Mirshe

@Mirshe@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, yes. Donate what food you can, but I promise they have enough cans of beans, bags of rice, etc to last until Jesus comes. Especially because different areas have different people - one local pantry might just need a little bit of everything, while another one on the north side of your city needs a lot of vegetarian and halal options because of the people it serves in that area. Especially, donating money lets that food bank get things that aren’t strictly necessary, but can make life that much more bearable - pastries, cookies, candy, snack foods, etc. Sure, it’s not healthy and I can hear you all sighing from here, but imagine this is your sole source of food for the month. Having a package of shelf-stable Little Debbies or whatever can seriously make your day just a little more bearable, instead of going “oh boy beans and rice for the 23rd time this month.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much this. The US will now end up with an automotive ecosystem (including fun things like ambulances, firetrucks, buses, etc) where everything is built as cheaply and dangerously as possibly profitable (see: Pinto et al). Sure, the autos we build here aren’t going to be able to be sold anywhere with a functioning regulatory body, but that’s OK because we managed to save $20 on each car we build by not having to include pesky things like airbags or a steering column that won’t impale you in a crash or a body that won’t telescope into you and crush you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow one of them still invents Tombstone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automakers urge Trump administration to clear way for self-driving cars⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much this. Ever wonder how so many people got killed and mangled during the Industrial Revolution? You’re about to find out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millennials are watching monthly student loan payments skyrocket from $500 to $5000 under Trump: This will ‘crash the economy’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t even true in a lot of places now. If you have a college nearby, expect your local trade school to have tuition similar to that college.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just watched the movie Hacksaw Ridge. Got me thinking can people in the military turn down an order because they disagree with it on sensible grounds? Like Trump ordering them to invade CN?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh, but you’re missing the bigger part of the equation: one of Trump’s first EOs this time was the requirement, by April 20, for the Pentagon to put together a recommendation on whether or not to utilize the Insurrection Act to declare martial law. I, and most others, are thinking this is purely a formality with the departmental purges - and once he’s done that, it hardly matters whether you like them invading Canada or not.

  Now, THAT BEING SAID, the military already has a manpower issue, has for a decent while. I do not think we could effectively lock down a country the size of the US, or even the major metros on both coasts, AND fight a war of invasion. Even unofficially deputizing all the various militia types, AND bringing local/state PDs and Nat Guard under federal control, I don’t think they have enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not sad, but there’s a lot of anxiety inducing moments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't people going to college get HUD, Food Stamps, and free Medicare/Medicaid while enrolled? Instead of the parents footing the bill or the student working 3 jobs and school?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly because all of that is a highly-confusing tangle. Food stamps are hilariously limited in most states, same with Medicaid. Section 8/HUD will almost always make sure you wind up living in the most run-down tenement your town has, run by the shittiest landlord, who will almost always be looking for a reason to evict you - and that even assumes you don’t have to wait literal years. The current wait time for Section 8 housing in my city is something like a year and a half.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is pretty much the story of the entire Land Warrior program. Nobody ever expected it to be a Real Thing, it was always a pie-in-the-sky boondoggle to make a shitload of money for the MIC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name a game game: "...and then it ends with you fighting A GOD."⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even with the weird Mormon allusions, I really wish we could’ve gotten an Advent Rising sequel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One in five Australian renters are living without essential items and in poverty, peak body study finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Average salary metrics are useless in an era of CEOs and executives getting paid millions a year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just three women have died and 50783 babies have been saved by Texas' abortion law. A damn good trade if you ask me.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me turn that around: why are you OK with letting an 18 year old bleed to death, painfully, from what is an absolutely treatable condition because nobody would perform care that was too legally close to an abortion? Why are you OK with women dying and being harmed irreparably?

  …jhu.edu/…/analysis-suggests-2021-texas-abortion-…

  And on the subject, why are YOU ok with killing babies?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just three women have died and 50783 babies have been saved by Texas' abortion law. A damn good trade if you ask me.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, “just” 3 deaths we know of. If you have read literally anything about abortions pre-Roe, I guarantee you that you’re potentially missing at least one and maybe 2 zeros behind that. This also doesn’t account for women who have been irreversibly harmed from attempting to access abortion care, or those who have to carry to term a child when pregnancy might harm them.

  Also, “only” 3 deaths is still a tragedy. Those people had families. They had friends, coworkers, and lives. At least one of them was literally still a child. Trying to play a numbers game between people dead because of a law and the number of “babies saved” is ghoulish behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AND you have two other great mages to hang around with, so you can combo off each other real easy.