Not_Alec_Baldwin
@Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Choose wisely! 5 months ago:
America.
2x4 studs are 3.5" deep. Even interior walls have drywall on both sides, usually over a half inch, but even half inch drywall, tape, mud, and paint, gets us to 4.5-5" thick.
That gives you a 2 inch “buffer”.
Is your body thicker than 2"?
There’s just no way it works.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 5 months ago:
2 and 7 feels OP compared to any other combo by a mile. Definitely getting nerfed in the next patch.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 5 months ago:
Unfortunately most walls are thicker than 7" when accounting for decorations, furniture, trim, etc. Not to mention adding your own thickness.
- Comment on I just want to set a timer for MY FOOD WINDOWS WHY? 5 months ago:
Right, it’s just a front door lol. I never considered that was a thing.
- Comment on My friend on social refuses to see how this is a pyramid scheme 5 months ago:
Pyramid scheme, not profit scheme.
Pyramid because the shape is a pyramid.
The first person, the one who sent out the original picture, received X books and sent none.
The next layer sent one book, and possibly received up to 36.
But those 36 each need 36 new people. It’s impossible. You’d hit the population of the earth in just a few rounds.
- Comment on I just want to set a timer for MY FOOD WINDOWS WHY? 5 months ago:
The companies BUILD IN backdoors so that they can steal your data.
But because the backdoor is built in, they have to constantly monitor and update the security around it so that “bad guys” (they don’t think they are the bad guys) don’t get in.
They only do security updates to prevent liability iirc.
The whole thing stinks.
Note: I’m not a software developer just an outraged bystander with tech hobbies and techy friends, it’s possible this isn’t true.
- Comment on Restaurant Bill 5 months ago:
But if you tell the customer how much things cost they won’t buy as much.
It’s just layer upon layer of dishonesty. The only time businesses get honest is when the government forces them to.
- Comment on I'm not asking to be rich. 5 months ago:
Also more equal societies tend to be happier and healthier. Reducing overall wealth and income inequality is a net gain for everyone.
- Comment on I'm not asking to be rich. 5 months ago:
The richest guy in the cemetery probably lived a pretty good life.
He could host his friends, people wanted to spend time with him if he wasn’t particularly foul.
He could afford better food, better schools, and better medicine. So he was better nourished, better educated, and better taken care of.
He could pursue his interests and support things he cared about, so he felt actualized.
Of course rich people die of cancer or suicide just like the poors. But they do it less and it’s more of a tragedy when they do.
- Comment on I'm not asking to be rich. 5 months ago:
Money can’t buy me happiness, but I’m happiest when I can buy what I want, any time that I want, get high when want…
- Comment on Blueberry milkshakes 5 months ago:
Capitalism isn’t a system of morality. Or at least it isn’t supposed to be.
The fact that people think more money = moral is one of the largest problems in the world right now.
- Comment on Facepalm 6 months ago:
And the volume is cranked too high.
And they are intentionally annoying.
And the last time I had a video on without my adblocker, an ad came on that was literally a person acting like they were a content creator. It was over 3 minutes long. I was only half paying attention (I was driving and just listening to the video) and when I realized it was wrong I thought I had bumped the phone and changed videos. It was so disorienting.
All the ads are lies or propaganda. I hate them. I actively avoid products that find a way to force their ads in front of my face.
- Comment on Maybe this isn't proper shopping but $18.50 for four veggie burgers, buns, and danish seems like a lot 6 months ago:
Literally all modern evidence points to the healthier tribal and nomadic humans having animal-based diets.
Healthier teeth, healthier skin and hair, longer lifespans, better musculature.
- Comment on I wish 6 months ago:
I definitely have one of these.
- Comment on What makes a bicycle so expensive? 6 months ago:
“some brands of bikes” make frames out of carbon fiber with wireless derailleurs and have rear facing radar to detect when other bikes or vehicles are approaching, how fast, and on which side.
When your exercise, your recreation, your hobby, and your transportation are all the same thing, it’s easy to justify spending more to make those things as easy and pleasant as possible.
You can get a perfectly usable bike for very little money in America… Probably still made in China though 😂
- Comment on How in the hell 6 months ago:
I’m THRILLED with the promise of technology making human labor obsolete.
Is labor the best use of your limited time?
Why should we design a society where people must labor in order to survive?
However I’m DEEPLY concerned with our blind dedication to the private ownership of everything, exclusively for the purposes of growing the wealth of the few.
I don’t believe we’re in a post-scarcity world yet, and so I don’t think we’re able to stop laboring altogether. But we’ve definitely reached the point where many have stopped laboring and are surviving on the backs of others. Their lessers.
That needs to become embarrassing instead of a point of pride. We need to start shaming people into doing their part.
- Comment on This airBNB was supposed to be a "relaxing retreat" but now I need therapy after this shit. 6 months ago:
100%
- Comment on How in the hell 6 months ago:
“That’s not how the market works.”
I’ve had to have this conversation so many times I feel like I’m losing my mind. Like I need to write a manifesto or blog post that I can reference instead of rewriting it every time.
Markets are not moral.
Market forces are like physical forces - we observe them and use that knowledge to predict the outcomes of situations. But by the same token we need to have a moral framework underpinning the way we use the knowledge, or else we will destroy the world.
Justifying low wages by saying “people are willing to take the job” is just saying “people would rather do this job than be homeless, starve, or be poor_er_.”
I, personally, am fundamentally not okay with an economy that is fully supported by workers essentially being coerced into working from fear of death or despair.
We look at the nuclear bomb and the damage it caused and say “that was bad, let’s not do that”. But we look at inflation, wealth accumulation, class warfare, rampant shameless greed, and don’t immediately see the cause/effect relationship.
Now the conversation about some work being harder, more unpleasant, more stressful, or more valuable than other work is an important one. But in my mind the important part is removing the coersion.
If people had their basic needs met and didn’t fear starvation or homeless, I bet employers would have to give their workers a better shake in order to keep things running.
- Comment on How do poor people in the states give birth without money? 6 months ago:
While it’s a fact that the middle class is shrinking, I think you’re miscalibrated.
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=463…
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added | GamesRadar+ 6 months ago:
Oh!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHnYod32PCk
Adam Something released a C:S2 video where he removed roads and messed with traffic logic.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added | GamesRadar+ 6 months ago:
I too am an Adam Something fan. 😂
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added | GamesRadar+ 6 months ago:
Also wait for sales.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added | GamesRadar+ 6 months ago:
Star Citizen only feels like it’s been in alpha for 65 years.
- Comment on Dad wins 6 months ago:
It’s a memorial urn. My mother bought a few for family that wanted something to remember her by, but her ashes aren’t in it. They’ve been scattered.
So it’s really just sentimental clutter.
Some people are really attached to physical representations of things. They want a grave site to visit, or an urn to have. It’s probably just a mental thing, but it seems to be really common.
- Comment on The precision is impressive 6 months ago:
From the dot in the middle I assume it used a camera mounted directly above the plate pointed down to monitor the movement?
Pretty cool.
- Comment on This indie dev (Indie RPG Inkbound) is removing all microtransactions after noting that "player sentiment is trending against" them 6 months ago:
More importantly people don’t want to buy into closed game environments. They promise of ongoing development attracts players that want that type of scale, and also allows devs to continue to eat. It’s a win/win.
This is the right choice by devs. I haven’t played it and honestly I probably never will, but I respect the decision.
- Comment on Tossing Satellites into Orbit with SpinLaunch: Is that Possible? | Interesting Engineering 6 months ago:
Yeah I was gonna say…
No, no it doesn’t work.
- Comment on Amazon anti Union propaganda 7 months ago:
Costco.
It’s not all companies that are trash. It’s just most.
- Comment on Amazon anti Union propaganda 7 months ago:
Costco is (afaik) not unionized, though the company is union friendly (there may be unionized stores?). They are publicly traded. And workers are paid better than a living wage and have a bunch of benefits.
The company chooses to do this despite their shareholder responsibility, and I will never shut up about it.
Once you’re getting a fair shake, if the company establishes trust, you can get rid of the union. And the company can save the money they spend trying to ruin your lives on something else instead. Not all companies are trash.
But most are.
It’s absolutely vital for governments to promote workers’ ability to unionize and provide employees with rights to protect them from corporate greed.
- Comment on Amazon anti Union propaganda 7 months ago:
That’s because the manager is incentivized to not help you, while the union is incentivized to help you.
Unions are game-theoretically necessary.