Pyr_Pressure
@Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 days ago:
Why not build it in a remote location then?
Dams can also produce a lot of hydroelectric power, and a catastrophic failure could also destroy an entire town or more. We just don’t build dams upstream of a large town.
- Comment on Donald Trump Team Plans to Cancel Biden's $7,500 Tax Incentive On EVs 4 days ago:
One thing I never see addressed with the dream of ending cars and just having bikes is how do first responders operate? How do you transport unconscious people to the hospital? Put out an apartment fire? Get to an armed robbery in time to stop it?
Bikes are great but they also aren’t an end all be all solution to society.
- Comment on What do zoos do with dead animals? 6 days ago:
My zoo buries them on the premises. I know of a camel, a moose and a few other things got buried there. They have a large plot of land that is used to dispose of organic waste like branches and trees, old compost, etc until it’s full and needs to be tricked out to the landfill. They just bury the animals under the ground there.
- Comment on What do zoos do with dead animals? 6 days ago:
The zoo near me a few decades ago had an accident where a lot of their reindeer got pregnant before the male could get neutered. They kept all the female offspring but they couldn’t risk having two males in the same enclosure and no nearby zoos needed male reindeer or also couldn’t accommodate them so they had to put them down and ended up feeding them to the carnivores in the zoo.
- Comment on why are fax machines still used by medical systems? 1 week ago:
We need to try and bankrupt any company that produces fax machines.
The industry will need to adapt once fax machines aren’t produced anymore.
- Comment on Post-election blues 1 week ago:
Go extreme minimalist. Buy practically nothing you cannot live without. Boycott everything. Politicians only listen to their gdp and stock numbers.
- Comment on Here are the patents Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are suing Palworld over 1 week ago:
Even if it were an exact clone I don’t think a single company should have a monopoly on the idea for almost 30 years. Pokemon red was released in 1996, 28 years ago. Why should they still be able to be the only company that releases pokemon-type games?
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 2 weeks ago:
People don’t vote because they see the system is rigged so the popular vote isn’t a great standard to go by either, it’s a product of the system as well
If you had 100% turnout the popular vote would be very different.
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 2 weeks ago:
THIS is the moment where everyone should be creating 3rd party candidates and going to the streets to spread awareness for the next election.
Not 6 months before the election with trump as a possibility. Get out there and promote 3rd party now, when people are pissed at Democrats for throwing it all away from Israel and people are pissed the trump won.
- Comment on Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe because with Airbnb instead of renting out a house for $2000 a month to someone looking to live there they can rent it out for $1000 a week to tourists and double their profit.
- Comment on Why are people doing this at voting locations in the USA? 4 weeks ago:
Are they trying to prove that they can vote without being identified or something?
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 5 weeks ago:
I get as many coffee breaks in the office as I want but it’s not like I get up, grab a cup and then play on my phone while I drink my coffee for 15 minutes. I get up, grab a cup, maybe say hi to someone as it brews an instant cup, then go back to my desk and drink while I am working. But no one is shadowing down my neck saying I can’t leave my desk until 10:15 and I need to be back by 10:30 or my pay is docked. Freedom and responsibility rather than strict time management and punishment.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 5 weeks ago:
It’s a pretty ineffective strategy, but I’m just going off this one photo.
If it’s genetic, and the females can’t get a blood meal, then they won’t lay any eggs to pass on those genetics and just die.
Then the ones without that gene will lay all their eggs and the next generation will be unchanged and they have to spend all that money again to do whatever they did which had no effect.
- Comment on What does a federal ban on price gouging look like? 5 weeks ago:
If they stop selling it, they stop buying it from suppliers and then the suppliers need to find a way to decrease their costs to make it so stores buy their products again. Otherwise they go out of business, so they will find a way.
- Comment on So now I have to PAY you to NOT store files on my device that I don't want? 5 weeks ago:
I mean, do you expect news to be free?
Either pay for it by selling your data or with money, or don’t use their website.
- Comment on What does a federal ban on price gouging look like? 1 month ago:
Price cap increases perhaps. No more than 5% increase from the price the product was on January 01 that year.
- Comment on Massive generational gap: Gen Z flocks to multiplayer, while 55+ sticks to single-player 1 month ago:
Gen-z also gets massive psychological trauma because online multiplayer games suck, needing to deal with other gen Z people online.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 1 month ago:
It’s been tanking for a lot longer than that
- Comment on Lingering damage 1 month ago:
If it’s something like bacon / beef grease just let it congeal in the pan then scrape it out into the garbage can.
- Comment on The mark 2 months ago:
I don’t have it! What’s wrong with me??
- Comment on Civilization 7 dev on Ages system and series shakeup: "It's going to be the hardest thing for fans to get adjusted to" 2 months ago:
There should almost be some sort of technological transfer to nearby empires, like cultural influence. If your neighbour is at 10000 tech points or whatever while you are at 1000, you should be able to leech some tech points from your neighbour to develop faster.
Transfer rate increases with the disparity between nations and decreases with distance.
So a super advanced empire on continent A will contribute to nations on continent A and B, but those on continent A get more of a bonus than those on B.
This aligns fairly well with reality as neighbouring countries would transfer students to universities all the time, less so the further the nations are apart.
- Comment on For a few beautiful hours, The Borderlands movie's $90m flop wasn't the worst-reviewed film of the summer 2 months ago:
I don’t understand why no one in Hollywood has yet learned that if you don’t stick to the source material when doing a video game adaptation, it’s going to fail.
How many video game adaptations have been a success after straying from the source material? I can’t think of a single one but I haven’t watched them all.
- Comment on Ancient Tablets Foretold Doom Awaiting Babylonian Kings 2 months ago:
Finally a doomsday prophecy that came true
- Comment on Harris supports a 44.6% tax on Americans for selling their homes: Report 2 months ago:
When there’s a company with $1 billion dollars in cash competing with people’s needing to take out 25 year mortgages at 5% interest, and the company sees it as a way to profit, the company will outbid the individual every single time and drive up market prices.
Individuals buying with the added cost of interest will never be able to compete with corporations that’s have cash on hand and can make a profit by renting out the house.
The more homes a company owns, the more capital it warms to buy more homes.
You don’t need one company in the country, you just need a few in a single desirable city.
- Comment on Harris supports a 44.6% tax on Americans for selling their homes: Report 2 months ago:
I’m all for reducing the incentive to use housing as tools for investment. Houses should not be used as people’s retirement nest egg.
- Comment on A Harris-Walz Administration Would Be A Nightmare for Free Speech 3 months ago:
So would a trump Vance administration. It’s not like people have much choice…
- Comment on Camera reels 3 months ago:
Zookeeper -
“LOOK AT THIS ODD COLOURED BEAR POOP YOU TOOK A PHOTO OF 3 YEARS AGO”
- Comment on Borderlands stunt coordinator says the film was originally shot with an R-rating in mind 3 months ago:
I really dislike movie ratings in general. I watched a ton of 18+ and R rated films as a kid and think I turned out just fine.
On the other hand a few kids I grew up with that had helicopter parents and weren’t allowed to watch some Disney movies because they thought it was too harmful ended up very… Damaged. Like they can’t moderate themselves and decide what is too much for them, have nightmares at the smallest little things, can’t separate out fantasy from reality in some cases, etc.
- Comment on Why do people complain about multiple streaming platforms existing? 3 months ago:
I don’t mind multiple streaming platforms as long as all they do is stream content
My issue is each and every streaming platform produces their own exclusive content or they sign exclusivity contracts so only one platform streams a particular show or movie at once.
If Netflix and amazon video had the same content, you would just have to choose the service that is cheapest and has the best benefits like great user interface, customer support, features, and other stuff like that.
When there are 12 different platforms which each have their own library with barely any overlap you have to sign up for multiple all at once, and some that have terrible customer support or user interfaces if you want to watch one of their shows.
- Comment on 8 Minutes 3 months ago:
I’m more interested in how long before we freeze to death.
How long will the earth’s atmosphere hold onto its heat?