FourPacketsOfPeanuts
@FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
- Comment on How would you describe a power-lifter-type physique specifically? 1 day ago:
“a bit flabby and immensely strong”
- Comment on Nigel Farage Helps to Launch U.S. Climate Denial Group in UK 2 days ago:
Here’s a video by Sabine Hossenfelder articulating the issues with current climate data that’s nearly never acknowledged. I think human activity is driving climate change, as does she, but it’s interesting to hear how in the inadequacies of the current models are big enough for climate change deniers to drive a bus through. (And also room enough for them to cry “conspiracy” when they discover how problematic some of these models are like it’s a secret. It’s not a secret, but it is true that mainstream media - and even popular science publications - gloss over these in order to solidify the need to take action)
- Comment on Is it worth investing if I can only contribute $50 a month? 2 days ago:
It would be worth it with even $10. Do it.
- Comment on What are some keto meals that are easy to make in bulk? Bonus points for stuff that can be frozen. 4 days ago:
I used to have a medical manual called Anecdotal Medicine. You’d flip to whatever opinion you wanted to have and there’d be a story right there to back it up! Very handy
- Comment on What are some keto meals that are easy to make in bulk? Bonus points for stuff that can be frozen. 4 days ago:
You’re right, but didn’t offer any sources. So it came off more like cluttering up OPs thread with opinion where they’re asking for specific help.
- Comment on Why did people in the 90s/early 00s say that the internet "couldn't be taken down"? 5 days ago:
I moan about it regularly but this…
Rather than flock to corporate platforms like Facebook, people spent a lot of time on federated and independent platforms. This included Usenet, IRC, and BBSes
Is just tragic isn’t it? We really had it. A global free flow of hobbies, interests, research, debate, exploration.
I don’t be what’s so fundamentally flawed about human nature that a) something that started so well like Facebook gets enshitified to the extent that it has and b) people flock to it en masse like flies round shit
- Comment on If a contestant on Jeopardy! gave the correct response "Alexandre Dumas" but pronounced the surname as "dumb ass", would the response be accepted? 6 days ago:
It would if my experience of quiz shows is anything to go by…
- Comment on Top 10 Rules to Strictly Come Dancing 1 week ago:
How are you going to cha-cha if you can’t even count?
- Comment on Cups 1 week ago:
Industrial accidents, yes. Some gruesome ISIS stuff, some cartel stuff, yes. But “weird fetish shit”, no
- Comment on Cups 1 week ago:
I’ve been on fora and social media for almost 30 years and have managed to avoid ever seeing this video. AMA?
- Comment on GCSEs and A-level exams in most subjects set to go onscreen by 2030 1 week ago:
It used to be bad enough when time was running short and you could see that others had finished writing already. Imagine now you’re the only one clacking away, feeling self conscious as time comes to a close.
- Comment on Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops? 1 week ago:
When people trade their time or skills with each other locally there is mutual benefit and all the value of that trade naturally stays in the community (because it often doesn’t involve cash, and even where it does it’s off the books). Once someone spots these kind of good things (unofficial homework club, meal sharing, unofficial community kitchen etc) and tries to make it a more organised co-op so that more people can be involved, the co-op now has to register all its activities and pay taxes, which has the effect of removing some of the value from the community. If it’s an area seeing underinvestment from local government (as many poorer areas are) then there’s a great risk that’s a net-negative for the community even if the co-op is doing a “good thing”. There’s a critical mass at which the local community receives a net benefit and I wonder if many good ideas ever make it that far.
See: tax treatment of co-ops in the UK. I’m sure there are parallels in the US.
- Comment on Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops? 1 week ago:
There’s lots and lots of low level community support, bartering and exchange. But once a good natured soul tries to organise that into something… taxes!
- Comment on Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match? 2 weeks ago:
Assuming he was elsewhere on CCTV at the time of the shooting (work, university, cafe) he should be ok.
- Comment on Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match? 2 weeks ago:
A bunch of comments on here and Reddit about how police will do everything they can to make sure he’s seen as a threat during arrest and kill him? I don’t think that’s the case, but if this guy has nothing to do with it and felt the same it would be much safer to just walk into a police station and get ruled out of the investigation rather than risk a cop spotting him one day and thinking himself a hero.
- Comment on Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match? 2 weeks ago:
We should know within a day because if flirty Starbucks guy isn’t him then that person will almost certainly come forward to get removed from investigation.
- Comment on Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match? 2 weeks ago:
He’s shown a high degree of planning so far. Bringing a decoy bag and being casual in front of CCTV in not-his-clothes seems on the money at the moment. As soon as I heard he made a beeline for central park I bet he has a change of outfit and strolled out looking totally different. Sure enough they’ve found a bag in the park they think was his. He’s 2 to 3 steps ahead of them…
- Comment on Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match? 2 weeks ago:
Or he’s terminal himself and pissed off
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
Trinity: what is he doing?
Morpheus: he’s beginning to believe…
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 2 weeks ago:
I don’t like oat milk but it’s more “milky” than skimmed UHT milk. But I guess the line had to get drawn somewhere…
- Comment on Being a moviephile and a tvphile I see all the time people on death row get asked the question of how they want to die. My question is it true or just fiction? Why or why not? 2 weeks ago:
What do you mean? On death row in most countries they’ll have already been condemned to execution by a specific method…
- Comment on GCSEs and A-level exams in most subjects set to go onscreen by 2030 2 weeks ago:
Can’t wait for the relaxing sound of 100 keyboards under exam conditions…
- Comment on shoe 2 weeks ago:
Someone, somewhere is getting off to this…
- Comment on Took me by surprise 2 weeks ago:
C’mon, you’re smarter than that
- Comment on You best start believing in a cyberpunk dystopia 2 weeks ago:
The dog was a decoy
- Comment on Carcinisation? 2 weeks ago:
“we heavily biased the network against trains and now it’s just saying the optimal car consists of several metal struts connecting just two thinned out wheels that the driver sits on top of and propels themselves using pedals. It was busy redesigning intersections to have clear safe lanes for these bi-cycle ‘cars’ with plenty of trees / room for pedestrians when we pulled the plug…”
- Comment on Why do people with lots of 'karma points' tend to be nothing but egotistical assholes? 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy is a great opportunity to ignore karma. So ignore it.
- Comment on to those of you not very talkative / introverted, how do you survive the constant pressure and misunderstandings from coworkers and future employers to open up, talk more? 2 weeks ago:
I’m a contractor, I take my earbuds out and tell them I’m still billing…
- Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons? 3 weeks ago:
Best thing you can do is to not participate.
Welcome to nuclear deterrent.