Lemmylefty
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- Comment on Is America Really That Bad? 1 year ago:
America is harder to live in the poorer you are, and it’s on a steeper scale than in other industrialized nations because there are fewer and less robust social services, especially health and child care, and declines in union membership have paired with a rapid increase in wealth inequality that is forcing the shrinking middle class downward and stomping on the poor even harder.
You can live a comfortable life (for now…) if you are firmly middle class and up. Your higher salary than your counterparts in Europe is eaten away at by higher costs, and you deal with risks that they don’t in the form of transportation being car dominated (more accidents and less walking exercise) easy access to guns (the most dangerous being the one in your own home, to you) and less strict food safety laws. Compared to those in Eastern Europe, however, your likelihood of suffering from a foreign attack is drastically lower, not that it was ever very high to begin with.
One thing that Americans take pride in (and rightly, mind you) and full advantage of is our First Amendment right to not have our speech be curtailed, so a large amount of the bitching about America, and especially in English, is Americans bitching about America(ns). So there’s a cultural element to it that may or may not exceed the truth.
- Comment on Soil nutrients have such a marked effect on corn 1 year ago:
The sound you just heard is 45,000 men simultaneously and furiously searching for the long term effects of compost exposure.
- Comment on ChatGPT In Trouble: OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700,000 every day 1 year ago:
Good bot.
- Comment on ChatGPT In Trouble: OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700,000 every day 1 year ago:
- Comment on ChatGPT In Trouble: OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700,000 every day 1 year ago:
Does it feel like these “game changing” techs have lives that are accelerating? Like there’s the dot com bubble of a decade or so, the NFT craze that lasted a few years, and now AI that’s not been a year.
The Internet is concentrating and getting worse because of it, inundated with ads and bots and bots who make ads and ads for bots, and being existentially threatened by Google’s DRM scheme. NFTs have become a joke, and the vast majority of crypto is not far behind. How long can we play with this new toy? Its lead paint is already peeling.
- Comment on What is the difference between roasting and baking, since they are both referring to cooking something in an oven? 1 year ago:
- Comment on Bald people save a lot of money on shampoo. 1 year ago:
For the same reason, they walk faster, too.
- Comment on Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence 1 year ago:
[…] in blog posts and videos and published memoirs, autistic teens and young adults described living for a decade or more without any way to communicate, while people around them assumed they were intellectually deficient.
On a related note… only 5% of hearing parents with a deaf child will learn sign language.
- Comment on Your move 1 year ago:
Does your username come from a mistaken identification?
- Comment on "Don't judge a book by its cover." is a bad idiom, because bookcovers are desinged to represent the content of the book. 1 year ago:
Unless they’re “as seen in the hit TV show!” in which case it’s okay to tear those covers off.
- Comment on Influencers Navigate Strike Minefield 1 year ago:
By continuing to use our sites or services, you agree to our Terms of Use (including the class action waiver and arbitration provisions)
Well that’s a new one on me: first time I’ve seen class action mentioned in a Terms of Use popup.
- Comment on I hope Warner Bros. marketing is paying attention... 1 year ago:
It’s easier to guess if you imagine what an inebriated badger with heavy mange is capable of growling in its slurred but wild speech.
- Comment on I hope Warner Bros. marketing is paying attention... 1 year ago:
Right? “May cause bisexual yearning” is supposed to be a warning?
- Comment on Fixing my drain required breaking laws, pissing off IRC users, breaking tools… 1 year ago:
Random question OP, but have you ever seen the 1997 movie Mousehunt?
- Comment on If there was a city called January, and it hosted an international event (such as the Olympics or the Eurovision Song Contest), people would think it took place in the month of January. 1 year ago:
“…and I gotta warn you, these fancy European hotels, they got the strangest names, so you better be careful about ordering your ticket. You don’t wanna miss it!” “Yeah sure.” “So the first part’s in January, at the Top Of The World, and the second’s next week, in Summer.” “…pardon?” “I said, it’s in January, at The Top Of The World, and-“ “Where in the world is January right next to summer?” “Oh they’re both 3rd floor.” “What? How’d I get on the 3rd floor?” “Well you gotta order your ticket, first.” “…in January?” “Yes.” “Okay, so I call the ticket office on January 1st and-“ “No no no, you’ll miss it! You gotta so it earlier than that or you’ll be late! You’ll wind up in Summer, next thing you know.” “I don’t know what I know and what I don’t!” “It’s so simple: in January, The Top Of The World.” “Am I doing drugs?” “Why would you be doing drugs?” “How else am I gettin to the top of the world?” “Why, with the stairs of course.” “…okay I think I got my wires all crisscrossed and such.” “Just remember: Summer’s later, January comes first.” “First time you’ve made sense today! So, I get my ticket…sometime, and I go and see the bands in…at…January?” “At January, yes.” “In summer?” “No, that’s next week. Now that one’s at the top of The World.” “…they got booze at the top of the world?” “Try telling me they don’t” “Good, I’m gonna need it. So when I’m in At January, I go-“ “No, January.” “That’s what I said.” “No that’s totally different. It’s happening in January.” “…at the top of the world?” “Yes.” “And just where do you figure that is?” “3rd floor.” “Why am I on third again?”