Ajen
@Ajen@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on business is business 1 day ago:
Next time, see what a local camera shop would charge to rent some equipment so you can do the shoot yourself. It’ll probably be less than $75 to rent the gear for a day. It takes a lot of experience to be a good photographer, so you’re paying for their time and expertise, not their equipment. Modern cameras do a lot of the work for you, so you might be happy doing it yourself. On the other hand, for something like a wedding I would hire a pro if there’s room in the budget.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 5 days ago:
401ks directly replaced pensions for most Americans. It’s disingenuous to claim they’re “in no way comparable.”
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 5 days ago:
A pension, maybe, but Social Security is in no way comparable to a retirement fund.
By that logic, a pension is in no way comparable to a retirement fund, which is a rediculous statement that no one would agree with.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 6 days ago:
Unlike most other taxes, you only benefit from social security if you’ve paid into it. And the amount you receive is proportional to the amount you put in. Practically, it’s far closer to a retirement account or pension than a tax.
- Comment on Washed up 1 week ago:
plus having fewer dishes to wash can be extremely motivating, lol
Yes, it motivates me to order takeout
- Comment on It's rigged 5 weeks ago:
That’s all true, but I’m not sure if you’re disagreeing with something I said or supporting it?
- Comment on It's rigged 5 weeks ago:
As long as the withdraw rate is based on contribution rate it doesn’t really matter what the cap is, because you’d be increasing withdrawal along with contributions. Social security income for someone who was making $185k/yr will be far more than enough to keep them out of poverty, which is the goal of social security. It’s not meant to be people’s only retirement account, it’s a safety net.
- Comment on It's rigged 5 weeks ago:
IIRC both employee A and B will also get the same payout from Social Security, assuming both of their salaries were at that level (at the cap or higher) for most of their careers.
Just looking at social security tax will never give you the full picture though, it’s just a small fraction of overall income taxes. And it misses the fact that wealthy people increase their wealth through other means, like long term capital gains. Someone making $100M per year through investments probably won’t work a day job and will therefore pay $0 social security tax.
- Comment on May not buff out 1 month ago:
Same reason Jeeps have more ground clearance and suspension travel than they need to operate on public roads. Some people use their vehicles for both transportation and recreation.
- Comment on How do students who are always involved in mathematics and physics get to know about sex? 1 month ago:
No, it just means that the camera person doesn’t belong to the subset of H that makes up the orgy.
- Comment on oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members! 1 month ago:
Wow, talk about moving the goal posts. Do you really think anyone on Lemmy is pro-ICE?
- Comment on oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members! 1 month ago:
The kid returned home with brain damage, IIRC. Has that happened to anyone accused of vandalizing the pool?
- Comment on Finally an explanation 1 month ago:
Same
- Comment on Finally an explanation 1 month ago:
I understand what that is supposed to mean
It seems like your understanding is different from other people’s.
- Comment on If internet means wires, then how come my mobile phone gets connected to the internet ? I'm roaming everywhere with it inside my pocket. 2 months ago:
Wireless is also critical, but I’m starting to think your confusion is more around grammar than technology.
- Comment on If internet means wires, then how come my mobile phone gets connected to the internet ? I'm roaming everywhere with it inside my pocket. 2 months ago:
Underwater cables being used for parts of the internet is not the same thing as “internet means wires.”
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 2 months ago:
That’s not quite right. Projectors make headlights less blinding. It would be worse if we still used basic reflectors. Also, not all vehicles use expensive LED headlights.
Back to your original argument: you aren’t saying you think an IR HUD would be less complicated than a cheap halogen bulb in a projector, are you? Because that would be rediculous.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 2 months ago:
There’s a lot more that goes into to than you think. A camera and HUD will never be as cheap as a bulb and a reflector.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 2 months ago:
Of course the cost would come down (slightly) if a new tech goes mainstream, but you don’t think an IR HUD could become as cheap as regular headlights, do you?
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 2 months ago:
I’m still not sure we’re in agreement, but maybe we are? I’m saying the US auto market has never had enough influence to block a cost-effective safety feature from appearing on foreign markets. Another person pointed out that the IR HUD was used on a luxury car and the high cost probably prevented its widespread use.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 2 months ago:
I’m sorry, are you correcting my post or yours? I was speaking in the past tense.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 2 months ago:
Makes sense.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 2 months ago:
I think you’re over estimating the amount of influence the US auto market has had.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 2 months ago:
A German auto company isn’t going to pull a safety feature from the EU, South American, and Asian markets just because it’s banned in the US.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 2 months ago:
Was it banned in other countries too, or is there some other reason it isn’t used?
- Comment on Hail power! 2 months ago:
DC is just AC with f=0.
- Comment on try out my AI agent bro, it'll change your life bro, I swear... 3 months ago:
I get your point, and mostly agree, but the companies developing closed models are sometimes selling data center services to the real miners - the SV startups that are building products with AI, who are burning a ton of money on tokens. The data centers are making a profit, and will mostly be fine when the bubble pops. So Nvidia is clearly a shovel seller, and SV startups are clearly miners, but the analogy starts to break down when you look at Google, MS, etc.
- Comment on try out my AI agent bro, it'll change your life bro, I swear... 3 months ago:
IMO the Silicon Valley startups are the miners, and companies like Nvidia, Anthropic, and OpenAI are the shovel sellers. And from that perspective there aren’t that many shovel sellers.
- Comment on You're cured! 4 months ago:
Are you aware that RFK is a big supporter of chiropractors? If anyone is spouting RFKs bullshit, it’s you.
- Comment on The Chicken of Hormuz 4 months ago:
“completely degrading” - sounds like an oxymoron… “degraded” means it’s partially functioning, not completely working but not completely broken either.