkie⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The film?