astutemural
@astutemural@midwest.social
- Comment on When reality smacks you in the face 6 days ago:
Yah that’s just driving.
Take a bus and watch Youtube the whole time. It’s glorious.
- Comment on robot slurs 6 days ago:
“Dripper” “Leaker”
- Comment on Resources 1 week ago:
What on Earth are you on about?
Quoting from the study:
“It is important to understand that the DLS represents a minimum floor for decent living. It does not represent a an aspirational standard and certainly does not represent a ceiling. However, it is also a level of welfare not currently achieved by the vast majority of people. A new paper by Hoffman et al finds that 96.5 percent of people in low- and middle-income countries are deprived of at least one DLS dimension…we can conclude that 6.4 billion people, more than 80% of the world’s population, are deprived of DLS.”
The authors are not suggesting that everyone be forced on DLS at gunpoint. They are suggesting an absolute bare minimum standard that the overwhelming majority of people on Earth do not yet even have.
How the hell do you get from that to some sort of paranoid fantasy where everyone gets exactly the same thing?
- Comment on Resources 1 week ago:
ITT: people who didn’t even glance at the study.
Quoting from the study:
“It is important to understand that the DLS represents a minimum floor for decent living. It does not represent a an aspirational standard and certainly does not represent a ceiling. However, it is also a level of welfare not currently achieved by the vast majority of people. A new paper by Hoffman et al finds that 96.5 percent of people in low- and middle-income countries are deprived of at least one DLS dimension…we can conclude that 6.4 billion people, more than 80% of the world’s population, are deprived of DLS.”
The authors are not suggesting that everyone be forced on DLS at gunpoint. They are suggesting an absolute bare minimum standard that the overwhelming majority of people on Earth do not yet even have. Quite obviously any excess production could and would be used to increase standard of living.
- Comment on Resources 1 week ago:
ITT: people who didn’t even glance at the study.
Quoting from the study:
“It is important to understand that the DLS represents a minimum floor for decent living. It does not represent a an aspirational standard and certainly does not represent a ceiling. However, it is also a level of welfare not currently achieved by the vast majority of people. A new paper by Hoffman et al finds that 96.5 percent of people in low- and middle-income countries are deprived of at least one DLS dimension…we can conclude that 6.4 billion people, more than 80% of the world’s population, are deprived of DLS.”
The authors are not suggesting that everyone be forced on DLS at gunpoint. They are suggesting an absolute bare minimum standard that the overwhelming majority of people on Earth do not yet even have. Quite obviously any excess production could and would be used to increase standard of living.
- Comment on Resources 1 week ago:
ITT: people who didn’t even glance at the study.
Quoting from the study:
“It is important to understand that the DLS represents a minimum floor for decent living. It does not represent a an aspirational standard and certainly does not represent a ceiling. However, it is also a level of welfare not currently achieved by the vast majority of people. A new paper by Hoffman et al finds that 96.5 percent of people in low- and middle-income countries are deprived of at least one DLS dimension…we can conclude that 6.4 billion people, more than 80% of the world’s population, are deprived of DLS.”
The authors are not suggesting that everyone be forced on DLS at gunpoint. They are suggesting an absolute bare minimum standard that the overwhelming majority of people on Earth do not yet even have. Quite obviously any excess production could and would be used to increase standard of living.
- Comment on Resources 1 week ago:
ITT: people who didn’t even glance at the study.
Quoting from the study:
“It is important to understand that the DLS represents a minimum floor for decent living. It does not represent a an aspirational standard and certainly does not represent a ceiling. However, it is also a level of welfare not currently achieved by the vast majority of people. A new paper by Hoffman et al finds that 96.5 percent of people in low- and middle-income countries are deprived of at least one DLS dimension…we can conclude that 6.4 billion people, more than 80% of the world’s population, are deprived of DLS.”
The authors are not suggesting that everyone be forced on DLS at gunpoint. They are suggesting an absolute bare minimum standard that the overwhelming majority of people on Earth do not yet even have. Quite obviously any excess production could and would be used to increase standard of living.
- Comment on Resources 1 week ago:
The study does, in fact. Or actually, bare minimum living standards:
Quoting from the article:
“It is important to understand that the DLS represents a minimum floor for decent living. It does not represent a an aspirational standard and certainly does not represent a ceiling. However, it is also a level of welfare not currently achieved by the vast majority of people. A new paper by Hoffman et al finds that 96.5 percent of people in low- and middle-income countries are deprived of at least one DLS dimension.”
- Comment on Resources 1 week ago:
Very rural places all over the world have train and bus service. It’s a matter of choice that the US doesn’t, not a matter of practicality.
- Comment on Resources 1 week ago:
Well, thanks for sharing misinformation.
Meanwhile, in the actual study (provided free via any search engine of your choice):
Also directly from the study you didn’t read:
“It is important to understand that the DLS represents a minimum floor for decent living. It does not represent a an aspirational standard and certainly does not represent a ceiling. However, it is also a level of welfare not currently achieved by the vast majority of people. A new paper by Hoffman et al finds that 96.5 percent of people in low- and middle-income countries are deprived of at least one DLS dimension.”
So no, nobody is coming to take your gaming rig, and no, the majority of people on Earth would get an UPGRADE in living conditions, not a downgrade.
- Comment on Resources 1 week ago:
Whether ‘a good life’ is possible in rural areas depends on your definition.
Is it living like the Amish? In that case, yes.
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 1 week ago:
Irish and Italian people would like a word with you
- Comment on Anon's grandpa does his own research 3 weeks ago:
Or wargaming, which is a type of model railroading.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You have no control over big events, so you’re not offended by them. The small stuff you can control (or at least think you can), so it’s immediately offensive to your sense of personal control and importance.
- Comment on Financially rewarding and you will always have a job 3 weeks ago:
We need jobs programs
- Comment on I require nothing more 4 weeks ago:
Look at all the space for a mini painting station
- Comment on I'm still not sure how to do this actually oh wait maybe... nope. 1 month ago:
You realize you’re supposed to wash your produce when you get home, right? There’s still pesticides on there.
- Comment on LOVE THEM 2 months ago:
Skeuomorphism
- Comment on When you are ruining your day ranting about something remember THIS 3 months ago:
So you actually count by segments of the finger, using your thumb as a tapper. Crook your index finger and look at it - three segments, right? (At least for most people) The segment nearest your hand is 1, middle is 2, end is 3. Middle finger is 4, 5, 6, etc. So you can count up to 12 on four fingers.
Then you use your non-dominant hand to mark dozens. Count to 12 one your main hand,raise on finger on your second hand, repeat. So you can actually count to 60 just on your hands.
- Comment on When you are ruining your day ranting about something remember THIS 3 months ago:
Alright, everyone post your opinions.
I think Base 12 is superior to Base 10 for human use.
We could get most of the way to stopping climate change by just not eating meat.
Also, I liked Mass Effect 3 more than 1 or 2.
- Comment on It's a fun new game 3 months ago:
Thanks, I hate it.
- Comment on Appers 3 months ago:
Well shit, I’m dumb.
- Comment on Appers 3 months ago:
‘Conservative rapper’ the lyrics ‘appers’ being ‘rappers’ without the hard r
- Comment on Mexico’s first homegrown EV faces a bumpy road 4 months ago:
Fair enough, I learned some things today. I was under the impression that indigenous languages were a lot more normalized than they actually are. I still think that using more indigenous language in everyday stuff is low-key a win, but for it to be commericalized while denying it elsewhere is just a slap in the face.
- Comment on Mexico’s first homegrown EV faces a bumpy road 4 months ago:
Enh, it’s at least a little more complicated than that. Native or mestizo people are much more common in Mexico than the US. For example, Nahuatl has somewhere between 1.3 and 1.7 million speakers, mostly in Mexico. This is not counting over a dozen other languages that have hundreds of thousands of speakers apiece (wiki. By comparison, in the entire US there were only about 372,000 people that speak any indigenous language.
Depending on how you want to look at it, this could be just…a normal name, or even a tribute to the Nahuatl community. Or just a cynical attempt to sell more cars by looking inclusive. How many people need to speak a language before it’s ‘normal’, after all? We don’t go asking Italians before we put stuff in Latin. Or the Irish before we sell St Paddy’s Day shirts. Etc.
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 4 months ago:
…where do you live that people DON’T have a dishwasher? Everyone house I’ve ever seen in MN has one.
- Comment on wrong again 4 months ago:
Am I the only one who was mildly upset that they weren’t? Like shit, we somehow got to bio-transhumanism before techno-transhumanism, that’s rad. By all means, let’s research new ways of being transgender, I wanna see what people come up with next.
- Comment on Our local newspaper is trying way too hard to insert these casino ads on their site. 5 months ago:
That is not a newspaper. That is AI slop masquerading as something useful.
- Comment on 1987 5 months ago:
Actually that wild rice dish looks fine. Mirepoix, wild rice, cream of mushroom… bit of seasoning and it’s a nice hearty dish in the winter.
