Windex007
@Windex007@lemmy.world
- Comment on Gotta love moms 5 days ago:
(and mitochondrial DNA is inherited exclusively from the mother)
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 5 days ago:
It’s certainly something besides latitude. Western Canada grows hella tomatoes and that’s 49 lat at the bare minimum
- Comment on Moon dust 1 week ago:
Thank you so much
- Comment on Moon dust 1 week ago:
The sample size is at least a little bit bigger…
Some guy stole moon rocks (presumably still had moon dust on them) to bang his gf on them.
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
I’m wondering if it’s a regional thing? I just looked online for pressure treated 2x2’s and all the ones I’m seeing (home hardware, home depot, advantage lumber, etc) list as actual being 1.5x1.5
- Comment on Kerbal Space Program 2 feared cancelled as 70 layoffs reported at Take-Two's Seattle offices 2 weeks ago:
Exactly… On EVERY point.
It’s almost a work of art how PERFECTLY they fucked up.
- Comment on Kerbal Space Program 2 feared cancelled as 70 layoffs reported at Take-Two's Seattle offices 2 weeks ago:
I mean, they bought the IP, fucked the original devs, didn’t actually create anything new, and clearly had absolutely no fucking clue why people liked KSP1.
This is just an example of some MBA idiots reach extending past their grasp.
They thought they could juice the IP like COD or GTA. They realized they had no fucking clue what was going on. They cut their losses.
If they even did KSP1 w/ multiplayer they’d have struck fucking diamonds. But that isn’t on the MBA bingo card. It isn’t skins, battle passes, and microtransactions.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls and Fallout devs Bethesda want to release games more often, but making them last is more important 2 weeks ago:
They should just tag team the franchises w/ Obsidian.
They fucking CRUSHED it with NV.
- Comment on arthropods 2 weeks ago:
I salivate whenever I hear about these ancient mega arthropods. Like, gigantic and armoured, whatever. But by modern standards, blind and incredibly stupid. And in that atmosphere you’d be constantly so well oxygenated. I don’t know why but I’m convinced these big fucks tasted like lobster.
- Comment on A bad influence 4 weeks ago:
“working with teams isn’t as bad as working with some software in a completely different domain”
Apples and oranges, reeks of “You can’t be cold because I live in Canada” energy, but ok, whatever.
“You need perspective”
Extremely condescending. Enforces the notion that nobody can dream of better things as long as other people (you specifically) see themselves are enduring something worse.
- Comment on A bad influence 4 weeks ago:
Lol, this is such an absurd line of reasoning.
“This problem was solved in the 80s and then Microsoft bullied an inferior product into business space, and it impacts my work every single day”
And your response is “eat shit, some people have it worse?”
This isn’t the fucking pain Olympics and you don’t get a fucking medal for working on a worse stack.
This is a wildly toxic mindset and I promise your entire life will start to get better once you ditch it.
- Comment on A bad influence 4 weeks ago:
My brother in Christ, IRC is a better tool.
Microsoft is failing to meet minimum standards of usability that has existed since the 80s
- Comment on A bad influence 4 weeks ago:
Is corporate services what’s causing activity badges to constantly have wrong numbers on them within the app?
- Comment on Dewy Dawn 4 weeks ago:
It’s not Wednesday
- Comment on The Fallout TV show gave the Fallout games a huge player bump, as everyone remembers they like Fallout 4 weeks ago:
It blows my fucking mind how badly companies mismanage good video game IP.
Either they absolutely saturate the market as fast as they can to the point where any game is just a grain of sand shifting and swirling as the waves of quarterly releases wash against the shore (Call of Duty)
Or they make a good game, but then spend either DECADES milking them (Elder Scrolls, GTA) or they just wait so long that it eventually falls of the cultural radar and the moment to strike is long past (Half Life, Portal)
Like, let creative people do creative things. Let people who are good at making games make games. No your MBA doesn’t mean you should be directing creative decisions.
- Comment on This person has earned a front row seat 5 weeks ago:
When dealing with fractions of an inch, measuring devices ALWAYS use base 2 denominators (1/2 inches, 1/4 inches, 1/8 inches, 1/16 inches). They actually have ticks on the tape measure to represent those values. By convention, measurements are as well written down using that same principle.
It’s so ubiquitous, that people fall apart if it’s deviated from.
Also, from a practical perspective, there won’t be an explicit mark on a tape measure for any of those measurements, so they’d need to kinda fudge that if they wanted to take a more precise measurement with a standard tape measure.
In Canada at least, it’s pretty common for a tape measure to have metric and imperial units. Not sure if that’s the same on the US. In this situation, I’d just use the metric. And for any of the highlighted measurements, I don’t think I’d be to stressed out about if I mismeasured by a 16th of an inch anyways.
- Comment on Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO’s private jet in 2023 1 month ago:
In 2022 their revenue was 0 so by my math the private jet was infinity times revenue.
- Comment on OwO 1 month ago:
That isn’t a stromatolites
- Comment on Unsettling Complexity 1 month ago:
If this was on a Dan Flashes shirt it would be worth a LOT of money
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The most pronounced spending effect that results from hiked interest is on housing. It would drive home ownership even farther out of reach for people who already can’t afford it. Further entrenching the divide between those who own property and those who do not. Further empowering landlords.
I think trying to implement UBI is hard, not because it’s an intrinsically difficult concept, but because what nobody wants to admit is without new legal levers, it will eventually devolve into what pretty much every social net turns into: a subsidy for the rich capitalist class.
Most people who recieve social assistance work, and work AT LEAST full time. Every dollar of social assistance is unpaid fair wages from their employers.
I’m not against UBI AT ALL, but exploitive labour practices and a failure to enforce antitrust laws are why there is even a problem at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Oligopolies handle this by just buying “turds in the punchbowl” companies and dismantling them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I don’t know how this answers the question, though.
I’m a landlord in city 1, UBI there is 100/mo. I jack my rental prices by 50.
I’m a landlord in city 2, UBI there is 200/mo. I jack my rental prices by 100.
City 1 responds by raising UBI to 200. Landlords follow suit. City 2 to 300. Landlords to 250.
OP is suggesting that capitalist class just says “uwu, for me?~~~ 👉😍👈”, regardless of the amount or location. OP is suggesting that in practice this is just another slice of pie to be extracted by the capital holders.
I don’t have a fucking clue if it’s true, but I don’t think this response addresses the question asked.
- Comment on Did we? 2 months ago:
I have it on good authority that yes, we did. On GOOD AUTHORITY.
- Comment on Did we? 2 months ago:
Sun is coming up later brah
- Comment on This is $87 worth of shopping. Please feel free to use the space below to critique my purchases 2 months ago:
I expect English is their second language, based on the surreal absurdity of the binary state of “healthy” and “futility”. It’s all a futile attempt, we all die. The comment reads like a Salvador Dali or René Magritte. C’est ne pas une pipe.
Which isn’t me ripping on someone for learning a new language, it’s just an emergent property of people unconstrained by convention.
- Comment on Plant Natives 2 months ago:
It’s amazing that you want to enter this space, and I’d love to help you achieve your goals with every resource I have.
As you learn and grow, I hope you’ll eventually consider augmenting your goal to include native species, which will bring the added benefit of maximally helping the ecosystems in which you are a part.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Ah yes, as famously evidenced by Elon Musk backtracking on his Tesla unionization opposition
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
That’s not really true.
If it were, why would a company care about their share price, post-IPO?
Although people generally conceptualize shares as an ownership of the company, there are a ton of mechanisms at play that make that notion essentially a farce.
It’s better to think of shares as a currency for which the company owns the printer. The reason companies want to keep their stock value high is that they can at-will conjure more shares from the ether and sell them. It’s not JUST during an IPO.
So, in a fractionally insignificant way, as a retail investor, every purchase adds buy pressure and shifts the order book towards a higher market price. The higher the market price, the more money the company can raise by issuing new shares while minimizing the dilution effect of the issuing of new shares.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
Short answer: get paid more
Medium answer: become unionized so that you can bargain collectively instead of individually
- Comment on Hardspace: Shipbreaker now on GOG 5 months ago:
As opposed to… Late Firefly? Like, season 2?