thebestaquaman

@thebestaquaman@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon isn't worried about population decline⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, that was a much more nuanced take that I have a much easier time agreeing with :)

  I think the population problem has some in common with food distribution: There’s enough food in the world, it’s just distributed in such a way that some places have obesity as a societal-level issue, while other places people are dying of malnourishment.

  Similarly, the global population is increasing, however it’s increasing far more rapidly that sustainable in some places, while declining more rapidly than sustainable in others.

  There’s only so much you can do by redistributing wealth in a better way (which I think we should, regardless). It doesn’t help to tax the rich if there isn’t any manpower you can buy with that tax income to actually do the work that needs doing. I think that’s the scary part about a rapid population decline: We’re heading towards a situation (in some places) where the ratio of capable workers to people needing care approaches 2:1, which means a far larger fraction of the population will need to spend their entire working career as direct care providers than is currently the case. You can’t really alleviate a manpower shortage with just money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon isn't worried about population decline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a dog whistle every time.

  Population decline isn’t inherently a problem (unless you’re a racist worried about “your people” losing power). Too rapid population decline is a big problem. We’re already seeing the effects: When the sum of birth rates and working-age immigration fall fast enough, the ratio of working-age people to care-needing people also falls. I don’t think I need to explain why it’s a problem that every able-bodied working age adult will be responsible (directly or indirectly) for taking care of more people. It puts more pressure on everyone, and impacts societies ability to care for those in need of it.

  A controlled, slow, population decline would probably just be a good thing at this point. However, that’s not what prognoses are pointing towards, and that’s why (non-racist) people are worried.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No, you can't keep your 20 year old dictionary password⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you do such things? Just let me log in using some trusted authenticator please. If you can’t do that, you may as well replace everything with a confirmation mail every time I log in, cause you bet I’m going to click “forgot my password” Every Single Time and get in via the reset-email anyway.

  You forcing me to change my password all the time just adds extra overhead to the inevitability that you’ll let me in after mailing me a confirmation code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨no one can understand AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, just wait till you hit that sweet sweet python “Everything can have an else block”

  if some_shit:
      try: 
          for stuff in thing:
               if stuff is bad:
                    raise ShitHitTheFanError
               # Massive block comment
               do = the_thing()
               if do is good:
                    break
          else:
              do = the_other_thing()
              if not a_thing:
                  help_me() # May raise NoHelpFoundError
      except ShitHitTheFanError:
           my_life = recover()
           if my_life is bad:
               for fuck in my_life:
                    try:
                        fix(fuck)
                    except NoHelpFoundError:
                        break
               else:
                    fuck_this_shit()
      else:
           wat_is_going_on()
  else:
      theres_another_one("?")
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates C++⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Footgunscannons

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨0-0⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • Alcoholic suffering from alcoholism
  • Best I can do is take away your alcohol
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hit em’ with that exp(-x) sin(x)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you take a water balloon filled normally at the surface of the ocean and take it down, like 100 meters would it deflate due to the higher water pressure? What if you popped it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When the compression is large enough to be relevant to whatever you’re calculating or discussing. Part of my job is literally to develop models that, for instance, predict the compressibility of water. For pretty much all practical purposes I can attest that the isothermal compressibility of water is completely negligible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If only I could power them with my disappointment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can! Just go to the “place you buy earbuds” settings page and select “wired earbuds”. After I did that, the annoying warnings went away, and my earbuds gained infinite battery life!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If only I could power them with my disappointment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You will pry these wired earbuds out of my cold dead ears!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honk at me again you long neck fuck, see what happens.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly! There’s also the significant point that you could get bit in the process of kicking away said dog, and the bite could give you an infection, which all comes back to why we (like most animals) will go very far to avoid a physical altercation.

  Basically, fighting shit can be dangerous, even in situations where you easily come out on top 10/10 times. That doesn’t mean the fucking chihuahua has a chance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honk at me again you long neck fuck, see what happens.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re feared by most animals because most animals (humans included) aren’t willing to risk a fight unless they need to, while geese have a solid intimidation game, and make to believe that they’re big and strong and will fight you.

  A 5 kg dog can also scare off plenty of people. That doesn’t mean an average grown person can’t punt it across the yard if push comes to shove. Plenty of videos out there show what happens when one of these animals actually goes after someone’s kid… the kid usually ends up fine to put it that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honk at me again you long neck fuck, see what happens.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pure poetry <3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that’s great until you want more torque (with the long side of the handle) or you’re working in a space where only the short side fits in where the screw is, or you want to attach said bit to a drill. It’s pretty common for bit-sets to just have ordinary (straight) hex bits rather than the rounded ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but with torx I don’t need an extra bit to handle that, it’s just a built in feature of the bit. It also doesn’t answer why torx apparently sucks? “Hex can also do that if you have a special bit” doesn’t make torx any worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What makes torx crap? Unlike hex, you can still screw them in if your screwdriver is at an angle, which can be really convenient if you’re working at odd angles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨business is business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t that Charles Proteus Steinmetz fixing a generator at one of Fords factories? “1 $ for the piece of chalk, 9,999 $ for knowing where to put the mark”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me rocking up to Lemmy all feed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This bothered me too much, I caught it here so you don’t have to.

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shhhhhhh Don't Tell Mum, You're Fine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking the same thing! Those expressions are so real and intense… I rarely see a painting that hits home like this one does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Team Car!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m on a bike, notice a car coming up behind me, and don’t think it’s safe for them to pass, I will put myself in the middle of the road to block them.

  If they try some stupid and dangerous passing, I’m the one getting pulped. Putting yourself in the middle of the road is a very effective way of communicating “don’t even try to squeeze past me, there’s not enough space.” The most dangerous situations I’ve been in on a bike have been due to cars trying to squeeze past me when there isn’t enough space, it’s terrifying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Team Car!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I definitely agree with the sentiment, my top priority is to not get run over. I still walk confidently onto the crosswalk without pausing, while keeping a close eye on the approaching car so that I can get out of the way if they don’t stop.

  My experience is that if you hesitate, way too many drivers will just floor it in front of you, while if you give the impression that they’ll hit you if they don’t stop, they’ll hit the breaks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Team Car!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The kamikaze cyclists give all of us a really bad time. I’m honestly surprised at how some people behave in traffic, knowing that they’re an unprotected meat bag moving at speeds far higher than what the human body is built for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Team Car!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I bike or walk pretty much everywhere I go, so my take on roads and traffic is that they’re usually far too car-centric (Norway). Even when I drive, I’m so used to thinking like a cyclist that I become very aware of how poorly roads are often designed around biking.

  With that said… The amount of cyclists with an apparent death wish is just staggering. Just two days ago I passed a cyclist in an 80 km/h zone. No issue there. Just around the next turn, I caught up to a second cyclist that I couldn’t immediately pass due to oncoming traffic. I’m behind this second cyclist, going downhill at maybe 50 km/h, with oncoming traffic on a relatively narrow road, when I notice that the first cyclist has caught up to us. Instead of placing himself behind me, he decided it was a brilliant idea to squeeze himself into the ≈ 1.5 m gap between me (a 6m long, 2-ton car going at 50 km/h) and the guard rail. At this point, I’m just sitting here terrified that I’ll end up accidentally squeezing him into the guard rail and killing him if I happen to move a couple centimeters too close to the edge of the road. I’m seriously afraid of breaking to let him in front of me, because I’m afraid he could hit my side-view mirror if I break unexpectedly (for him). There’s oncoming traffic, so I can’t move over to give him more space.

  To be honest, even when I’m biking myself I far too often find other cyclists to be absolute assholes with no respect for traffic rules. Of course, this doesn’t apply to everyone (by a long shot), but man those people cause the rest of us a lot of stress by being a danger to themselves and others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of years ago trying to spice things up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll betcha that one Greek dude was just the first to write it down. The trees and mountains know what kind of depraved shit our ancient ancestors were doing when everybody was living semi-naked in caves without showers to wash away the pheromones…

  ^doest’t^ ^sound^ ^too^ ^bad^

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going Back ↪️🏨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve done this a lot, so I’m speaking from experience. It probably depends on where you’re travelling to though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going Back ↪️🏨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re a low-maintenance kind of pet that just wants a pull-out sofa to sleep on, a shower, and possibly a kettle+microwave to make coffee+bad food for a day or two, you can find Airbnbs at ¼ the price of a hotel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to move a sofa⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we agree on the broad aspect here, but are disagreeing on minutiae: When I say it’s “not inherently built into the system”, what I mean is that if it was, my situation would be impossible to achieve within the system, not that the system doesn’t discourage it.

  The system most definitely heavily encourages exploitation, but it’s still possible to build a company within the current system that doesn’t rely on exploitation. That’s basically what I mean by “not inherent in the system”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ciao⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But not if they have deodorant in them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to move a sofa⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While what you’re saying is typically true, it’s not inherently built into the system. I work in a company owned by two friends. They own the company because they took out loans with their houses as security in order to finance the lease of an office space, buying work stations, and hiring themselves and me. I work on the same stuff as them, for the same hours, and make the same salary as them.

  If the company goes to shit, they have craploads of debt, while I don’t. We have a contract ensuring that I get a fair share of whatever comes in, including options to buy myself into the company at the same rate as what they initially invested once I can afford it. Nobody here is making excess money of others work. I have no reason to believe I’m being scammed.

  Again, what you’re saying is true in 99+ % of cases, but it doesn’t have to be that way. There’s nothing preventing a company from deciding that profits are split evenly among all employees (with the owners also acting as employees).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to move a sofa⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with pretty much everything you’re saying here, I still want to comment on

  Middle class does not exist

  I do think it’s a reasonable term to separate those that actually make a decent salary, are self-employed, own their own company (at which they work) together with others, etc. from the more clearly exploited workers that have far too few rights and are not compensated fairly.

  I have no problem with selling my labour for money as long as I’m fairly compensated for it. Historically, the working class has not been.