Bustedknuckles
@Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world
- Comment on Just blow all the dust out first 1 day ago:
The problem, of course, is that the overwhelming majority of randomly selected realities are likely to be worse.
Rolls the dice you now have taste buds on your butt and Jupiter allows more meteor strikes on earth
- Comment on $1.8 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market yesterday, where did it go? 1 week ago:
Simplistic answer is that equity holders sold and turned some of their equity into cash.
Slightly more nuanced answer is that when people tried to sell, they couldn’t get as much as they wanted (paper value of the equity) so accepted a lower price.
Eli5: I have two gumballs that I paid $10 each for. They’re “worth” $20 combined. I go to sell one but no one will give me $10, i have to accept $6 instead. Now that’s the “worth” of each gumball. Two gumballs now are $12. Price discovery means that all gumballs lost 40% of value™
- Comment on Can you guys help me get a job? 1 week ago:
What kind of job? H? Z? B?
- Comment on 'I need a job to save my life': Inside the desperate hunt for work in America 2 weeks ago:
Even with a working spouse, one income isn’t enough anymore. I really don’t know what people are supposed to do. Every industry except healthcare has been bleeding for months
- Comment on No. I'm undercover as a private investigator 3 weeks ago:
I’ve asked for help from someone in full grocery worker kit only to be told they were inspecting from corporate or there for a promotion. Neither had any idea where stuff was (or said that to get rid of me)
- Comment on With all due respect? Ew. 4 weeks ago:
Horus’s last name meant Earthworms?? What a loser
- Comment on With 1st world economies going to shit, would this not have a trickle down effect (reaganomics style) to 3rd world countries? Resulting in more unstable countries and regions? 4 weeks ago:
Yes. Order tends to be more efficient than chaos. Waste leads to shortages leads to instability. We may well be at the top of the precipice with a long way down
- Comment on "Mom, we can just go back to burning wood" 5 weeks ago:
Firewood warms you three times!
- When you cut/split it
- When you move it
- When you burn it.
It’s very efficient that way
- Comment on Why are games priced in € (EUR) quoted the same as $ (USD)? 1 month ago:
Since the marginal cost of selling additional digital copies is zero, I’d hazard that it’s priced that way because Europeans will pay that much and companies like to get money
- Comment on He's right, you know 1 month ago:
I’ve heard of those, but never visited because I spent all of my bandwidth at zombocom
- Comment on He's right, you know 1 month ago:
YouTube is my other social media and it’s getting stale quickly
- Comment on ‘I feel invisible’: over-50s reveal harsh realities of trying to get a job 1 month ago:
A lot of people are having kids later in life. It’s tough to feel secure enough to retire at 50 when you have 2 preteens and a mortgage.
Even without kids, the math is tough - work 30 years (20-50) and then retire ~30 (50-80?). We’d need massive safety nets in place to make retiring at 50 tenable. I’m going to hit the labor market next year and am terrified by what I’m seeing out there
- Comment on How come we don't have more sketch comedy shows, like MadTv or In Living Color? Are we just going to be stuck with SNL for our lives? 1 month ago:
There’re online sketch comedy shows. Think collegehumor ( it’s become Dropout, which does mostly structured/edited improv now). But like there are a bunch of YouTube channels that do prewritten sketches - albeit usually much smaller scale.
Because of the second law of thermodynamics
- Comment on *Damn you all to hell!* 1 month ago:
I found a toys r us kids (toddlers, really) in Japan - it was rad
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Congresscritters have had every opportunity to do their jobs as independent members of a coequal branch of government. They chose not to and, well, if you kiss his ass, don’t be surprised when you eat shit
- Comment on A reminder 2 months ago:
Medical bills can eat a ton of savings. My plan is to die early and not tell my kids about said plan
- Comment on A reminder 2 months ago:
Feels like being a millionaire now is what it takes to live without fear of incipient poverty
- Comment on US corporate profits surge to record as worker payouts wilt 2 months ago:
At a minimum, end stock buybacks
- Comment on Doorless showers just make a mess and everything ends up wet 2 months ago:
I think you’re dead-on. I had a 5’ wide doorless shower, 3’ of glass, and a rainfall showerhead and it was fine. Minimal leakage
- Comment on Lemmy users having a bit of fun dancing! 2 months ago:
When you embrace the cringe, you can become ungovernable
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 3 months ago:
A cynical view is that he does understand and is just shitposting and muddying the water around UBI
- Comment on Elon Musk Just Claimed That "SpaceX Will Be Worth More Than Earth," but the Bond Market Strongly Disagrees 3 months ago:
It’s easy when he doesn’t value earth very much
- Comment on I made a game. It is short adventure about bying bread during the war. It is free to play. And i am looking for feedback. 3 months ago:
I’ll check it out, thanks! People around the world are feeling for you and your country, more than our leaders will listen to
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I think this is another case of the word meaning different things. The agony that a person may experience and the sorrow of their loved ones. Some will celebrate that death.
The cessation of malignant influence from a powerful person, and the net progress towards a more inclusive, equitable, and just society. A lot of people are celebrating that death
- Comment on Independence Day - The President's Speech 4 months ago:
I had a tradition of watching every year on the 4th, it holds up pretty well!
- Comment on Fucking knee. 4 months ago:
I think of Bambi and thumper, that’s how bad it is
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 5 months ago:
It’s a weird one because it’s a huge expense but it’s also completely concentrated to a subset of the population for a subset of their life. I think it should have a public option. 2 toddlers, not infants, could cost us 50k/year
- Comment on Well done, all of you! 5 months ago:
“in these hot days is the mad blood stirring” -Romeo and Juliet
- Comment on Well done, all of you! 5 months ago:
Definitely. I personally merge earlier, knowing it’s less efficient and will put me back relative to zipper merging - just to avoid the stress of trying to get in between potentially uncooperative mergees. But I also don’t get too mad at the mergers - maybe they’re in a legit hurry
- Comment on Well done, all of you! 5 months ago:
Some people think that if there’s a hwy lane closure in 30 miles, you’re the asshole of you don’t immediately merge over