zxqwas

@zxqwas@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone here ever doubted if your parents were your "real" parents? Is it normal to have these weird thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No. A picture of me and my father from when we were kids should dispell any such suspicions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do you deal with those characters fully convinced a job is something you have to enjoy?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually say "If your job was fun they would charge admission instead of paying you. "

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I learn to estimate the likelihood of real-world events?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Predictions are hard, especially about the future.

  You don’t say exactly what you want to predict so it’s hard to say exactly what you need to learn.

  If you want to predict the next economic crash you’ll have to study a lot of economics. If you want to predict the next pandemic you’ll have to study medicine etc. Years of study no matter what.

  Once you know a lot about a topic you have to put a ton of effort into study current events and still be wrong a lot of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gotta be more encouraging⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are 99 crackpots for every genius without a degree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there really no stupid questions?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Phrasing conspiracy theories as a questions does not make them a questions, stupid or not.

  Troll grade: C-.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad but true⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably, but being stupid is a worse curse than being ugly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't police use rubber bullets instead of live rounds? I get if someone is holding a loaded weapon. But wouldn't a rubber bullet have the same effect with out putting holes in another person?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When you don’t intend to kill rubber bullets are still very dangerous.

  If you have to kill (armed and attacking) they are not dangerous enough.

  Then you have the issue of less than lethal weapons having a much lower threshold for when they are used and then accidentally killing or maiming someone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends more on what octave you hit when moaning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not supposed to be insecure about it.

  You can be honest , you can joke about it. I’d probably just tell them it’s so boringly average, I measure every day and compare to the wikipedia article on penis size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspirational⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In a frictionless vaccuum 45° would be max range.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I do it at least 35 times just in case⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The key is gentle teasing and then a sudden switch into a resolute, vigorous finish. Keeps the wear and tear down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I do it at least 35 times just in case⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay what about going extreme at thethe other end? I need to know what happens to the 60-90 times per month group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only reason I put pants on is because it’s be arrested otherwise.

  That being said, comfortable has priority over good looking and I don’t think I’ve ever had a compliment on how I dress since grandma saw me in a suit when I graduated 20 something years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because when you make the console you get to charge anyone who wants to publish a game for it anything you like. Microsoft made money on every pc sold with windows, but not every game sold for PC.

  Same reason EA, UBIsoft and every other big publisher tried to launch their own Steam competitor. To ideally make money from someone else selling their game on their shop, but worst case just to be able to make negotiate a better deal from Valve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does free healthcare access increase or decrease the need for medical personnel overall?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Living somewhere where the healthcare is not free but heavily subsidised people do not go to the doctor for minor issues because when I tried to call and book an appointment I got an answering machine telling me that they don’t have time to answer the phone today, try again tomorrow. And of course the online booking did not work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't anybody get notified about warrants for their arrest?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So that they don’t run, hide or destroy evidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do boycotts work?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In case of a country at war you need a lot more than a boycott.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it takes quite a lot of effort to eat a huge amount of sugar in the form on fruits and berries. They also have some vitamins, fibers and other stuff in them too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone fact check this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Biggest owl weighs up to 10 lbs. (Blakiston’s Fish Owl)

  300kW has dimension J/s and calorie has dimension J. It’s like saying that you would walk 5km/h equivalent of over 200m.

  I will not entertain the notion that they were sloppy with what units they used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are plenty of small companies that don’t grow. Think mom and pop shops and self employed tradesmen.

  I’ve you get a bit bigger and you’ve already got the hassle of employing lots of people in multiple places you can’t really balance it to be neutral, you will grow or shrink and it’s a lot more pleasant to grow than shrink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg??⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their spending is someone else’s income that is then taxed that is then spent that is then taxed.

  Responsibly used some government debt is good. It helps growing the wealth of it’s people both now and in the future.

  Irresponsibly used it’s a headache for the next generation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much the same as any other bubble. Everyone knows its a bubble but putting a million into a 1% chance to make a billion makes sense for anyone who can afford it.

  AI will probably be useful for something. Noone knows exactly what so there is a huge amount of risk taking.

  I’m not old enough to remember the sentiment during the dotcom bubble but it seemed more optimistic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You would not want to use AI anywhere it matters. Only in places where it does not matter if you get it right the first, second or even the third time, like customer support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mostly listen to music when I’m driving and 4G connection is spotty as soon as you’re outside of town, so I’m still copying the files around. If spotify pisses me off I’ll probably make a media player that syncs mp3s over a vpn. If there is not one already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to move around a huge library of mp3s. I just can’t be bothered anymore and spotify does a reasonable job for a reasonable price.

  If only could easily access most movies and TV with one subscription. But anyway this was about music.

  Price has gone up 30% in 10 years or whatever since I started. But then so has every fucking thing else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You battery operated trilobite would not recognise an offensive sentence if I typed it at you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remembering what password and username goes where.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which career to pursue?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A mediocre engineer makes more than a mediocre artist.

  If you are good at any STEM and any creative profession you should pick STEM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pick up a tiny asteroid and drop it from 1m. It hit the ground slightly faster than a reversing truck.

  Pick up a bigger one and drop it from orbit it’s going to go faster.

  Whatever you drop won’t be an asteroid because it’s already on earth.

  So if you pick up corsica and drop it on florida from less than a meter up (they had it coming) there would be a mass extinction in florida. Everything under corsica would die, buried under a mass of rock, mud and whatever. If it did not die already because it could not squeeze into the less than a meter gap between the masses. There would also be an earthquake, maybe a tsunami if some of it fell in the ocean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is communist idea of base & superstructural bullshit?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Famines due to incompetence or mismanagement.