intensely_human
@intensely_human@lemm.ee
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 2 days ago:
I’m in my 40s, and I’ve found that fast food quality varies up and down from year to year and location to location.
- Comment on Trump said he’ll end offshore wind “on day one.” Experts say he can’t do that, but his administration could cause plenty of trouble for the nascent industry. 2 days ago:
on Rogan, Trump talked about these wind Farms having a negative effect on whales
- Comment on Warcraft 1 and 2 Remastered and the long-awaited 2.0 patch update for Warcraft 3: Reforged have just launched on PC for Warcraft's 30th anniversary 2 days ago:
YES!
Yes milord!
Yes
- Comment on In 4 years, US power grid increased battery storage to the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors | The Optimist Daily 2 weeks ago:
Batteries’ output is measured in watts.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Criticism of ‘Woke AI’ Suggests ChatGPT Could Be a Trump Administration Target. 2 weeks ago:
Did Trump “target” entities for cancellation during his first presidency?
- Comment on Everyone getting BBLs these days. Dang 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t have to be fluff though. They could just report on any of the reduced disease or lower heart attacks than last year or whatever. There’s got to be some stats, even at a local level like in a town or something, where things are going well.
They should use that to balance the doom and gloom, not fluff pieces about squirrel butts.
- Comment on Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically? 2 weeks ago:
Because population is increasing faster than new housing is being built. There is a supply problem and demand is in elastic. The supply problem is the result of government’s continual suppression of new construction, via permitting red tape and overeager density zoning.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Got em
- Comment on A fair proportion of the suffering in the world can be laid at the feet of binary thinking. 2 weeks ago:
No it can’t!
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 2 weeks ago:
I mean why think it won’t work.
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t make any difference what got us here in the first place. What matters now is what options are the best from now moving forward.
These scientists seem to say that trying to reverse climate change isn’t the right path forward. I wonder why.
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 2 weeks ago:
Why not just good old Blorny
- Comment on T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users 2 weeks ago:
What exactly is “good faith commerce”?
That doesn’t seem to register as a coherent concept, considering good faith has to do with considering the whole of the interaction instead of one’s own side, and business is when each person handles only their own side of the equation.
Seems like an empty phrase to me, unless you can enlighten me.
- Comment on T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users 2 weeks ago:
You know what the difference between a near monopoly and an actual monopoly is?
In one scenario there’s competition and in the other one there’s not. Basically one’s a monopoly and the other isn’t.
- Comment on T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users 2 weeks ago:
Are you suggesting that there are some lies involved in this? If so, you shouid be specific about which lies you’re referring to. Without the specifics this just seems like FUD.
- Comment on T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users 2 weeks ago:
The FCC is the one taking away people’s freedom here, by preventing users from entering the kind of contract that T-Mobile and AT&T are offering.
Consenting adults are happy to sign up on those terms, and the FCC is proposing to prevent that arrangement.
The carriers make an excellent point that without that lock-in, the sale of the phone is less valuable to them. This means they won’t be able to offer the heavy subsidies on phones any longer.
This is the government preventing contracts between consenting adults. The government is reducing freedom here.
- Comment on Can U.S. Tech Giants Deliver on the Promise of Nuclear Power? 3 weeks ago:
That’s basically how medicine is run these days, and that’s a result of the artificial supply restriction government places on medical facilities and staff.
All doctors are forced through a narrow gauntlet which is basically designed by government regulations. The result of that process is doctors that have reduced empathy (it’s been documented, look it up), sleep deprivation, enormous debt, and a huge workload.
As a result, the third leading cause of death is medical malpractice, and people go into financial ruin to get medical care.
Medicine is one of those things we deemed “too important for a free market”, and so we’ve created a horrible hybrid of profit and government regulation that consistently produces horrible outcomes.
We need to be careful with this notion that something vitally important will be made safer, or more reliable, or less damaging by getting government involved.
If we aren’t careful (and let’s face it: government cannot be careful because it operates on a feedback loop of years, not days like private enterprise does), regulating the fuck out of a growing nuclear sector could lead to error and burnout rates similar to our medical sector, with similarly disastrous results.
- Comment on Can U.S. Tech Giants Deliver on the Promise of Nuclear Power? 3 weeks ago:
Subsidies seriously distort the market.
IMO the only kind of subsidy should he “If you’re a human, you get some money on a regular basis”. That’s the only way to subsidize economic activity without distorting market signals, because humanity’s choices is exactly the signal source that the market should be responding to.
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 3 weeks ago:
Football isn’t a game, kid
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 3 weeks ago:
Aren’t they all though?
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 3 weeks ago:
China has anti geosync capability.
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 3 weeks ago:
Dude your mom’s not in space
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 3 weeks ago:
Occam’s razor
We should have captured that thing when he dropped it. It’s just going to keep causing trouble up there.
- Comment on You could probably measure someone's age how hanging his balls is. 3 weeks ago:
I happens with age and insufficient collagen intake. I’m old, but since I’ve been taking collagen my balls have felt much younger and hung tight the way they did when I was a young man.
- Comment on Washington Post union, staffers revolt over decision not to endorse a presidential candidate, blame Bezos 3 weeks ago:
In its own coverage of the news in the Style section, The Post reported, “The decision has roiled many on the editorial staff, which operates independently from The Post’s news staff, a long-standing tradition of American journalism designed to separate opinion writing from day-to-day news coverage.”
If the intention is to separate news reporting from opinion writing, maybe the opinion pieces shouldn’t be published in the same document as the day-to-day news coverage.
Maybe they shouldn’t try to establish that “The Washington Post endorses X candidate”, but should refer to it as “The Washington Post’s editorial board endorsed X candidate”.
That would be, as per their self declared mission, the truth of the matter.
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 3 weeks ago:
Sure thing buddy
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 3 weeks ago:
Sure thing, buddy
- Comment on SPOOPY TARDIGRADE 3 weeks ago:
Oh right, now we’re claiming tardigrades are “biology”
- Comment on bitey 3 weeks ago:
Me, I can only do about four or five of those cookies at a time
- Comment on Pee posting? 3 weeks ago: