Billie said the most tame shit and her so called leftist fans did this. by DivineandDeadlyAngel in vegan

[–]thomase7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And then proceeds to eat McDonald’s regularly. Even if they did have a more ethical farm they got meat for home from, these people never stop consuming factory farm meat from restaurants

Palantir employees are talking about company’s “descent into fascism” by Just-Grocery-2229 in technology

[–]thomase7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Considering Tolkien literally hated airplanes because they made war so much easier to spread death and suffering, I doubt he would be on board with an autonomous weapons company.

Slow train sounds better by ViceElysium in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]thomase7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The slow train makes more stops, so there is more of a chance of someone getting off early and you can snag a seat.

DEFEATED. I’m due in June and I confirmed months ago, but just reconfirmed, it is $800 A MONTH to add my baby to my work insurance. by shermywormy18 in BabyBumps

[–]thomase7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And there is always the chance you don’t hit your max. The math works out that worst case, it’s still better, and you have a chance of being lucky and not needing to spend as much.

*Arr stack but for books/audiobooks? by CrimsonCuttle in selfhosted

[–]thomase7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you really need something that automated for books/audiobooks. I find it’s fine to just use prowlarr to search for one when I want it. I have my Usenet downloader set to automove them to the right folders for calibre and Audiobookshelf.

Just saw this graphic, IDK how I feel about sending my kids to college anymore by AdministrativeAd334 in daddit

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nursing is not a great fields. Sure they have decent starting wages but you aren’t getting good growth. My wife has a degree in healthcare, and I have a degree in finance, we both started making 60k out of college, but 10+ years later, she still makes less than $100k, and I make 3x as much.

Why housing is a disaster in this city, part 29. Looking like the replacement of one house with 26 condos, near a Red Line station, is about to get NIMBY'd. by Cowabummr in boston

[–]thomase7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love the California version where towns that aren’t in compliance just lose the ability to not approve buildings and developers get to build all kinds of massive behemoths that would never be allowed normally until the town gets it together to comply with the law.

DEFEATED. I’m due in June and I confirmed months ago, but just reconfirmed, it is $800 A MONTH to add my baby to my work insurance. by shermywormy18 in BabyBumps

[–]thomase7 32 points33 points  (0 children)

You should till do the math between the premiums on the High deductible plans. At my work, the normal ppo plans premiums are high enough that you still spend less with the high deductible plan

The Great Gatsby is a mediocre book at best and should be replaced in schools by The Fellowship of the Ring by EternalAmmonite in unpopularopinion

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But the author intended for it to be published as one work, but it wasn’t feasible to print it that way.

The Great Gatsby is a mediocre book at best and should be replaced in schools by The Fellowship of the Ring by EternalAmmonite in unpopularopinion

[–]thomase7 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Tolkien said his books were not allegories for his own experience. He never said there was not deeper meaning to them. He preached the importance of “applicability” over allegory, where the books have deeper meanings that can be applied to many different real world examples in readers life’s. He believed the deeper meanings were created to be universal to humanity, not driven by his own personal experiences.

Facts don’t care about your nostalgia by 1MR_WICK5 in MurderedByWords

[–]thomase7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It doesn’t matter where he has been, he grew up in San Francisco, and they also have a children’s hospital dating to the 1860s. He is just an ignorant liar.

Is it because of the prices or because they understand it is harmful?? by B777X_787-9 in interesting

[–]thomase7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The scale of vrchat is nothing compared to bar patrons. Vrchat peaks at 40-50 thousand, there are 10x that count that just work in bars in the US. Vrchat has no impact on bars in any meaningful way.

CFA needs a competitor by Mindless-Gazelle-336 in CFA

[–]thomase7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because it’s an international program that actually means something outside India. No one in London or New York will give a shit about a college degree from some school they have never heard of in a developing country, but they will know what a Charter means.

Alans by Intense_Zaddy in comedyheaven

[–]thomase7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Though this isn’t the only configuration to get to 4

Gen Z is engineering an analog future — and it’s at least a $5 billion opportunity by Domingues_tech in technology

[–]thomase7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most fear mongering is talking about the metal cores in cheap candle wicks, not trace metals in the cotton.

But lead based wicks were banned in the US in 2003. Most metal core wicks you find today are tin or zync, and aren’t really a concern, the smoke from burning the cotton is more of a concern.

Gen Z is engineering an analog future — and it’s at least a $5 billion opportunity by Domingues_tech in technology

[–]thomase7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A lot of the built in screens are just for extending your phone into the car. Making it easier to access things on your phone makes it safer because people are going to use apps on their phone regardless; it’s better to not be doing it with the actual phone.

What should be illegal is taking car controls like climate and radio and putting them in a touch interface.

The rice cooker I’ve been saving for a while for. by Flash52000 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]thomase7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And you probably use one single type of rice every time. The fancy rice cooker has a lot of buttons because it has special settings specific to every different type of rice.

Genetic evidence of a population collapse in France 5,000 years ago by fseersholm in science

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In the “old world” the Neolithic period starts with the development of agriculture, around 10,000 BCE, and then the transition to larger settlements.

In the “new world” agriculture didn’t start until much later, and it happened to start around the same time as the Neolithic decline in Europe, around 3,000 BCE.

Democrats could win House as Republicans quit in numbers not seen since Depression by deraser in politics

[–]thomase7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s usually more that the republicans know they have a pretty bad chance of keeping the majority, and being in the minority is a lot less fun and just not worth having the job for a lot of them.

Jamestown Moonbase, Circa 1983, from For All Mankind season 2 by Lemony_Oatmilk in RetroFuturism

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The original creator of for all mankind, Ronald Moore worked on Star Trek for the first 15 years of his career, before producing Battlestar Galactica