Prunebutt
@Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 3 days ago:
Non sequitur much?
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 3 days ago:
Having boomer opinions is a mindset thing, not an age thing.
Also: I’m older than you.
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 3 days ago:
Ok, Boomer.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 4 days ago:
Much obliged.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 4 days ago:
I already said thatspotify doesn’t work on my phone (the homepage crashes)
- Comment on Liquid Trees 4 days ago:
How, if I can’t find out which podcast it is?
- Comment on Liquid Trees 4 days ago:
Spotify doesn’t work on my phone. Care to link the podcast page on a platform not trying to corner the market?
- Comment on Liquid Trees 4 days ago:
While I don’t want to spoil the joke (but I will) and I hate techno-optimist solutions that displace actual solutions for our biosphere: supposedly, Belgrade is such a dense concrete hell that trees aren’t viable solution (at least in the short term).
There is some rumbling that liquid trees are not the solution to the real problems caused by large-scale deforestation, nor does it reduce erosion or enrich the soil. However, much of this wrath is misplaced as Liquid tree designers say that it was not made as a replacement for trees but was designed to work in areas where growing trees would be non-viable. Initiatives like Trillion Trees are laudable, but there is something to be said for the true utility of this tiny bioreactor. The fact that they can capture useful amounts of carbon dioxide from day one is another benefit for them. Such bioreactors are expected to become widespread in urban areas around the world as the planet battles rising carbon levels in the atmosphere.
- Comment on floats away in disgust 1 week ago:
This is the n-th so-called “AI” created comic that’s posted in this style. Alsog as others have noted: inconsistent style/background between the panels.
- Comment on floats away in disgust 1 week ago:
Ratio
- Comment on 3 minutes and 8 seconds in Google Slides. Remember to study your humanities as well kiddos 2 weeks ago:
I find your lack of taste disturbing.
- Comment on floats away in disgust 2 weeks ago:
That’s why the so-called “AI” was able to “come up” with it.
It lacks context to create anything new.
- Comment on floats away in disgust 2 weeks ago:
Oh my god! The person who wants to push back on usage of the plagiarism machine that boils lakes is worse than the devil! Someone call the white house invade the commentor’s nation!
- Comment on floats away in disgust 2 weeks ago:
Krita and drawing with a mouse are both there, you know.
Yes, the existence of this comic does make the world a worse place.
- Comment on Anon is chasing an old high 1 month ago:
One could argue that the dynamic shadows of the day and night cycle in Sea of Stars were actually kind of breaking new ground in pixel art.
- Comment on Gen Z is ‘task masking’ in the workplace. How harmful is it? 1 month ago:
Hey! I happen to be more productive afterwards when I spend 6 hours perfecting my neovim config at work, thank you very much!
- Comment on no ragrets 2 months ago:
- Comment on no ragrets 2 months ago:
I think it fits.
- Comment on no ragrets 2 months ago:
What about that bloke who started all this stuff about alpha and beta wolves.
- Comment on Discuss. 2 months ago:
Left of Hawking is Gauss
- Comment on Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations! 2 months ago:
I only read it somewhere since I only played the game on PC way back.
Supposedly, the PS2 version suffers from slowdown/FPS dips.
- Comment on Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations! 2 months ago:
The PS2 version of Grandia 2 is the worst one, if I remeber correctly. Better emulate Dreamcast for that one.
- Comment on Did I post this to the right comm 2 months ago:
No, propaganda is when Putin pays trolls to disagree with me online.
- Comment on Sinners!!! 2 months ago:
But why?
Just 'cos
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 months ago:
While I don’t have a perfect plan on democratic governance (sorry, I’m just a small, little boi), these examples came to mind right away:
What I also want to adress is that the things you’re criticizing in your first comment are structural problems of a liberal democracy. That means that they don’t stem from bad actors inside the system, but rather from the way the system is set up. Members of parliament have a free mandate and are under no direct obligation to enact policies on which they ran in elections. Yes, they can not get elected the next term, but this can also be an incentive to “get away with it” by e.g. manipulating the media landscape, lying, covering your tracks, searching for excuses, etc.
Also: you canwt vote the system away. When you’re voting, the only available opitions are ones that stabilize the parliamentary system. That’s why I don’t (or at least not completely) agree with “it needs both”. A general strike could lead to a more democratic system, while electoralism will always try to strengthen the current system.
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 months ago:
Discussing why not having voting invites other methods of deciding power struggles that are even less democratic, does not mean a false dichotomy
Yes it is. It presupposes that parliamentary democracy is the only way of democratic governance.
You are literally demonstrating the effect of the media landscape that you’re criticizing: you’re acting like there’s no other democratic alternative than a parliamentary democracy.
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 months ago:
Voting is a good system. The alternative is “let’s just have a fight with guns, or with money, or connections to powerful people, every time there’s a disagreement.”
Show me how this is not a dichotomy. Why are these the only options?
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 months ago:
That just opens you up to false balancing. See: the media landscape on climate change for the last 70 years.
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 months ago:
I think you’re opening up a false dichotomy here: it’s not about voting vs. the law of the fist. It’s about how the democratic systems are set up to keep the powerful in power.
The system is set up to promote those “absolutely craven, useless, and corrupt class of full-time political operatives who generally don’t give a shit about the people”. And “fixing” the media to not promote those things is like trying to teach a cat not to hunt mice.
There are more ways to have a democratic stucture of politics than “we decide onsour ruler every four years”.
- Comment on Do You Even Squid Game Bro? 3 months ago:
Also: I think it’s waay more plausible that they’ve seen the Mr Beast videos, rather than the original show. Cultural osmosis and all that.