starman2112
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 1 hour ago:
Don’t think you’re being a little dramatic? There are many more costs involved in owning a house than the mortgage payment.
Yes, and my rent covers literally all of them. Again, it has to, or else my landlord would be renting this house at a loss. I don’t want the opportunity to pack up and move on short notice. I’ve lived in this city since I was born, and I intend to die here. I should not be forced to pay a premium for a feature I will never use.
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 3 days ago:
If we just built enough housing this problem would go away.
Fun fact: there are more vacant homes than there are homeless. By a factor of 28. We have the homes, we just need to let people own them
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 3 days ago:
So everyone who has enough money to rent, but not enough to own, should be homeless?
The concept of someone having enough money to rent but not enough to own is ghoulish in the first place. If my landlord can pay $1000 for this house’s mortgage and upkeep, and I can pay $1,200 a month for the right to sleep in it, then we should simply cut out the middle man and have me pay that $1,000 a month for mortgage and upkeep directly.
- Comment on Is there a community dedicated to anime where sexualization of characters is minimum and strictly no sexualization of minors (or minor looking "adults")? 3 days ago:
If we’re recommending series, I have a whole damn list of shows that fit exactly this criteria
- Comment on beans 🫘 1 week ago:
- Comment on moist rodent 1 week ago:
Any clothes that I wear are men’s clothes because I’m a man
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 week ago:
Two problems: I’m a console player because I have no money for PC parts, so I’m priced out already. But also, if I did have a good computer, I’d have to convince my friends to all pick up PCs as well, and I think they’d sooner quit gaming altogether than switch to mouse + keyboard
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 week ago:
Unfortunately piracy doesn’t help the people who need it here. Hard to pirate on an Xbox, and Xbox players aren’t generally the type to just ditch the ecosystem where all of their game progress and friends are just to jump to a platform they have no experience or history with
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 week ago:
Building a PC that can compete with a console costs like 4x as much as a console. A modern graphics card alone costs more than a console
Every time I ask someone to show me the mythical build that performs as well as a console does while costing less than a console, they either disengage because they realize it’s impossible, or they come back with a $600 build that performs just about as well as a last-gen console
- Comment on Trump Posts an Absolutely Bonkers AI Video in Which He Promotes a Magic ‘Med Bed’ That Can Cure Any Disease 2 weeks ago:
It’s AI bullshit, but also if he actually did give every American citizen a special card that would get them unlimited access to medical care, I would be fine with that. Own the libs, do universal healthcare before they get the chance
- Comment on What even is money at this point 2 weeks ago:
Exactly how I felt after buying four mozzarella sticks at QuikTrip earlier. This shit cost me over a dollar per stick. They’re not even big mozz sticks, they’re like 80 calories each
- Comment on Steady 2 weeks ago:
Save this link, create the chain! And perhaps add a link to the future switcharoo so we may follow the rabbit hole up or down
- Comment on Steady 2 weeks ago:
That’s literally what stock animations exist for lmao
- Comment on Steady 2 weeks ago:
Ah, the old Lemmy switcharoo!
- Comment on Steady 2 weeks ago:
Are their vitals at zero, or are they null? Steady if the former, error if the latter
- Comment on Magic is real, we just know how it works and call it technology 2 weeks ago:
Me when I draw ritual sigils in silicon to summon demons that mimic the speech of humans to decieve us (I asked ChatGPT for spaghetti recipes)
- Comment on Natural selection at work 3 weeks ago:
I’d rather be the one with chronic wasting disease bc I have thalassophobia
- Comment on Natural selection at work 3 weeks ago:
One of them gets chronic wasting disease and the other one set the record for the heaviest motherfucker on the planet, I know who I’d rather be
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 3 weeks ago:
I literally can’t imagine a box that makes things cold being made cooler by having a screen on it
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 3 weeks ago:
It’s a fucking box that makes things cold. Humanity is cooked if we can’t bring ourselves to look away from a screen for all the time it takes to get a slice of cheese out of the fridge
- Comment on ... 4 weeks ago:
Just a regular platypus.
PERRY THE PLATYPUS!?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
My understanding is that they use something like polarizing filters. Both slits have the same filter, they make a diffusion pattern as the waves interfere with each other. Both slits have different filters, there’s no wave interference and you get two slits.
Calling it an “observer” is maybe the most damaging name in the sciences since some douchebag decided to call the orthoganal number line “imaginary”
- Comment on Mandatory self-reflection hours 5 weeks ago:
Me when I engage in em-dashes, rules of three, and promotional language — it expertly sets off sensitive AI language generation detection methods, cleverly appearing to other users that I’m using a Large Language Model myself.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 5 weeks ago:
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Pirate gave me an egg, so I baked a cake emoji as well. Have a slice for getting it so close without even using a calculator 🍰
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 5 weeks ago:
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You got as far as nanoseconds so here’s a cupcake for extra credit too 🧁
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 5 weeks ago:
The other day I saw someone ask ChatGPT how long it would take to perform 1.5 million instances of a given task, if each instance took one minute. Mfs cannot even divide 1.5 million minutes by 60 to get get 25,000 hours, then by 24 to get 1,041 days. Pretty soon these people will be incapable of writing a full sentence without ChatGPT’s input
- Comment on You are stardust. 1 month ago:
Forged in the heart of a dying star
- Comment on You are stardust. 1 month ago:
Am nihilism enjoyer, am bottom pic
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 1 month ago:
Forests cannot grow faster than trees decay forever. We gotta turn the carbon back into rocks at some point, and we gotta get working on that tech sooner rather than later
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 1 month ago:
I want to be clear, nowhere have I said that we shouldn’t be planting trees. Having a deeper reservoir for the carbon will buy time to develop more efficient and permanent sequestration technologies. It’s just that a lot of people in these comments seem to think that we shouldn’t even pursue sequestration tech because trees exist, despite the fact that they fill different roles in the solution to anthropogenic climate change