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- Comment on James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis 1 day ago:
He also liked it shaken because that waters the drink down more. Meaning he’d be able to sip it without getting as drunk.
But the sad reality is that Ian Fleming was likely just an alcoholic who wrote his own vices into his characters.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 3 weeks ago:
Which is really only used in the americas. Europe/Asia doesn’t use it, except in specific circumstances where the child wouldn’t be eligible for citizenship elsewhere.
- Comment on One in 15 Americans has witnessed a mass shooting – study 3 weeks ago:
You say you’re 54, so by the study’s definition, you are Gen X, and are thus about twice as likely to have never been present for a mass shooting as a Millenial, about three times as likely to have never been present at a mass shooting as Gen Z.
See Table 3.Exactly. I’m in my mid 30’s and know several people who have witnessed mass shootings. I have personally been under active shooter lockdowns multiple times. Hell, my former roommate was shot in the ass by one at a music festival. This person saw “7% have witnessed an active shooting” and immediately called bullshit, because they’re part of the other 93% and are incapable of imagining anything outside of their (extremely narrow) lived experience. And that’s some real boomer attitude.
- Comment on One in 15 Americans has witnessed a mass shooting – study 3 weeks ago:
It’s not even safe for many Americans. But what other choice do they have, when leaving is so prohibitively expensive and they’re trapped living paycheck to paycheck?
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 3 weeks ago:
Alternate take: If we actually implemented my above plan, you wouldn’t need to be stupidly rich to own two homes. Home prices would be reasonable, because there wouldn’t be giant corporations hoarding all of the real estate.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 3 weeks ago:
Tax homes based on how many you own, and how many are vacant. Allow two homes at a regular rate; Enough for a summer and winter home. Then ratchet tax rates up as the person buys more.
And if the third, fourth, fifth, etc home sits vacant for more than a few months out of the year? The tax rate goes up even more, so giant corporations can’t just buy entire neighborhoods and sit on them to remove them from the market and increase property values for the other homes they own across town. Because that’s what’s happening now; Giant corps are buying homes and letting them sit vacant, just to remove them from the market so they can charge higher rates elsewhere. Allow a few months of grace for renovations and finding tenants… But after a ~3 month grace period, that tax rate skyrockets.
Incentivize the corporations to actually flip the houses and resell or rent them, instead of just sitting on them.
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’. 3 weeks ago:
Ding ding ding. This is just a talking point so they’ll be able to pivot into “we should give Musk a trillion dollar contract to run GPS on his Starlink satellites”
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 4 weeks ago:
The average household income where I live is ~$80k. Excluding the top 5%, it drops to ~$50k. That’s (on average) two full-time workers per household, each making ~$12/hour. Their annual (pre-tax) income would be about $480 per week, or ~$2080 per month each. After taxes, that would be closer to $1450. So likely around $3000 for the household’s monthly budget.
The cheapest homes near me start at $300k. A 30 year mortgage with a 6.5% interest rate and 10% down payment would be almost $2100 per month. That’s assuming they’re able to save the 10% in the first place, and get approved for the loan. It also leaves them with only ~$900 for the entire monthly budget. That’s food, utilities, car payment(s), insurance, childcare, etc…
- Comment on Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks 4 weeks ago:
IIRC, part of the argument is that Switch games are encrypted, and the emulator uses real Switch keys to read the games. So Nintendo claims that by using official Nintendo Switch keys, it is violating Nintendo’s copyright and is subject to DMCA claims.
The argument is shaky at best. But the problem with DMCA is that combating it actually requires taking the claimant to court. So that’s a prohibitively long and difficult process, just to be able to go “hey Nintendo doesn’t actually have any claim here. Restore my repo.” Especially when Nintendo has a known history of drawing out long legal battles to exhaust defendants’ time+resources.
- Comment on If r/conservative ever wonders how astroturfing becomes a thing in their highly curated community just look at the quality of stuff that gets elevated. Anyone can write this tripe shit. 4 weeks ago:
Also, Marjorie Green interrupted Biden’s State of the Union. So even that “it has never happened before” part was wrong.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 4 weeks ago:
You sctuallly can’t sell third-party printers legally, because all printers will include an ink fingerprint which can be traced back to that specific printer. So if someone prints a ransom note, the FBI will be knocking on their door by the end of the day.
There’s literally a certification process to be allowed to sell printers, and one of the biggest criteria for that certification is agreeing to maintain that fingerprint database. The issue is that this certification process also ensures there’s a de facto near monopoly on printers, which leads to BS like HP making it increasingly difficult to use affordable ink. They can be blatantly anti-consumer, because they’re protected from any competition.
There’s a reason HP hasn’t already been priced out by some cheap Chinese competitor who is able to undercut the competition. And it’s not because of the difficulty in manufacturing or the price of components. It’s because no other companies are allowed to sell printers.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 4 weeks ago:
I have tried both, and can confirm that sous vide is superior. With a traditional oven prep, you get a pink rare center and brown medium-well outer edge. With sous vide, you get a perfect light pink medium rare all the way through, with only a thin edge of brown from the sear. With sous vide, you just sort of roll it across the skillet on the way to the plate, to get that crust but avoid cooking the interior more.
But to be clear, if you skip the sear with sous vide, your steak will be pink. You’ll miss out on a lot of flavor and mouthfeel from the sear. Sous vide technically cooks the meat, but doesn’t cause any browning (at least, not when cooking it to medium rare) because there isn’t enough heat to cause the Maillard reaction.
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 4 weeks ago:
It’s also how flat earthers started. 4chan started satirically memeing about flat earth. Then idiots saw it, missed the satire, and picked it up as a serious thing. At that point, 4chan went “this is funnier than any satire we could make” and stood back to watch the crazies launch rockets into the lower atmosphere.
- Comment on Amazon Restricted Vaginal Health Products for Being ‘Potentially Embarrassing’ 4 weeks ago:
I bought a bidet like six years ago (right before the pandemic) and Amazon is convinced I need to buy another one every single week. How many toilets do you think I have, Amazon?
- Comment on Amazon Restricted Vaginal Health Products for Being ‘Potentially Embarrassing’ 4 weeks ago:
The funny part is that there’s very little reason to actually buy a barrel of lube. In porn, they just mix their own lube using distilled water (available cheaply from virtually any grocery or hardware store) and a dissolvable powder. There’s not a good reason to ship wet lube in bulk, because freight shipping is calculated by weight and you’re essentially just paying to ship water.
For the curious, look up J-lube, X-lube, K-lube, or Fist Lubricant Powder.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 4 weeks ago:
Where I live, everyone used AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM for short. It was popular with teens because it offered chat rooms, but that meant it was also a popular hunting ground for predators. Nearly every terminally online teen from the early 2000’s has a story about getting groomed on AIM, by someone they initially thought was their own age.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 4 weeks ago:
I hear sous vide steak can be quite tasty.
It is the best way to prepare steak, but you still need to sear it afterwards. The steak can be cooked to a perfect medium-rare all the way through… But you still need to throw it on an ultra hot skillet with some butter and rosemary afterwards, to add the crust to the outside.
- Comment on Not real... *for now* 4 weeks ago:
Doesn’t work on Twitch; They embed the ads directly in the stream.
- Comment on Not real... *for now* 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, the issue is that if you don’t run ads, Twitch will just put their own in before your stream starts. And this absolutely kills any sort of discoverability for your channel; If new viewers have to watch 90 seconds of ads before they can even see your stream, they’ll just bail.
So for the sake of growing your channel, it’s actually better to run ads. Because then your viewers aren’t immediately blasted by a ton of unskippable ads as soon as they start your stream.
- Comment on One Piece will survive next generation too. 5 weeks ago:
Solo Leveling has been straight heat so far. The manhwa is also very good; It’s one of the few comics that has a permanent spot on my e-reader (cuz comics take up a lot more space than regular books…)
- Comment on Help me selfhosted, I'm in over my head! 5 weeks ago:
I can’t believe this is relevant…
Image - Comment on YSK about Jury Nullification, if you're an American and you don't, look it up. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, there’s a reason the juror box has been referred to as the third box of liberty.
The four boxes are the soap box, (making your disagreement publicly known, and trying to gather others who agree), ballot box, (voting out corrupt officials), juror box, (refusing to convict for unjust laws), and lastly the ammo box. Typically used in that order.
Basically, protest starts by voicing your disagreement. That’s your soap box. You make your disagreement publicly heard, and try to gather others who also disagree with the government. When you have enough people gathered together, it becomes a peaceful protest.
But when that doesn’t work, You vote for representatives that will be able to make decisions you agree with. The hope is that they’ll enact change for the better once they’re in office. Basically, get rid of the corrupt officials who are working against the public.
Third, if the government has enacted laws you disagree with (because you’re not being represented, and they have ignored your peaceful protests), then you move on to the jury box. Refuse to convict when you believe the justice system is unjust.
Lastly, if the government still refuses to change and is continuing to prosecute people for unjust laws (for instance, secret police bypassing the jury box by skipping a fair trial) then you move onto the ammo box as a form of protest. Because if the government has refused to allow for peaceful protest via the first three boxes, then that only leaves the fourth box.
As the government becomes more and more tyrannical, you start using more and more of your boxes. Hopefully you never need to reach for the fourth box.
- Comment on YSK about Jury Nullification, if you're an American and you don't, look it up. 5 weeks ago:
Who would know that you lied? There’s a reason “I do not recall” is a popular answer in court; The courts can’t prove that you remember something, because it’s entirely subjective. Without being mind readers, there’s no way for them to prove that you know something.
- Comment on Seattle homeless population: nearly half are outsiders 5 weeks ago:
I mean, there is merit in studying why homeless people are willing/forced to travel to certain cities. If you can figure out where they came from, you can more accurately allocate resources to where they need to go. Maybe you discover that a lot of them are coming from one specific neighboring town.
And if they were forced to move, it’s worth looking into the reasons why. Maybe their home town had one of those awful “just bus all the homeless to the nearest city and leave them there” programs. Maybe a neighboring city’s police department is particularly harsh, which pushes homeless people to move?
If they intentionally came from other large cities, what is making this city so attractive for homeless people in comparison? Does this city have better social programs set up to support homeless people? Is the city more lax in how they police homelessness?
- Comment on Common Ground 5 weeks ago:
They’ve had years–decades–to get their shit together
Maybe you have had decades. Plenty of people just turned 18 and voted for the first time this year. As an above commenter pointed out, “conservatives” aren’t a monolith. They’re individual people, of all ages and backgrounds.
You’re not going to win by trying to convince a politician to change parties. Instead, you focus on the individual voters who put those politicians in office. And seeing “fuck em, they can stay conservative” rhetoric like yours doesn’t really help win hearts or minds.
- Comment on Common Ground 5 weeks ago:
I mean, my middle and high schools taught me that the civil war wasn’t about slavery. Like if you circled “slavery” on the multiple choice “what was the civil war about” test question, it would be marked wrong. This was in state-funded public school too, not some ultra-conservative private school or homeschooling. And that’s only one example of the conservative propaganda that was fed to us in school. For people who live in liberal areas, it can be difficult to even comprehend how deep the conservative lies go, and how soon they start.
Saying “just send them back to school” is reductionist, because they did pay attention in school. They simply never questioned what the school had taught them, and took the info at face value. And that is honestly a large part of conservative conditioning; Don’t question the authorities. Don’t question the church. Don’t question the leaders. Don’t question your teachers. If someone is a higher authority or social status than you, you take them at their word. A child’s place is to be seen, not heard. If someone has been raised to never question authority, can they really be blamed for failing to do so when in school? Conservative ideology is rooted in conformity. The nail that sticks out gets hammered down. And questioning conservative authority is historically rewarded with a big fucking hammer.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 weeks ago:
just not so easy to setup or comparability for my shared users.
Yeah, the biggest reason I use Plex is because of the wife/mother-in-law factor. Basically, how easy is it to get the people around you to use it? If it’s more difficult to use than Netflix or Hulu, many will immediately throw up their hands in learned helplessness, claim it’s too confusing, and refuse to try any more. Plex is the only self-hosting option that actually provides an elegant user setup experience. With Plex, adding a new user is as simple as having them make an account and then sending them the server invite.
- Comment on 3D Printed Steam Deck Accessories You Might Like 1 month ago:
Worth noting that the OLED and LCD charging cables are slightly different, and it’s just enough to throw off a lot of these. Most were made for the original LCD model, but the OLED ships with a slightly longer cord. So all of the inserts made for the LCD model will likely be too fat to actually fit into the back of the case after the cable is fully wrapped.
- Comment on Lending e-books in the EU just became a lot more complicated as libraries move to closed ecosystems 1 month ago:
From what I understood, it’s an unintended consequence of accessibility rules coming into place.
It’s a fully intended consequence of DRM refusing to adapt to accessibility rules. Closed ecosystems make DRM easier, which was always the goal for publishers.
- Comment on Lending e-books in the EU just became a lot more complicated as libraries move to closed ecosystems 1 month ago:
Welcome to Readarr and Calibre, my friend.
