HobbitFoot
@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
Reddit refuge
- Comment on The Typical First-Time Homebuyer Is Now 40 Years Old, a Record High 4 days 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 week 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 week 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 week ago:
CB Radio was big in the 70’s.
- Comment on I hear he's homeless too. 1 week 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.
- Comment on Is it just me or the food shows like Man v Food or Everything on The Menu or hot dog eating contests annoy anyone else knowing the fact people are starving in the states and world wide? 1 week ago:
I don’t see the shows contributing to world hunger.
- Comment on Is it weird to simultaneously feel love and hatred towards parents? 1 week ago:
Yes.
- Comment on What will the next age of innovative art culture create? 1 week ago:
One thing I’ve seen as a new hotness in high art is that the themed experience is crossing the threshold from low art to high art. What would have been considered a theme park ride is now bring presented as an interactive experience worthy of being in a museum. Of course, you will have to exit through the gift shop.
- Comment on What will the next age of innovative art culture create? 1 week ago:
I think, as a general direction of art, we are in the middle of a synthesism of ideas instead of the deconstructionism of the early and mid 20th century.
I don’t know what we’re building, but we are building something.
- Comment on If you can’t afford a vacation, an AI app will sell you pictures of one 1 week ago:
Some people want the cultural value of being seen to go on vacations as the main reason to travel.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 week ago:
I’m aware that the Selective Service exists in case a draft is needed, but the US military has changed itself to make sure that a draft has a very low chance of occurring.
The USA fought two occupations at the same time and didn’t use a draft to fill personnel needs. A major reason why the USA didn’t was because it would make the occupations far more unpopular than they were. There were political decisions all the way up the chain of command to prevent a draft, even when Afghanistan was portrayed in the media as a defensive war.
Sure, no drafts in the future isn’t guaranteed, but it is a solution that the DOW will only pursue if there are no other options available.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 2 weeks ago:
The military also doesn’t want to go back to a draft army. Discipline and morale suck with a draft army and there is severe political blowback to casualties from drafted personnel.
A lot of reforms post Vietnam were made to make sure that the US military didn’t need to draft.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 2 weeks ago:
It isn’t just a failure in education or misunderstanding.
For the most part, “OK Boomer” gets used when someone is expressing something as fact which may have used to be true, but no longer is. Maybe the use of the term has shifted over time, but that was the crux of that use.
- Comment on How can a US state block porn? 2 weeks ago:
It isn’t a ban so much as being able to legally go after people who evade the ban.
If you are a reputable company in the right jurisdiction, you can be sued by the state for operating illegally. That is likely enough to get companies to block the state’s IP addresses.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know. I look at it as a lot of people on Lemmy complain about how “normal” people force them to act in a certain way and, just in the choice of using a depreciated letter of the alphabet, they are getting hated on for not acting in the conformist manner on Lemmy.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 weeks ago:
Eh. I remember a time on the Internet where L33T SP34k was a thing. I look at the thorn as something similar.
It is a stylistic choice that, even if it doesn’t poison AI inputs, is acceptable in Internet forums like Lemmy.
- Comment on #environmentalist 2 weeks ago:
It used to be ass burgers, but they redefined the ass spectrum.
- Comment on This man is suffering 2 weeks ago:
His wife has parental controls on the home computer.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but to be honest, Lemmy is small enough to notice individuals.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 weeks ago:
If everyone used the thorn at scale, it would be incorporated into the English language. However, if only a few people use it, I can see it poisoning their inputs.
- Comment on How do people get rid of or sell stolen jewelry? I ask cause the news says the the Louve thieves can never sell it because it so known? 2 weeks ago:
I ask cause the news says the the Louve thieves can never sell it because it so known?
Rich people buy expensive stolen artifacts all the time.
- Comment on Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’ve seen it from a few different videos, including one citing a 2005 Citibank report pointing out that this would become a major trend.
Wealth inequality is bad enough that I’ve even seen some marketing professionals mention it as a possible problem for some companies.
- Comment on Why don't police use rubber bullets instead of live rounds? I get if someone is holding a loaded weapon. But wouldn't a rubber bullet have the same effect with out putting holes in another person? 2 weeks ago:
A lot of cops have various forms of less than lethal force, but lethal force in the USA is generally allowed if the victim is considered an immediate danger to others. A rubber bullet isn’t necessarily going to get someone to immediately stop doing something.
- Comment on Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for? 2 weeks ago:
Good clothes used to be expensive and a signifier of wealth. Someone who could wear a suit likely had money and someone who had a fashionable suit likely had more money. Over the past generation, as clothing became cheaper and large parts of the richer segments have up on dressing well, the value of wearing a suit dropped.
Wearing a suit is still valuable in some circumstances, but nowhere near as much as before.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 2 weeks ago:
That’s pretty horrific.
- Comment on What's the deal with breakfast in bed? 3 weeks ago:
do people just wake up and start consuming food/drink without brushing their teeth & washing their face?
Yes. I also generally eat breakfast before showering or brushing my teeth.
what’s the appeal? I get liking someone else making your breakfast, but why is having it in bed fun?
It is an extremely lazy way to get breakfast. You don’t even have to move out of bed to eat.
- Comment on Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover' 3 weeks ago:
It seems like the commenter has been a thorn in your side.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 3 weeks ago:
Wikipedia has an imperfect process, but it is open to review and you can see how the sausage is made. It isn’t perfect, but the best we have.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 3 weeks ago:
Can she get me winning lottery numbers?
- Comment on Richest American to FAFO? 3 weeks ago:
We don’t fully understand JFK’s assassin, but it is likely not due to Vietnam as Vietnam wasn’t a major issue at the time of Kennedy’s death.
Lincoln’s assassination could be seen as a defense of slavery and other Southern “rights”.