AA5B
@AA5B@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 1 day ago:
There’s also quantity. Eating an orange is healthy. Drinking a glass of orange juice is like eating six oranges after removing the fiber
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 1 day ago:
Owls are librulz, they only want to escape the us, not return
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 1 day ago:
Wait, which mountains are between the us and Europe again?
- Comment on I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg?? 2 days ago:
Part of the problem is some debt is necessary for large or expensive projects. Think of it as similar to your home mortgage: most of us could not buy a home without it. Similarly governments have large or multi year projects that can be difficult to pay as you go and make sense to take out debt.
But everyone likes being Santa Clause , everyone likes bringing home the pork, and it’s a simple matter of writing a little more debt. No big deal.
A traditional Republican position is that thinking is insane, it’s not fiscally responsible. We can’t afford that. It makes a lot of sense until you see what republicans actually tend to do. In today’s world I imagine some republicans still have some twisted concept of fiscal responsibility for kicking millions off healthcare, but it boggles the mind to use that plus take on additional debt to give tax cuts to the wealthy. That is very much NOT fiscally responsible. If there is anyone out there who still believes in traditional Republican positions, they should be ashamed of what it’s become
A traditional Democrat position is we have human services and infrastructure that are important enough to write more debt. That sounds expensive, but again, think of it like that home mortgage: some things are important enough.
Realistically, the cost of debt rises and falls with a country’s economy, so you can have unexpected results where additional debt causes business to increase, making debt cheaper
- Comment on I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg?? 2 days ago:
Technically there’s no ceiling and as the reserve currency the us used to have special place, but there are consequences, there is “too high”, there can be a spectacular crash when other countries and currency traders get worried about whether you can pay it back. It’s just not clear where that will be.
US debt is now at proportions that has caused economic crashes in other countries. More importantly, payments toward that debt are now one of the biggest parts of the annual budget, making it tougher to afford other things
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 3 days ago:
If anything reality is better off: many people do know various ways to keep their phones quiet but more importantly we use phones for much more than talking. Every time someone texts, so there is no ring, that might have been a call back then
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 1 week ago:
There always places. I’m skeptical about saving significant money but what about graphical or story elements? I’m not too familiar with how games are built but ai can generate arbitrary “artwork” and even music
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 1 week ago:
Maybe you’re right. I assume whatever is online is generally what you’d see in the store if you went there.
However since pandemic I mostly stopped going to physical stores, except the grocery, so I guess I wouldn’t know. At the time it was the smart option but now it’s the convenient option…… while we all hate on Amazon, you can’t beat that same day delivery! Sometimes it can be faster to order online than to drive to a store
- Comment on Politics in America has always been dirty. How does trump really stack up? 1 week ago:
I’d like to know this too. We all know the issues with the current regime. It’s clearly the worst in our lifetime.
But about if these issues may not have been apparent before the internet. There may be different corruption, different rubber stamps and hiding of corruption and crime
As far as I can tell the current administration has cemented their place in history, with the sheer maliciousness and negative impact on the country and even the world. A Term which will live in infamy. Standing far below every other administration
…. But will history agree?
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 1 week ago:
It is pathetic that you go to a place like target and there are 18 different keurigs, 1 Mr. Coffee, and that’s it. At least the Mr coffee isn’t wasteful. But I digress. It wouldn’t kill them to stock a French press or something though.
Wait, the Germans didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor. I know you’re on a roll here but searching target.com for French press returned 11 pages of results and at least the first page was like 18 different French presses
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 1 week ago:
For example I’m all of the above
- to keep things simple I use pods
- when I want something nice I have a grinder at home
- I do know at least a bit what makes good coffee the way I like it
But also a grinder at the store may have unknown cleanliness as well as a mix of different styles and flavors and ages. If you care about good coffee, that’s not it.
But yeah, that means there is so much I’ll never try because trying doesn’t justify buying a full bag
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 1 week ago:
Honestly that’s one of the biggest reasons I have a watch - my phone has been on vibrate for years but I don’t always notice it, however I always notice the watch vibrate
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 1 week ago:
This is the best thing on the internet!
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 1 week ago:
Burritoius
- Comment on American media is freaking about homicides on transit 1 week ago:
It’s the homeless outside the trains I worry about. The only train fatality I have direct experience with was a homeless person “taking a shortcut” across a railroad bridge
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 1 week ago:
Thank you for interrupting our discussion of zebras where everything is striped black or white, by reminding us they’re striped light gray and dark gray
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 1 week ago:
Thats something I wasn’t aware of, but clearly there are medical needs. I’m still confident that’s a small minority.
You’re right that we need to stop trying to make things binary, like a blanket prohibition. But we should be able to just say no to casual use of single use plastic straws and the remaining exceptions are probably no big deal. It’s not the hundreds of thousands of medically useful single use plastic straws every day that are the problem. But the hundreds of millions of casual use
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 1 week ago:
That’s where you’re going? Out of the billions of straws used every day, you’re concerned about the edge case where it’s medically useful? By all means go for the plastic single use. Medicine is a huge user of that and there’s no realistic alternative. Hospitals and nursing homes get universal exemptions. It’s also a tiny fraction of single use plastic straw waste.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 1 week ago:
Metal straws are annoying to clean. You can’t just put them in the dishwasher, but have to use more water washing by hand and need to buy a specific tool just for that.
But why are we using straws at all? Just say no
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 1 week ago:
Maybe get connected to this guy
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 1 week ago:
Let’s instead imagine the most Christ-like and righteous person in the world. What if they don’t believe in Jesus? According to Christian doctrine, they will burn in hell for eternity.
That’s not just a moral failing of judgementalism over actual morals, but a logical inconsistency
This guy disagreed with that tradition and tried to reset his church toward empathy, care, morality
- Comment on What even is money at this point 1 week ago:
Fooled them, I already don’t go into stores. I order everything online. …… where. … they. …. Probably …. Already …. Do … that
- Comment on Do all American stores have greeters? 1 week ago:
Yeah I used to have a circuitous path to enter Best Buy, so I could avoid those people. It just felt like high pressure sales or oppressiveness. Plus where are they when I do actually need a store person. I essentially never need them when entering the store.
Home Depot used to be really good at this (not in several years though). They used to have people in each department (not anymore) who knew what they were doing (not anymore) and offered to help (now the few remaining salespeople don’t know anything and actively avoid customers). It used to be so nice that I could freely enter the store, goto wherever I needed but if I was stuck there’d be someone offering to help. I miss that
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
Not to throw fuel on the fire (yes it is), but a Turkish-Greek restaurant near me calls itself Greek.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
And Greek!
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
Has to be D …. Has the most major cuisines, most variety.
I may have always lived in H but depending how you define foods from there, we have almost nothing.
- Comment on Doot doot 2 weeks ago:
They seem to move their mouths to speak. That implies they are mouth breathers
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 2 weeks ago:
Certainly some of it is on me: I don’t like to plan ahead enough for an appointment but also don’t want to wait. I prefer a place that does walk-ins and I learn when they’re unlikely to have a line.
Supercuts is a great example. My town had two of them so I went to each several times before learning that one was consistently better, so I started going there regularly. Then they closed. So now I’m going to the other but they’re a mess: employees consistently do noticeably worse job and are not attentive to incoming customers. Imi don’t think I set a high bar but they’re not achieving it.
My town has been going through a generational and demographic shift so all the old places are being replaced with shiny new ones. While I’m sure those new ones will do a basic haircut, they put so much effort into being shiny and modern with modern hairstyles or hairstyles traditionally associated with various demographics. Great but why can’t we keep it simple? Why can’t I walk in, ask for a haircut, give my preferences And just get it done?
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 2 weeks ago:
Not often enough. It looks pretty ratty but the time I force myself to go. Maybe 4-6 months?
I’ve always been annoyed by haircuts so it’s difficult to motivate myself to go. However by the time I settle on a new location to regularly use, they close down. Then it’s that much more annoying o find a new place I don’t hate
- Comment on peach: frozen 3 weeks ago:
Maybe the problem is the internet. It used to be easy to say that speech should be free, no matter what. But the internet has given a bigger stage while distancing people from real life consequences, allowing them to do real harm to society.
Kirk is a great example. He could have preached his hatred alone on a corner in a small village, but he got a pulpit, he faced no real life consequences, and he caused harm increasing our divisiveness, pitting neighbor against neighbor, encouraging hatred, and that is before the effect on government services.