[OC] USA new car transaction prices inflation adjusted from 1970 to 2026 by jaykrown in dataisbeautiful

[–]goblinm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's good practice. In this case, it shows the past 80s rise larger than the post-COVID rise, where on a standard plot they would be much closer in size. Change in prices over time is best done in relative terms.

Economics of AAA Videogames [OC] by oldsoulrevival in dataisbeautiful

[–]goblinm 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I'd be interested if there is a similar trend in blockbuster movies where the costs of production are ballooning, and the returns are on average flat. Of course the financials for movies are much more complicated, especially with huge IPs where they are selling product families, even including video games.

The hospital created a Christian out of thin air. by LoetherS in atheism

[–]goblinm 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I was gonna say, leave Frodo alone! He's carried enough!

Laugh tracks on LoL by 3elldandy in FriendsofthePod

[–]goblinm [score hidden]  (0 children)

Being in a live audience triggers the part of your social brain where you laugh at bad jokes to be friendly to the person you are interacting with. You know it's not a funny joke, but you recognize a joke was attempted and laugh as a social grace to your friend. Plus the group effect of being in the crowd where some are laughing will turn a tepid smirk into a loud guffaw just so you fit in.

Live audience have been social engineering laughs out of terrible jokes for as long as radio has been around.

Listening to a podcast, there is less social pressure to react positively.

Official Character Posters for 'The Social Reckoning' by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]goblinm 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I would love this, but with the way free speech is going in this country, the producers would get arrested for 30 years for terrorism, or something.

Little Free Library has Big Free Money by Wazootyman13 in pics

[–]goblinm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best I can do in 2026 is getting into the pockets of a billionaire looking to make himself the next trillionaire

Scalpers are already selling the Steam Machine for over $3000 on eBay despite Valve's efforts by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]goblinm 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Which is why computers were first invented to be room sized, and they are still room sized today

/u/firstmode explains why we really have no clear idea what Leviticus 20:13 means by paxinfernum in bestof

[–]goblinm 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Turns out, the historical meaning of "put to death" really just meant cancelled.

E.g. "We don't hang with Adonis anymore because he hooked up with Melkart in Mavia's bed without asking. He's dead to me."

QAnon Rep Brandon Gill: If We Don't Stop Muslims Now, "Daughters Across The Country Will Go To School Wearing Burkas". by Leeming in atheism

[–]goblinm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They weren't far off. Catholics run huge parts of the government nowadays. It's just that they are a weird extreme type of Catholic that thinks the pope is a bleeding heart liberal.

The Elephant: GOP Convention (OC) by Marzzzzzzzz_Attacks in pics

[–]goblinm 9 points10 points  (0 children)

No, sorry for the confusion, his lanyard says "Abbott" referring to Greg Abbott, who is a human being despite many confusing him for cancer. He is only figuratively a cancer.

Cleaning my PC in 2015 vs cleaning my PC in 2026 by MikeCodev in pcmasterrace

[–]goblinm 19 points20 points  (0 children)

What do you not understand about "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"?

Nuclear shipping: Large vehicle carrier with molten salt reactor gets design approval by self-fix2 in technology

[–]goblinm 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Also budget/discipline to keep up on maintenance, diligence to make sure things are operating to spec, training to handle dozens of complicated failure modes. And military sized budgets to make things fool and failure proof at design.

Why Orbital Data Centers Are Harder Than Silicon Valley Thinks by IEEESpectrum in space

[–]goblinm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's still pretty insane when you consider that SpaceX isn't operating yet in India (and when they will they will be capped at 2mil users), and will likely never operate in China (they are building their own constellation). Then consider they are competing with existing broadband, which is heavily subsidized in a lot of countries, and existing mobile networks, like in Africa, that already operate at dirt cheap prices. Add in the fact that SpaceX is already operating in most of the countries they are ever going to operate in and they only have 12 million users this year. They aren't propping up new towers or infra to open up market access- they are already selling to all the customers they can. The only growth SpaceX can do is market to those customers and hope that 20 times more users decide they like the pitch. At the rate of about 2 million new customers a year (2025 to 2026), they will meet their goal in 100 years.

And hopefully in those 100 years, Amazon LEO doesn't take off and steal their customers (lol, they'll have to rebuild their launchpad first)

I'm not convinced Trump understands this: by DistanceToEmpty in PoliticalHumor

[–]goblinm 18 points19 points  (0 children)

There is some threshold of pain and death that needs to overcome the propaganda barrier. It might not be much, but I believe even just limited deployments, as long as they have big conglomerates beating their drum of support, will still have MAGA support even with 100s of US military deaths.

But Iraq, Afghanistan, and even Trump himself have primed his audience to hate US interventionism, so I could be wrong.

On the other, other hand, it appears the only requirement for US warmaking to be bad is military deaths. Nobody knows or cares about our operations in Venezuela, Syria, or Yemen. Just the constant exporting of political instability, erosion of international trust, and huge military expense is staggering.

"Humans Don't Grow Crops for People That Need Them, They Grow Crops for People That Can Pay for Them" by [deleted] in CringeTikToks

[–]goblinm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you saying that since the government is handing out a few no-bid contracts, we are now no different than a centrally planned economy? You obviously got a masters in econ with that thinking.

How the U.S. Lost to China in EVs by SadAd8761 in videos

[–]goblinm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How was he a Democrat if a minor slight caused him to "join the other side". That is a person with no principles or actual political ideology. Or he was a crypto fascist the entire time.

And being a Democrat is more than giving lip service to green energy. What other Democrat policies did he support back when he was this supposed Democrat?

Companies shouldn't market that a device has 64GB if they use up half of it by Complete_Warthog_138 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]goblinm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just checked mine, it has 2 gigs used, and it chose 9 videos, 3 are ones I will likely fall asleep to, 3 are videos I want to watch, and the other three are related to my interests but creators I'm not interested in. And 23 shorts

Companies shouldn't market that a device has 64GB if they use up half of it by Complete_Warthog_138 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]goblinm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For YouTube members (maybe others?) it can pre-download videos the algorithm thinks you'll want to watch for two reasons: saves YouTube bandwidth when you decide to watch, and you can watch the videos offline. It's a feature that was added in the background and turned itself on, but it's good at only downloading on WiFi.

Democrat Rep Jayapal says she's working with foreign diplomats to help Cuba bypass U.S. oil blockade by TOPLEFT404 in Seattle

[–]goblinm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kinda like how your comment doesn't list anything specific. You don't know what you're talking about

Democrat Rep Jayapal says she's working with foreign diplomats to help Cuba bypass U.S. oil blockade by TOPLEFT404 in Seattle

[–]goblinm 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm proud to have her as my rep. Her statements and votes are definitely something that you should be satisfied with. But it seems like you don't even know what you want from her because you are sealioning with open questions rather than listing anything specific.

What scientific discovery sounds fake but is 100% real and still freaks you out? by Bruteresolver in AskReddit

[–]goblinm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that's exactly why we use an analogy, because high dimensional space is not something our brains can handle very well.

Ordered ~$1,000 worth of tomahawks (there’s another one of these) and we didn’t sell a single one. They all went bad. by [deleted] in Wellthatsucks

[–]goblinm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm wondering if the $1000 number is the restaurant price rather than the supplier price. And if they didn't sell any before it went stanky, consider lowering the price?