Leate_Wonceslace
@Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Potash 5 days ago:
108 now. (108 is a lucky number)
- Comment on Vibes based cooking 1 week ago:
Isn’t this normal?
- Comment on The lost days 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure that’s missing 10 days fam.
- Comment on Checking in 1 week ago:
'twas greasy.
- Comment on Checking in 1 week ago:
do not pass
IDK seems pretty horny to me. Doesn’t that mean you pass?
- Comment on Checking in 1 week ago:
It’s refusing to upload, but it’s an image a greasy sandwich while I hold it with chopsticks. The sandwich has a bite out of it.
- Comment on Time to make your decesion 2 weeks ago:
Susan.
- Comment on I wanna ROCK 2 weeks ago:
If I remember, I can do it Monday afternoon. I unfortunately work 14 hours tomorrow and I can’t risk staying up.
- Comment on I wanna ROCK 2 weeks ago:
Technically everything glows.
- Comment on I wanna ROCK 2 weeks ago:
Do they think all rocks glow?
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, I just assumed that you were being hostile for some reason.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 weeks ago:
“Look it up” is never a good argument. With that said, I understand what you mean now; Thank you.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 weeks ago:
1908 and 1940.
During this time populist policies that disrupted the owners were implemented and being implemented. As such, it is clear they weren’t in control of the country. Thus, it was not an oligarchy.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 weeks ago:
I need you to define the word “oligarchy” and then show me that it applies using that specific definition.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 weeks ago:
“To prevent violent uprising of the proletariat” are you actively trying to phrase it to make it sound like even when someone does something good it was actually bad?
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 weeks ago:
proven
Please explain. I don’t disagree with the conclusion, but this supporting statement doesn’t ring true to me.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 weeks ago:
I guess Teddy Roosevelt and FDR never existed.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 weeks ago:
The people saying “always has been” have really short memories or’ve forgotten about the Roosevelt administrations.
There is a decent argument to be made that the USA is a de-facto oligarchy. However, it’s a de-jure liberal democracy and Constitutional Republic for the time being.
- Comment on Anon visits America 2 weeks ago:
The calorie count is accurate for what they give you, not what fits in the cup. They just use a cup that’s way too small to trick you into thinking they’re giving you more than what paid for.
- Comment on almonds 4 weeks ago:
So there’s cyanide in the soil?
- Comment on But of course we don't want to poison our child. 4 weeks ago:
But otherwise, no.
- Comment on Excellent anti smoking ad 4 weeks ago:
This was made by a Furry.
- Comment on I'm literally a thinking lump of fat 4 weeks ago:
No, you’re the electrochemical interactions happening inside the lump of fat.
- Comment on Is there a theoretical limit to profit? 4 weeks ago:
For anyone wondering: I have this dude tagged as a “moron”.
- Comment on Is there a theoretical limit to profit? 4 weeks ago:
Well I’d say it’s when the proletariat revolts, destroying the machine of exploitation, at which gathering further profit is impossible.
- Comment on Is there a theoretical limit to profit? 4 weeks ago:
I’m making a distinction between money as a system of abstracting wealth and what wealth practically means. You’re making a highly disputable philosophical argument about the ontological nature of money instead of engaging with the germaine ideas. Simply put: I don’t consider a physical representation of money in-and-of-itself; I consider the bill to be a part of a grand fragmented ledger. Furthermore, bitcoin is literally a public ledger for which there is no physical exchange of any representation of money. As a final example, the Yap isles famously have a monetary system that has physical Incarnations but no physical exchange among the people of the isles. It’s literally just a public ledger that exists in the minds of those who use it.
- Comment on Is there a theoretical limit to profit? 4 weeks ago:
Technically, money is just a number on a ledger. Practically, there’s a finite amount of wealth in the solar system, much less on earth, significantly less accessible to humans and only a slim amount can be taken from the working class before people start starving. We already have little enough that the population is going to start contracting.
- Comment on Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭 5 weeks ago:
Would it’s get me banned to reply with “I love reading about CEOs getting killed, and I want more of them to die”?
- Comment on Thief has a new spiritual sequel, built by the Deus Ex and System Shock devs 5 weeks ago:
I hope they mean thief the Dark Project and not Thief (2014).
- Comment on oh man 5 weeks ago:
I was constantly lurking on rarionalist forums until late 2016, and much less so now. When Bernie made his arguments the entire community shifted left. Given Yudkowsky’s positions on responsibility (in short all of us should do everything we can to maximize utility) I am entirely unsurprised to learn that one of us is the person who merc’d the guy. My raeicalization started wit Yudkowsky and then it was set into overdrive by watching the DNC be selfish while the GOP had been abjectly horrid.
Whether we’re successful more often or not the rationalists are mostly trying to reduce suffering and maximize pleasure for as many people as possible. That’s why we’re so into tech; we see it as a way to improve as many lives as we possibly can. Luigi likely saw this as the way he could do the same. The fact that he was spurred to action by his own particular suffering doesn’t change the fact that he was probably right.