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- Comment on Now we know how much it costs to make a $2,800 Dior bag 24 minutes ago:
Imo those worked because they lied about picture quality being better, etc. So the price was just justified by fraud - I also don’t know that demand for those was all that high and am even more skeptical that it’d be driven by price.
- Comment on Now we know how much it costs to make a $2,800 Dior bag 3 hours ago:
That typically only works for luxury goods, but yes. A good that inverts the effect of price on demand is called a Veblen Good.
But that strategy probably wouldn’t work for something like rice or shampoo or socks or drywall putty unless people start usong those as status symbols.
- Comment on Get scattered 1 week ago:
How do youbexplain me looking this psycho if there is no SATAN
- Comment on Capitalists hate competition, especially when it comes to wages 1 month ago:
One other thing to keep in mind is that it is perfectly legal in most jurisdictions requiring pay transparency in job postings to only give a part of the pay range. Say the range is 60,000 - 100,000, they could just say 60,000 - 80,000 or whatever they’re willing to hire people at.
I don’t think this is necessatily wrong practice, but it’s definitely potentially misleading.
- Comment on PSA: Do not approach the wildlife. 1 month ago:
At various parks, including in Wyoming, I have seen tourists:
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approach a bison (within 15 ft or so) while holding a toddler. Multiple other people approaching bison. Bison can weigh over a ton and can be aggressive.
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take a selfie with and then attempt to touch a male elk on its head. It actually charged them but didn’t commit and hurt them - just to scare them.
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dozens of people taking severe risks when hiking in remote areas. In the desert, 10 miles out when it’s 90f+ wearing sandals with no water and no cover. Rushing by other hikers on a <2ft wide ledge with a 300ft sheer drop while wearing sandals and carrying their young child in a bulky carrier on their back, etc.
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getting within 25ft or so of a male moose to get a picture, moose was visibly agitated. Moose weigh about a half ton and can be quite aggressive.
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large groups of people following black bear female with cubs, on foot, for pictures - like 50ft back but still too close for their safety and for the bear’s safety, especially when they’re following it.
Frighteningly many people have zero respect for nature, treat national parks like theme parks, and put themselves, animals, and their children at risk for no good reason in situations that are 100% avoidable.
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- Comment on Using AI to spot edible mushrooms could kill you | AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your health to apps that make frequent mistakes 3 months ago:
Mushroom ID requires a lot more than just immediately available visuals. You’ve gotta see what the cap looks like, the stem, how the stem connects to the cap, the specific characteristics of the gills, the substrate it’s growing in, and the spore print (i.e. leave it on a piece of white paper, covered, for a number of hours undisturbed so it drops its spores). And even then it can be tough if the mushroom is abnormal or is decaying at all.
With enough info, I’m sure you could train an ML model to ID mushrooms. But you’d need to give it a lot of info to make a successful ID.
- Comment on The later books are really something 3 months ago:
God Emperor has a lot of super cringey stuff in it. This is imo the worst. In addition to being cringey, it is maybe some of the worst writing I have ever seen.
Basically, Duncan Idaho is climbing this like 3km tall wall for reasons that I won’t get into while Nayla (who is one of Leto II’s weird mutant fanatical female bodyguards/soldiers who he orders to have sex with his enemies/allies for political reasons) gets progressively hornier, saying things like “[if Duncan climbs that wall] I think I’ll have an orgasm”. This goes on for a whole chapter. Like 30+ pages of this iirc. Then Duncan finishes climbing the wall and Hugo and Nebula award winning author Frank Herbert ends this weird horny fanfic of a chapter with “And then Nayla had her orgasm”. The whole thing is ridiculously gratuitous, serves almost no purpose, and drags on in a book that already seriously needed to be edited.
- Comment on thank you nurse meowsalot 3 months ago:
Yeah realistically it isn’t a big concern. Like you should try not to inject air into people’s veins, but the minimum amount that is about 20 cc, but it’s likely to take much more than that to be fatal, usually in excess of 150 cc.
- Comment on 3 Huge Tech Companies Endorse Bill That Could Wipe Abortion Info From the Internet. 4 months ago:
Thanks. Did you know your username is one of a tree’s nuts?