LovableSidekick
@LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
- Comment on Artisanal 2 days ago:
designer: “Ok, now I see it.”
- Comment on I read somewhere a while back that most or at least half of California wildfires are cause by faulty electrical company equipment. Is this true? And how come no one has ever reported it? 1 week ago:
It gets reported and investigated all the time. PG&E, a large power company in California, paid around $14 billion in the court case following the big fires there a few years ago.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
Zero
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Because the US has Freedom! and other countries just have actual freedom.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
No, that’s a tremendous oversimplification. I’m saying capitalism alongside publicly funded necessities for survival and wellbeing. Nobody starves, nobody is homeless. If you want it summed up as a slogan how about, “We don’t leave people behind.”
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
Socialism isn’t a binary concept any more than Capitalism is. You can have capitalist activity alongside freely available publicly funded institutions - national parks, libraries, etc. People who say they want socialism usually want a specific list of human needs publically funded. This is perfectly possible in a capitalist economy, as OP’s list illustrates.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
The modern use of the word Socialism means having significant publicly funded institutions. When people say they want socialism they mean they want more of it, because most likely they already have lots of publicly funded institutions - like police and fire protection, public libraries, unemployment compensation… What they want is more, and Europe has more than the US.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
Yeah but we have mythical Freedom! and the whole world except us is mythically oppressed by socialist tyranny!
- Comment on Daveigh Chase, Voice of Lilo in ‘Lilo & Stitch,’ Died of AIDS 2 weeks ago:
Sad news. She was also in Spirited Away, Donnie Darko, and The Ring.
- Comment on What's gunna to happen when the American Federal Government starts prosecuting people for owning powerful computer hardware and software? 2 weeks ago:
Modern Americans will complain but they won’t significantly resist, because actual resistance is so much harder than typing.
- Comment on What's gunna to happen when the American Federal Government starts prosecuting people for owning powerful computer hardware and software? 2 weeks ago:
Imagine if somebody inventd a replicator!
- Comment on Could the Supreme Court overturning Marbury vs Madison be a way to repeal the US Constitution? 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like an excellent question to pose in a constitutional law class. Let’s put our best social media randos on it!
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Interrogates You With Nonsense 2 weeks ago:
Great edit - reminded me of this gem from Lost - What?
- Comment on Why do people get mad at you for using Wikipedia, but treat Google and AI chatbots like they're gospel? 2 weeks ago:
Nobody’s ever gotten mad at me for using wikipedia. Does this happen anywhere specific?
- Comment on What is your favourite gaming console you have played? 2 weeks ago:
The venerable Atari 2600.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Dude you’re gettin’ a Riff!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Buying only a download code is essentially a gift card.
- Comment on Glad they're looking out for me 2 weeks ago:
Yes, just like HR is there for employees.
- Comment on Horror story 2 weeks ago:
Agile.
- Comment on How come people are stupid nowadays? Especially on social media 2 weeks ago:
It only seems that way because the stupidest people are the loudest, and have the most free time to spend on social media.
- Comment on and what?! 2 weeks ago:
We’ve lost the signal, sir.
- Comment on More 2 weeks ago:
Tricks - they’re not for kids
- Comment on What do you think about the dead internet theory? 2 weeks ago:
It’s more of an attitude than a theory. We do have metrics that say bot activity now represents about 60% of internet traffic, recently surpassing human activity. That’s a majority, but the whole internet processes around 150 million requests per second, so 60 million of that is humans. Per second. Objectively I wouldn’t call that “dead” by any means.
- Comment on Survey says... 2 weeks ago:
Seems like an arbitrary threshold. Does anybody actually need $900 million? Or $300 million? Or…
- Comment on Survey says... 2 weeks ago:
The human compulsion to invent religions.
- Comment on A FYI from Skeletor 3 weeks ago:
To be fair tho, nobody ever stuck explosives up Superman’s ass - that I’m aware of.
- Comment on A FYI from Skeletor 3 weeks ago:
That’s no the only reason, but it does rank high among the perks.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 3 weeks ago:
IDK how the business works, but if I go to pick up an order for myself and they gave it to somebody else, I don’t lose any money, they’re fucking making it again.
- Comment on So guess what boss 3 weeks ago:
Aww haww
- Comment on So guess what boss 3 weeks ago:
Dragonslayer!!!