RememberTheApollo_
@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
- Comment on Websites: Then vs Now 1 day ago:
Missed the half-dozen boilerplate SEO sites that scraped the most generic and unhelpful information possible that feature links to whatever barely tangential software or product they might be selling.
- Comment on 2024 Administration is Shaping Up Like a Comic Book Villain Squad! 1 day ago:
Comic book villains are charismatic and have a plan. They can often be related to.
The villains being placed in positions of power are one dimensional, inept, and destructive for the sake of being destructive.
They’re like the villain’s stupid henchmen that constantly plot for their own selfish reasons while trying to not to catch too much attention from their leader.
- Comment on Tweety. I like stretching 3 days ago:
Truly a (reverse?) shitpost.
- Comment on To deter predators... 3 days ago:
This is the correct answer.
Life is programmed to make more of itself. Successful life means more successful reproduction and numbers.
Just because we consume that life doesn’t mean that it failed in any way; quite the opposite, if we propagate that life because we find it desirable for some reason that life has become more successful than its competitors.
Everything from apple trees to cattle have become incredibly successful thanks to humans’ desire for them and being the benefactors of their propagation. They are the winners in a backhanded sort of way.
- Comment on B5A9FC 3 days ago:
Refine that a little bit: he made a series of very bad business and financial choices regarding the commercial property he bought. He failed to follow through on the legal avenues he had available to him, he screwed with people who wanted to buy his property by jacking up the price after he had an offer, and he constantly blamed others for all his problems.
The man engaged in self-sabotage at every opportunity and made it everyone else’s fault.
He is in no way a hero.
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 5 days ago:
Believe it or not, riding a horse while drunk is also an offense in many places.
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 5 days ago:
That’s all well and good, but I’ve spent years around horses and owners…long enough to know that I’d never want one, at least not one you’d actually intend to use for any sort of riding if I had a choice.
Animals that can be cranky, bite, kick, needs farriers, training, vet bills, meds, food, tack, trailer, shelter, stable, or barn, land to keep the horse healthy and not too confined…
$1750 is not horse money. Not by a long shot. Not in the context of this hypothetical argument where one might trade a horse for a car.
There’s a reason people traded these magical animals for cars.
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 5 days ago:
That is a shockingly cheap horse.
- Comment on Premium Ads 6 days ago:
Just keep jacking up the ad-free tier price level.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 week ago:
You’ll be dead before you see the full fallout of this disaster.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
At no point did I suggest otherwise. Go make up something else I said.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
There you go again.
Dems bad, who cares if trump is worse.
Well, you’ll get what you wanted when Israel finishes off Gaza and everything else, or starts WWIII when they can’t keep the bombs inside their extermination camp.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
They believe it because that’s what people have been told to believe.
It should be glaringly obvious that trump’s implied policy that he will let Israel “finish the job” is far worse than the dems poor attempts at negotiating cease-fires or any other moderation on Israel’s aggression.
All the propaganda has focused on the democrat (in)action regarding Israel. Zero on trump’s plans.
That’s what the propaganda machine has been pushing.
- Comment on Respect 1 week ago:
Somewhere in TX?
All the people killing the Bluebonnets, trampling them for photo ops, or even dangerously stopping in breakdown lanes on the freeway to access Bluebonnets in the median for more pics.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Invest in index funds. They are self- cleaning…IOW when a stock stops performing it is removed from the fund and replaced by a better performer.
Use a brokerage that is low fee. Fees steal your money.
Do NOT let someone manage your money that moves stocks around for fees.
Use Dollar cost averaging . Even if the market is down, keep adding regularly. Which is tied to…
Don’t time the market. You can’t win.
Don’t touch it. Don’t touch your money. Don’t incur fees and capital gains taxes. You will lose. Leave it alone.
I am up 8% average yearly over the lifetime of my fund including all the downturns, it has been stellar this year well over 12%. Is this a “get rich quick” way of doing things? Is it exciting? No. Not at all. But it works.
Investing (NOT TRADING) is EasyHard, because it’s really easy to do, but really hard not to mess with and screw it up.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The grand prize 2 weeks ago:
No idea why the difference in price. I checked again and it still shows $340/ton on a UK site, another shows $335/ton, some higher for powders or carbide, some way lower for scrap.
- Comment on The grand prize 2 weeks ago:
Good thing I’m not an accountant
- Comment on The grand prize 2 weeks ago:
Let’s say that cube is 4.5’ a side. That’s 91.125 cu ft. Tungsten weighs 1,201.738 lb/cu ft. Which means the cube weighs 109,508.38 lb.
That’s an impressively sturdy floor.
Currently, tungsten is selling at about $340 USD/ton.
The block weighs 54,754.19 tons.
So this is indeed a fantastic prize at $18,616,425 USD.
All you have to do to claim your prize is get it home.
- Comment on Be happy if you woke up today and your throat didn’t hurt. 2 weeks ago:
The feeling when you physically notice your cold improving, you can breathe through both nostrils, and you don’t feel fatigued and sore anymore is an amazing feeling.
- Comment on WHAT 3 weeks ago:
Guns are fun and make everything fear you. Fear = respect. Also, wildlife is yours to kill if you like.
Teaching children valuable life lessons early on.
/s
- Comment on Cognitive Biases 3 weeks ago:
I’d love to see a list of names for writing devices used by trolls/propagandists thar generate completely false information of varying types. Forced binary choices when a third way is valid or the choices aren’t even related. Most of them are just plain old lies, so I don’t think the list would be too long.
- Comment on Don't Engage with Trolls 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been participating in Threads (yeah, I know, should be ashamed) and I’m unfortunately a sucker for some of the ragebait, especially political.
Guess what Threads pushes at me. A lot of the dumbest ragebait. Not people that actually want to have a conversation. My fault for being a sucker, but the algorithms work.
Doesn’t really matter, I’m shadowbanned. Pissed off too many republican propagandists by refuting them, so as usual, the “report” button is their remedy.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 3 weeks ago:
Iv’e spent enough time on Threads where seeing this is exactly what I would expect there. Warped my sense of what is real.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 3 weeks ago:
Twitter or Threads? Threads has got some of the stupidest people, biggest trolls, or Dollar Store AI writing stuff on the platfom. It’s literally so bad that I have a genuinely hard time anyone could be so stupid writing the posts.
- Comment on So bad it was actually entertaining 3 weeks ago:
It was often owner/managers that couldn’t stay the f out of the way of employees who knew what they were doing, didn’t have a menu that was cost- and manpower-effective, or didn’t get rid of bad employees.
The show was obviously edited for effect, but IIRC the businesses were legit. They were usually on their last financial “leg”, and owners would give up.
Virtually all the failures otherwise were because the owner or management refused to follow Ramsay’s advice.
- Comment on Probably 4 weeks ago:
Should be a sleep therapist.
- Comment on This is not fine 4 weeks ago:
Your comment looks only at temperature and skips past all the effects of said temperature. An unbelievably incomplete and willfully restricted view.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
TBF, life’s objective is to reproduce and keep its genetic materials continuing on. Even if humans propagate and consume said plant because they find it desirable, that is still a success for the plant. So even if it has toxic caffeine or fiery capsaicin to deter some pests and humans find it enjoyable, the plant wins.
- Comment on Fruit Flies 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure the meme is apocryphal, and it’s not entirely correct. Fruit flies do eat yeast, yes…but they also eat the sugars in the fermenting fruit, not just the microorganisms causing fruit decay. I don’t know about the larvae at all, though.
