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- Comment on can you say “what it means?” as proper english? 2 days ago:
‘Do’ do be doo-doo. /jk (and not ‘proper’ grammar for anyone still trying to figure it out.)
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 2 days ago:
mod(0,0)
- Comment on does it mean I am a horse? 2 days ago:
Favourite book?
Don Key-ote.
- Comment on How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same? 6 days ago:
“Americans” is a stupidly large and diverse population to say anything meaningful about. It’s extremely unlikely that that any population of humans of such a size doesn’t include some individuals who are more extreme than you, both more and less, for almost all traits.
You’re less likely to observe introverts than extroverts because one of those types will tend to do things in a way that are less likely to get your attention. You’re might well be experiencing observation/selection bias, possibly also reinforced by confirmation bias.
But whatever you think to be the “typical”, even if you could estimate it using some unbiased sampling method, it is often not a helpful way describe the whole population, or at best a reductive “average” that has limited useful applications.
TLDR - human populations are diverse. I don’t think any nation has ever effectively brainwashed or eugenicised their population into a single homogeneous group.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 6 days ago:
You’ve got to stop all those who put: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
That’s my password for most things, any hackers die of RSI before they get in.
- Comment on And sir cumference, the sphere 6 days ago:
Does that say “Sir Ballin’ wielded the Lance of Longpenis”?
Modern depictions aren’t pron enough.
- Comment on Reality vs. male delusion 1 week ago:
Well, its on lemmy and you’re several comments deep.
You’re almost bound to hit a vein of unsolicited socialism/communism by that point - it’s basic geology.
- Comment on Reality vs. male delusion 1 week ago:
It seems to me that quite a lot of people want flies and that’s why quite a lot of resources are put into that type of shit.
I was trying to explain to this dude in the pub - who didn’t understand my explanation that I don’t have a hairstyle - that I thought vanity was a waste of resources, and he looked at me like: “but everyone wants to look good, right?” He was confused. I was confused.
- Comment on I’m very good at math and would like health insurance. What is the easiest option? 1 week ago:
I tought you had to play blackjack/ pontoon/ 21 to count cards?
- Comment on Why is coal and fossil fuels still used? 1 week ago:
cheap and easy.
It’s many thousands of years of solar power , concentated in to a storable, portable and fairly accessible and transmutable form.
Countries don’t “generate” coal and oil, they suck it out of the ground. It was generated by thousands to millions of years of life and accumulated geological processes.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 1 week ago:
I heard that the higher the data density on DVD and BR means the higher the failure rate. Though i have no real evidence of that myself.
Maybe one or two bits corrupted here or there will only cause some unnoticeable artefacts anyway.
- Comment on FANTER 3 weeks ago:
fantastic story.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 3 weeks ago:
The concept of “the average person” is a good example of the type of crass generalisation that propagndists often use.
- Comment on If you're a broke vampire, just say that 3 weeks ago:
They just ned to sell their crypto.
- Comment on How can we make lemmy have more relevance? 3 weeks ago:
(:
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 3 weeks ago:
If you want to boost USA manufacturing industries I’d look at the sector that killed it first.
Bring in international capital controls, forex restrictions, limit consumer / mortgage credit maybe bring in some directed credit requirements. Badically the bank egulation that was chucked out in the 1970s. When us msnufacturing industry mysteriously started to decline. 70s recessions were not only caused by oil price shocks, and the sectoral shift was reinforced by bank liberalisation.
I’d think you’d want to force the USA finance industry to invest (at least some decent amount) in the future of USA produtive capacity, instead of letting them invest in China’s future and have an arms race to fuel a perpetual domestic property bubble.
Tarrifs might still be part of it - but if your domestic companies can’t borrow, they can’t grow or maintain/develop asset base.If they don’t have working capital facilities, they liquidate fast.
Tax breaks might work/help (as might tarrifs), but if taxes are all on profits, you still need to borrow against the future to make the investment in the present (i.e. make a loss and pay no tax anyway) to build the productive capacity. They’d be better for short payback or labour intensive industries than for capital intensive industry - without other stuff.
I guess if you mean income tax breaks for workers in certin types of jobs/companies, that is interesting. Either way you need quite a lot of monitoring to avoid corruption of just wierd distortions with unintended consequences. That’s what banks lending to businesses should do and be good at, monitoring their loans and their debtors.
- Comment on How can we make lemmy have more relevance? 3 weeks ago:
And Slackware, of course.
- Comment on Peak evolution (after crabs) 3 weeks ago:
God: “let there be light”
Jellyfish: [activates bioluminescence]
- Comment on As a child of the 90s we grew up with PC Political Correctness. Is that WOKE but just in a different form? 3 weeks ago:
I think the idea is that someome wants to avoid being “cancelled” after they’ve been exposed for for abusing social trust and norms of behaviour - usually to their own benefit.
So they denigrate or attack anyone exposing their shitty behaviour or anything similar. If they can do this they can contine to be cunts to society and avoid being ostracised by it.
But once they can get away with it, one can systematically exploit social trust and norms repeatedly, and presumably grow the power and influnce of their subculture. Even at the cost of overall the weath of the encompassing society - it won’t matter to the dicks so long as they can extort a bigger share of the smaller pie.
Polite society will unfortunately struggle to effectively ostracise the people who do this because they’re (rightly) worried about due process, accountability, fairness, and miscarriages of justice.
- Comment on As a child of the 90s we grew up with PC Political Correctness. Is that WOKE but just in a different form? 3 weeks ago:
They’re trying justify making the selfish choice in the prisoner’s dilemma and abusing the trust that is so useful to cooperative/polite society.
They also get annoyed if coperative society is rational enough to slap them with the reciprocity they deserve after being found out for being a twat.
But I think they rationally they do want a 2-tier society, where lots of people in one tier cooperate to build trust and wealth (generally using trust instead of lawyers), then their tier extorts that wealth. And they find ways to protect themselves from consequences (generally using lawyers).
I’m sure many of the brainwashed masses don’t know which tier they’re in though.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 4 weeks ago:
Interesting thanks. Not all that surprising though.
- Comment on The Circle of iLife 4 weeks ago:
“technology is cyclical.”
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 4 weeks ago:
Makes me wonder how ‘real’ roman gladiators were.
- Comment on Well, that's no ordinary rabbit! 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what a chicken would look like with a tail like that though.
- Comment on Some things are a mystery ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 5 weeks ago:
Sounds impressive in theory, but I’ve actually seen it; it’s this weird guy from the '80s singing about quitting cigarettes or something.
Does not live up to the hype.
- Comment on Unpopular popular opinion - fiat 5 weeks ago:
Most money is not really created by central banks. It’s created by private banks when they make loans. They literally add a number to their assets, and to the borrowers liabilities - and the borrower can now go spend that new money.
Central banks are supposed to try to regulate bank lending to try to stop the pyramid spiining out of control.
Governments also take out loans though (by selling bills, gilts, bonds) - so they are also involved in money creation process, that money typically goes to pay public services and public servants.
But the majority of money creation is typically private loans - and much of that goes ino property price bubbles , which does indeed benefit the rich.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 1 month ago:
Tariffs don’t “work” or “not work” it’s not a binary outcome. Just as measuring “the economy” is pretty much impossible, so is attributing economic outcomes to one single feature of the regulatory environment, They interact with the rest of the economic environment and some variety or work, production, trade, investment and distribution will occur. Over time all aspects of the system will change, adapt and react. Most changes have winners and losers and they can be counted or balanced off differently.
It it were paired with bank regulation and asset ownership regulation and a coherent industrial strategy, maybe also forex controls, maybe some counter cyclical macroeconomic policy (extremely unpopular these days) the outcomes would likely be quite different from a low regulation free for “all”. “All” is probably “a few with relatively unconstrained access to enough capital or credit to hoover up assets of the losers”.
But then a smaller subset of those things might also change the outcomes on their own. Either way it would be a matter of time and adaptation of a complex system.
It also depends what you think the objective is before you understand “success” or “failure”, the goals might well be social as much as economic. If the objective is trash the small scale asset ownig middle classes and enrich the elites economically then it might be working already.
- Comment on What's the community for stuff like this? 1 month ago:
Ongo Gablonion
- Comment on Now that's an interesting question 1 month ago:
There’s a less popular name “Jago” in English that would fit. I think that also comes from Jacob or Iago.
So I reckon “Saint Jago”
- Comment on frenly warnin 2 months ago:
Maybe they emphasise “children” to encourage more of the current adult generation to sacrifice themselves. And to manage expectations of when the benefits arise.
