rchive
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- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
They should make batteries that swap out completely so you can load a fully charged one in in a few seconds and let your old one charge while you’re off driving somewhere else. Or you just exchange the battery permanently like with some propane tanks.
- Comment on My whole night is booked now 11 months ago:
Omg, the Evermore one was so bad because it was so good but actually 4 hours long. I lost one whole day of free time to that video. Lol
- Comment on Keep in mind that social security is set to run out in 10 years time. 11 months ago:
Please see my comment here.
- Comment on Keep in mind that social security is set to run out in 10 years time. 11 months ago:
Maybe I can illustrate better. Imagine your boss goes to pay you your paycheck and gives you and your coworkers 75% of what you’re supposed to be paid instead of 100%. You say, “Hey, where’s my other 25%” and they respond, “I don’t have any more, we ran out of money to pay you. We had to adjust to stay sustainable. You’ll only get 75% until our finances change.” Would you say, “well, since there’s still savings maybe, and there’s gonna be a bunch of new money the next time you go to pay out, just not enough, you technically didn’t run out. That’s technically something else?” I don’t know, maybe you would. I’d call that running out, though.
- Comment on FBI Labels Anti-Fascists and Anti-Racists as Violent Extremists 11 months ago:
For most of Lemmy, yes, that makes you a fascist.
- Comment on Keep in mind that social security is set to run out in 10 years time. 11 months ago:
Social Security is being slowly strangled.
The demographics are probably a bigger part of it. The ratio of people collecting to people paying in is much larger now and the length of time people collect on it is longer since people live longer now.
- Comment on Keep in mind that social security is set to run out in 10 years time. 11 months ago:
“I only robbed you of 25% of your income, what are you complaining about?”
What people mean when they say “run out” is that it won’t be able to keep up with its obligations. That is objectively bad. People will get reduced payments. There will be pain.
- Comment on If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text. 11 months ago:
The route to getting something posted on Facebook or other social media involves 1 gatekeeper who barely involves itself. The route to getting a book or news article published involves more, and they micromanage the content much much more. Just compare what percentage of people have posted something on Facebook vs have had an article published by a newspaper or magazine.
- Comment on If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text. 11 months ago:
I mean, it sort of did, it’s just not quite that simple. A lot of amazing things have come about because of social media. So many artists able to reach people directly without needing gatekeepers like publishers. Movements able to be organized where previously those people would have never interacted.
- Comment on If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text. 11 months ago:
Shh, people don’t wanna hear that. Lol
- Comment on Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year 11 months ago:
Tesla doesn’t want some other company to buy all its vehicles and turn around and sell them at a higher price, damaging the press around the Tesla brand and stopping its cars from getting to would-be Tesla super fans. It’s the same reason stores will sometimes say “limit 2 per customer” on certain items.
That’s one reason, anyway.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I don’t think anyone means literally one person did all the work when they say “self made.” Also, you as an individual pay for most of the things you get from the rest of society. You’re still earning it, more or less.
- Comment on US judge rules: if you can't prove damages, car-makers can continue to intercept and record customers' mobile phone activity. 11 months ago:
Correct, the vast majority of people don’t care.
- Comment on US judge rules: if you can't prove damages, car-makers can continue to intercept and record customers' mobile phone activity. 11 months ago:
Got a link to a good project of that type? I’ve been thinking about this recently.
- Comment on Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 1 year ago:
Thanks for the info!
- Comment on A Jury Will Decide If Google's App Store Is an Unjust Monopoly 1 year ago:
Is it possible that alternatives are not widely used because most people don’t want to use alternatives in the first place?
- Comment on Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 1 year ago:
My login screen has my 2 monitors flipped and I can’t figure out how to fix it. Otherwise, I like it.
- Comment on This sign says it all. 1 year ago:
Israel does appear to value its civilians a lot more than Hamas. There have been prisoner swaps where Hamas will hold out swapping one Israeli until Israel agrees to literally hundreds of Palestinians.
- Comment on This sign says it all. 1 year ago:
US sends money to Palestine, too. So does much of Europe.
- Comment on This sign says it all. 1 year ago:
One of my favorite facts (factoids?) is that if everyone in the world stood shoulder to shoulder we’d all fit inside the single city of Paris.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
That’s a good example of unintended consequences. Another is alcohol becoming really dangerous on the black market once Prohibition happened in the US.
- Comment on Really shows where their priorities are, doesn't it? 1 year ago:
They just don’t want to govern.
Yes. They want paychecks without work, responsibility, or blame.
They don’t want there to be a government.
No. I see no evidence of that. Every chance people get to raise military or police spending or make up new laws to restrict people’s choices, they take it.
- Comment on Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’ 1 year ago:
Does Lemmy have post tags or flair or whatever it’s called?
- Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. 1 year ago:
That might be one reason why some warned against using it, but I definitely had teachers in middle school and high school that explicitly said not to use it because it could be changed by anyone including people who could be wrong or lying.
- Comment on Interesting how artists don't make enough money from their creations, so our solution is to make certain information illegal to share, rather than give them a universal basic income. 1 year ago:
In a sense it is a monopoly, just a very narrow one. The first step to identifying a monopoly is identifying the relevant market, and that is quite hard to do, actually.
- Comment on The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier. 1 year ago:
Why do they have different standards, anyway? A vehicle is a vehicle, sort of, when it comes to emissions.
- Comment on States sue Meta for harming young people's mental health, collecting data on children 1 year ago:
Great info, thank you.
- Comment on States sue Meta for harming young people's mental health, collecting data on children 1 year ago:
“But parenting is hard. I’d rather the government be my kids’ parent.”
- Comment on Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out 1 year ago:
I think people use things like Reddit for anything because Reddit has a built in system of human curation. It’s not just SEO engineered garbage fake websites like basically every search engine will yield now, or sites’ internal searches pushing you to their top players instead of what you’re actually searching for.
- Comment on The FCC is Expected to Propose the Return of Net Neutrality Protections Oct 19th 1 year ago:
ISPs mostly aren’t public utilities, so none of that applies to them. Taxes generally don’t go to them. They’re no more public utilities or tax funded than a company that would come to your house and cut your grass.
It is true that several times in the last few decades the government has handed ISPs some cash in exchange for doing specific things like expanding service to certain areas. It’s more than justified to be mad at them for not holding up their end. That doesn’t make them public utilities, though. The government deserves a bunch of blame for that, too, because it’s stupid and handed a bunch of private companies a bunch of money with no accountability mechanism. Of course they’re gonna take the money and run.
That’s why I’m saying stop trusting the government to fix things like this.