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- Comment on Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end 1 hour ago:
I mean, I 100% agree with you that there are other, better options. But those other, better options aren’t represented with a molotov.
- Comment on Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end 10 hours ago:
I mean… maybe burning everything down would mitigate climate change. But the collapse of global supply chains would lead to billions losing access to sufficient food, clean drinking water, internet, electricity/modern heating, medicine, etc. We would see mass migrations, war, famine, disease, and ecological devastation, all on a scale never before seen in the history of humanity. Ie, all the things we are trying to stop climate change in order to avoid.
- Comment on Anon has a boyfriend 11 hours ago:
Fake: there are no girls on the internet Gay: anon isn’t a girl
- Comment on If Marx was alive during the Cold War and beyond, how would he react to the communist states that rose to power? Would he approve or disapprove of them? 1 week ago:
He would probably react by finding a relative of one of his long-dead rich friends or family, and try to convince them to fund his next treatise on the stage that happens after communism (aka, buy him more beer)
- Comment on Update: Clinton says that Trump tried to stick finger in his butt during trash felattio extravaganza. (Read more) 1 week ago:
His silence is deafening
- Comment on Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid? 1 week ago:
Always was
- Comment on Radon 1 week ago:
I do things
- Comment on Radon 1 week ago:
Imma fucking idiot
- Comment on Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid? 1 week ago:
I mean, the problem isn’t that OP’s question was stupid. The problem is that it is rude to question people’s religious practices.
- Comment on Wearing a helmet and a hat while biking 1 week ago:
Roll the bill into the fabric. Forms a crescent moon shape. Shove it under your belt
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 1 week ago:
Lots of people like to use things like antlers or skulls as decorations
- Comment on Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians? 1 week ago:
Also that!
- Comment on Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians? 1 week ago:
- You can already do this. There are tons of nonprofits that lobby the government for x, y, and z.
- But these non-profits don’t tend to engage in much explicit bribery, because the people working at these organizations and who donate to these organizations think outright bribery is wrong.
- Finally, if you started a gofundme to bribe a politician, they would 1,000,000% not take your money. When you bribe someone, discretion is part of the deal, and with a public gofundme, you’ve already broken that discretion.
- Comment on It's all relative 1 week ago:
And an excellent teeth loss food. So… not great on the sexy front
- Comment on A man can dream, can’t he? 1 week ago:
Literally as necessary as cheese
- Comment on A man can dream, can’t he? 1 week ago:
I would like to reinstate the government mandated goth gf, remove the government mandated part, remove the government entirely, keep the polyamorous part, replace the house on 2% interest with a hand-built communal living arrangement with chickens and a workshop with too much sawdust, swap the EV for a nice E-bike, and trade half the lube for a pirate flag - but only half!
- Comment on Ahh, my good friend water pressure. 1 week ago:
Its not a foot 😏
- Comment on Rant: Reddit has a huge problem with mods falsely reporting “report abuse” 1 week ago:
I looked at reddit today. Mod issues? Jfc, idk how anyone uses reddit anymore with how much clickbait and bot posts there are.
- Comment on Ratioed 1 week ago:
Found OOP’s profile here. I’ve never seen Poe’s Law more in effect
- Comment on Is capitalism or consumerism at fault? 1 week ago:
Are… are you high? “Consumerism” and “capitalism” are completely different terms, used in completely different contexts. And I have never once heard someone use “consumerism” in a positive light. This is conspiracy bullshit
- Comment on Is capitalism or consumerism at fault? 1 week ago:
Yes. Everyone is a consumer. Most people are producers. When we talk about “consumers”, we are just talking about people in their capacity as someone who buys things. It doesnt mean that is their whole identity. It’s just a useful shorthand. And yes, we can talk about producers and consumers as far back as trade goes, which goes all the way back to pre-history.
- Comment on Is capitalism or consumerism at fault? 1 week ago:
it goes against the spirit of capitalism
What you describe is not the spirit of capitalism. Of course, the cow farmer is free to sell his milk at under market value if he wants… but there is nothing about the spirit of capitalism that says that he should or that he must. Far more in line with the spirit of capitalism would be that the cow farmer, say, charges his neighbors low prices via handshake deals to keep things friendly, and then raises the price that he sells milk at on the open market in order to optimize his profits along the demand curve. And then, said farmer would likely expand his milk production operations in order to increase his profits more. Or else the chicken farmer might buy some cows of his own to cash in on the market demand for milk. The important part is that no one has to keep milk prices low out of the goodness of their hearts, because high milk prices are a good thing. They signal to the market that there is an untapped potential to make money if they just produce more milk. And that competition is what keeps milk prices low. The spirit of capitalism isn’t keeping milk prices low so that everyone can keep buying one handful of milk at the price they are used to. The spirit of capitalism is make more milk.
allowing companies like apple to inflate their profit margin from something reasonable to “whatever the consumer is willing to pay.”
In an open market, the price will always be set by what the consumer is willing to pay. Apple’s markup exists partly because of low-information consumers (“I heard iPhones are better, so I have to pay this price”), luxury buyers (they are buying because of the brand name, and often, because the price is outrageous, as a signal that they are part of the upper classes), and fomo (“I’m not cool if I don’t have the green dot!!!”). But it is also because Apple has a legitimate claim to being better than their competition - mainly because they remove options from their customers’ pool of choices. Searching for an android phone, you have an endless ecosystem of manufacturers, models, designs, features, and prices. If you are an iPhone user, you have only a few options. On android, you have a different flavor of operating system for basically every different phone you buy - often filled with each manufacturer’s bloatware. On an iPhone, you have iOS. And android’s PlayStore is full of garbage, trashy apps that try to scam you by impersonating other apps. iPhone users have the app store, which verifies the quality of every app that appears there. In a very real way, iPhones are the better phone because they allow their users to not think about their phone - which is the whole point behind Job’s “It Just Works” slogan from so many years ago.
- Comment on Anon travels overseas 2 weeks ago:
Coin flip on them still being tap water from a warehouse two blocks away.
Source? Because I doubt this very much. Bottled water, much as the companies selling it to you would like to say otherwise, is a commodity. And as a commodity, it benefits from economies of scale. Coca-Cola, eg, is going to bottle all of their water in a few massive bottling facilities across the country. Generic brand grocery store water is going to follow the same logic - the store will either own or contract out their water bottling to a company with just a handful of facilities across the country which specialize in bottling water. Is it just tap water? Yes. But the bottling facility chooses the tap water they use carefully - after all, no one is going to want to buy water that has too much sulfur or calcium. And while they’re at it, they’re going to make sure the tap water is actually safe to drink. Sure, multinational corporations would like to actively kill you so they can make money on your funeral expenses - but they hate getting sued even more. And if you poison 10,000 people with unsafe drinking water, that’s a hell of a class action lawsuit - which is why corporations have armies of lawyers dedicated to ensuring that this doesn’t happen.
saw a 2 litre of soda for a buck fifty at a Walmart in rural Idaho an equivalent water on the other side of the isle was three bucks
I just checked. A gallon of water on Amazon is $1.37. And that’s with the convenience of being delivered straight to your door within 2 days. At basically every grocery store I’ve gone to, water is about $1 per gallon. I don’t doubt that there are some places where this is true - but I’ve never seen it.
I will also note that neither I nor no one I know has ever been noticeably affected by drinking either tap water or bottled water. To the best of my knowledge, the problem of toxic drinking water only exists in a few places in the US, and those places are well documented.
The US is quite literally unraveling at the seems but the rich and powerful don’t want to do anything about it.
Ah, yes, the doomer rhetoric. Wouldn’t be Lemmy without it. This is the worldview of the terminally online. Go out into the real world, and you’ll see most people are doing pretty okay. Sure, they have worries and challenges - but almost everyone is clothed, fed, housed, and drinking clean water. The economy is getting a bit worse, but most people still have jobs and can afford the basic necessities. Try going to an actual developing nation with an actual non-functioning government, and there you’ll find… well you’ll actually find that people are still doing mostly okay. Because at the end of the day, people are generally resilient and will find solutions to problems the government fails to solve. A good, functioning government can help out a lot, and I’d certainly prefer that the US government was better… but the US isn’t some kind of failed state. That’s just doomer nonsense.
- Comment on Anon travels overseas 2 weeks ago:
You can buy bottled water. It is still cheaper than soda.
- Comment on Anon travels overseas 2 weeks ago:
I once had a conversation with a bariatric surgeon about weight loss. She was convinced that exercise was the key to sustainable weight loss. I disagreed, saying I thought diet was far more important, noting that most americans ate like trash. She seemed a bit offended that I was disagreeing with her, a doctor specializing in weight loss, about this topic. She was more understanding when I told her that I’d lost a lot of weight simply by cutting out soda. Her look then morphed to something akin to confused horror as I told her that, as a child, I had consistently drank an average of 6 cans of soda per day, every day, and I estimated that this was pretty standard for everyone I knew growing up.
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 2 weeks ago:
Ok, well I’m not trolling and I’m decently smart, but I hope you sleep well.
- Comment on Can't tell if L take or W take 2 weeks ago:
This is true. But at the same time, shy guys should realizing that complaining about how “women should make the first move” will accomplish literally nothing, ever.
First of all, most women get asked out all the time. Why would you go to the store to buy milk if someone delivers it for free to your doorstep every day? Asking someone out is (1) scary and (2) takes effort - if someone already has a ton of suitors, they have no incentive to do the scary hard thing.
Second of all, what do women like? Say it with me - women like ✨CONFIDENCE✨. Like, for example, the confidence displayed by saying hi to her and asking her out on a date. “Man asks out woman” is one of the most common tropes in the dating dance, and a lot of women like doing that dance. They like a man being a man, and herself being a woman, and each of you playing your roles. Of course not all women are like this, but a lot of women are. Yes, including left leaning, feminist, lgbtq±supporting, Trump-hating women. Complaints about how “women should make the first move more because that would be more fair” will fall flat on their face with these women, because they don’t want to do that.
And third, suppose your complaint is successfully filed with the bureau of women’s dating behaviors, and the board approves your request. Now all women must ask out 5 men per week. Who are they going to ask out? Do you think that it will perhaps be the men who are confident - ya know, the trait everyone has agreed women universally like? Do you think they are going to ask out the guy who is eagerly making his way through the party, meeting everyone with a huge smile and flirting all the pretty girls? Because that’s what I think would happen. Even if women were asking more men out, the shy guys who make this complaint would never benefit from this phenomenon because women want to date the guys who can ask other girls out, even if they choose not to exercise that option.
- Comment on You don't even need the other 4 points. You're fine. 2 weeks ago:
“Here’s some good advice to help you in hard times”
Lemmy: no, you don’t understand, this spilled milk is the worst thing that has literally happened to anyone, and it’s all because of CAPITALISM!!!
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 2 weeks ago:
I’ll take a step back even further, and pontificate my own point of view.
Modern conservatism, at its core, is the natural set of beliefs that well-adjusted humans have.
- Family is good, and I should support my family.
- Having children is good, and we should have more children.
- Our society is good. We should celebrate our anscestors and carry on our traditions.
- We should defend our society and traditions from outsiders and those who wish to tear it down.
- There is a Great Force, which loves us and is on our side.
- Bad things generally happen to bad people and good things generally happen to good people. So if good things are happening for a person, they are probably good, and if bad things are happening to a person, they are probably bad.
- When obviously bad things happen to a good person or vice versa, it is because the Great Force has a plan for an even better future which we are ignorant of by virtue of our weakness.
- Gaining wealth and power is good.
- Because our leaders are wealthy and powerful, they must be good people.
- If our leader is obviously not a good person, it is because the Great Force has a plan for them to make the future better for us.
- Large groups of outsiders are dangerous, and are not to be trusted. If they encroach on our territory or take our resources, we should fight them.
- If we are controlled by outsiders, this is bad, and we should fight them.
- Our people are what is important to us. Outsiders should be left to handle their own problems.
- The roles we have in society give us value. People who fulfill their roles well should be celebrated. People who do not fulfill their roles should be rejected.
- The things I learned as a child are true.
With this set of beliefs, a human will fit in to any society and role they end up in; will work to support, grow, and defend that society; and will create as many children as possible. This is a fairly obvious blueprint for the evolutionary fitness of an individual, and the continued existance of a society. And this explains why conservatism is such a universal phenomenon around the world - it is the expression of our natural human instincts.
It is also why conservatives always seem to have a monopoly on “common sense” - a liberal’s common sense still requires you to think. A conservative’s common sense goes straight to your gut. And it explains why conservatives are so good at working together: liberals must find an intellectual basis of agreement before they work together; conservatives already know they should work together, since they see other conservatives have their same base emotional feelings. Plus they are part of the same in-group.
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, basically everyone hates toll roads, including me. And I think toll roads are a good idea! People just don’t like paying for things they arent used to paying for.