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makeshiftreaper

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  • AI IS BURNING THE PLANNET!!

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  • "It's just the corner of the fireworks store that's on fire, I don't see what you're concerned about"

    AI power growth is projected to grow exponentially for a service a lot of people view as morally reprehensible and actively harmful

    Spencer Weart identified the dangers of global warming in the 50s, we ignored the warnings and now people and entire species are dying. Excuse us for trying to prevent accelerating the problem

  • 75% of all tourists in Italy concentrate on 4% of the territory

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  • Is that odd? I'd expect the majority of Japanese tourists to go to Tokyo, Britain to London, France to Paris, etc

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    Billionaire Jack Ma tried to behave like Elon Musk. He lost his fortune after publically mocking Chinese regulators. Now he is just a small millionaire and was spotted riding a bike.

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  • I think the French innovated this solution

  • What is a food that you are very picky about?

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  • American BBQ. There're a lot of regional flavors and differences but most of them are bad in my opinion. Memphis dry rubs and Kansas City molasses sauces are my 2 favorites

  • Racer killed in 280mph crash while trying to break land speed record

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  • At 283 it takes 25 seconds to go 2 miles. So I think it's pretty safe to assume it took around a minute since it does take time to get to that speed but I assume it gets over 100 in under 10 seconds considering that's not super difficult for a sports car to achieve

  • Coffeezilla - Youtuber "Proves" People are Lazy with DayTrading

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  • The golden rule of money making tips: if this was a successful way to make money, why are they selling it to you instead of just using it to make money?

    The two most likely answers:

    1. They're making more money selling the idea than the idea generates
    2. (Far more likely) It's a scam

    Why are they introducing competition to their scheme? Why did they waste time building a sales deck and presentation when they could have been making money? If selling you money making tips is more profitable, how much money is there to be made?

  • Three questions about superpowers, which is the best, and which is the worst?

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  • I've always liked this old Cracked video which argues that Zach Morris' Time Out is low stakes enough to not create a superhero world but just kinda makes everything work for you

    In a world without other superheroes? Rogue's powers from X-Men are probably the worst. You can never have physical contact with other people for the rest of your life and there's no other powers to steal. Lose/lose

  • California moves to dismantle GOP map — and Trump’s grip

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  • If there's anything at all Democrats have to learn in order to win ever again it's that "when they go low we go high" and having a moral backbone is a losing strategy. Cheating and breaking rules keeps letting the other side win and they keep making it easier for themselves, if Democrats refuse to start slinging mud then they're just going to keep losing

  • Almost all Switch 2 users have bought Mario Kart World, as sales of new console pass 6m worldwide

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  • Because if you don't want to play that "boring racing game" there wasn't a reason to buy a switch 2. Almost every launch title was an upgrade of a switch 1 title, or was available on something else. Mario Kart World was the unique game until Bananza came out

  • AI Datacenters Are Raising Nearby Residents' Electric Bills

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  • ICE entices new recruits with patriotism pitch and pledge of $50,000 signing bonuses

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  • spend 4 years in college, get certified, start teaching children, get yelled at by parents and principals for giving a student who was on their phone for the whole class a C, make $45,000/year

    play apex legends in the basement shouting racial slurs and eating cheetos for 2 years, get a $50,000 signing bonus on top of a $80,000 salary

    Guess which one is more likely to be shot and killed at their job?

    It's not the one who has a gun

  • Sen. Josh Hawley wants to exclude ‘Biden voters’ from $600 Trump tariff rebate checks

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  • Hey quick question: how do you know who I voted for?

  • Considering an open relationship? Don’t read this Reddit forum

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  • First and foremost I want to say discussions like this are why I really like engaging on Lemmy over Reddit. This is an interesting discussion with good points and isn't inflammatory

    I have a math degree and tend to approach everything from that perspective. By sheer cold logic: if 2 adults are capable of raising a child that is a functional laborer, then a household that achieves that same objective with 3 adults is less efficient because each of these adults spends time with the child instead of 2 adults spending time and one fully working

    Personally I think this is a failure of capitalism. Studies show happy people working fewer hours are more efficient. Why is it that every capitalist country continues to overload their workers and remove benefits that make them happy?

    I think capitalists live in magical fantasy economic land and don't think of laborers as people, but numbers on a sheet. I think too many people have gone through business school (as I have) and have a simplistic view of economics leading them to think capitalism is a meritocracy. It's not, if anything capitalism is most closely related to feudalism. The momentum of money caries ideas much farther than the merit of those ideas

    I fundamentally disagree that capitalism is an unemotional descriptive science. I think behavioral economics as a subset of sociology does a much better job at explaining the human approach to money, even if it isn't perfect

  • Considering an open relationship? Don’t read this Reddit forum

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  • I disagree that capitalism is about the investment over labor. I view capitalism as a justification for growth at every expense. For much of history the most efficient way to grow was conquest. While that is still partially the case, now we've moved towards cannibalism capitalism in my opinion. Now capitalist seek their short term growth by stealing from future profits instead of stealing from other people (by and large)

    Which is all to say capitalism will push people towards the minimum they can subsist on, while the capitalist suck up everything else. A three+ adult household is less efficient (from a cold logic perspective. I fundamentally disagree with that logic), so capitalist countries will enact the laws and customs that favor the fewest number of adults not participating in the workforce

    In summary: I think we disagree about who the chicken is and who the egg is. I think capitalism is the chicken to societal norm's egg

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  • Interesting, I guess I can't argue with the methodology. Sounds like MSG is not great and the sieve isn't worth the effort it takes

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  • I find it interesting you think MSG was the problem here. By all accounts this should be a really great MSG dish. Are you sure it wasn't the apple cider vinegar? It seems oddly sweet while also maybe interacting poorly with the mayo

    Was the texture noticeably different to just using a hand blender on low and mixing ingredient+yolk? I've never had an issue with lumpy deviled eggs which is what I assume the sieve was intended to do

  • Considering an open relationship? Don’t read this Reddit forum

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  • Sure, I think it was clear by your nitpicky word that I meant the open internet. Obviously you can use the internet to talk to friends/family/therapists about your relationships. I just don't think you're going to go to /r/relationships and say "me, my boyfriend, and our girlfriend all genuinely love each other and have super fun kinky threeways every week" or if you do you're going to get downvoted for bragging/lying

  • Considering an open relationship? Don’t read this Reddit forum

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  • So 2 things:

    1. People in successful, happy relationships have a tendency not to go on the internet to discuss them. Additionally /r/openmarriageregret is obviously only going to be about disasters. It's like going to a monster truck rally and crying about the destruction of cars
    2. Hot take: capitalism is diametrically opposed to non-nuclear family lifestyles. Not that they are impossible, but that capitalism creates enough confounding factors that will make it very difficult

  • "A guitarist who's also an astronaut" sounds more impressive than "An astronaut who plays the guitar", despite both meaning the same thing.

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  • I think it's typically because you lead with the thing people would know them for, or the thing that person is more known for in general. So because there's so few astronauts, it's pretty fucking impressive that you think I'm more likely to know their guitar work than their space career