abigscaryhobo
@abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 14 hours ago:
As others have said, the stock market has little to do with reality. It’s focused on money and business reports. As long as companies are showing profits, the stock market literally doesn’t care.
Something only hits it when businesses hit it. Look at today’s market. Walmart posted bad futures and the whole market recoiled (only a bit but still).
There’s also just the denial phase. Lots of people, at lots of levels, are dependent on the stock market for their own finances. Literally everyone with a 401k has an interest in the market doing well. Saying “welp, we’re fucked” is just not something that anyone wants to put towards wall street. It’s why we have market “crashes”, because people hold out until the water covers the bow of the sinking shop then they freak out and bail out at the last second.
- Comment on Working below minimum wage to save the planet 14 hours ago:
Hell yeah! Nice work dude!
- Comment on Romantic 5 days ago:
Not sure if you’re joking but that was a real ad campaign for the PSP that was just. Perfect lol
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 5 days ago:
It doesn’t matter without scope. Are we looking at a database of SSNs? tax records? A sign in log? The social security number database might require uniques in some way, but tax records could be the same person over multiple years. A sign in gives a unique identifier but you could be signing in every day.
It’s like saying a car VIN shows up multiple times in a database. Where? What database? Was it sold? Tickets? Registered every year?
This is nothing more than a “assume I mean immigrants or tax fraud and get mad!” inflammatory statement with no proof or reason.
- Comment on Working below minimum wage to save the planet 5 days ago:
If you haven’t yet, go order that cap. It’ll take like 7 minutes tops.
- Comment on Romantic 1 week ago:
“Come out man!” “I can’t! I’m playin Shit!” “But you can play Shit OUTSIDE!” “SAY WHAAAAAT??”
DUAL PortaPotty. It’s like a Shit, you can play outside.
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 1 week ago:
Enough data over time I bet you could. Get a couple drop recordings, arm swing, common heights of beds/desks/chairs, you could find it.
Would it be automated or easy? Hell no. But you can do it. We’ve discovered more with less
- Comment on DICE Awards 2025 Nominations Revealed With Astro Bot, Helldivers 2, and Indiana Jones in the Lead - IGN 5 weeks ago:
It’s the problem when you have public voting on these, the ones more people know about are the ones that rise up. If it’s panel selected then it’s (almost always) rigged by whoever is giving the award to show off their game instead of the actual good one.
I mean look at the Steam awards, Liars Bar won “Most Innovative Gameplay”. Liars Bar, the game that is literally bluffing cards and dice, a game that has been around for literal centuries, “most innovative”
- Comment on Disgusting money driven mindset 1 month ago:
Eh. It’s very much a case by case. It’s like having an assistant manager. Some of them you wonder what they even do, other ones you think the place would likely fall apart and burst into flames without them.
- Comment on Caught in 4K 1 month ago:
I think we need a word for an unnecessary sequel. Like it’s not a remake but they just retcon the ending and are like “oh look actually there’s more!” On a story that was perfectly wrapped up already.
- Comment on USA Air Force issues new guide regarding acceptable phrases to be used when on duty 1 month ago:
See, you invalidated that whole thing with the last line. Every marine has at least bitten a crayon. Some people have allergies.
- Comment on Y'all get those "Weird Amazon Shenanigans" where ordering later get you an even faster delivery? (like wtf?!?) Well I just witnessed this shenanigan. 1 month ago:
This usually comes from a couple things.
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The Amazon site that could do faster delivery was out of stock, had too many orders already to deliver it same day on Wednesday
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The time of day you looked at the order changed so you got in on Thursday early enough to hit that time limit
Or the Most likely:
- When you were placing the order it checked the available shipping methods (not days) and they couldn’t do same say that day, so they offered standard. The next day they check the methods again (probably taking into account the above reasons) and they could do same day so they offered it.
They don’t do the “what about same day, but tomorrow” stuff because it’s usually a problem that solves itself. Either you’re fine with Saturday, or you come back tomorrow trying to get it same day again.
The thing that is worth noting is that Amazon doesn’t do everything they sell as fast as humanly possible. They still have logistics to worry about and not every possible site can ship everything at maximum possible speed. They probably could if they forced it, but the juice isn’t worth the squeeze on that approach.
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- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 1 month ago:
I also have like 150 hours in PlanetSide 2. But it’s because I left it running one day on accident and it counted all the extra hours as “playing”
- Comment on Day 157 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
I would highly recommend Payday 2, forget the DLC unless you really like it, but the game is amazing, one of the best horde shooters around imho. Payday 3 is a really pale comparison because it came out and pretty much the entire audience went to it and went “this sucks” then went right back to payday 2 because it’s just that much better.
- Comment on its not just me 1 month ago:
But…iron is heavier than feathers…
- Comment on What MMORPG are you playing, and why? 1 month ago:
I’ve always said I’ll play eve if there’s an afterlife. The idea is fascinating to me but I ain’t got that kind of time
- Comment on What a bargain 2 months ago:
Every in game auction house lol pretty much any item that hasn’t just been bought out and manipulated has the same entries.
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- Comment on Star Citizen players after giving Chris Roberts a month’s pay for a 400-meter Liberator-class carrier by Shitfuck Industries 2 months ago:
Can you actually give evidence? Or even a semi-convincing argument to back that up? Because from everything I’ve seen it’s a whale fishing company with bros playing around with random disjointed tech demos. The closest I’ve seen them do to interesting is their distributed server model for cells in a single environment, but even that isn’t worth a billion dollars in funding.
Otherwise I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 2 months ago:
I think this is mutual in that I prefer women just have a hobby more than anything. It’s a weird feeling when someone genuinely tells you they do “Nothing really” and you find out they’re genuinely serious.
- Comment on Is it just me or is this a terrible idea? 3 months ago:
Eh, it’s also a bit of a teaching opportunity with kids. A decent parent will teach kids which things are okay to hit and which ones aren’t, and this is something that can help with that. Someone’s probably going to get hit once or twice yeah. But kids also get mad when they can’t stick forks in outlets. I don’t see this toy being any worse than a sword or gun toy.
- Comment on Self care 4 months ago:
Yeah but physical activity will make you feel better. That’s not why we’re here man get with it.
- Comment on Goddammit Texas! 4 months ago:
Just want to add, in the US you’d don’t have to register to vote each election/vote, just when you change address.
- Comment on Thanks, Logan. 4 months ago:
Technically they don’t gain money no, but they get:
- To move or dispose of product, making sales look better
- Free marketing, both in people having the drinks and to say "look we did a charity"
- To pay their taxes with effectively free money, because they take the product that they made for pennies, and count it as a “donation” at full price. Meaning that all the “profit” they would have made on markup goes straight to paying the taxes instead of making the money and paying taxes on the money they already made.
It’s why a company donating their product is always better for them than a regular person donating cash. They are effectively still making money it’s just this time they are making money specifically to pay off their taxes.
- Comment on Fruit Loops! 4 months ago:
That’s weird
- Comment on Home maintenance 10 months ago:
In universe I want to guess they added pressure to the back side of the system to balance out the water vs air pressure since it’s part of the training system. That said, it was probably just movie magic bs.
- Comment on Common loot 1 year ago:
Linen cloth, time to start making bandages again.
- Comment on What are some alternatives to bars that stay open late for folks that don't drink alcohol? 1 year ago:
In my experience it depends on the bar. I have a local that I like that is very laid back and relaxed bar scene, you still get some rowdy groups, but it’s not like fighting for the bartenders attention or blasting music. Perfectly easy to go in alone or with friends, sit down and shoot the shit for a few hours. Doesn’t really matter what’s in your glass.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
People still remember handbanana??
- Comment on Mind=Blown 1 year ago:
Pretty sure you’d have to be “too old” to remember filthy frank (or pink guy) from the early YouTube days. All that happened was he started making music under the name joji