Not_mikey
@Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on YSK Lemvotes.org will show you votes on any post, comment, or by user, or anything on the fediverse 9 hours ago:
I know this is how the fediverse works, and how it has to work. But maybe we shouldn’t be advertising this right now when the right is trying to dox people and get them fired for liking a kirk meme.
- Comment on Girls who play after-school sport in UK 50% more likely to later get top jobs, study finds 1 day ago:
I feel like both parents working is more common in working class families then rich ones. A rich family may have one of the parents working part time or not at all because they can afford it.
Yeah a working class family may have one parent who is chronically unemployed but I feel that’s more the exception to the rule, as capitalism does a pretty good job of putting those people on the streets and having the state take away the kids.
- Comment on We are helping 6 days ago:
So eating meat is now rebelling against the billionaires…
For every dollar a billionaire spends trying to get you to eat less meat, other billionaires spend 100x more trying to get you to eat more meat through advertising, lobbying, etc.
If you want to play into the billionaires plans, eat more meat. If you want to help stop climate change, eat less meat.
- Comment on We are helping 6 days ago:
Same with cars, even if we completely ignore climate change we maybe got a century left of oil before it’s too expensive to drive. By not investing in other transportation now we’re just making it more painful when we finally do rip the bandaid off.
- Comment on We are helping 6 days ago:
And not littering won’t fix the underlying problems of single use plastics wrapping everything we touch, and the corporations that want to keep it that way. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t litter.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 1 week ago:
Yes, there are plenty of other investment opportunities, the fact that you chose the one that profits off of housing insecurity shows you don’t enough about it to forgo a little bit of extra money.
Like other people have mentioned you would also have to be advocating against your own interest. Yes you can do that but your passion will at least be dulled by your innate desire for profit. You’d have more passion and will for the cause if you didn’t own investment properties, even more if you are renting and are a victim of housing commodification.
Another point is that you’d be adding to the demand of houses and thus raising the price. You could argue it’s a drop in the ocean, but that sort of attitude leads to a million drops in the ocean and rising sea levels. You would also probably be buying it on a mortgage that’s larger then the house was previously on so the floor for rent , the break even point, would be higher.
Eg. If you bought the property for $400,000 on a mortgage for say $2,000 a month from someone who only had a $200,000 mortgage on it for $1,000 a month you’ve now upped the rent floor $1,000.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 1 week ago:
You could make a lot of these same arguments for owning slaves. If you don’t buy them then someone else will, and they may be a worse master then you. Better that you buy them and treat them right, provide them good food and housing, while at the same time advocating for the abolition of slavery.
In both secenarios you may say you want what’s best for them, but that desire is in direct conflict with your desire for profit so either you become a bad investor or a bad slave master / landlord. Why bring yourself into that conflict instead of investing in something without those moral implications?
- Comment on [Video] Genius way to solve homelessness in USA 2 weeks ago:
Ideally yes, Palestinians have a right to defend themselves from genocide.
Realistically you could sell those weapons to Ukraine since the weapons industry is the only thing keeping this shit country going.
- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 2 weeks ago:
Mormons and skiers, also a decent amount getting born there too. There fertility rate may not be positive but it’s a lot better then the other states so they’re relatively gaining population.
- Comment on It's almost here 2 weeks ago:
Come to San Francisco, the weather never goes above 70 degrees and we have the best bread bowls and they only cost $25 (without tax)
- Comment on Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
This is the same guy who said the progressives on San feanciscos city council should die a slow painful death.
- Comment on Help. 4 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 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" 5 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. 5 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Same here in the US with AI, but instead of the government giving subsidies its venture capitalists.
