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- Comment on I'm not saying that I agree with it, but it's understandable. 5 days ago:
Taylor ham.
- Comment on I'm not saying that I agree with it, but it's understandable. 5 days ago:
Admittedly, as the best state in America, there is very little reason for us to leave. But we do still like to travel, just like the folks in the lesser states. We shouldn’t be deified like this.
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 6 days ago:
Yes they did. That’s where this discussion started. In fact it was stated “record low interest rates.” You’re going to have to read the parent comments if you want to jump in the conversation midway.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
In case you felt that stealing all of your personal data to train their machine wasn’t enough. You can spoon feed it some more without compensation.
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 1 week ago:
I more or less agree. The home price to income ratio in the US bottomed out in '74 at 3.62-ish. A healthy economy is between 4 and 5. The peak of the housing bubble was 6.78. Today it’s around 7.05. We are beyond cooked and this lady is out of her mind.
That’s a legitimate frustration. We don’t need to pretend interest rates were at a record low for the boomers to validate that.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 week ago:
Yes, but bear in mind a lot factory, construction, and industrial jobs are 7-3 or 8-4. So a working class laborer could go catch a happy hour with the coworkers or neighbors and be home by 5.
Also in the age of single income households men were often not expected to pull as much weight at home.
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 1 week ago:
This is some let them eat cake bullshit disguised as ignorance off her own industry. I’m not even sure who the fuck this messaging is for.
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 1 week ago:
So was I and there was a long recession from 90 to 92. Unemployment hits 7.8% and I believe there were a record number of people on food stamps. It’s what made George HW Bush a single term president.
Their economy boomed under Clinton and with the dawn of the internet, but even then middle-aged boomers Warren tech savvy enough to repo the full benefits.
None of that is to say they didn’t have it far easier than millennials and zennials. They did. But disliking them doesn’t mean we have to overlook the facts. They were challenges along the way.
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 1 week ago:
Boomers bought their houses in the '70s and '80s when the interest rates were 15%. It’s why the houses were cheaper for them.
Not giving them a pass. They did have what is likely the easiest economy in American history, but they didn’t have record low interest rates.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 1 week ago:
You don’t understand the problem Marxists have with pure capitalism? That’s like their whole thing. An ownership class hoarding resources, and passively generating income from idle capital while not actively contributing is like the greatest sin in their ideology.
I personally think it’s a bit melodramatic. There’s a world of difference between renting your spare room, or the 2nd floor of your house, and a hedgefund buying 20,000 single family houses.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 1 week ago:
It’s annoying that its driven by ad revenues, and made more dumb by the fact that if everyone can decode it, then they’re still advertising over sex and violence. So the whole endeavor is pointless.
But I don’t think it will cause any harm. Humans have been using slang, code, and memetic language to obscure meaning from others and identify their in-crowds since the dawn of human language. Some of it is dumber than others, but it won’t cause any harm.
- Comment on Forbidden knowledge 2 weeks ago:
And start making crazy demands about not being boiled and eaten.
- Comment on The problem with overeating is that it feels really good 4 weeks ago:
“I don’t stop eating when I’m full. The meal isn’t over when I’m full. It’s over when I hate myself.” - Louis CK
- Comment on Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains. 4 weeks ago:
This is the cop vs firefighter superhero discussion.
Batman is a cop. The very DNA of the character is almost entirely about fighting crime. His origin starts with a violent crime. Sure he’ll save people (the end of the last movie he saves people from a flood) but mostly he’s working on crime.
Superman works best as a firefighter. He’s rescuing people, controlling and mitigating damage, etc… His origin story is a global catastrophe. He will get into fights, but mostly in service of mitigating damage. He will stop crime, but mostly in service of safety. His main villain isn’t a guy who can fight him (generally speaking).
Most characters and stories have a bit of each.
From a screenwriting perspective, an antagonist can provide escalation and give a voice to the challenges the protagonist faces. It’s just a very good tool. A Batman movie where he’s just getting people out of a burning building (for example) might work, but it would feel off somehow.
- Comment on How do you introduce the Fediverse to other people? 1 month ago:
Me: Imagine reddit for left wing, privacy obsessed, Linux nerds.
Anyone else: I really don’t want to.
/scene
- Comment on 1 month ago:
If people would have gotten this upset back when it was Medi Hassan and Joy Reid we might not have gotten here.
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 1 month ago:
They don’t. Any time a Democrat exercises the slightest bit of executive authority they scream fascism
They know the difference. They just play ignorant when it’s convenient.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 month ago:
I lived through all these. 2001 and 2008 were horrible, but sort of felt like a normal kind of horrible. Recessions and terrorism were things I’d seen before. It was only the scale that made those anomalous.
From my (American) perspective 2016 was when shit started getting very weird. We were relatively stable, relatively prosperous, foreign wars were tapering off… And half the country decided that a game show host was her best bet going forward.
Then it started snowballing… Bill Cosby’s a rapist, there’s a global pandemic, Kanye put out a pro-Hitler song, Pete Davidson is a sex symbol that no starlet in Hollywood can resist, The secretary of health had his brain eaten by worms, everything you own or use became a subscription service, The fear Factor guy became a political king maker, The first lady has a crypto scam that everyone’s kind of okay with, we created AI but it’s only good for spam and rule 34 tweets, we decided political corruption isn’t a crime if you brag about it, America’s war machine is being turned on its cities… Oh and the US is building full on concentration camps.
It’s a very strange time even compared to occupy, The tea party, or Bush riding out 9/11 Reading a children’s book in an elementary school.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 month ago:
Imagine you’re finishing in 8k, so you want to shoot higher resolution to give yourself some options in reframing and cropping? I don’t think Red, Arri, or Panavision even makes a cinema camera with a resolution over 8k. I think Arri is still 4k max. You’d pretty much be limited to Blackmagic cameras for 12k production today.
Plus the storage requirements for keeping raw footage in redundancy. Easy enough for a studio, but we’re YEARS from 8k being a practical resolution for most filmmakers.
My guess is most of the early consumer 8k content will be really shoddy AI upscaled content that can be rushed to market from film scans.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 months ago:
I haven’t read the DOT code in a while, so I genuinely don’t recall if they’re mandated, but I recall that all my trucks had them.
This is of absolutely no use in preventing people from a close merge on the passenger side where the driver definitely cannot see. Often the driver’s first indication that this has occurred is the crunch. I’ve never seen one of these accidents that wasn’t completely avoidable.
- Comment on YSK that you can usually tell news site's bias based on how complimentary the picture they attached is 2 months ago:
There was a very high profile case of this when Jill Greenberg bragged about intentionally duping John McCain into standing in unflattering light during a shoot for a profile piece in the Atlantic during his presidential campaign. She lit him from below with hard light to look old and and creepy. His team was clearly not that media savvy.
The atalantic disavowed her actions and I think apologized.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 months ago:
I used to do fleet management. It’s so bad. I never would have believed how many people take clearance signs as suggestions.
And the drivers test should include a “show me where the truck driver can and can’t see you” portion.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 2 months ago:
Particularly when so many trans men who have lived as women previously have come forward to validate how much more isolated men feel.
- Comment on Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté? 2 months ago:
Due to the inherently competitive nature of living in a society that competes for resources, many people assume that a kind, upbeat person will be easy prey for someone tough and pushy. They lack the emotional intelligence to understand that you can be both kind and assertive.
In reality, you catch more flies with honey. Pretty much every study of game theory concludes that nice but assertive is the optimal strategy in any ongoing interaction. A nice person with a backbone is likely to be healthier boundaries, lower stress, and better relationships with people.
- Comment on I love Lemmy 3 months ago:
It is a bit of a utopia for a privacy minded Linux fan. Most social media I’ve had to find my community. Here it is THE community. It would take an effort to avoid it.
And you have a nice day too.
- Comment on The long hard road 3 months ago:
Just say you make bat soup. Don’t try to make it sound fancy.
- Comment on Please tell me 3 months ago:
There is so much of that kind of marketing at this point, that it had not occurred to me until reading this discussion that “Liquid Death” was intended to ironically over the top.
- Comment on YSK: What are 'forever chemicals' and why do they matter? – DW – 07/15/2025 3 months ago:
The problem with banning it all together is that there are hundreds of critical applications for which they’re really is no alternative for PTFE, PCTFE and various derivative products.
Could we get by without Teflon pans, stain resistant fabric sprays, and consumer spray on dry lubricant… Sure. I’d really like them to take it out of food packaging. That would be nice.
But the world needs to interact with incredibly strong acids, and cryogenic temperatures and all sorts of other things for which human lives depend on having an absurdly inert material.