astutemural
@astutemural@midwest.social
- Comment on They thought they were making technological breakthroughs. It was an AI-sparked delusion. 6 days ago:
Previously you had to be enormously wealthy and surround yourself with yes-men to go mad from comfirmation bias. Now we have built a yes-man machine so that even the common plebs can do it! Truely we live in a communist utopia.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 1 week ago:
I accidentally scheduled a vacation to Chicago during Mexican Independence Day, which apparently is a huge deal in Chicago. When I got there, the entire downtown area was completely shut down as Mexicans had been roaring up and down every street in trucks for the last two days. The Chicago PD had blockaded every exit off the highway within two miles of downtown to try and stop it. It didn’t- it just limited them to doing it on the highway breakdown lanes and the actual fucking grass medians.
The moral of the story? If the above is what the Mexican population of Chicago does for fun, I’d dread to see what they do in the face of an actual threat.
- Comment on Ding ding ditch is punishable by death apparently 1 week ago:
Not really, no.
Firearms and cars are the top two causes of death for children in the USA.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
https://lemmy.world/c/fuckcars
70% of US drivers think they’re in the top 20% of drivers. You can see why this is a problem. Get rid of them, they ain’t nothing but trouble.
- Comment on this is exactly what copper would say 4 weeks ago:
People: The surveillance state will eliminate privacy!
Rando on the internet: If you wanted your house to be private you shouldn’t have had grass.
- Comment on playlist for one of those days 4 weeks ago:
We’vehadtosayalotofstuffwethoughtwasfuckingobvious
But yes
It’s O-K to punch Nazis!
- Comment on Watching the news can be dangerous 4 weeks ago:
So this is obviously saitire, but it gives me a bit of an SCP vibe. Like a Ronald Reagan Cut Up While Talking vibe.
- Comment on Remember to 2FA your kidneys. 4 weeks ago:
Used to agree to this, until it turned out that SMS basically doesn’t work in rural areas.. Theoretically you can get a voice call with the code, but I’ve personally ran into instances where the 2FA voice call simply doesn’t work on landlines. If we’re going to do 2FA, it has to be something so universal anyone can do it. So far, I don’t think we’ve achieved that. I think people have a right to access banking services, etc, and if 2FA doesn’t work for them, we’re deciding to simply ban them from using those services. Doesn’t sit right with me.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 5 weeks ago:
Tip your fellow workers. Agitate for companies to pay their workers a living wage, but in the meantime - tip your comrades.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 5 weeks ago:
OH MY GOD! They tried to scam you out of a whole $1.49!!!
Don’t care. Round up to ten, you greedy cardboard cutout of a person.
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- Comment on Pharmacist 5 weeks ago:
You’re right, it’s just that sometimes the people working at or owning the store are several-decade-old children.
- Comment on Pharmacist 5 weeks ago:
Not everywhere. Some places have them behind the counter because the owners are terminally Puritan-brained.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 5 weeks ago:
I used Redact a while back. Super easy. First replaced everything with filler text, then deleted. Just in case mods have auto-rollback for deletion.
- Comment on When reality smacks you in the face 1 month ago:
Yah that’s just driving.
Take a bus and watch Youtube the whole time. It’s glorious.
- Comment on robot slurs 1 month ago:
“Dripper” “Leaker”
- Comment on Resources 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago:
Irish and Italian people would like a word with you
- Comment on Anon's grandpa does his own research 1 month ago:
Or wargaming, which is a type of model railroading.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months 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 2 months ago:
We need jobs programs
- Comment on I require nothing more 2 months ago:
Look at all the space for a mini painting station
