BeautifulMind
@BeautifulMind@lemmy.world
Late-diagnosed autistic, special interest-haver, dad, cyclist, software professional
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
This is where windfall taxes come back into basic utility. Also it becomes the basis for antitrust action on price collusion if all the sellers coordinate
- Comment on CNN blocks Firefox with uBo 5 months ago:
"We’re tracking you for your privacy 🙄
- Comment on Counterspell this 5 months ago:
Simple jinx should cause most firearms to fail or jam In a universe where guns exist and level-1 wizards can cast magic missile/fireball and cantrips like firebolt, setting fire to things (like gunpowder), my bet is that low-level magic users aren’t going to be trumped by steampunk-grade tech that easily
- Comment on Also, the doors actually open. 5 months ago:
- Comment on Also, the doors actually open. 5 months ago:
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 5 months ago:
One interesting corollary to the bicameral mind theory is that our brains have multiple sentient centers to them- that in turn might explain that feeling of struggling with a decision and being able to see the same thing from more than one point of view. It also explains why different parts of the brain light up in different situations
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 5 months ago:
I landed in DeWalt when their cordless devices became as good as/better than corded tools; I standardized on their battery platform only for them to abandon my battery and roll out a new (incompatible) one. Shortly thereafter my batteries bricked and it seems the business model is to force consumers to buy new tools every so often
FML I hate it that they’re all proprietary and incompatible
- Comment on You have now entered manual breathing mode. 6 months ago:
DANG IT
- Comment on And this is why I no longer have cable. 6 months ago:
Yeah I remember when the cable tv folks pitched cable like there wouldn’t be ads, vs. public airways that had to be ad-supported because there wasn’t any subscription for it. When they turned cable into ad wasteland I felt that like the fucking betrayal it was
- Comment on Is it safe to use pans with peeling nonstick coating? 7 months ago:
I got tired of seeing my teflon-coated pans wear out like that or lose their non-stickiness, it bothered me to realize that the ‘premium cookware’ I was buying was temporary trash I’d need to replace every couple of years.
I retired my teflon cookware and now have just steel and cast iron (and ceramic-coated cast iron) and I don’t miss teflon-coated cookware at all.
Sure, sometimes I end up with stuff stuck to my pans, but realistically that was true with my ‘non-stick’ pans as well. The nice thing about cast iron and steel is that with use, they seem to get better, whereas the teflon pans start out nice but deteriorate in the way they work. When I do end up with stuff stuck to the pan, I can scrub that clean in a few seconds with a steel scrubber or scraper, whereas stuck-on stuff with teflon (the stuff the dishwasher didn’t get, anyhow), seemed to demand the extra-soft scrubber (and lots of time, because the soft scrubber doesn’t work as well).
- Comment on A Florida restaurant chain says boosting pay and offering better benefits helped it end its labor shortage 7 months ago:
It’s as if when people can afford to work for you, they will work for you
- Comment on New Speaker Mike Johnson Blamed School Shootings on the Teaching of Evolution 8 months ago:
Isn’t that in the Torah?
Exodus. Exodus is part of the Old Testament, along with Leviticus.
Leviticus (11:9-12) is where shellfish are banned, mixed seed or fabrics (19:19) It is where modern Christians cherry-pick their justifications on being anti-LGBTQ. (Lev. 18:22, 20:13)
Point is, they cherry-pick from the Old Testament when it suits them, and if you look at the rest of the rules in the books they reference that they ignore (e.g. tattoos, touching pig skin, eating pork, shellfish, etc. etc. ) it’s totally fair game to point out the rules they ignore in the same books as the ones they cite.
- Comment on What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials & Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working. 8 months ago:
One thing worth noting that’s tangentially related: the reason Social Security faces solvency concerns is not that they couldn’t anticipate the Boomers’ retirement, but because under Boomer management, wages (which are the basis for Social Security’s funding) have been suppressed, particularly on the low end of the wage scale.
They saw the Boomers coming a mile away. What they didn’t see coming was that they’d flatline the minimum wage and kill off unions
- Comment on Wreck the economy because it only works for the billionaire class. 9 months ago:
I like where you’re going with that!
I think the problems (of high inequality, of unsustainable resource use) are distinct, but related and can probably be gone after by targeting the same things: price gouging and suppressing wages.
If capital can’t do those things, labor will have the choice to work less if it doesn’t need the money to survive. We’ve long-since passed the point Keynes predicted (at which, productivity would be high enough to support people at a high standard of living without them working full time) in terms of production, the obstacle to that happening is that capital gets to allocate those surpluses and it keeps most of them
- Comment on Wreck the economy because it only works for the billionaire class. 9 months ago:
would result in a smaller economy
Only to the extent that withheld labor during a strike affects it. Once the strike(s) are over, an economy that puts more spending money in more pockets will be a bigger one
It turns out that the size of the economy is related to how well-distributed the wealth in it is. If most of the money goes into wealthy pockets and everybody else lives in a sort of poverty-imposed austerity, that depresses a lot of that economy’s potential.
What the UAW are after is not a smaller economy, but a more-robust (likely larger) one that includes more people in it.
- Comment on Wreck the economy because it only works for the billionaire class. 9 months ago:
If conditions are unlivable for too many people, that’s bad and it calls for a re-negotiation of everything. It also bears reminding today’s leisure class/ultra-wealthy that part of the basis for their existence as such was always a trade-off between them paying their workers enough to live with dignity and the metaphorical torches and pitchforks and guillotines staying in mothballs
- Comment on Watch: Billionaire CEO says unemployment 'has to jump' to put 'arrogant' workers in their place 9 months ago:
But if you consider the counter-argument, maybe arrogant billionaires need to be reminded again that the deal by which they wouldn’t be dragged out of their homes and beaten senseless in front of their families was that they’d pay a living wage and deal with unions and submit to antitrust regulations
- Comment on How are slavery reparations fair? 10 months ago:
There were families that made Bezos-class money at the height of slavery, and those families’ descendants are still rich today.
At the very least, these families shouldn’t be anonymously rich, they should be infamously rich, notoriously so. Even if a truth-and-reconciliation process is ‘too much’, let us at least have the truth out, and loud.
- Comment on Almost all remote-work news is negative now but was positive in the beginning of the pandemic. Have you noticed this or am I going crazy? 10 months ago:
Same. I use reclaimed commute time to get groceries and cook now. Wife is thrilled now when I call it ‘my’ kitchen (it was hers by default when my commute + work had me out of the house 12 hours a day), and I can whip up a decent meal these days pretty quickly without having to go out
