HobbitFoot

@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A good chunk of early undergraduate education was designed as a filter for students. Can students, in a system that doesn’t care if they fail, make it through the system? A lot of the rest of it was leadership training with some technical classes bolted on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do pot or other drug dealers "lace" their drugs knowing full well it will pretty much kill their customer base and rep? Is this not like a retail store telling customers everyday FUCK YOU and hope⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pot is rarely laced.

  Harder drugs typically have some form of dilution because it is worth it to stretch supply.

  The only recent lacing I can think of is fentanyl, which was generally used in pre-existing opioids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t just one country doing it, it is just the one most reported on in English language news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding to what everyone else said, stores commonly sell loss leaders as a way to get people into the store to sell goods with higher margins. Part of the reason why there are so many food deserts in the USA is because stores like Dollar General will sell higher margin stable goods at a lower cost. This means grocery stores who rely on those profits to sell fresh produce and meat can’t compete, going out of business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question, Star Trek fans: What makes Captain Kirk a good leader?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Show era, he’s shown to be a competent captain able to make decent strategic decisions. For instance, in the episode with the cloaking Romulan Bird of Prey, Kirk creates a battle plan which is able to take advantage of deficiencies in his foe’s ship. He’s also seen caring about making sure the crew goes into battle prepared, constantly drilling the crew so they are more responsive when time matters. Kirk is also shown as able to make hard personnel decisions which end up being right in the end. Kirk takes risks and is somewhat aggressive in playing a weak hand, but that is why he was put in command. SNW even has an episode showing that Kirk’s command is better suited to certain situations over Pike.

  Movie era, Kirk isn’t as good of a captain. His crew bungle safety so bad it kills his science officer. Kirk’s rash decisions get people killed when dealing with Khan. His crew shows wild incompetence which kills a Klingon Chancellor.

  It is interesting how different the character is between the shows and the movies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does importing goods from abroad alone really void sales tax?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So there are two different kinds of sales taxes, the value added tax and a retail sales tax.

  You’re generally never getting out of paying a value added tax since it is incorporated as part of people and corporations doing business. Dove countries allow for refunds up to a certain amount for tourists, but it is baked into the price.

  A retail sales tax is a lot more complicated in enforcement. Selling to a business can mean you don’t have to pay the sales tax. There are also smaller groups that don’t get the attention of local tax officials when selling goods, so they don’t charge the retail sales tax. Most large websites will typically charge the buyer’s local sales tax, but it isn’t uniform for smaller vendors.

  Importing to the USA has also gotten more complicated as a lot of the minimums on import duties are gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when people on here tell me to diversify my posts:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I need to join a union…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the weirdest argument you've gotten into with someone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone stated in a Reddit post that being a hero requires that person to take an action that requires self sacrifice. I replied that, if this was the case, the people who fought back on Flight 93 weren’t heroes because they were talking a selfish action in fighting back.

  There were a lot of knee jerk reasons to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens to flies when you let them fly out the window of a car at 75 mph?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A fly has a low terminal velocity, below 20 mph. This is good for a fly if it is dropped from a skyscraper. However, that isn’t happening here.

  In the air, the fly is going to rapidly slow down as it leaves the turbulent wake of the car. While I expect the insect to live, it will likely be stunned as the air hits it. That also assumes there are no other cars on the road for the fly to hit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a revolution started tomorrow in the US to get rid of Trump, could the majority of society use hit and run tactics successfully? Or what would be the tactics the rebels would use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends who is fighting back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People jump subway turnstiles all the time and pay money to smart accountants to choose a low tax strategy.

  The desire to not pay your share is pretty common in humanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much of it is society is collapsing versus the daily on going of the ruling class was so obscure that they were easier to ignore?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve been heading towards a time that a lot of leaders knew would require change and reform but didn’t. This has made the required reform to be more drastic, creating greater resistance.

  It seems to be so bad that a lot of elites are just betting on collapse without understanding what they’ll lose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a Chinese American, if I wanna travel internationally, is it better to just say I'm American, or pretend to be a Chinese National (to hide from Anti-American sentinments)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I can see that criticism.

  Part of the problem is that a lot of Americans aren’t used to being in cities, which becomes an issue when they have to move around an urban environment. A lot of the same issues of not knowing for to be in a city appear in tourists visiting NYC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Until Reddit sends your account information to your neighbors, it is functionally anonymous to a lot of people, which is what I was getting at in the comparison to Facebook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It does; it’s called Facebook.

  The issue with Reddit over Facebook and smaller forums is that Reddit allows for anonymity while still providing access to a variety of various communities at mostly the discretion of the user. This is very hard to moderate, so Reddit found out a way to get free labor from users. Even then, Reddit has had issues with communities giving it negative press that has caused intervention several times.

  And, I don’t think people here appreciate this, but the is over a decade’s worth of work in spam prevention and other tools developed to keep Reddit from being worse. Hell, the fight about API access was because mods were losing some of the tools they had.

  So why isn’t anyone trying to copy Reddit like Twitter? No one wants to be responsible for the mess in moderation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could an open source project go back and remove and replace all the work of one contributor?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of it not said in any of the other answers is that schools are managed at a very local level and get a significant amount of their funding through local taxes. So, you get a lot of towns that don’t have the local tax base to raise revenue or you have a local tax base where the wealthy few would rather pay for private school than the taxes to pay for a better public school.

  The problem with organized labor in this case is that the organized labor is generally fighting the government and a lot of states don’t want an effective union network getting built or spreading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the fuck is going on with Iran and what will happen next?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As for “what will happen next”, the USA seems to want a cease fire and Iran is tired of getting bombed randomly, so Iran is going to close the Strait of Hormuz until it can get a better deal that means something. Israel and the USA don’t seem to want to make that kind of deal.

  So Iran is going to start a recession by restricting oil supply for the rest of the world to get the rest of the world to intervene or to get that agreement from the USA and Israel.

  This will likely last until November, when the midterm election is supposed to happen. Trump wasn’t popular already. A recession caused by military action is going to get a lot of people pissed. That recession will likely pop the AI bubble, both due to a loss of market liquidity and increased energy prices fueling AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Datacenters are becoming a target in warfare for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see why not. Israel attacked oil infrastructure, showing this was as much an economic war as anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glorious cracked out wall kitten returns with more wisdom for the masses.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This policy is coming in a lot of industries. The idea is that if you need to evacuate or get someone to the hospital, it is faster and less prone to causing an accident.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people like my grandpa so against seeing the whole world and learning a different language?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  he says “Why can’t you just stay here?” or “Why can’t you visit this country first?”

  Just straight up ask him why. He may not have an answer he wants to vocalize, but it puts him in a position where he may have to try internally.

  A lot of fear of immigrants comes from the fear of the unknown, which likely corresponds with his fear of you traveling to foreign countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Positive affirmations from your favorite captains⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  War crimes are not a burden. After all, he can live with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who grew up with Vietnam and the Cold War, is Iran going to be the new vietnam or just a semi cool war?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically, the US has the stomach for the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.

  The problem right now is that the current policy goals for the war don’t match the current use of force occurring. I don’t see Iran capitulating without an invasion and Trump is likely going to need some sort of Congressional authorization or funding to continue the war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why aren’t the old Apollo designs being reused for a moon landing? (by either the Americans or the Chinese)

  If you want to address this question, show him some videos about Boeing and Airbus and how they can’t bring back airplane models they stopped production on because of massive supply chain issues. See if your friend is willing to accept that they can’t bring back the 747, for instance.

  If this is a problem for aircraft, it is likely also a problem for spacecraft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek has more to offer or it has to end and stop producing more content?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The closest that I get to watching pure Star Trek content is some videos of Lore Reloaded.

  Even then, his content isn’t so much about the current Star Trek but more going into politics and military theory of the Federation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of specifically Americans identifying with other cultures if people born there will just make fun of them for it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Regarding those from “The Old World” this phenomenon isn’t unique to the USA. Most other countries in the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa exhibit tying ancestry to not being of the land since time immemorial. It just happens to be that Americans tend to produce the most cultural discussion about it in volume, especially in the English language.

  The big thing is recognizing that the culture of the land doesn’t match the culture of your “people”. It can be tough to reconcile that, especially if someone is from a mix of different origins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we about to see the WW3?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re already at a two front war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Papa Johns is closing 300 locations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Likely. A lot of consumer facing companies have issued warnings that working and middle class spending is cratering because people don’t have money to spend. I won’t be surprised if a lot of fast food restaurants go under or at least shrink considerably due to a collapse in market demand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know one engineer who bought the Meta glasses due to the form factor. For others with the Go Pro, they usually mount the cameras on their hard hat, which makes it easy to see since black hard hats are rare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised there haven’t been more shootings of the wealthy since Luigi given the positive response to him shooting a health care millionaire.