Archangel1313
@Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Wealth of Global 1% Has Skyrocketed by Over $33 Trillion Since 2015: Report 1 day 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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” 4 days 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 5 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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. 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week ago:
Can we just not?
- Comment on Checkmate, Round Earthers 🌍 1 week 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 🌍 1 week 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 1 week 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”.
- Comment on 'No-bra, no-exam' rule at Nigerian university sparks outrage 1 week ago:
I think if you need to physically touch someone in order to even know if they’re wearing a bra…then it doesn’t matter.
- Comment on Poll suggests half of Canadians believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza 2 weeks ago:
Only half? Wow.
- Comment on 10000 hours to become an expert, avg person poops for ~12 minutes a day. It would take 137 years to master. 2 weeks ago:
Maybe they aren’t including the time spent scrolling. It’s just the sphincter flexing moments that count.
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 2 weeks ago:
Whelp. It appears I am a robot. I guess I don’t get to find out what my fellow boys are up to. smh.
- Comment on GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Ke$he's Quantum Party 2 weeks ago:
This is what the internet is for.
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 3 weeks ago:
It dissolves…but into what? Sounds like a recipe for a petroleum salt water mix that’s probably just as toxic as melted plastic, unless all the petroleum is removed.
- Comment on The D.E.N.N.I.S ship 3 weeks ago:
As usual, this doesn’t actually make any sense. I genuinely wonder if Trump understands anything people around him are even talking about…or if all of his interactions with others, are just a series of Charlie Brown adults "mwa-mwa"ing at him while he struggles to pay attention.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
“Outside” works. So does “the sky”. “It” can also represent “today”, or “right now”.