papertowels
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- Comment on Child care costs more than a mortgage payment or rent almost everywhere in the U.S.: ‘There is no escaping it’ 3 hours ago:
there’s a great planet money podcast that covers this
It turns out childcare is just a very labor intensive sector due to the amount of adults needed to watch the kids. This means that most of the costs for daycare are already labor:
In fast food, labor is 25% of the total costs. Estimates for day care - it’s, like, more than 70% of total costs.
Given that labor is already a disproportionate amount of the costs, raising salaries a little has a large effect on the increased cost that parents would have to pay.
- Comment on Draw your own conculsions 1 week ago:
Eh, monkey see word male, monkey think female appropriate word to use when discussing things.
Monkey brain is not the smart brain, but I understand where it’s coming from.
- Comment on Draw your own conculsions 1 week ago:
In the context of this discussion, the chart title is “young male virginity on the rise”, so it doesn’t seem too far off the mark.
- Comment on You can't see him!!!! 1 week ago:
I believe that’s the point here…
- Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it says something that China limits access to kids
In 2019, Douyin limited users in teenager mode to 40 minutes per day, accessible only between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. Then, in 2021, it made the use of teenager mode mandatory for users under 14.
Seems like a bit of a digital smallpox blanket.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 2 weeks ago:
No worries they bumped up everyone that had a grandfathered in price after a year or two
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 2 weeks ago:
Idk about your system, but mine is currently facing a massive budget cut
- Comment on China abducted its own citizens on EU territory, report finds 4 weeks ago:
Shit slinging against what? The government or the people?
- Comment on China abducted its own citizens on EU territory, report finds 4 weeks ago:
Disparaging the government is not discrimination against the people
- Comment on Most useless superhero accessory 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Most useless superhero accessory 4 weeks ago:
It’s taking the elevator in a two story building.
- Comment on ‘There wasn’t enough about the horror’: Hiroshima survivors react to Oppenheimer 1 month ago:
I think it’s much harder to justify systemic rape across months as being the “lesser” evil, but maybe that’s just me…
Your pleas to only target military and government targets would fall on much more sympathetic ears if the same country did not do this less than a decade ago.
Again. This seems so much crueler than getting nuked. The decision to take civilian lives are being repeatedly made, over and over, in the sickest way possible for the enjoyment of the soldiers.
- Comment on ‘There wasn’t enough about the horror’: Hiroshima survivors react to Oppenheimer 1 month ago:
Do you hold the Japanese military to the same standards w.r.t. their war crimes in East Asia?
- Comment on ‘There wasn’t enough about the horror’: Hiroshima survivors react to Oppenheimer 1 month ago:
Curious, what do they teach you about Japanese involvement in WW2 in your (presumably Japan’s) education system?
- Comment on I wanna be middle center, but I know I am top left 2 months ago:
Initially agree with you, but I think sokkas placement was in direct contrast to katara. Mai doesn’t really mind her life IIRC.
- Comment on Fully working 270€ Nest Dropcam will no longer be supported. 2 months ago:
Used my credit to buy my mom a new phone.
Google did a solid in this case.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years 2 months ago:
This is why I’ve been holding off on getting one myself. I know murena sells the phone in the US, but last I checked they didn’t sell parts, so there’s no point in a repairable phone if I can’t get parts.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years 2 months ago:
Yeah, but given that this is the fair phone 5, they at least get partial credit in my book
- Comment on Why is living with your parents considered a bad thing? 2 months ago:
Multigenerational living is also a big thing in Asia.
- Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 2 months ago:
cries in flat roof and slab foundation
- Comment on New home server: what hypervisor/OS? 2 months ago:
Bruh my reading comprehension…
- Comment on New home server: what hypervisor/OS? 2 months ago:
Not sure if it’s obvious from this comment, but also worth pointing out to folks learning about unraid that it still has parity drives that let you recover from disk failures - it’s not just JBOD.
- Comment on Trump 'encourages' Russia to attack NATO states not paying 'bills' 2 months ago:
- Comment on MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis 2 months ago:
Yup - as someone else pointed out I wasn’t clear in what I said. If you buy a new mobo to upgrade your laptop, you wind up with an older mobo that sits there. You can then actually use the old mobo as a desktop computer as long as it has ram and an SSD.
- Comment on MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis 3 months ago:
If you upgrade the motherboard, you can actually 3d print or buy a $60 case and use it as a desktop.
- Comment on TikTok sounds go silent as songs disappear from app 3 months ago:
Yeah, I hate tik Tok but it was a slam dunk of people clipping and sharing the catchiest part of songs. I’d think it’s easy money for the label.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg indicates Meta is spending billions of dollars on Nvidia AI chips 3 months ago:
I’ve heard mistral released some good models
- Comment on We Distribute launches Decentered, a Fediverse podcast 3 months ago:
Yes, I don’t think “we distribute” is a household name (yet!), so it reads poorly.
- Comment on What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader 4 months ago:
I feel that. I desperately want to support open source hardware, but don’t have the chops to do it from scratch.
Framework laptops been close to that dream though.
- Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs 4 months ago:
Shout-out to Pathfinder, paizo, and their new license!
[> "The whole point of the ORC is to give the gaming community comfort, confidence, and certainty,” the licence states. “It gives our community a license that is not reliant on any one company.”