Almrond
@Almrond@lemmy.world
- Comment on As an English language pedant, I find this text message mildly infuriating. 3 weeks ago:
It does, it means no value, as in priceless.
- Comment on Feelin free 3 weeks ago:
Get this, those billionaires control the production and distribution of these basic necessities, and attributing a monetary figure to it is the problem. It doesn’t cost money, it costs labor. You get the labor in exchange for fun stuff. This is the crux of the issue. We need a system that can’t be gamed to incentivize hoarding whatever it is we use to denote the worth of labor, as cash does today.
It has nothing to do with cost, it has to do with ridding the problem of the people hoarding the excess wealth for the benefit of an arbitrary group. Where the labor comes do the profits go. If a private individual puts in labor, and that generates a profit from itself, then yeah, they get that. They earned that. The nuance is that they have a community, infrastructure, all of the things supporting their ability to do anything, so any profit comes from the community in some fashion.
We need to get rid of systems of hoarding. 100% tax above whatever 100x the poverty line is, for everyone, that gets dumped into government coffers to subsidize all essential labor. This incentivizes the extra profits to go to the UBI coffers instead of individuals while still giving a huge ceiling to make extra money for labor that generates profit.
I’m just reiterating what Marx was saying. We need to stop focusing on the money aspect and focus on the labor.
- Comment on RuneScape is planning on introducing Black Mirror inspired membership plans 4 weeks ago:
Which is very much OSRS. PvP is what single-handedly holds up the game economy there, while mega-rares and discontinued items prop it up in RS3.
- Comment on Those who died are justified 1 month ago:
Paper Carriage: Out of paper. Load Letter Size/A4 paper.
PC: LOAD LETTER
- Comment on Bro 😭😭 2 months ago:
I would like to point out that actors are usually contractually obligated to maintain a specific appearance. Stamos may literally have not been able to shave his head in solidarity, so while seemingly noncommittal I think there could be more to the gesture. As you say, Dave is the only authority on the matter either way.
- Comment on PS5 being used by scammers because it's so expensive 5 months ago:
You don’t need a modchip to get a HDD to work, you can flash the drive with FreeHDBoot and just plug it in to the PS2.
- Comment on What would cause a person to speak in different accents randomly? 7 months ago:
Sounds like a disorder relating to MPD, but it could be any number of things. My advice is to be supportive as much as you can be, when ones own mind is the issue it just feels impossible to deal with.
Not all disorders are ones that will affect work in “predictable” ways, everyone is different. They might just like practicing dialects and not have particularly strong social and coping skills.
As difficult as it can be to interact with people like that, keep in mind their perspective: it might feel like everyone wants to alienate them which makes it difficult to interact without that assumption tainting the experience.
- Comment on Get in the Hilux 7 months ago:
I work in a grocery store, and while I would still need to be in about 25-30 hours a week to ensure product is on the shelves a massive amount of my time at work is useless facing and looking busy after the first few hours of real work restocking. If I was paid fairly I could come in for about 3 hours every day and have everything that needed done done without spinning on a thumb all day just to barely make rent.
- Comment on Ant smell 8 months ago:
I can, they also taste absolutely abhorrent and ruin food they are in for me. It’s a very bitter chemical taste and smell.
- Comment on Honeypot 9 months ago:
Good, I think it’s hilarious and if they don’t they can fuck off. I love having the freedom to criticize and hold accountable the public figures in society. They don’t hold themselves accountable.
- Comment on Ok, $23. Final offer. 9 months ago:
That’s an insulting way to haggle though. If $40 is a slightly below fair price and $45 is agreeable to both then that’s both a simple and pleasant transaction. Offering to haggle then refusing to haggle by doing that is insulting the same way as severely low balling.
- Comment on All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why? 9 months ago:
A lot of modern places use shibboleth and 2FA keys these days, but the military still uses smart card authentication
- Comment on Zero to hero 9 months ago:
I have seen arguments for zero being countable because of some transitive property with not counting still being an option in an arbitrary set of numbers you have the ability to count too intuitively.
- Comment on Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive amd change lol lol lol 9 months ago:
I was going to say, definitely not Wyoming. Too many oil and gas companies absolutely destroy the areas they are in. I lived in Edgerton for a bit, there is literally no potable water in town, you will make yourself incredibly sick drinking out of the tap because of the drilling in the area. That’s just one of very many examples.
- Comment on It's important to get a good interest rate 9 months ago:
There are some nice perks to good credit outside of interest. It can qualify you for better housing, better perks on certain rentals, not having to worry about emergency situations killing your savings outright, and let’s you take advantage of stuff like cash back and bulk purchasing discounts. An example is staple foods, being able to hit the once-a-year bulk deals on stuff like rice or Lawreys garlic salt can cut the price of those items in half or better (personal examples, but the thought should hold). Ancillary perks, but they do add up.
- Comment on It's important to get a good interest rate 9 months ago:
You could just ask easily be the bank yourself and save the “interest” for a birthday gift or something later on. This really isn’t a difficult concept to use as a teaching opportunity without just screwing over a kid. Do you teach your kids to not walk into traffic by letting them get hit by a car too?
- Comment on They say the opposite of pro is con right? 9 months ago:
Taking detailed notes?
- Comment on Simmerstats - Technology Connections 9 months ago:
That goes for most of the TC videos, the subtitles easter eggs are great.
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