Soleos

@Soleos@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what proportion of it is also due to people fleeing 1 million + average house markets during the pandemic work from home wave. Not saying this about you, but it makes me think it’s funny how the common refrain of “Don’t like it? Just move” is often uttered by NIMBYs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨💸💸💸⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure how much the kingdom was involved in Al Qaeda’s early years, unless you count American-Saudi-British funding of MAK/other Mujahideen during the soviet-afghan war. However, it’s clear Al Qaeda was already declaring against the kingdom a couple years before the USS Cole in '98. But sure I’d see Al Qaeda being a child of SA in a way similar to the KKK being a child of the US

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨💸💸💸⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot the part where Saudi Arabia started courting American aid and literally expelled Bin Laden for being anti-American. That doesn’t make SA “the good guys” but it makes a huge difference in how your framing paints SA’s position and involvement with Al Qaeda during the 2000s. Their history is long and complicated, but during the war on terror, SA was much more aligned with the US against Al Qaeda and Bin Laden

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨💸💸💸⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot the part where Saudi Arabia started courting American aid and literally expelled Bin Laden for being anti-American. That doesn’t make SA “the good guys” but it makes a huge difference in how your framing paints SA’s position and involvement with Al Qaeda during the 2000s. During the war on terror, SA was much more aligned with the US against Al Qaeda and Bin Laden

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nature is blunt.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They offer reputation. Career advancement is highly dependent on publication history and impact. Getting into a prestigious publication means your work will more likely be read and cited. Because highly reputable journals can charge high publication fees (because it’s in such high demand), they get to set the industry norm, which other less reputable journals/publishers get to follow. It does cost money to develop and maintain that reputation for rigour and impact (i.e. good science). But yeah it’s exploitative AF. There are attempts for less profit-motivated publications… But making those rigorous while still being democratic is hard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blocked 🚫⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta love how the more “Applied” a field is, the more “Impure” it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants American companies to make a good RPG⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, it makes perfect sense to describe Canadian products as North American, but OP asks about “American” RPGs. It would be strange to call Canadian Bacon “American food”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants American companies to make a good RPG⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  BioWare is Canadian

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  2048

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it takes time to start appreciating imperfections instead of beauty⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t you mean appreciating the beauty in imperfections?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world has become Applefied.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean there you go, Toyota’s are appliances. They have to look bland because their style has to remain inoffensive after decades on the road.

  That being said, I’m impressed with how much style they’ve managed to put on the new Prius while still aiming for long-term fleet vehicle role. I also like what they’re trying to do with the BZ4 styling wise, even if it’s a compromised first gen product.

  There’s also always the Supra and LC500 :3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The truth about Canada⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a shitpost because blue actually represents the Quebecois who view themselves as oppressed the way they oppressed Indigenous People, for whom orange/yellow/black/red/white are more representative colours?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrinkflation is out of control⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same reason for every animal resource: over exploitation of the resource, habitat destruction/pollution, and climate change. This isn’t a recent thing, salmon stocks have been declining over the last 4 decades. The response to this decline of course has been to continue extracting the same amount year over year.