ultranaut

@ultranaut@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[REPOST] Lawyer has to convince judge of no jurisdiction to return deported man but achieves the opposite⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks more like he was doing the best he could to behave ethically. He can’t lie to the judge so he didn’t. There’s not really anything else he could have done without violating his duty to the court.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure, it was very diverse but the amount and type of diversity changes depending on where in the city you are and when it is. I went to a market where just about everyone was I believe from North African or Arab backgrounds, white folks were a minority. I also spent some time in a bar where we were some of the only white people. Most places though white folks were the majority. I’m sure there’s racism but the only bigotry I definitely noticed among Parisians was against the Roma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, white American who is unable to speak French. Which reminds me, Parisians are a lot less white than in the movies. At least the places I went and the people I met.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Paris. I’ve always heard bad things about Parisians but they were cool. The only rude people I encountered were tourists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs – with the US hit hardest⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. Tariffs can accomplish legitimate policy goals but this approach of starting a massive trade war with every major trading partner simultaneously is not an effective strategy for accomplishing anything. Inflation is all but guaranteed to return now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If a person would be “in the right” it doesn’t matter how or why they are a person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My grandma passed away and my aunt sent me a selfie of her, my uncle, and my deceased grandma in the hospital bed, is it normal that I'm put off by this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Grief makes people do weird things and pictures can be misleading. That said, this is creepy as fuck and you should trust your gut if you ever feel unsafe around her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The trick is to stop as soon as you start to feel nausea. If you keep doing that your body starts to adapt to VR and eventually you won’t get nausea except in really extreme experiences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshittification⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the driving forces behind this phenomena is that business types value having that reoccurring revenue on the books more than “normal” revenue. If you have two companies with identical revenue but one of them gets it from customers locked in on a subscription, that company will be valued significantly higher. If you’re an exec or a big investor who owns a lot of stock in a company then you’re effectively incentivized to push the company towards that subscription based reoccurring revenue model because it will boost the stock price and make you richer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Up for it; down for it. Same thing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also be up for it until you’re over it, then you’re not down for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Up for it; down for it. Same thing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Colder. If you want it hotter that would be turn up the heat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe. US history is full of crazy fucked up shit that the nation has made its way through thus far. This kind of situation hasn’t really happened in the US before though, and historically these kinds of situations do not work out well. We are past the point of no return in that the status quo Washington Consensus or whatever you want to call the previous era is gone now, whatever is coming is something new and different and the US role and position in the world are never going back to what they were before. Really I would say this process started with Bush II but there is no reversing it now that Trump has won a convincing electoral victory. Whether we’re past the point of no return for the US constitutional order isn’t really clear yet but it’s not looking good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study confirms Egyptians drank hallucinogenic cocktails in ancient rituals⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The harmala should be, its Syrian Rue, which contains an MAOI and has been used in recent decades for creating ahistorical version of Ayahuasca by combining it with either a DMT containing plant or synthetic/extracted DMT. I think access to the actual plants used traditionally for Ayahuasca is more common so probably Syrian Rue has likely become less used for that now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who was our worst Prime Minister and why? Any notable state leaders we need to add?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As an American who occasionally follows Aussie politics, it is impressive how many ridiculously terrible PMs you guys have elected. My vote goes to ScuMo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are talking about federal income taxes, they are actually progressive. The vast majority of the money collected comes from the top 50%, the 1% pays something like 25% of the total just by themselves. Its why Republicans and billionaires bitch about it so much and want to eliminate the federal income tax. In reality poor people are mostly impacted by sales taxes, and that’s because of the basic economics involved that make sales taxes inherently regressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All these hurricanes might kick off a new modular house trend.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it keeps getting hotter and the storms keep getting worse, we will find out. At the very least, property prices anywhere still liveable will likely become even more unaffordable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All these hurricanes might kick off a new modular house trend.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People have been trying to make modular housing work for awhile, with limited success. For various reasons, it’s a lot more challenging than it seems like it should be. One of the problems is that the US doesn’t really have a single national regulatory regime for building codes, they are mostly local and regional. You can’t really design a house that works everywhere so the economics are a lot different than selling something like a car or a washing machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Growth of far-right ‘active clubs’ in UK prompts call to tackle misogyny⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Claremont Institute is likely part of it, or people and groups associated with Claremont.