naught101
@naught101@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I think there’s something about the type of people who are attracted to fame and power being more likely to be sociopathic, or at least more narcissistic. Not all of them, just a higher-than-background rate.
I don’t find it hard to find great people IRL.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Labels never more useful than just as a shortcut to understanding someone’s whole nuanced belief…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Surely there is a meaningful difference between a planned economy/command economy and a semi-regulated market economy? Like, I get that corporate control can still be authoritarian, but it’s different to state control in some ways, I think?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Agree, but I think there are lots of people who are a bit more on the fence, or playing around with ideas. If someone says something stupid out of ignorance or inexperience, and they get blasted for it, they probably aren’t gonna learn much from it, and they might go hang out with the people who responded well to it…
Obviously if you try and it turns out they understand what they are saying, and are doing it intentionally, they can get fucked. Problem is it’s hard to tell sometimes, and not many people have the capacity to tolerate that behaviour enough to find out.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Comment has “no bad vibes” vibes
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Isn’t this just an argument that left-right is a bad categorisation?
Tankies are authoritarian socialists. The american right are authoritarian and socially conservative individualists. Anarchists are libertarian socialists. American libertarians are also individualists.
There are lots of other dimensions too, but the left-right designation has been kind of useless at least since communists started fucking over anarchists in various parts of Eurasia in the first half of last century…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia was pretty inspiring to me
(I’ll also add that Anna Funder’s Wifedom make Orwell seem a bit fucked in his personal life. I haven’t read it yet, just had convos with people who did. Seems maybe Homage to Catalonia could have been a better book if he was less of a mysogynist)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Definitely not generally acceptable here in Australia
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I think your approach is very valid IRL, where there’s vocal nuance, and body language, and real people who probably aren’t Russian botfarms and communities that you are both part of. In that case calling-in is the far better option the vast majority of the time.
The general open internet doesn’t have much of any of that though, and general numbers and anonymity and lack of repercussions or accountability make it way too easy to be an arsehole/troll and never try to come to a common understanding. If someone’s doing that, they can fuck right off.
I think there are smaller semi-private internet communities that operate kind of half way between those extremes, where you probably have to take it case-by-case.
I think Lemmy is kinda halfway between the second and their option, but will gradually head more toward the second option as it gets bigger.
- Comment on Par for the course 1 week ago:
People working in a sewer should be paid the most.
- Comment on Par for the course 1 week ago:
I hate everything about this comment, but you’re not wrong.
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 2 weeks ago:
Why is this so funny? It’s fucking stupid 😂
- Comment on Hurry 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hurry 4 weeks ago:
Yes! If you want to take the next step, you could consider murdering a fossil fuel corporation CEO!
- Comment on Hurry 4 weeks ago:
Did we though
- Comment on Hurry 4 weeks ago:
It’s at the other end though
- Comment on Hurry 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, a) they are not the administration yet, and b) no one in any previous administration was secretly working for the US either.
- Comment on Hurry 4 weeks ago:
Wat
- Comment on Anon has marital problems 4 weeks ago:
Y’all need to talk more
- Comment on Player two has entered the lobby 4 weeks ago:
I fucking hate that this is a sensible question to ask every time now
- Comment on nuclear 5 weeks ago:
Sorry, I meant to say new private investment
- Comment on nuclear 5 weeks ago:
Solar and wind are currently both cheaper than coal, and rapidly getting cheaper.
Nuclear is more expensive, and the cost is growing. There will be almost certainly be no private investment in nuclear in the future unless it’s ideologically driven.
- Comment on nuclear 5 weeks ago:
The half life of fall-out from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was a couple of decades.
The half life of nuclear waste from powerplants is anywhere from thousands of years to millions of years, depending on the mix of isotopes.
- Comment on Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey 1 month ago:
Your assertion has even less basis though… It’s been a day, if it weren’t true surely they would have issued a refutation…
If you’d put “probably” in your statement you’d be on more solid ground.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 1 month ago:
Is it though? The US still has the death penalty, and the person who commits those killings just gets paid and how’s home.
And none of those people of death row are responsible for even a small fraction of the evil private health insurers are capable of.
- Comment on How am I supposed to obtain income? 1 month ago:
You might be right. Personally it doesn’t seem that way to me, but ultimately people end up wherever they end up, and it’s often hard to disentangle why.
One thing that does seem different in those skills that you mentioned, is that drawing and singing are creative/artistic, which means that there’s no “correct” outcome. If you fuck up fixing a car, it doesn’t work, and you have the immediate and direct feedback that you’ve done it wrong.
With drawing or singing, if you do it wrong, you only really have your self-image and personal aesthetics to answer to. You can get really good and still hate everything you do, and there’s no way someone can show you that you’re objectively wrong, because it’s a taste thing. OTOH you can do it technically “badly” forever, but like what you do, and if you stick with it enough, then maybe you just made a new style of art.
- Comment on How am I supposed to obtain income? 1 month ago:
There might be elements that can’t be learned, but there are plenthy that can. A lot of it is just attitude. Perserverence and a willingness to acknowledge and learn from your mistakes and not get too frustrated when things break, I’d say that’s 90% of it.
- Comment on Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right? 1 month ago:
I don’t think you can answer that question from those numbers. They are percentages. The difference they make depends a lot on the total population in each group.
- Comment on I do not want to do anything. Is this addiction? 1 month ago:
You might be right, but there’s not that much in the post that clearly points to burnout. The comment about stress might, but it really depends what OP meant there, and whether that stress feeling is related to their work, or something else.
If it is related to their work, then yeah, burnout could be a big part of it. In which case talking to a supervisor or a school counselor might be a good idea.
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 1 month ago:
I liked the old aibnb one.
Microsoft went from “boring with a bit of attitude” to just plain boring
