Maggoty

@Maggoty@lemmy.world

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's always for your safety⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
In the US it’s absolutely sending that data out.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The land before time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Would you believe it’s right after 121 and 7th? Not 121 and 8th that leads to the one way bike path. Obviously. And if you make that mistake you have to use 3 highway ramps on perfect conjunction to get back there. Crossing all lanes for each exit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The land before time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Same. I loved the independence of it. But it didn’t pay enough to cover the repair bills it generated.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The land before time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
“unskilled labor”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Before the revolution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Not AI. People absolutely make the poor choice of wading in. Not everyday but it certainly happens.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Before the revolution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
To be fair, it’s killed a few ducks with all the algae and chemicals in it right now… It probably isn’t a good idea. But also we know that’s not why they’re stopping people.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Before the revolution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It’s several hundred dollars just to get there from the west coast. Many Americans do not have 800 dollars they can throw at a vacation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If you can’t take time off as a contractor then you aren’t actually a contractor.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s the neat part. You don’t.

Okay but really, you have to take time off.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Met gala⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
We could raise money for art without decadent rich people parties if we just like stopped hoovering up all the money and giving it to rich people.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Met gala⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
But we might see bewbs!!!111!!11!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Whatever timeline you came from, that isn’t the way it works here.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Truck is Stupid Big⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The actual HMMWV is actually a pretty cool and reasonable vehicle for medium utility tasks and off roading. What the Hummer became and what passes for consumer light trucks is ridiculous.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I see we’ve contracted the Chinese Flag and Drum Corps to make sure we have enough red flags for this guy?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨phonetic alphabet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
NCD is leaking again. Someone get the 100mph tape.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rise and shine soldier.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Hold on I got a thing for that around here somewhere… I think is called a DD214 or something? Oh here’s a PT belt that’ll work.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yup. The US Patent office isn’t very good at it’s job.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I got bad news for you. Gabe is human and barring a miracle in medical science; he will die. He’s 63, the tables on Age Cohort death aren’t kind after 60. (They’re brutal after 70) Only 1/3rd of men reach 80.

This is something we need to be thinking about now. It could easily 5-10 years to get competitors working.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Monopolies distort markets even when they act in a pro-consumer manner. For example the credit card companies. A basic credit card is really cheap and easy for the average person to use. All of the fees are actually on the business side, which is why you see businesses that still run on cash only or charge a credit card fee. The credit card network operators, (AMEX, Disc, MC, VISA) are the only option for businesses that want to accept credit cards in the US. You don’t see a Debit card fee because it’s actually illegal for them to pass along the Debit card processing fee.

So while the average person with the line of credit is happy about this, the businesses are not. In a normal system you would pay for the service being provided. So the person with the card would be responsible for paying to have that access.

Steam does this by making their product (the storefront) free to the average person and charging the developers money to use it. While they also effectively own your games. In a system with plenty of storefronts it might be much more common to see downloadable installation files. That’s certainly one way in which they’ve distorted the market. That used to be very common. It doesn’t help that EA, GamePass, and some others who’ve tried to start storefronts have repeatedly tripped over their own feet. Epic seems to be doing it but they’re basically using Steam’s business model because there’s no other choice as long as Steam exerts it’s monopoly power.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car faints after seeing gas prices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s nearly to $7/gal here.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers wins lawsuit against Colorado. Judge claims there is no evidence that gas stoves cause or contribute to health issues⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
No. The stove causes pollution. This is the same as smoking around children. And it’s not addictive. Getting rid of it should be easy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library ⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I feel like this is one of those bell curve memes. At the start you see that it’s publicly edited and you turn away. Then you see the extensive source citations and why not? Then you get involved in editing Wikipedia and you see what constitutes a “source” and what happens on the talk pages. And you’re right back to not ever citing Wikipedia.

Seriously though, Wikipedia isn’t going to be nearly in depth enough for any research paper worth a damn after you do your first couple. And that’s because those are meant to teach you how to do research papers. Wikipedia isn’t as bad as AI but anyone whose neck deep in a field will find problems with any Wikipedia page about their field. And it just gets worse the more politicized your field is. So the answer is as it always was. Go to the primary sources.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This bedroom game is weird⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Said like someone whose “screwed the pooch” too many times.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives on a budget⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
They’re taking advantage of you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Even if that’s true.

Autism

Or

Rabies

What the actual fuck?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t think many people realize that cost of living has increased so much that the lifestyle we used to associate with the middle class now isn’t available until 100k without kids or significantly more with kids. Income for the 0-89th percentile has gone down in real terms for decades. 90th to 99th has held stagnant against inflation. Only that top 1 percent has been beating inflation, and they’ve been really beating it. Rand estimated that there’s been a transfer of something like 47 Trillion USD (not a typo) from the rest of us into the top 1 percent since 1975.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Anyone who thinks this was the norm also thinks that women didn’t enter the workforce until World War 2. The real story here is how cost of living is now coming for echelons of society that didn’t have to worry about it before because greedy billionaires require multiple super yachts and support vessels.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The poop psa absolutely no one asked for⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
From what I can find you’re talking about sale pricing. Which also happens to other proteins.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The poop psa absolutely no one asked for⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I’d love to know where you live that one of the most marketable pieces of pork is cheaper than chicken and ground beef. Because that would be amazing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The poop psa absolutely no one asked for⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Pork loin is 7 dollars a pound. Ground beef is cheaper. Chicken or tofu are by far the cheapest proteins.

And I’m sorry but you cannot survive on spinach, oranges, pork, rice, and beans. Not to mention that rice is a 20 minute cook and dried beans take literal hours.

You can’t just say something is cheap when the knock is time, money, and mental energy. You sound like those yuppis born into money, just telling people to buy a house to get on the financial freedom train.