Mr PoopyButthole @ MrPoopyButthole @lemm.ee

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You do realize that anyone could still pay a higher wage to compete right?

You must be confusing it with maximum wage, which is the opposite and not a thing.

Imagine how racist that shark must be

I always respected that they used the whole spaghetti

How much thinking is overthinking?

And do you mean how often do I overthink, or are you asking to what extent do I overthink?

I just wish the rate of false negatives wasn't so bad. I feel like false negatives have gotten worse too. I've had textbook modern covid for two weeks, and now I'm better, but the cough wo,t go away. Never tested positive, but alternative diagnosis seems unlikely.

Already likely to be untrue, but honestly I'd happily sign up for a world wear "hold music" isn't the same 20sec loop of shit jazz

Still trying to catch back up on Adventure Time

I wish I remembered the details, but I read a couple years ago about new batteries using the same sort of principal.

It was being studied as a way to handle a specific part of radioactive byproduct from nuclear power.

You sandwich the tiny radioactive bit in materials to generate a charge, and the whole thing is encased in conductive man-made diamond.

A battery the size of a half dollar coin could generate roughly a watt of power for, ostensibly, up to hundreds of years.

The big seller beyond its lifespan is that the diamond is dense enough to shield the tiny amount of radiation inside.

Incredible potential that probably wont be realized in consumer goods for decades. Just think about never having to change the battery in a remote ever again. Or even a lot of wireless smart home sensors and devices.

A shocking amount of things take very little power. Air tags that never die. E-book readers. You could make super dim puck LEDs that are always on and can go anywhere for illuminating pathways.

You could never scale it much in size/output because the diamond encasing would become disproportionately heavy and expensive, but for anything 1.5 Watts and less, and possibly up to 3 Watts or so, could be totally feasible.

Grandma can eat shit. Every job now expects you to do the work of 3-4 jobs from Grandma's time.

You also have to do that work while being constantly monitored and recorded in most office environments, even if you work from home.

Just because physical labor jobs have more technology doesn't mean people are working less hard. Everybody is busting ass trying to make half of what Grandma made.

Get outta here with that shit, Grandma

The sooner you can tell your kids God's not real, the better. Just make sure you tell them it's not their job to explain that to their peers.

Unless you meant Santa. In which case the same applies.

Also God watching all genocide

Under capitalism, yes.

Under socialism? Men would all be spending their new free time learning woodworking and making gigantic overengineered furniture out of oak and mahogany.

Damn, I didn't even realize I'm doing anti-vax research as i type this

Damn, what's going on with his facial hair?

We all contain multitudes

How long is "temporary" when the previous person worked until they died at 90 years old?

It's a potion that turns socially awkward behavior into socially unacceptable behavior

I second this option for cheap 1-time purchase that is fantastic to use!

I've been raving mad about this exact shit for years.

I'm not a developer, but I remember how long pre-smartphone would last with little 500mAh batteries. Even after 3g and into 4g connectivity and well after the proliferation of less efficient Bluetooth a phone would last anywhere from 3-14 days between charging.

Now every phone has 3,000-4,000mAh batteries and, besides 5g, the wireless standards have become significantly more efficient.

The only notable offset is the big touch screens, but even those have gotten more efficient, and seems not to matter because standby time is still trash now too.

I doubt there's a continous A/V feed to servers, but 100% our phones are always listening for keywords/phrases locally and then sending "relevant" data back for ads, on top of the always on location tracking.

It's hilarious that phones cost as much as they do, considering how unwieldy and low screen-time they've become, on top of the idea that we're paying to be tracked.

I don't see this as a problem, the media is terrible at understanding/caring about real cultural trends.

The fact that I have a better time on Lemmy than Reddit on my phone, despite the huge difference in user numbers, says it all to me.

Reddit has been seeing a meaningful and lasting decline since they decided users don't matter, and there's no coming back from that.

Just like Facebook has suffered a permanent user loss and failure to grow, so will Reddit. It won't be overnight, but newer generations are increasingly tech-literate, even when they aren't more media-literate.

I never thought Mastodon would become a place to be, despite always hoping. Never imagined a real Reddit alternative would start to form, but here I am.

Cambridge Analytica laid the foundation of general disdain for centralized social media, and Elon Musk single-handedly exhausted the public's patience with corporate bullshit.

I think decentralized options are here to stay, and I think the only centralized platforms that will take longer to upend are video-dependant ones.

All in good time.