LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Ministers to announce significant changes to UK’s planning system 1 day ago:
Can’t build on dirt, can’t demolish old Victorian mcmansions, can’t build high because of the skyline boomers, can’t build infrastructure because budgets are drained by endless consultancies to funnel money to the private sector etc etc.
In the 60s the UK built the entire actually modern and livable city of Milton Keynes with all its endless cycle highways and incredibly walkable design for less than 1/4th the cost of the HS2 thus far and we have literally not built any of it yet even.
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Adjusted for inflation, it’s £11b Vs £40b.
- Comment on Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation—Report 1 week ago:
Based on your other replies I feel like you must be trolling.
- Comment on Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation—Report 1 week ago:
I get up at 9:30 for my 9-5 WFH gig and it doesn’t actually feel any better. You can get used to good things too and it doesn’t render capitalism any less soulsucking.
- Comment on Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation—Report 1 week ago:
I legitimately chuckled at first but I can’t tell if you’re serious.
House? Toyota? I make well over median wage, save everything, and those things might as well be private jets to me.
My savings interest rate is literally less than house price increases alone.
I have 5 yrs exp and an MSc in STEM and I haven’t heard back from a single job application I’ve sent out even while I’m still employed after sending out at least 10 of highly personalized applications of CV + cover letter. Everyone else I know who are frankly people way smarter than me lives with parents and is unemployed with the exception of one person who lives with their parents and has no money but is an accomplished academic researcher (maths I think) who gives talks at international events.
What are you smoking? What world do you live in? How do I get there?
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 1 week ago:
I wasn’t thinking of French, I like some British foods like a nice all English breakfast with some orange juice, though a croissant is well paired with that.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Between this and the “bro” thing, is lemmy.world being raided by Xitter or something? I never even heard of this till now, it seems like something passed around in right-wing circles.
- Comment on Bro 2 weeks ago:
Another feast for my blocklist.
Honestly this is all so stupid.
- Comment on Who owns Britain? The effects of privatisation on the costs of living in the UK 2 weeks ago:
How? Yes they are being nationalized.
- Comment on Is communist idea of base & superstructural bullshit? 2 weeks ago:
The world is just an unwelcoming place right now, perhaps always has been. Worst comes to worst maybe we can hack it somewhere remote heh
- Comment on It's depressing, man 2 weeks ago:
Seems like a nice paper
- Comment on It's depressing, man 2 weeks ago:
You too man, night night xx
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
B if only one
In order of preference for me:
- B
- A
- H
- G (kind of a tie with H idk, I just like US borgers basically)
- The rest
- Comment on It's depressing, man 2 weeks ago:
Yeah maybe, but that’s more to do with knowledge rather than intelligence.
IMO, for successful reasoning you need two things:
- Correct assumptions - what you think
- Correct reasoning - how you think
The former is tough, even scientific consensus changes often due to new better studies, sometimes due to externalities and the human element etc etc. It’s understandably impossible to know everything about everything.
But the latter is about how you think, whether you’re able to reason properly, your conclusions and steps actually logically flow from your premises which are based on your assumptions.
I think a lot of perceived stupidity isn’t misinformation, but the lack of this second ability to reason properly, and even an unwillingness to do so because the conclusions are unpleasant. It’s like people became (or always were) too comfortable with lying to themselves to avoid discomfort.
- Comment on It's depressing, man 2 weeks ago:
I hope so. I really don’t know anymore though, at a certain point it’s a choice. Maybe it’s what they’d like me to think to betray my fellow workers to the man, but it’s harder and harder to justify people falling over and over for obvious corporate traps when alternatives are extremely available and it would take just the tiniest bit of agency on their behalf to go for that and information is more available than ever.
- Comment on It's depressing, man 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was always shocked by the popsci factoid stats about communication happening primarily via tone and such, it seemed crazy to me that some people use that as primary meaning and not in addition to fully understanding the semantics of being said, or that they could even be influenced by the actual choice of words even if the meaning is unchanged, but I guess I was just lucky.
What’s really shocking above all for me lately is how few people care about intellectual honesty, and will blatantly go for the most self-serving falsehood no matter how blatant.
I wouldn’t claim something I couldn’t back up in some way not because I’m just inherently a saint - on a purely selfish animalistic superego esque way - I wouldn’t do it because it would hurt my self-esteem to blatantly lie in a self-serving manner because it’s just kinda pathetic to have to resort to that.
- Comment on Is communist idea of base & superstructural bullshit? 2 weeks ago:
Millions are dying now due to the dudes in power now. Billions more are suffering.
I think a better world is worth fighting for.
- Comment on Is communist idea of base & superstructural bullshit? 2 weeks ago:
Yes PRC bad. USSR bad.
Buuut, the USSR did have free housing, free healthcare, free bills, free and quality higher ed, plenty jobs in STEM, while yes, also having horrific repressions inside and imperialist ambition outside too.
The successor state of the Soviet Union is as much a product of soviet corruption as it is a product of IMF’s “shock therapy” that forced rapid privatization in the name of capitalism and cuts to public services in a country that was basically near 100% public services, which led to the well connected cashing in their political capital for all the country’s resources, industry and infrastructure, creating the oligarch class and setting up a government to be inevitably influenced by them, and when capitalists control the government the only result is fascism.
- Comment on Is communist idea of base & superstructural bullshit? 2 weeks ago:
Lol I see. Don’t right-wing propaganda shills these days have access to DeepL or something? Your grammar is fucking awful.
Just for the record for lurkers ITT: I am an immigrant and I came to ze west originally on a student visa, no one “imported” me, finding a job was nigh impossible because no we don’t work illegally because the risk of losing a visa is very high and there are strict limits on jobs you can do, when and how long, including both by profession and by income level, often far above median and only if the corpo has the license and paperwork which all cost fuckloads for them, and finding a job out of that limited pool as a fresh grad was hell on earth.
The only reason I could even get to that stage was because my parents were fairly well off and across the 7 or so years before I became independent the costs of immigrating were in the hundreds of thousands on them. I had to leave the nest at 13.
When I started working I had to pay double tax for healthcare through visa fees first, then off my income tax as normal, and it took 13 years to get a permanent residence permit on the “10-year route” due to other hidden requirements during which I lived in permanent fear of deportation, the only reason I did it was genuine fear of persecution in my country of origin for being LGBT due to the fascist government there.
I’m sharing this here because the general public’s idea of immigration is often well - nuts, and completely out of touch with reality of immigrants, so hopefully now if you didn’t know, you know better.
- Comment on Is communist idea of base & superstructural bullshit? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah chief I don’t agree with your witticism here.
Call me crazy, but I think people who want to improve the world somewhat based on an economic and sociopolitical analysis of a pretty smart dude who’s work still shapes our economic understanding even in the most pro-capitalist reaganist fringes today do in fact have a few more differences with people who built an ideology based on using a merged government-corporate state apparatus to exterminate jews, queers, slavs etc. to create more living space for their specific ethnicity.
I also think you don’t actually have to pretend like Nazis and communists are equal or even close just to be able to criticize the imperialism and many mistakes and general dysfunction of the USSR, tankies and general bad faith argumentation like in OP probably done by a random putlerist fascist russian shill/bot or like a 14 year old who skimmed a wikipedia info box on dialectics once.
Communists are why we have unions, minimum wage, universal healthcare, welfare, safety nets, 5-day work week etc. Fascists are why we have the Holocaust, and I guess now also no jimmy Kimmel.
- Comment on Anon doesn't fit in 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure they’re really cool games too though! What kinda games do you play?
- Comment on Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans 2 weeks ago:
The grand arch-sin of Ubisoft games is that they miss their own point almost entirely and are afraid to be fun.
The simple thing is that most of the game should be the most fun bit of the game.
E.g. if an FPS with good gunplay as a central element has 51% of game time spent in hacking mini games, that’s probably gonna get pretty irritating, right?
In the case of Far Cry 3-5: most fun bit is the outposts. Therefore most of the game should just be approaching, assaulting and solving various outpost combat sandboxes of increasing complexity.
Blood Dragon still has the best scope and scale in that respect, the whole design around a basic linear mission structure feels like it’s out of sync with the fact the fun is elsewhere, so you just end up in a situation like you already having liberated every single outpost, but technically you’re in the beginning of the game at like mission 2, it just doesn’t gel together.
Far Cry 5 has planes and helicopters and outpost-esque or adjacent activities and it’s the only game in the series where it’s those that actually move the story forward.
It’s the same shit with assassin’s creed. The most fun bit is y’know, stabbing people with the thing in historical settings. So it should be most of the game. Instead most of the game is anything and everything but that.
Heck, watch dogs legion even severely limited the amount and variety of hacking in the game when that’s like the whole thing and what made the second game in the series shine.
As for the upgrade and crafting systems I would honestly toss the whole thing out, RPG mechanics don’t belong in action games. A shop at most with all guns and everything unlocked at the start and money made through open world activities would fit Far Cry just right.
- Comment on Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans 2 weeks ago:
Far Cry 5 meets the criteria too, and focuses on the strengths of mostly having the open world activities be the way you move the story forward rather than the dumbass missions these games always have for no reason.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon doesn't fit in 2 weeks ago:
Hehe well I’m glad lol
- Comment on Anon doesn't fit in 2 weeks ago:
Yeah fair enough. I guess I meant something more like Vic3/HOI4. I want to say “yoo dude I gave Mexico to the United Fruit Company last night for the buff” and have them say “gave ur mum to pennsylvania forestries last night cuz she wants wood so much innit bruv” - or in other words I want to be understood, I would want this to spiral in an intertwined discussion about real history, politics, economics and its representation in-game between reasonable people with sane actual real life beliefs and an insatiable need for cognition and knowledge powered by hyperactivity and focused by stimulants and a lack of al-ghul circulating in the blood stream longterm, for whom there needn’t be the discomfort of unfamiliarity, the guesswork of “are you really insane or just saying that” and weariness of being observed by the ‘Other’. I want to tell someone about the Taipei rebellion for the first time, or to be told about it again.
I feel like civ players would leave the table if I brought that up at a theoretical gathering from my experience.
If only I could converse with others like I could with myself. Then again, I would probably be disappointed anyway.
- Comment on Anon doesn't fit in 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry. I understand better now, thanks for sharing this.
- Comment on Anon doesn't fit in 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I always assumed it meant like a dog or some fish
- Comment on Anon doesn't fit in 2 weeks ago:
Well sure maybe during puberty, but after you just adjust surely, nah? I mean there’s lots of men with like horrific disabilities, disfigurements etc. that just make it highly unlikely they’ll ever find a mate, yet they live nonetheless.
- Comment on Anon doesn't fit in 2 weeks ago:
But it’s phrased like a “need”. I’m attracted to men and women. I don’t need them like I need oxygen, food, nicotine etc.
- Comment on Anon doesn't fit in 2 weeks ago:
Okay but normies don’t play Paradox either, so what gives? I don’t want to play “dwarf fortress” or some fuckin “blowjob factory 2: electrification” or whatever it is channers consider weird, but I like playing “The Fire Rises” for HOI4 and I can’t exactly talk to Jock Josh and his friend who’s into spider man and DND about “yoo in the game you can kill penguinz0 as atomwaffen division isn’t that crazy”.
Honestly nothing ever has been more of a disappointment to me than anyone who plays Civ or tabletops of any kind, they always have absolutely no sense of fun and they’re always extreme turbonormies, especially if they’re fantasy people, good lord I’m sure there’s lots of good fantasy media out there and I’ve enjoyed plenty myself (Berserk), but it either attracts the most simpletons or being into it turns you into a simpleton over time or something idk. They only know their dumbass DND, no they won’t play something actually cool like Cyberpunk Red, no they won’t help me try to DM it, they only like their DND and that’s it, DND that, or DNDeezNuts this, it’s aaaaaaagh.
