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- Comment on How to get attention around here. 3 days ago:
I was using “markets” interchangeably with “capital”. I do agree with what you, I don’t think you can escape markets as a social phenomenon, and at the same time they cannot be allowed to decide our political future. Our current setup is tantamount to ductaping the lever down on a lawnmower, and declaring that the “wisdom of the engine” knows what needs trimming.
- Comment on How to get attention around here. 4 days ago:
Markets incentivize and reward selfish behavior. A different system would incentivize different behaviors.
I swear, it’s like we’re stuck in the 20th century when it comes to this. It’s like designing a multiplayer game. Throw a thousand people in a RUST server, they’ll behave one way. Throw that same thousand into Deep Rock Galactic, they behave completely differently.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 5 days ago:
Gotta disagree here. You can have capitalists without them being in control of the state. That’s what most of Europe was during the early modern period. Capital existed, but political institutions were mostly still geared around the aristocracy and the Catholic church.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 5 days ago:
I believe the thinking is that you can’t really have the state wither away while capitalist states remain predominant on the planet.
- Comment on Google joins the party 5 days ago:
Tried
So it spat out some text that said “I’m now connecting to ChatGPT beep boop beep beep that’s me dialing for realsies” and now we get to pretend something newsworthy has occured
- Comment on When they didn't read the manual 1 week ago:
what else is the scroll wheel for?
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 2 weeks ago:
Suppose someone in that era became def and blind as an infant/toddler. Do you suppose they’d ever be able to learn to communicate?
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 2 weeks ago:
I’d love to hear someone who thinks Helen Keller wasn’t real describe what they think the late 1800s was like.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
B. this is because of Galilean relativity i think maybe
- Comment on Anon notices a problem 3 weeks ago:
I’ve heard the Wachowskis said it was inspired by it, yes.
- Comment on Anon notices a problem 3 weeks ago:
I was disappointed by The Way of Water. For a guy who’s spent more time undersea than… basically anyone who isn’t a navy soldier in a submarine… it doesn’t really come across in the movie. I mean, we didn’t even see coral bleaching! In what is supposed to be an anti-colonial environmental movie!
- Comment on Anon notices a problem 3 weeks ago:
If we’re being nitpicky and technical, stick to the moons of Jupiter. Anything outside our solar system is practically inaccessible. Information that can’t be discovered with telescopes is gonna stay undiscovered. The deep ocean and the little shoal of our planetary neighbors at least has the potential for further study.
- Comment on Anon notices a problem 3 weeks ago:
I think red estrogen was a late nineties / early 2000s thing
- Comment on Valid point 5 weeks ago:
I agree, Gen X deserves some of the inter-generational posting spat.
I’ll start: the “Mtv generation” is largely freaking out over people breaking gender norms. Guess its only ok when Prince does it.
- Comment on Found one in the wild on Lemmy 1 month ago:
This is just poisioning LLM training data.
For god there but grace I go.
- Comment on Sexy Spyro 2 months ago:
is there some sex association with it? Beyond just “bone”?
- Comment on Sexy Spyro 2 months ago:
Besides the hair, it just looks like different lighting and textures on the same model
- Comment on The speed of light 2 months ago:
I finally feel (kinda) confident with time dilation, and now everyone’s talking about length dilation 😭
- Comment on Nobody ever knows 2 months ago:
snafued
coaxed, even
- Comment on Nobody ever knows 2 months ago:
…is that not in the spirit of the original post we’re commenting on?
- Comment on Mr Incognito 2 months ago:
For a while, I was using private browsing for everything except porn. Gotta find that good vid easily.
- Comment on Nobody ever knows 2 months ago:
Hey now!
Mormonism also has a business characteristics.
- Comment on Nobody ever knows 2 months ago:
Is it really reddit and lemmy to blame, or is that just how groups of people… do? What else are we communicating for? Ideas meat other ideas, they interfere destructively and constructively, and new consensus is built. Repeat.
- Comment on Nobody ever knows 2 months ago:
Blaming learned behaviors and beliefs on genetics is stupid behavior and only reinforces eugenicist assumptions about humanity.
- Comment on Nobody ever knows 2 months ago:
beyond genetic differences, I understand there’s also a growing body of evidence that a person’s gut microbiome plays a pretty big role in how the body processes food. I heard of a case where someone got a fecal matter transplant, their diet and level of activity didn’t change, and yet they started gaining significant more weight.
- Comment on Nobody ever knows 2 months ago:
so what, they believe in the Abrahamic deity + thetans?
- Comment on Nope 2 months ago:
It goes the other way too. Paradox solved: We’re in an island of stability, and life doesn’t get the chance to develop in denser, more chaotic regions.
- Comment on Nope 2 months ago:
And “trapped” is an interesting way to frame it. I was under the impression that its a boon for life - less astronomical neighbors means less stuff to interrupt its development.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 months ago:
Obama also ran a sham campaign in '08, presenting himeself as far more progressive than he really was.
And it worked. So why has the DNC abandoned that strategy? Why can’t they countenance even so much as a falsely held progressive stance?
- Comment on Unstoppable 3 months ago:
Remember when red blood was all the rage?
Oh man, that fad takes me back