AFaithfulNihilist
@AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world
- Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote 1 week ago:
I’m curious where you are that a business line doesn’t cost more than a residential one because in my area it’s three times as much. I am fortunate enough that I get symmetrical gigabit for $90 a month and although they don’t promise static IP my IP has not changed in a while.
If I wanted to get a real static IP I would have to upgrade to a business line It would cost $280 a month.
- Comment on don't tell iceland 3 weeks ago:
Have you ever met the kind of people that keep rats as pets? I’m gonna guess that at least 1% of them have tasted rat milk.
- Comment on This is at Jorvik Viking Center. 1 month ago:
I guess coprocracy is just the fossilized remnants of kakistocracy.
- Comment on TB cases rebound to higher than pre-COVID levels 2 months ago:
John Green is gonna be so mad.
- Comment on The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco 2 months ago:
It really is so much easier to destroy than it is to build.
And I agree with you, A little bit of vandalism goes a long way to mucking things up.
- Comment on The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco 2 months ago:
If you maintain public goods for the good of the public you have a lot less crime. It’s precisely because there is such extreme wealth that is not paying to maintain the public goods that we have the crime.
The people destroying the stuff are doing that because they have been robbed of a place in society and their futures have been foreclosed to them.
Building hostile anti-human infrastructure, housing that costs 60 hours a week to live in, and unaffordable food that the government subsidizes to make MORE expensive are all not so subtle ways to tell these people that society does not value them.
- Comment on ‘Zombie Offices’ Spell Trouble for Some Banks - The New York Times 2 months ago:
Prices only go up. If a price is allowed to fall then the gravy train stops and the owner class gets really salty.
- Comment on Investigative journalist friendlyjordies gets firebombed as a silencing tactic, police do nothing, eventually forcing them to take down their investigation. 2 months ago:
Politicians corrupt cronies fund politicians party and get that party’s protection. It seems pretty obvious now that that’s what happened.
It’s almost literally the plot of the beekeepers If it took place in Australia and it was a shitty real estate company rather than scam call center.
- Comment on AI fraud act could outlaw parodies, political cartoons, and more 3 months ago:
Because we are a sick people addicted to advertising in all sectors of our lives.
- Comment on local hunger games construction almost complete 3 months ago:
No for the concrete you use sugar, and for the steel… I don’t know maybe jet fuel or something.
- Comment on Good news, everyone! We temporarily stopped the orphan crushing machine! 3 months ago:
I didn’t.
Crippling medical debt that builds interests rapidly and can’t be discharged through bankruptcy. It helped fill out my plate alongside the student loan debt that builds interest rapidly and can’t be discharged or bankruptcy.
- Comment on Good news, everyone! We temporarily stopped the orphan crushing machine! 4 months ago:
Despite having health insurance I’ve lost my life savings three times now to medically necessary surgery that my insurance only covered a portion of. Insurance that cost a quarter of my income.
When I was in my twenties, I got a hernia. 16k out of pocket.
A bit later, a chair at work collapsed and I broke my wrist, workers comp paid for everything treatment wise including physical therapy, my wrist is still messed up, but workers comp showed me that actual medical care IS possible.
In my thirties, I broke both my ankles when I was knocked down some stairs on the way to catch a bus to work. I went to work, worked 6 hours on broken ankles and then took a bus to the hospital that decided my insurance would only cover one, and the other one was going to be mostly out of pocket. 12k out of pocket.
and then had a polyp on my vocal cord. Health insurance covered about 2000 of that leaving me with an 8k bill. My supplemental Aflac insurance covered the cost of a taxi (up to 40 dollars one way!) to the doctor for follow up appointments.
Now I can’t walk right, can’t lift shit, and can barely afford insurance, I need a follow up surgery for my hernia and I’m better off losing my job and going on medicaid than trying to keep a job and pay for it myself.
I’ll be renting forever
- Comment on The battle for love 4 months ago:
Okay this seems like it makes the most sense. Maybe he sensed the ring was worth the risk.
- Comment on The battle for love 4 months ago:
Man I wish I fucking knew the context of this. Why did the guy come over in the first place? Where did the girl go? How did dude know instantly when he looked up at the guy while he was on his knee that he had to starch this fellow?
- Comment on Intel CEO claims 18A node will at least match TSMC's N2 performance and beat it to market 4 months ago:
We can’t limit our supply chain for strategic resources to preserve an incentive to defend an ally. That’s nutty.
Chips are the kind of thing where they’re just aren’t enough of them being made. If we come up with a new way to produce more of them cheaply, that won’t suddenly flood the market with cheap chips It will just marginally bring down the price of chips they compete with.
There’s also a zero sum thing going on here, It’s not just that we need chips We need to make sure the China doesn’t get them and that strategic goal remains regardless of whether or not we start producing them elsewhere too.
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 4 months ago:
Tesla should be out millions for this. The autopilot feature is a gimmick and not at all transparent. They’re beta testing on the public and people are dying because of it. This is a corporate decision that needs to have corporate consequences over and above legal ones. People shouldn’t just be getting minor fines, they should be going to prison and losing absolutely everything.
- Comment on A massive tech company exodus is occurring in Texas, reports show 4 months ago:
The difference between people who adopt every internet of things device imaginable and people who would never own or permit such a device in their home under any circumstances.
- Comment on Back in my day 5 months ago:
When we moved to the middle of nowhere and couldn’t even get channels over the air, my sister and I wore through every tape on the house.
The worst was being 9 years old desperately trying to find the second half of Lonesome Dove because you only got most of the episodes on some random VHS.
We must have worn the sound off of The Princess Bride, splash, Aladdin and the little mermaid. For a 9 year old boy living in the hinterlands after growing up in a city, Ariel singing “I want to be where the people are” hit me right in the feels.
- Comment on By letting the capitalistic class write the laws we let them dictate the morality of the country. 5 months ago:
Things that are social constructs can be modified with the social contract and should be modified to suit the will of the governed.
Social constructs that operate without the approval of the membership seem to be bad constructs that should probably not be built that way.
- Comment on Be nice to doggy or you will have a woof time. 5 months ago:
I got (attempted) robbed at gunpoint in my home one time. The only real warning we had was the dogs barking considering they never barked ever.
If the dogs hadn’t warned us, it might have taken longer to call the police and it could have taken them even longer than 1.5 hours to drive 6 city blocks to our house and arrest the concussed wannabe hardasses that tried to rob us.
Good dogs.
- Comment on A large colony of what is likely Amanita muscaria var. guessowii growing under a rare Sergeant hemlock 5 months ago:
I don’t really know how to add multiple pictures to a single Post I don’t even know if it’s possible on mobile.Image
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- Comment on Seek relief 5 months ago:
Water, apple, handful of nuts, Walk around for at least 15 minutes. If a headache isn’t on the way out then maybe try to shift the problem to your liver with some ibuprofen or Tylenol but it shouldn’t be the first thing people try.
- Comment on Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years 6 months ago:
The real purpose of Roko’s Basilisk was discovered only to be rejected as absurd…
- Comment on Gaza hospital overwhelmed with 60% of casualties women and children 6 months ago:
Evacuating a million people with less than 24 hours notice… Gosh I wonder why that’s tricky
- Comment on Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need 6 months ago:
A lot of them are shorthand for phrases that exist in other programming languages. If you watch the whole video you can see him type things like match to get the ≅ or something like that I don’t know I didn’t follow at all It’s pretty heady shit.
- Comment on Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield 7 months ago:
It’s poorly optimized code, and the comments from the top brass has been “lol your PC sux” when they can’t even get it running right on their own hardware.
It’s not the variations of PC that’s the issue, it’s a design and quality control issue. Direct X and Vulkan are the bread and butter of PC gaming. Microsoft developed direct X to establish a common graphics framework for Windows and Microsoft game studio still fucked up working with it.
- Comment on SNW Musical Episode: Klingons’ Boy Band Number Was Almost an Opera 8 months ago:
There was just two little of it.
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA Approves 39 Indie Projects to Shoot During Strike, Including Two A24 Films 9 months ago:
Indie films can offer different contracts than big studios.
Honestly this is the best way forward. The big studios will never cave into the demands of labor because they are ghouls and they have unlimited money to wait out the strike.
If smaller studios keep making movies because they respect the labor by offering fair terms, then that is the stuff winning is made of. The big studios, 100% of them, need to be broken up.