danciestlobster

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[–] danciestlobster -4 points 8 months ago

Not the guy you are responding to but it is pretty easy to comdemn both. Of course the Republicans are most responsible but that doesn't mean Democrats couldnt have done anything to stop it

[–] danciestlobster 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes, same. Nice to see a fellow Amazon protestor

[–] danciestlobster 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

If you are set on not voting in the presidential election, I would like to encourage you to still vote (if you didn't already intend to) and just not vote on that question on the ballot, for two reaons:

  1. Local ballot measures and politicians are still quite relevant and your vote is still fairly impactful there relative to the federal election (depending on your state) and

  2. it sends a significantly stronger message to both parties that they are putting forward garbage candidates to vote and just abstain from the one question. Not voting is easy to mislabel as voter suppression by the opposition or any number of other misleading causes when voting, just not for Biden or trump is much more clear what you are mad about.

[–] danciestlobster 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yes.....mine too......mysteriously........ Sweats

[–] danciestlobster 49 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I can't imagine being the literal lowest paying company in town will do them any favors

[–] danciestlobster 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Look guy I want to tear the thing down as much as you, but until that gets started this is what I got. In order to be successful in either will require some better commraderie than the tone you seem to have here

[–] danciestlobster 18 points 8 months ago (3 children)

While what your saying is fundamentally true, it is worth noting that companies do notice declines in sales even very slight ones, and while there isn't ethical consumption there is certainly still a wide range of how unethical companies are. Just cause none are great doesn't mean they are all equally bad.

It is also worth noting that mass voting with dollars is one of the most effective peaceful tools currently available in a capitalist system to drive change (for non essential/non monopolized goods). Things like fair trade chocolate and sustainable packaging types exist because consumer demand for them is real, and if enough consumers demand and change spending habits for fair wage practices and bare minimum corporate ethics standards it will start to happen too.

Obviously this is all easier with more coordination among the consumers but even without it, we see companies change their practices due to consumer backlash that hits sales now. This is more effective than you may be giving it credit for, even if not as much as we would like

[–] danciestlobster 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

An alternative way to view this: if I order three sodas at a fancy restaurant vs three top shelf alcohols, the service is functionally the same but the bill is wildly different. Would you still say I should tip on pure percentage in the latter scenario?

[–] danciestlobster 2 points 8 months ago

Awesome! I'll check it out, sounds cool

[–] danciestlobster 4 points 8 months ago

I absolutely love DE but I agree the trailer is a bit misleading and dialogue isn't typically about the case. That said some of the best writing I have seen in a game full stop.

I also died immediately though on my first attempted "playthrough". Damn you tie....

[–] danciestlobster 56 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Actually it's usually closer to 5%, but to avoid consumers getting mad most companies have internal variance limits of less. Still, 2% is pretty tight for manufacturing equipment. Despite the mass prevalence of corporate greed, it does end up being better for most companies overall to be on the slightly heavy end of net weight rather than lower end and most manufacturing guardrails and in line weight checks are calibrated with that in mind.

This is entirely due to the risk of images like this going viral and causing blowback for the company. So, to keep products on average a little heavier, posting things like this is great

[–] danciestlobster 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Legitimate question: what is the concern with declining birth rate? Im no expert but it seems like the world currently has way more people than it ever had before and even in specific developed nations those nations were arguably doing just fine 50 years ago when they had lower populations too. What is the risk here?

 

We are planning our first trip to Japan in this upcoming february after a long postponing due to covid. Would love some tips from others here! We have dates but no specific ideas while there yet. More specific questions:

Recommended budget per day based on general costs of food and lodging there?

Recommendations for places to go while generally trying to avoid touristy locales?

Train for getting around while there or is there a better option?

How important to study basic Japanese?

Thanks!

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title menu size (self.skyrimmods)
 

I am struggling with mods that replace the title menu. I am using main menu randomizer, skyui, and have tried several different main menu image mods, but all of them do not fill the screen.

Is there somewhere where there is a setting for how large the title image should be or how blown up or anything like that? Given how many mods this has happened with I am thinking it is not an attribute of the images themselves but rather how they are displayed, or maybe an issue with randomizer

Any help would be appreciated!

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App for lemmy? (self.lemmyworld)
 

Maybe a dumb question, trying to get the hang of things over here. Is there an app for this? Or is that like a needs to be developed long term plan? Mobile functionality on my older mobile is fine but not as great as former 3rd party reddit apps but maybe that's an unreal standard here.

Thoughts?

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