HobbitFoot
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- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 3 days ago:
White college educated males were considered the default in a lot of early and mid 20th century experimental psychology due to the availability of test subjects and biases of people running the experiments. The definition of neurotypical behavior came from a subset of the population.
ADD and ADHD are known to hinder progression through the education system. So, the cohort of people on that part of the spectrum were underrepresented. The bounds for being normal were skewed.
Also, medical intervention is typically only looked at when the mental condition causes a reduction of quality of life. Over the past generation, the need for a formal collegiate education has become greater in developed countries due to shifts in economics. A kid which would be considered energetic and absent minded a few generations ago would have a far greater chance in being economically successful compared to now.
- Comment on Can other countries impose sanctions on the US? 4 days ago:
China has sanctions on several US companies.
- Comment on Is there anything of any interests for the tech bros in Greenland? 4 days ago:
Iceland would be better for data centers because it also has a steady supply of geothermal energy.
As for ramifications, I can see a lot of changes to American buildings as they have to survive more extreme weather events.
- Comment on Is there anything of any interests for the tech bros in Greenland? 4 days ago:
It is estimated that there are a lot of rare earth minerals there to create fancy electronics.
- Comment on We'll never know 5 days ago:
Spock is going to have to give back that valuable whale vomit.
- Comment on Who is going to be the next Pres of Venezula after all this US stuff? 1 week ago:
Unless the USA invades, I imagine the process won’t be fully controlled by the USA.
- Comment on Who is going to be the next Pres of Venezula after all this US stuff? 1 week ago:
Currently, the Venezuelan Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, is in Russia. She would likely be acting as President Anna isn’t at risk of being kidnapped by the USA. The question right now is whether the Venezuelan government can maintain its chain of command as the USA attacks it.
The USA is likely hoping for a coup where the current government falls. If that happens, the successor will likely be a choice of the Venezuelan military and internal security ministries.
- Comment on Why didn't Venezuela move its capital further away from the ocean to make the government more resilliant to capitulation? 1 week ago:
It was centrally located for the time, but it was still established with the idea it would have coastal access.
And it was a decent location that followed the European model of having the capital not on the coast but inland enough to defend. Caracas matches that location as well.
- Comment on Why didn't Venezuela move its capital further away from the ocean to make the government more resilliant to capitulation? 1 week ago:
Moving the capital is a major logistical hurdle in peace or war.
In war, it is usually a bad sign if a government has to abandon the capital. The only cases I can think of where a government had to abandon the capital but ended up winning the war was the United States in the War of 1812 and Mexico during the French installation of a Mexican king, both cases where the war ended in part because the war became too costly to the occupier and the occupied could trade massive amounts of land, someone Venezuela can’t really do.
In peace, there is a massive amount of infrastructure that needs to be built to support the administration of a government. Germany chose to keep several government agencies in Bonn during unification given the large number of government buildings available. South Korea’s attempt to move the capital to Sejong has been slow and has only moved some ministries. Indonesia and Egypt are having issues funding their relocation attempts. Venezuela, in contrast, is fucking broke.
- Comment on Is there a self-help way to deal with fear of germs/"contamination"? 1 week ago:
I would search online for ways to help with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. If you want to hear about personal accounts, Howie Mandel has been rather open about his struggles with OCD.
- Comment on who was the aggressor in cold war? 1 week ago:
The USA brought aid as well. The Marshall Plan provided significant aid to its allies.
- Comment on Where does the revenue gathered from taxes go and what is national debt? 1 week ago:
Until the government can’t pay it back.
- Comment on No contest 1 week ago:
The better debate would be between a Star Destroyer and the Enterprise. I feel like that comparison would be fairer.
If you’re going to compare the Millennium Falcon to anything, it would likely be a runabout or Delta Flyer.
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 1 week ago:
Some AI companies are doing this because the cost of relying on the open market is too high to build in certain areas and the standard of electricity required by the data center may be something that the grid can’t supply.
There are also some countries, like Saudi Arabia, trying to lure data centers into their countries by offering cheap land, permitting, and cheap electricity.
- Comment on Welcome to the thunderdome? 1 week ago:
You also have the benefit of a language like English able to steal words from all languages in that English has a flexible ruleset to communicate. Your don’t have to communicate perfectly in English to communicate in English.
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 2 weeks ago:
I change my towels once a week. I have a special hand towel to dry my nether regions.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 weeks ago:
Outside of the USA? You can still start around the 70’s as a time when medical costs started increasing as the greatest generation started to retire, taking away talent from the workforce and starting to use all those retirement benefits they were entitled to. You also had an increase in quality of medicine, which usually came at a cost.
Funding these higher costs would require new taxes, which was becoming politically unpopular across First World democracies.
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 2 weeks ago:
Which is why a lot of people who buy ads build in their own tracking methods to test the efficacy of their campaigns.
I knew one person who had a small skin care line who knew the cost to obtain customers from the various forms of ads including individual influencers based on links and referral codes.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 weeks ago:
It was just a gas leak.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 weeks ago:
The show also hits viewers over the head that there are morals that the crew won’t cross, like stealing medicine from that town. It is also in the opening song that, because of the war and his service, Mal can’t exactly settle down and be a good law abiding citizen, so he takes jobs of dubious legality since they pay better.
Mal is the same kind of bad that Han Solo was painted as in Star Wars. He’s not a nice guy, but more neutral than evil and will perform good acts at times.
The show also played up the Alliance as being more absolutely evil because it had to in order to justify Mal.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 weeks ago:
Stargate needed to develop a way to allow Earth to know about the galaxy. It might have even been an interesting way to spin off the show.
There is no way that the US government could hide the SG teams’ budget over years and that the US military wouldn’t have deployed off world technology during GWAT. Fuck, imagine the US Military deploying Zat guns to Iraq.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 weeks ago:
As much as I enjoyed Firefly, the universe created was going to get very complicated and bad if it had been let to develop for the next few years.
They are going to have to explain a lot to justify that Confederate veterans deserved to be the heroes and I don’t think that Joss Whedon was up to that task.
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 2 weeks ago:
Save it, preferably in something interest bearing. Pretend you never got that money.
Having $75 when you really need it is worth a lot more than spending $75 just because you have it.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
At least one person is going to have their Reddit archives preserved.
- Comment on Why do US airports have a lot more jet bridges than EU airports? 2 weeks ago:
It is used a lot in Philadelphia to connect to small regional airports. American Airlines gets credit for serving the smaller airports without needing to dedicate planes and pilots to the route.
- Comment on Why do US airports have a lot more jet bridges than EU airports? 2 weeks ago:
Buses between terminals is a lot more common and I’ve even seen buses acting as airplanes in the USA.
I can see some US airports using bussing, but it feels like the practice is far more commonplace in the EU than the US. It is also odd given than EU airports appear to be newer on average to US airports.
- Comment on Why do US airports have a lot more jet bridges than EU airports? 2 weeks ago:
Most American airports are space constrained, including many of the oldest ones in the country. The old airports in the US generally use jet bridges even when they are constrained by space.
- Comment on Why do US airports have a lot more jet bridges than EU airports? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but I’ve taken the bus to the airplane at major airports in the EU including Frankfurt. In contrast, the airports in the US that I’ve had to board on stairs are much smaller.
- Comment on Why do US airports have a lot more jet bridges than EU airports? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve taken jet bridges to board Embraer 175’s in the USA. In contrast, I’ve gone up stairs for an Airbus A321 in Europe.
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