Sauerkraut
@Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on U.S. is cracking down on Shein and Temu by closing a loophole that makes their cheap goods exempt from tariffs 3 days ago:
Didn’t workers make that exact argument when their good manufacturing jobs were being sent to poorer nations? Seems hypocritical that the government allows globalism to hurt the working class as long as it benefits the rich, but suddenly globalism is bad when it hurts the profit margins of our billionaires.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
Considering how the US’s CIA will infiltrate leftist groups to undermine and break those groups up, would that make the US an authoritarian state? And if someone passively enables authoritarianism through complacency then does that not make them authoritarians by default?
Read up on Operation Gladio if you want a peak at how deeply fascist / authoritarian the US truly is: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
Couldn’t that be said of any and all groups? A few bad posters has soured me on the lemm.ee instance, but would it be logical or fair or me to assume that a few bad experiences reflects an entire group?
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
I am not from ML nor do I have a Hexbear alt of any sort, but I defend Hexbear’s right to be different. They seem to be a younger group of anti-capitalists so I find their perspectives interesting.
- Comment on FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist 1 week ago:
True, but if you are a politician and you pay a ghost writer then political groups can bulk purchase your book as a way of laundering bribe money
- Comment on Moss 2 weeks ago:
Go to Iceland and there are huge fields of lava rocks covered in a thick yellow-greenish moss because there isn’t enough soil for anything else to grow. It is surreal and probably what most of the earth looked like for those 40 million years
- Comment on X goes offline in Brazil after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws 2 weeks ago:
I can relate to that, but fart sounds are also seen as childish and immature by lots of people so the site will never be a serious Twitter alternative unless they pick a bird name
- Comment on X goes offline in Brazil after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws 2 weeks ago:
Not the same. Twitter and tweets were uniquely brilliant in a way that “toot” will never be. Farts are unpleasant. Bird sounds are very pleasant. Also, Every hear the phrase “a little bird told me”? Or notice how in very old disney movies (which are based on old German fairytales), that the birds talk (tweet) to the heroines as benevolent messengers? Twitter was honestly the perfect name for the company. Mastodon is a terrible name, but better than X
- Comment on X goes offline in Brazil after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws 2 weeks ago:
Mastodon is also just a terrible name for a Twitter alternative where nearly everyone thinks of the format as being tweets (a sound a bird makes). If they had to pick a animal name, then they should have picked a two syllable bird name like Magpie, Pigeon, Bluejay, Robin, Raven, or even a 3 syllable bird like StellarJay, Cockatoo, etc.
- Comment on Anon pretends to be a girl online 3 weeks ago:
I am a happily married guy with kids but I identified with Samuel in that story more than I ever would have guessed would have been possible. I have always been jealous of how easy it is for women to make friends and how tender their friendship are. I have never gotten along with macho guys and multiple times in my life people thought I was gay (I am only attracted to women, I just want tender friendships like women have with each other)…
- Comment on Against all odds, an asteroid mining company [AstroForge] appears to be making headway 4 weeks ago:
Climate change is threatening to potentially be an extinction level event and yet Americans keep buying bigger and bigger tank sized vehicles… If we can’t even be bothered to save ourselves by addressing climate change now then I think there is virtually zero chance that we will ever colonize space or other planets.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
The math is interesting: it takes 40L of sap to produce 1L of syrup which means only 2.5% of the original sap remains after boiling it. I wonder if it caramelizes slightly from the boiling process.
- Comment on Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried 4 weeks ago:
Slim profit margins my ass. Walmarts gross profit for the twelve months ending July 31, 2024 was $163.786B,
Walmart has 10.5k locations. 163B divided by 10.5K is about $15.6M per location.
Jesus, in what world is $15M profits per store location considered a “slim margin”?
- Comment on Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried 4 weeks ago:
I think this will be potentially be a good thing (at first) as you won’t have people wasting their life away just endlessly updating the price of every individual item.
Things will get messy when they start price gouging based on current inventory, weather, holidays or emergency situations.
Things will get deeply dystopian if they start scanning customers as they enter and change the price based on their skin color, gender, clothing, or estimated net worth.
- Comment on How Amazon “Lied, Spied, Cheated Its Way to the Top”: WSJ Reporter Dana Mattioli 4 weeks ago:
If John Oliver’s segment on Amazon was correct, then Amazon is much worse than Microsoft. Microsoft didn’t force their employees to pee in bottles and work them ragged until they had severe burnout or became physically disabled.
- Comment on 5,000 AI-Controlled Fake X Accounts Linked to China Disinformation Campaign, Researchers Reveal 4 weeks ago:
Disagree with your second point. Punitive approachs only work as a temporary stopgap. The government should either nationalize twitter or force twitter to be open to federalization (like lemmy) and then build their own publically owned instance.
- Comment on 5,000 AI-Controlled Fake X Accounts Linked to China Disinformation Campaign, Researchers Reveal 4 weeks ago:
Musk himself keeps calling it Twitter. He did it multiple times in his interview with Trump.
I lowkey love that Musk refuses to change it back because it highlights the fact that the richest man in the world is also a huge idiot and that capitalism is not a meritocracy.
- Comment on A nightly Waymo robotaxi parking lot honkfest is waking San Francisco neighbors 5 weeks ago:
Interesting, I’d guess that you are better than average at tuning traffic noises out then. I am probably worse than average myself as traffic would constantly wake me up when I lived downtown.
- Comment on A nightly Waymo robotaxi parking lot honkfest is waking San Francisco neighbors 5 weeks ago:
US sirens are too high pitched. European sirens have a lower pitch which allows the sound to travel further which allows them to decrease the volume.
- Comment on A nightly Waymo robotaxi parking lot honkfest is waking San Francisco neighbors 5 weeks ago:
You have never been to a car centric city? Cars are loud af. Noise pollution from cars is so bad that studies have been able to link living next to higher traffic roads with poorer health outcomes
- Comment on 8 Minutes 5 weeks ago:
I’m more interested in how long before we freeze to death.
Kurzegesagt did a great video on this thought experiment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLZJlf5rHVs&t=1