Maggoty
@Maggoty@lemmy.world
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 2 weeks ago:
Hahahahha, yeah they were straight up open about it.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 2 weeks ago:
Yeah when kids hit that point it can be pretty funny. A lot of work, but also really funny.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 2 weeks ago:
Some places don’t allow your first cousin. But that’s actually okay science wise. The probability for issues after the first cousin rapidly declines.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 2 weeks ago:
The American Gulf States and the Appalachian Region that parallels the East Coast up to about Maryland/Pennsylvania has a reputation.
To be honest, historically I could see it. It was mostly tiny towns, stuck way out in the middle of nowhere, with teenagers that had very few options. As they’ve gotten more centralized though it doesn’t happen nearly as often as it used to happen.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 2 weeks ago:
It could also be a look of slight surprise, like “really? That’s the excuse you’re going with?” But in context it’s definitely supposed to be sensual.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 2 weeks ago:
It’s a ship that carries electricity instead of gas. When it docks it hooks directly to the grid instead of a gas power plant.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 2 weeks ago:
Somebody is trying to sell LNG tankers to rich idiots. We’re not switching to LNG, that was the 1980s through the 2000s. Solar, wind, and batteries are coming online. So LNG shops are actually starting to be replaced by battery ships.
If LNG was still a good ship to be purchasing, they wouldn’t be selling them off.
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 2 weeks ago:
ISPs are just transmitting a different kind of data on the same infrastructure backbone as the rest of our telecommunications. Don’t act like it’s some huge difference.
And they are doing their jobs, they’d have to hire exponentially more staffers to go over what was in bills or just vote the way their preferred donor says to vote. Which do you think is more likely there?
Congress has the power to delegate regulations, they used that power, and now a radical judiciary is claiming the plain text of the Constitution doesn’t mean what it clearly means.
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 2 weeks ago:
The thing is Congress doesn’t have time to deal with technical details. That’s why they passed a law authorizing the FCC to make exactly this kind of regulation. The conservative courts throwing everything they don’t like under the Major Questions Doctrine is just a way to make sure regulation never happens and Corporations are free to exploit people however they want. The problem here isn’t the FCC, it’s bad faith judges with the power to stop the entire government.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 weeks ago:
That was already the case though. I’m not arguing we aren’t living under some sort of Oligrachy, I’m arguing that Citizens United was a logical symptom of that Oligarchy, not the start of it.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 weeks ago:
You’re thinking of Kleptocracy, where politicians are mainly worried about extracting wealth from the country. Oligarchy has to do with class mobility and who is allowed to run for office. (Namely a financial and political class of “elites”) Citizen’s United kick started another era of politicians working to grab as much money as possible for their donors.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 weeks ago:
It’s at least a Soft Oligarchy yes. There’s no legally or extra legally enforced class system. If you can make it into the upper classes, by guile, luck, or sheer bastardry they’ll accept you and let you run some things, maybe even political offices. See J.D. Vance, a millennial from Appalachia who has risen to the Vice Presidency via guile and sheer bastardry.
But it’s a Soft Oligarchy because opportunities are far from equal. Before anyone starts screeching, equality of outcome isn’t an expectation here, merely equality of opportunity. In the large majority of cases your zip code can predict your future socioeconomic level. And not because rural areas are cheaper, that just means middle and upper class start at lower numbers there. Those classes are still not being obtained. Along with this are several studies over the last couple decades telling us that socioeconomic mobility is all but dead, both individually, and more recently, intergenerational mobility.
So while you aren’t going to be killed or imprisoned for earning too much or asking for stuff above your station, it is very rare to access those levels without being born to them. Thus the “soft” in Soft Oligarchy.
- Comment on My favorite 2 weeks ago:
The tourists.
- Comment on My favorite 2 weeks ago:
Oh it’s not the worst by far. And for a college student 7 dollar all you can eat soup, salad, breadsticks, and wifi made it better than the local coffee place.
- Comment on Russia admits its homegrown consoles can't match the PS5 or Xbox Series 2 weeks ago:
It’s actually advanced chip production. They can’t buy them because those chips are also really good for weapons. And making them requires tech they don’t have. (But will at some point)
- Comment on Give us your best infodump. 1 month ago:
It could be Trump or the dean told them they have to publish another book. It’s kind of hard to tell some days.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 1 month ago:
So you don’t think there should be any disability funding?
- Comment on Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge 1 month ago:
The article tells you it’s a repair of a wash out. So it absolutely does have a connection.
- Comment on Give us your best infodump. 1 month ago:
My friends are political science guys. They’re just all getting blind drunk and muttering right now?
- Comment on CENSORED!!!!!!!!!!1 1 month ago:
I’m not stoned and same.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 1 month ago:
Yeah, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 1 month ago:
Yeah, that is unfortunate. A broken clock is right twice a day though.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 1 month ago:
Oh good they listed them all in one place so if a doctor references it I know to just get up and walk the fuck out.
- Comment on Firefighters Struggle to Break the Tesla Cybertruck’s “Transparent Metal” Glass During Emergency Response Training 1 month ago:
Yeah that’s not going to work with this. They armored it just enough to say it’s armored.
- Comment on Firefighters Struggle to Break the Tesla Cybertruck’s “Transparent Metal” Glass During Emergency Response Training 1 month ago:
And they aren’t bulletproof anyways.
- Comment on Firefighters Struggle to Break the Tesla Cybertruck’s “Transparent Metal” Glass During Emergency Response Training 1 month ago:
So it’s strong enough to prevent timely rescue but too weak to protect you. That’s hilarious. Just perfect.
- Comment on it's just a suggestion 1 month ago:
True, but you’d need to really stay under the radar in such a world. Any point of contact where someone else knows you have that money would put you at risk. And those can be generated just by getting the money in the first place.
For the record I think it would be a terrible world. Historically, mob violence often kills innocent people, all it would take would be an accusation. And one person’s poverty is another person’s wealth. They wouldn’t exactly stop to ask about the economically defined classes. It would be more like, “Dave got a luxury car, I wonder how much money he’s hiding…”
And also, I think I would be someone giving it away as fast as possible. I’m like you, after a couple creature comforts and securing the rest of my life, there’s no more need for the money. It’s not like I can take it with me.
- Comment on it's just a suggestion 1 month ago:
In a hypothetical world where billionaires cannot go outside a security perimeter for fear of their lives, how soon would we see people refusing the inheritance or donating massive portions?
- Comment on BIOMES 1 month ago:
I still don’t know how open flames for cigarettes and big hair co-existed.
- Comment on BIOMES 1 month ago:
Taiga became popular in 2022. Definitely looking forward to seeing that one around. So many Ice Queen jokes.