DahGangalang

DahGangalang , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to asklemmy in Whats your such opinion

This thread really has brought out some real crazies.

But you sir are, in fact, a demon among men.

DahGangalang , 6 months ago to technology in Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app

And 20 more reading yours.

DahGangalang , 6 months ago to technology in Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs

In a lot of ways, this is where I’d like to be, but my mind hesitation to jump from Spotify (and comparable services) is the ability to discover new music across a crazy variety of genres. Especially since it’s stable and uses the same controls every time, I think I’d have a hard time leaving.

Big tech got me addicted like that.

DahGangalang , 6 months ago to technology in Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs

What do you do for music instead?

DahGangalang , 6 months ago to news in Firearm suicides reached "unprecedented" high in 2022, CDC data shows

my own prejudiced opinion.

Lol, okay.

Yeah, naw, I don’t keep close track of ammo prices, but it was my understanding that the pandemic saw prices spike, but that they’ve leveled off (and started to come down, though only minimally) since the “pandemic wound down”.

Though, this isn’t something I keep my finger to the pulse of, so if you have more recent info, I’d appreciate it (feel free to DM if you’re hesitant to post as comment).

DahGangalang , 6 months ago to news in Firearm suicides reached "unprecedented" high in 2022, CDC data shows

Eh, article is from 2021.

DahGangalang , 7 months ago to news in Deere must face US farmers' 'right-to-repair' lawsuits, judge rules

National Security?

Bro, you’re thinking too small - this affects the security of all mankind on Earth. With falling yields from Ukraine and other conflict growing around the world, I except agricultural output to dip DRASTICALLY in the coming years. This means it will more than likely fall to the Deer dominated production area to take up the slack and feed humanity.

I wish US regulators would see the importance of agriculture and would stop letting multi-billion dollar companies bully the actual producers of our food chain.

DahGangalang , 7 months ago to aboringdystopia in Keep in mind that social security is set to run out in 10 years time.

On one hand: fair. If you’re not versed in elements of tax law this but of data can seem arcane.

On the other: this is a matter of policy - not one of research. This the definitive answer can be found rather easily with a Google search. Here’s a link to a Social Security Administration page on the topic: www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/cbb.html

By the math set out at the above link, one can calculate that, at a maximum income of $168,600 and a SS Contribution rate of 6.2%, the most any individual would contribute to social security in a year would be $10,453.20.

$10,453.20 would represent 0.052266% of the income of someone making $20 millions per year. Even doubling that amount (as some conservatives do) to count the employer’s contributions to Social Security would leave you with just over 0.1% of net income.

So yeah, even if Social Security isn’t going bankrupt, it’s an anemic system that barely provides livable circumstances for those who depend on it. Raising or removing that “max income for contributions” limit would go a long way to seeing the system be able to actually support people who need it while only burdening those most able to bear the burden.

DahGangalang , 7 months ago to aboringdystopia in Keep in mind that social security is set to run out in 10 years time.

I want to believe. Can you provide sources for that claim?

DahGangalang , 7 months ago to linux in what caused you to get into Linux?

I’m a cheap bastard.

Free is free

DahGangalang , 7 months ago to technology in EU stops advertising on X over hate speech. Fines could follow next year

I think this is largely a consequence of the rate of change.

Going from 50 generations back to 40 generation back (call it 750 AD to 1000 AD) very little would have changed for people, especially those limited in their means of transportation. I think this is largely, if not exactly, true of any generational gap (the exceptions I feel can be found at those bridging the rise and fall of empires)

Meanwhile, 10 generations ago (call it like 1750) wouldn’t recognize the world today. Hell, 2-3 generations ago (thinking of those born ~1925-1950) barely recognize the world of today.

The way I see it, the rate of change we experience in the world today is simply beyond the rate of change we were bred for over the bulk of humanity’s history.

With that perspective in mind, it feels wrong to hold it against people to resist parts of that change.

Yeah, in my ideal world, we’d all get along and be able to deal with these things in a civilized manner, but that feels super dismissive of the Human Condition and the real lived experience of people in the real world.

Looping back to the point I want to make: coming at people hard for having a negative reaction to a changing world doesn’t make their acceptance of the changing world any better.

DahGangalang , 7 months ago to technology in EU stops advertising on X over hate speech. Fines could follow next year

That’s fair. I can see how I read more malice into your comment than was intended. I’d like to apologize for that.

I do want (for the sake of clarity) to say that I agree the flow of muslims to EU/US cities is not a problem. The notion of any western nation implementing Sharia Law (or any approximation) is wild at best.

I do think that the way you accused him of needlessly fear mongering doesn’t placate or soften the guys opinions. I think flat accusations like that are part of what pushes guys who do believe “Sharia Law will come by having Muslims around” into more extremist positions. Whether you intended it or not, I’m sure it was received as a belittling comment what will only serve to alienate the guy.

That does beg the question: what is the correct way to handle comments like this guy’s, to which I don’t have a good response. I do appreciate you rolling out actually data. But watching the polarization of beliefs and politcal positions, I feel the part folling the link to statistics isn’t helping.

DahGangalang , 7 months ago to technology in EU stops advertising on X over hate speech. Fines could follow next year

I suppose, the point I mean to make is that belittling this guy does nothing to solve the problem.

DahGangalang , 7 months ago to technology in EU stops advertising on X over hate speech. Fines could follow next year

I don’t want to get in the middle of a flame war, but as someone who’s seen the culture of his small town shift over the last couple decades, I can’t help but have some sympathy for those who worry about this happening in their local (Admittedly, in my case, it’s watching a town where the suburban drops off to rural slowly be subsumed by city sprawl, so this might be a false equivalance).

But I think the real issue is that that’s not an evenly distributed 11%. People will naturally bunch up in groups along cultural lines. I could see a city developing a single Arab/Muslim neighborhood over the course of a decade being of no note, but it sounds like some are developing multiple over just a couple years.

I have no real data to back that notion up, but from what I hear from Europeans, that’s the general feel. I think that’s the real issue: things are changing and they feel like they’re changing fast, and that’s freaking people out. Telling people who feel that way they’re crazy only “others” them and I feel that’s really how the situation gets worse.

But also, the towns the guy above mentioned feel like bigger cities (I’m American and haven’t been to Europe, so I also might lack perspective), and so I do feel like they’re overstating the point.

DahGangalang , 7 months ago to technology in Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games

This, but unironically.

If I had the means to pirate my internet connection, I’d do it in a heart beat.