krashmo
@krashmo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 3 hours ago:
I wouldn’t necessarily say it fixes problems and if it does it certainly isn’t free of cost in more than one way. I do think it can temporarily lessen some anxieties that one might view as obstacles to happiness because they impede one’s ability to engage in meaningful social interaction. I also think that making friends and finding romantic partners are learned behaviors that you need practice to get good at. If alcohol can help you be social enough to make friends in a new place or find a partner then I can see why someone would say it fixed a problem for them. It’s certainly more expedient and cost effective than therapy to get past your hangups would be.
That said, that sort of “responsible” use of alcohol isn’t without its drawbacks and risks. I don’t know how common it is either. Perhaps that’s just what people who like to drink tell themselves to avoid feeling shame about their behavior.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 5 hours ago:
I also am extremely socially awkward
That’s what the booze is supposed to help with. Whether or not it does is up for debate but it certainly makes you worry less and that’s a huge part of awkwardness.
- Comment on Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins 9 hours ago:
Like any proposal you would have to word it in a way that minimizes loopholes initially, as well as muster the political will to close any new loopholes that come up.
Off the top of my head, you would probably want to use averages in some way. Perhaps use the median income of the bottom 20% of domestic wage earners in a given company, with some sort of multiplier or additional penalty for offshore employees. You would also want to ensure all forms of executive compensation like bonuses and stock options are included in the equation.
There’s probably more you would need to include but those 3 things would minimize the most obvious loopholes I can see.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 17 hours ago:
Just point the vents fancyman
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 17 hours ago:
I think you mean brakes, but funnily enough both work in this context.
- Comment on Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins 1 day ago:
Cap executive pay at 12x the lowest paid employee in the company. You can’t make more in one month than the drones make in a year. If you want a raise make sure everyone else gets one too.
- Comment on JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon sounds warning on US stock market fall 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps I read into the structure of your comment too much but it really looked to me like you were making a definite statement about it and not simply contrasting the two options. Apologies if that was not your intent.
- Comment on JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon sounds warning on US stock market fall 2 weeks ago:
The fact that you don’t think there’s anything wrong with separating morals from the profit motive of capitalism tells us exactly why the world is the way it is.
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 2 weeks ago:
Except apparently a ps5
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 3 weeks ago:
They can’t do any of this other shit either. That’s not stopping us from doing it
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 3 weeks ago:
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Normal movement and sprinting at full speed are not the same things.
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Even your exaggerated example requires 6 months of strenuous training to achieve by your own admission. The average person we’ve been discussing has not recently completed 6 months of military endurance training.
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- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 3 weeks ago:
I’m in decent shape and I couldn’t run at full speed with that much weight on me. I do a fair amount of backpacking in the mountains with a 50 lb pack on my back so that isn’t conjecture either, I’ve tried it recently.
Simple physics says you’d also have a harder time starting, stopping, and turning than an unencumbered person. Perhaps you are an exceptional athlete who truly wouldn’t be bothered by the extra weight but I don’t think that would apply to the vast majority of people. Your average person would definitely struggle and I doubt most ICE agents are going to fall into the exceptional category of anything but racism and moral bankruptcy.
- Comment on YouTube coughs up $24.5 million to make Trump case go away 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think paying someone who is extorting you is considered a bribe. It’s either one or the other
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, although I’m not sure we need to be, each of them is probably carrying 60 lbs or more of military gear on their body. It’s pretty hard to run at full speed with that much extra weight. That info might come in handy in the future, so long as they don’t just start shooting if you run away.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 4 weeks ago:
Are you suggesting that most people would rather scan 400+ pages of a physical book than deal with ebook DRM? Because that sounds like the worst, most tedious option to me. I’m confident most would never consider scanning a viable option.
- Comment on *A clean colon is like driving on a country road on a sunny day...* 4 weeks ago:
It’s ribbed for your pleasure
- Comment on We must not posthumously sanitize Charlie Kirk's hateful life 1 month ago:
If they’re not looking for radical change then why did they vote for Trump who campaigned on kicking out all immigrants and totally reshaping the economy?
- Comment on We must not posthumously sanitize Charlie Kirk's hateful life 1 month ago:
We’ve waited decades for these rural dipshits to pull their heads out of their asses. If the most obvious wannabe fascist strongman imaginable personally fucking then over repeatedly is not enough to get them to change their ways then there is no point in hoping for that day to come.
We need to push for progressive policy changes right now and if that’s not politically viable in this country in its current state then the collapse of the government is preferable both for our sake and the sake of the rest of the world. Call that naive if you want to but I fully believe that chaos in America is better than a fascist America run by men like Donald Trump running amok around the world.
- Comment on Relax snowflake it's called dark humour 1 month ago:
You’re right, they’re a gas.
- Comment on Metal genres 1 month ago:
Commenting to come back later and check out some of the filth you heathens are into
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 1 month ago:
I’m not a climate protestor and don’t give a shit about the climate
Then why are you complaining that climate activism is ineffective?
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 1 month ago:
You could buy a gun and do it yourself. Why does it need to be someone else’s job to do it for you?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It’s not unreasonable for you to expect it to know that but I think it is unreasonable to expect it to use that information for your benefit. That’s not why it’s collecting that data.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
That response is almost as dumb as googling that question in the first place.
- Comment on Caught in the circle jerk 1 month ago:
It’s actually sitting in one place putting up with a bunch of bullshit for most of the day. That is an essential skill in the modern workplace.
- Comment on It slaps tho 2 months ago:
That’s what she said
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 2 months ago:
Those same things were said about hundreds of other technologies that no longer exist in any meaningful sense. Current usage of a technology, which in this specific case I would argue is largely frivolous anyway, is not an accurate indicator of future usage.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 2 months ago:
Yep, the only thing I’m 100% confident about in this whole mess is that Trump will find some heretofore unimagined way to make it worse.
- Comment on Jokes on you, I don't want to work 2 months ago:
#synergy
- Comment on Lifehack 2 months ago:
What’s with the switching back and forth between “you” and “u”? Either one is fine but pick one and go with it.