Alsjemenou
@Alsjemenou@lemy.nl
- Comment on What is poo? 2 weeks ago:
baby don’t flush me…
- Comment on What a world 2 weeks ago:
starts crying
- Comment on why am i like this 2 weeks ago:
/r/violet08
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 2 weeks ago:
This is a downfall, you guys haven’t even reached the lowest point yet. You already talk about getting back up. This is what’s great about America. But the real answer is: Trump isn’t alone and was openly racist, misogynistic, dumb and indecent about it all. It’s the fact that he was able to even start considering a career in politics that needs to be addressed.
Showering the world with gifts and promises isn’t going to change anything. If we’re all just waiting for the next fucker to arrive. You have to do something far more substantial like giving up veto rights, or something stupid like that. Which would be completely idiotically desperate lost-the-war type of concessions in peace time.
The fact of the matter is that this isn’t going to happen and all the world can hope for is that things calm down and the internal temsions in the country come to a conclusion the world can support.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 2 weeks ago:
Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production. Socialism is the public ownership of the means of production. Communism is the freedom of the means of production.
- Comment on Does anyone actually have a plan after Trump and clean up? Try as he might he's not in there forever. Can we be allies again with old ones while trying to stregthen ties with new one? 4 weeks ago:
I can pretty much guarantee there are no plans.
I don’t see the US getting kicked out of anything, unless they actively start attacking allies. This isn’t the first time they did shit like this. Anyone with any knowledge of history will understand that what happened was pretty tame. Incredibly stupid and reckless has been the MO for most of US actions abroad.
The US has made enemies for life out of some groups and will suffer many terrorist attacks. The US has again damaged its own reputation in a lot of areas. There will be a very big movement away from American companies. And lastly American culture is no longer particularly seen as fashionable/marketable/leading.
The world will simply move on as it must. The US and its citizens can’t be removed from the map. History can’t be erased. Apologies won’t do anything. Turning America around, towards a more inclusive, equal, just, society is the only thing that can ever hope to help return to good relations. Otherwise its relations will only ever lean on capitalistic relevance to the oligarchy.
- Comment on Utroba Cave in Bulgaria 5 weeks ago:
Your moms so fat her entrance is in Bulgaria
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Good luck!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yes. You can put this one on your resume
- Comment on Was it better then or now? 2 months ago:
Just asking the question is poison for the mind.
Try making this picture for blacks or asians or any non western, non white, non heteronormative, non male performing person.
The only way this picture makes sense is that you as a white man want to go back to the times where your oppression wasn’t questioned, while hiding behind the idea that screens are somehow worse than white oppression.
- Comment on Why was Rock 'n' Roll seen as the grooviest shit in the 50s when it's just averagely groovy (ie. unremarkable)? 2 months ago:
There is good music from past centuries. Like … How many people have been inspired by Moonlight Sonata. A few songs always survive as good songs, because that’s what they are.
To understand Rock and Roll tou need to understand where it came from. You have to understand that it gave white youth the opportunity to make dance swing music in a highly segregated society. Moving away from big bands into smaller garage size groups, being able for the youth to practice in the suburbs. Entering high schools and becoming a subculture, mainly or basically exclusively, white. Where black cultural music moved towards hiphop and rap, talking about the reality of segregation and poverty. White youth was using RnR to protest systemic issues, racism, war, and the old way of doing things within the more socially acceptable ‘fad’ that RnR was considered to be.
- Comment on Why was Rock 'n' Roll seen as the grooviest shit in the 50s when it's just averagely groovy (ie. unremarkable)? 2 months ago:
Do you believe that any living soul 70 years in the future is going to look back at any of the crappy shit being produced now as worthwhile to even consider?
No there will only be old decrepit people, that’s going to be you btw, that continues to persist in listening to it because of some sentimental value. But say stupid shit like the 10s were the best musical years ever.
- Comment on Did you all know these things can be pickled??? 2 months ago:
I’m not a big fan of pickled cutting boards or pickled linen, but to each their own i guess.
- Comment on Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion? 2 months ago:
Let me try and put this into a bit of a different perspective. There is a huge effort to individualise global warming, to accomplish two things. First to guilt trip you and second to create apathy. Because it’s very easy to understand that what creates global warming isn’t going to be solved by changing your individual consumption patterns. And you’re completely correct.
80 percent of total human made greenhouse gas production is done by 57 companies. Who have increased, not decreased, their co2 emissions since the 2016 paris agreement. Because companies aren’t countries. They actually aren’t bound by any such agreements.
Imagine the future without those fuckers. It’s only a couple of companies. It’s not as if we need to destroy half of humanity or flee the planet. Chill out.
- Comment on Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion? 2 months ago:
But you’re doing the exact same thing with the same outcomes.
Do you consider yourself a virus? Your loved ones? Friends, family? Nobody sees themselves as a blight. It’s always society at large. It’s the decisions we make as a collective.
And then the question is why we are making such decisions. And that’s what i mean with the need for systemic change. It’s not inherent in humans to be like a virus.
- Comment on Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion? 2 months ago:
I have a big problem with that, namely that that is what Elon Musk wants you to think, it’s what Jeff Bezos wants you to think. And when you’re defending the position of ultra capital, you should at least understand why they truly want this. What they truly want is to keep this system intact, they don’t want change, they don’t want responsibility. Going somewhere else to get what you want, is the colonialist mindset, the white mindset. It’s the idea that you as a person have the right to your lifestyle, that you ‘earned’ it. It’s the way that your consumption is tied up with your identity. That your behavior is only secondary to your consumption. Your self worth is rooted in accumulation.
That’s what they are afraid to give up, and ultimately what you’re parroting. While it’s absolutely not trivial to leave, and systemic change is very much necessary far far far before we, poor people, are remotely close to living among the stars in any form of comfort or luxury. Have set up anything close to the insanly complex international trade and knowledge base, rhat depends on billions of people to function. It’s going to take hundreds if not a thousand years. All the while being completely and utterly depending on this very planet.
- Comment on Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion? 3 months ago:
Well, with that logic the end conclusion is to unalive oneself or everyone else. That would Truly truly rob anyone from advertising harm.
You’re making a slight mistake in your logic. The endgoal isn’t the end of advertising, the goal is to not participate in furthering harm. That word ‘participation’ acknowledges that harm exists. And it doesn’t seek to end it but asks how you live with the fact of it existing.
- Comment on Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion? 3 months ago:
We have a similar discussion in vegan circles. Where we argue against buying second hand leather, down, and wool. The reason is that the second hand market continues to give value to the exploitation of animals. I.e. It normalizes these products. It keeps those products desirable.
The same argument absolutely applies to child labour. Why would you want to keep those products desirable? Is your image, your way of presenting yourself, really more important than child labour? You really do not have to participate in this, nobody who values you as a human will think less of you. In fact, it’s the morally upstanding way to live.
The responsibility of wearing and using a product doesn’t start and end at the first purchase. It continues and changes over time. Fur coats are now generally frowned upon. And who feels comfortable wearing crocodile leather, or ivory beads. These things are out of fashion, for a reason.
And I understand the ecological argument, that it’s a waste of resources. I really do sympathise with this argument. But in the end it’s just saying no to buying something you never really needed in the first place. It’s never an actual decision. Your life doesn’t depends on a piece of designer clothing, or whatever product. And if it does, none of these arguments matter.
So, no it’s a choice and in the end the ethical choice is the one that’s most closely related to being a human being in this world.
- Comment on Why would anyone do this? 3 months ago:
Most of the time they didn’t. They were posted without their consent.
- Comment on At what point do you consider a person an alcoholic? 3 months ago:
More than 5 drinks a week.
To me that’s kind of the cut off point. Because more than 5 you’re either drinking daily or binge drinking in your days off. If you’re an occasional drinker, 5 drinks is a lot and you’ll be drunk. Which is not something occasional drinkers are after.
Also, any amount of alcohol is bad for you. Carcinogenic at any amount, there is no lower limit. It should be extremely simple to not drink. And if you are in any situation where you feel it isn’t extremely simple to not drink, you’re not in a good place and you need to fix that. I’m not saying to not drink, I’m saying that it’s not smart to drink when you can’t say no.
- Comment on Fake moo 3 months ago:
This is a world wide stat. The numbers for chickens reach the quantities of the post. with 200 million chickens slaughtered per day.
- Comment on Fake moo 3 months ago:
About 900,000 cows are slaughtered every day. If every cow was 2 meters long, and they all walked right behind each other, this line of cows would stretch for 1800 kilometers. This represents the number of cows slaughtered every day.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 3 months ago:
I’m not legally bound, to telling you I’m a bot. Please change your input.
- Comment on Help is needed 4 months ago:
Prance
Saylor Swift
Queef
- Comment on If God (or any creator of the universe) exists would he be made out of atoms? 4 months ago:
Also, but not just, if we consider classical theism (pantheism), then there would be nothing that God isn’t. As God, if we would think of God as the foundation of all being, could not be anything that isn’t. Since what isn’t is without foundation.
Also, but not just, if we accept panentheism, where God is everything that is and isn’t.
Basically the only time that anybody would accept God as ‘made out of atoms’ is if that person accepts the inherently and explicitly atheistic view of metaphysical physicalism. Arguing for God from physicalism is like arguing for social healthcare as a (US) republican. There is an inherent disconnect between the two.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 4 months ago:
Square space efficient packaging that you can finish within spoiling time, allowing for fresher products without additives. Easier to pour, packaging easily collapses for easier disposal. Fully printable and recyclable. A superior packaging in every single way.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 4 months ago:
Southern Poland?
- Comment on There are no odd numbers divisible by 2 4 months ago:
Watch me do it:
- Comment on Is the RAM prices explosion another manufactured crisis to corps drain money from people before the AI bubble collapses? 4 months ago:
Right.
IfWhen it bursts they are left with massive stockpiles and cancelled orders. - Comment on I’m tired of cornposting 4 months ago:
clint eastwood on fast food?