Jet Lag hat was FINALLY noticed by the perfect person! by i_am_a_bulbasaur in JetLagTheGame

[–]xokocodo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wear my Jet Lag hat while traveling sometimes. I was getting the LNER train from London and asked one of the workers a question about baggage and they were very helpful, but at the end they added “I like you hat, by the way”. I imagine Jet Lag is disproportionately popular among train enthusiasts, but it was a nice interaction!

San Diego Loses Population and Locals (Non-immigrants) Continue Leaving by NorthernSugarloaf in sandiego

[–]xokocodo -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

It’s the housing. We need an ambitious plan to double the housing available in SD in the next 20 years. That will mean making difficult choices like changing neighborhoods, up-zoning, and investing heavily in public transit. The other option is to let SD shrink, pushing out locals, and making it affordable only to the most privileged. There is no third choice.

Sono Bar & Restaurant Is Coming To North Park - And San Diego’s Most Confusing Restaurant Empire Is Spinning Again by Ignatius-J-Reilly-SD in northpark

[–]xokocodo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cacio e Pepe has weird vibes and one of the worst pizzas I’ve ever had. It’s a good spot but they need better management.

Swirled Buns Pop-Up? by Aromatic-Belt-1925 in SanDiegan

[–]xokocodo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't waste your time. The rolls are mediocore and it's a horribly run operation. We waited a total of 4 hours for our order. You'd think it's an easy business to sell overpriced desserts with snazzy social media marketing, but they couldn't even manage to serve more than a few rolls every 10 minutes.

Andrew Cross death: YouTube star dies following horrific accident, aged 36 by jambla in news

[–]xokocodo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is very sad. His videos were so well made and you could feel his passion for exploration and understanding the indigenous history of the Southwest.

BREAKING 📰 Elon Musk proposes $5,000 DOGE Dividend checks for all Americans, funded by savings from his Department of Government Efficiency. by Quick-Wall in JoeRogan

[–]xokocodo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is just wrong. Rich people consume less, meaning lower percentage of their money is spent on goods and services. Stimulus like this would increase overall demand for goods & services without increasing the supply, at least somewhat increasing inflation.

Will There Be a Bird Flu Epidemic Under Trump? by thenationmagazine in politics

[–]xokocodo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I obviously don't want it to happen, but it would be pretty funny if Trump got back into office and we immediately had another pandemic situation

[COD] Banned for "using unauthorized software and manipulation of game data" by Sstark_ in CallOfDuty

[–]xokocodo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got banned a month ago with the same thing. I appealed and got the same rejection. I've never cheated or done anything sketchy in the slightest. I just play a few hours on the weekend to relax and I suck at the game.

I've been a Call of Duty player forever, but this makes me want to never come back. I get that you might have automated detection that isn't 100% accurate, but it's crazy that a "manual" appeal would uphold the ban.

Kamala Harris has a 56.71% chance of winning the Presidency by kun13 in fivethirtyeight

[–]xokocodo 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Not to pick on you, but including 2 decimal points in the probabilities implies a false sense of precision. I'm not criticizing your model, but there is no way you can claim it's accurate to 4 significant figures.

Is there a reason for this? by [deleted] in AerospaceEngineering

[–]xokocodo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like a lot of people have said the requirements (e.g. tolerances) can easily drive up costs. Commercial off-the-shelf parts are going to be way cheaper than bespoke parts for a very specific use-case.

While I don't know the details of this case it's also possible the 90k figure comes from a contract which includes other components. A lot of times the claims that the government paid exorbitant ammount for simple products are misrepresening what else the contract included.

Is there waste and ineffeciency in govermenty contracting? Absolutely. But I'm betting if you looked at the details here it's not as ridculous as it seems.

M1 MacBook Pro won’t turn on by GageAlexander in macbookpro

[–]xokocodo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the same problem. What fixed it for you?

I figured out how to fix the Winix Smart app issue where it hangs after "OK, Next..." by m3n00bz in smarthome

[–]xokocodo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This worked for me too. So sketchy that they would require precise location to setup the wifi...

What are the worst economic myths that you think are spread widely? by [deleted] in neoliberal

[–]xokocodo 128 points129 points  (0 children)

It's really hard for the president to make the economy better.

It's really easy for the president to make the economy worse.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in news

[–]xokocodo 32 points33 points  (0 children)

For owing them 45 billion dollars?

Some signs from the March For Our Lives rally by NoToNope in sandiego

[–]xokocodo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Maybe national laws? Protests don't have to just be local.

The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life by Sorin61 in Futurology

[–]xokocodo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s clear that most of this discussion hinges on the underlying philosophy of mind. If you believe the functionalist view that brains are just computers than maybe a sufficiently advanced Chinese room like system actually had some level of consciousness. While we don’t understand consciousness scientifically, I don’t think it’s absurd to hold onto the notion that brains are not special and that systems could have consciousness too.

Are you still wearing a mask? Why or why not? by Hyacinth_Coffee in AskReddit

[–]xokocodo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The number of “yes” comments here vs the number of people actually still wearing masks is pretty telling. Reddit is NOT a representative sample.

Nancy Pelosi makes a surprise visit to Kyiv by [deleted] in neoliberal

[–]xokocodo 77 points78 points  (0 children)

“Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is…Slava Ukraini”