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- Comment on How is everyone doing with their home improvements? 3 weeks ago:
If you haven’t checked it already, the vent valve on the radiator might be closed or worn out.
- Comment on How is everyone doing with their home improvements? 3 weeks ago:
Steam radiator?
- Comment on What do people (as in, IRL) actually think of the [alleged] perpetrator involved in the NYC shooting? 1 month ago:
I haven’t talked about it very much with people off line, but when I have no one has had anything sympathetic to say about the victim or unsympathetic to say about the alleged assassin. The women I’ve discussed the case with agree that this Luigi guy is handsome. Idk fellas, I hate to do him like this, but we might be better off if he stays locked up.
- Comment on Are anyone else's texts getting delayed after the RCS switch? 2 months ago:
What I’ve noticed on two Samsung phones, my dad’s and my wife’s aunt’s, is that the Samsung messaging app silently fails and some messages don’t get sent or received. I’m not sure if it has anything to do with the OS of the user on the other end, but in my dad’s case he wasn’t getting messages from my mom who has an iPhone. Switching them to the Google Messages app solved the problem.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Can harmless viruses be engineered to deliver vaccine payloads for different actually harmful viruses? 2 months ago:
No, that’s why I asked. Hopefully someone can enlighten us.
- Submitted 2 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on "Boner" is a good word for a reanimated skeleton or a decoration of such. 2 months ago:
Team member: “Maybe it’s bone spurs.”
Boner: “It’s never bone spurs.”
- Submitted 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months ago:
What type of central unit do you have?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The girl who’s reading this.
- Comment on How can we get to Mars faster 2 months ago:
Why can’t it stay liquid?
- Comment on How can we get to Mars faster 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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? 3 months 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? 3 months 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? 3 months 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? 3 months 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? 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 3 months 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? 3 months 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? 3 months 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. 4 months 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? 4 months 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?" 4 months ago:
By heat?
