misterchief117

joined 1 year ago
[–] misterchief117@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@blazera

An oath or legal affirmation can be made if what you're saying is true and accurate to the best of your own ability and perceptions.

If you say something under oath with the intent to deceive or omit key information or evidence for any reason really, then this could be considered perjury, which is a crime under most legal systems.

If you truly believe you saw an alien and were completely convinced of that and testified that you saw one, yet your claim was found to be factually incorrect, you most likely would not be liable for perjury nor did you do anything illegal (in many modern legal systems). You would simply be wrong.

This could cause you to become an "unreliable witness" which might mean anything else you say or claim is taken with less weight, even in areas you might specialize in. For example, how much would you trust a cardiac surgeon who claimed they had frequent encounters with aliens from outer space?

[–] misterchief117@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How are they measuring the costs here? Even fast-food burgers have significantly shot up in price.

If we go by raw ingredients, then healthy food can be considerably cheaper than pre-made garbage and fast food.

If we add the time cost of traveling to a grocery store, shopping, and then preparing the healthier food, then it could become more expensive.

There's also the fact that most of the USA has absolute shit public transportation which increases the burden for people who can't afford cars to get groceries in the first place. That and the time costs can be reduced with grocery deliveries, however. this might not be a viable option in all areas or work schedules; You want to be home when the groceries are delivered.

Then there is the fact that there are a lot of food deserts , especially in low-income areas. This can make it harder, if not impossible for people to even get healthier food.

Not sure where I'm going with my train of thought here...

[–] misterchief117@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@0101010001110100

Yes and it's over 100 years old and back when flash powder was used for photography.
https://time.com/5241498/how-you-think-you-look-meme/

[–] misterchief117@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Heh, I almost dealt with this yesterday when I cleaned up my room a tad. Everything was scattered on the floor and in order to clean up things better, I had to shuffle everything around until I got everything put back away, albeit imperfectly.

This is one of those situations where ADHD people need to keep going and find a home for the displaced items, even if it's back where it was before. In fact, I'd recommend putting everything back either where it was before, or close to it. Maybe just keep like things with like.

If you're ADHD, you're going to forget where you "reorganized" everything to and you'll end up tearing everything apart looking for that thing you put away yesterday.

It's not a perfect answer, but it's better than leaving everything on the floor...

[–] misterchief117@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@Brunbrun6766

spez is the landed gentry 🤣

[–] misterchief117@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

new rule: triangles are the most sexy shape.

[–] misterchief117@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@Zebrazilla

This fixed it for me. It was already set to English and didn't think to switch it to something different and back.

 

For some reason my kbin interface has switched to Polish and I can't figure out how to change it back...

#kbinMeta

[–] misterchief117@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I play with the brightness/contrast/gamma until I can see everything.

It seems like video editors forget that not everyone is using a multi-thousand dollar display specifically tuned for video editing and most people are probably watching whatever on a cheapo Walmart special TV or monitor.

[–] misterchief117@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I think a lot of people here are confusing liquid assets/cash and genuinely believe millionaires and billionaires have this as pure cash in their bank accounts.

In reality, a lot of the money is tied up in non-liquid assets like property, physical assets, and stocks.

Sure these wealthy people can sell their shares for example, but if they sell too many at once, it will drop the value of the shares.

This is likely why Elon Musk can't afford to pay his bills. Not only is he a grifter and a loser, he's likely extremely cash poor and doesn't have enough liquidity to pay his debts. It's unlikely he'll ever admit this however.

Arguably, the majority of the money these billionares have is essentially speculative.

The more you think about how the economy works, the more you realize how much of a facade it really is. The stock market is a huge sham as well. Most stocks simply don't exist and the amount of value manipulation that occurs is astounding. It's all fake.

I think the sooner we begin to realize that the economy is one giant paper tiger and if we just start telling banks and other "money" purveyors that lock us into our flawed system to go fuck themselves, we can really take away the power from "the rich."

[–] misterchief117@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@TheCrispyDud

I looked through their post history and they're a troll. I just reported a few of their posts.

[–] misterchief117@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious how many of these POS (Point-of-Sale, not Piece of Shit) systems have the default settings to ask for tips. If so, I wonder how many of these places are committing wage theft by not actually paying tips out to the employees.

[–] misterchief117@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this the new Celebrity Deathmatch reboot we've been waiting for?

 

I think trying to protest reddit's asshattery via the blackouts is one tactic, but it appears to be losing a lot of steam for many misinformed reasons. I’m betting there’s a lot of shilling as well.

Perhaps the next phase should be to go after Reddit’s investors and advertisers and make it clear to them they are investing and posting ads in a dying community and will lose a ton of money.

In other words, investing in the dying reddit is a quick way to lose money. Investors and advertisers should pull out of reddit ASAP.

Fidelity cut the value of it’s stake in reddit by nearly half earlier this year. It’s likely that reddit’s value is going to tank substantially in the next few months. https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/01/fidelity-reddit-valuation/

Here are some of the investors that have some stake in reddit:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/reddit/company_financials

I think it needs to be made clear that reddit is absolutely nothing without the community it attracts. The communities are driven by high engagement and good moderators who are all volunteers and work for free

Moderators are unable to work without proper moderation tools. Reddit admins have promised better ones for years and nothing has come to fruition. It’s all lies.

The community is unable to have any sense of engagement if they can’t post or access content due to default website and Reddit app simply being broken and littered with ads that are completely irrelevant to the audience.

Speaking of ads, advertisers should also stop paying for ads because they’re being blatantly mistargeted. Advertisers: You’re wasting A TON of money on ads that will not only not be clicked, but will be straight up blocked.

It’s unlikely reddit will fix these glaring issues since they’ve made that promise for nearly a decade and have only made things substantially worse.

In short, anyone who wants to invest in reddit should invest elsewhere. You WILL lose your money. It’s guaranteed.

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