shalafi
@shalafi@lemmy.world
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 14 hours ago:
If you woke up tomorrow and had full rights to the name Coca Cola™, would that not be of extreme value to you? Of course it doesn’t have the intrinsic value of a gold brick, but it’s still valuable and stock fluctuations won’t change that fact.
- Comment on Is there any hope for Ukraine to survive as an independent state now that trump is desperately wishing for a peace treaty with Russia, even bypassing Ukraine? 19 hours ago:
You’ll like this!
Can You Say Why America is the Greatest Country in the World?
Should be required viewing for all Americans.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 20 hours ago:
Much stock value is artificial, but these companies still have infrastructure, brands and products.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 20 hours ago:
Meh, party true. Say Coca Cola’s stock goes down, they still own the infrastructure, the products and the brand. In other words, they have real value that didn’t go poof just because their stocks went down.
Much of what we see is bullshit, because bullshit makes headlines. Tesla is a perfect example. This crowd hardly needs a review, but suffice to say that while Tesla has value, it’s tanking fast and the stock price will eventually pop and drop to that far, far lower value.
- Comment on Mind if I get by? 1 day ago:
Typical gator around here is 4-6". Being that they won’t attack anything larger than them, no worries, especially in a kayak or canoe.
If I saw that motherfucker cruising the swamp, I’d be near panic.
Inches from eyes to snout ~= feet in length. That dude has to be 15’, and I’m being conservative.
- Comment on no title 1 day ago:
LOL! I came across women saying, “no dead animal pics”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
A “self-solving problem” could be described as a “self-correcting issue,” “inherently resolving problem,” “naturally resolving situation,” or “auto-remediating issue,” depending on the context, as it implies a problem that has a built-in mechanism to fix itself without external intervention.
I’d only concern yourself with where he’s getting his idea of “manly”. I never questioned my macho, and I’m quite feminine in ways. Maybe it’s just adolescent insecurity?
- Comment on boo! 2 days ago:
The other 95% is gray mud, no life larger than multi-celled critters.
- Comment on Get ya every time 2 days ago:
Almost deleted it, but it does hit hard and explains how many of those men likely died.
- Comment on Get ya every time 2 days ago:
The hell you on about? Read every post I’ve ever written, find me one where I say anything like that. While you’re at it, you’ll find plenty of posts about my awesome wife.
This take reeks of projection. Hate to say that because we throw that accusation a little too freely around here, but damn are you pulling fiction out your ass.
- Comment on Get ya every time 2 days ago:
Look at the posts on the autism and ADHD comms. They’re all about typical human foibles.
I suspect it’s a bunch of young people who want to feel special, stand out. The way GenZ’s education went, treating them like identical little prisoners and taking their agency, probably has them screaming to stand out from the crowd. And that’s not getting into social media forcing conformity.
- Comment on Regarding a US Government Shutdown: What's stopping Musk from continuing to fund DOGE with his own money and continuing to tear apart the government while all the federal workers are put on leave? 3 days ago:
Musk’s wealth is almost all tied up in his company’s stocks. That is not money he is free to spend, like the money in your checking account. If he starts yanking it to fund super projects, investors panic, begin downward spiral.
Of course quantity is a quality all it’s own. So there’s that.
tl;dr: Even Musk isn’t rich enough to cut paychecks for federal worker’s pay.
- Comment on why do transphobes mention pedophiles/compare them to pedophiles when most trans people (as do most people) hate pedophiles? 3 days ago:
Best answer here. So much overthinking in this thread. Nope, OP nailed it, that simple, nothing need be added.
- Comment on Get ya every time 3 days ago:
Well, what did you expect? McNamara sent in the marching morons.
Instead of upping the draft, calling on more young men to go to Vietnam, he lowered the standards for induction to the Armed Services, recalling many young men who had previously been excused from the service for physical and mental disabilities.
The majority of these men were illiterate or even had below average IQs. Many would have been likely classified as “mentally disabled” in a future generation.
Remember Bubba from Forest Gump? He wasn’t some random stupid guy, he was one of “McNamara’s morons”.
I work with a guy like that, probably autistic and not “lemmy autistic”. “LOL, I’m so quirky and have totally typical human traits! Don’t call me the R word! I have legit mental problems!”
Nah. This guy couldn’t hang working at a hardware store, moving mulch and rocks from point A to B, so they made him the “cart boy”. All he has to do is bring the shopping carts and sleds in from the parking lot. First day, he took the carts from inside and put them back in the parking lot.
Imagine going into combat with this guy, the most unforgiving quarter in human experience, and you must cooperate or die. I’d frag him to save myself and my buddies.
- Comment on Basic courtesy 3 days ago:
Our customers leave the shopping carts in the corral, but a surprising number of them bring back the big lumber carts. Been there a month and have seen exactly one cart floating around loose.
- Comment on Basic courtesy 3 days ago:
I look for someone coming in to give mine too, as do many others.
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 3 days ago:
How about security through obscurity, to some extent? An IPv6 address isn’t a needle in a haystack, it’s a needle floating somewhere in the solar system. I think I have a quadrillion addresses assigned to me?
340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 unique IP addresses is a staggering amount to scan, no matter what horsepower you have to deploy.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 4 days ago:
I take my own unsweet tea to work in a thermos. If that runs out, I drink the bottled water they provide.
These are the same people that bitch about the plastic waste in Keurig pods.
- Comment on Trump Suggests No Laws Are Broken if He’s ‘Saving His Country’ 4 days ago:
That was a message to his supporters.
- Comment on Those damn woke corners. 4 days ago:
NASCAR’s more woke than many conservatives are comfortable with. They banned the Confederate flag several years back, actively chased down racists leaving nooses lying around the black guy’s area, more I can’t remember (which is frustrating because they’ve done plenty of other sensible things).
LOL, found this searching “NASCAR woke”:
www.msn.com/en-us/sports/…/ar-AA1yM19H
You gotta admit, an EV NASCAR would suck. The whole thing in going to see a race is the pure thunder of the thing. I’ve never been, never been a fan. My ex used to go with her dad. Sounds like a blast setting up camp, like tailgating but much more.
Anyway, they’re reaching out to a broader audience, not just us redneck honkys (sp?). I don’t think the decline is due to said rednecks boycotting, I think people are simply losing interest.
- Comment on please punish me 4 days ago:
It’s a joke and they’re both behaving badly. And yes, people do be like this.
- Comment on Average Australian place names 4 days ago:
I hear Didjabringabeeralong is wonderful in the springtime.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Could we get, perhaps, one example? Maybe two? This article is abysmal journalism. Why in the hell did you find this worth posting?
- Comment on Is this a sign of mental illness or just asshole behavior? 5 days ago:
Instantly knew what OP meant.
Gods. I feel older every single day.
- Comment on Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today? 5 days ago:
To this day, nothing beats a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
- Comment on Instant removal 5 days ago:
Uh, that’s what Pica is, eating stuff that’s not food.
- Comment on Real 5 days ago:
You’re right. Light with lots of blue in it, like the dawn, wakes us up.
Want to hear a dumb story? Been patting myself on the back for a couple of years because I set the e-reader on my tablet to black with dark orange letters.
“That blue light won’t get me!”
I just now realized that it still casts a blue light on the ceiling when I lay it down.
- Comment on Anon discovers real life 5 days ago:
We short guys are in a golden age, women don’t care so much any more. When I was dating heavily, I went out with 4 women taller than me.
- Comment on LIVE: Jeffries, Democrats hold 'Rally to Save the Civil Service' on Capitol Hill 1 week ago:
I’d volunteer and bring enough guns for 20 people.
- Comment on I'm just like some ordinary dude upset about what the government is doing. Doesn't anyone with any sort of means or influence care? Where are those guys? 1 week ago:
They only make money because of us.
Lemmy told me the other day that isn’t true. Apparently they’re so rich that their money keeps coming in without us because… Know what, the argument was so dumb I can’t articulate it.
We’ll never strike. Best these people can do is quiet quitting and mumbling about capitalism.
But yeah, a general strike is the most powerful tool I know of.
