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- Comment on Is there a theoretical limit to profit? 3 days ago:
In a sense yes. Once a company has captured the entire economy, including banking, it would control who to give credit to, who to employ, what to pay them, what their own products are priced.
They could at most reap as “profit” what they give out in credit and payment.
- Comment on Why is the word "defense" avoided in reporting and rhetorics around Ukraine? 5 weeks ago:
We don’t know what an eventual outcome will be right now and it would be… weird to talk about help financing “defense” for years and then actually negotiate for concessions.
It’s an open secret that if all Russian nukes would disappear over night, the other members of the UN security council would probably party for a week. The US (and the EU) is supporting Ukraine because that’s the right thing to do AND it is in their interest because who knows what a bigger Russia will do next. But they’re also doing it because it’s weakening Russia and that’s also in their interest, even though they would never publicly say it or not with the intensity that they actually think that way.
Long story short, if the absolute optimal (for Ukraine and “the west”) thing happens:
- the war exhausts Russia more than Ukraine + supporters
- the timing for negotiations is chosen in a way that is extremely bad for Russia, to the effect that Russia doesn’t have to just apologize, return territory, pay reparations, and all that, but ALSO give up other things.
- like UN observers and limits to their military.
- nuclear disarmament
- ???
It would look extremely badly if politicians, actual leaders of nations, were to talk about “defense” for years and then actually ask those things in the end. Which they want to.
So it’s preemptive PR management that leaves room for that asking for more things than would be justifiable with “defense”.
tldr: it’s a defensive war, for now.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 month ago:
- the world doesn’t owe you at least one morally correct choice. They can also just all be morally bad choices.
- morals on your point of view what correct behavior is and on the social group you want to be respected and accepted by. (2.1 because of that, morals are subjective, made up, and can be whatever anyone wants.)
- Comment on The election is over so here's the happily ever after 1 month ago:
- Comment on do you think lemmy will ever be popular? 1 month ago:
Depends, it’s been a bit disappointing to see virtually no change since I started using it, particularly in terms of QoL. It is open source, so that’s on everyone, including me, but I had hoped for more speed, etc…
Mastodon is way better when it comes to filtering.
Having the option of a reddit clone is pretty good though and I will stick with it. Who knows when and where it will get that critical bit of momentum.
It’s already superior to regular forums, in my opinion, so now the question is what kind of format you want to have discussions in, instead of having to default to forums. That choice is a definite upside and I’m glad it exists.
- Comment on How do you just live like this? 1 month ago:
In a different time, under different assumptions, meritocracy can happen. Working and working a lot in that kind of environment, enriches yourself, your company and society, without a downside.
Overtime you put in, may be more work, but it’s temporary, necessary, because you in your job doing the overtime, helps orders of magnitude more, in critical situations, than other people can, or maybe there is actually nobody else to do the job and the job doesn’t get done. E.g. specialized surgeons saving lives. And that effort and overtime would be recognized and rewarded under those assumptions as well.
Somebody who has worked extraordinary amounts, would have put in extraordinary effort. They would be community champions.
It’s important to recognize that clash of assumptions.
seek so much escapism to be away from dealing with the bleak, always-gloomy mentality of work.
His words, or yours?
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 1 month ago:
and it seems like the only people that use Linux are HEAVILY experienced with those things I just listed… HOWEVER… I’m not.
Nah. Or at least, it should just work if you boot from your USB.
Just try it.
- Comment on Must EU banks provide basic service via internet? 2 months ago:
I don’t think that there is an obligation with that kind of standard, no.
Banking and security, accessibility yes.
Specific choice of “user side software”, probably not. And it’s somewhat unlikely to happen too, because if you think about apps on phones, if suddenly a completely new phone OS were to show up and had 30% market share, it wouldn’t make sense to have a law that would legally require them to offer an app on that platform
And Chrome isn’t “officially bad” in a legal sense.
The internet standards themselves are a bit… imprecise too. Implementing them in browser is ultimately up to the companies, there is no legal body requiring a browser to have or not have features. They just usually sort of do the same things because going different paths would be stupid. Mostly. Sometimes they totally do that, though, e.g. calendars and contact info have a standard, but all implementations are a mess and transfer is a pain.
- Comment on Why is space 2 dimensional? 2 months ago:
When things collide, they transfer their movement energy. If things collide like this >- They will continue in roughly the same direction. If they collide like this -> <- their movement will cancel out and they will fall into the sun.
Satistically, at the “beginning of time”, in a random sphere around the sun, things will not be completely the same. So everything will either collide and fall. Or it will collide and continue in roughly the same direction. What we have now are the leftovers that were moving in roughly the same direction and colliding so little that they didn’t fall into the sun because of that.
The same is true for the “disk”: If you start with a roughly evenly distributed sphere of gases or something, there is a middle somewhere where there is a little bit more mass than anywhere else. That’s where things will go.
- Comment on Choose your fighter 4 months ago:
Glockness Monster *teleports behind you*
“nothing personal, kid”
- Comment on Anon meets his gf's parents 5 months ago:
The boyfriend interpreted as a bonding moment.
The father meant his placing the gun as a threat and got “called” on his bluff and gets angry.
- Comment on Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity? 6 months ago:
Mastodon has very nice keyword based filter system.
For example, I have the filter “idiot did a thing”, and the keywords are a number of names of… popular people that news don’t get tired of talking, even though the thing isn’t actually newsworthy.
Same for other “ongoing” hot topics, that I already am informed about, where I don’t need the 24/7 doomscroll effect shoving negativity into my face.