chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on The priorities of life 17 hours ago:
It’s not zoning.
It’s when places developed. The super spread-out metroplexes of the US are in areas that developed after the invention of the automobile.
Europe isn’t more enlightened when it comes to development. They’re just older. Cities tend to develop around most people living within an hour of where they work. When the US urbanized, that was a much larger area due to technological advancements. Rolling that back is almost impossible.
- Comment on The priorities of life 2 days ago:
Believe it or not, not everyone lives in dense urban areas or the suburbs.
And the scale of the US isn’t something most Europeans understand. How long does it take you drive across your country? In the US, a drive from Southern California to Maine is over 48 hours and around 5000 kilometers.
The Texas Triangle megalopolis (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio) is bigger than lots of European countries.
- Comment on The priorities of life 3 days ago:
I tried saying “bippity bopping boo” just now, but it didn’t move my house 20 miles closer to the grocery store.
- Comment on Try going to public school 3 days ago:
Let’s start with this: murdering people is bad.
That being said, if someone is determined to murder people for infamy and attention, let’s give all the attention we can to those who kill parasite CEOs while saying nothing about those who kill random civilians and children.
- Comment on The priorities of life 3 days ago:
Peope can’t just say “I don’t like the weather” and leave.
Wednesday things like housing, Healthcare, and food, which depend on jobs. And those can be very difficult to find in a new place.
I work in municipal employee and an expert in Texas development regulations. If I leave Texas, I lose most of my value as an employee.
- Comment on The priorities of life 3 days ago:
Most Americans buy a lot of groceries at once because most Americans don’t have quick access to grocery stores, and buying smaller portions of groceries costs a fortune.
I can buy a week’s worth of groceries for a family of 4 for about the price of 10 days of groceries for one person. But it requires being able to haul a lot more than can fit on a bike. And for many of us, the store is also a long way away with no public transit and in a place where the temperature may be lethally hot for months at a time.
- Comment on Anon wants $3 million 3 days ago:
Yeah - without tools would be impossible.
That being said, for that kind of cash, I’d accept getting my hand cut up and shit.
- Comment on The priorities of life 4 days ago:
Good thing they won’t need to bring back a bunch of groceries.
- Comment on where?? 4 days ago:
I think that actually was a plot in a MacGyver TV movie I vaguely remember from the 90s.
- Comment on my version is better 6 days ago:
That could fit with the film.
- Comment on Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months. 2 weeks ago:
But at least that’s honest. They’re saying, “This is the real product” instead of “The real product is coming later if you give us money now.”
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 weeks ago:
America’s national identity is not around individualism. Other people dying it’s less important than individual success.
That’s why it’s the economy that matters. a quarter of a percent of extra deaths isn’t something people care about AI long as they aren’t the ones dying. But evonomic turmoil hits everyone individually.
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 weeks ago:
When a million Americans died of Covid people demanded to end Covid restrictions.
- Comment on We still have three eggs up for auction. 2 weeks ago:
That’s what you get from Biden’s DEI egg-laying policies. A bunch of mud blood filth instead of AMERICAN eggs.
- Comment on Romance scammers are now in the fediverse 2 weeks ago:
She messaged me twice.
I’ll make sure to say hi for you next time.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 2 weeks ago:
They’re a perfect mix of people that are stupid, evil, and greedy that will absolutely devastate the global economy.
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 2 weeks ago:
What’s the knowledge cutoff date for the model? Is that even a thing on Gemini? I’ve been pretty intentional about not using it.
Is it from before Musk became such an overt political figure? I genuinely don’t know.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 2 weeks ago:
That’s happening either way, my dude.
- Comment on Forgive them, for they know not what they do 3 weeks ago:
Because I don’t qualify for a mortgage for double the fair market rate. That’s why they’re willing to pay so much for the properties. It keeps us from buying them.
Because banks for some reason think that people can’t afford to pay a mortgage that’s less than their current rent.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 weeks ago:
American here:
I would like for the civilized world to do a full trade embargo on the US. I want the economy to nosedive so hard that either the GOP votes to remove the motherfucker from office, or get crushed in the biggest electoral landslide in history in 2026.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not Italian Balding, but I’m super fat.
- Comment on Forgive them, for they know not what they do 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. By paying the mortgage plus 30% on the property they bought at double a fair market rate just to keep me from buying it for myself.
I love paying double in rent what I would pay for a market-rate mortgage and getting no equity in return.
Thanks landlords!
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 3 weeks ago:
Their function is using them to introduce concepts to an audience that may not otherwise be interested or receptive.
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 3 weeks ago:
The spaceships and aliens are how you get people to look at it from a new perspective.
The early seasons of DS9 were about the aftermath of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the fall of the Soviet Union. 1990s Americans couldn’t have cared less about the dangers of far-right religious indoctrination of schoolchildren, the re-intrigation of traumatized resistance fighters into peacful society, the cautious restoration of political and economic ties with former occupiers, and the danger of the discovery of a new resource in the territory of a politically and militarily fragile nation full of extremists.
But throw in phasers and a warp drive and people will watch. Suddenly you’ve tricked people into recognizing that people with different backgrounds and religions can embrace their differences to make the world a better place, or reject that unity and create suffering. You have capitalists and socialists sharing space in peace. There’s an invented taboo against rekindling an old relationship that’s actually about gay rights.
All these amazing topics are brought to an audience that just wanted laser fights.
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 3 weeks ago:
Sci-fi is at its best when it recontextualizes an idea in a way that makes us consider it from a different perspective.
Battlestar Galactica did an awesome job of turning the issues around entirely. Famously, it essentially turned the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan on their heads in Season 3, and you had the good guys building IEDs and employing suicide bombers to kill collaborators.
But my favorite one was when they came up with a situation in which outlawing abortion was necessary, and the political opposition used it as an opportunity to manufacture outrage and steal an election even though they didn’t actually care about the issue at all.
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 3 weeks ago:
IIRC, a world government is a prerequisite for joining the Federation isn’t it?
- Comment on Putting the die in diet 3 weeks ago:
I choose to see it as stealing eggs from the nests of eagles and condors.
- Comment on Wobble Wobble 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Big Charging doesn't want you to know this one simple weird old trick 3 weeks ago:
You literally can’t make white LEDs without them. That includes all flat-screen display technology. After the development of blue and green LEDs, decades and untold money were spent trying to develop blue LEDs.
The device you’re reading this message on is only possible because of Blue LEDs.
Your issue isn’t with the blue LEDs - it’s with the atmosphere, which absorbs red and green light more quickly than blue. It’s why the sky appears blue. it’s also why white LEDs bulbs will often have a yellow filter on them to absorb some of the blue light. Because pure white appears blue-ish in hue.
- Comment on Big Charging doesn't want you to know this one simple weird old trick 4 weeks ago:
Blue LEDs were a technological breakthrough that took decades of work to create and enabled pretty much all modern tech.