Archangel1313
@Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
- Comment on It’s the little things 2 days ago:
Your floor would have to be supernaturally flat and level for that to happen.
- Comment on As seen on TV 3 days ago:
Don’t forget duct tape.
- Comment on Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions 5 days ago:
But not for pollination?
- Comment on US | Trump announces 50% tariff on copper, starting Aug 1 1 week ago:
“Copper is necessary for Semiconductors, Aircraft, Ships, Ammunition, Data Centres, Lithium-ion Batteries, Radar Systems, Missile Defence Systems, and even, Hypersonic Weapons, of which we are building many,” Mr Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
The US depends on imports for nearly half of its refined copper needs, and brought in 810,000 metric tons in 2024, according to the US Geological Survey.
Sounds like exactly the kind of resource you should go out of your way to make more expensive and more difficult to acquire. /s
- Comment on Tesla loses $68 billion in value after Elon Musk says he is launching a political party 1 week ago:
So you think rich people don’t care about losing money? I’m not sure you understand what I’m talking about.
- Comment on Tesla loses $68 billion in value after Elon Musk says he is launching a political party 1 week ago:
Which “rich” are you talking about? The one rich guy in charge…or the many rich people that are watching their investment bottom out, because of him?
- Comment on Tesla loses $68 billion in value after Elon Musk says he is launching a political party 1 week ago:
And yet, he’s costing the rich a ton of money by tanking the value of his stock. That should take precedence over whatever “the board” decided to give him. The investors are the priority in a capitalist system…not the board. The board’s job is to maximize investor returns. That’s all.
- Comment on Tesla loses $68 billion in value after Elon Musk says he is launching a political party 1 week ago:
Then it sounds like it would be a slam-dunk to prove in court, that the board is no longer honoring its fiduciary duties to its investors.
- Comment on Tesla loses $68 billion in value after Elon Musk says he is launching a political party 1 week ago:
Then Tesla’s investors should organize a class action suit against the board, for acting against their best interests.
- Comment on Tesla loses $68 billion in value after Elon Musk says he is launching a political party 1 week ago:
They should be seriously considering firing this fuck, by now. Everything he’s done for the last couple of years has cost his investors money.
- Comment on If corporations are the GOP and the GOP are corporations why isn't it assumed that corporations will stem inflation due to tarrifs while the GOP is in power even if its at loss? 1 week ago:
Why would losing money, “consolidate power for the GOP”? The only people that matter to the GOP are the ones that stand to lose money. Their interests come first. The peasants will do as they’re told, regardless.
- Comment on If corporations are the GOP and the GOP are corporations why isn't it assumed that corporations will stem inflation due to tarrifs while the GOP is in power even if its at loss? 1 week ago:
Why would they take a loss, when they can just make their customers pay for it instead?
- Comment on Why doesn't the US government just tax illegal immigrants a little bit more than the Average american? Then use those funds to fix infastructure or a new WPA of the 21st century? 1 week ago:
Because the point isn’t to actually “fix” anything.
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? 2 weeks ago:
No. Unfortunately, they don’t. But, they SHOULD!
- Comment on Next-Gen Brain Implants Offer New Hope for Depression: AI and real-time neural feedback could transform treatments 2 weeks ago:
Lol! What the actual fuck? No.
- Comment on How do animals in the Peppa Pig universe work? 2 weeks ago:
How do gorillas, chimpanzees and humans all exist at the same time?
- Comment on Wealth of Global 1% Has Skyrocketed by Over $33 Trillion Since 2015: Report 3 weeks ago:
I guess that explains why everyone else is so broke.
- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 3 weeks ago:
You don’t have kids? Plan to retire? Have an emergency savings amount? No credit card debt? Car loans? Student loans?
I probably should have been more clear when I said “minimum basic requirements”. I wasn’t talking “survival”…I was talking about “comfort”. The point at which you are no longer living paycheck-to-paycheck.
I was also assuming household income…not individual…so I should have been more specific there, as well.
I make about twice what you calculated, and my bank account is consistently at zero after all my household expenses are covered. That’s for my family…not just me. I have no emergency savings, which means if anything in my life breaks down, I go into debt just to pay for repairs…and it takes months to finish paying it off. That’s not “comfortable”. It’s eternally stressful, since emergencies like that usually come up more often than I can pay off the last one.
My point, though, was that it’s all quantifiable. Even the differences between individual circumstances can be calculated. Everyone can look at their life and “know” the number that would get them into that “comfort zone”.
- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 3 weeks ago:
You can, though. At least to the extent of saying that “comfortable” means that all your basic needs are met, and you have money left over for more than that. How much more, is a matter of preference…but as long as that basic minimum is met, the rest is just different degrees of comfort.
- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 3 weeks ago:
Who cares what people “feel”? It has nothing to do with “feelings”. Just calculate how much it actually costs to live comfortably, and you’ll find that $150k works.
- Comment on The US House's CAO informed congressional staffers that WhatsApp is now banned on their government devices as the app is deemed “a high-risk to users” 3 weeks ago:
But I thought they just made it illegal to regulate AI? Oh, wait…that was just for the states. Fuck those guys.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 3 weeks ago:
How does anyone consider him a “genius”? This guy is just so stupid.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The Gorn 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, but in “Arena” there was nothing about using humans as incubators / hosts. That’s the part they added in, to make them more “monster-like”. Without that, their motivation is not much different than our own. With that, they are much more terrifying and alien.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The Gorn 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, the old Gorn rationale for attacking the colony was, “You’re in our territory, and we assumed you had hostile intent”…while the SNW rationale is, “We lay eggs in your body, so our young have something to eat when they hatch”.
That’s a significant difference in character motivation.
- Comment on The balance of security and privacy sounds weird when privacy IS security. 3 weeks ago:
It’s only weird until you realize they aren’t talking about your “personal” security. They couldn’t care less about you.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The Gorn 3 weeks ago:
“The Arena” is originally the first meeting between the Federation and the Gorn, with Kirk and the Gorn captain fighting one-on-one.
But, in SNW, the Gorn have already been encountered, although little is known about them yet, due to the fact that they leave no survivors and seem to make no effort to communicate.
The recon is to the timeline and initial encounter with the species, as well as adding in a lot of new details that were never part of the original concept.
- Comment on Robot eyes are power hungry. What if we gave them tools inspired by the human brain? 4 weeks ago:
Can we just not?
- Comment on Checkmate, Round Earthers 🌍 4 weeks ago:
A flashlight still lights up the whole room, even if it’s just pointed at one wall. It’s not like half the room is totally dark, while the other half is totally bright.
- Comment on Checkmate, Round Earthers 🌍 4 weeks ago:
Don’t forget that it’d be nighttime after a certain distance, because light can only travel a certain distance before it disappears.
- Comment on Florida attorney general held in contempt after defying court 4 weeks ago:
“If being held in contempt is what it costs to defend the rule of law and stand firmly behind President Trump’s agenda on illegal immigration, so be it,”
Lol! Wut? How can you “defend the rule of law” by defiying a court order? That’s the literal definition of “defying the law”.