phubarr

@phubarr@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With Shared Software, Landlords Are Teaming Up to Raise Rents⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If there aren’t laws for crimes against the economy, there should be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There needs to be a tech workers union. The abuse from employers needs to end. Especially the endless free overtime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New 'Mind-Reading' AI Translates Thoughts Directly From Brainwaves – Without Implants⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is definitely progress, but we need to keep in mind that the particular language a person speaks can significantly influence how a person’s brain works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I feel like I'm on a hamster wheel" — US cost of living has skyrocketed since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This concept needs to spread. Those record profitisand the consolidation of wealth is a real-life exploit (a hack) of capitalism. These types of situations were never intended by the visionaries that designed capitalism. This entire clusterfuck of 1% having 99% of the money was never intended by design, nor seemed like a plausible situation to need to design protections for when the economy started getting destroyed by this situation. As the sickness of greed among policymakers grew, they punched holes in the system in order to exploit the mechanics of the capitalism to collect virtually limitless money while simultaneously denying other less privileged people not “in the know” the chance to do the same.

  Does anyone remember the original Super Mario Brothers, where you could get crowns, basically giving you more lives than you could possibly use? These capitalist hackers found a way to get crowns at the expense of the 99%, and nobody has any clue or organized any way to stop this hack/exploit from ruining it for everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem like women are more wont to make noise in sexual situations while men don't?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because of this : en.wikipedia.org/…/Female_copulatory_vocalization…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any recurring charges (or other downsides) that come with having a driver's license but not owning a car or regularly driving?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m very familiar with Florida’s rules about this. The scenario you’re worried about is if you have a license and a car registered and tagged (license plate) at the DMV. If you have a valid license plate and no insurance, the DMV either wants the valid plate back, or you’re forced to get car insurance, or else your driver’s license will be suspended. They do this to prevent uninsured people from driving around with valid tags (license plates), basically by getting insurance, registering the vehicle with the DMV to get a valid plate, and then canceling the insurance, in order to “appear” like a valid driver.

  Additionally, if you have a vehicle in your driveway and no valid license plate, you can be cited by the local government’s code enforcement department, for having an unregistered (junk) vehicle in your driveway. I don’t remember exactly what the citation was for, but I’ve received one when I was young and first getting into the car hobby. I think you’re ok if you have a car cover. I’m a car enthusiast and I have always had multiple vehicles, and have been told by my city I had to either register the car, get it out of view (I think getting it covered up with a car cover counts, but they really want you to put it in a garage), or get rid of it. Some municipalities don’t care, some care and don’t enforce it, and some do enforce this.