Not_mikey

@Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich People Are Becoming Less Willing to Help With the World’s Problems⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Median post-tax household income is £36.7k

  Wow that seems low, US median household income is $83k, even with taxes and conversion that seems like a significant gap and I always thought US and UK had similar price levels. Are taxes just that much higher? Or are households smaller ? Or are incomes in the US just that much better?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  At least for EA they just got bought out by the Saudis who do have magnitudes more cash then valve along with the ear of a president known to help out his buddies in the legal realm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The person was talking about how certain people annoy them, he may have implied it was you but if you don’t think description matches say so and move on.

  But if we’re talking about being a good digital neighbor, you should try and see how your implication is annoying or offensive. There are issues with credentialism but it is not just some arbitrary aristocracy, people put in a lot of work to get there credentials and take pride in them. If you start saying all these experts don’t know what they’re talking about and I found out something they couldn’t is dismissive of all the work those experts put into learning about there field. Like don’t you think doctors get annoyed by all the homeopaths or anti vaxers who dismiss all there work because theyve done there own research?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calling all Dickheads!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  wildly inaccurate “natural history”

  If you consider the fact it was written in 1850 it is surprisingly accurate, like it was talking about whales eating giant squids a century before the scientific community accepted that.

  Also the whale descriptions are the point, the book is about the enlightenment drive to understand and therefore master nature with Moby dick standing in as a refutation of that idea, being unconquerable no matter how much knowledge you have. Without the descriptions you could write off Ishmael and the crew as a bunch of idiots who just didn’t have the know how to take down Moby dick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's all relative⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are diabetics (which you’d probably become if you ate cheesecake daily) addicted to insulin then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET THAT BREAD⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they did, guess i meant dark web market links

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET THAT BREAD⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wonder if lemmy cares about posting dark web links like reddit. Here’s a listing:

  drughub666py6fgnml5kmxa7fva5noppkf6wkai4fwwvzwt4r…

  Let’s see if this comment gets deleted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably will get it anyway, companies don’t like to build and maintain software for two different markets so they tend to just follow the regulations of the strictest market, especially if those regulations don’t really cut into there bottom line like this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was the fall of Rome this stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This, people love to think Rome fell because of moral degeneracy and corruption, but that was probably at its height under Commodus or Nero when the empire was very stable and secure. The later emperors were relatively modest and to an increasing degree impotent, so it mattered less if they were incompetent, though many of them were, and that didn’t help.

  The reality is empires all eventually fall, they lose the military edge that won them the empire, either by degrading or the “barbarians” learning and catching up, and the forces that were kept in check by the military tear the empire apart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing banana for scale.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there any evidence it stood on two feet? Figured it would look more like a gorilla then this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube will start using AI to guess your age.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume they already did this for advertising purposes, just like every other platform trying to guess your demographics to sell you more useless shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Content Is Too Provocative': Texas Says Yes to Anime Censorship With New 'Anti-Anime' Law⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think think the Christian god would have much of a problem considering he impregnated a 15 year old

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Content Is Too Provocative': Texas Says Yes to Anime Censorship With New 'Anti-Anime' Law⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also the episodes with the “raisins” restaurant which is basically child hooters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“China keeps the algorithm”: Critics attack Trump’s TikTok deal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO, the algorithm is overhyped, and the secret to tik toks success is its scale. If you gave metas algorithm the same amount of data to train on and the same amount of content to recommend, it would be equally as addictive. It might suck at first but give it a couple months and people won’t be able to tell the difference between the old algorithm and whatever oracle creates.

  It’s just like chatgpt, given the same set of public data any company with sufficient engineering and compute resources can make there own model that performs very similarly.

  In an ideal world we’d have algorithmic choice, like in bluesky sort of, and we could actually compare different ones, but that would cut into the profits of the data monoplies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Lemvotes.org will show you votes on any post, comment, or by user, or anything on the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds that fast walking can reduce lung cancer risk by 50%: A simple health indicator for cancer prevention⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pro tip, put meth in your cigarettes and you won’t even need to think about walking fast, you’ll be too busy thinking of copper piping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Lemvotes.org will show you votes on any post, comment, or by user, or anything on the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the same guy who said the progressives on San feanciscos city council should die a slow painful death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.