HobbitFoot

@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The New Year - Death Cab For Cutie

  A lot of modern holiday songs focus on Christmas since it is the biggest for songs being played for a large part of the western world. Christmas is a juggernaut that crushes other puny holidays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is it such a common ingredient?

  Because it became standard as part of mirepoix, the French base of mixed vegetables for various dishes. As French cooking became highly regarded, it became a standard in a lot of different cuisines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Browser and Wario are Mario's mortal ennemies, why did he invited them for a kart race?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My head cannon is that these are actually intentional events. It isn’t just that they are go karting, they are participating in an organized league.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do pro athelets get paid millions upon millions of dollars but will be taken off field for something minor? My coach always said walk it off or tough it out. How come its not the same in leagues?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on the sport. There are sports where people absolutely play through injuries. Hell, the NFL only recently implemented a concussion protocol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨at what point in life it's too late to go back to school?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on what you want to do when you go back to school.

  If you’re switching careers, I’d put the early 40’s as a limit unless the career has age limitations.

  If you just want the degree, there isn’t really a limit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xmas at the mega church⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you learn about what went on during the Great Awakening, you can see that there was a lot of competition between different churches and no government regulation. For the entrepreneuial pastor, they could slightly change the gospel and church services to target a congregation of their choosing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: a parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A community college is usually the cheapest option and doesn’t have student dorms in campus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is fossil fuel still used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it is somewhat competitive economically in certain use cases and a ton of existing infrastructure was already built to use various fossil fuels.

  The switch to non-fossil fuels was going to take at least a generation in most developed countries since you need to build out electricity generation and storage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is gold investing a scam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is an ok hedge on inflation, but it is pushed a lot by scam adjacent businesses to push up consumption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hershey highway⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m reminded of a nice little song.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shout out to my engineering homies.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I design targets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an optimal home/apartment size that most people would be happy with?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How much shit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100 years: The EU has made English the default language across most of the union. Small nations went first as inter Union migration obliterated the ability for these countries to teach their local languages fast enough. Far right groups tried to preserve their languages, but they’ve largely been demoted to secondary status in their own communities to English, like Irish Gaelic. The last internal holdout is French, Spanish, and Portuguese as there is enough external demand of the language. French language law mirrors Quebec law, Spain and Portugal aren’t harsh about it.

  I don’t see that much shift in the Americas except the possible loss of French. Mexico may become more English speaking as more Americans move to Mexico for lower cost of living, especially with retired populations that won’t learn Spanish. Spanish in the Americas may standardize as cross-border media becomes bigger.

  I expect Africa to be in a three way struggle between English, French, and Arabic as the lingua franca.

  I expect languages to standardize in Asia, but I expect that India and Pakistan will choose non-English languages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are tons of technology historically that were implemented with gigantic fundamental flaws which were properly identified and later solved or mitigated. These flaws were openly published and there was a discourse in society about them.

  So, unless you can use that knowledge to immediately brick all use of that technology, that flaw is likely less severe than you think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is lemmy dying?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Lemmy’s former growth came from external events which brought users to Lemmy. Without more of these shocks, I don’t see Lemmy growing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a few skyscraper server farms, but they are usually in major metropolitan areas like Manhattan. But, as you touched on, it is usually cheaper to build out instead of up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Jesus didn’t have a problem with raising funds for the church, he had an issue with the church being used as a forum for private financial business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot of large PAC’s that effectively do this, pulling together a sizeable voting block and donation base. AARP, an organization for retired people, is one of the larger ones. It just happens that it is hard to a large group of people to agree on policy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you feel like your profile is an identity of you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a reflection of my identity, but not something which fully defines it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you respond to unwanted advice?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would need to evaluate it based on its merits. I’m in an industry where people are supposed to speak up if they see work being performed incorrectly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Native Americans?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think there is some big extermination plan for America and Australia.

  There wasn’t, but that doesn’t mean that an extermination policy didn’t exist.

  The original American colonies were generally kept in a state of benign neglect with management of the colonies generally being a local affair. This generally meant that the colonists were the ones to make decisions on how to interact with the native population. Generally, this meant war between the natives and colonizers as a way to free up land for the next wave of colonizers to immigrate.

  After a while, the British government tried to enact greater control over its colonies, including the Proclamation Line of 1763 which banned colonization beyond the Appalachian Mountains. This ban was routinely ignored be American colonists and was a reason cited for American independence.

  As for why extermination over domination, there are two main reasons. For the northern colonies, the land did well in acting as a sink for European overpopulation. A lot of economic and political migration started at the time of American colonization and it was considered easier to move than try to create more liberal conditions at home. For the southern colonies, it was generally not seen as worth it to enslave the local population over importing slaves from Africa. It was easier to keep people in bondage in an unfamiliar land than it was to enslave the local populace.

  By the time that the UK was starting to consider colonizing Australia, there were some laws on the books to protect indigenous populations. However, to expedite colonization, the colonizing government in Australia had the local aboriginals declared as non-civilized, which left the continent as terra nullus, or unclaimed territory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Native Americans?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is important to note that Spanish colonization and English colonization had very different strategies. Spanish colonization tended to replace the existing power structures with their own, which typically preserved the native population even if they were demoted to being second class citizens. In contrast, English colonization was a more a form of genocide combined with a settler colonization of free and enslaved persons. There are few tribes east of the Mississippi that are federally recognized and many tribes were forcibly relocated by English and later American government forces.

  And I don’t know how it was in South America, but North America saw a collapse of civilization near first contact which shaped English colonization. There were several Native American civilizations with complex urban forms which collapsed by the time there was contact with English/American settlers. A few remained like the Iroquois and Cherokee, but there was seen to be an overall regression which settlers took as a sign from God that they should settle those lands instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Native Americans?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Native American is seen as different from first people equivalent from Mexico who moved to the USA. Also, the native peoples in the USA on formerly Mexican territory generally have some of the strongest native rights out of the various tribes in the USA along with some of the best sourced hereditary records.

  And there is a recognition of movement across the border. Guadalupe, Arizona was founded because a people from a Yaqui tribe from the Sonoran state in Mexico fled the Diaz led Mexican government to Arizona.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US we have Breast Cancer Awarnes month and a bunch of others. All we do is throw money at a problem and hope it goes away How come the Gov don't take care of people from starving?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people want to talk about the rich, but it is also important to talk about the rest of the people voting for it.

  There is a deep cultural mindset in a lot of conservative parts of the country where you’re only really supposed to take care of your own people. In countries with established ethnic groups, it is easy for the state to assume that the default person is within the dominant ethnic group’s kith, or very extended family. That assumption isn’t the case in the USA.

  So, there may be an expectation that you support your kith or extended family, but it doesn’t map to a state because there are several ethnic groups, especially when you take into account that the acceptance of white as one group only came about recently. Therefore, the competing kiths don’t want an equalizimg economic playing field that a welfare state can provide. So, those systems don’t get built.

  Also, somewhat tied into it, there is a lot of shame if a person has to go out of their kith for aid, like welfare or Medicaid. So, people will act as if they are not on those programs because of the shame. Worse, government agencies will make sure that using government welfare is known. For instance, a lot of school districts will have different ways of processing students on subsidized lunch programs over those that pay full price and parents won’t sign up for the subsidized system because of the shame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How hard would it be to trap gated communities by crashing dozens of cars into the front of their gates blocking them from leaving ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first crash is going to get the cops called, so I doubt you are going to be able to crash dozens of cars unless you’re doing it all at once.

  Better to get your CDL and park a tractor-trailer and kill the air brakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Typical First-Time Homebuyer Is Now 40 Years Old, a Record High⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A few people are, but the market has dropped like a rock over the past year. Several housing markets are seeing massive drops as post-COVID demand dried up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come NK doesn't just come out and say we are in trouble and need help? Like their lack of food and stuff? I really don't see a downside for a country admit they were wrong and need help⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a large amount of state propaganda using the conflict as justification for the state’s existence. I would imagine whether people believe to be true or not to be on a spectrum line other countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come NK doesn't just come out and say we are in trouble and need help? Like their lack of food and stuff? I really don't see a downside for a country admit they were wrong and need help⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, but the DPRK government is on its third generation hereditary leader with a senior leadership consisting of children of previous senior leadership. It is functionally an absolute monarchy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  CB Radio was big in the 70’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hear he's homeless too. ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue with kicking someone out of the royal house completely is that they are highly incentivized to trade their fame for money. This can include sponsorships and tell all books.

  By providing some economic support, it keeps a leash on Andrew formerly known as Prince.