Twentytwodividedby7
@Twentytwodividedby7@lemmy.world
- Comment on Elon Musk’s legally problematic $1 million voter giveaway 4 weeks ago:
I just heard an NPR piece about an organization that helps people get lower rate mortgages spark controversy over requiring members to vote to retain membership. Someone opposed to that said it may be in violation of federal election law because it would deprive people of a rate discount for not voting, which could be seen as paying for votes.
Meanwhile, this is about as blatantly illegal as it could be
- Comment on Enemies of glory have no honor 3 months ago:
Where there is an apple, there is a banana. There is no apple there, friends. She is just a really good boxer.
- Comment on Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech 3 months ago:
No, it’s more like 3-400. The key point here is not the range, but the charging time
- Comment on 82-year-old Las Vegas McDonald's worker can't afford to retire after decades of service 3 months ago:
Or perhaps they could have applied their time to learning a trade or skill that paid more than a minimum wage, entry level job meant for teenagers?
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 9 months ago:
Exactly right, no one is going to show up with a fleet of cargo planes full of cash lol. It’s a huge amount of money, but if you have several nations investing, plus private business, it could happen - long shot, but it isn’t limited by the amount of cash that exists. He’s basically talking about starting a massive industry in the US that only exists in Japan and Taiwan.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 9 months ago:
That is not how that works…
- Comment on Cable company logic: "Our predatory anti-consumer practices are really pro-consumer" 9 months ago:
Yes, eliminating a revenue source in one area means they will just price for it elsewhere.
- Comment on Steve Ballmer is set to make $1 billion a year for doing nothing | CNN Business 10 months ago:
No need, they exist and you’ve already lost…
- Comment on Steve Ballmer is set to make $1 billion a year for doing nothing | CNN Business 10 months ago:
ITT: a bunch of people who don’t understand how dividends work on stock ownership. He’s not collecting a salary, Microsoft is not actively paying him, he’s just an investor who owns a shit ton of stock.
- Comment on Toyota boasts new battery technology with 745-mile range and 10-minute charging time — here’s how it may impact mass EV adoption 11 months ago:
I wonder if hydrogen is a better solution for commercial vehicles or semis that need to haul. I’m not aware of how they would perform, but EVs are not very practical for medium and heavy duty use
- Comment on Toyota boasts new battery technology with 745-mile range and 10-minute charging time — here’s how it may impact mass EV adoption 11 months ago:
Hydrogen is not going to happen. It’s wildly impractical and there is no infrastructure for it. EV is the way of the future, but Toyota’s strategy is to bring customers along with hybrids first. Most of their lineup has a hybrid powertrain, and in most cases it is the same 2.5L HEV engine, just retuned for more HP on larger vehicles. The Camry up to the Grand Highlander and their Lexus counterparts use it. Meanwhile, if they are successful with solid state battery technology, it’ll make the rest of the market obsolete. Their strategy is to make incremental steps toward EV vs trying to force the market into an EV.
- Comment on Is it safe to use pans with peeling nonstick coating? 11 months ago:
Throw that shit away ang get an All Clad everyday pan or Staub or something. There will be tons of sales and getting proper cooking equipment is worth the investment
- Comment on One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion 1 year ago:
You’ve missed the mark on two counts:
- Musk raised $44B of real money to buy Twitter and bring it into private ownership. I’m saying had he just left well enough alone, he could have used that money for other purposes
- Your point on adding more supply to the real estate market to prop up prices is the opposite of Econ 101 - more supply, all things equal, will reduce prices. Mental health is a much larger barrier to receiving help for the homeless.
I used to volunteer weekly with homeless and housing insecure people in Philadelphia and untreated mental health or substance abuse was an issue for many. There are also barriers to receiving government aid that would assist them because many programs require an address or the process is unnecessarily complicated.
Housing is just one step. They would also require a great deal of counseling, job training, and medical attention to reintegration into society. Anyway, my point was simply to illustrate what a magnificent waste of resources it was to buy Twitter.
- Comment on One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion 1 year ago:
To put this in perspective, they lost an average of $2B per month in value. According to HUD, there were about 582,000 homeless people in the US last year. $2B per month is enough to house all of them nearly 4 times over if you assume $1k per month in housing expenses.
What a monumental waste of resources that could have made a difference. Musk just sucks
- Comment on Do any languages have words for left & right that start with the same letter? 1 year ago:
Seems like if OP would have translated “turn” and then left or right, it would’ve gotten closer