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- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 3 days ago:
Linux users in their natural habitat, obscure online forums.
Observe how they nitpick minor technicalities between themselves, a hallmark sign of affection among their kind.
- Comment on White House website publishes a page on "socialism". They think it will scare people to hear that if we tax 1000 billionaires, $355,000 worth of benefits will be distributed to 150,000,000 households. 1 week ago:
I was thinking that’s how OP meant it, but that still doesn’t match the sites claim. And yes, I know the site is stupid and wrong, but its not self-owning. The site is saying that the 355k is paid by individual families, and that cost is clearly greater than buying private insurance would cost anyways. So the site is saying “you’ll be forced to pay 35k each year”. It denies the idea that taxes on billionaires would cover the cost. So it is exactly claiming that we take the burden on individually.
The website is internally consistent, it’s just wrong with respect to reality. But it doesn’t contradict itself.
- Comment on White House website publishes a page on "socialism". They think it will scare people to hear that if we tax 1000 billionaires, $355,000 worth of benefits will be distributed to 150,000,000 households. 1 week ago:
Probably because it’s all made up numbers and they assume that anyone looking at it and taking it seriously has no numeric literacy. And sadly, looking at the comments in this post, it seems that even people criticizing the site have somehow misunderstood it entirely
- Comment on White House website publishes a page on "socialism". They think it will scare people to hear that if we tax 1000 billionaires, $355,000 worth of benefits will be distributed to 150,000,000 households. 1 week ago:
Well, it’s kind of irrelevant, since the actual website is claiming that it’s a cost, not a payment. For some reason OP titled it in a way that is the exact opposite of what the site claims.
- Comment on White House website publishes a page on "socialism". They think it will scare people to hear that if we tax 1000 billionaires, $355,000 worth of benefits will be distributed to 150,000,000 households. 1 week ago:
The site isn’t saying it will “add”, its saying it will “cost”…
- Comment on White House website publishes a page on "socialism". They think it will scare people to hear that if we tax 1000 billionaires, $355,000 worth of benefits will be distributed to 150,000,000 households. 1 week ago:
Isn’t the website saying it will COST $355,000 per family? I mean, this site is stupid but… Can we all not read?
- Comment on Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. 1 week ago:
The biggest benefit is that it’s effectively impossible to bribe politicians because their lives are all lived in an identical and fixed fashion. You can’t offer a senator a Ferrari because the senator couldn’t drive it. They just go around in the resort shuttle, like all the other senators.
Picture if someone said: You get to live the rest of your life at this hotel, for free. There’s a spa, a buffet, a pool, grounds for walking (None of these facilities are super nice, just picture like a small-time country club). Your immediate family can live with you. Etc. And on top of that, you get to shape policy for all the citizens of your country however you want. For the average person that is an amazing deal. You are guaranteed an early retirement and all your needs taken care of.
Now realize, for many of our worst political figures, this life is a downgrade. They don’t get to have thirty cars, some boats, a small castle in France, a penthouse in Tokyo, a private chef, prostitutes, drugs, child sex slaves, etc. Of course I know the average senator isn’t living quite that expensively, but I think a lot of them want to be and that goal is what has them relentlessly chasing more money.
By putting them in this environment, you not only remove any need for them to have money, you also remove the temptation and appeal of corrupted power. But meanwhile, for the typical person who truly wants to help the citizens be better off, the arrangement is extremely appealing. A lot of activists work to improve the world at sacrifice to their own well-being, so the sacrifices (a wide variety of restaurants, traveling, living wherever you want…) are surely worth it to them in exchange for being able to make a difference.
While we’re on the topic of activists, it’s worth discussing extremists. This plan doesn’t prevent against True Believer extremists, so it’s not perfect. In fact if we make the resort too shitty, like an actual prison, then only extremists will find it worthwhile to live there, which is also bad. That’s why it still has to be fairly nice. In fact, the quality of life should probably be roughly tied to the median quality of life in the country - which is why the OP hits so right. But as we all know, the salary a person is paid doesn’t really matter as much as how they live, and for powerful people the gulf between those things is huge. Hence, we need to go straight to the source and mandate the lifestyle of the powerful.
- Comment on Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. 1 week ago:
My absurd political theory is that there should basically be a big resort hotel. for all of these elected representatives. And it’s pretty nice. Like it’s not 5 star, but it’s pretty nice. No one could complain about being forced to live there. but it is a very strictly regimented life. You only eat what the kitchen makes. You only live in the suites there and you’re not allowed to live anywhere else. In some sense, it’s like a very nice prison, or perhaps a sanatorium. And anyone who goes into these kind of high ranking government positions has to live there, not only for their entire term, but also for the rest of their life.
Sure, you would still get people who were only running for the comfort of living in the resort, but the kind of people who are truly maniacal assholes who want to get rich as fuck and live a life of extreme luxury, off of politics, will be forced to look elsewhere to get their money. If we make the resort mid enough, then only the people who are really aiming for the good of the many will even bother going for these positions.
- Comment on Mental health professionals rarely allow you to talk about the socioeconomic factors too 1 week ago:
Yeah, I wasn’t going to get precise about it, but technically they didn’t make me feel like a simpleton, just made me feel like they thought I was a simpleton, lmao. But its all good.
- Comment on Mental health professionals rarely allow you to talk about the socioeconomic factors too 1 week ago:
No no you’re good. I appreciate the kindness. I also try to be kind to those who are kind, which is why I bothered to be persnickety about tone in the first place, because it did seem like you had good intentions.
- Comment on Mental health professionals rarely allow you to talk about the socioeconomic factors too 1 week ago:
I honestly can’t tell if you’re trying to be non-confrontational, but nothing about this entire interaction seemed kind of you. If you really have the intent to be nice to people online, and you really want them to be well, I advise you to result reconsider how you act.
First you tell me I’m wrong about therapists, that the truth is “honestly not particularly complex”, act condescending by saying “obviously” this and that. And then when I try to be nuanced about what we’re talking about, you ironically complain that this isn’t a “nuanced discussion”, then cut the discussion short…
So I don’t really appreciate you making me out to be the confrontational one, when you basically came in here, implied I’m a simpleton, and left as soon as I tried to explain myself.
- Comment on Mental health professionals rarely allow you to talk about the socioeconomic factors too 1 week ago:
This entire post and thread is about how therapists won’t mention capitalism and the housing crisis and instead say that it’s something like depression or a personality disorder that causes someone to feel bad or suicidal. Do you think this claim is true or not? What I am saying directly contradicts that.
- Comment on Mental health professionals rarely allow you to talk about the socioeconomic factors too 1 week ago:
That theory sounds good, and you’re right that it’s simple to understand, but in reality it doesn’t hold water. Everyone I know who goes to therapy, reports that their therapist is totally open to saying that the world is just fucked up, and that’s a big part of the problem, and putting blame on economic or political sources. So this idea that therapists direct away from that, regardless of the cause, just seems to me to be a total falsehood propagated by people who haven’t even spoken to therapists. Its totally mythological as far as I can tell.
- Comment on I wonder why people treat it like an Ancient Egyptian cat? 1 week ago:
I agree that it is overrated, but I do also think that it still has value and is legitimately pretty cool. It’s nice that it’s so tiny and cheap and easy to set up in like under an hour. Low power consumption for simple things that are nice to run all the time makes it feel pretty friendly on the environment versus running a whole desktop computer or server 24-7.
Yet, like many things that are really good, there ends up being a lot of people who want to sing its praises from the heavens as being not just really good, but the greatest thing ever. And so indeed the Pi is also overrated despite being really cool
- Comment on Mental health professionals rarely allow you to talk about the socioeconomic factors too 1 week ago:
Maybe you’re right, but all the people passing around the memes about therapists trying to somehow cover for society’s failings, as if they’re part of the Illuminati, are still just making stuff up
- Comment on Mental health professionals rarely allow you to talk about the socioeconomic factors too 1 week ago:
Yea I feel like that criticism is coming from people who have never been to therapy and want to convince themselves its beneath them
- Comment on Delish 2 2 weeks ago:
Who’s got the animation of the girl purposely getting on the creme filling assembly line?
- Comment on Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% 4 weeks ago:
So its really just the same “actual artist” vs “horny gooner dumbass” split that has plagued Japanese media for decades 😭
- Comment on academic jargon 5 weeks ago:
Hot take: Calvin and Hobbes is pretty cringe and stupid and this comic exemplifies why
- Comment on Pie in the face. 1 month ago:
Without exaggeration, doing this now (depending on the person) would risk life imprisonment for bioweaponry terrorism, or just getting shot
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 1 month ago:
A lot more than just the economy, it’s like a law of nature. Even language itself obeys it
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 months ago:
Yeah, I think in fairness most therapists would agree that many things are therapeutic outside of therapy. In fact many therapists do see themselves as a sort of emergency solution but not something you regularly need in the way you regularly need to brush your teeth. Pop-psychology randos online may act like therapy is nonnegotiable, but I fear that this then results in people attributing those claims to actual therapists and discrediting what is indeed a very valuable thing that (IMO) most people could benefit from. Unfortunately few people can read well enough to even get through the first chapter of any non-contemporary writing (even when its not philosophical), and therapists do also have a lot of scientific knowledge as well.
We must know different people. In my social circles, I know a bunch of people who would really benefit from therapy and think that climbing a mountain and reading Nietzsche is all they need. And honestly, that may be true, but they don’t actually end up doing either of those things because they found them too difficult. Which brings me back to like “maybe first just talk to the person whose whole expertise is to help you with this”.
Its a middle ground. Therapy is not a necessity or silver bullet, its also not useless or a scam. And in my experience the people who insist they don’t need it are the ones who need it most
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 months ago:
It ain’t sophistry, you are the one who claimed identity between the two things
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 months ago:
So what you’re really saying is therapy IS great and vital and people have been getting therapy this whole time but just not calling it that
- Comment on "I don't answer questions" 2 months ago:
So they don’t kill people around them who are driving responsibly
- Comment on Fat bastard for president 2 months ago:
Okay can you link me to some of those or articles summarizing them?
- Comment on Fat bastard for president 2 months ago:
There is no evidence of it, its a rumor perpetuated by morons who think that since raping children wasn’t enough to get the powerful in trouble there must be something even worse that will.
I say this because every time myself or others have asked for a link to the files thay insinuate eating children or even to an article about it all we get back is “it’s soooo easy to find bro just go find it yourself smh”.
- Comment on If everyone in power is racist, a pedophile, and just all-around hates poor people, happiness, and everything that's good, then how do we keep winning? 2 months ago:
My original comment was just a meme, it was intended postironically as I was trying to play off the obvious ambiguities in your post. I didn’t mean it seriously one way or the other, sorry for any emotional harm done
- Comment on Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want 2 months ago:
This is definitely one of the more disappointing pieces of news I’ve read in a while. It’s not like I thought the Wikimedia Foundation was a paragon of virtue and justice, but I thought they would at least be better than this. It seems like there really aren’t very many good employers left in the tech industry ( I understand the Wikimedia Foundation covers more than tech). I really need something global remote, but… Eesh. Starting to think the better bet is to get into independent contracting for smaller businesses or something…
- Comment on 📡📡📡 2 months ago:
I love fashion and I think high end clothes are priced way more appropriately than anyone here probably wants to admit, and I have huge respect for the artistry and craft that goes into it. But a handbag is definitely not a much more complex piece of engineering…at best they could be relatively similar for certain bags. The price difference is because a lot of bags need more manual involvement by decently paid workers rather than factory slaves. And because the artists doing the designing also get a solid salaryas that is the primary aspect of the product. Whereas monitor designs are comparatively not so demanding to dream up and not as important.
