NathanielThomas
@NathanielThomas@lemmy.world
- Comment on Netflix is planning to raise prices… again 1 year ago:
Oh no!
Wait, I cancelled a year ago. All good.
- Comment on Phones should have FM radio again 1 year ago:
FM radio is terrible. At least Sirius XM is putting out music people want to hear.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I used to read rec.climbing and alt.atheism
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I’ve been on the internet since 92 and never heard ITT before but I guess TIL
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
it would be helpful if you
A) Told us what ITT means B) Explained what you think people are missing
- Comment on "God works in mysterious ways" basically means "this doesn't make any sense to me, but I'm gonna ignore it" 1 year ago:
God murders children in mysterious and varied and interesting ways.
- Comment on Grocery stores should have food banks 1 year ago:
Weirdly, by coincidence, I stumbled across an old article about food waste today:
- Comment on And now Bezos is trying to inserts ads everywhere 1 year ago:
I mean, I know capitalism pursues money to the death, even when it’s no longer needed or when it’s already perfectly fulfilling a market share. But the greed still staggers me every time.
It wouldn’t be so bad if Bezos and the top people took 99% but there’s literally no reason to make him a trillionare.
- Comment on Grocery stores should have food banks 1 year ago:
That would be unbusinesslike
- Comment on You arent stuck in traffic, you are the traffic. 1 year ago:
I was here before the traffic
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
The only Freude left In life is Schadenfreude
- Comment on Bethesda hired a Skyrim modder to create the "lighting and clutter" in Starfield 1 year ago:
Oh God, she’s a “they” in the attribution.
- Comment on [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! 1 year ago:
Nothing burns out a gamer like a larian studios game
- Comment on X wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history 1 year ago:
I didn’t even like twitter before it was taken over by a megalomaniac, let alone the garbage site it’s become
- Comment on Amazon CEO Andy Jassy warns remote workers: 'It's probably not going to work out for you' 1 year ago:
Andy, go fuck yourself
- Comment on Leaked Email Shows Elon Musk Demanding "Sub 10 Micron Accuracy” Cybertruck Parts 1 year ago:
This reminds me of the episode when Homer Simpson was allowed to design a car.
- Comment on And it didn't tip either 1 year ago:
It’s normal and a bit weird. I only give a little tip though. So for example, it’s $30 and I give them $35.
But the real atrocity is the price of women’s haircuts and colouring. My partner goes to the cheapest place she can find and still manages to spend $160. Women’s hairdressers are getting as expensive as lawyers.
- Comment on Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact 1 year ago:
I have felt the carbon tax, it’s just that it doesn’t really matter how high it is because there aren’t transportation alternatives. At a certain point I guess I’d have to give up my car, which would make travel for recreation difficult, especially in British Columbia
- Comment on Why is the legal system so expensive? 1 year ago:
Isn’t that why Miranda rights provide a lawyer if you can’t afford one?
- Comment on Why is the legal system so expensive? 1 year ago:
Eyes and teeth. Luxury body parts.
- Comment on Why is the legal system so expensive? 1 year ago:
It’s expensive in Canada too. After my separation my ex kept the kids and didn’t share. I tried going through the courts but lawyers cost $350 an hour at the cheapest. It means that justice is locked out for people without the means to afford it.
- Comment on [OC] My feeling as European reading news on Lemmy/Reddit 1 year ago:
The USA has wanted to be isolationist for centuries but just like the Godfather film they keep getting sucked back into international geopolitics.
20% of Americans wanted to make a peace deal with Hitler. This is how little they care about what’s happening outside America.
- Comment on [OC] My feeling as European reading news on Lemmy/Reddit 1 year ago:
Google News is the worst. If you use it to get a quick snapshot of what’s going on in the world you won’t find anything outside America. You have to change your region to Germany or Britain to get actual results.
- Comment on Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact 1 year ago:
Tax carbon
I agree with everything you’re saying except that carbon taxes, at least in Canada, do not seem to really have worked. Since we have no genuinely reliable public transportation infrastructure, we all still drive. And we pay the carbon tax just like we pay excise taxes on it, and provincial taxes, and federal taxes (and, ironically, transportation taxes). It’s why our gasoline in Vancouver is $2.10 per litre. Albeit, lower than Europe, but higher than America. Yet it hasn’t changed the fact we drive ICE cars.
The wealthier people have started driving Teslas. I would say there are times you’re driving and one-third are Teslas, but it’s really region-dependent. Outside Vancouver they’re all ICE, and not just cars but raised pickups.
- Comment on Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact 1 year ago:
Indeed. And the irony of it all is the drought that put you under is due to climate change.
- Comment on Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage bill for drivers 1 year ago:
How to know if a company is predatory and exploitative: They argue about minimum wages.
- Comment on Really, ….. it's my fault they built a terrible system? 1 year ago:
extreme overabundance of boomers sitting in Washington
They’re silent generation, even. They’re born in the 30s and 40s, still running shit into their 90s.
Also, for most anyone after the boomer generation, retirement will be a complete financial impossibility
Well, that’s not sustainable. It’s not like people can keep working past their 60s.
- Comment on Really, ….. it's my fault they built a terrible system? 1 year ago:
It’s intellectually dishonest to suggest we older people broke the system. And the story is true. A large number of parents with adult children have to make sacrifices to their own retirement plans to take care of their kids. This is a systemic problem, not something to blame on Gen Xers and Boomers.
- Comment on 80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans: ‘A lot of executives have egg on their faces’ 1 year ago:
“Earlier”? How about never? The office is the 21st century’s smokestack factory from the industrial revolution. A throwback to a god awful dystopian past that we should be embarrassed to admit ever existed.
- Comment on Oh no. OH NO. 1 year ago:
The language on the can appears to be Finnish or something but the word ursprungsland is German meaning country of origin.