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- Submitted 5 hours ago to technology@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Can harmless viruses be engineered to deliver vaccine payloads for different actually harmful viruses? 2 days ago:
No, that’s why I asked. Hopefully someone can enlighten us.
- Submitted 2 days ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on "Boner" is a good word for a reanimated skeleton or a decoration of such. 2 weeks ago:
Team member: “Maybe it’s bone spurs.”
Boner: “It’s never bone spurs.”
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Is it cheaper to use a plug-in oil radiator to eat an individual room, or run the central heater to heat an individual room and living room? 3 weeks ago:
It’s probably better to use a space heater where and when you need the heat. That central heating kit is basically the same thing, but it’s using more electricity providing heat to the entire home, including the rooms you aren’t using. Just set the thermostat to a minimum temperature to keep the pipes from freezing.
- Comment on Is it cheaper to use a plug-in oil radiator to eat an individual room, or run the central heater to heat an individual room and living room? 3 weeks ago:
What type of central unit do you have?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The girl who’s reading this.
- Comment on How can we get to Mars faster 3 weeks ago:
Why can’t it stay liquid?
- Comment on How can we get to Mars faster 3 weeks ago:
Well, the water is necessary for for life support and needs to be sourced somehow anyway. It kind of sets a minimum crew and passenger capacity if you want to make the most use of your shielding water.
- Comment on How can we get to Mars faster 3 weeks ago:
Water doesn’t have to be a liquid, but don’t actual spacecraft typically contain liquids during wall of those cases? What do you mean?
- Comment on How can we get to Mars faster 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think it works that way. The water slows down the neutrons so that when and if they get to you they don’t have enough energy to hurt you. The radiation doesn’t contaminate the water anymore than a microwave oven does.
- Comment on How can we get to Mars faster 3 weeks ago:
Since the astronauts need water to survive, why not line the spaceship with reservoirs of it to provide the shielding? Or does water not block space radiation well enough?
- Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed? 4 weeks ago:
What an incredibly deranged response. Over nine hundred families have officially been exterminated in Gaza. Realistic estimates put the death toll there over the past year well above 100,000. How many people were actually killed on January 6th?
- Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed? 4 weeks ago:
saying she’d continue genocide as a reason to vote against her falls flat …
Who’s saying that? It’s not about making the situation better or worse at this point. Neither candidate wants the genocide to stop and it’s debatable that it could be worsened. However, Harris is guilty of actively and materially supporting this genocide, which is more damning and disqualifying than any of allegations against Trump. Apart from that, losing the election is the closest that Harris and her party will get to actually being held accountable. Maybe this kind of feedback will get the Democrats to change their strategy. Maybe not. At least I won’t be cosigning genocide.
- Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed? 4 weeks ago:
She’s also not on the cabinet.
If you’re going to damn your soul by endorsing an ongoing genocide, at least get some basic facts right. The vice president serves on the cabinet by statute.
- Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed? 4 weeks ago:
Apart from trying to sell the genocide every chance she gets, Harris is part of Biden’s cabinet. Ostensibly, she’s leading the team that’s making the genocide happen. Or are you implying that Harris has had a do-nothing job for the past three years? Not exactly a shining qualification for the presidency, but I suppose that would make her a little less complicit to genocide if it were true.
- Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed? 4 weeks ago:
She’s the only candidate on the ballot who is actively presiding over a genocide. That should be disqualifying, but I guess some people definitely decency differently.
- Comment on Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds 1 month ago:
Never post your resume or sign up for LinkedIn in the course of a job search? Never use a dating site? Never buy a domain? Never pay property taxes? Never go to court? I see your point, but never revealing your info online isn’t realistic or ever a choice for most people.
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 1 month ago:
I understand how having a higher income and tax rate in retirement makes a Roth attractive. However, the comparisons I’ve seen don’t fully account for the opportunity cost of paying the taxes up front in the case of a Roth, since a traditional IRA lowers your taxable income by the amount you contribute. This tax break allows for a greater contribution. In other words, I think a fairer comparison would show a greater initial contribution for a traditional IRA.
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 1 month ago:
That is a helpful comparison, but it assumes the same initial contribution. I think a better comparison would assume a higher initial contribution with a traditional IRA in order to account for the money being paid in taxes with Roth as being a missed opportunity. The money that went to taxes in the case of a Roth could have been additional investment in the the case of a traditional.
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 1 month ago:
I used to not have any doubts about a Roth, but I’ve been considering that maybe it’s a little too much like giving the government a free loan. Do you know if there’s a thorough comparison anywhere between a traditional and Roth IRA that takes into consideration the opportunity cost of paying tax on the contributions?
- Comment on The camel was already miserable way before that last straw. 1 month ago:
Yeah, but who cares about the camel? How are you going to move all this straw now?
- Comment on Would it be weird if I took something my neighbor put out for trash? 1 month ago:
We have a big trash day once a month in my town and I always keep an eye out for something good. Recently I picked up a nice, sturdy, homemade cart with big casters in good condition.
- Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?" 1 month ago:
By heat?
- Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?" 1 month ago:
Lol whoops. I’m leaving it.
- Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?" 1 month ago:
You could cook using an exothermic reaction between ingredients, but I don’t think that’s what’s happening when making ceviche, so a ceviche is not cooked.
Cc @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
- Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?" 1 month ago:
You can cook with a microwave, but if you’re just reheating something that’s not cooking.
- Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?" 1 month ago:
Some of the constituent ingredients have to be cooked, but ceviches and sushi rolls aren’t cooked any more than salads or burritos. They’re assembled or prepared.
