[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Think bigger picture. If you don't have the threat of poverty, you can't convince workers to sell their time for less than it's worth. That's the entire basis for an investment economy. I pay you and sell your work product for more than I paid you, and you can't say no because you'll die ina gutter without my investment capital.

The thing you said is how they keep the masses working, by convincing them that 1) they need to buy stuff, and 2) they will deserve it if they work hard enough.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 70 points 4 days ago

Who said homelessness is unsolvable? We don't want to solve homelessness because poverty is the lynchpin for capitalism.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 78 points 4 days ago

I love my dog, but I've never had to clean potato vomit out of a carpet at 3 am.

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So I just finished watching the second season for a second time, and I have to talk about it with someone.

First off, holy shit is it good. No complaints, no notes. Visually, it's gorgeous. Casting is perfection, costumes, visuals, practical effects, set designs, it is as close to the manga and anime in visual style without being "cartoony." If I said that the special effects were the weakest link in the chain, that's only because everything else is so great.

Acting, writing, editing, direction, all of it shows a dedication to the source material and a care for making the best possible show. The choices for what to cut (because obviously it needs to be condensed) make sense at every turn, keeping fresh a story we all already know.

When I think of all the live action adaptations that completely failed, I'm thrilled that we have two seasons of One Piece as a model for how to do it right. I hope we get 12 more.

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Yes, I know, Roku sucks for a variety of reasons, and we can just add this to the pile.

Roku launched a new feature, Backdrops, which is just a screensaver that they foist upon you. But they must have gotten complaints about screen burn in, because months after the lauch, they pushed an update that adds this notification pop-up.

A few things that should have been obvious:

  • A television with the screensaver on is probably unattended.
  • The point of a rotating screensaver is to avoid static images that cause screen burn
  • The pop-up never goes away and covers the bottom of the screen across all images, with the QR code in stark black on white, which is most likely to create screen burn.

The thing is, this is such a small issue, but it belies a foundational disrespect for users. The carelessness and incompetence could be ignored, but the obligatory nature of pushing this out without consent or care is why it fits squarely in asshole territory.

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I have received these two loaves of delicious whole grain bread. Problem is, I doubt we will eat it all before it goes stale. I could do croutons, bread crumbs, or even a breakfast casserole, but I was thinking about bread pudding.

Has anyone done this? Do I need to tweak the recipe, like add more milk or some other flavor to balance the nutty seed and grain flavor? Maybe add some apples for textural balance?

I don't want to waste them, so if this is a fools errand, I can do bread bowl dips or something for the playoff games tomorrow. But I am committed to not letting this bounty go to waste.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 364 points 3 months ago

"They will open the floodgates to illegal immigration and fraud.

Just a reminder that Elon Musk is an illegal immigrant and a fraud.

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There's a post I saw on reddit that points to the dimple on the side of a milk jug, and makes fun of all the people who don't know what that's for. In the comments are thousands of people giving dozens of different explanations, and all of them are wrong.

It is not there to indicate that the milk has spoiled by popping out due to gasses produced by spoiled milk. If there was enough gas to pop out the dimple, the whole jug would look like a balloon.

It is not there to provide structural integrity, like lateral support to prevent the bottles from crushing. The contents are under pressure, so if there was enough force on the jug from any direction, then the cap would pop off regardless of the shape in the sidewall.

The actual answer is that the dimple is added to ensure that all of the jugs contain the same volume of milk. Plastic jugs are blown into molds, and minor manufacturing variations over time would create jugs that hold different amounts of milk. Larger jugs would hold more than a gallon. They could just fill by volume, but consumers are wary of purchasing a bottle if it appears to be less full than the others. So they add the dimple to make it so that the level of milk is all the way at the top with minimal air between the milk and the cap.

You can verify this yourself by finding different jugs from the same supplier with dimples of different depths, or even no dimple at all. None of those other explanations would explain dimples of different sizes or jugs without dimples.

TLDR everybody is wrong. The milk jug dimples are added to ensure the jug contains the correct volume of milk.

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If you have a video that autoplays at the top of your article, and I have to scroll past it to read the article, I don't want it to pop out and scroll down along with me. It blocks the top third of the screen. Who even thinks of that? Why would a person in charge of making decisions say "Oh, yeah, neat. I like the way that works, let's not change anything." I don't want any videos to autoplay at all ever for any reason. If I scroll past it, it should autostop.

Fucking web developers.

Edit: Yes, you're right, it's not the fault of web developers. At least, it's mostly not their fault. They still came up with this shit, but it's executives and middle managers who demand it.

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I know everybody is probably sick of hearing that the lotto is a tax on people who are bad at math, but it's far more deceptive than just a complicated expected value equation. Powerball and Mega Millions advertising the sum total of a thirty year annuity as the value of the jackpot is simply a lie. It is false. No, the Powerball is not $248 million dollars. That's literally not what the value of the jackpot is worth.

Advertisements are prohibited from being deceptive because people are gullible. If you were selling jars of tomato sauce, and when people opened them up, they find a bunch of tomato seeds, that would be less of a lie than the current promotion for lotto tickets. You wouldn't be able to say "well, everyone knows that the jars don't have the sauce yet. Eventually, the tomatoes will grow and you can make sauce with them, or we can plant them for you and send you a few tablespoons of sauce every year." You'd be laughed out of court and right into jail, because that's fraud.

You could still have the lotto without the fraud. It would still be a tax on people bad at math. $70 million dollars is functionally equivalent to $248 million, in that it's enough money to change your life forever. People could still purchase the dream of a better life for $2 each, and most of the same people still would because gambling is an addiction. You could be completely honest about how unfair the game is, and people would still happily play.

And that's what bugs me about it. It's so unnecessary. No other casino or gambling establishment could get away with something so transparently dishonest, and they don't have to while still making money hand over fist.

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This place is dead (lemmy.world)

Haven't seen any posts all year.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 393 points 1 year ago

This argument reveals that she thinks both sides are playing the same game. Progressives don't support corrupt leaders. MTG does.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 409 points 1 year ago

CE is Clear Entry. If you want to hit 2 x 4, but accidentally press 2 x 44, you can press the CE button before pressing = to clear the 44 but not the "2 x" part.

C will clear all of it so you can start over at the beginning.

Pressing CE twice may or may not clear entries in reverse order, depending on you calculator model.

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“Tonight, Missouri lynched another innocent Black man,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 362 points 2 years ago

Killing libraries is not about saving money, it's about restricting knowledge. Beware the leader that doesn't want the people to read.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 420 points 2 years ago

We've been over this.

The Ring of Power corrupts those around it by promising to fulfill their darkest desires. It channels their urges to get what it wants.

It wanted Gollum to hide away under a mountain until its master could return with his armies.

Hobbits and River Folk don't seek power. They want to be left along, smoke their pipes, and have lots of fat, happy children. As such, they have a natural defense to the ring's influence, but they are not immune to it. It makes them covetous and protective of the precious, even if they don't seek to use it for their own benefit.

We see the Ring of Power turns Gollum and Bilbo and Frodo invisible, but is that what it would have done for Boromir? For Gandalf? For Gimli or Galadriel? Almost certainly not. We saw in a flashback what it could do on Sauron's finger, and the only thing it did for Isildur is quicken his death. Gollum was seduced and wanted to hide away. Bilbo was a burglar wanting to sneak past a dragon. Frodo wanted to sneak into Mount Doom.

So what does Sam want? The only thing Sam wants more than to return to the Shire is to ensure his best friend makes it home with him. Sam cannot carry the Ring, not because he is weak to its influence, but because his best friend wants it. Frodo has been corrupted, and would fight Sam if he tried to take it. They tried taking turns, but Sam learned what it felt like to want the Ring, and knew he couldn't do it again.

But he could carry his friend, burdens and all. The ring could not drive a wedge between them, because Sam didn't seek to separate Frodo from the Ring. Sam's singular focus was getting to the end of their shared quest so that they could get home together.

If you put the Ring on a mouse, then whoever is carrying the mouse would be tempted to take it away, and the mouse would use the power of the Ring to keep it. Sam was resisting the temptation of the Ring, and the Ring was fighting back as hard as it could. It fully corrupted Frodo in the end, and it was only Gollum, who coveted the Ring more, who was able to take it away.

Fate, luck, the will of Eru, call it whatever you want, but Hobbits have the superpower of quiet contentment, and that's the only thing that can beat a lust for domination of the Valar, the Maiar, of Elves and Men and Dwarves. It's why Gollum hid away without conquering the goblins living above him. It's why Bilbo could roll with dwarves and give up the Arkenstone. It's why Frodo could walk into Mordor, right to the edge, knowing the journey was going to kill him. And it's why Sam could carry Frodo the rest of the way.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 438 points 2 years ago

Really, the disqualification is probably better publicity than winning the award itself. If someone told me some vegan cheese won a "Good Food" award, I would assume it was related to eco- and social-consciousness. Learning that it was so delicious that the dairy industry schemed to take away the award tells me they're afraid of the competition.

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I heard someone say this in a video recipe, followed by way more cheese than you should eat at once. It occurred to me that the phrase means ample, not nutritious.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 350 points 2 years ago

Step one, provide good service.

Netflix: Welp, I guess we should just pack it in.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 361 points 2 years ago

As a man, I feel like my perspective hasn't been fully represented in this editorial. I'd like it to be noted for posterity that men don't want to marry Trump supporters, either.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 465 points 2 years ago

I don't feel bad for the guy, but I don't celebrate this sort of vigilante justice, either. Prisoners should be safe from other prisoners. Prison is not meant to be torture, and recidivism is a massive problem in the United States. Chauvin will have 20 years to contemplate his crimes, and treating him and every other prisoner will only reinforce their criminal proclivities.

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Has this ever happened to you? There's a fly in the house, buzzing around you, so you go to the cabinet to get the swatter. But as soon as you start wielding it, the little bastard disappears. You set it down, and now he's back, taunting you.

Ok so obviously flies don't taunt, but do they have the capacity to recognize, even instinctually, that I'm holding a deadly weapon?

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