NeptuneOrbit
@NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 2 weeks ago:
A quick Google shows there expense ratio is 86% which I think isn’t horrible.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 5 weeks ago:
Invest in Hawaiian. Maybe Trump can add a few more islands out there so we can compete and export.
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 1 month ago:
Electoral whiplash is such a waste of time
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Those exist. Maybe not owned by a certain task force.
- Comment on Why is there no Christmas version of Spirit Halloween? 3 months ago:
Year round, in many European cities you can find the Kathe Wolfhart stores. Omg. It will change you life. Grinches cured with one look at the weihnachtspyramide. The cruelest of summer heats is quenched. Life is good under thousands of handmade, wooden Santa’s.
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 5 months ago:
OK good luck setting up the economic system that doesn’t just reward the rich.
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 5 months ago:
That’s the neat part. No one.
If the rich can hire a handful of the middle class to build and maintain their robots, then they can just cut the poor and working poor out of the economy entirely, and they will be willing to accept any conditions for food and shelter.
We can arrange the economy anyway we choose. Taking all of the decision making for themselves is part of the plan.
- Comment on Why is homebrewing so middle-class, straight, white, male? 5 months ago:
Back ten, twenty years ago you basically had to go to Europe to try good beer. Who was traveling to middle class white Americans.
Starting a brewery before recently was often a mark that someone had time and info to practice brewing at home, interest in European food and history, plus the start up capital/safety net to start the business.
Now a bunch of relatively privileged people who think it’s possible for them too…
- Comment on Why is the US not considered a third world country? 5 months ago:
The Gucci belt
- Comment on Is it better to rent a cheap/shitty place, or rent something suitable that you struggle to afford? 5 months ago:
No one is making low cost housing. Yes sure making more houses might stop the bleeding on cost.
But no developer is like “yeah I want to build some affordable housing. Something those stuck in the slums aspire to”.
They make the shit with the best margins.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Fark
- Comment on Go ahead 5 months ago:
Main, branch, little free.
- Comment on Is it better to rent a cheap/shitty place, or rent something suitable that you struggle to afford? 5 months ago:
OK. Yeah. Those are sacrifices. Shorter commute and no pests? Huge upgrades though. It sounds worth it, unless you really really value your privacy.
Commute of fifty minutes? The max for me.
And I feel something like pests would be a great reason to spend more on housing. But in this case spend less.
Definite market failure there are not more housing options at more price points in more locations and quality.
- Comment on Is it better to rent a cheap/shitty place, or rent something suitable that you struggle to afford? 5 months ago:
I’m failing to see what’s wrong with the cheaper place.
- Comment on Could anyone explain the linguistics around the word "shit"? 5 months ago:
Bad words just become extreme. The modify the emotion. They often don’t mean anything literally. You have to look for other clues or just memorize the terms.
- Comment on every company right now 5 months ago:
Remember when that janitorial company changed its name to include the term CRYPTO and it’s stock went through the roof and the SEC investigated them for fraud?
I can’t find the story unfortunately
- Comment on Thanks, Amy. 5 months ago:
It’s a tobacco pipe!
- Comment on Would America be as divided if Trump lost to Hillary in 2016? 5 months ago:
Doubtful. Clinton wouldn’t have focused on division. Sure, it would have simmered like during Obama’s years. But you can name 99 polarizing things Trump did and I can think of few Clinton would have done. Besides, you know, being a woman and continuing Obama’s legacy.
- Comment on Does different parts of the world use different standards for water pressure similar to voltages? 5 months ago:
Everyone else is focusing on whether the rest of the world uses metric and not that fact that water pressure at a given faucet or shower head will be governed by bernoullis equation which will take 99 things into account such as:
The max height of the water reservoir The height of your faucet The design of the pipes leading from the reservoir to your faucet Air pressure The pumps in the system Etc
- Comment on The Hidden Complexity Behind America's Map Problem 5 months ago:
States are the original gerrymandering.
Imagine if we redrew the state maps every few years. Oh no, my speed limit went down, I have to pay five cents per bag at the store, and the gax tax is not ten cents more per gallon. 😱😱😱
But then November roles around and my vote is way more powerful than it was because now 2 million people are election a senator and in my old state 50 million are also electing a senator.
States obviously used to have cultural sway but pretending they are real in 2024 is absolutely hilarious.
Gerrymandering is just the cherry on top. Well, the cherry in the House.
- Comment on Not to mom shame... 5 months ago:
The kids don’t have hats. Does she hate her kids??
- Comment on The fine art of negotiation 5 months ago:
The implication is clear. The art of the deal?
- Comment on The fine art of negotiation 5 months ago:
As others pointed out, a lot of factors would go into this decision. How many working hours can she normally put in if the average client only pays for an hour? How much time does she have to spend cleaning herself up between? How much risk is there in taking a new client?
Its pretty similar to working freelance compared to a paycheck. If I wanted to go on my own as a freelancer I could probably charge 2-3x my hourly salary rate as a freelancer. But I’d have to hunt for my next meal. I’d have to figure out all my 1099s. I’d have to change stragies to get new clients… Or I can just work my current corpo job making an OK salary but always know I have a paycheck coming and insurance.
- Comment on Close enough for government work 5 months ago:
Yes I’m implying student logic is only applicable in contexts where a teacher has laid out a test for you to intuit.
Student logic doesn’t apply when you have to come up with a new idea to an actual problem that exists in the real world.
There is value to learning student logic. It shows creativity. It shows a level of understanding of the material and how to be a teacher. But it’s not the same as learning the material.
- Comment on Close enough for government work 6 months ago:
Sure.
But if their isn’t some human author to your problem, student logic will be way less helpful than logic actually honed by learning how to learn.
- Comment on Close enough for government work 6 months ago:
Because actually learning will do both. Learning only calculated guesses will only really teach you how to deal with manufactured scenarios. I won’t really even serve you much past high school.
- Comment on Is someone safe if they report income from illegal means to the IRS? 6 months ago:
You would need to weigh the cost of
The IRS realizing their is un-reported or misrepresented income
Vs
The IRS reporting legally reported but otherwise suspicious income to the FBI or DEA OR whatever
- Comment on Close enough for government work 6 months ago:
Yeah I mean in some cases it’s not hard to surmise. Given the context (class, diagram) and how many numbers you have assigned, what formulas are available to you, you might be able to guess the teacher shoved the numbers into the wrong formulas to create the incorrect answers. For some classes simply supplying nearby numbers to the correct response might not be “real” enough.
Student logic is certainly a thing, but I can’t image it much help for the complexity shown in the meme. Basic geometry or math word problems as found in biology or statistics? Yeah sure
- Comment on Justice for our boy 6 months ago:
Biden rigged the DOJ to garner sympathy and also to punish his son for doing too much marihuana
- Comment on The current state of auto insurance: shit that belongs on a shady Kickstarter from 2013 6 months ago:
I’ll just put my phone in the trunk in the future.