Rivalarrival
@Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
- Comment on There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters? 6 days ago:
Interesting. A first-person shooter is the view from the perspective of the shooter. A third person shooter is the view from a neutral party - a camera watching the action.
A second-person shooter would be from the viewpoint of those being shot by the protagonist.
A telepathic assassin. You read the mind(s) of your target(s), and somehow use their eyes to kill them.
- Comment on GIVE UNTO CAESEAR 6 days ago:
Corn cares not
fromwhence the shit postsFTFY. “Whence” means “from what origin”.
- Comment on My Religion 1 week ago:
I would call that “fraud”. In declaring themselves “gynecologists”, they are effectively advertising that they are qualified and willing to perform routine gynecological procedures. Their refusal to do so constitutes a fraud on patients seeking such services.
“Neonatology”, “Histology”, “Reproductive physiology” and “Reproductive biology” are comparable specialty fields wherein the practitioner would not be expected to perform elective abortions.
Additionally, if they would prefer to call themselves “general practitioners”, I would be far more lenient in allowing them to define their own scope of practice.
- Comment on My Religion 1 week ago:
FairOkFTFY.
- Comment on My Religion 1 week ago:
I’m a gynecologist. My religion says I can’t do an abortion.
I would say that if “you” won’t perform an abortion, “you” are not actually a gynecologist. Go study and practice urology, or proctology, or gastroenterology, or oncology, or neurology, or cardiology, or dermatology, or any other field where “you” will not be called upon to perform a simple, routine procedure.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 2 weeks ago:
My old PC locks up every 4 to 48 hours. It would make a terrible NAS.
- Comment on If eating a banana is ~0.1μSv, then what is holding a banana for an hour? 2 weeks ago:
That sure musta been something. I can only imagine.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 3 weeks ago:
lemmy tells me to go fuck myself.
Well, get on with it.
- Comment on G GG 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Registration fees are paying for roads,
Fuel taxes are paying for roads.
- Comment on The Confederacy (or whatever) 4 weeks 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? 5 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... 5 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 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Guillotine museum.
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Not with that attitude.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Yeah? Well, so’s your face!
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 2 months 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] 2 months ago:
Long ago, yes, but not by 1989.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Agreed. Seems we’re losing the distinction between “one-to-many” (broadcast) and “one-to-one” (streaming) transmission models.
- Comment on kya 2 months 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.