hansolo

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slow ass apocalypse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically, yeah. That was my math as well. The irony was thick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slow ass apocalypse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A Boomer family member that voted for this shitshow told me the other day I was right that my version of societal collapse, a slow crumbling as everything falls apart, was what was happening.

  I meant like over 30 years. I’d hate to know what they think a speedrun would look like

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better safe than sorry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that the most basic of math should be as basic as reading. Something that anyone can do themselves.

  Do you honestly think that for the rest of your life every moment will let a calculator or ChatGPT help you have every interaction you have? People are perfectly capable of basic math.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better safe than sorry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I’m here in good faith.

  Being alarmed, I suppose, would be the subjective assessment that this isn’t too far off from all the cognitive decline correlated to excessive use of AI. It’s an extrapolation, sure, but similar.

  It’s lovely to think that a phone will always be right on us all, for the rest of our lives. IRL, shit happens. Sometimes people sometimes just dug a calf out of a pond, theor phone got soaked, and still need to divide 250 lbs of fertilizer by 10 barrels and not be seized by indecision because there’s not a cell phone around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better safe than sorry⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue is that the floor on confidence in knowledge is now basically nothing.

  Why is it that 8th graders in 1990 could do solid algebra and polynomials on paper and not need help? Nothing about the math has changed.

  Slide rules do not do basic math, that’s a poor comparison. People that did higher math on slide rules only used it for part of the problem dealing with logarithms, and that was a shorthand for larger approximation tables in books. That’s necessary help. Solving for 2+2 is not. That’s for little children that count on their fingers. If you’re not in the “WTF?” camp, you’re part of the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better safe than sorry⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw that. It’s fucking breathtaking, the apologists for stupidity.

  If I go start an account on a .ml instance and claim letters and numbers are colonial, patriarchal constructs and should be eliminated, I’ll be the most popular poster until I accidentally make everyone illiterate out of spite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you taking angel dust instead of Dayquil?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know you mean well here, but this is fully bonkers. This is not how friends behave with each other.

  They absolutely don’t owe me shit. We lived with them for a month before they moved, all in same house, for free. So there’s money we didn’t spend right there. We shared meals, shared hangovers, and shared their other friends in a place we were just moving to, which is priceless. But if you’re still really worried about money, they sold us their car for well under KBB as well. The guy’s brother and mom were who we called when stuff broke, and who brought us pupusas randomly when they were in the neighborhood. We trust them and they trust us, so we aren’t going to fuck up their house, and we got landlords that respond to shit immediately. I’m not going to ruin a 20+ year relationship with some tankie notions about “oh, bro, you owe me home equity.” And you can trust that anyone doing something like this knows when they have a good thing going without having to explain details.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well do you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure there are, but no one needs to be worried about Adams Family cannon.

  Might as well spend all your free time worried about Flintstones or Felix the Cat cannon. The people making the media certainly don’t care to follow any of it, it’s not ever going to make sense. Just live in the moment and enjoy it for what it is!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I once rented a house from friends that were out of the country. We paid exactly their mortgage payment (plus utils and I did and paid for handyman level stuff, they covered big stuff), which was $600 a month less than the market rate for places a step down in quality.

  Once we left I told them to increase the rent by $200 for higher insurance and a real handyman and whatever else and it’s still a huge favor to anyone they get by word of mouth only. The next couple thought they had won the lottery scoring a place for almost $5000 a year less than the rest of the area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wild Seals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same for hippos.

  Hippos are monsters. They kill for the joy of killing. They’re vegetarians! They kill as many humans in Africa every year as crocs.

  They spray their shit around by spinning their tiny tail as they shit, like a shit-filled garden hose.

  They are moist and gross. Their call is laughing maniacally at the world. Moo Deng is damp Chucky without thumbs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanksgiving advice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Take a massive dump in the closest bathroom to where everyone is, clog that sumbitch right up, shit water overflowing. As you open the door you let the host know, “you will never recover from this financially.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Google Joke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, buddy, you just can’t travel or buy a new device!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought there was some other name for a clover-looking plant that started with an S.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahhh, OK, that’s my bad. I was thinking of some other name for clover. I’ve cooked with sorrel before, it’s nice. Same for clovers, nice lemony flavor.

  Thanks for the correction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lasagnaius⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I totally read this as it scrolled and thought you wrote “Brianna Ramosius”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some are too young to understand ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hur dur Boomer humor.

  Needs 30% more hating their wife for no reason at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of Lebanese shops sell sorrel. Sorrel is just clovers. 50% of people setting this meme are 100 meters or less from sorrel right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE CRAZY PILLS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I genuinely wonder, do they just make up this obviously false BS to tell him to protect themselves? Or are they all on the same page with the BS to gaslight MAGA people?

  In 30 years this will be a very well-studied period of human history and behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Careful what you wish for⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The ones right to the left of the kid’s head

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Careful what you wish for⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, but I’m still not clear on why that wire loop doesn’t connect to anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Careful what you wish for⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is AI slop. Or AI edited at least.

  Cable to the left of the kid’s head doesn’t actually connect to anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨google maps⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wut?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you have been defeated, you do not pass go, you do not collect your $200⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel seen and humiliated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That or the F one⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When “Fuck” has all the offensive heft of “dang”, the young will sort through the linguistic trash for anything that makes people feel worse. And they have it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't have my glizzies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just looking for a woman with a cheese drawer…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, I will absolutely apologize for assuming you were American. I try not to creep on people’s post history unless necessary, and didn’t double check. That’s on me, and I’m genuinely sorry for that.

  Though, I’m not defending capitalism, other then to try and find the minimal threshold necessary to fulfill it in the original comment. I respect you sticking to whatever politicial or economic stance you want, and I was being a dick yesterday and I’ll blame wine and sun for that. Mostly wine.

  As a sorta-kinda economist, the point on which I have settled from seeing a lot of people on several continents live their lives, is that communal living and resource allocation is suitable for emergencies and basic survival in small and rudimentary settings. That is well documented in the anthropological record.

  Beyond that, humans have a tendency towards transactionalism, often somewhat incorrectly termed capitalism, because transactions don’t require saving money for capital to be used later. There’s a great book called African Friends and Money Matters that is a frustrating look at a Westerner in Senegal trying to explain how the fundamentals of resource application work. It summarizes perfectly how most of African village level communities work, and I hope fascinating to someone who wants to start from a point of communal resource allocation.

  But, my personal opinion is that we grow from that point outward to transactions while luxuriated and well-resourced, and capitalism past that in habitual abundance. So Marx proposing such limitation and hemming people in to a command economy seems counterintuitive simply from the perspective of trying to get people to participate willingly.

  That’s not a defense of capitalism, but simply pointing to where it naturally crops up. I can’t abide Marx, so if there’s a third option other then radical agrarian anarcho-syndicate communes and basic cooperatives, that has seen success, I would be interested to hear it. But those, much like Yugoslavia, are also very personality dependent and so not likely to last longer than 60-80 years or so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halloween ideas⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The redneck kid in my 8th grade that wore a skeleton kama sutra shirt under a Corona poncho his dad got from the liquor store would love this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All I see here is whining about “uh, guys, no one did it perfectly right 100% the first time, so it doesnt count.” Like what a child says when playing a game.

  Like how all y’all didn’t vote for the nice Black lady because of not being perfect enough to your peivledged liking on Gaza, then seem to not able to connect your actions to the repercussions which are what that one douche is enabling in Gaza.

  Sorry, but it’s just a bunch of tankie apologist BS, and a perfect example of why no one takes full communism or socialism seriously in any country that isn’t already a single party state, corrupt to the maximal extent possible and unable to waiver from the party line. The Communist Manifesto might as well be some conceptual only scifi fictional government document, like the Star Trek reference to the Fundamental Declarations of the Martian Colonies or the United Federation of Planets Constition. Plot devices for the individual, wholly useless to society as a whole.

  Which also does a huge disservice to anyone pushing for a blended system that is known to work well in limited circumstances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  what ideas exactly?

  Well, let’s take 3 non-standard examples:

  Yugoslavia nationalised industry and introduced worker self‑management after it broke away from Stalin and the USSR. Loads of collaboration with post-colonial Non-aligned Movement African nations that wanted to dabble in socialism but didn’t have a popular movement or resources or planning to back it. Taking refugee in capitalism, like China recently started to do as well, is what let thinks work for a time. Tito, however, was the only thing that held the county together, and once he was gone, the whole place collapsed slowly over a decade. There was no evidence that the “best” socialism in the region (best, as in least totally shit) was worth keeping on its own or valuable enough to try and keep.

  Albania imposed strict state ownership, collectivised agriculture (the gulags are basically Woofing, yaay!), and a hard‑line Stalinist-style paranoia-fueled regime. It assigned jobs; no one not official given the job of “driver” by the state could operate a vehicle. And it fucking shows still to this day. Hoxha held the county together with fear alone because nothing of socialism was worth keeping on its own, or valuable enough to the average person to keep.

  Bulgaria did a decent job replicating Soviet central planning, collectivisation, and political control. It all sucked and the Yugoslavs loved to leverage economic disparity over them because it was so fucking bleak in Bulgaria for theor entire stint as socialists. Which is part of why Bulgaria is shitting on their neighbors now about EU accession, they finally have the advantage and a grudge that survived 40 years because of socialists caused economic disparity. They happily joined the EU a generation after realizing that nothing of socialism was worth keeping on its own, or valuable enough to the average person to keep. But they have decent freeways now.

  Despite three very different attempts to try socialism as a means to the end of communism, only Belgrade and it’s immediate suburbs really had a decent quality of life. Everyone else had a well-documented traumatizingly bad time.

  And while I’ll happily admit that I haven’t needed a more than cursory remembrance of Marx since 2002, that literally billions of people have proven time and again that Marx’s ideas are pure fantasy, and that 19th century ideals about economies that have just stated industrialization are not needed in the 20th century any more than Adam Smith has been relevant once advertising manipulated simple supply and demand, because humans are not rational actors.