Not_mikey
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- Comment on Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer 1 hour ago:
You can still use free fillable forms, you can fill out the raw tax forms yourself online and can submit them online there. Not the best UI, it’s literally just the forms, but you cut out the middle man so they don’t get more money to lobby congress to keep this dumb system going. It’s also free if you make more then $85,000 , which alot of the “free” software isn’t.
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 19 hours ago:
It’s not even just the bad they’re not showing, they aren’t showing anything outside of a suburban straight white guys point of view. Which does reflect a lot of 80s media but doesn’t reflect the experience of a lot of people in the 80s
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 6 days ago:
This is the same guy who said the progressives on San feanciscos city council should die a slow painful death.
- Comment on Help. 1 week ago:
If llms are juiced up auto complete then humans are juiced up bacteria. Yeah they both have the same end goal, guess the next word, survive and reproduce , but the methods they use to accomplish them are vastly more complex.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Was thinking the opposite, thought lemmy was above the unprompted furry bashing and this post made me doubt the maturity of a lot of people here.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 weeks ago:
You’re looking at this as a red vs. blue issue and identifying with blue when it’s really a people in power vs. normal people issue. This is the california democratic party taking power away from the people and giving it to the ruling party. Sure you may like that ruling party now, but if a new party takes power or the current one does something horrible then you’ll have less of an ability to remove them from power.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 weeks ago:
That assumes the democratic party wants gerrandering to end and they just won’t collude with the Republicans to carve up the country and entrench the two party system.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 weeks ago:
Eh, the democrats seem to be getting back on board with it too now. Most Americans at least have a vague concept of gerrymandering. They just like to ignore it when it benefits their side.
- Comment on "You third rate call girl with your 4th rate deck" 3 weeks ago:
In japan there’s more of a spectrum of call girls who range from pretty young women who will come over to talk to you because your a lonely Otaku or old man, to outright sex work like we think of in the west. I’m guessing rates are cheaper for the companionship ones.
- Comment on This is WAR. 3 weeks ago:
Born to early to get poisoned by lead Born to late to get poisoned by microplastics Born just in time to drive a forklift
- Comment on I'm sure this would work out fine 3 weeks ago:
That won’t work, there sick child seeking missiles will just hit this instead.
- Comment on It's utterly hypocritical that the "defence" industry/sector is not called what it really is, the war industry. 3 weeks ago:
WWII was the war to end all wars, so we couldn’t have a department of war anymore. Still “needed” and army , navy, marines and all the weapons for them though so we created the department of defense.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 3 weeks ago:
I think I know what happened here. Curtis decided to sing “fucking problem” by A$AP rocky at karaoke because he can say
I’m the ngga, the ngga n*gga …
Like an edgy 15 year old. Then he heard A$AP rockies bar:
they say money make a ngga act nggerish, at least a ngga ngga rich
Got mad at the idea of black people having money and cultural clout and then posted this.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 3 weeks ago:
N*gga rich is a term used by rappers, and some racists like Curtis, to mean getting a small fortune and spending it on flashy ostentatious things.
- Comment on Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike 4 weeks ago:
It does look like a clone, but fuck IP law. Sony winning this will only hurt games because any publisher with a genre creating / defining game could gatekeep any competitors from coming in *cough Nintendo.
The original horizon came out 8 years ago, that’s plenty of time for them to cash in on the monopoly they get for all the creativity that went into creating the genre / style.
Its not like they’re marketing it with a similar name or main character or any other identifier that could trick someone into buying it instead either.
- Comment on OpenAI Is Giving Exactly the Same Copy-Pasted Response Every Time Time ChatGPT Is Linked to a Mental Health Crisis 4 weeks ago:
Ah, I was hoping this meant chatgpt would give canned responses, ie. “Seek help”, whenever it detected it was being used for mental health issues, which it should. But no it’s just open air flipping off anyone who asks why there chatbot pushed a person to suicide.
- Comment on Google AI strikes again 4 weeks ago:
Human here, and didn’t know what the post was about. Had the same thought process as the ai and couldn’t understand the gotcha.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 4 weeks ago:
Self proclaimed “5 star man” Dennis Reynolds is the top suspect
- Comment on Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks 4 weeks ago:
This study isn’t about total clicks, or a drop in traffic to Google caused by people not liking the ai overview. It’s about for each Google search that was executed, how often did someone click on a link. Without ai it was 15% and with ai it is 8%. So if anything its proving the customers like the ai overviews and are getting enough from them to answer their query.
Sure there are probably a couple people who see the overview at the top and hate ai so much they leave Google without clicking anything, but those people will probably only do that once or twice before they stop using Google entirely or disable the feature, and thus wouldn’t count much in the data about ai overview searches.
- Comment on In China, delivery robots now ride the subway to restock 7-Eleven stores 5 weeks ago:
Same here in the US with AI, but instead of the government giving subsidies its venture capitalists.
- Comment on ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r 2 months ago:
Could someone explain why binding arbitration clauses are horrible? My understanding is that it keeps costs low on both sides as taking things to actual court can get expensive.
- Comment on Is it a prison break if the prisoners have been unjustly detained? Who decides when it is a hostage rescuse situation? 2 months ago:
The difference between a hostage and a prisoner is why you are detaining them. If you are detaining them for some crime or to prevent them from doing some crime or harm to “society”(the powerful) then they are a prisoner. If you are detaining them to try and trade or gain concessions from another party then they are a hostage.
The difference between lawful and illegal escape attempts isn’t between hostages and prisoners, false imprisonment is a crime and if you escape or help someone escape that’s legal. Taking hostages can also be legal, Putin will often make some trumped up charge for an American so he can use them as a pawn in a prisoner exchange, nominally the intent is to lock them up for committing a crime, but in reality they are hostages in putins game. The difference is whether the state is detaining the person or a non state actor.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 2 months ago:
The vast majority of coding isn’t making something new, it’s using existing patterns and tools and arranging them to fit a specific use case.
Llms may not be able to create a new framework or design pattern, but neither will most coders in there day to day.
- Comment on The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs 2 months ago:
It’s not that borrowing money is free, zero interest rates means the government pays zero interest for its loans, not companies. It does put downward pressure on interest rates companies pay but they’re still going to have to pay a couple percent apy.
The reason zero interest rates are good for tech is because it forces capital to seek more long-term and risky investments. If I have a lot of money and can get 6% apy from loaning it to the US government, the safest bet on the market, why would I invest in something else? If i can’t get any money from loaning to the government (zero interest rates), and i cant get much from loaning it to other institutions because of that downward pressure, then maybe I’ll buy some more risky tech stocks because it’s possible for that company to grow more then the 1-2% id get from just lending my money.
- Comment on 'Starter homes' cost at least $1 million in over 200 U.S. cities, Zillow data finds 3 months ago:
Housing as an investment leads to real estate speculation which pushes up prices. It creates a class of people who stand to gain when property values, and downstream of that rent, go up.
This class of people are very wealthy and tend to oppose any action that will decrease there property value. That includes things like building dense affordable housing, especially close to them, as that increases the supply of housing and thus decreases there property value.
This is true especially for land lords, even small “mom and pop” landlords. There goal is to raise rent and the value of there investment. Anything that will lower rent or even stabilize it like rent control they will oppose, no matter their scale.
Tl;dr: housing speculation creates a wealthy class of people opposed to housing affordability.
- Submitted 3 months ago to economics@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on North Korea Stole Your Job 3 months ago:
another of these clearly illegal things
They seem to be actually doing work. Yeah it’s illegal to work without authorization but by the same logic an undocumented migrant working is illegal. Sure but I wouldn’t argue it’s immoral or would make them a rogue state.
There’s plenty of other horrible shit that north Korea is doing, but I wouldn’t put this in that bucket, this is probably the most honest work they can do considering they’re sanctioned by nearly every country.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
In the u.s. a bidet refers to a type of toilet or an attachment for a toilet that shoots water at your asshole while your still on the toilet after you shit. The separate sink as a bidet is unheard of here.
- Comment on Tesla profits plummet 71% amid backlash to Musk's role with Trump administration 3 months ago:
And there stocks price went up 7% today …
If anyone still needs proof that financial speculation and stock valuations are as real as fairies, here you go.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 4 months ago:
Robots don’t get drunk, or distracted, or text, or speed…
Anecdotally, I think the Waymos are more courteous than human drivers. Though waymo seems to be the best ones out so far, idk about the other services.
