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- Comment on CATL unveils battery with 12-minute charging and 1.5 million mile life 1 day ago:
Well, make it swappable so it can be put into another car? Or use it as energy storage at home?
- Comment on What is the optimal handle to chain length for a flail? 4 days ago:
The type of flail seen in your picture wasn’t used by the peasantry but nobility. Some crafty blacksmith probably saw drafted farmers take their threshing flail into battle as improvised weapon and thought about how to properly weaponize the concept. Also we are not talking about two flimsy sticks here. Flails used for threshing had to be sturdy as they needed to last the whole harvest season. They were made from hardwood and I can personally attest, that they are heavy indeed. The things one finds when clearing the grandparents barn …
As for the practicality of the weaponized flail: it was indeed of dubious use and it is questionable whether it saw widespread military adoption or whether it was the equivalent of “tacticool” gear of the middle ages. An iron club is indeed a more effective weapon and is commenly referred to as mace and if you take a look at a specific type of mace you can probably guess where the idea of the spiky ball came from.
- Comment on What is the optimal handle to chain length for a flail? 6 days ago:
Flails are used for threshing.
- Comment on Too soon? 6 days ago:
It was Iceland!
How do you mean? Nuuk is the capital of Greenland and the Orangeman constantly talks about taking over Greenland.
- Comment on Too soon? 6 days ago:
Please direct complaints towards the developer. I’m just playing!
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- Comment on Is it normal that you feel very shaky as soon as you start to get hungry? 1 week ago:
- Comment on German hacker "Martha Root" dressed as a pink Power Ranger, deleted white supremacist website live onstage 4 weeks ago:
Best “tech demo” of the whole congress.
Also check out okstupid.lol where you can look at the profiles that were present on the site.
- Comment on SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years 1 month ago:
Data hoarders everywhere rejoice!
But on a more serious note, a commercially viable product would be awesome.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 months ago:
I am always baffled as to what Microsoft gets away with because of their monopoly in the consumer market. Imagine them releasing Windows for the first time today.
- Comment on Arc Raiders review - a smartly designed extraction shooter marred by one inexcusable decision 2 months ago:
How aggressive is the in-game monetization?
- Comment on ‘We had to stop focusing on those who hated us’: Ubisoft says it won the battle against Assassin’s Creed Shadows backlash [VGC] 2 months ago:
The fights are like playing Guitar Hero blindfolded
I won the boss battle in AC 1 without visuals because the cracked version I played glitched out. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 3 months ago:
for a goth girl.
Big Titty Goth Girl! FTFY
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 3 months ago:
If they’d post links to hit pieces or sites such as RT maybe.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 3 months ago:
I’ve recently noticed a lot of new accounts which post a whole series of news articles and then get deleted. Notot fake news or conspiracies but mostly reputable sites. No idea what’s going on there.
- Comment on Minecraft streamer completes 14-year journey walking to the Far Lands 3 months ago:
Wooooot, Kurt did it? Straight to Youtube then!
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 months ago:
I.e. the TV channel Arte, which is a cooperation of French and German state media has a multipart documentary called Work, Salary, Profit that touches on a lot of fundamentals.
Of course there is always the option just to straight up read the original works by Marx, Smith and so on, but they are not for the feint of heart.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 months ago:
Well, to me that sounds a little like you prefer the term swimming over being called a swimmer.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 months ago:
Well, if you assume the farmer excludes others from using the means of production i.e. the fields, then yes you can argue that they are acting as capitalist. But you have to make the distinction between private and personal ownership: Private ownership of the land and personal ownership of the produce. The former is what communists reject. The latter is fine in their books.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 months ago:
It would certainly help a lot if you could tone down your condescending attitude a little.
I fail to see where anything you write is an actual argument against my distinction between different forms of working with the means to produce something. Yes, I’ve misread your vendor as a farmer, but that’s not a reason to go ad hominem.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 months ago:
All companies work that way, or they risk to fail. The maximization of profit stems from the need to stay competitive. If your competitor can produce the same amount of goods for a lower price, you won’t be able to sell yours for a cost-covering price and therefore go bankrupt. Instead, you then have to find a way to be more efficient by investing in your business. To be able to invest, you have to have created profit. Once you have done that, your competitor has to do the same and the cycle starts anew. That’s the idea of modern capitalism.
By my reading you’re taking the use of the first term and then saying they are using the second term. I think this is called equivocation.
I am not sure what you mean by that. I tried to show that just because someone sells something, they are not necessarily a capitalist.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 months ago:
I’m not sure why people always insist if money is involved that it’s capitalism. Money is an abstract form of trade. No one is suggesting that trade will cease to exists in a world without capitalism.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 months ago:
What does a farmer having inputs have to do with my argument being removed from reality?
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 months ago:
A farmer selling their produce is not necessarily a capitalist. A farmer toiling on their own field sells the fruit of their own labor, so to speak. One step up are what Marx calls “Little Masters”: They own and work their means of production, but sometimes have employees such as farmhands or apprentices (Think companies where the owner still works in the workshop). Actual capitalists are detached from the production process: They no longer work, but simply own the so-called means of production and exploit others by buying their labor force for less than their produced result is worth.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
300-400 miles isn’t happening unless maybe as a death march.
He-he, I guess you typed that before reading the wiki page.
- Comment on The Pokémon Company confirms that no, its imagery was not granted for use in disturbing US Department of Homeland Security video | Eurogamer 4 months ago:
You mean it works better when it comes to hurting my eyes?
- Comment on The Pokémon Company confirms that no, its imagery was not granted for use in disturbing US Department of Homeland Security video | Eurogamer 4 months ago:
May I offer you a higher quality version of this image in these trying times?
- Comment on Why does Lemmy output horribly invalid HTML? 4 months ago:
Which is a shame. Browser should be strict when rendering.
- Multiple IDs with the same name? Jail!
- Open tags? Jail!
- Invalid order of tags? Believe it or not: Jail!
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 4 months ago:
Then they look like a well groomed animal.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 5 months ago:
I’d say if they are solely an investment, then yes you are part of the problem. Because you expect a return on your investment and so inherently rent has to be increased to generate the necessary profits.
If you’d live in a house that has more room than you need and rent these out that’s fine in my book. But possession solely for profit is one of the main problems of our current economic system.
