PapaStevesy
@PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 4 days ago:
So Trump’s gonna send NG troops to Utah right? The crime in these red states is really out of control.
- Comment on How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers 1 week ago:
Yeah, maybe…unfortunately my only advice is to walk around in or near feces until you get some hookworm, because that’s all I know about them. And I’m using the word “know” very loosely.
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
renting the equivalent place would probably be extremely expensive too.
Right, like I said, mortgage is not cheaper, certainly not half as cheap. The market I’m in is a metropolis, it contains every range of the market, it just depends how much gun violence you prefer.
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
Well in my very recent experience it is extremely, painfully, unavoidably true. That’s why I said it. We just bought a house, 150k less than we qualified for, and our monthly payment is 33% higher than we were paying in rent. Rent is far from cheap, there’s just no such thing as an inexpensive house unless you want one in a terrible neighborhood or an hour drive outside the city. In the first case, not only is it a bad idea just to live in these neighborhoods, the chances of making money on the resale are next to nil. The burbs option of course offers more for your money, but that comes with more maintenance, yardwork, housework, gas money, transit stress, etc. We worked with very knowledgeable, trustworthy realtor and mortgage brokers and there’s simply no math in the current market that gets mortgage payments lower than the rent we were paying without buying a literal, active crack house.
And to claim there’s no extra fees involved with buying and owning a home compared to renting is either utter delusion or repugnant gaslighting.
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
I hate to break it to you, but mortgage payments are not cheaper then rent anymore. Obviously depends on your mortgage and money down and all that, but if you expect to pay half as much for mortgage payments as you did for rent, you’re going to have a very bad time.
- Comment on Like a heart 1 week ago:
No they pee, they just can’t store it. That’s why they need tampons and such, it just falls right out.
- Comment on How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers 1 week ago:
Leave it less than six get away from where they commonly walk around barefoot and they could get hookworm. If I remember the Radio Lab correctly anyway.
- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 2 weeks ago:
I personally would hyphenate “stupid cheap” in this context, I thought you didn’t like hand sewing at first.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 2 weeks ago:
You got hyper-jets on that thing?
- Comment on It's why the thrift store has so many of them 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, I think a big part of what makes this funny, to me anyway, is the “slighted” phrasing. It’s kind of an underused/archaic usage, so it sounds inherently a little funny in this modern context. But it also carries the implication that the original wrongdoing that they’re attempting to punish wasn’t very serious. Which actually makes sense, as this isn’t that annoying, just mildly inconvenient. It will still get hot in there, if you’re worried about food cooking unevenly, just turn it 180° halfway through.
- Comment on Phosphorus 4 weeks ago:
Which is a kind of dress
- Comment on In SpongeBob, Sandy Cheeks is way more closely related to Pearl and the fish than she is to anyone else in the main cast 4 weeks ago:
You may (or may not) be surprised to learn this, but the accuracy of shrimp taxonomy actually has very little bearing on my personal happiness…
- Comment on Don't you remember that whole lemmy loving beans thing? Too late, you do now. See this photo of beans. Actually a lot of beans. Some of them I am not fully sure if they are actually beans. B E A N S 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Spoilers without context 5 weeks ago:
It’s either pod racing or Bob Odenkirk
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 5 weeks ago:
And the “desert” is really plains. But they’re definitely racist.
- Comment on Political Views 5 weeks ago:
You don’t vote for spiders!
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 5 weeks ago:
Maybe if we were on reddit, here I really don’t think that’s true.
- Comment on My boss: You have to write now. Me: 1 month ago:
Good thing I don’t run. Either way, it ain’t a haiku.
- Comment on My boss: You have to write now. Me: 1 month ago:
That’s 5-5-5
- Comment on Soup of Theseus 1 month ago:
Would it still be soup once there’s no soup? No, it’d just be water then.
- Comment on twitter 1 month ago:
Or fucking Venmo
- Comment on twitter 1 month ago:
No they said in 2025, it must be like a country or something
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 1 month ago:
Because they have control of every branch of the government.
- Comment on President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before' 1 month ago:
Given all the possible context, I still don’t see the headline as misleading 🤷♂️ idk what to tell y’all. Typically “breaking” news headlines are written in present tense “Trump threatens…”, so any headline that starts “Trump threatened…” I just automatically assume to have happened sometime in the last 10 or 15 years, while bearing at least a semblance of relevance to current events. Like this one. It’s definitely a nothingstory, but it doesn’t read to me as a decrease in journalistic quality.
- Comment on President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before' 1 month ago:
You very conveniently left out the “But taking him at his word” part of my comment, which kind of negates everything you’re complaining about. See, that’s a good example of taking a quote out of context and changing the meaning, unlike this headline. I do agree that we shouldn’t report onanything he says though, just report on the administration’s actions.
- Comment on President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before' 1 month ago:
If it was so clear, we wouldn’t be having this conversation because I disagree. Like I said, even all that context doesn’t actually give any context because nothing Trump says really has any meaning. When he says something happened “in the past”, it could mean it happened at literally any time previously, it could mean he expects it to happen soon and as such is an inevitability so he just says it already happened, it could mean it never happened and never will. But even taking him at his word, nothing from that “context” makes me any less likely to believe he found out what Nvidia was minutes before taking the stage. And even if he did know what Nvidia was “in the past”, he did try to break it up without knowing what it was, so where’s the contradiction? I don’t see how that headline is implying any kind of timeframe, inaccurate or otherwise.
- Comment on President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before' 1 month ago:
Trying to put Trump quotes into context is like trying to read a Pollock, it’s not possible and it’s not supposed to be. Your interpretation really didn’t change any of the meaning for me, and it certainly didn’t contradict the headline.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 months ago:
I just hate their app and refuse to use it
- Comment on Viewers like you 2 months ago:
For someone who’s so “societally aware”, you’re really a sack of shit. But I guess that might be the point…
- Comment on Who discovered/"invented" fire? 2 months ago:
Some monkey