GoofSchmoofer
@GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Canada's finance minister quits over Trump tariff dispute with Trudeau 5 days ago:
Freeland and Trudeau were reportedly in disagreement over a series of recently-proposed policies by the prime minister designed to address the country’s cost-of-living crisis.
Among them is a cheque of C$250 that the government wanted to send to every Canadian earning less than C$150,000 annually. These cheques were expected to cost the federal government a total of C$4.68b
Seems to me that it would take more the a $250 to weather a cost-of-living crisis or maybe an blanket overhaul of the system as a whole.
Of course having trump in office in the US will not help at all.
- Comment on Carcinisation? 2 weeks ago:
Well if every vehicle becomes autonomous then isn’t that just a large scaled high speed train?
- Comment on I live in the green part 2 weeks ago:
so we learned
It sounds like you were like most people in the western world - uneducated on nutrition, cooking and basic life skills. This isn’t a jab at you this is just the world that we live in. Most people don’t have a good understanding of these things so the go with what is easy, fast and feels inexpensive. This drives obesity.
It’s great that you took the initiative to learn home economics and it sounds like it has helped you and your family. Many others have not gotten to the “so we learned” stage yet for whatever reason.
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 3 weeks ago:
Most open to making money at the expense of security.
"“What they were telling me was counterintuitive to everything I’d heard at Microsoft about ‘customer first,’” Harris said. “Now they’re telling me it’s not ‘customer first,’ it’s actually ‘business first.’”
DiCola, Harris’ then-supervisor, told ProPublica the race to dominate the market for new and high-growth areas like the cloud drove the decisions of Microsoft’s product teams. “That is always like, ‘Do whatever it frickin’ takes to win because you have to win.’ Because if you don’t win, it’s much harder to win it back in the future. Customers tend to buy that product forever.”
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 4 weeks ago:
Humans are animals that navigate life through the lens of emotions with logic being something that we have to work towards - so you may be closer to the truth than you think.
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 4 weeks ago:
Yep. Lost a good and very smart friend to the anti vax conspiracies and maybe others by now.
I’ve also had to really pay attention and tell myself that I live in a liberal bubble and need to balance that bias against what is truth.
- Comment on Low-wage workers in the food service industry can’t afford to eat 4 weeks ago:
There are economic and progressive policy solutions to a problem like this but it seems Americans are more worried that a billionaire may have to spend a tiny fraction of their wealth to help fund these solutions and that is just unacceptable.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 5 weeks ago:
I would say there is still some complicated stuff going on in the brain with knowing where your arm, hand, elbow and shoulder are in space as well how much force you need to apply (the precise amount of motor neurons to activate at the exact time) so you can toss the ball in the arc you need to catch it on the other side.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 5 weeks ago:
Yes death is inevitable but you do have the opportunity to guide how you are going to die, to a degree.
Treating your body like a garbage dump will give you a long slow death as the garbage slowly destroys your body. Eating more healthy can lessen that effect.
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- Comment on Favoirte indepth youtube channels? 2 months ago:
LEMMiNO - doesn’t post videos often but it’s good stuff when he does
- Comment on Is Trump Made of Teflon? 3 months ago:
Alice Walton, one of the owners of Walmart "while speeding in Fayetteville, Ark., she struck and killed Oleta Hardin, a 50-year-old cannery worker. She never received so much as a ticket. "
- Comment on Can't beat the classics 4 months ago:
I remember watching this movie when I was around 12 years old. Had never heard of it before just started watching it and loved it. It’s It has become one of my top 3 favorite movies. It also introduced me to the world of the blues and some of the best blues musicians/singers.
I remember buying the soundtrack on CD and playing it over and over again. I think I was the only pre-teen that knew of Cab Calloway and could sing “hi-de-ho” .
wow, I was a weird kid
- Comment on On Bears 4 months ago:
Maybe, but really when you are in bear territory, and close to areas where bear congregate (rivers being one), just a few loud claps and a couple of loud “HEYS” is good enough to flush most bears.
- Comment on On Bears 4 months ago:
This video while long does a great job teaching you how to act in active bear territory.
The TLDW is: -
- In active bear territory carry bear spray and be ready to use it
- You can’t out run a bear don’t try
- bear bells don’t work
- playing dead makes it easier for the bear to maul you
- when hiking with a group and encounter a bear stand shoulder to shoulder wave your arms and prepare your bear spray
- let the bear decide how they want to leave the encounter (if they are not attacking you)
- outside of a momma bear, most “attacks” are bluffs but can be scary as shit.
- guns work but you better be a good and quick shot cuz bears run fucking fast
- Comment on Anon is living like royalty 4 months ago:
Well maybe not other examples, but my comment was more along the lines that I think that we (modern humans) idealize hunter-gathers. When what was probably more reality was that they had difficult times as well. I would say that agriculture and animal domestication came out of a need to reduce the task of having to hunt down your food.
If you get to just walk out of your hut and harvest plants or you don’t have to run down a wild pig, instead just butcher one in the pen you’re going to do that. But the downside then is you need to spend more time tending to the animals and plants to make sure they survive. So you give up some downtime.
- Comment on Anon is living like royalty 4 months ago:
I’m sure they also had community infighting, gossiping, feelings of unfairness, jealousy etc. You know like all humans in all parts of history.
They also had a short lifespan where a broken leg, bad tooth or infected cut could kill you. Not to take away from what you wrote but to add that it probably wasn’t as ideal of a life as we may think.
- Comment on Why is Horizon: An American Saga flopping in theaters? 5 months ago:
I think the four part series called The West by Ken Burns is shorter and probably better.
- Comment on Ticketmaster breach, beaches in general 5 months ago:
I mean, if we genuinely had a significant amount of local, state and federal law makers that cared about protecting their constituents instead of whatever the fuck they are doing now, we could have some accountability.
- Comment on Happy Father's Day 6 months ago:
Some people just don’t like silly videos I guess …
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- Comment on What is the equivalent stereotype of 'women should all be homemakers,' for men? 6 months ago:
I’m a little biased but I do look down on men that lack any handyman skills
That is a lot biased to the point that you can’t even see that other men’s lives may have put them in a position of not learning those things or even wanting to learn those things. It’s great that you know how to do those things but just because someone has a penis doesn’t mean they have to learn how to be handy. That doesn’t make them any less of a man, just different from you.
- Comment on Hero 6 months ago:
That is true it is a big part of society and how to get along, and you would think that because this is one of the foundations of this society it would be a bigger part of someone’s education. This shouldn’t be something people should have to figure out on their own in order to feed themselves and their family
- Comment on Anon figures out how dieting works 6 months ago:
We evolved from the ones that could survive a famine because they had an easier time holding on to body fat. That is our lineage.
- Comment on Futures 7 months ago:
Yeah but people and corporations would have to change and that’s too difficult instead we should do something easy like colonize another planet. /s
- Comment on Monopoly 7 months ago:
I remember that game. My dad got it from a very conservative/racist family member - with a note that read something like “too bad I’m white and have to work for my money.”
I don’t think my dad ever talked to him again.
- Comment on Monopoly 7 months ago:
This is the most capitalistic game on the market and you still get a $200 UBI
- Comment on What is the cruelest "twist the knife" move or statement by a villain in a film for you? 9 months ago:
When Walter White tells Jessie that he could have saved his girlfriend but instead just watched her die.
not really a villain but the elevator scene in Mad Men where Don Draper says “I don’t even think about you”
- Comment on "Morbidly Wealthy": The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405b to $869b since 2020—at a rate of $14m/hr—while nearly five billion people have been made poorer 11 months ago:
If I did my napkin math right (which is suspect) from January 2020 to December 2023 the Dow Jones had an ~33% increase.
- Comment on When on a diet, does you body have the same weight loss across the entire person including visceral fat? 11 months ago:
There is some research that shows that aerobic exercise can have a positive effect on visceral fat:
But it’s not all too straight forward
There are probably more studies that show both positive and inconclusive evidence for exercise and changes in visceral fat because that kinda how science is…