ndjeosibfb (u/ndjeosibfb)

ndjeosibfb commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

Off topic, but I am boggled that Larry Ellison came back to “richest man in the world” this year.

For all the enormous Reach of Facebook adverts, Apple, Microsoft breadth of products, Tesla and SpaceX and Twitter, Amazon’s massive cloud dominance, the AI boom for nVidia…

Oracle?!

“On September 10, 2025, Ellison was briefly the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$393 billion.

In June 2020, Ellison was reported to be the seventh-wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth of $66.8 billion

”

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison

ndjeosibfb · 15 days ago

oracle cloud is a thing and it has some pretty big customers

ndjeosibfb commented on Accepting US car standards would risk European lives etsc.eu/accepting-us-car-... · Posted by u/saubeidl

kelnos · 18 days ago

Yes, it's infuriating.

The extra dumb thing about it is that I don't believe the numbers in the US really even strongly support that preference. Yes, you're less likely to die in a big SUV than in a sedan if you get into a crash, but the difference isn't that large, and the risk of death in general is low enough that it's not worth worrying about.

I drive a sedan, but I'm only really worried about getting killed by one of these monster vehicles when I'm out walking, as a pedestrian, or while I'm on a bicycle.

ndjeosibfb · 17 days ago

conservation of momentum disagrees with your feelings

ndjeosibfb commented on There may not be a safe off-ramp for some taking GLP-1 drugs, study suggests arstechnica.com/health/20... · Posted by u/voxadam

stalfie · 24 days ago

I would argue that your argument is simplistic and does not account for observed geographical variations.

Japan does not have an obesity epidemic. The US has an extreme obesity epidemic. There does not seem to be any good genetical explanation, there might be cultural based behavioral explanations, but Japanese communities in the US are also more obese than ones in Japan (although less obese than the general US population).

So it is clearly entirely possible for a society to have plenty of easily accessible delicious food, with no major government restrictions in place, and not have an obesity crisis. And there seems to be some particularly bad environmental and/or cultural factor in the US driving the abnormally bad obesity epidemic there, and no intervention before GLP-1 has managed to reverse the trend (not that there have been many). There are a lot of theories about this topic, but no clear scientific consensus beyond "all very sweet things are probably maybe bad".

PS: I am aware that Japans "fat-tax" exists and is technically a form governement restriction, but I would assume that it plays a relatively minor role overall.

ndjeosibfb · 24 days ago

they’re starting to get fatter in japan too

i think it’s due to the increasing prevalence of dairy

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ndjeosibfb · a month ago

always book directly with the hotel

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MangoToupe · 3 months ago

> People aren't buying $50,000 new Ford F-150s because they just need a working car to go to work and the grocery store.

Let me introduce you to half of my block. And I live in a city with fantastic public transit where you don't even need a car. I see those loan notices in mailboxes....

ndjeosibfb · 3 months ago

you’re opening your neighbors’ mailboxes and reading their mail?

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bombcar · 5 months ago

Quit your full time job and do home childcare!

ndjeosibfb · 5 months ago

why is this always presented as a bad thing?

ndjeosibfb commented on Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses craigmod.com/ridgeline/21... · Posted by u/speckx

pj_mukh · 5 months ago

This is such a weird notion. Waves of immigrants have created some of the biggest most economically productive cities the world has ever seen. If Tokyo goes this route, only greatness lays in its future.

The rest is just nostalgia, and that's fine. But realistically, a big piece of Japanese culture will be well preserved in the new culture that will emerge. As it is, we've stopped lamenting the arrival of Buddhist influence on the island, so too will other immigration influences.

ndjeosibfb · 5 months ago

many “economically productive” cities are giant shitholes

some things are more important than just making line go up

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b2fel · 6 months ago

I can imagine but wait until you visit a walkable city!

ndjeosibfb · 6 months ago

maybe he doesn’t feel like stepping over needles and passed out homeless people in order to get somewhere