Maggoty
@Maggoty@lemmy.world
- Comment on Rise and shine soldier. 4 days 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 4 days ago:
Yup. The US Patent office isn’t very good at it’s job.
- Comment on 4 days 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 4 days 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 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 3 months ago:
Said like someone whose “screwed the pooch” too many times.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 3 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. 😐 3 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. 4 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. 4 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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.
- Comment on The poop psa absolutely no one asked for 11 months ago:
It’s really not cheap. We have the studies about how it’s more expensive and about how food deserts exist. And time? Lmao. You get home from an 8-5 job at 6-7 depending on your commute. Which means you have 2-3 hours for relaxation, food, exercise, social activity, bills, and house chores before you have to go to sleep so you can get 8 hours.
And expecting someone to work all day and still have abundant mental energy is just pure toxic positivity. That’s not the experience of most people. We also have historical studies showing we didn’t “work” as much in pre-industrial times and that with the rise of shift work comes the rise of prepared food as a calorie source.
The answer here is plainly to regulate the prepared food, not blame people for their lack of a pocket universe operating on a different timescale.
- Comment on The poop psa absolutely no one asked for 11 months ago:
That takes money, time, and mental energy. None of which are in high supply for most people working shift jobs or 8-5. The best personal solution is to make and freeze your meals on your off day so you can just heat them up whenever. The best systemic solution is to guillotine a capitalist for producing toxic food that masquerades as healthy and delicious, then ask the others if they have any questions about the new food regulations.
This is far less of a problem in other countries. We don’t have to let corporations treat us as an exploitable resource.
- Comment on America is fucked 11 months ago:
There are cities that use medics on motor bikes for this exact reason. They can’t evac someone but getting there quickly to use a defibrillator or control bleeding could make a difference.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 11 months ago:
That’s part of my point now though, he’s going to have the very best and about ten times the people on the job as compared to his security detail back then.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 11 months ago:
I mean, it takes all kinds right? A desire to go out big can manifest in so many ways and he didn’t go after an A list actor, or a CEO, or any number of other high profile people. There is a reason he decided on Trump, even if his original impetus was suicide.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 11 months ago:
Marketing aside, any normative young person can pass boot camp. (And basic training) The military gets worried when the pass rates for those courses gets low. Versus keeping pass rates low for schools like special squirrel.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 11 months ago:
It’s hard to say. He’s definitely closer to it than any president since JFK. But security is way better these days. And before the FBI comes knocking on my door, this is just an objective analysis.
We’ve already had a shooter with a near miss. So clearly there’s the will to do this among some segment of the population. Probably a conservative who feels betrayed or person who is truly far left, (not just a progressive).
However, security during the campaign and for JFK was a lot less than it is now. It’s going to be a lot harder to get close enough with a rifle. If you think of a plan the USAA has already thought about it and probably has a counter of some sort.
So while he’s definitely the closest, I don’t think we’ll see another president assassinated unless they do something truly stupid like gut the USSS.
- Comment on Help i am STUCK! 11 months ago:
Yup
- Comment on Friendly reminder 11 months ago:
Jokes on them. I got a hard time for a formation in hell.
- Comment on while we were watching for threat from China, here comes Philippines with a steel chair! 11 months ago:
You could look at it as them building future US military bases…
- Comment on How to love 11 months ago:
I had to check the sub. I was loading the proverbial shotgun. You got me OP. :)
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 11 months ago:
Hand washing clothes with a scrub board.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 11 months ago:
Hello officer? I’d like to report a suspicious person in my retirement community!
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 11 months ago:
I get zero points. Elder millennials rally at the landline we’ll have two drinks and fall asleep at 10pm!
- Comment on Heyyy! 1 year ago:
Well yeah. Once you’re famous enough that’s what a short appearance in a show is called.