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- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 2 weeks ago:
America also has sales tax
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 2 weeks ago:
American cities must be terribly poor to need to tax houses
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 2 weeks ago:
SNL is comedy, and there’s comedy in using a man to portray a woman. That’s not the same as using the wrong sort of person because you think it doesn’t matter
- Comment on Australia seeking to buy back Port of Darwin from Chinese firm, says PM 1 month ago:
Public owned Telecom Australia charged like a wounded bull and provided poor service in connection or repair.
Telecom disabused me of the idea that government monopolies wouldn’t exploit their monopoly position
- Comment on Something's up with all those airbnb locks | Purplepingers 1 month ago:
The secure solution is electronic access control on the door. A key box is very hard to secure
- Comment on Tesla speeds up odometers to avoid warranty repairs, U.S. lawsuit claims: Reuters 1 month ago:
Musk is a shit, but lying doesn’t help
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I really loved my Trinitron, but it needed so much space
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Flat CRTs were excellent though.
- Comment on "Sorry I can't read" 1 month ago:
It’s like hitting a wall and having the woman say “that hurts, please be more gentle”
I recommend against positions that maximize penetration depth with women with shallower vaginas
- Comment on Mother 2 months ago:
Kangaroos form two sorts of groups
- Like most herbivores, they have one male and many females in a mob (kangaroo equivalent to a herd)
- Males outside that mob form loose groups for defence and within that they fight to establish dominance and the top roo may challenge the male lead of a mob to take it over
- Comment on That explains a lot 2 months ago:
And Jupiter would have an event horizon 2.8m across and last about 10^67 years (still not forever)
- Comment on That explains a lot 2 months ago:
If Jupiter was compressed to a black hole it would be 2.8 metres across and would last longer than the Sun
- Comment on That explains a lot 2 months ago:
Also it would be radiating prodigiously, and would need to eat fast to survive
- Comment on I love the future. 2 months ago:
The US has an inefficient electoral system for president. It’s not uncommon that low approval people win
Those of us who have better systems things go better.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 2 months ago:
So we have lemmy.ml. they don’t seem to learn
- Comment on we are not so different 3 months ago:
Thanks, I think I picked up that idea from that SeaWorld. I’ll stop repeating it now.
- Comment on we are not so different 3 months ago:
It’s scientific name is Eudyptula novaehollandiae
It’s common name in Australia in general was ‘fairy penguin’, but there has been effort to boost alternative names because they word fairy was a pejorative name for gay men
- Comment on Infinite Hotel Paradox 3 months ago:
Let’s leave some space for all the types of infinities and only fill every hundredth room
- Comment on Infinite Hotel Paradox 3 months ago:
The hotel should really just fill its even numbers rooms first, then if another person turned up after you already have an infinity of guests, you just house this start of a new Infinity in room 1 etc
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 4 months ago:
I just watched the megalag videos on the glasses — the first episode of three — and the claim is they cut out confusing areas of colour that abnormal chromats see.
So if it worked, it only works for people with abnormal versions of one of the three normal colour vision sensors, and only if their deficiency is in green, and then only if it’s the correct degree of deficient
But it doesn’t work anyway.
The glasses help people see the number in some sheets in the colourblindness test, but hide the number in others. Their colour blindness would appear slightly worse than reality.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 4 months ago:
If they had worked they might have done so by some sort of contrast enhancement or edge detection, but I don’t think either are possible with just optics
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 4 months ago:
Loads of people are suspicious of coupon schemes. They look dodgy. It’s no wonder that people come along after one of these schemes turns out to actually be a scam to say “see, I knew these things were bad” with the only evidence being that they never subscribed to it
Their fault is they claim it was this one specifically
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 4 months ago:
You can opt out of Tesla monitoring too
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 4 months ago:
I’m impressed it was still online and able to be remote unlocked after that explosion and fire
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 4 months ago:
They can be opened with a battery angle grinder
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 4 months ago:
With Tesla you can opt out. Other brands that do the same generally have no way to opt out
It’s part of the current trend to not let you be the final decision maker on IT equipment you own. Your phone does all it can to prevent you getting root access. Your home computer/laptop has a second processor in it running code you can’t change to enforce DRM
- Comment on Shit Post 5 months ago:
I drank a lot over the course of last year to this year, so five times for me. Normally it’s like twice a week
- Comment on Two decades after Enron’s bankruptcy, the company is back as a crypto firm? 5 months ago:
It’s a parody conspiracy theory, in the same way as the flying spaghetti monster was a parody religion. People participated “eyes open” (aware it was parody, doing it as a joke) others adopted it “eyes closed” (believing it)
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 5 months ago:
The “may” in that is that we really don’t know which way population will go after we hit peak population.
It might stabilise, it might drop, it might drop precipitously
The prediction I recently saw was the latter, a fast population drop after a peak
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 5 months ago:
Immigration is going to stop working as developing countries develop