MDCCCLV
@MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 1 week ago:
Money for elderly that can prevent them from needing very expensive nursing home care is a huge market with no limit if the product works well. Especially for Japan but really everywhere will have increasingly large cohorts of their elderly people with not enough young people to care for them.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 1 week ago:
You also have a thing where the minimum wage is far below the actual market rate, the typical wage in the area, and actually making minimum wage is way less than any other job. Nobody wants 7.25 an hour unless you’re forced to.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 1 week ago:
Children. Name calling isn’t something anyone else wants to see. If a weak insult is all you have to say then just ignore them.
- Comment on Debatable 2 weeks ago:
This type only lasts a few weeks anyway, after that it will just look uniformly short.
- Comment on 🤝🤝🤝 2 weeks ago:
Only if your exposure in the future is less than in the past. Otherwise it will just go back up again. And considering plastic use is going up, you would have to use air filters and avoid micro plastics as much as possible.
- Comment on Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike 4 weeks ago:
The lighter ones can be 25-30 lbs.
- Comment on Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike 4 weeks ago:
Simple, you just defragment the person into drone size pieces then reassemble.
- Comment on Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world 4 weeks ago:
There’s no reason you couldn’t have people grow a new Internet that isn’t reliant on AWS and cloud flare and other big tech stuff, it’s just that it’s much easier to do that since it’s already there. And you still have the problems with spammers even if you try to move away from capitalism.
- Comment on Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world 4 weeks ago:
FOSS doesn’t work as well for everything. But for something like this privacy and not leaking data is more important if you’re going to run it on your computer.
- Comment on Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world 4 weeks ago:
That just sounds like you don’t want the majority of people to use it. You still only have 4% of desktop users on Linux.
- Comment on There's still no sign of Star Citizen 1.0, but it did just get a revamped referral program so the die-hards can tempt in even more saps 1 month ago:
The money is going to salaries, so it’s basically just extended development. They’re all working and doing something. It’s basically just instead of releasing a game 6 years ago that was barebones and okay they’re making the sequel and won’t release the final game until they’re well done.
I’m confident it will release eventually, maybe another 5-8 years. As long as the devs don’t die of old age.
- Comment on [US] How do I find and vote for primaries and local positions in my state? 2 months ago:
If you live in the best states you get your ballot automatically mailed to you.
- Comment on Make a new friend! 2 months ago:
They only use people with the best traction on their skin.
- Comment on Make a new friend! 2 months ago:
If you live in a rural area they’re better at delivering if it’s real muddy out.
- Comment on Dear Kevin 2 months ago:
The kingdoms have changed several times, they’re basically trying to use a more accurate system based on DNA using genotyping to decide which groups are more closely related and be less reliant on behavior and appearance.
- Comment on Patreon plans to consolidate its Pro and Premium plans starting August 5, taking a 10% commission, rather than the current 8% for Pro and 12% for Premium users 2 months ago:
You know it’s a percentage right?
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 2 months ago:
It’s interesting and it seems like a good change for people that have done a lot of d&d but it’s probably not going to be a complete replacement for 5e. It seems good for short campaigns but it only has one book out for now.
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk" 2 months ago:
How many people have even heard of peertube?
- Comment on Some secrets are kept better hidden than others 2 months ago:
Yeah, if it was just decorative with a facade then this is fine.
- Comment on You mean it gets worse? 2 months ago:
You can do it yourself but generally not in a group like that for most people.
- Comment on YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible. 2 months ago:
Yeah, the conde owner bit isn’t news to anyone, just cause this one guy never looked. Are is fine and it will be as long as the current people are there. Until it gets looted and the staff laid off it is fine. Eric Berger navigates a bit of a tightrope because he has high level access to Musk but can’t be too direct about asking anything other than rockets, even though the political part is affecting the space part a lot right now. I do expect that just like Polygon it will eventually be gutted but nothing lasts forever.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 2 months ago:
A lot of them for the small articles and stubs are written very technically and don’t provide an explanation for complex subjects if you aren’t already familiar with it. Then you have to read 4 subjects down just to figure out the jargon for what they’re saying
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 2 months ago:
The empire?
- Comment on Avocado 2 months ago:
Smells more like rotten wet mushrooms
- Comment on You mean it gets worse? 2 months ago:
There are certain unique experiences you don’t get later. There are a few places that have field trips in college, but for most people that is only during regular primary school.
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 2 months ago:
If you read the article, it says this only applies to people that already have premium google office stuff already. The 90% of people with regular gmail accounts aren’t affected by this. For now at least.
- Comment on Pentagon chief warns China 'preparing' to use military force in Asia 2 months ago:
Because they’re far away and china has to be the first one to move towards Taiwan.
- Comment on Pentagon chief warns China 'preparing' to use military force in Asia 2 months ago:
It’s easy in this case because an invasion by sea is a big target, and you can hit them without any chance of them claiming they’re attacking their homeland. It will mostly be which side has more missiles or boats. I don’t know if they will actually do it because it’s not just a single invasion. They would have to violently occupy a medium size country. That would require several million soldiers to be stationed there and supplied from the mainland. They would have to do some conscription or spend a year gathering troops. It would be very obvious. And the part where they have 0 combat experience won’t help. They won’t be ready for at least another 5-10 years. Currently the ukraine war has showed that currently drones favor the defensive side and so that is bad for China. In the future that could change but right now any full scale invasion is unlikely.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 2 months ago:
They don’t need much maintenance and the engine brake evs do to recover the energy removes stress on the regular brakes so the brakes last a lot longer.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 2 months ago:
But an electric car is basically just a bigger rc car, it doesn’t need any real maintenance. There’s no fluids.