GoofSchmoofer
@GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw 2 days ago:
but now we have a scapegoat
- Comment on Ticketmaster breach, beaches in general 6 days ago:
I mean, if we genuinely had a significant amount of local, state and federal law makers that cared about protecting their constituents instead of whatever the fuck they are doing now, we could have some accountability.
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 2 months ago:
To play off of your comment - taxes should be sold as a patriotic act. That through taxes we can make the lives of all citizens of this country better and that if you love this country you are willing to sacrifice a small % of your money to make that happen. Those people that are willing to sacrifice for their country are the true patriots.
On the other hand those people that complain about paying more, like some billionaires and millionaires, are the true takers. They used this country and it’s systems to build that success but are not willing to sacrifice anything to pay it back.
- Comment on Teens, with mixed feelings about their own phones, say their parents need to log off 3 months ago:
If I’m having a conversation with someone and they start looking at their phone while I’m talking, I just stop talking and stare at them. More than a few times I’ve been told “keep going I’m listening” I don’t, I just let them finish and only start talking again when the set the phone down.
It’s very passive aggressive but it does make the other person feel a bit uncomfortable.
- Comment on When on a diet, does you body have the same weight loss across the entire person including visceral fat? 5 months ago:
There is some research that shows that aerobic exercise can have a positive effect on visceral fat:
But it’s not all too straight forward
There are probably more studies that show both positive and inconclusive evidence for exercise and changes in visceral fat because that kinda how science is…
- Comment on Since Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase, firm reportedly lost 72% of its value 5 months ago:
As others have said this purchase didn’t really fuck up his overall lifestyle.
Yet when the topic of raising taxes on these people comes up they all freak out, like if they have to pay an extra 20% on their wealth they will be living on the streets.
- Comment on Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound | WIRED 6 months ago:
Yep. I think “The Road” by Cormack McCarthy is probably the closest to what a post-apocalyptic world would look like and that shit is bleak.
- Comment on Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound | WIRED 6 months ago:
The few wealthy people I’ve met, not billionaires but $100+ millionaires, seem to have a limited skill set. They have “people” to do the work. I’ve always wondered how they would fair in a post-apocalyptic world?
Personally I’d rather have those people that can MacGuyver a solution out of rubber bands and mud.
All this to say that ol’ Zuck should probably hire some good ol’ boys/girls to do his work for him or he’s screwed.
- Comment on the Perks of ownership... 6 months ago:
to buy a tool you know you already own but you can’t find right now
That’s how I find the first tool.
It’s like a sacrifice of my time and money to the tool gods to show how invested I am in dealing with this problem on my own. They reward me with giving me back my old “lost” tool.
- Comment on What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body) 6 months ago:
Not taking away from the doctor and their experience and knowledge but fuck do nurses get the short end of the stick.
They do 95% of the work and rarely get the credit (or pay) they deserve.
- Comment on There's no money for education and health care but they'll always find some for war. 6 months ago:
I’ve posted this a few times but it fits here:
This country spent $8 Trillion on two wars over 20 years! That’s $400 billion each year.
This country could have paid for all the chemotherapy 80 times over
OR we could have paid for rebuilding/fixing this countries infrastructure for a 1/3 of that cost.
OR America could have built out a National high speed rail
Or many many other things.
instead we killed thousands of people and got what in return???
- Comment on It's all the same no matter what they say 7 months ago:
It used to be like that. Give money to the middle and lower class and have the wealth trickle up to the wealthy. But now the very wealthy can bypass that portion by just having some friends in politics. With that connection you can get tax cuts, infinite “get out of jail free” cards, subsidies for your businesses, etc.
The money still comes from the middle and lower class but now it’s just through giving our tax money directly to them. No need to build pesky businesses and have to deal with that headache. How gauche !
- Comment on Weird 🤔 7 months ago:
Hey @ElCanut@jlai.lu You’re a great person!
- Comment on How do you get an executable from a GitHub link? 8 months ago:
Thanks for all of your replies. I honestly thought I was going to get a bunch of “just Google it” answers but I appreciate all the help.
At least now I know more about GitHub and what to do
- Submitted 8 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on today I was reminded how bad YouTube ads are 8 months ago:
I’ve noticed that as well. Its like YouTube is adding in extra ads for Roku et al. for their own profit…
- Comment on What technological mega project is practical to build today? 8 months ago:
The total cost for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars was $8 Trillion over 20 years This country has the money it just doesn’t the leadership that wants to change. And why would they want to change? The way this country runs work$ well for them.
- Submitted 8 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 39 comments
- Comment on Why Is Computer Security Advice So Confusing? 9 months ago:
One problem is that a great deal of correct security advice contradicts “common knowledge” security practices. Password character classes – “must include capitals, lowercase, numbers, and symbols” – are a standard example. That idea got rooted in security requirements for banks and such, and it was a bad idea even then.
I don’t know a lot about computer security - but must include capitals, lowercase, numbers, etc seems like a good idea, why is it not?
- Submitted 10 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Data privacy: how to counter the "I have nothing to hide" argument? 11 months ago:
What I think about is that you may have nothing to hide but that doesn’t mean your data can’t be manipulated in the future by bad actors.