AutistoMephisto
@AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 4 hours ago:
It’s the sequel to the first one, and historical accuracy was like, at the center of of that one. Your character starts off the game not knowing how to read, because in medieval Europe, literacy was not widespread and the son of a blacksmith certainly wouldn’t know how to read, so books you pick up in the game are total gibberish until you learn to read.
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 1 week ago:
Right, back when they were just a bookstore. All I really know about Amazon is that they focused on long-term profitability over increased short-term profits to expand and capture more of the market, and it worked. The problem is that not everyone can do that. They spent every year since 1994 operating at a loss, when anyone else would have been snapped up by another company in the space, and it’s not clear how that didn’t happen. The landscape of e-commerce would have been very different if it had.
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 1 week ago:
Exactly. A systemic issue with capitalistic markets is that they inherently select for short term thinking.
Does it make sense to destroy 90% of your profitability 5 years from now for a 20% bump in profit this quarter? Well, yes, it does, because that’s 20% more profit to expand and take over the market.
Even if a business were to try to make good long term decisions, it would immediately be crushed and pushed out of the market by all of its competitors willing to make those shortsighted decisions for immediate profits.
Except in the case of Amazon, thanks to AWS they were able to make good long-term decisions with their e-commerce platform by making short term decisions with AWS.
- Comment on JeSUS 4 weeks ago:
You know, I learned that a long time ago, Catholic Priests used to be allowed to marry, but because they didn’t really have any of their own possessions or property, priests were cared and provided for by the Church. If they did get married, the wife also was cared for. And in a religion that sees birth control as blasphemy, that means that the kids would also be cared and provided for. And when you have a lot of priests, all getting married and having lots of kids, that gets expensive. So now priests have to be celibate.
- Comment on JeSUS 4 weeks ago:
Well, in those times they didn’t really have dentists, so having all one’s pearly whites in a adulthood was not common.
- Comment on what a moment to live 2 months ago:
I’m speaking, of course, of greedy, wealth hoarding dragons like Smaug. Who would slaughter an entire mountain of Dwarves to get his claws on wealth he will never spend, just to have it.
- Comment on what a moment to live 2 months ago:
Walgreens is a bad choice. They’ve invested a ton of money into cameras and surveillance for their locations. Almost on the level of Target for loss prevention.
- Comment on what a moment to live 2 months ago:
Yep, they should form a union and demand hazard pay on their CBAs.
- Comment on what a moment to live 2 months ago:
Nah, they need to do it at Black Rock HQ.
Alexa, Play The Rebel Path(Cello Version)
- Comment on what a moment to live 2 months ago:
As an aside, another proposed moniker for this hero is “Lancelot”, as he has clearly slain a dragon. Three cheers for the Dragonslayer!
- Comment on Sleep well tonight 2 months ago:
Any silver I get I’m feeding to the furnace and casting into bars.
- Comment on AAAAAHHHHH 2 months ago:
Probably says “Fit for human consumption”. Humans can actually eat mealworms.
- Comment on Playing Outside Simulator coming 2025 2 months ago:
That and the third place is being and has been turned into a place where you go to buy something instead of just enjoy yourself and spend time with friends. There’s nowhere for kids of any age to go that doesn’t charge a fee to get in(some parks), doesn’t have rules against talking(libraries), hasn’t been made obsolete(malls, arcades), or is unreligious.
- Comment on i need an rv, and lab equipment, and a helper 4 months ago:
Exactly. You get what you give. You give the bare minimum to society, and society will give it right back. You want more, give more. Go help your community. Take out your elderly neighbor’s recycling. Volunteer at your local shelters/soup kitchens. Attend some local events. Sit in on city council meetings.
- Comment on Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day? 6 months ago:
They are a real group. They’re part of a coalition with the White Women for Harris, who raised between $2-$8 million for Kamala Harris. Pantsuit Nation is rising up and New Balance Kingdom is going to match their work.
- Comment on Get in the Hilux 6 months ago:
There were also icemen at one point. Then we invented refrigerators. Nobody seems to miss having a giant block of ice delivered to their house to keep the food we buy at the stores cold.
- Comment on The fools! 6 months ago:
Ur ur ur ur ur
- Comment on False Dichotomy Rule 6 months ago:
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- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages | Official Trailer 1 (4K) | Coming 2025 7 months ago:
Looks like we need him again.
- Comment on Every damn day 8 months ago:
Well, you see, back during the 1960’s and 1970’s there was a huge push in the US against war, against white supremacy, against fascism, against the draft, against segregation, and many other things. Many of the people who currently hold US political offices today were either in the universities and colleges when these protests were ongoing, or were already working as staffers for conservative politicians. They saw what was going on and became determined to never let these things happen again. In 1971 when then Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell mailed a confidential memo to his friends in the US Chamber of Commerce titled: “Attack on American Free Enterprise System” and outlined Powell’s concerns re: the youth of the US and the growing sentiments against the Vietnam War. He was worried that our nation’s best and brightest were becoming anti business because of our involvemnt in Vietnam. Powell’s agenda included getting wealthy conservatives to set up professorships, setting up institutes on and off campus where intellectuals would write books from a conservative business perspective, and setting up think tanks. He outlined the whole thing in 1970. They set up the Heritage Foundation in 1973, and the Manhattan Institute after that.
And now, as the New York Times Magazine quoted Paul Weyrich, who started the Heritage Foundation, they have 1,500 conservative radio talk show hosts. They have a huge, very good operation, and they understand their own moral system. They understand what unites conservatives, and they understand how to talk about it, and they are constantly updating their research on how best to express their ideas.
Now, you might be wondering why progressives haven’t done the same thing. There’s a systematic reason for that. You can see it in the way that conservative foundations and progressive foundations work. Conservative foundations give large block grants year after year to their think tanks. They say, ‘Here’s several million dollars, do what you need to do.’ And basically, they build infrastructure, they build TV studios, hire intellectuals, set aside money to buy a lot of books to get them on the best-seller lists, hire research assistants for their intellectuals so they do well on TV, and hire agents to put them on TV. They do all of that. Why? Because the conservative moral system has as its highest value preserving and defending the “strict father” system itself. And that means building infrastructure. As businessmen, they know how to do this very well.
Meanwhile, liberals’ conceptual system of the “nurturant parent” has as its highest value helping individuals who need help. The progressive foundations and donors give their money to a variety of grassroots organizations. They say, ‘We’re giving you $25,000, but don’t waste a penny of it. Make sure it all goes to the cause, don’t use it for administration, communication, infrastructure, or career development.’
- Comment on The starting salary for a new American Airlines flight attendant is low enough to qualify for food stamps in some states 8 months ago:
And by “senior” we mean actually senior. Like, wrinkles, gray hair, liver spots; etc. Of course, if you’re that old, you’re too old to be a flight attendant, so sorry, you’re not hired.
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- Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute.. 9 months ago:
Most of SCOTUS is not in favor of “broad immunity”, for exactly this scenario. They want to make sure that Trump is never held responsible for his actions while in office, and that every President after Trump(if he doesn’t declare himself President for life) is criminally liable for everything. Trump has even said that he’ll have Biden prosecuted if he wins.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 9 months ago:
Here’s the thing about YouTube. From the very beginning, it was a video-hosting platform. Users create content. They upload the content to YouTube’s servers. Other users view the content, and upload their own. A simple formula, no? That’s why their pre-Google slogan was “Broadcast Yourself”. The thing is, storing video data long-term is expensive. This is where Google comes into play, because, unless you’ve got Google’s money, you cannot afford to store literally 100s of Yottabytes of video data, not for very long, anyway. Even if YouTube becomes a “mostly-worthless relic”, there’s nobody who can readily replace it.
- Comment on Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits 9 months ago:
Right, because when capitalists win, we all win! /s
- Comment on When you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be? 9 months ago:
Khorne cares not from whence the Blood flows, only that it flows forever and without cease!
- Comment on Someone call the PETA folk 10 months ago:
Not Daft Punk! What a horrible Discovery! Please forgive them, they’re only Human After All! Please do your Homework before saying such lies.
- Comment on Opposite of clickbait 1 year ago:
Roll Thai?
- Comment on Get to work, crackheads 1 year ago:
This one is in a school zone. People really shouldn’t be speeding through them unless they’re a “fuck them kids” kinda person, and if you are you’re a piece of shit.
- Comment on local hunger games construction almost complete 1 year ago:
Exactly. Parents tell their kids to go play outside, without looking at the “outside” they’ve created.
