porous_grey_matter
@porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
- Comment on No u 2 weeks ago:
It’s much more common than it should be, but that is still rather on the extreme end, not normal, and extremely unethical behaviour on their part. I’m sorry that happened to you.
- Comment on sus 2 weeks ago:
this looks like the entrance to an absolutely sick club tbh
- Comment on Wonder why? 2 weeks ago:
On what basis exactly are you making such a wild claim?
- Comment on Batteries 3 weeks ago:
Taking immunosuppressants because you think they’ll make you live longer is absolutely fucking wild.
- Comment on Looooooong 4 weeks ago:
But then it wouldn’t rhyme with extend :(
- Comment on What's wrong with Ellen DeGeneres? 4 weeks ago:
lmao is this the english version of the flying lotus copypasta
- Comment on I don't think they're alone on one 4 weeks ago:
I’m having some trouble understanding your comment. Are you somehow using both meanings of CBT simultaneously? Would you explain?
- Comment on Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane 5 weeks ago:
obvious troll is obvious lol
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 1 month ago:
No, I understand just fine, we have income taxes here too, they’re just lower. This means that the tax system is fairer because richer people pay more. It also means that people are more incentivised to work, to contribute to the economy, and to invest. I don’t really see what something being taxed a first or second time has to do with anything. What matters is the overall tax burden, which although hard to calculate exactly, is lower here for the large majority of people but distributed more towards richer people - not those with more income but those with more wealth. It may be true that Americans would freak out about such a thing, but that is merely due to quasireligious ideas about taxation from national myth propaganda, not about the actual effect it would have on their lives, and it reveals fundamental defects in the American character.
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 1 month ago:
I currently live in a country which has this. Income taxes are correspondingly very low and public services are extremely good. I’m very satisfied with the arrangement, yes. You seem preoccupied with some kind of religious sanctity of your “savings account” without actually considering what the implications of such a policy are, that’s too bad.
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 1 month ago:
Nope, not only is it not stupid, it is pretty much the best possible taxation system unless your explicit goal is to keep poor people poor and rich people rich.
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 1 month ago:
Wealth taxes in Switzerland start at ~150k and include the family residence. And capital doesn’t flee. It’s a great implementation and income taxes are lower commensurately so that it works for people.
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 1 month ago:
Yes, but you’ll only pay like a thousand a year on those savings, and your costs will go down to 30,000 thanks to improved infrastructure, healthcare, etc.
- Comment on Death by linguistic imprecision 2 months ago:
ok, I guess. how can a pile of bananas and a pile of rugs be in the same place though?
- Comment on UK immigration officers 'working for China' arrested after forcing entry into flat, court hears 2 months ago:
more probably his mate killed him to avoid him squealing imo
- Comment on Death by linguistic imprecision 2 months ago:
There are just piles of sand literally everywhere? An infinite number of them in every tiny void?
- Comment on Dear Faith I 2 months ago:
This one almost certainly isn’t because of both the jocular tone and the several other “emails to Faith” posted in this comm recently, but indeed they are drawing on the true experiences of graduate students.
- Comment on many have been saying this 2 months ago:
Having lived in the UK as a (white) foreigner… You are not a whole lot better over there. “White supremacy” is a bit of a loaded term with a few different meanings. By your question, I guess you mean people who dress up in nazi cosplay? Those guys are still fairly uncommon everywhere, but the thing is that there is a porous border between your average racist prick and one of those guys. As they feel safer to express their true beliefs, they do so more often, and they want to wear the signifiers of their movement. They’re very safe in the USA right now so you see more of them. But in my opinion, “white supremacy” is better used to refer to a culture which values white people more or thinks of them as higher on some kind of natural hierarchy. That is, after all, what the words literally mean. Although it’s a broader definition, I think it’s clearer, because it removes the confusion when the average racist pricks start dressing up in fash drag when someone who lets them gets into power. Explicit racists (as opposed to your normal somewhat prejudiced person who still doesn’t believe racism is good) often talk about “hiding their power level”, i.e. not letting on. What I’m saying is, the UK is similar to the US, just a bit shyer.
- Comment on ..? 2 months ago:
Nah lol
- Comment on ..? 2 months ago:
No, I’m just accusing them of throwing around words that mean nothing
- Comment on ..? 2 months ago:
Sorry, I don’t save links to random stupid internet comments
- Comment on ..? 2 months ago:
You can see from the question that poster asked that, whatever clear definition about authoritarianism or whatever you think it has, that’s just not how people are actually using it. Centrists will use it for Mamdani supporters, DSA-types will use it for Marxist-Leninists, and anarchists will use it for almost literally anyone.
- Comment on ..? 2 months ago:
A “tankie” is just anyone to the left of you
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 2 months ago:
You can just look up the numbers. 400k civilians directly killed, on the low end, millions more dead from famine and displacement. Versus like 15-20k in Ukraine
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 2 months ago:
Ok, some in Yemen and Somalia too, but Wikipedia claims the cost of life of the gwot was 4.5 million, and I’ve seen credible estimates as high as 6.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 2 months ago:
Say what you want about Bush, even that war criminal didn’t go as far.
Genuinely not defending Russia here, but Dubya’s pretext for invading Iraq and Afghanistan was if anything even flimsier than the “justification” for the Ukraine invasion.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 2 months ago:
Ban lead bullets then
Are you insane? These brave Eagles are dying to protect our freedom
- Comment on Is she saying that eating ass is bourgeois decadence? 2 months ago:
It’s not that it’s fully “wrong” but it’s misleading, since society has changed so much since the definition was coined. The Wikipedia article is rather better than the dictionary definition since it provides all this context.
- Comment on thank you Boris 2 months ago:
Boris? Why always Boris…
- Comment on Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract 2 months ago:
Sorry, you don’t get any points for this prediction, because it already exists.