CannedYeet

@CannedYeet@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US we have Breast Cancer Awarnes month and a bunch of others. All we do is throw money at a problem and hope it goes away How come the Gov don't take care of people from starving?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In 2018, SNAP benefits supplied roughly 40 million Americans, at an expenditure of $57.1 billion.[2][3] In 2017, approximately 9.2% of American households obtained SNAP benefits at some point, with approximately 16.7% of all children living in households with SNAP benefits.[2]

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assista…

  In the scheme of things, the interruption of SNAP benefits was a blip. A cruel blip, but I don’t think it’s fair to say we don’t do anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tax strike?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The billionaires are way ahead of you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even do Price Discrimination on video games now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even do Price Discrimination on video games now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I like price discrimination. Price discrimination lets airlines price first class tickets above cost so coach can tickets can be priced at marginal cost. It’s a way to charge the rich more. If you have an extensive library they figure you’re not poor. If your wife’s library is small, they might be guessing that she can’t afford to buy a lot of games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A hypothesis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I started on a Mac from Apple’s bad days. The school computers were Windows and it felt like all the other kids had Windows computers at home. I think feeling like I was at the disadvantage probably had an effect on me that led me to Linux. Also the second family computer ran Windows ME, so…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ll just have to go out Californey-way to find some internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's indecent ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an AASS. Unlike the Game Boy Pocket, which had a flat AAASS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My camera can record videos of ICE abuse. Are they gonna ban that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨💩.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re trying to solve your poop problem with Brain Octane, your head is up your ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The world is full of assholes and it’s not my job to pick a fight with every one of them.

  Also, they’re giving away free software. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  youtu.be/dBnniua6-oM

  Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Recorded on 05/26/2009.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What flavor are marshmallows?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gelatin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know the ideology of 99.9% of the developers of the software I use. I don’t want to know it. The license is all I care about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want rsync but shiny, check out rshiny

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does the Chinese government even work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  freakonomics.com/…/is-the-u-s-really-less-corrupt…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever someone breaks a barrier as “The first gay…” remember that they’re technically “the gayest…”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does the Chinese government even work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I had a source on this, but I heard that bribery of government officials is the norm. They don’t get paid much so it’s expected they take bribes. But their bosses keep them in line. And the weird thing is that it actually works kind of well to make sure things get done, compared to the gridlock faced when trying to build houses or public transit in most cities in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it make sense ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except the person next to you or behind you gets frustrated and cuts you off and you have to hit the brakes and create a traffic pulse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually we have “right to try” laws for the scenario I described.

  But the FDA could use some serious reform. Under the system we have, an FDA approval lumps together the determinations of whether a drugs is safe, effective and worth paying for. A more libertarian system would let people spend their own money on drugs that are safe even if the FDA’s particular research didn’t find them effective. And it wouldn’t waste tax payer money on drugs that are effective but exorbitantly expensive relative to their minimal effectiveness. But if a wealthy person wants to spend their own money, thereby subsidizing pharmaceuticals for the rest of us, that’s great in my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that simple. Imagine you’re dieing of a rare terminal disease. A pharma company is developing a new drug for it. Obviously you want it. But they tell you you can’t have it because “we’re not releasing it until we know it’s good”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As an exercise to remove the bias from this, replace self driving cars with airbags. In some rare cases they might go off accidentally and do harm that wouldn’t have occurred in their absence. But all cars have airbags. More and more with every generation. If you are so cautious about accidental detonations that you choose not to install them in your car, then you’re being too cautious.

  I can’t agree that they’re not being cautious enough. I didn’t even read the article. I’m just arguing about the principle. And I don’t have a clue what the right penalty would be. I would need to be an actuary with access to lots of data I don’t have to figure out the right number to provide the right deterrent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s actually a backfire effect here. It could make companies too cautious in rolling out self driving. The status quo is people driving poorly. If you delay the roll out of self driving beyond the point when it’s better than people, then more people will die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pegged⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This would be a good use for Pepsi nitro

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminder, when you don’t do things by the book, the perp wins in court on technicalities or wins on appeal. For example, see Harvey Weinstein.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s the little things⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can add a wetting agent to water to decrease the surface tension

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Perspective matters. There’s a couple things you can do to majorly reduce your carbon footprint. Beyond those it gets increasing difficult to have smaller and smaller effects. At some point the next most effective things to do with your time and effort become

  • do activism
  • earn more money
    • to buy offsets
    • to donate to activist charities

  The time and effort you spend living like a weirdo has an opportunity cost that you could be doing those things. Furthermore it looks bad. There was a study that found that when you tell people that tackling climate change requires major sacrifice, they became more likely to deny climate change is even real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatmeal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A bag of dicks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Legends is among us⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked with chatgpt to since I’m not a python dev, and this is what I came up with

  from time import time
  
  class PlaySession:
      def __init__(self, data: dict):
          self.guild_id = int(data['guild_id'])
          self.user_id = int(data['user_id'])
          self.timestamp = data['time']
  
      def is_longer_than_half_hour(self) -> bool:
          return self.timestamp + 1800 < time()
  
      async def resolve_member(self, bot) -> "discord.Member | None":
          guild = bot.get_guild(self.guild_id)
          return guild.get_member(self.user_id) if guild else None
  
      @staticmethod
      def is_playing_league(member) -> bool:
          activity = getattr(member, 'activity', None)
          name = getattr(activity, 'name', None)
          return name and name.lower() == "league of legends"
  
  async def ban_for_league(member):
      await member.send("The 30 minutes has elapsed and you are still playing league, get banned.")
      await member.ban(delete_message_days=0, reason="playing league")
  
  async def process_entries(bot, entry_dicts):
      sessions = [PlaySession(d) for d in entry_dicts if PlaySession(d).is_longer_than_half_hour()]
      for session in sessions:
          member = await session.resolve_member(bot)
          if member and PlaySession.is_playing_league(member):
              await ban_for_league(member)
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Marty ate some of someone else’s pizza

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bachelor Chow slabs, anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta be Mac and Cheese inside. What the Canadians call Kraft Dinner.