makeshiftreaper @ makeshiftreaper @lemmy.world

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A perpetual problem I have as a Scrum Master in the tech field is the business people's inability to understand that nine women can't make a baby in a month. There are just certain things where throwing money at it won't give you any faster of a return on investment. More money doesn't make better games faster, if anything it adds bureaucracy that impedes critical work. Most great video games aren't capable of being produced on an annual basis and trying to hit your Q4 results over and over won't magically produce high quality output

means “days” are no longer the same as “days”

Who gets to pick when "noon" is when the sun is usually above their head? Let's assume Greenwich for posterity sake. That means a bunch of the world will spend most of their "daytime" in traditionally nighttime hours. Thus spending your day (time when the sun is up) and your day (the time when you do your work) will not intuitively mean the same thing

complicates both secular and religious law

Islam requires regular prayer in the direction of mecca and plenty of nations have Islamic law. At a minimum they'd have to rewrite those laws, at most it'd cause a literal schism

is a staggering inconvenience for a minimum of five billion people

"We changed how clocks work for almost everyone on the planet to make some nerds' lives easier. Please go change your planners, clocks, schedules, applications, signs, etc to adjust"

makes it near-impossible to reason about time in other parts of the world

In most of the world, you can reasonably assume the sun goes up around 7 am and sets around 7. Obviously that changes but you can pretty reasonably assume when people will be around and doing stuff by looking at their time. In this new system you'll need to figure out what times people do most of their activities based off of geological segments of the planet and checking what their "daytime" is. Which is already a problem timezones address

is not simpler at all

On a base level maybe, but after fixing all the other problems it causes the resulting system would likely be just as if not more complicated than our current time system

Wow, making a life necessity a profit center means cutting as many corners as possible and ultimately makes things worse for people who have no choice but to use their service? Who could have predicted such tragedy?

More importantly, does it matter? One of the biggest things separating humans from other animals on earth is our ability to learn from the experiences of others. I'm sure you learned lessons as a child watching someone else do something wrong but that's been so internalized now that you can't tell the difference. At some point other people's experiences become our own and we share that with the people around us

Again I understand and agree with you, but I ask: what do you suggest as a realistic alternative?

Sure but that's our point. We can sit here discussing the minutia of Biden and what little things he may or may not be doing correctly, meanwhile Trump supporters hear him say "I'll be a dictator day 1" and get a boner so hard they need to call their doctor. We made this mistake by being balanced about our candidate before and we saw where it got us. I'd like to hear you suggest a realistically better choice for the average American than to support Biden continuing to be milquetoast

No, because it's super disingenuous to criticize Biden on it like Trump wouldn't be way worse. We know Trump will yank all the funding from Ukraine and hand it over to Isreal. Sure Biden sucks, but like every other conversation on the subject, he's better than the other option so we have to begrudgingly support him. The last time we tried to disagree with someone morally was Hillary and we spent 4 years dealing with Trump. If my options are 1 guy who opposes 1 genocide and 1 guy who supports 2 then I guess I'll pick the guy opposing one. I'd rather have no genocides, but here we are

Um actually, they're only worth that much on paper, it's all assets that they can't...

Shut the fuck up. She could rent Liechtenstein, she owns multiple airplanes, and her dog's closet is bigger than my home. Stop bootlicking. Who gives a shit what her wealth looks like? She has more money than people are even capable of imagining, why does it matter?

Thank you. I wasn't saying they were wrong, I was just asking what compelled them to say what they said. It doesn't add to the conversation, it isn't for anyone who would be reading this discussion, it just seemed to be a comment made to make them feel better about themselves for being superior to other internet nerds

What a weird nitpicky thing to argue about. Sure you can start a manual by easing off the clutch properly but that's obviously not what we're talking about. We're talking about the differences between driving manual and electric and that's clearly the use-case people will have 95%+ of their driving time. What do you think you're adding to this conversation?

I went from a manual '08 wrangler to a' 23 model 3 and I gotta tell you, I'm so much happier with it. Granted, I live in the city now and driving a stick shift in and out of parking lots daily was a major pain in the ass, but I still think I'd be happy back in the suburbs. Here's my first thoughts:

1. Electricity is wayyyyy cheaper than gas. Plus you can charge whenever you aren't using the car if you have a garage.
2. I know jeeps aren't sporty cars but my model 3 feels 100x more responsive than a jeep. Consider that electricity starts working immediately. To start a manual you need to take your foot off the clutch, push in the gas, let that gas get to the engine, ignite, and then the car moves. Sure that process takes less than a second but it's hard to overstate how fast electric cars can go immediately
3. Electric cars are all inherently newer and have a lot of cool new features. Auto parking, self-driving, adaptive cruise control, voice activated commands, driver profiles, and more made it feel like I went from the stone age to the industrial revolution overnight

That's not to say it's all sunshine and roses. Some downsides:

1. I'm definitely a worse driver now. Manuals keep all 4 limbs focused on driving and make it really hard to get distracted. This is kind of a wash because the self-driving feels way safer on the highway than a human driver
2. Recharging is not as easy as refueling. As long as you plan ahead this isn't an issue but you can't lazily say "oh I'll get gas in the morning on the way to work" and you have to spend longer on road trips. During my day to day I actually save time because I just plug in when I'm going to be home anyway. Plus some places have free charging

And lastly this is kind of medium:

1. People can borrow my car. I like having a car my girlfriend can actually drive when it's relevant but other people want to try to drive my car and sometimes it's a little annoying

I don't think we're ready for everyone to go electric but if you're the type to not drive everyday and live in an area with decent access to chargers I think it's worth considering

Yeah, when I lived near the Sierra Nevada we had 3 earthquakes in the year I was there. Granted I slept through all 3 and the worst thing that happened was a picture fell off the wall. Which is why I drew the comparison

When you live in a place with a lot of tornadoes you learn when you need to be scared and when you don't. Tornado watch? Go about your day. Tornado warning? Get in a building, check the news. Sky is turning green? Shit is about to get real. They happen a lot and the vast majority don't do any significant damage. I imagine it's how people near fault zones react to most earthquakes or people in tropical areas react to heavy rain

Well put! Thanks for the thoughtful comments

I like this viewpoint. Out of curiosity what would your response be if someone asserted that individuals shape a society and as such crime is the fault of individual for either failing to align with society or failing to influence society to change thus making the crime unnecessary/or non-existent?

Sure, but the inherent problem is that everyone thinks they're in "actual reality". Very few people believe that they have an artificial world view. Thus the problem that you have to bring people into the discussion is that you need to convince them that their interpretation of reality is wrong, which humans are demonstrably bad at doing, and convince them that your reality is the correct one. Then you can begin the discussion on compromise. Much easier said than done

I've seen both The Symphony of the Goddess (Zelda) and Distant Worlds (Final Fantasy) live and both were excellent. This should be a treat for people who like this music