Not_mikey
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- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 19 hours ago:
Is there any evidence it stood on two feet? Figured it would look more like a gorilla then this.
- Comment on Zoom’s CEO agrees with Bill Gates, Jensen Huang, and Jamie Dimon: A 3-day workweek is coming soon thanks to AI 1 week ago:
It’s sufficient to say there is an immediate profit motive to just fire the workers and pocket the surplus, I think.
That doesn’t explain why they don’t just do a three day work week and pay workers 1/2 of what they did before. Cost wise it would be the same and would make the same profit as firing half the workforce, but you’ll almost never see companies reduce hours instead of head count.
They don’t reduce hours because that means the person will probably get a second job. Now they’re not the sole employer and the only thing keeping that person from poverty. This makes getting fired a smaller threat as the second job can hold you over for longer. It also gives the employees more bargaining power when negotiating for raises / benefits as they can threaten to quit and just live off the second job for a bit, they can also play both employers off one another to compete for the employees time. These all increase worker power which capitalists/employers don’t like.
A long unemployment line has the opposite effect and decreases worker power. It makes firing a bigger threat as the employee knows it will be harder to get a job, so the employer can work them more and pay them less. It also reduces employee bargaining power as the threat of quitting isn’t as real and the employer knows it.
This is why a Marxist approach is needed, economics just looks at the dollar and cents, but if you look only at that you can miss underlying power dynamics that also drive behavior.
- Comment on Zoom’s CEO agrees with Bill Gates, Jensen Huang, and Jamie Dimon: A 3-day workweek is coming soon thanks to AI 1 week ago:
Marx called this more then a century ago, any labor saving technology will always be used to put people in the unemployment line instead of lessening work because capitalist love a long unemployment line to keep the workers in line.
He thought that it would lead to the unemployed masses teaming up with the imiserated workers to overthrow capitalism, which hasn’t happened…yet.
- Comment on Girls who play after-school sport in UK 50% more likely to later get top jobs, study finds 2 weeks ago:
I feel like both parents working is more common in working class families then rich ones. A rich family may have one of the parents working part time or not at all because they can afford it.
Yeah a working class family may have one parent who is chronically unemployed but I feel that’s more the exception to the rule, as capitalism does a pretty good job of putting those people on the streets and having the state take away the kids.
- Comment on We are helping 2 weeks ago:
So eating meat is now rebelling against the billionaires…
For every dollar a billionaire spends trying to get you to eat less meat, other billionaires spend 100x more trying to get you to eat more meat through advertising, lobbying, etc.
If you want to play into the billionaires plans, eat more meat. If you want to help stop climate change, eat less meat.
- Comment on We are helping 2 weeks ago:
Same with cars, even if we completely ignore climate change we maybe got a century left of oil before it’s too expensive to drive. By not investing in other transportation now we’re just making it more painful when we finally do rip the bandaid off.
- Comment on We are helping 2 weeks ago:
And not littering won’t fix the underlying problems of single use plastics wrapping everything we touch, and the corporations that want to keep it that way. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t litter.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, there are plenty of other investment opportunities, the fact that you chose the one that profits off of housing insecurity shows you don’t enough about it to forgo a little bit of extra money.
Like other people have mentioned you would also have to be advocating against your own interest. Yes you can do that but your passion will at least be dulled by your innate desire for profit. You’d have more passion and will for the cause if you didn’t own investment properties, even more if you are renting and are a victim of housing commodification.
Another point is that you’d be adding to the demand of houses and thus raising the price. You could argue it’s a drop in the ocean, but that sort of attitude leads to a million drops in the ocean and rising sea levels. You would also probably be buying it on a mortgage that’s larger then the house was previously on so the floor for rent , the break even point, would be higher.
Eg. If you bought the property for $400,000 on a mortgage for say $2,000 a month from someone who only had a $200,000 mortgage on it for $1,000 a month you’ve now upped the rent floor $1,000.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 3 weeks ago:
You could make a lot of these same arguments for owning slaves. If you don’t buy them then someone else will, and they may be a worse master then you. Better that you buy them and treat them right, provide them good food and housing, while at the same time advocating for the abolition of slavery.
In both secenarios you may say you want what’s best for them, but that desire is in direct conflict with your desire for profit so either you become a bad investor or a bad slave master / landlord. Why bring yourself into that conflict instead of investing in something without those moral implications?
- Comment on [Video] Genius way to solve homelessness in USA 4 weeks ago:
Ideally yes, Palestinians have a right to defend themselves from genocide.
Realistically you could sell those weapons to Ukraine since the weapons industry is the only thing keeping this shit country going.
- Comment on It's almost here 4 weeks ago:
Come to San Francisco, the weather never goes above 70 degrees and we have the best bread bowls and they only cost $25 (without tax)
- Comment on Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer 4 weeks ago:
You can still use free fillable forms, you can fill out the raw tax forms yourself online and can submit them online there. Not the best UI, it’s literally just the forms, but you cut out the middle man so they don’t get more money to lobby congress to keep this dumb system going. It’s also free if you make more then $85,000 , which alot of the “free” software isn’t.
- Comment on Help. 1 month ago:
If llms are juiced up auto complete then humans are juiced up bacteria. Yeah they both have the same end goal, guess the next word, survive and reproduce , but the methods they use to accomplish them are vastly more complex.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Was thinking the opposite, thought lemmy was above the unprompted furry bashing and this post made me doubt the maturity of a lot of people here.
- Comment on This is WAR. 1 month ago:
Born to early to get poisoned by lead Born to late to get poisoned by microplastics Born just in time to drive a forklift
- Comment on I'm sure this would work out fine 1 month ago:
That won’t work, there sick child seeking missiles will just hit this instead.
- Comment on Spare a moment for all the children who were never born because their would-be fathers sterilized themselves imitating this show 1 month ago:
Just gonna give myself a little bit of cancer stan
- Comment on Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike 1 month ago:
It does look like a clone, but fuck IP law. Sony winning this will only hurt games because any publisher with a genre creating / defining game could gatekeep any competitors from coming in *cough Nintendo.
The original horizon came out 8 years ago, that’s plenty of time for them to cash in on the monopoly they get for all the creativity that went into creating the genre / style.
Its not like they’re marketing it with a similar name or main character or any other identifier that could trick someone into buying it instead either.
- Comment on Google AI strikes again 2 months ago:
Human here, and didn’t know what the post was about. Had the same thought process as the ai and couldn’t understand the gotcha.
- Comment on Anon breaks up 2 months ago:
I don’t hate guns, I hate the “gun rights” movements and there fetishization of a skewed interpretation of the second amendment where any individual has the unalieanable right to own a gun.
Even if a violent revolution were to happen, which odds are 99 to 1 it wont happen in the US in our lifetimes, then people like op hoarding guns aren’t going to help. A well regulated militia might but that requires social organization and discipline, which most people in the gun rights movement don’t have the time or willingness for.
They aren’t serious about using guns to defend liberty, they just like the aesthetic of it and make it part of there personality. So much so that they get offended by dumb and probably made up stories like this but not the countless other similar stories where there were no red flag laws and the gf gets killed.
- Comment on Anon breaks up 2 months ago:
This is the horror story for red flag laws existing.
Now imagine the horror stories of red flag laws not existing
- Comment on California, Once a Mecca for Animation Work, Is Rapidly Losing Ground, Report Claims 4 months ago:
Cool, another state race to the bottom for tax incentives. This always works out great for all involved, i.e. Production companies and major studios.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
In the u.s. a bidet refers to a type of toilet or an attachment for a toilet that shoots water at your asshole while your still on the toilet after you shit. The separate sink as a bidet is unheard of here.
- Comment on Episode 1 of the new season of righteous gemstones is lost cause propaganda 4 months ago:
If it was a comedy I would give it a pass, but this episode wasn’t, or at least it was a bad one. The only sort of funny scene was the sermon. The rest was young boys slowly dying.
- Comment on Episode 1 of the new season of righteous gemstones is lost cause propaganda 5 months ago:
I get the focus is supposed to be on Elijah and how bad he is but the background is the lost cause myth and sympathizing with the common confederate troops. I guess you could say they didn’t want to make the confederates look bad so Elijah could look horrible in comparison, but you could’ve had Elijah just be even more racist then the troops.
Like the only sort of funny part where he gives the sermon, if it were realistic he would’ve gone full race baiting and go one about how the unions gonna come and free the n*****s and slavery is in the Bible etc. to rile up the troops. But in this mythical confederacy racism and slavery don’t exist which is ahistorical.
- Comment on Episode 1 of the new season of righteous gemstones is lost cause propaganda 5 months ago:
They gave it back after doing a war crime and executing prisoners of war. They also executed them with a fucking gattling gun which is just cruel. I think they were trying to get you to sympathize with the confederates about to die instead of the northerners who were killing an already defeated foe.
- Comment on Episode 1 of the new season of righteous gemstones is lost cause propaganda 5 months ago:
if it was a serious show I’d agree but it’s satire
I agree, righteous gemstones generally whitewashes the southern church and rarely shows the racism and homophobia that would be present. But I give it a pass because it’s funny, this episode wasn’t funny. The only joke of the show was him giving a bad sermon to those troops, the rest was just sad imagery of confederate boys dying. This episode was them trying to be serious and it didn’t work IMO.
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- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 6 months ago:
Microsofts too lazy to make new IP so they’re trying to reboot any game that wasn’t a complete flop.
- Comment on Cybertruck Crashes in Light Snow as Driver Shouts "NOT AGAIN!" 6 months ago:
Can someone explain why he stopped accelerating when he started sliding back and seemed to just brake?
I get laying off the accelerator for a bit and sliding back a bit to get out of a rut, but he just gave up.
