It’s because of all the wokeness.
We've done it, boys
Submitted 2 weeks ago by salacious_coaster@infosec.pub to [deleted]
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Slovene@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
As all things are wont to do in the long run.
One day, you too will be food for worms, who will then shit you out (well, your soft tissues at least).
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Obviously. Once we ban trans girls from playing volleyball, all our problems will be solved.
sundray@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
“We have finally eliminated planned obsolescence. We have replaced it with instant obsolescence.”
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
retro obsolescence with over the air “updates”
Sergio@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
And yet the somehow charge more for it.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
Tuned for optimal exploitation.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I sometimes ask people, “Do you think that in 500 years, capitalism will still govern the world? Is capitalism the last system we will ever see, and is it the single best system humanity as a species could possibly come up with?”
And they are just dumbfounded and don’t know what to say, because they can’t even imagine the concept of an alternative.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
I still can’t believe that the united states had multiple lunar landing missions and several people set foot on the moon… and now the US military and civilian space agencies are reliant on a company run by a Nazi manchild and that cannot send spaceships and satellites beyond low earth orbit…
InputZero@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
To be fair to Musk (LOL!) NASA was chock full of former Nazi scientists back then. You don’t believe me? walk into NASA sometime and yell “Heil Hitler!” WOOP! They all jump straight up! R.I.P Jessica Walter.
MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In all seriousness going to LEO gets the job done the vast majority of the time, medium and high earth orbit have very few use cases with the exception of geostationary which SpaceX has gone to.
Going to the moon is very energy intensive and you don’t get a ton of benefit for it so there’s no real point to going there. Apollo was a jobs program and a dick waving contest with Soviet Russia to prove who could put the biggest nuke anywhere on Earth. Going to the moon has very little scientific/practical value outside of political stunts which Apollo and Artemis programs definitely are
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It was supposed to be our shipyard to build bigger ships than we could lift to orbit, until the dick waving started. NASA had much much bigger plans than just walking around on the moon.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Shareholders don’t need to make profits because they literally own everything and are actively participating in a coup to keep it that way.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Counterpoint: Linux on the desktop works now
groet@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Linux is famously both American and Corporate /s
But yeah sytsem76 and valve are both american and valve is corporate. And around Lemmy you would think they are the only ones responsible for the Linux boom.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
It’s a little bit of both of those nowadays with all the corporate maintainers and the fact that the Linux Foundation is headquartered in the US and Torvalds lives in the US too
But really it’s still a global effort
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Hannah Montana Linux can run code on time itself and create whatever you want from nothing.
Zier@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Well that's good news. Now I can finally relax. I'm going to go lay down in my back yard, that is nothing but dry dirt, and stare up at the pollution clouds in the sky.
Good time, good times.tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Oooh look at Mr. Fancy over here with a dry dirt yard and pollution clouds in the sky! We used to dreeeeam about dry dirt yards and pollution clouds, instead we were happy in our pit of acid rain, and we didn’t complain, either!
Zier@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Ha! I would give anything for acid rain, I am so parched!
Someday I dream of moving to the lush, green fields of Chernobyl.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
“Product hoarding” conflicts with wealth hoarding. The only logical solution is to make less durable products that quickly wear out with frequent use.
That way consumers are forced to spend more and contribute more to the hoarded wealth of individuals who know very well they won’t be able to spend their fortunes before they die. However their desire for more and more wealth to hoard is limitless because it acts as s useless status symbol amongst other wealth hoarders.
When consumers become concerned about skyrocketing cost of living and wealth inequality, the wealth hoarders will remind them they’re lazy and greedy. If they didn’t want to be poor they should have worked harder (like them) or been more careful not to spend all their money on “frivolous purchases.”
However if consumers don’t spend enough money on frivolous purchases, they’re not being smart, they’re “product hoarding.” When consumers don’t have money to spend, but the wealth hoarders continue to churn out shitty products that they know nobody will buy, the economy will collapse.
The wealth hoarders could afford to take the hit. It might even help them understand cause and effect, so they don’t just keep making the same mistakes in the future. They could even use some of their hoarded wealth to get themselves out of the hole they dug by just giving it to the consumers to spend on their own products. But instead, they’re usually just given a bailout because they’re too big to fail.
After all, the economy would collapse without them…
SeventySeven@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Me when any software/hardware/game breaks:
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cars are vastly more reliable. Clearly you weren’t around for carbs.
CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sure, but I can fix a carburetor with a wrench and a screwdriver. Can’t do that with modern cars.
baines@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
starting to not even be able ro change their brakes
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Are you aware that next to your name are two red warning triangles telling everyone you’re of dubious character?
bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t see the triangles. Is it because I have trials too? Now I’m paranoid.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yep. There is a huge echo chamber here who don’t like when things like, cars being objectively more reliable, are pointed out.
sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I like the author xe cution
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Everything for the shareholders!
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Capitalism still works!
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
My car runs forever and my tires run even when flat. Nah bro
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
do you have the latest software update though?
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Actually, everything is working as intended
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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This single diagram really tells you all you ever need to know. And yet a lot of people in the bottom 50% think that the gays or refugees are to blame for their problems.
plyth@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
There is a line missing, for the 0.001%.
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
And they also might magically become the 1%
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
WTF happened in 1971?
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
LBJ wanted to have social spending and have a massive knockout punch in Vietnam. Instead of a knockout punch, the War turned into a massive quagmire. It was costing the US a fortune, but LBJ didn’t want to raise taxes, so he printed money. Nixon got elected and doubled down on the War and using inflation to pay for it. The4n the OPEC oil embargo hit and inflation went through the roof.
Jimmy Carter’s plan [controlled by Fed chair Paul Volker] solved inflation, but by the time it kicked in Carter had been replaced by Reagan. Reagan deregulated a lot of industries and let them run wild.
In 1968, ‘middle class’ was defined as one Union job supporting a family of four. At that time $1 million was a vast fortune. By the time Bush Sr. was out, ‘middle class’ meant two incomes to run the home, and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.
Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Apparently it’s so common a question it’s made into a domain wtfhappenedin1971.com
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Republicans. Go figure.
Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
after a bit of a search, Nixon happened
Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
there’s a how history words vid on the subject youtu.be/HchNA3a9L5E I dunno if it tackles your question tho, as if haven’t watched
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Oh dear god I had not seen that graph updated in some years.
Aberration13@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Now lets see it adjusted for the real value of the dollar over time! :D
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
why? the lines aren’t going to change.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
When it’s not working, it’s working.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I feel like the graph looks like that no matter what years you set as the first and last in the range
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The only point here, as always, is that everybody and anybody who thinks that this chart and only this chart is what matters, is objectively a fucking idiot who has disqualified their own opinion, along with those implying it is a real, serious opinion, which it is not.
bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I feel like the tiny little uptick in the red line at the end is just a lie to try to give us a smidge of hope.