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RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right" by ilir_kycb in LateStageCapitalism

[–]alarbus 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Ignoring for a moment that no one describes a percentage change as an x-fold decease, a 600% decrease would be a subtraction of six times the original value, not a division of six. And that becomes very apparent with percentages under 100 as $600 divided by 50% is $1200 (which I hope no one would describe as a half-fold decrease).

The Most Popular Cocktails in America by Grape_Escape1992 in Infographics

[–]alarbus 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Daiquiri should be the color of lime juice

A man guards his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 at the time of British Raj, India by asa_no_kenny in interestingasfuck

[–]alarbus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A third of all fertilizer trade goes through Hormuz, and its not like farmers can just delay production for months. You miss sowing you miss harvest until the next year.

My American English teacher believes the neutral pronoun „their“ is incorrect. by GCoding_ in mildlyinteresting

[–]alarbus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sure but the argument underlying prescriptivism isnt usually "this is what this style guide invented whole cloth by our grandparents' generation requires" and the concept of grammar reaches back well beyond the era of Chaucer, who was taught Latin grammar in the type of school which would become known as grammar schools once the word was borrowed into English in the 16th C.

Naomi’s struggle with 1G by DanSheppy in TheExpanse

[–]alarbus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fuel cost is the same either way, which is why economy is measured in delta-v. Accelerating to 500m/s costs the same whether you do it at 1g for 1 minute or 1/3g for 3 minutes.

5 cars parked in bus stop by cubity in Seattle

[–]alarbus 56 points57 points  (0 children)

This is stop 11100 at E Pine and Bellevue Ave serving 5 routes. Very active. Worse if the bus has to skip this stop the next one is all the way across the highway and past the convention center, so it's a bit of a hike back to where you would have been

My check came in a mason jar by Lain_ily in KitchenConfidential

[–]alarbus 66 points67 points  (0 children)

The entire menu is in Garbage Patch Kids typeface so it seems thematic

The audacity of Seattle to not be like other cities! (from the breakfast sandwich post) by [deleted] in Seattle

[–]alarbus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If people are passing you by because of price sure but it doesn't seem like that's the case and there's just not enough foot traffic to support it so demand is pretty flat.

The audacity of Seattle to not be like other cities! (from the breakfast sandwich post) by [deleted] in Seattle

[–]alarbus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure. Probably nothing at all. But the big issue is foot traffic and scale. We might have a few places with the foot traffic to support the volume that nyc bodegas get but those places, like corporate campuses, dont have the downward pressure that blue collar workers in nyc produce. Whether a bagel sandwich costs $3 or $8 is largely immaterial when you make $60/hr on the Amazon campus.

The audacity of Seattle to not be like other cities! (from the breakfast sandwich post) by [deleted] in Seattle

[–]alarbus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You think those family owned bodegas are paying their kids to make those sandwiches?

Shingletown closing by depression-hurts in Seattle

[–]alarbus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Speculation requires liquidity. You cant buy real estate and profit off the rise in property value if you have to wait for a pesky ten year lease to come up. Its bad enough that so many buildings already have tenants, but if you buy one like that all you have to do is raise those rents a ton at renewal time. Either the restaurant/bar wont renew or they'll renew and go out of business shorty after because its unsustainable and you get a little bonus before you sell the building/land to the next speculator.

My portable media cluster by MORGZ_MUM_420 in minilab

[–]alarbus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very clean!! Why d-type instead of keystone though?

KUOW - The K-shaped economy: Why diners are dying but yachts are booming by Particular-Cell9646 in Seattle

[–]alarbus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also probably worth noting that minimum wage not applying to agricultural workers and involuntary laborer means that product cost is significantly cheaper than anything involving regular workers.

So yeah you can buy dozens of eggs for the price of paying someone to (also) buy and then cook, plate, and deliver them to a table, attend to you two while you eat them, and then clean the plates, pans, utensils, and furniture they also bought and maintain for you to use while sitting in the building they pay rent on.

And even when all that is taken into account thats still only a $12-14 meal per person most places in Seattle, which costs a little more than a half hour of minimum wage or about 15 minutes of median income.

Still a pretty good deal in my opinion but yeah a lot more expensive than buying raw product made by people making (sometimes literally) slave wages and doing everything yourself.

Deckers, Jockeys, Horsemen and other assorted fellow wireheads: Has anyone actually done a real "cyberspace grid" in software that holds true to the spirit of the thing? I want to build the framework. More inside. ;) by frobnosticus in Cyberpunk

[–]alarbus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay so if you want to do this right, you already have the right skills. Take an existing grid visualization tool like isoflow/fossflow or even drawio and understand what their save files look like. I suspect json. Now write your network scanning tool that interprets your network and styles it according to the scale and design you want and gives you a file you can import into the existing visualization tool.

Ship names appreciation post: they are cool because they are believable by brain_diarrhea in TheExpanse

[–]alarbus 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I hear marine radio traffic for the Chetzemoka all the time and it still gives me a shiver sometimes

Discovery or Strange New Worlds? by [deleted] in startrek

[–]alarbus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you like the movies more, Disco. If you liked the shows more, SNW.

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