magiccupcake
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- Comment on Does the USA simply have no food safety standard at all? 2 weeks ago:
Ehh, kinda? I mean there is no plastic on earth that does not produce microplastics when combined with heat, but the science on how bad that is for people is very new, as plastic packaging for food is still relatively new.
We don’t know how bad or not microplastics are, but everyone is being exposed to a lot.
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 4 weeks ago:
While yes, the rich are the main problem, the bulk of resistance is the middle class. They don’t want to see the value of their property go down, or see increased traffic. Even though the suggested policy changes would help them too! The brainwashing is strong among people, not just the rich.
It’s also hard, because to make meaningful changes, you need progress in at least 2 of these areas at the same time, which means you need to get people and politicians to agree on how to fix the problem!
I see many people blaming corporate ownership as a problem, and in our current system is it is. But implementing my proposed changes would make it unpalatable for exploitive corporations, without needing to explicitly ban them!
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 4 weeks ago:
I live in the United States, and as I understand it the housing crisis is caused by several factors.
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The lowest level of zoning is typically residential single family. This means small scale owners and developers cannot increase supply by taking a house and adding to it. Either by adding extensions, subletting, or even building a mini-apartment building. To add to this, US regulations require apartment units to have access to 2 staircases, in the event of a fire. This is good fore safety, but greatly restricts style of apartments to hotel styles, and increases costs, so smaller apartments don’t make as much sense. This requirement should be able to be waved in the case of fire resistant building materials.
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Speculative land owning. Some property owners simply sit on properties in developing areas, waiting for its price to increase, and since tax is based on the value of the total property (land+building), a decaying building reduces the cost of owning that land. To fix this, we should be taxing the value of the land instead, punishing speculators, while incentivising people to improve their land (by building housing).
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Overuse of cars. Even when places want to expand housing, the complete and utter reliance on cars as transportation in the US leads to backlash for increasing housing, as the perception is that it will increase traffic. To combat this cities need to rethink their transportation strategies to radically increase things like bus and bike lanes. Even when cities do have buses, the strategy funded by the federal government is abysmal. For example instead of running buses that can hold 15 passengers and run every 15 mins, cities will instead run buses that can hold 50 people every hour, and so these buses run mostly empty with 2-3 passengers.
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- Submitted 3 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 3 comments
- Comment on Why is space 2 dimensional? 3 months ago:
The original question was why solar systems and galaxies are in planes, and your explanation is wrong.
What do you even mean by similar orbits? Most orbits are circular for a totally different reason, and that is tidal interactions.
- Comment on Why is space 2 dimensional? 3 months ago:
I hate to be that guy, but this is wrong.
The solar system is mostly in one plane because it formed from a cloud of gas. The cloud of a gas has some total non zero rotation and interactions flatten the cloud into a disk, where all of the planets formed.
This same principle applies to galaxies.
- Comment on Is overwatch 2 really that bad? 3 months ago:
I honestly though I would get used to it, like the forced 2-2-2 comps which I initially disliked, but I never did. It just made the game feel like too much more like a pure fps. And it not feeling like that was what made it unique.
In my experience all the que times were fine as 2-2-2 even when queued as duo dps
- Comment on Is overwatch 2 really that bad? 3 months ago:
Ehh I disagree, I played consistently ow1 for years and ow2 just wasn’t as good.
I mainly missed tank synergies. Without it the game just wasn’t the same. The other tank changes were just insane too. And I preferred the full 6v6 experience.
Then they had to go an monetize the shit out of it, when I already paid for the game! The last straw was either paying for new characters or grinding like hell.
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 3 months ago:
I’ve only tangentially heard about this, but another issue is that doctors in the US don’t have to, and aren’t encouraged to keep up with recent research.
Combine that with a medical education system that hasn’t changed drastically in 70 years to keep up with that new research and most US doctors are just out of date.
- Comment on My new m.2 ssd 4 months ago:
I’m confused, that looks like an m.2 slot, and it’s not like it could really be anything else. Msata is a dead standard and looks quite different. The slot would be too wide.
- Comment on With the amount of microplastics we're carrying around in pretty much every tissue in our bodies, is our weight measurably different as a result? 4 months ago:
The actual paper www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11100893/
It’s still a preprint, and I didn’t see the exact figure but definitely concerning.
- Comment on Science is Magic 4 months ago:
Even if it’s not bullshit, from what little I understand it’s essentially unprovable. Which makes it useless in science.
- Comment on "We're not blessed with big marketing budgets," Xbox's EMEA marketing lead laments Microsoft's lack of investment 5 months ago:
Enough money to buy Activision-Blizzard and Bethesda, but not enough to actually pay for developers or marketing.
- Comment on Do quicker digital releases hurt a movie's chances at the box office? 5 months ago:
After upgrading to an oled TV theatres picture quality is just inferior. So now I really don’t want to watch movies in theatres.
Sure the sounds is still better, but it’s usually too loud for me, and lacks subtitles.
Add to that the ludicrous cost of theatre tickets and it’s just not worth it.
- Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2024-06-22: The Kaijus still reign supreme in their second week. 6 months ago:
Looks great on voyager, table is displayed correctly, and just scroll to the right to see the rest of the table.
- Comment on So I got hit with Microsoft's Windows 11 nag screen... 6 months ago:
It’s funny how will linux works with printers, no stupid hp app, no configuration. Just hit print and done.
- Comment on star gazin 7 months ago:
It’s not gas that’s making it dark, its dust, small particles made out of some combination of iron, silicates, carbonaceous materials, and other elements.
- Comment on What do I need to trouble shoot second hand desktop computer? And how? 7 months ago:
That gpu looks like it only has 6 pins, not 8, so it could be fine.
- Comment on How fatal and painful is it if my belly gets stabbed/ripped open? 9 months ago:
Height is generally an advantage as it usually comes with increased reach and strength.
Avoid knives at all costs, but if you can’t use your reach to protect your vital bits until you can get away.
- Comment on Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue 9 months ago:
You can bypass paywall with archive.ph archive.is/zpmHj
- Comment on How can a person be very sad, irritated or angry and still not show it on their face ? 9 months ago:
I disagree that it’s a luxury. Many people, especially autistic people, simply cannot learn this skill and they can suffer for it greatly.
- Comment on David Zaslav Says Content Companies Are Talking About Building New Bundles 1 year ago:
On the otherhand things like plex let my friends outsource their piracy to me.
