IrateAnteater
@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 1 day ago:
I don’t think I can see a way to actually accomplish that without still ending up with negative outcomes.
Take for example a surgeon, one who is a specialist who’s time is 100% occupied saving people. Does he get taken away from that to do his time as a garbage collector? Do you tell the patient “sorry, you are going to die. You could have been saved, but we needed your surgeon to go pick up garbage.”, or do you have an exemption list?
And if there’s an exemption list, you will never convince me that people wouldn’t start abusing who is and isn’t on that list. You arrive right back to having a class society.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 1 day ago:
I feel like that entire passage completely ignores the fact that last time the bulk of humanity lived a communal lifestyle, the number of humans on the planet was a few orders of magnitude smaller. It’s a fairly easy setup to maintain when settlements are small and the bulk of people’s time is spent as hunter-gatherers or subsistence farmers. As soon as you put a very large number of people into a city, the communal arrangement falls apart. And many people like living in cities. That genie is out of the bottle, and people are not going to be willing to go back to being a subsistence farmer in a commune.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 1 day ago:
That’s been one of the goals of just about every socio-economic system, but since are not yet at the point where we can completely automate away all undesirable jobs, it all circles back to being shit.
- Comment on Anon cares about the environment 1 week ago:
I don’t think I’ve ever come across a situation where the environmentalist and the phone seller were the same person.
- Comment on Switching from openSUSE Tumbleweed 1 week ago:
So from two seconds of Googling, it looks to be a proton issue, which zypper dup would do nothing to change. Proton versions are controlled from within steam.
- Comment on Switching from openSUSE Tumbleweed 1 week ago:
Does the game have kenal level anticheat? Because if it does, it doesn’t matter what distro you choose, it’s the anti-cheat blocking the game from starting.
- Comment on Anon dips 1 week ago:
I never really understood the fascination with ranch that some people have.
- Comment on How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us? 1 week ago:
Some countries allow it. The major difference is that other people cannot choose for you. Your family can’t “put you down” but you can choose to have a doctor assist.
- Comment on Wise Choice 👍 1 week ago:
The best thing that ever happened to me cell phone-wise was Shaw being forced to sell Freedom. I’ve been with Freedom since they were Wind, and the only good thing that the Shaw ownership ever did was leave existing contract prices alone. I would have been extremely unhappy if Rogers had gotten their hands in Freedom.
- Comment on Wise Choice 👍 1 week ago:
I make made my telecom choices specifically avoiding the big three and their subsidiaries. Has served me well so far.
- Comment on Everywhere he goes, people want to connect with him 1 week ago:
Most consumer units will at least make a half-assed attempt to pick the least occupied frequency.
- Comment on Any day now 1 week ago:
Each end of the spectrum a has its own issues.
A centrally managed economy can be great for making unpopular but necessary changes, but are prone to massive failures when the law of unintended consequences inevitably shows up to bite you in the ass.
Free market economies are great for letting complexities sort themselves out, but are terrible for quickly making necessary changes, and you end up with “death by 1000 cuts” instead of one but failure.
In the end, I think it’s best to use the right tool for the right situation. As the goods/services are less critical, or the barriers to doing it yourself are low, a free market approach tends to work better. As the goods/services become more critical, and the do it yourself barriers are high, the free market approach becomes increasingly shitty for everyone but the owners.
- Comment on Wise Choice 👍 1 week ago:
Depends on what it is I’m purchasing and the cost of the subscription vs the cost of a one time purchase. Also, depends on if it’s a true one time purchase or something along the lines of those “lifetime subscription” one time charges that never seem to actually last z lifetime.
- Comment on the more you know 1 week ago:
I’m trying to imagine the flavour of Oreos with salsa vs Oreos with nacho cheese, and I think that the cheese option would taste better. Not good, but better than salsa.
- Comment on yippie 4 weeks ago:
Probably. Everything is is the result of physics. And I do mean absolutely everything. I’d also argue that any math that isn’t already applicable to physics simply points to something in physics we don’t know about yet. It wouldn’t be the first time we came up with some math before we knew what the application was.
- Comment on yippie 4 weeks ago:
Everything else is physics, so yes exclusively.
- Comment on yippie 4 weeks ago:
Math is just the framework we apply to try and describe physics.
- Comment on yippie 4 weeks ago:
No matter what you do, if you look hard enough, it’s all just physics.
- Comment on misleading cover 1 month ago:
There’s a market out there for literally any kind of smut you can think of. It might be a small market, but there will be a market.
- Comment on Follow me for more shitty diet tips 1 month ago:
It kinda works for me. Sipping on a whiskey works to shift the craving for chips after I’ve already eaten dinner. Of course, that goes out the window if I don’t keep it to the one drink.
- Comment on Noooooo 2 months ago:
the phone call is more convenient as it can be placed from anywhere
And that’s half the problem. My job deals with things that physically exist, and if you can’t be bothered to get your ass in here to actually look at it, I can’t be bothered to deal with whatever your problem of the day is (yes I’m getting bitter about engineers sitting at home telling me “BuT iT wOrKs iN CAD”).
Also, in person conversations are far more effective than phone conversations. Human communication is far more than just purely verbal.
- Comment on Noooooo 2 months ago:
Email tends to have less expectation for immediate response and doesn’t have unavoidable “message read” notifications. Most importantly, in my experience at least, people tend to put more details into an email. Texts, teams messages, etc seem to cause people to try and speak in single sentences, and then I have to play 21 questions to drag the info out of them.
- Comment on Noooooo 2 months ago:
Either send me an email and you’ll get an answer when you get an answer, or come see me in person. Phone calls and text messages are annoying as shit.
- Comment on Mama! 2 months ago:
To visit/fistfight the Andromeda galaxy.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I’m wondering if they got France and Germany mixed up. I don’t remember all the French I was taught growing up, but it didn’t sound right. So I googled it and got “droigts” and “orteils” for “fingers” and “toes”.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Physicists: all three answers are both right and wrong up until the point when they are evaluated.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
That’s easy. The answer is A: 2024. The other answers would require either the zero or the four to be plural.
- Comment on imagine 3 months ago:
Well now you just triggered a false vacuum decay on the far side of the galaxy. Way to go.
- Comment on OP has a realization 3 months ago:
Also, if a civilization is advanced enough to create space-time bubbles, they are advanced enough to have speed matching cruise control.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 3 months ago:
Everyone is free to set their own priorities, but for me, I’ll just not purchase a thing at all, rather than buy it off Amazon. Most people buy too much crap they don’t actually need anyway.