Dyskolos
@Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
Homo Homini Lupus Est
- Comment on Self sacrifice is honorable 2 days ago:
You’re the expert here, why would I dare to argue.
- Comment on Self sacrifice is honorable 3 days ago:
Nonsense. We wouldn’t even have been affected by it.
- Comment on Self sacrifice is honorable 3 days ago:
You’re free to have this opinion. But even if I would be dumb enough to prove it, I wouldn’t know why I should 😁
- Comment on Self sacrifice is honorable 3 days ago:
Did this once to a company that treated me disrespectful. In the 90s when I still worked. To not go into any detail: Set a timer for 7 months after I was gone. Virus started infecting everything slowly so that even the backups were useless. I knew their schedule, it was not optimal and not very secure. Well, another few months later, company was sold cheap. Employees taken over and all happy now.
- Comment on Another redundant app 3 days ago:
Gargantuan. Of sheer immeasurable proportions.
- Comment on wage theft 4 days ago:
Meh this blows. We (germany) are at 6% i think. But as far as I’ve heard, it’s the absolute same here with those fake-jobs that just test the market. Disgusting way to do that, but sadly efficient. Also it probably helps to kill the spirit and hence…the salary. Switching is probably not the wisest anyway, except you already hate your current. Plus you probably would have to explain that.
And sad to hear that this “rugged individualism” is the same in CA. We even have a saying for that that goes like “lick the boots above, kick the heads below”. Which basically is the mentality of the, let’s say, intellectually more challenged people. But capitalism breeds this, it’s an intended feature.
- Comment on The future 5 days ago:
The difference of being a slave to an ugly fat dude, to being a slave to some dominatrix is different than what your horny mind says.
For the eyes, the dominatrix surely is superior. No doubt. But I’d prefer the nasty douche, as he maybe is too lazy to whip me, while the lady gets off of it.
Considering being a slave, means a lifetime commitment, I’d choose the less-whippings-route. Guess my libido would get flatlined of the hot ladies after two weeks of work and whipping anyway.
- Comment on Carnists be like... 5 days ago:
Exactly. I would say veganism should be no “trendy” culture, but just an obvious consequence for treating animals the same like us, being also animals. But if people already get offended by food topics, there is no ground to advance that topic any further to ethics or so 😁
I’m not even a vegan BTW.
- Comment on intruder alert 5 days ago:
But hey, it can also switch on your lights and play music. If you also pay for prime :-)
- Comment on intruder alert 5 days ago:
Indeed. Why would anyone use them despite not even getting paid for it but paying for it?
- Comment on wage theft 6 days ago:
It’s so easy actually. But it mostly fails at people insatiable greed. I never really got it. Is enough not enough? Sure it can’t hurt to have more than one needs, but to elevate your living standards by X for every X you earn more is…silly.
Thanks. IMHO that’s the best buisiness-model. At least for privately owned companies. Sucks for publicly listed. They only exist to blow shareholder-dicks and would prefer machines or slaves over people.
And OK, your parachute instead of a net…fitting, yet a tad cynical. Here it’s close to yours. 1 year at 60% (I think…) And bare minimum after that. Devastating if you lived large. But still better than nothing. Though it should be more fair and tied to income. 100% for lower incomes and 5% for higher or such.
But unless one had very little or lived exactly as large as one could, it’s still a lot of time to comfortably get another job. I hope. Never actually had to search for one.
- Comment on wage theft 6 days ago:
Kudos to you to for not submitting to inferior building codes. But Canada does not have a social net? You get fired and end up without any income? That is so very US-american :(
the world surely is no ideal “should”. But it should. It’s so fucking simple. I always treated employees as equals. Sure, I had a slight bit more income, but it was also my risk alone, so that’s just fair. But everyone got their salary directly tied to the profits. Only up of course, not below the agreed upon basis. Also everyone could come and go as they please, as long as the agreed upon work was somehow done. Local or at home, whatever. Who cares. Everyone, janitors included (although their from-home was a bit…hard to do lol). I had much less income, but everyone was a) happy b) actually motivated to do good work. Because everyone profited from it.
How could people enjoy their life with maximum profits, knowing every other employee’s life suck? The world is so stupid.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Already did :)
- Comment on wage theft 1 week ago:
Without a job you have zero support system
Civilized countries have a social net. Or at least SHOULD have. Also you could sue WHILE still working there. If they owe you money, they owe you money.
- Comment on wage theft 1 week ago:
As a non-US-american: if your company doesn’t pay you what it is supposed to pay, why don’t u just sue them? Then they have to pay you AND the lawsuit.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Exactly. Plus the “omg look at that!” Is gone. Subnautica had such awesome jaw-dropping moments and environments and especially aurally… I killed a lot of it by cutting the experience in pieces…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I really do not care about the price. I even wondered why it’s cheap-ish at all. This game will most likely bring tons of fun hours like no other games do. Really worth every cent. Also i bought it on all accounts already, i will just try to restrain myself from installing or even playing…maybe…hopefully. :-)
- Comment on I will kill you 1 week ago:
I’m more pragmatic, i just choose the easiest, most effective way. Which is vaping. Also doesn’t bother wifey as not the whole house reeks of weed :-) But if tobacco works for you there well…why not. Maybe there’s some super-low-nicotine-tobacco? I really have no oversight over the market any more lol.
- Comment on I will kill you 1 week ago:
Wise. And you absolutely missed nothing at all :)
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Who am I kidding… I’ll probably fail somewhere along the line and also play it. “Juuuust a lil bit”
But at least i try 😁
Yeah in the previous titles I bombed them with reports too
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Oh no, I don’t worry they won’t finish it. I worry playing half a game 5 times and starting again for every “new cup added” update 😁 Like I did with the previous titles.
I just want a complete run “for the first time” this time.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I…will…stay…strong. No playing before a year after release. 100% done and with mods. Already bought on all accounts…
- Comment on I will kill you 1 week ago:
If only nicotine HAD a high to chase. It’s the normal that’s craved here, that’s the sad part.
- Comment on I will kill you 1 week ago:
I didn’t underestimate how normal it was back then. I started too back then. Everyone smoked. Everywhere. All the time. Restaurants, supermarkets, trains, cars, AIRPLANES. Those were horribly shitty times (in that regard).
What i meant is that lying to yourself “i love this!” until you actually think you do. THIS is the dumb thing. Deciding that you’re never going to stop, so you can just start “loving” it instead. So you at least hate yourself a lil less. Or more precise: Stuff that feeling way deeper down, so you might forget it’s there. Everyone does stupid things, no matter how “smart” one is. This was not the point.
- Comment on I will kill you 1 week ago:
Maybe my “dumb” was a lil harsh, but the decision to actively lie yourself into the belief “i love this!” is dumb. No better word for this kind of defeat. I couldn’t even lie to myself that hard, even if i truly wanted.
Yup, I hated it too. Hated every negative thing that came with it, most of all being a slave to tobacco-corporations. Just imagine, there’s only one company left, and you’re outta cigs. What is it that they could demand of you to do, that you would. just for the next smoke? That fucked me the hardest.
- Comment on I will kill you 1 week ago:
That’s the problem. It does not. It shortly relieves a smoker of withdrawal-symptoms. Drinking a bottle of Vodka makes you feel “good”. Smoking some crack or blow does make you feel “good”. Nicotine does basically nothing of value, you just feel great because you’re non-addicted. For a few minutes and then the withdrawal-symptons slowly mount again.
If a smoker now attributes this to be a BENEFIT of a cigaratte, not the ABSENCE of the opposite, that’s where the problem starts.
- Comment on I will kill you 1 week ago:
But even if you failed to assert the consequences of your actions, you’d surely run across someone close that told ya “why do you smoke? STOP! I like you being around longer!” or so? Wouldn’t that at least trigger some “hmm?”
Besides, my opinion surely is based on anecdotal knowledge of the past 3 decades and many talks with smokers. My “field-study” surely saw a correlation between general intellect and the usual self-lies about why “i love it sooo much”. Obviously not everybody able to lie to themselves to such an extent, is also dumb as a doornail.
- Comment on I will kill you 1 week ago:
Spoken with many smokers over the years, and it’s really always the same. The first X cigs were disgusting, puke-inducing and whatnot. then it grows okay-ish and then…you wasted the good point of stopping here and now once and forever and…enjoyed the first calming of a withdrawal :-(
How about VAPING weed? beside that it’s way less unhealthy it’s also more comfy? ever tried? If i had to put tobacco in a joint, i would pass up on a joint. and i would never pass up on a joint :)
- Comment on I will kill you 1 week ago:
I started in probably the same time. For the same reasons. Being the same stupid teen. Of course I loved it. Being cool that is, not the process itself. It tasted like ass, I ruined a lot of carpets and keyboards and…being cool was literally the only thing.
But that was kinda my point. (Young) people do dumb things. But then you grow up or get wiser. And I’ve heard people smoking for 60yrs saying how they “love it”. And upon being questioned what it is they actually love about, it kinda comes down to how smoking calms the effects of nicotine withdrawal. And how could an adult, in today’s times, NOT know what smoking is, does, or how it affects us, or what coping is etc.
I’d bet my left nut, that those, who “love” it, deep down know they’re fucked, but convinced themselves otherwise to feel better and move on with life, not feeling like a slave to Marlboro.
Arguably that would even be the better path if you absolutely know you couldn’t stop. No reason to also hate yourself for it.
- Comment on I will kill you 1 week ago:
I was a dumb-as-a-doornail teen in the 90s. That was the reason. Being the coolest motherfucker. And I doubt there ever was a person smoking the first one and be like “wow this is great!” I never liked it, I wanted to smoke too and did, and then there was no way out of it. Not once in my life I heard a smoker say “my first one was awereesomeeeee! I love this!”.
That’s the point where people choose to persuade themselves it’s not a drug addiction but a “life-choice” or “taste”. I mean, come on. All other drugs at least offer you something. Nicotine? The best it does it calm you down FROM the withdrawal symptoms.
It’s not really being “at a different spot”. There won’t be another step if you already convinced yourself you’d love it. That’s, IMHO, and surely only my anecdotal knowledge, what the less smart people do when, deep down, they know they’ve already lost.
Shouldn’t have sounded like from a high-horsed ex-smoker. But would you call that coping overly smart?
And thanks. Took me 15 years of “tomorrow I’ll start!” and two nightmare-weeks. Smoked 2-3 packs a day, which was like 30-45€ a day. God that hurts to say.