Rivalarrival
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- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 4 days ago:
lemmy tells me to go fuck myself.
Well, get on with it.
- Comment on G GG 6 days ago:
lol, I typo’d the date I read… It’s got the BIOS date listed as 2012-09-11.
ThoughtPads can’t melt steel beams.
- Comment on G GG 6 days ago:
2011? That thing became a ThoughtPad years ago.
- Comment on Even if you develop the worst type of dementia imaginable, please find a way to always remember the events of 11/13/25. 1 week ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/International_Fixed_Calendar
The International Fixed Calendar (also known as the Cotsworth plan, the Cotsworth calendar, the Eastman plan or the Yearal)[1] was a proposed reform of the Gregorian calendar designed by Moses B. Cotsworth, first presented in 1902.[2] The International Fixed Calendar divides the year into 13 months of 28 days each.
Kodak actually used it from 1928 to 1989.
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 1 week ago:
Securities tax, payable in shares of the security. 1% of all stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments transferred to the IRS annually, to be auctioned slowly over time. The first $10 million held by a natural person may be exempted from this requirement. No exemptions for artificial “persons”.
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 1 week ago:
Sadly, he is. This is what the enemy looks like. It is simply not possible to ethically acquire even a tenth of the wealth that he hoards for himself. The damage he has caused in acquiring and retaining that wealth is far greater than his net worth.
The sooner he starts his redemption arc, the better.
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 1 week ago:
Gabe and Swift are not obligate billionaires. They both have the capacity to adjust their wealth to avoid the cutoff.
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 1 week ago:
Registration fees are paying for roads,
Fuel taxes are paying for roads.
- Comment on The Confederacy (or whatever) 1 week ago:
Based on that neck, I’d say his masturbatory habits are predominantly oral.
- Comment on When Xfinity has an outage, I don’t pay for those days. The government’s been shut down for 39 days so can I pay 39 days less in taxes? 2 weeks ago:
That violates the very first Rule of Acquisition. You clearly don’t have the lobes for business.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 2 weeks ago:
We’ll have matrix-style human farms producing people for the tracks.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 2 weeks ago:
One of the first deals I did in real estate (~2006) was a sale at 115% loan-to-value, no money down, seller-paid closing costs. The buyers received $2500 at closing. Nobody batted an eye.
- Comment on xkcd #3161: Airspeed 3 weeks ago:
Balloons don’t carry such instruments, but they do experience airspeed. Balloons can climb and descend at over 500fpm. We experience vertical “wind” at those speeds.
Balloons are tall enough that the envelope can be above a wind shear, while the basket can be below. I’ve experienced 15kt shears, enough to deform the bottom of the envelope into a “question mark”.
- Comment on xkcd #3161: Airspeed 3 weeks ago:
Randall isn’t a hot air balloon pilot.
Most balloons are about 100’ tall. The difference in wind speed between the surface and 200’ AGL can be 15kts. It is not at all unusual to descend through a shear such that the envelope is in 20kt winds, while the basket is in 5kt winds. It’s rather scary, actually, because our aerostatic aircraft start experiencing aerodynamic effects: “False Lift”. These forces only exist while the balloon is crossing the shear. Once it passes through the shear, all that lift disappears, and the balloon starts sinking like a rock.
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 4 weeks ago:
Guillotine museum.
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 4 weeks ago:
Once upon a time, we understood that “putting something online” meant releasing it to the public in perpetuity. Any claim otherwise was gaslighting.
Facebook, et al, have somehow managed to convince people that privacy is something you can get back after they’ve coerced you to give it up.
- Comment on Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants an AI agent in every board meeting 5 weeks ago:
Not with that attitude.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.
“I’m not stalking you. You’re to ugly for anyone to stalk. Quit stalking me!”
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah? Well, so’s your face!
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 1 month ago:
The entire concept of “rent” needs to die in a goddamn fire. There are much better arrangements to fill the niche you are talking about. What is lacking is a regulatory environment making those arrangements preferable to rent.
“Rent” is typically a year-to-year arrangement. Every year, the deal is renegotiated and the tenant ends up paying more.
A “Land Contract” is (initially) similar to rent, but it is negotiated only once, and the monthly fee is fixed for the life of the agreement, like a mortgage.
For the first three years of the agreement, you pay your monthly fee, and you live in the home. You are free to walk away at any time.
If you stay longer than three years, the entire agreement automatically converts to a private mortgage, with your first three years of payments considered the down payment. You continue to make the same payment, but now you are earning equity.
All that is well and good, but landlords won’t offer land contracts, because land contracts favor the tenant/buyer.
Not to worry. We’re going to restructure property taxes. We’re going to have landlords begging tenants to switch to land contracts. The way we do it is by offering an owner-occupant exemption to property taxes. This is called a “homestead exemption” in some states. Basically, if you occupy a home, you pay a tiny fraction of the property taxes that you would owe if you didn’t occupy that home. Or, more accurately, if you are an investor, your property tax rate is going to the moon.
Land Contract tenants/buyers are considered “owners”. The property you are living in is owned by the occupants, and financed by the landlord/seller. The property taxes are at the owner-occupant rate, not the investor rate. Property taxes on “rentals” melt all the profits the landlord could be earning, so they are incentivized to switch to land contracts.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Long ago, yes, but not by 1989.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Agreed. Seems we’re losing the distinction between “one-to-many” (broadcast) and “one-to-one” (streaming) transmission models.
- Comment on kya 1 month ago:
Self defense is predicated on the “reasonable person” standard. Anyone finding themselves (or another) imperiled by what they reasonably believe to be a machine gun is justified in doing anything they reasonably believe necessary to end the threat.
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 1 month ago:
So 20 miles per hour across 24 hours gets us a distance of 480 miles.
Going from Europe to the Americas by way of Scotland and Iceland is going to be a bit of a problem for that bird, as it can expect pretty consistent 10-20kt headwinds for the entire journey. America to Europe by that route is a comparatively easy trip.
I doubt that owls are capable of effective dynamic soaring, but that would drastically reduce the energy requirements.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 1 month ago:
They don’t need the cooperation of telecom providers. They receive the same signal you send to the cell tower. Even if the signal is encrypted so they can’t see what you are sending, they can identify that you are sending.
With enough receivers listening, they can identify your location to a pretty high accuracy.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 1 month ago:
Privacy policies are irrelevant here. They are picking up unique data as your phone communicates with a cell tower. You can do it with a $15 RTL-SDR receiver.
Get a hundred receivers and you can pinpoint anybody in a city.
- Comment on Finally I understand it 1 month ago:
Go back like generations, and see how many times people had to have fucked just to make you. 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16…
- Comment on Necessary post procedure care for vasectomy 1 month ago:
30, you say? Ok doc. See you Wednesday.
- Comment on Acetaminophen-American 1 month ago:
That might be the worst salute I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Say it slowly. 1 month ago:
Some context might provide the distinction.
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Adam: "Jane told me that he licked her asshole."
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- Jane: “I never said he licked my asshole.” <-- He never licked my asshole, and I never claimed that he did. Adam is lying about both parts.
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- Jane: “I never said he licked my asshole.” <-- He licked my asshole, but I never told anyone that he did. Adam learned about the asshole-licking from someone other than me.
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