myplacedk

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But in both cases they need landlords, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Until that exists, we need landlords. Right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, rented homes has lots of demand, and that is only possible if someone else owns it.

  Landslords provides a service that people need. Although not all landlords does it well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The number on this sticker...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So 1920 rows x 1080 columns.

  No, it’s definitely 1920 columns and 1080 rows.

  So yeah the sticker is right but OP is wrong.

  I don’t know what the sticker is trying to say. I can read it in two ways, and one of then is correct while the other is definitely wrong. And that is unnecessarily confusing, and therefore mildly infuriating.

  I don’t know what you think OP is wrong about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The number on this sticker...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  These numbers refer to the rows, so the horizontal resolution.

  Yes, that is the number of rows. But that makes it the vertical resolution. There’s 1080 pixels from top to bottom. If the arrows/triangles are indicating the direction of measurement, they are wrong.

  I suspect that it’s an attempt at indicating a wide screen. 16:9, 16:10 etc was fairly new at the time, many buyers would be expecting their usual 4:3 screen ratio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry to be a bother...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They can just leave it at full.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry to be a bother...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe scientific studies say it’s somewhere around half of each.

  The reason you don’t see that, is because it’s considered socially unacceptable to get socially drained, so we learn to hide it, usually from very young.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My word game had some weird archaic racist word as one of the answers.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we are somewhat on the same page here. What matters isn’t the word you use, it’s the intention behind, which is hopefully obvious from context.

  When I get called a nerd, my response goes anywhere between being proud and being insulted depending on context. The word itself has no emotion by itself.

  Shouldn’t it be the same with many of these words that some people consider racist?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yelp is making me get their app to confirm my restaurant reservation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Their circle of friends may not be like yours.

  I know plenty of people like what you are describing (always near at least one phone), but they are still impossible to reach quickly. Even when they expect a call, they can have their phone in Do Not Disturb mode. Or they ran out of battery, and didn’t think to turn it on after plugging it in. Most of the time I have no idea what the issue is.

  Also, he might live in an area with few options. Specially on short notice. Maybe the closest alternative with a somewhat similar style is far away, so even if you can get a reservation , not everybody will be able to get there before dinner time.

  Basically, when he says it’s hard for him, maybe just trust that he knows his life better than you do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well THAT'S super helpful! 🤦⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  unless you pay for a “service” that lets them put it by the curb or your garage or designated package box.

  Here it’s cheaper to get it delivered to a pick-up place near my home. I’ll just pick it up on the way home from work, almost as easy as getting stuff from my own mailbox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reflects on e-sports⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it draws those “pixels” as the signal reaches the monitor. When half of a frame is transmitted to a CRT monitor, it’s basically half way done making it visible.

  An LCD monitor needs to wait for the entire frame to arrive, before it can be processed and then made visible.

  Sometimes the monitor will wait for several frames to arrive before it processes them. This enables some temporal processing. When you put a monitor in gaming mode, it disables (some of) this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism indoctrination in progress.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s two kinds of money: Enough money, and more than enough money.

  If you don’t have enough money, that’s all that matters. A nicer day at work means very little.

  Once you have enough money, more money matters very little. Now it’s about enjoying work etc.