yggstyle
@yggstyle@lemmy.world
- Comment on Woohoo! Just in time for the holidays! 3 days ago:
Hey now that would only be 15ish cents of 2020 money. Better spend that now before it’s only worth 50% of what it’s worth currently.
- Comment on Epic Store's Unreal Tournament page now has free download links to Unreal, Unreal 2, and Unreal Tournament '99 1 week ago:
CTF Face Instagib
IYKYK. Fond memories.
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 1 week ago:
- Comment on If you have sex with a clone of yourself, is it incest? 3 months ago:
“Oh yeah, already did man! And not to toot my own horn (again) but I gotta say…”
- Comment on Firefox: The Data Collection, Advertising Browser. 5 months ago:
I’ll admit it was shocking to see their change in stance… and it needs more eyes on it. Your explanation seems plausible though.
- Comment on Firefox: The Data Collection, Advertising Browser. 5 months ago:
I sat through the video and didn’t have too many issues. Considering the delivery of most YouTube creators are biased I expect a small amount of sensationalism… which admittedly was there but wasn’t overbearing.
I prolly wouldn’t sub the guy but the information was at least well represented and explained.
Cabal is a colorful choice of word. Honestly I’d describe the recent Mozilla actions as insidious; frankly. This recent change is, if anything, a clear signal that they are willing to sacrifice the user experience for profit and… well… we know how that goes.
- Comment on Firefox: The Data Collection, Advertising Browser. 5 months ago:
Seems unusual that this post is getting downvoted.
- Comment on 25% of Housing Purchases in 2023 were Private Investors 5 months ago:
Private investment firms are already dropping inventory. It’s sad to say but housing has become a pump and dump somehow. The unfortunate thing is the people who get rugged will end up being people who bought from them.
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 5 months ago:
…until morale improves? Dually noted lol.
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 5 months ago:
I said as much multiple times.
The point of that statement was to highlight that it is possible to construct something that does not allow for consolidation and corruption of power… which it did. Your view, simply was looking at present day examples which as you correctly identified do not work. That doesn’t mean nothing can work however … which is why I disagreed.
It’s a fun mental exercise to what if and try to construct something that could work. Can’t tear something down without considering what rebuilding it would look like.
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 5 months ago:
I disagree. It’s about execution - creating an environment that is resistant to corrosion. A standing force can absolutely be viewed in that manner - which is why it cannot be a single static standing force.
The UN is the right idea but it needs teeth. And it needs the teeth to be double sided. If boots are on the ground peacekeeping they should be without bias and secondary interest. An attack on a peacekeeper has no guarantee of the creed nor country of origin of that keeper.
Peacekeeping should be like a draft. Every country that participates must provide and maintain a set number of rolling participants. These people will serve and train initially in humanitarian deployments with others… half way through their ‘term’ they should be moved to peacekeeping duties. This is idealized but would be good for both building trust amongst peacekeepers and goodwill towards them. This solves the military portion (roughly) - I have a lot of thoughts on this and believe it to be solvable… it just won’t be. No country gets to benefit therefore it has no merit.
That covered the military side… when talking about the economic side: the peacekeepers (let’s say un for simplicity) carry the ability to (by vote) censure a country and cut it off from direct trade / support. At that time any trade is then routed through the UN and it becomes the middleman. This allows economic pressures to be precisely controlled on an area. Once that country falls in line, by majority vote, operations are restored. Once again this is idealized and has no obviously advantaged party … so it has no merit and will never occur.
Basically everyone is equally held accountable and equally invested. Of course this means everyone gets a seat at the table and everyone gets one vote. I’m certain we can already see why this has 0 chance of ever happening. Those in power seek to keep it - very few will willingly give some away.
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 5 months ago:
Oh, I’m fully aware. Tribalism is the lizard brain going deeeep in the paint. The problem is this: peaceful culture doesn’t fight back - aggressive culture exploits this: which one thrives? We have systematically bred for and codified our warlike nature. This is the result. Is it fixable? Many have tried. Our history books are littered with both failed attempts and their distorted remains. All I can say for certain is that the way the majority of countries are structured… isn’t it. This is fundamentally why achieving a fix is nearly impossible at scale: tribalism. Even if we are wrong it’s our wrong and we don’t want to lose it. This is rooted in fear of change which from a survival aspect makes sense… but becomes detrimental at scale.
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 5 months ago:
This may not be a popular response but when did the nazi regime stop? When did China stop with it’s cleansing? America and manifest destiny? I could go on… Humanity needs to realize that we are pretty shitty in general and can’t be trusted when it comes to hatred, entitlement, and tribalism.
The solution is a neutral third party with sufficient power to stop any country’s bullshit through economic and military (actual) peacekeeping… which doesn’t exist nor will it ever.
So the short answer is they will stop when the cleansing is complete.
After the deed is done we as ‘civilized’ nations will lament the tragedy and promise change… until the media cycle washes all those sins down the drain and it will be forgotten until next time.
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 11 months ago:
They put one too many ads on the home screen… then they made them larger…
fuck em. they get nothing now.
blocked their ad servers at the DNS level.
