Ideally the answers aren’t just political soapboxing.
Tax Brackets. “I got a pay raise and will now be taxed more and make less money than before the raise”
If <=30k was taxed at 25% and 30+k taxed at 30% and you go from 30k to 31k a year, only the 1k is taxed at the higher rate.
This depends on the country
Benefit cliffs do exist however.
I get that this might not be super intuitive. but how can one not notice that this is untrue? don’t people check their accounts and see that there is still more coming in and not less? just not as much as one might want, but still.
You assume people look at their accounts and do some form of account keeping?
Actually, yeah. I just cannot fathom how one could not at least check what goes in and what comes out. Nowadays you get push notifications for everything anyways, so I just do not get it.
Is this really a common misconception?
Yes, unfortunately.
Very very common in Australia.
That the world is a zero sum game. That in order to have something, someone else has to go without. That in order to be great you have to drag others down.
Yeah I agree that isn’t true
Capitalism is worse. It’s literally Monopoly. We’ve all played that shitty fucking game. With capitalism you get perpetual inflation. A negative sum game. A zero sum game at least implies some basic conservation mechanics, perhaps even a fairness. A negative sum game is a total debt based economy. Waste is a feature. Disposability and commodities go together like peas and carrots, and that ethos sadly reverberates across ecosystems until the planet is dead but you got those pounds or dollars or pesos or whatever. Can’t eat them. Can’t really do Jack shit with them.
The rich gonna wake up some day soon and find the farmer has a well oiled rifle. They’ll make rich fertilizer… 🤑
It has been my experience that, if you could identify these people, they are the best to avoid. Excising these people from your life can very quickly prove it.
It’s the driver for misogyny, homophobia, racism, xenophobia, and so much else.
Exactly. If we could lose that somehow the world would be so much nicer to live in.
A lot of those aren’t necessarily a “zero sum game” strategy and more of just that many people are genuinely judgemental, ignorant piles of shit.
It’s a mix of things! Many racists don’t think of themselves as racist and primarily worry about actions to empower minorities because of the zero sum thinking, not so much because it’s helping “the wrong people”
These people must fail to understand how consensual sex works
Probably never had it
Assumed Intelligence is not smart and does not have any understanding of the concepts of true or false.
High price = high quality.
The luxury pricing model has totally enveloped markets at this point and the correlation rarely applies now.
That’s true but the other direction is generally true. Not always, but often high quality does come at a cost.
Absolutely. I’ve learned over the years that it usually works out pretty well to find out how much the cheapest dogshit option is and aim for an option roughly 1.5x the cost. Obviously not a blanket rule but it covers a surprising amount of common items and I’ve gotten plenty of long-lasting affordable alternatives that I actually enjoy using rather than having the crappiest version of everything.
Yeah I look for the cheapest option and go a step or two higer
Depends on what it is but as a general rule to start from it isn’t a terrible idea.
Veg I will go cheapest because I don’t care if a carrot has a curve. Cooking equipment I usually go midrange and try to find out WHY the really expensive ones are better, then look for those specific features if they actually matter.
My bike is quite a bit higher, though there is a very wide range for bikes. I went for the cheapest of the high end bike range at £600. Probably spent close to than in accessories and maintenance by now too. Although some maintenance costs are me buying tools I didn’t have before too.
As much as I’m laughing at people spending more than $50 on a kettle or toaster or toothbrush or what have you and calling themselves clever shoppers, I think it’s worth spending on anything that goes between you and the ground, e.g. tires, shoes, bikes, etc.
Though I’m sure that adage has also been incorporated into modern pricing models and every damn thing is a fucking scam to manipulate you into thinking you’ve made a shrewd and balanced decision when you spend just a weeee bit more.
I despise every company with a fiery passion.
Expensive doesn’t mean the shoes are good, but cheap does mean they are shit. Of course you also get different types of shoe that may not directly compare with others.
Then you also get different shops selling the same product at different prices.
I selected my toaster by visiting a store and physically fiddling with the levers. From 20€ onwards, the feeling got noticeably better until 120€ price point after which it got worse. The range ended at 300€ SMEG(ma) toaster that felt like what it sounds like. I’m happy with my 120€ toaster.
What store are you shopping at that has €300 toasters??? How could anyone ever get that much value from a toaster???
You spent 120€ to toast bread! I don’t think you get it…
It’s the best toaster apparently. Tbh I don’t know why I would care about the feeling of the lever but at least they have the best toaster lever money can buy.
For that kind of money I would expect it to make, cut and toast the bread for me.
That’s a great one
Broke: You get what you pay for.
Woke: You don’t get what you don’t pay for.
that is true, or just slapping a label like supreme, or tesla on thier products and people thinks its high quality. or with ELECTRIC toothbruses, 100-200 seems to be more likely to be defective than cheaper lines of the same company. Always seek out reviews and peoples experience on specific products. same goes with healthcare/insurance, paying more doesnt mean you will get better quality(it actually incentivized that customers dont seek out care due to potential costs), likewise if you get too cheap of insurance you will get cheap results, not decent and not so-so.
Fuck me that is a lot, think my electric toothbrush was like £20-30
the higher price one are the “smart toothbruses” its not worth it anyways. either go off-brand or buy the 1000-1500 oral braun series.
With automobiles, there is an anti-correlation.
People tend to assume if someone is smart in one thing, they’re smart with everything else too.
That’s not usually the case.
And also assuming that someone who’s not smart in one area is not smart in any area.
Good point I like that answer. Conflating knowledge on a specific topic with general intelligence.
Yup this is me and my dad, he’s great with handy work and has built numerous homes. I am good with technology and can build a server and make my own software. Put us in opposite roles and were both dumbasses.
Sure, but without this flaw engineers wouldn’t have any personality at all.
Or if they are rich, they must be smart or a genius, because they got rich while everyone else did not, its further from the truth, since most of these people come from wealth to begin with. adjacent, same goes for these succesful youtubers/streamers/influencers, these top ones we see all the time dint come from rags to riches, they came from being rich or very well off.
Similarly, people who assume that anyone who struggles with English as a second+ language is an idiot
This one always surprised me
I can differ 17 different kinds of glue by taste!
So many things when it comes to police stops. There is absolutely a problem with policing in America but there is a list of things you ARE required to do when stopped by the police, whether you agree with them or not, and refusing doesn’t help you and only helps them. Yes you are required to have your license on you when driving, and yes you must display and/or hand it over to police when asked. Yes they can ask you to step out of the car. Yes they can search your car if they tow it. Hell watch a few videos on YouTube of traffic stops and you’ll quickly figure out what you do and do not have to comply with. And you will never, ever win an argument with the police on the side of the road, save it for court.
Best advice I ever heard.
Always treat cops as if they just came from dealing with something really awful.
They might have just seen a child abuse case, or a really bad accident, of a fire.
Assert your rights in the court, not in the street.
Very simple, “I do not consent to any search,” but do not interfere with armed people. Once you have asserted your right, you should not try to impede them violating them. Too risky. Let the courts protect you. Or hope that they do, at least.
POLITELY assert your rights on the streets. If an officer asks if they can search your trunk, tell them that you would rather they didn’t.
“Do I have to” and it’s variants are deferential without necessarily ceding your rights in a way that “oh, sure” does. They don’t need any cause at all if you give permission, and if you give permission it’s going to be hard or impossible to argue later that it was an unreasonable search.
The sad truth is that you need to assume that you’re on camera whenever you interact with a police officer, act as if whatever you say will be either edited and shown to the jury or described to them out of context to justify whatever bad actions the officer takes.
100% be polite and even friendly, but 0% on “just let the officer do whatever and think you can fight it in court later.”
Fantastic response
One thing to note is that they are allowed to lie to you, so like you said, important to know your rights, but mostly they can find probable cause to do whatever.
What other people really think of them.
It’s like that joke on The Simpsons.
Fat Tony thinks of himself as a legitimate businessman with 75 arrests and only three convictions, while Ned Flanders thinks he’ll burn in Hell if he doesn’t pay his taxes by January 3.
You never know just how you look through other people’s eyes.
Some will die in hot pursuit in fiery auto crashes. Some will die in hot pursuit while sifting through my ashes.
Math is memorizing and performing algorithms. So many adults looked at the common core math curriculum and said teachers aren’t teaching math anymore because they didn’t see their favorite long division algorithm taught, but memorizing and performing any particular algorithm is not what is important about learning math. Math is about taking axioms and seeing what you can build with them.
Pure maths that was taught over 5 years in the 18th century in university is now taught in 3 years in high school with several other subjects.
So material is stripped down into small pieces and learnt by heart completely out of context- it is basically just learning algorithms.
Common core got a really bad rap because of the poor implementations by companies like Pearson. But the actual curricula are very good.
The word you’re missing is “arithmetic”. For most people “math(s)” and “arithmetic” are the same thing, when the latter is only the commonly encountered part of the former.
And for many of those people, algorithms are the only way they can use arithmetic to reach a goal because the intuition isn’t there otherwise.
I say this in full knowledge that even though I’m pretty good at arithmetic, much of the intuition I have now took me years after leaving school, and sometimes for more advanced things it’s still not there.
For example, on a good day I can complete the square, and I understand the geometric intuition, but most of the time I’m just going to plug and chug with the quadratic formula.
Potentially triggering, beware: belief is something reserved for everything outside of the material and observable, like the afterlife, God and values. Often people want material “evidence” as a prerequisite for belief but it just doesn’t work that way, there’s no necessary material connection between that and belief. Ofc, belief that cannot conform to one’s reason and understanding will never stand for long, but it has nothing to do with the world perceived by the senses, that’s what all scientific fields and tools are for!
When I say many people here/in the West don’t understand the nature of belief, that’s what I mean. They don’t stand for anything, they just accept the world through their senses and in the absence of values (again, belief), they can only default to consumerism and hedonism (because the senses say they feel good and that’s all one can “know” in the absence of belief).
“Belief” and “values” are not synonymous and not dependant upon one another.
Faith is the belief in something without evidence, or in the face of contradictory evidence
It’s choosing to believe without good reason
I’m never going to respect that.
To say that people have no values because they’re not part of some superstitious nonsense says a lot about you, as does your straw man of “consumerism and hedonism”
Like I said, if it goes against your understanding you’ll never truly believe it, not for long at least. It’s not choosing to believe with no “good reason”, it’s choosing to believe despite there being no relation at all between matters of fact (ascertained by the senses) and that. Check out Hume’s fork, it’s kinda like that. God is not in this world, God is necessarily outside of it and of a different nature (we’re data for God the programmer, we’re his free-willed Sims and the universe is a sandbox) so you can’t find Him here, through our senses, and added to that are the classical fork interdictions (e.g., moral statements cannot derive from matters of fact, one can simply not care).
And if you have some somewhat prosocial if not completely developed set of moral standards, well that’s great, I’m happy! Men are made good after all, hence the propaganda needed to turn one against each other.
I like that answer.
Photography is so much more than pointing a camera and pushing the button, even though cell phones have reduced it to that for a lot of people.
Good photography requires intention, planning, luck, skill in knowing how to compose a scene, knowledge of light and color temperature, sensor exposure, how to direct people about if people are involved, and then, in editing in post-production, skillful edits, adjusting tone, doing masking, color grading and calibration, and any other steps to perfect an image.
For me to produce one work here on this site, it can take me two or three hours, not including travel time!
Great answer!
I learnt the team “Point and shoot engineer” to refer to modern cinematographers/ photographers.
This took me a lot of work but I’m glad I made it.
They looks great!
And also worth mentioning that 1 great photo comes after 50 or so not-so-good ones. A lot comes down to luck, especially with more dynamic shots. Take a shit ton of photos and a few of them are bound to turn out nice.
Awww, came here with my political soap box :(
People who put their toast butter side down are idiots, that much we can all agree on.
Yes, but if you eat it buttered side down you’ll taste the butter better.
Thanks for reading
People think successful software is usually made by huge teams.
In actuality, most open source is just one or a couple of people building something they found useful and releasing it. Even corporate software is usually a small team. Sure some software has huge numbers of people working on it (google for example) but its not the norm. Your bank app, this site here, all very small teams.
I remember when bitcoin first started and I got into the idea of sending $$ with it. First couple of years had less than 100 people in total touch it. And 90% of it was a couple of people at most.
A bit of a tangent, but most software has NO plan if that person or people walk away from the project. Or just straight up die. We live in a somewhat golden era when software has only just started outliving its builders. But watch the next 20-40 years. It will be interesting times.
I was surprised when I learned that. Same with the idea that adding more people to a software project doesn’t make it go faster. To be clear, I am very ignorant on software stuff in general.
But surely if we add another eight women to the team they can deliver the baby in one month…
Yeah I’m sure that’s an appropriate analogy.
Decimation means “lose 10%”, not “lose all BUT 10℅”
If two people suddenly quit your twenty-man team you’ve been decimated. If eight or eighteen people quit you’ve been devastated.
(Plus a bunch of “politics” and civil rights things.)
Linguistics are descriptive, not prescriptive. There can be no “common misconception” in language, because the moment a misconception is common enough, it becomes true
Linguistics just doesn’t deal with definitions like that. It does mean that, and certainly even connotatively historically. Today, in modern parlance, it definitely means “to kill a large portion of” something, and is almost never used as a 10% reference. So your team could be correctly described as “decimated” in both scenarios.
Dictionaries are free to note whatever definition they want, but so is everyone else
Language - wait for it - evolves.
Worked in a company that decimated their workforce with redundancies. I word it correctly and other people wrongly assume it means something else.
Great answer
When you grow old, life will be as easy as when you are young.
No, it will be much harder. And in the end, it will be so hard that you can’t do it anymore.
For me this has been a curve not a slope. Hard childhood, getting better in later middle age, expect a harder time later but so far things have been easier.
So I think “it gets better” is a reasonable thing to say to kids having a hard time. It can get better.
Old old? Yes I agree. Even healthy old people, your friends are dying around you, it hurts.
That the bible is a good book from a good deity. The bible is filled with deity advocated slavery, rape, genocide, and totally unnecessary blood sacrafice.
Lmao cringe soapboxing. Your position is the Bible is simply a book promoting slavery, rape, and genocide. Can you reconcile why it has also inspired movements against slavery, for civil rights, and for charity. Do you think describing something in the Bible is the same as endorsing it? And how do you distinguish between laws given to ancient Israel and moral principles Christians believe apply today? Feels like the kind of statement an edgy 16 year old with the inability/inexperience to understand historic, cultural or theologic context would make. Yes, I recognize this is Lemmy and I’ll heavily be in the minority with any opinion that isn’t “religion bad”.
People cherry pick the bible. Yes, the deity of the bible explicitly advocates for rape, slavery, and murder in the bible. Not only does it describe it, it advocates for it. It’s not my job to distinguish between bullshit laws in the bible and today’s laws. That is a christian problem they need to ask themselves. I for one, do not take what the bible says seriously. I’m just stating that it’s not what people make it out to be. It’s not good.
Hit me with some verses that support your statement.
If you want to debate, I’ll do you one better. Listen to the atheist experience 30.27. They talk about this very topic. They have the bible verses you want. I don’t feel googling bible verses for you and debating you. Maybe call them and defend your faith as instructed to you by 1 Peter 3:15 (I remember that). It’s a call in show. I always enjoy listening to people try to defend slavery, rape, murder and their deity.
